Author: L.M. Montgomery
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Keywords: gables, anne
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0771093683
ISBN-13: 9780771093685

2008 is the 100th anniversary of Anne of Green Gables.Anne Shirley, Mark Twain observed, is “the dearest and most loveable child in fiction since the immortal Alice,” and like the elderly Cuthberts, who had hoped to adopt a boy instead of the spunky red-headed girl, generations of readers have grown to love the impetuous orphan. 2008 is the hundredth anniversary of the publication of this much loved classic.

Author: Sheila Watson
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Keywords: library, canadian, new, hook, double
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2008-08-05
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0771094574
ISBN-13: 9780771094576

In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestled in the BC Interior. Here, among the hills of Cariboo country, men and women are caught upon the double hook of existence, unaware that the flight from danger and the search for glory are both part of the same journey. In Watson’s compelling novel, cruelty and kindness, betrayal and faith shape a pattern of enduring significance.

Author: Ringuet
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Keywords: acres, thirty
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-01-06
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0771094167
ISBN-13: 9780771094163

One of the most important books to come out of Quebec, Thirty Acres traces the course of one man’s life as he enters into the age-old rhythms of the land and of the seasons. At the same time, it is a novel on a grand social scale, spanning and documenting the tumultuous half-century in which a new, industrial urban society crowded out Quebec’s traditional rural one.Winner of the Governor General’s Award and numerous other national and international literary prizes, Thirty Acres is a universal story of birth and death, renewal and reversal, ascent and decline, and a masterpiece of irony a

Author: Susanna Moodie
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Keywords: bush, roughing
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2007-12-04
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 077103492X
ISBN-13: 9780771034923

Roughing It in The Bush chronicles Susanna Moodie’s harsh and often humorous experiences homesteading in the woods of Upper Canada. A frank and fascinating account of how one woman coped, not only with a new world, but with a new self, this unabridged text continues to justify the international sensation it caused when it was first published in 1852.

Author: Morley Callaghan
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Keywords: earth, inherit
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2009-01-06
List price: $20.62
ISBN-10: 0771093632
ISBN-13: 9780771093630

First published in 1935, this novel is a penetrating study of a father and son caught in the moral and economic undertow of the Great Depression. The action hinges upon a sudden mischance in which accident and intention tragically coincide. Swept along by the inexorable logic of events, Callaghan’s protagonists are forced to re-examine the nature of individual conscience and responsibility. In their personal struggle is expressed the mood of the age, its cynicism and anger, its desperate idealism, and its agonized longing for redemption.From the Paperback edition.

Author: Margaret Laurence
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Keywords: library, canadian, new, god, jest
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1988-10-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0771099886
ISBN-13: 9780771099885

In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and that of others – Rachel longs for love, and contact with another human being who shares her rebellious spirit. Through her summer affair with Nick Kazlik, a schoolmate from earlier years, she learns at last to reach out to another person and to make herself vulnerable.A Jest of God won the Governor General’s Award for 1966 and was relea

Author: Hugh Maclennan
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Keywords: son, man
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0771093594
ISBN-13: 9780771093593

In Each Man’s Son, his fourth novel, Hugh MacLennan returns to his native Cape Breton to present life in a small mining community.Dr. Daniel Ainslie, who ministers to the rough miners, yearns for a son, which he can never have. He comes to love young Alan MacNeil, the son of Mollie MacNeil and her absent husband, Archie, who deserted his family several years before to seek his fortune as a professional fighter. Now Archie returns, bitter and defeated, to wreak tragedy on his community.Originally published in 1951, Each Man’s Son, a stunning account of the rationalistic Ainslie and the anim