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Divisadero Michael Ondaatje, 2007 In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is driven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart. F Ond; CD F Ond; LP F Ond The Stone Carvers Jane Urquhart, 2002 In 1867 a good-natured Bavarian priest, is sent by God and mad King Ludwig to the wilds of North America. Soon the backwoods are transformed into a parish and the settlers into a congregation, and Joseph Becker, a woodcarver, meets his future wife. F Urq; LP F Urq; CD F Urq The Stone Diaries Carol Shields, 1993 Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. F Shi; LP F Shi; CD F Shi A Good House Bonnie Burnard, 1990 The postwar boom and hope for the future color every facet of life: the possibilities seem limitless for Bill, his wife Sylvia, and their three children. Number one bestseller in Canada where it won one of the country's most prestigious literary awards, the Giller Prize, in 1999. F Bur Alias Grace Margaret Atwood, 1996 Atwood takes us back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Now serving a life sentence after a stint in Toronto's lunatic asylum, Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders. F Atw; LP F Atw Runaway: Stories Alice Munro, 2004 Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises. F Mun; CD F Mun Obasan Joy Kogawa, 1981 Based on the author's own experiences, the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during WWII. F Kog A Student of Weather Elizabeth Hay, 2001 During the worst of the prairie dust bowl of the 1930's, a young man appears out of a blizzard, and two sisters' lives are changed forever. F Hay A Song for Nettie Johnson Gloria Sawai, 2002 As Sawai deftly turns over the stones of these people's lives and reveals the squalor, the fear and the unhappiness that lie beneath, she also uncovers that most precious of human qualities - hope. F Saw The Memory Artist Jeffrey Moore, 2006 Noel Burun has synesthesia and hypermnesia: he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and shapes, which collide and commingle to form a memory so bitingly perfect that he can remember everything, from the 1001 stories of The Arabian Nights to the color of his bib as a toddler. But for all his mnemonic abilities, he is confronted every day with a reality that is as sad as it is ironic: his beloved mother, Stella, is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, her memory slowly slipping into the quicksands of oblivion. F Moo The Jade Peony: A Novel Wayson Choy, 1995 Chinatown, Vancouver, of the early 194Os provides the backdrop for this fresh, uplifting, award-winning first novel, told through the reminiscences of the three young children of an immigrant Chinese family. F Cho The Lyre of Orpheus Robertson Davies, 1988 Davies triumphantly concludes the trilogy begun with The Rebel Angels. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the tutelage of Arthur Cornish, art expert, collector, connoisseur, and notable eccentric. F Dav; LP F Dav Fall on your Knees: A Novel Ann-Marie MacDonald, 1996 A bestseller in Canada, this riveting family saga takes readers from Cape Breton Island to the battlefields of World War I to New York City's jazz scene--and into the lives, and guilty secrets, of four remarkable sisters. F MacD All Shook Up: An Eddie Dancer Mystery Mike Harrison, 2005 This hard-edged, energetic mystery features Eddie Dancer—Canada's newest and toughest private eye. PB F Har Icebergs: A Novel Rebecca Johns, 2005 Winter 1944: Walt Dunmore and Alister Clark are the only members of their bomber crew to survive a plane wreck on Newfoundland's Labrador coast - but now they must fight injuries and frostbite in the subzero wilderness. Talk of their wives awaiting them at home punctuates their desperate attempts to attract rescuers and combat the bitter cold. F Joh Helpless: A Novel Barbara Gowdy, 2007 When a summer blackout plunges the city into darkness and confusion, Rachel is taken from her home. A full-scale search begins, but days pass with no clues, only a phone call Celia receives from a woman whose voice she has heard before but cannot place. As Celia fights her terror and Rachel starts to trust in her abductor's kindness, the only other person who knows where she is wavers between loyalty to the captor and saving the child. F Gow Lost Geography Charlotte Bacon, 2000 In this heartbreaking debut novel, Bacon explores the transitions that 60 years visit upon the members of an unforgettable family--a Saskatchewan woman, her Scottish husband, and their daughters who have migrated elsewhere. F Bac Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album Mordecai Richler, 1984 B R5317 Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould Kevin Bazzana, 2004 In Wondrous Strange, Kevin Bazzana vividly recaptures the life of Glenn Gould, one of the most celebrated pianists of our time. Drawing on twenty years of intensive research, including unrestricted access to Gould's private papers and interviews with scores of friends and colleagues, many of them never interviewed before, Bazzana sheds new light on such topics as Gould's family history, his secretive sexual life, and the mysterious problems that afflicted his hands in his later years. B G6967 Contact Janie Hermann jhermann@princetonlibrary.org
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