MACDONALD ANN-MARIE

Fall on Your Knees

Toronto, Ont.: Vintage Canada, 1997. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0394281780. Very Good / Very Good, 566 pgs. First Vintage Canada Edition. Black hard boards with gilt lettering in spine. Very nice copy, clean, tight copy. DJ unclipped, very minor edgwear. "Set largely in a Cape Breton coal mining community called New Waterford, ranging through four generations, Ann-Marie MacDonald's dark, insightful and hilarious first novel focuses on the Piper sisters and their troubled relationship with their father, James. Winner of the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book"; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 566 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 1694

Catalogue: Fiction, Canada, Family

Keywords: 0394281780 Sagas, Fiction Canadiana Family & Relationships Literature

RICHARDS, DAVID ADAMS

Friends of Meager Fortune

Doubleday Canada, 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385660944. First Edition, First Printing ( Number Line ). In Near Fine condition, a sound binding with clean & unmarked pages. Light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped and in Fine+ condition. "Teenaged Will Jameson has a temperament of iron, standing up to men twice his age when he takes over the Jameson lumber company after his father's death. His younger brother, Owen, is sensitive, literary, and fanciful. But when Will dies suddenly and Owen's beloved Lula rejects him, Owen's deeper character comes to light: joining the army in the hope of getting himself killed, instead Owen returns home a decorated war hero. "; 5.8 X 1.2 X 8.4 inches; 384 pages. Near Fine .

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Book number: 26883

Catalogue: Fiction, Canada, Romance, Family Relationships

Keywords: 0385660944 Fiction > Canada Historical Fiction Romance Family & Relationships Fiction Romance Canada Historical Fiction Family & Relationships

RICHARDS, DAVID ADAMS

Nights Below Station Street. Vol. 2 of the Miramichi Trilogy.

McClelland & Stewart, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771074603. First Edition. Black hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. In Fine condition with tighlty bound and clean, unmarked pages. The DJ is Very Good+ with a removable gold "Governor General Literary Award." sticker. "Set in a small mill town in northern New Brunswick, it draws us into the lives of a community of people who live there, Joe Walsh, isolated and strong in the face of a drinking problem; his wife, Rita, willing to believe the best about people; and their teenage daughter Adele, whose nature is rebellious and wise, and whose love for her father wars with her desire for independence." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 26884

Catalogue: Fiction, Canada, Literature, Family Relationships

Keywords: 0771074603 Canada > Fiction Canadian Literature Family & Relationships Fiction Canada Family & Relationships Literature