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  • Summerland

    Family, Loss, and the Inheritance of Dreams: A Memoir

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    A brilliant and touching memoir about the dreams and desires passed down through three generations of a family, from the beloved and decorated writer of The Ghost Orchard, Rabbit Foot Bill and NocturneIn March of 1941, Helen Humphreys’s grandfather, Dudley, disappeared near the island of Malta. He was travelling with a crew on a Wellington bomber to the island, where he would take command of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Leaving Earth

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    On August 1, 1933, two young women, the famous aviatrix Grace O'Gorman and the inexperienced Willa Briggs, take off in a tiny Moth biplane to break the world flight endurance record. Their plan: to circle above the city of Toronto for twenty-five days.So begins Leaving Earth, a haunting evocation of an era when heroic women defied the limitations of their sex by embarking on perilous ventures. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rabbit Foot Bill

    A Novel

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends alocal outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story.Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, alonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local outsider, a man known asRabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn’t talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompanyhim as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wild Dogs

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    The author of the bestseller The Lost Garden returns with a luminous novel of intertwining stories that meet in a haunting, moving climax.Each evening at dusk, six people gather at the edge of the woods, calling their dogs to come back to them, dogs that have turned wild and vanished from their lives. Drawn together by need, the group forms its own small community—until violence strikes ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Coventry

    A Novel

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    A stunning novel of love, loss and redemption, Coventry was published to rave reviews and became an instant bestseller in 2008. The Gazette (Montreal) called it “a small gem. . . . A beautifully sculpted, meticulously researched work.” The novel opens on the fateful evening of November 14, 1940, when from her post as a firewatcher on the roof of Coventry Cathedral, Harriet watches the waves of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Field Study

    Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    “[A] delightful mix of memoir and field study.” — Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewAward-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left — no matter how diminishedAward-winning poet and novelist Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this gorgeously written and illustrated book ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lost Garden

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    In spring 1941, when London is under attack, Gwen Davis escapes the city for Devon, where she will instruct young girls in growing crops for the Home Front. There, she meets two people who will change her life forever: Raley, a Canadian officer awaiting posting to the Front with his men; and Jane, a frail but free spirit whose fiancé is missing in action. Through them, Gwen comes to understand the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Frozen Thames

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    A groundbreaking, genre-bending new work from one of Canada’s most respected writers.In its long history, the River Thames has frozen solid forty times. These are the stories of that frozen river.And so opens one of the most breathtaking and original works being published this season. The Frozen Thames contains forty vignettes based on events that actually took place each time the river froze ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Reinvention of Love

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    When Charles Sainte-Beuve, a French journalist, met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But Charles' attraction moves on from Victor, to his wife Ad?le. Soon the two lovers are on the edge of a great scandale and a wounded Victor must exact his price for betrayal. Set during the tumultuous reign of Napoleon III ... Read more

    $12.59 CAD

  • Helen Humphreys Three-Book Bundle

    Afterimage, Coventry, and The Reinvention of Love

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    When Charles Sainte-Beuve, an ambitious French journalist, meets Victor Hugo, a young writer on the verge of fame, he finds himself in a world of great passions, a world where words can become swords. But, to Charles’ surprise, he is more attracted to Victor’s long-suffering wife, Adèle. When the two lovers create a scandal in Paris, Victor exacts his price for betrayal. Set during the tumultuous ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Afterimage

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    Inspired by the photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron, Afterimage is a provocative, passionate, yet delicate Victorian novel. When the young Irish maid Annie Phelan arrives at the country home of Isobelle and Eldon Dashell, she is swept into a world of artistic ambitions and hidden passions. But she also discovers a marriage that has grown distant and two people who see her as a blank slate upon ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The River

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    A breathtaking mix of observation, prose, natural history, and artWe tend to look at landscape in relation to what it can do for us. Does it move us with its beauty? Can we make a living from it? But what if we examined a landscape on its own terms, freed from our expectations and assumptions?This is what celebrated writer Helen Humphreys sets out to do in this beautiful, groundbreaking ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus