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36 produkter
Dance the Rocks Ashore
Häftad, 1997
205 kr
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Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. This collection of short stories, Dance the Rocks Ashore, is certainly choice Choyce.Dance the Rocks Ashore contains substantial new stories including "Dance the Rocks Ashore," a bittersweet account of an elderly couple's decline; the …
World Enough
Häftad, 1998
219 kr
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When their farm gets expropriated to make way for the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant, Alexander McNab and his family move to Saint John. Without the magic of the Bay of Fundy, without the bright companionship of his little sister, Alex grows up a lonely, insecure failure.At 30, he's had enough; …
Summer of Apartment X
Häftad, 1999
177 kr
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Lesley Choyce's novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies, Richard and Brian, intend to take the beach resort town by storm. It's the fateful summer between high school and university, early 1970s version. …
Republic of Nothing
Reader's Guide Edition
Häftad, 2007
266 kr
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Winner, Dartmouth Book Award Finalist, Atlantic Booksellers Choice AwardA small Canadian island declares its independence to the world and benign anarchy reigns. A god-like ocean deposits many a thing, yet it also takes away. The 1960s blaze off shore and draw the island's inhabitants into …
Thin Places
Häftad, 2017
218 kr
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A dazzling story told in verse of sixteen-year-old Declan Lynch and the girl whose centuries-old voice rings in his head.One day, Declan Lynch, a restless teenager, starts hearing a girl’s voice inside his head. Eventually, he even begins to see her. Though he’s not certain the girl, Rebecca, is …
Thin Places
E-bok, 2017
133 kr
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A dazzling story told in verse of sixteen-year-old Declan Lynch and the girl whose centuries-old voice rings in his head. One day, Declan Lynch, a restless teenager, starts hearing a girl’s voice inside his head. Eventually, he even begins to see her. Though he’s not certain the girl, Rebecca, is …
Thin Places
E-bok, 2017
89 kr
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A dazzling story told in verse, of sixteen-year-old Declan Lynch and the girl whose centuries-old voice rings in his head. One day, Declan Lynch, a regular teenager, starts hearing a girl’s voice inside his head. Eventually, he even begins to see her. Though he’s not certain the girl, Rebecca, is …
Broken Man on a Halifax Pier
E-bok, 2019
229 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 EVERGREEN AWARDA tale of one man's shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers.Fifty-five-year-old Charles Howard has lost his long-time journalism job and has been swindled out of his life savings. Standing by the edge of Halifax Harbour on a foggy morning, …
Broken Man on a Halifax Pier
E-bok, 2019
122 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 EVERGREEN AWARDA tale of one man's shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers.Fifty-five-year-old Charles Howard has lost his long-time journalism job and has been swindled out of his life savings. Standing by the edge of Halifax Harbour on a foggy morning, …
Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil
Häftad, 2017
246 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2017 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award! John Alexander MacNeil is eighty years old. Sharp-tongued and quick-witted, he lives alone in rural Cape Breton, but he still cooks breakfast for his wife, who’s been dead for thirty years. He silently starts to question his own mind after …
Deconstructing Dylan
E-bok, 2006
89 kr
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The year is 2014. Dylan Gibson is 16 and knows there is something unusual about him, but he doesn''t know what - aside from his fascination for things like insects, opera, old Japanese sci-fi movies, playing the didgeridoo, and the Loch Ness monster. After being dumped by his girlfriend, Caroline, …
Sea of Tranquility
A Novel
E-bok, 2003
107 kr
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For Sylvie, Ragged Island - and the whales who swam around it - is the only world she has ever known. It is the place where she was born and raised, where she lived with her four late husbands, and where she plans to live out her remaining years. It is also the home to a community whose love for …
Shoulder the Sky
E-bok, 2002
89 kr
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Winner of the 2003 Ann Connor Brimer Award, short-listed for the 2004 White Pine Award Martin Emerson''s family, friends, and even his therapist have trouble figuring him out. He never showed much of a reaction to the death of his mother, and his behaviour of late has been getting more and more …
Smoke and Mirrors
E-bok, 2004
92 kr
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Short-listed for the 2005 CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award Sixteen-year-old Simon has always been considered odd. Three years ago, a skateboarding accident caused some minor brain damage and made him a little stranger. His career-driven parents mostly leave him alone, and he spends much of his …
Shoulder the Sky
E-bok, 2002
133 kr
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Winner of the 2003 Ann Connor Brimer Award, short-listed for the 2004 White Pine Award Martin Emerson’s family, friends, and even his therapist have trouble figuring him out. He never showed much of a reaction to the death of his mother, and his behaviour of late has been getting more and more …
Sea of Tranquility
A Novel
E-bok, 2003
229 kr
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For Sylvie, Ragged Island - and the whales who swam around it - is the only world she has ever known. It is the place where she was born and raised, where she lived with her four late husbands, and where she plans to live out her remaining years. It is also the home to a community whose love for …
Smoke and Mirrors
E-bok, 2004
137 kr
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Short-listed for the 2005 CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award Sixteen-year-old Simon has always been considered odd. Three years ago, a skateboarding accident caused some minor brain damage and made him a little stranger. His career-driven parents mostly leave him alone, and he spends much of his …
Deconstructing Dylan
E-bok, 2006
133 kr
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Commended for the 2006 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice Selection The year is 2014. Dylan Gibson is 16 and knows there is something unusual about him, but he doesn’t know what - aside from his fascination for things like insects, opera, old Japanese sci-fi movies, playing the didgeridoo, …
Untimely Resurrection of John Alexander MacNeil
Häftad, 2023
246 kr
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John Alexander MacNeil is back with another astonishing adventure. The ninety-year-old still lives alone on the blessed isle of Cape Breton. He still sometimes makes tea for his wife, who died decades ago. He accepts his lonely life, ignoring the world changing around him. But one night, he feels …
No More Fridays
Häftad, 2026
516 kr
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During Elliott’s last year of high school, his mother dies of ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that progressively robs motor skills. Now his whole family is adrift and floundering. Elliott’s only friend, the uber-intellectual and socially maladaptive Riley, tries to help but needs to set boundaries …
Broken Man on a Halifax Pier
Häftad, 2019
210 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 EVERGREEN AWARDA tale of one man’s shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers.Fifty-five-year-old Charles Howard has lost his long-time journalism job and has been swindled out of his life savings. Standing by the edge of Halifax Harbour on a foggy morning, …
Breaking Point
Häftad, 2012
102 kr
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Cameron has been in trouble with the law more than once for breaking and entering. After Cameron's latest conviction, he's sent to an outdoor program for young offenders rather than a standard juvenile detention facility. There he meets Brianna, a girl who has been caught selling drugs at her …
