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Cat's Eye

Cat's Eye more books like this

by Margaret Atwood

The contemporary story of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life. Returning to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics ...

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Blood Debt

Blood Debt more books like this

by Tanya Huff

Offering up an irresistible team of terror busters--Vicki, a female private eye who was until recently human; Mike, a Toronto homicide detective who is her ex-partner and current lover; and Henry, a vampire who writes bodice rippers--this book is a masterful blending of contemporary fantasy and the supernatural. Henry calls upon Vicki and Mike to ...

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In the Skin of a Lion

In the Skin of a Lion more books like this

by Michael Ondaatje

This novel about an immigrant's surreal adventures in Toronto includes characters who reappear in Ondaatje's novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT: the orphan Hana and the thief Caravaggio.

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Jalna

Jalna more books like this

by Mazo De La Roche

In "Jalna", the unforgettable Whiteoak family makes its first appearance. Grandmother Adeline and Boney, her equally colourful parrot; Adeline's bachelor sons Nicholas and Ernest, daughter Lady Augusta, granddaughter Meg, and grandsons Renny, Piers, Eden, Finch and Wakefield. Renny, the red-haired eldest grandson, fiercely protects Jalna and all ...

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People of the Masks

People of the Masks more books like this

by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W Michael Gear

As the prophets foretold, a child of power has been born unto the Turtle People of the Iroquois Nation. All except Jumping Badger of the Bear people fear him. Jumping Badger destroys an entire village to take the boy and use him as a spritual weapon. But his triumph is short-lived.

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Broken

Broken more books like this

by Kelley Armstrong

In this thrilling new novel in the Women of the Otherworld series, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on 21st-century London---and may become his next target. Original.

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Whiteoak Heritage

Whiteoak Heritage more books like this

by Mazo De La Roche

Published in 1940, "Whiteoak Heritage" chronicles the fortunes of the Whiteoak family after the Second World War. The drama continues at Jalna when Renny returns home to find his one-time love still unforgiving and his brother still involved with an older woman.

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How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts

How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts more books like this

by Frances Densmore

Ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution offers a wealth of material on nearly 200 plants used by Chippewas of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Emphasis on wild plants and lesser-known uses. 33 plates.

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The Bite of the Mango

The Bite of the Mango more books like this

by Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland

A courageous biography by a woman from Sierra Leone who at 12 was tortured and lost her hands to child soldiers, her subsequent life in refugee camps, begging in Freetown and her eventual arrival in Toronto where she began to pull her life back together.

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Crow Lake

Crow Lake more books like this

by Mary Lawson

In a farming community in northern Ontario, zoologist Kate Morrison confronts her past as she grapples with her relationships with her three brothers, whom she has come to view as unsophisticated rural people, and generally struggles with issues of family and identity. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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The singing wilderness. more books like this

by Sigurd F. Olson

Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, and no one knew with the same intimacy the mysteries of the lakes and forests of that magnificent primitive area. To the many out-of-doorsmen who canoed and portaged with him through this wilderness, he was known honorifically as the Bourgeois--as ...

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Blood Price more books like this

by Tanya Huff

It began with blood and death amid the streets of late-night Toronto. Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto's homicide detail, now a private investigator, witnessed the first attack by the force of dark magic that would soon wreak its reign of terror on the unsuspecting city. And as death followed unspeakable death, Vicki became more and more deeply ...

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Unless more books like this

by Carol Shields

Reta Winters is a successful novelist, Tom is a doctor, and they've been living together for over 20 years. Life has been good until Reta's daughter Norah leaves home and becomes a street person in Toronto. Carol Shields's novel--which she claims will be her last (she was suffering from terminal cancer when she wrote it)--is about not only family ...

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Lost more books like this

by Joy Fielding

When her 21-year-old daughter, Julia, disappears, Cindy Carver takes it upon herself to track down the spoiled and sometimes impetuous young woman. As Cindy searches for Julia, she discovers that her daughter has been leading a dark and dangerous life--and that Cindy herself might be in grave danger.

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The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution more books like this

by Alan Taylor

By telling the dramatic story of a young Mohawk Indian, Joseph Brant, and a colonial contemporary, Samuel Kirkland, Taylor illuminates the Indians' role in shaping the post-Revolutionary War borderland of the United States and British Canada.

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Commentaries on the laws of England more books like this

by Sir William Blackstone

Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) stands as the first effort to consolidate English common law into a unified and rational system. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education both in England and America. This handsomely produced, ...

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Through Black Spruce more books like this

by Joseph Boyden

This work from the author of "Three Day Road" finds Will Bird, a legendary Cree bush pilot, lying in a coma. His niece has returned from her own perilous journey to sit beside his bed. Broken in different ways, the two take silent communion in their unspoken kinship.

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Song of Hiawatha more books like this

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A picture-book version of a section of Longfellow's epic poem. The illustrations were created by using fine-line pen with color ink and dyes. This book contains only the sections of the poem that deal with the boyhood of Hiawatha, who is actually a composite character created, in part, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.

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Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies more books like this

by Ginger Strand

Strand reveals the hidden history of America's most iconic natural wonder, Niagara Falls, illuminating what it says about our history, our relationship with the environment, and ourselves.

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Any known blood more books like this

by Lawrence Hill

Spanning five generations, sweeping across a century and a half of almost unknown history, this acclaimed and unexpectedly funny novel is the story of a man seeking himself in the mirror of his family's past. There were Canes in Canada before the United States erupted into civil war. Their roots are deep, their legacy is rich, but Langston Cane V ...

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The Other Side of the Bridge more books like this

by Mary Lawson

This mesmerizing novel of jealously, rivalry, and the dangerous power of obsession, chronicles two generations in the small town of Struan, Ontario, which are tragically linked by fate and community but separated by a war which devours its young men--its unimaginable horror reaching right into the heart of this remote corner of an empire.

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The Black Donnellys more books like this

by Thomas P. Kelley

The terrible Donnelly feud, by far the most notorious and violent in the history of Canada, began in the spring of 1847 only a few hours after James Donnelly, an Irish immigrant, first arrived in the town of Lucan, Ontario. The feud lasted nearly 33 years and was marked by murders, gang wars, highway robbery, mass arson, derailed trains, ...

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Rough-Face Girl more books like this

by Rafe Martin, David Shannon (Illustrator)

An Algonquin variant of the Cinderella story. Here, the Cinderella character is the Rough-Face Girl, so called because she is scarred from tending the fire. Her two proud sisters set out to try to win the heart of the powerful Invisible Boy but they are unable to see him or to answer his sister's questions about him. Will the Rough-Face Girl be ...

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Deadly Innocence more books like this

by Dr. Alan Cairns, Scott Burnside, Scott Cairns

Karla and Paul seemed like the picture-perfect newlyweds, but were really a pair of vicious killers who abducted, sexually tortured and murdered innocent schoolgirls, videotaping their evil acts in suburban Niagara Falls. Billed as the crime of the century in Canada, this case has received a great deal of media coverage on both sides of the border ...

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Variable winds at Jalna more books like this

by Mazo de La Roche

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