Young George Johnson lives in an extraordinary family in extraordinary times. His father is Sir William Johnson, one of the richest and most powerful men in colonial New York. His mother is Molly...
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Author: Garvie, Maureen, Beaty, MarySummary:
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Author: Pinkney, Andrea DavisSummary:
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, a celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. Andrea Davis Pinkney's powerful and poetic text tells the story of Ezra...
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"Fans of such notables as C.J. Box, Peter Straub, and Joyce Carol Oates chiefly known for their novels will be pleased to see how well they write at shorter length."--Publishers Weekly "Some...
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Author: HIGGINS, JackSummary:
Sean Dillon terrorist-cum-Prime Minister's operative and Blake Johnson, head of the White House department'The Basement', join forces to stop an unknown assassin's actions result in the fall of...
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Author: Hoffman, MarySummary:
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
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Author: Rapoport, Anatol, Rapoport, AnthonySummary:
This book is the product of a collective effort by some members of the Group of 78. The name of the group derives from the number of its founding members. Its activities comprise studies of and...
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Author: Moore, LisaSummary:
Now a major CBC original television series starring Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle), Paul Gross (Alias Grace, Hyena Road, Passchendaele), Tori Anderson (Open Heart, No Tomorrow), Eric Johnson (...
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Author: Moore, LisaSummary:
Now a major CBC original television series starring Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle), Paul Gross (Alias Grace, Hyena Road, Passchendaele), Tori Anderson (Open Heart, No Tomorrow), Eric Johnson (...
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Author: Stamp, Robert M.Summary:
Take a trip through Alberta with some of Canada's finest established and emerging poets as your guides. Writing the Terrain: Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets is the first anthology...
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Author: Meyler, David, Meyler, PeterSummary:
Richard Pierpoint or Captain Dick, as he was commonly known, emerges from the shadows of history in A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint. An African warrior who was captured at about age...
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Author: Johnson, PeterSummary:
Gleeful and noisy celebrations greeted several dozen nervous young women when they stepped ashore in Victoria in September 1862, through a jostling crowd of boisterous, eager men. The hardships...
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Author: Johnson, PeterSummary:
A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally...
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Author: Johnson, PeterSummary:
Vancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life. But for many, the sense of hope that had sustained them through rough sea voyages came...
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Author: PETERS, EllisSummary:
Composer Lucas Corinth returns to the Alpine town of his boyhood to be guest of honour at the premiere of his new opera, "The Horn of Roland". But a shadow from the past falls across the...
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Author: Kertes, Peter J., Johnson, T. MarkSummary:
Now in a revised and updated second edition, this handy guide to eye care uses evidence from the latest clinical trials to deliver practical advice directly applicable to the challenges of daily...