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Author:Paquet, Laura Byrne
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Author:Thomas, Audrey
Summary:Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs.
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Author:Adney, Tappan
,Behne, C. Ted Ted
Summary:In 1887, at the age of just 18, intellectually and artistically gifted American Tappan Adney embarked on his first trip to New Brunswick.
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Author:Lord, M.G.
Summary:Was Barbie was the first feminist doll? She always worked in interesting positions, never married, never had a child, and never did house work.
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Author:Adney, Tappan
,Behne, C. Ted Ted
Summary:Setting out to visit his friends in Woodstock, New Brunswick, and with all intentions to return to the United States to attend Columbia University in the fall, Tappan Adney, at the age of 18, embar
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Author:Hutchinson, Chris
Summary:Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursting with literary in-jokes; C) a delicate sequence
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Author:Falk, Dan
Summary:William Shakespeare lived at a time when the medieval world — a world of magic, astrology, witchcraft, and superstition of all kinds — was just beginning to give way to more modern ways of thinking
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Author:Barlow, Kate
Summary:When Kate Barlow was a little girl, she moved with her mother and her older sisters to a ramshackle English mansion.
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Author:Kuitenbrouwer, Kathryn
Summary:In her early twenties, Alma met a tree-planter and fell in love — not with the man but with his strangely romantic work.
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Author:Drew, Lorna
,Ferrari, Leo
Summary:Lorna Drew thought her partner was carrying his absent-minded professor status too far, until, two years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer Disease.
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Author:Komar, Debra
Summary:At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man.
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Author:Cumyn, Alan
Summary:In this much anticipated follow-up to The Sojourn, Alan Cumyn continues the story of Ramsay Crome, an artist who never quite came home from the First World War.
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Author:Lewis, Naomi K.
Summary:One night, Agatha Winter's phone rings. Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal.
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Author:Bissoondath, Neil
Summary:Stories shape the world, imposing order on chaos, and the stories we tell declare: I exist. Neil Bissoondath presses these assertions about narrative further.
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Author:Bannister, Ivy
Summary:On September 2, 1998, a fire in the cockpit sent Swissair Flight 111 plunging into the sea off Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia.
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