Fiction, Cultural Heritage
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What the Living Do
by Maggie Dwyer
Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish — the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she’s living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa ...
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Big Spoon Cove
A Year of Fun and Friends, Tears and Fears, Forests and Forecasts by Girvan Harrison
Come on over to Big Spoon Cove and meet some of my neighbours. In this humble village we’ll meet two cantankerous old men, an ecology professor, forest researcher, biologist, forest technologist; even a hermit monk, along with my ...
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The Irish Affair
by Linda Christian Diver
With the terrifying and seemingly inevitable war between Britain, France and Germany looming like storm clouds on the horizon, Scottish architect Lawrence McKellan uproots his Edinburgh household and moves his wife, two children, and brother to the ...
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Jacob of Abbington Pickets
by H. C. Hewitt
Just before the turn of the 20th century, Jacob Hudson grows up on a farm in the Canadian prairies, near the small village of Abbington Pickets. As a child, he witnesses an incident that scars him deeply and leaves him unable to trust or understand ...
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Shtetl on the Grand
by Gerald Tulchinsky
These stories describe aspects of Jewish life in Brantford from the 1940's; they are centred on fictional characters and events. Although 'small town', or shtetl communities like Brantford have faded away, the memory of them continues to fascinate ...
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Eat Honey, My Son
by Elizabeth M. Free
Imagine that you’re Nancy Holdeman, and the year is 1829. You’re traveling by wagon train from Pennsylvania to join a small Mennonite farm settlement in Ohio with your husband, Amos, and Liza, the first of your nine babies. Still nursing, you’re ...
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Sole Paddle
by H R Campbell
Sole Paddle speaks of solitude and relationships, of walking alone and in community—and of embracing the present and future as part of a team, but also, sometimes with a sole paddle. It tells the story of John Bear, a young man from the isolated ...
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The Princess of the Emerald Throne & Other Stories
by A. Khadivar-Mohseni
Deeply troubled by suspicion and jealousy, a young man follows his wife to the enchanting land of a fairy princess: “The Princess of the Emerald Throne”. Then…. A saddler follows a little bird to the magnificent palace of “The Lady of Forty ...
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Friar Bernard Bakonja
His Schooling and Tonsure by Simo Matavulj
In a village in the Dalmatian hinterland, a once-in-a-generation event is about to take place. The time has come for the Jerković clan, whose holy lineage goes back twenty-four generations, to assemble and select a new student among its youth and ...
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Jacob's Place
From the series of Abbington Pickets by H. C. Hewitt
It was the best time in Jacob Hudson’s life. He was about to marry Abigail Rodgers, his best friend and love of his life. Together they would build their dream home and start a family. Jacob’s carpentry business was successful and he was closer than ...
