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David Weale's Christmas classic charmingly rendered by a five year old narrator. Eckhart, the hero of our story, is a tiny young mouse. He and his family have just moved inside for the winter.... |
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An original work by well-known singer-songwriter Connie Kaldor that tells the story of a little prairie duck with a big idea – making it on Broadway. It’s a long shot, and New York’s very far away.... |
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| The setting of Family Matters is Bombay, mid-1990s. Nariman Vakeel, suffering from Parkinson's disease, is the elderly patriarch of a small, discordant family. In a building called Chateau Felicity, he... |
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Six interconnected short stories follow the lives of a group of friends from early childhood to middle age. On the Beach in Spanish Room by Janis Spence is a collection of six previously... |
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An audio adaptation of Frank Holden's one-man play, featuring the historical character of Daniel Woodley Prowse, the police magistrate who was a "cross between Dr. Samuel Johnson and... |
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Dr. Wilfred Grenfell's harrowing tale of near-death on the ice of northern Newfoundland. How does a man save his own life? In 1908 Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, a medical missionary in northern... |
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In the late 1970s, Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient, returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. Recording his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that... |
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A modern classic of Canadian poetry, The Grey Islands is one man's meditation on the interplay between nature and human society in the rugged setting of coastal Newfoundland.
A novel in the form... |
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Lisa Moore's trademark style is on full display in this, her second collection of short stories-- love, lust and loss abound. Open makes you believe three things unequivocally: that St.... |
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| Such a Long Journey is set in Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his... |
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