“The Morning Watch” explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an Episcopal boarding school (based on the author's schooling at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee), over the course of a few hours in the early morning of Good...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-10-17

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The heroine, a young, light-skinned African-American woman called Angela Murray, leaves behind her past and  passes for white  in order to be able to attain fulfilment in life. Only after she has lived among white Americans does she find out that crossing the racial...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2024-04-09

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Set on a US college campus in 1964, In the Defense of Liberty is a powerful, fast-paced novel exploring gender nonconformity and the reach of history. It's 1964, and the students at Merida University in Ohio can sense that something is brewing -- the campus is rippling...

Editeur : Freehand Books
Parution : 2023-05-01

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When Penelope Wells, precocious daughter of a poet, meets the well-behaved middle-class Bradley children, it is love at first sight. But their parents are horrified by the Wells' establishment - a distinctly bohemian hotel on the French Riviera - and the friendship ends...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2021-11-11

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Norah is now 14. She, Jim and Wally do their best to put up with Cecil, the 19-year-old cousin from town who has come to stay at Billabong for the Christmas holidays and tries to show off to his Bush relatives with his disdainful city airs. But the results are...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2021-11-04

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A funny and touching coming-of-age and coming out story that follows Alana, as she grows up, and navigates a perplexing and sometimes hostile world. Her sister is both her constant companion and tormentor, and Alana is desperate for her approval. This book is for anyone...

Editeur : Radiant Press
Parution : 2020-08-06

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Imogen St. Pierre is a musical prodigy, a classical pianist touring Canada and abroad in a trio with her father and grandfather. Though clearly accomplished she is also painfully awkward socially, getting lost in the music even after it's over. Imogen's in the final...

Editeur : Red Deer Press
Parution : 2018-06-18

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Meet Daniel Garneau, your average gay hockey player from small-town Ontario. After moving to Toronto to attend university, Daniel meets David, a bike mechanic whose Catholic Italian mother talks to her dead husbands. Their chemistry is immediate, but Daniel is still...

Editeur : Guernica
Parution : 2018-04-01

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Teenage years can be complicated, even when you haven’t been abandoned by your mother at age ten. It is the 1980s and teenage Gemma lives with her well-meaning father, Nathaniel, goes to ‘art therapy’ once a week and tries to come to terms with growing up motherless....

Editeur : Stonehouse Publishing
Parution : 2017-10-15

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Sixteen-year-old Dee and her seven-year-old brother, Eddie, have been on their own for six weeks. Their father has seemingly vanished into the baking Arizona desert. Their money is drying up and the rent is coming due, but it's a visit from a social worker and the...

Editeur : Orca Book Publishers
Parution : 2017-08-29

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17-year-old Hunter Ryan is making a long-dreaded return trip home. He takes a Greyhound bus bound for Victoria, British Columbia with his ex-girlfriend Lee and a 12-year-old named Poppy. There's a reason that Hunter left his parents, his friends, and his sister Bridget...

Editeur : Red Deer Press
Parution : 2014-07-07

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This evocative narrative draws us into the inner life of a young Chinese peasant girl, May-ping, and her first glimmerings of youthful love and idealism under the Maoist regime in China. As she grows into a mature woman, she becomes increasingly aware of the strife...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22
Collection : Life Writing
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