When sixteen-year-old Sarah from Toronto learns that she is to spend the summer with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, she is convinced that it will be the most tedious summer ever. She gets off to a rough start when she meets Luke, the...
Acadians
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Author:Donovan, LoisSummary: -
Author:Bunn, T. DavisSummary:The Solitary Envoy begins the glorious Heirs of Acadia series of historical novels set in the early days of the American Republic. Erica Langston's comfortable life in Georgetown is threatened when the British invade. Soon she must...
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
In Acadia two young mothers, one British and one French, have become good friends, despite the enmity between their peoples. The French woman's baby girl becomes critically ill. Since the British woman has access to medical care...
- Author:Bunn, T. DavisSummary:
Former runaway Serafina Gavi has grown very close to her godly friend John Falconer. When her Venetian parents--with wom she now lives in 1834 Washington, D.C.--declare Falconer an unsuitable match, she tearfully informs him. But after...
- Author:Bunn, T. DavisSummary:
Eager to minister to the poor, well-bred Abigail ignores her parents' warnings and ventures into the slums of London. But instead of gaining converts, she causes a scandal when she ventures into a seedy theater. To save the family...
- Author:Oke, Janette, Bunn, T. DavisSummary:
In 18th-century England, spiritual sisters Anne and Nicole find themselves facing different roads into the future. While Anne is settling into mannered British life, she prays for best friend Nicole, who is now planning a voyage to...
- Author:Oke, Janette, Bunn, T. DavisSummary:
Just before the French were expelled from Nova Scotia early in the 18th century, two women, one French, one English, became as sisters. Now their daughters Anne and Nicole are just as close, although one lives in England and the other...
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Author:Cohoon, Cassie DeveauxSummary:Descended from one of the three most prominent families in Acadia, Jeanne Dugas (1731-1817) and her family lived for more than thirty years under the threat of capture and deportation by the British militia and attacks by pirates and...
- Author:Daigle, France, Majzels, RobertSummary:
For Sure is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a defense and an illustration of the Chiac language. Written in dazzling prose — which is occasionally interrupted by surprising...
- Author:Houde, RéalSummary:
Des patriotes de 1830 à 1837 d’origine acadienne ? Est-ce vraiment une surprise après le traumatisme vécu en Acadie et l’arrivée douloureuse à Québec entre 1755 et 1759 ? Des anciens gradés de la guerre de 1812 qui changent d’allégeance...
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Author:Lockerby, EarleSummary:When the fortress of Louisbourg fell to the British in 1758, the Acadians of Prince Edward Island (then known as Île Saint-Jean) were deported, sent to an unknown land thousands of kilometres away. Shipwrecks and disease took a...
