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A Place Called Winter

A Place Called Winter
  • Author(s): Patrick Gale
  • Location(s): London, Saskatchewan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

A shy but privileged elder son, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence – until the shock of discovery and...

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Etta and Otto and Russell and James
  • Author(s): Emma Hooper
  • Location(s): Canada, Saskatchewan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

This is a love story that spans fifty years, three lives, two continents and an ocean. It tells of school teacher Etta, who settles in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression and of the two pupils who fall...

A Student of Weather

A Student of Weather
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hay
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Ottawa, Saskatchewan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th century

From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There...

Alone in the Classroom

Alone in the Classroom
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hay
  • Location(s): Saskatchewan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing...

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