Partonville marks its centennial plus thirty--by arguing over the best way to celebrate it. Meanwhile, the acting mayor is trying to change a vital part of the town square (but it's always been that way!) and a newcomer named Katie...
Country life
- Author:Baumbich, Charlene AnnSummary:
- Author:Baumbich, Charlene AnnSummary:
In Partonville, a tiny southern Illinois farming town, 87-year-old Dorothy Jean Wetstrs is the self-proclaimed town matriarch. She'sa regular in the main street cafe, where she helps herself to doughnuts and gossip. And she'...
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
Winner of the Governor General's Award and the Mr. Christie's Book Award. In this award-winning paean to country life we find Hubbo O'Driscoll, whom we first met in Easy Avenue, now living in the lower Gatineau with his guardian aunt...
- Author:Warren, DianneSummary:
"Juliet, Saskatchewan sits at the edge of the Little Snake sand hills. The heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people, and their stories bring the prairie desert and the town to vivid and enduring life....
- Author:Nowlan, Alden, Bartlett, BrianSummary:
Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion, and...
- Author:Watt, BruceSummary:
Getting three trucks and two horses stuck in the mud on "a good road" into BC's wild, remote interior was just the start of Bruce Watt's hilarious adventures—and it was his honeymoon, too. When the newly married Watt moved there in 1948...
- Author:LYNCH, Sarah-KateSummary:
Wife, mother, backer, lover... no wonder she feels spread thin. It's not easy being the adoring mother of one, living in the middle of the English countryside with a short-sighted goat, a crusty father-in-law and a dysfunctional...
- Author:Glasgow, EllenSummary:
- Author:McEwan, IanSummary:
- Author:Olsson, LindaSummary:
Deeply forlorn following the devastating loss of her fiancé, young New Zealand writer Veronika resettles alone in a quaint Swedish village. Her arrival is quietly observed by Astrid, an elderly, reclusive neighbor, whose companionship...
- Author:Reynolds, JasonSummary:
When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires-literally-in this piercing middle grade novel by the winner of the Coretta Scott King - Johnson Steptoe Award. Genie's summer is full of surprises. The first is...
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
Anne, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London), is sent to Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers' homes and orphanages. Marilla and Matthew...
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
Sur le quai de la gare, Marilla et Matthew attendent l'orphelin qui les aidera sur leur ferme. C'est une rouquine aux yeux pétillants qui se présente... Jouir de la magie des mots, rire de ses propres défauts, s'émerveiller face à la...
- Author:Kingsolver, BarbaraSummary:
Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it....
- Author:Nowlan, Alden, Musgrave, SusanSummary:
The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich...
- Author:Mitchell, W. O.Summary:
- Author:Whitlock, NathanSummary:
A brilliant, darkly comic, and startlingly honest novel, A Week of This follows the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. At the centre of the novel is 38-year-old Manda, a tough, sarcastic woman who...
- Author:Berry, WendellSummary:
Mat Feltner struggles to accept the loss of his son as the rest of the Port William community watches the progress of World War II.
- Author:Brown, Rita Mae.Summary:
When Baxter the wirehaired dachshund and his owner Mags leave New York for Nevada, they find themselves embroiled in a real head scratcher. First, the local water-pumping station is sabotaged. Then, a murdered man's bones--dating...
- Author:Maris MortonSummary:
When Mary Lanyon takes on the job of temporary housekeeper at Downe, her task is to get the house back into shape for the wedding of the only son and heir, Martin. When she arrives, however, Mary realises things are not right. The owner...