Blogs in January 2022

Lilacs in the Dust Bowl 22nd January 2022

A family saga, set during the Great Depression, when hope and opportunity clashed for all who tried to make a living off the land. Based on the true story of her grandmother’s trials, Diana Stevan continues the amazing tale...

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The Republic of Love 29th July 2016

With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There’s Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has...

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Canada 1st January 1970

Canada is divided into three untitled parts. The first, concerning the crime and its immediate fallout, is set in the mid-to-late 1950s in Great Falls, the Montana town that Ford has used as a backdrop in some previous stories....

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Ravenscraig 1st January 1970

Romance, scandal, and tragedy grip the lives of two families and threaten to destroy them both in Ravenscraig, by Sandi Krawchenko Altner. Winner of the 2012 Carol Shields Book Award, Ravenscraig, pitches rich against poor in the height of...

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