BRAGG MARY LEE

Shooting Angels

Gatineau, Quebec: Baico Publishing, 2004. Paperback. ISBN: 1894494695. Signed by the author on the title page. In Fine+ condition, bright, unmarked pages with a solid binding. " Shooting Angels, the first novel by Ottawa writer Mary Lee Bragg, sets a story of personal disintegration and renewal against the background of Ottawa on the eve of the 1995 Quebec referendum. Roy Brown, a news photographer, leaves Bosnia for Canada when his parents are killed in a car accident. His childhood home in a quiet Ottawa neighbourhood offers a needed refuge after too long in the war zones. But as Roy sifts through the traces of his parents’ lives he finds that appearances can be deceiving." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 369 pages; Signed by Author. Fine+ .

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Book number: 26500

Catalogue: Ficiton, Canada, Quebec Referendrum

Keywords: 1894494695 Quebec > Referendrum Canada > Fiction Historical Fiction Fiction Politics Canada Historical Fiction

BRAGG MARY LEE

Shooting Angels

Gatineau, Quebec: Baico Publishing, 2004. Paperback. ISBN: 1894494695. Signed by the author on the title page. In Fine+ condition, bright, unmarked pages with a solid binding. " Shooting Angels, the first novel by Ottawa writer Mary Lee Bragg, sets a story of personal disintegration and renewal against the background of Ottawa on the eve of the 1995 Quebec referendum. Roy Brown, a news photographer, leaves Bosnia for Canada when his parents are killed in a car accident. His childhood home in a quiet Ottawa neighbourhood offers a needed refuge after too long in the war zones. But as Roy sifts through the traces of his parents’ lives he finds that appearances can be deceiving." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 369 pages; Signed by Author. Fine+ .

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Book number: 27430

Catalogue: Ficiton, Canada, Quebec Referendrum

Keywords: 1894494695 Quebec > Referendrum Canada > Fiction Historical Fiction Fiction Politics Canada Historical Fiction

DAVIES, ROBERTSON

Lyre of Orpheus. Vol. 3 of the Cornish Series

McClelland and Stewart, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771599196. A signed First Edition in Very Good+ condition. Tightly bound, a bright, unmarked text. Light spine end bumping with light cover wear. The DJ is Very Good+, unclipped, light cover rubbing and edgewear. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 26271

Catalogue: Ficiton, Canada, Literature, Classics

Keywords: 0771599196 Fiction > Classics Canada Literature Music Music Canada Classics Literature

MACLEAN, ALISTAIR

Circus

London, England: Collins, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002221020. Bright orange hard boards with gilt titles to the spine. First Edition. Very Good+ with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked interior. Light spine end bumping and foxing to the page top & bottom edges. The DJ has been price clipped, is intact with cover scuffing and edgewear. "Diagram of the Lubylan Prison and laboratories." " It is the exciting story of a circus highwire performer recruited by the CIA to steal secret plans from a heavily guarded prison in Eastern Europe. His journey is full with murder, spying, and doublecrossing. All of this action is carefully orchestrated by Maclean into one powerful, intense book that will keep you on the edge of your seat. "; 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.7 Inches; 224 pages; Box 21 / shelved. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 11350

Catalogue: Ficiton, Canada

Keywords: 0002221020 Canadian Author Fiction Canada Literature

MITCHELL, W. O.

According to Jake and the Kid Elbow Room; Gettin' Born; Jackrabbit Baby; Jake and the Medicine Man; King of All the Country; Well Well Well; Lo the Noble Redskin; the Man Who Came to Rummy; Mind over Madam; Old Fakers Never Die; Going to a Fire

Toronto, Ont: McClelland and Stewart, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771060734. Burgundy hard covers with gilt titles to the spine. In Very Good++ condition, tight, bright & unmarked. Light tanning to the top cover edges. First Edition. The DJ is Very Good++ with light cover scuffing & edgewear. "Set in the forties and fifties, these stories take us back to a simpler, gentler world, the one we all like to think we grew up in. The Kid at the centre of the stories is a boy on a Saskatchewan farm “down Government Road from Crocus, which is on the CNR line between Tiger Lily and Conception. ” Jake is the hired hand who helps the Kid’s mother run the farm (and who played a huge role in Canadian history, what with capturing “Looie Riel” and all) , and who now keeps the Kid abreast of events in the greater world and in Crocus." ; 1.1 x 9.1 x 5.9 Inches; 280 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 12532

Catalogue: Ficiton, Short Stories, Canada

Keywords: 0771060734 Canadian Author Saskatchewan Literary Fiction Canadiana Canada Humour & Satire Short Stories

STEFFLER, JOHN

Afterlife of George Cartwright, the

London, England: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1994. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0771082452. Trade Paperback in good condition. Tightly bound, unmarked with a black remainder mark on the bottom edge. Wear to the cover edges and corners. "n this stunning and original novel, John Steffler has recreated a lost time and place, and has given life to an enigmatic figure from Canada's 18th-century past. Described quietly by historians as "soldier, diarist, entrepreneur," George Cartwright emerges in Steffler's tale as a character of overwhelming appetite and ambition." ; Remainder; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 293 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 10005

Catalogue: Ficiton, Canada

Keywords: 0771082452 Newfoundland Labrador Fiction Canada Historical Fiction