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Extraordinary Canadians Lord Beaverbrook
E-bok, 2008
286 kr
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Press baron, entrepreneur, art collector, and wartime minister in Churchill''s cabinet, Max Aitken was a colonial Canadian extraordinaire. Rising from a hardscrabble childhood in New Brunswick, he became a millionaire at age 25, earned the title of Lord Beaverbrook at 38, and by age 40 was the most …
Hockey Dreams
E-bok, 2011
252 kr
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With a voice as Canadian as winter, David Adams Richards reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul. The lyrical narrative of Hockey Dreams flows from Richards'' boyhood games on the Miramichi to heated debates with university professors who dare to back the wrong team. It examines the …
Lost Highway
E-bok, 2009
229 kr
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What had happened, from those days until now? And why had it? And how had his life gone? And who was to blame? Or why did he think he had to blame anyone? Certainly he couldn’t even blame Mr. Roach, caught in the same turmoil as everyone believing half-truths in order to blame other people. These …
God Is.
My Search for Faith in a Secular World
E-bok, 2009
257 kr
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In this invaluable contribution to the continuing debate about religious belief, David Adams Richards offers an exhilaratingly fresh perspective and a voice more impassioned, heartfelt, and sometimes furious, than anything written about God by an atheist. David Adams Richards, one of Canada’s most …
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
E-bok, 2011
257 kr
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Highly charged and profoundly important, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul is a new masterpiece from one of Canada’s greatest writers. On a bright morning in June 1985, a young Micmac man starts his first day of work—but by noon he is dead, killed mysteriously in the fourth hold of the cargo …
Murder
And Other Essays
E-bok, 2019
286 kr
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A thrilling, revelatory collection from one of the most provocative and original literary voices in Canada today. David Adams Richards is one of Canada''s greatest writers, his place in the pantheon ensured by seventeen novels of consistent power and vision. He is also the author of four marvelous …
Crimes Against My Brother
E-bok, 2014
272 kr
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A brilliant, heartbreaking novel from a Canadian icon that tackles the theme of debt, and what we owe each other, through three unforgettable characters. This is Richards'' best and most complex work since his Giller-winning Mercy Among the Children , and a fitting companion to that novel. Howard, …
Facing the Hunter
E-bok, 2011
196 kr
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David Adams Richards takes us behind his gun and into the Canadian forest for his most powerful work of non-fiction yet. In his brilliant non-fiction, David Adams Richards - first and foremost one of Canada''s greatest and best-beloved novelists - has been writing a kind of memoir by other means. …
Principles To Live By
E-bok, 2016
220 kr
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The masterful new novel from a Canadian literary legend at the height of his powers. John Delano is a broken man, seemingly at the end of everything: the end of his legendary but controversial career as a police officer; the end of his sad and difficult marriage; the end of his years-long search …
Mary Cyr
E-bok, 2018
196 kr
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A fresh new novel from a Canadian literary legend--this time with an extraordinary and unforgettable woman protagonist who is sure to become one of the great characters in our literature. Mary Cyr opens in Mexico, just as a disaster strikes a small town: a coal-mine has collapsed, with thirteen men …
Tragedy of Eva Mott
Inbunden, 2022
307 kr
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Literary legend David Adams Richards follows the epic Miramichi Trilogy with a startling standalone novel of concentrated power. The Raskin brothers were once proud to be producers of a much sought-after material of great benefit to society--asbestos. But now their mine is under close scientific …
Songs of Love on a December Night
Häftad, 2025
307 kr
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From one of Canada's greatest novelists comes a tale of dark aspirations, betrayal and murder. When Colonel Musselman is found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, a rumour soon surfaces that he was murdered by his own teenage son, Jamie. As weeks, months and years pass, Jamie—shy …
Playing the Inside Out / Le jeu des apparences
Häftad, 2008
173 kr
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Playing the Inside Out is David Adams Richard’s distilled insight on the artist’s struggle for full access to artistic integrity by remaining an outsider to convention. Richards conjures forth his vision of eternal truths commonly held by all mankind, a Miramichi cosmic consciousness that he has …
Lines On The Water
E-bok, 2010
79 kr
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'A poetic account of the dialogue Richards has conducted with the river during half a century of listening to the whisper and gurgle of its myriad voices - a lyrical evocation of the sights, sounds and scents of a great Canadian waterway' - The Sunday HeraldLines on the Water is the story of a …
Mercy Among The Children
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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The novel tells the story of Sydney Henderson and his son, Lyle. As a young man, Sydney, believing he has accidentally killed a friend, makes a pact with God, promising never to harm another if the boy's life is spared. In the years that follow the almost pathologically gentle Sydney tries to hold …
River of the Brokenhearted
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Janie McCleary runs one of the first movie theatres in New Brunswick. A successful woman in a world of men, she is ostracized, a victim of double-dealing and overt violence. She trusts no one outside her family. Spanning generations, River of the Brokenhearted explores the life of this formidable …
Friends of Meager Fortune
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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Will Jameson has a temperament of iron, standing up to men twice his age when he takes over the Jameson lumber company after his father's death. His younger brother Owen is sensitive, literary and fanciful. But when Will dies suddenly and Owen's beloved Lula rejects him, Owen's deeper character …
Nights Below Station Street
E-bok, 2009
231 kr
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David Adams Richards’ Governor General’s Award-winning novel is a powerful tale of resignation and struggle, fierce loyalties and compassion. This book is the first in Richards’ acclaimed Miramichi trilogy. Set in a small mill town in northern New Brunswick, it draws us into the lives of a …
Bay of Love and Sorrows
E-bok, 2012
93 kr
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Written in taut, penetrating prose, Richards'' new novel offers a wide array of unforgettable characters. All are wrestling with issues of integrity, self-preservation, and power in the close confines of their coastal community, and tragedy is waiting to happen. Home from college for the summer is …
River of the Brokenhearted
E-bok, 2014
146 kr
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From David Adams Richards, winner of the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, comes a magnificent and haunting novel about the entwinement of remembered love and unforgotten hate. Spanning generations, River of the Brokenhearted tells the life and legacy of Janie McCleary, a strong-willed …
