LARRONDE OLIVIER

Les Barricades Mystérieuses

Gallimard, 1948. Paperback. A paperback in Very Good condition. No loose pages or markings in the book. Most of the pages are uncut along the top edge. A slip with erratum on it for pages 11 and 20. Cover edgewear, small creasing along the top of the cover, rubbing. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 50 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 27305

Catalogue: Family & Relationships, Criticism

Keywords: Family & Relationships Literary Critcism

LARSEN, ANDREW, DUSAN PETRIEIE

In the Tree House

Kids Can Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1554536359. As New pictorial Hardcover with a sound binding, clean, unmarked pages. The DJ is unclipped, Near fine with cover edgewear and rubbing. "An evocative story about two brothers who are growing up (one faster than the other) , an unusual summer night, and a special tree house that proves childhood is not just a time but also a place. Illustrations." ; 10.1 X 8.1 X 0.5 inches; 32 pages. As New in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 26198

Catalogue: Children's Fiction, Family, Siblings

Keywords: 1554536359 Children's Fiction > Family Siblings Summer > Tree Houses Fiction Children Family & Relationships

LEWIS CLAUDIA, BRUCE DEGEN, ILLUSTRATOR

Up and Down the River: Boat Poems

Harpercollins Canada / Other, 1991. Paperback. ISBN: 0060238127. A fine+ pictorial Hardcover. A sound binding, bright & unmarked pages. Light wear to the corners. "Thirteen poems that characterize the different kinds of boats that sail down a busy river." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 55 pages. Fine+ .

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Book number: 27529

Catalogue: Children's Poetry, Family Life

Keywords: 0060238127 Children's Poetry Juvenile Poetry Children Family & Relationships Juvenile / Young Adult

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

MACDONALD, ANN-MARIE

Fall on Your Knees

Knopf Canada, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394281594. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author, in an inscription to the previous author, to the title page. Also included is a wedding picture where MacDonald is a wedding guest! Brown / black Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. Tightly bound, bright, unmarked pages. The DJ is unclipped and is protected by a clear plastic covering. In fine condition. "At the start of the 20th century, James Piper sets fire to his dead mother's piano and heads out across Cape Breton Island to find a new place to live, eventually eloping with 13-year-old Materia Mahmoud, the daughter of wealthy, traditional Lebanese parents. And so, from early on, Ann-Marie MacDonald establishes some major themes: racial tension, isolation, passion and forbidden love, which will gradually lead to incest, death in childbirth, and even murder. "; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 566 pages; Signed by Author. Fine .

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Book number: 27409

Catalogue: Fiction, Domestic, Family & Relationships, Race Discrimination

Keywords: 0394281594 Fiction > Domestic Family & Relationships Race Discrimintaion Canadian Literature Fiction Family & Relationships Literature

MORANTE, ELSA

Châle Andalou

GALLIMARD, 1984. Pocket Book. ISBN: 207037579X. French. A Very Good++ Paperback, a sound binding with bright, unmarked pages. A tiny hole at the bottom of the first few pages . "Par l'auteur de La Storia, quatorze nouvelles sur le monde imaginaire de l'enfance et de l'adolescence. Le Châle andalou évoque les tourments d'un garçon partagé entre une adoration éperdue pour l'univers des adultes, incarné par sa mère, et la peur de la réalité. Dans Le Jeu secret, trois enfants, la nuit, s'identifient à des personnages romanesques de leur invention. Dans chaque texte de ce recueil, Elsa Morante nous offre la clé d'un domaine enchanté." ; Folio; Vol. 1579; 77,874,008,600,000.0 X 4.1 X 0.6 inches; 224 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 26213

Catalogue: French, Short Stories, Family & Relationships

Keywords: 207037579x French > Short Stories. Family & Relationships Family & Relationships Short Stories French Books

MUNRO, ALICE

Runaway

McClelland & Stewart, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 077106506X. First Edition. Cream colored Hardcovers, black titles to the spine. In Fine condition with a sound binding, the previous owner's blaind stamp to the front end paper, otherwise clean& unmarked. The DJ is unclipped and in Very Good++ condition. "Miraculously, these stories seem to have been written by a young writer at the peak of her powers. Alice Munro’s central characters range from 14-year-old Lauren in “Trespass, ” through the young couple in “Runaway, ” whose helpful older neighbour intervenes to help the wife escape, all the way to a 70-year-old woman meeting a friend of her youth on a Vancouver street and sitting with him to recall their tangled lives fifty years earlier, through a web of cheerful lies." ; 6.34 X 1.05 X 9.23 inches; 344 pages. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 27506

Catalogue: Fiction, Short Stories, Women, Family & Relationships

Keywords: 077106506x Fiction > Women Family & Relationships Short Stories Literature Fiction Classics Family & Relationships Literature Short Stories

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

SCHWARTZ, LYNNE SHARON

Disturbances in the Field

Harpercollins, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060152028. Tan cloth covers with brown titles to the spine. A Very nice copy with a solid binding, a bright, unmarked interior with light spine end bumping and a small red mark to the bottom edge. The DJ is unclipped, very good, with light cover wear. ; 1.3 x 9.5 x 6.3 Inches; 371 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 12061

Catalogue: Fiction, Family

Keywords: 0060152028 Fiction Family & Relationships

STEVENSON D. E.

Musgraves, the

Fontana Books, 1975. Paperback. ISBN: 0006139345. A Very Good+ Paperback with a tight binding, clean, unmarked pages. Cover edgewear and rubbing with a crease to the front cover. "The story of the Musgraves in their Cotswold home, their loves and hates, hopes and disappointments, is vividly recounted in this charming chronicle of family life." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 191 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 26343

Catalogue: Fiction, Classics, Family & Relationships

Keywords: 0006139345 Family & Relationships Fiction > Classics Fiction Classics Family & Relationships Social Life & Customs

WERNHER HILDA

My Indian Family a Story of East and West Within a Muslim Home

New York: The John Day Company, 1945. Hardcover. Green hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. A Good copy, tightly bound and unmarked, heavy spine end & corner bumping. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 298 pages. Good+ .

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Book number: 14047

Catalogue: Fiction, Family

Keywords: Fiction Family & Relationships

WESLEY, MARY

A Sensible Life

Corgi, 1995. Paperback. ISBN: 055299393X. Very Good Trade Paperback with a tightly binding, clean, unmarked pages. Light spine creasing. "Flora Trevelyan, a ten-year-old misfit, has been abandoned by her self-obsessed parents to her own devices in Dinard. Amongst the privileged, well-meaning English families holidaying there she finds some kindness and the first pangs of love for Cosmo, Hubert and Felix." ; 7.4 X 4.6 X 1.2 inches; 380 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 26316

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, British Literature, Family & Relationships

Keywords: 055299393x Historical Fiction British Literature Family & Relationships Historical Fiction Family & Relationships Literature England

WILLS GARRY

Kennedy Imprisonment

Boston, Mass: Little, Brown & Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316943851. Near Fine / Very Good. Stated First Edition. Red/Black cloth covers with blind imprint on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Small stamp with previous owner's name on front free end-paper, with four minor indents on paste down and front free end-paper. Vrey Clean, tight copy. DJ has been price clipped and has minor edgewear and some rubbing. "Wills looks at the Kennedy family's attempt to be exceptional. He shows how the Kennedy image, which became, in Camelot, "the opium of the intellectuals," eventurally blinded the bearers of the family name as well as the "honorary Kennedys" who clustered around. "; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 310 pages. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 1613

Catalogue: Kennedy Family

Keywords: 0316943851 Biography Politics American Politics Family & Relationships United States Political Science Kennedys