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1) Homesick
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It is the summer of 1959, and in a prairie town in Saskatchewan, Alec Monkman waits for his estranged daughter to come home, with the grandson he has never seen. But this is an uneasy reunion. Fiercely independent, Vera has been on her own since running away at nineteen – first to the army, and then to Toronto. Now, for the sake of her young son, she must swallow her pride and return home after seventeen years. As the story gradually unfolds,...
5) A beauty
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A captivating tale of a young woman who, without intending to, touches many lives, and changed them forever.
8) Hungry hills
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"Snit Mandolin... leaves the brutality of a delinquent boys' home in 1950s Saskatchewan and returns to the community that shunned him and his family. Taking up with another outcast, moonshiner Johnny Swift..., Snit struggles to make enough money to survive and revive his aunt's... neglected farm. But Snit is pursued by the enigmatic freelance cop Roy Kane... who delivered Snit to the reformatory and is determined to shut down the boys' operation....
9) Canada
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The story of Dell Parsons, a young man forced by catastrophic circumstances to reconcile himself to a world rendered unrecognizable. Spirited across the Montana border into Saskatchewan and taken in by Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic man whose own past exists on the other side of the border, Dell struggles to understand what his future can be even as he comes to understand the violence simmering below the surface in his new life.
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Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 17
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A triple homicide rips apart the lives of those related to the lawyers who, at the end of their first year in law school, only half-jokingly styled themselves "The Winners' Circle." Joanne seeks answers to the question: "Why did they die?" As facts behind the suicide of Christopher Altieri, known by his law partners as "the conscience of The Winners' Circle," begin to provide insights, but these insights raise new, unsettling questions.
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Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 4
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Joanne Kilbourn's husband's murderer is found dead in a Saskatchewan prison. Days later, the prisoner's wife is also found dead, strangled with a scarf belonging to Joanne. As Joanne struggles to clear her name, she uncovers facts that reveal that her huband's murder may not have been random.
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Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 19
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On a Saturday bright with the promise of spring, Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve, her husband, Zack, and their family prepare to celebrate the season. Joanne's life is full, and at 60, she has been given the chance to understand a part of her history that for years was shrouded in secrecy. Living Skies is producing Sisters and Strangers, a TV mini-series about the tangled relationships between the families of Douglas Ellard, the father who raised Joanne, and...
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A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a tramp in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story. Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local tramp, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn't talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling. Being with Bill is everything to young Leonard--an escape from...
14) Percy
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"A Canadian farmer takes on a giant corporation after their GMOs interfere with his crops"--www.imdb.com.
15) The legacy
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"From the Arthur Ellis Award-winning Grand Master of Crime Writers comes the next installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series. When Joanne Shreve's former student, Val Masluk, writes the biography of acclaimed novelist Steven Brooks, Val once again becomes part of Joanne's life. The biography is already raising troubling questions about Brooks's past, and the wedding of Brooks's daughter and Joanne's son is scheduled the day before the biography is...
16) Leaving Wisdom
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"Leaving Wisdom begins with the wrong kind of bang when retiring social worker Judith falls on the way to her retirement party. Her ears still ringing and her strength compromised by a shaky recovery, Judith moves back to the town of Wisdom, Saskatchewan, near the farm where she grew up. There she confronts many unanswered questions: Why was her father, a World War Two veteran, so troubled? What are her brother and sister hiding from her? And more...
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"In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season...
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A dark secret threatens the future of the Shreve family Its August 24 and Joanne Shreve and her husband, Zack, are savoring the last lazy days of summer and looking forward to the birth of a new grandchild; involvement in the campaign of Ali Janvier, a gifted politician with a solid chance of becoming the provinces next premier; and the debut of Sisters and Strangers, the six-part series Joanne co-wrote that focuses on her early life....
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It's an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high tiny perch, afraid to move lest it topple into the wind. The town is Horizon, the setting of Sinclair Ross' brilliant classic study of life in the Depression era. Hailed by critics as one of Canada's great novels, As For...
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