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This novel paints the portrait of a Lebanese family that has settled in Montreal. The central figure is Dounia, a 75-year-old mother and grandmother. Hers is a story of loss—she first leaves her own village to live in her husband’s hometown, and then is wrenched from...
Editeur :
Duo
Parution :
2025-10-14
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This novel paints the portrait of a Lebanese family that has settled in Montreal. The central figure is Dounia, a 75-year-old mother and grandmother. Hers is a story of loss—she first leaves her own village to live in her husband’s hometown, and then is wrenched from...
Editeur :
Duo
Parution :
2025-10-14
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Wendall and Ruby Forbes are confronting the vagaries of aging boomers: – sleeplessness, loneliness, memory loss, and the fear Ruby is showing signs of dementia. A blizzard hits their small town of Twenty-Six Mile House and a remarkable, perhaps unbelievable, band of...
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Latitude 46 Publishing
Parution :
2025-09-25
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Maria Legassick is the youngest of the three daughters of a Cornish vicar, and she tells here the story of what happened, in a swiftly-changing world, to herself, her sisters, and her brilliant, gifted brother—Roger whom she loved too well; Louisa whom she admired but...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-09-16
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The story of William Essex, who rose from humble beginnings to become a successful dramatist and novelist, and his friend Dermot O'Riordon, a fervent Irish patriot and founder of a great London furnishing house; and their sons, Oliver Essex and Rory O'Riordon. Plus some...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-16
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Hurricane House tells the gripping story of the Parsons family—Ruth and Gilbert and their adult children, Joey and Junie—as they face one of the worst projected storms in Atlantic Canadian history.
Ruth Parsons, determined to celebrate her sixtieth birthday with a...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2025-06-13
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A testament to the strength of women.
Mothers and daughters share a special bond. It is an unconditional love that is irreplaceable.
Hadley Hynes is days away from celebrating her one hundredth birthday. Her daughter, Patricia, granddaughter Ava, and...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2024-06-21
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Well, Dick's dead. Now what?
Margo, his widow, is trying to dodge the tsunami of paperwork coming her way. She doesn't want to deal with the details—why do you think she was married in the first place? Dick always handled the drudgery.
Monty, Margo's ex-husband (the...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2024-06-18
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Scarlet Sister Mary is set among the Gullah people of the Low Country in South Carolina. The date is never clearly established, but appears to be around the beginning of the twentieth century. The title character, Mary, was an orphan on an abandoned plantation who was...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2024-04-05
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Bess Streeter Aldrich has made a big place for herself among novel readers by her wholesome, happy and truthful stories of American small-town life. In The Cutters she takes a family that is typical of many thousands of homes and portrays it with humor and sympathy.
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2024-04-05
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This is a story of two middle-class families living in adjoining houses in a West-of-England town. In one house lives a priggish individual, his seemingly submissive wife and their three daughters who share in a varied degree the characteristics of their parents—a...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2024-01-02
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Nan has written her brothers and sisters that they are invited (and must come) home for Christmas. They had not all been home together for years. No spouses or children . Just the five siblings. They really didn't want to go, it did not sound like fun. The story of a...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-01-02
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Making Up the Gods is equal parts quirky and sincere in its thoughtful exploration of tragedy and recovery, of new and old relationships, and of deeper questions of when to let the past rest.
Simone, a retired widow, would live a quiet and isolated life, if not for the...
Editeur :
Latitude 46 Publishing
Parution :
2023-10-15
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Rose Ainsworth, the affable protagonist in Jane Doucet’s debut novel, The Pregnant Pause, is back in this candid, compelling look at midlife love, loss, and new beginnings.Rose and Jim, her husband of almost twenty years, have been living happily in Halifax, Nova...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2023-09-07
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The worst moment of Sam’s life was captured on video and shared across the internet for all to gawk at. This is something she has in common with Robot, who just wants to move past the mistakes he’s made, if only his small town will let him. When the two meet in a high...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2023-05-29
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These twelve short stories dive deep into imaginary worlds where everyday life is marked and marred by war. They speak of wounded love, captured women, confinement, talismans, borders, wolves. They give expression to the voices of Afghan women who would like to change...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2022-01-22
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The Setons depicts Scottish country life in the early 20th century, as young Elizabeth Seton uses her strength of character to keep the household together following her mother's death. A minor classic, The Setons remains as one of Olivia Douglas' best regarded and most...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-08
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Kirsty Gilmour makes a home for herself in the Scottish Borders and takes under her wing a gentle old aunt and three motherless children; Barbara, Specky and Bad Bill. Originally written in the 1920s, Pink Sugar is full of perfectly drawn characters with old-fashioned...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-06
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A Harsh and Private Beauty, is about the life and loves of Ruby Grace, now in her 89th year, on a train journey with her granddaughter back to Chicago, the city of her birth. When the book opens, Ruby is living in a retirement care home, but as a young woman, she was a...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2019-10-15
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Lorato lives a comfortable but lonely life in her retirement years, alone in the home her husband had built in their rural village on the Kalahari in southern Africa. She becomes a grandmother when she adopts Lesedi after the death of a neighbour of from HIV-related...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2019-09-15
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