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  • Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

    A Home Child Story

    by Mary Pettit ...
    Sixteen-year-old Mary Janeway, a home child, is desperate to escape from her rural home child placement and flees to London, Ontario, to find a domestic position. When conditions become unbearable, she moves on, vowing never to relinquish her freedom again.After she arrives in Hamilton as a young bride, she quickly adapts to the urban conveniences and the marvels of new inventions that include ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary Janeway

    The Legacy of a Home Child

    by Mary Pettit ...
    Mary Janeway is the story of a little girl's childhood while living on a farm as a domestic servant in the late 1800s. Based on extensive historical research, Mary's story begins in Scotland where family circumstances lead to her being sent to Canada as a home child. Separated from her siblings, Mary, at age eight, is sent to a farm near Innerkip, Ontario, where the Jacques family "needed a girl." ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Home Children Bundle

    The Golden Bridge / The Little Immigrants / Mary Janeway / Nation Builders / Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

    by Mary Pettit, Gail H. Corbett, Marjorie Kohli, Kenneth Bagnell ...
    Series series
    In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony’s farm-labour shortage. They were known as the "home children," and they were lonely and frightened ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Liar Liar

    by the Liars Club, Jonathan Maberry, Solomon Jones, Kelly Simmons, Edward Pettit, Don Lafferty, Marie Lamba, Merry Jones, Dennis Tafoya, Keith Strunk, William Lashner, Jon McGoran, Gregory Frost, Stephen Susco, Chuck Wendig, Keith R.A. DeCandido ...
    Narrated by various narrators, Ray Porter, Mirron Willis, Pam Ward, R. C. Bray, Caroline Shaffer, Erin Bennett, Johnny Heller, Donald Corren, Robert Fass, Malcolm Hillgartner, Chris Patton, Simon Vance, John McLain, Richard Powers ...
    Series Audiobook 4.1 - The Joe Ledger Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    Liar ['l─½-╔Ör] (n): 1. A person who tells lies. 2. A writer."Lying is essential to good storytelling. Daily, we writers sit at our computers—or legal tablets or Underwoods—and write down a bunch of untruths, piling one on top of the other, page after paltering page. We compound them, massage them, edit them, spin them, cut-and-paste them, until we're satisfied that, despite how outlandish or ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction

    'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'

    by Christopher D. Johnson, Paula R. Backscheider, Leslie A. Chilton, Robert A. Erikson, Susan K. Howard, Marta Kvande, James E. May, Melissa Mowry, Alexander Pettit, Charles E. Robinson, Mary Anne Schofield, Rivka Swenson, O M Brack Jr. ...
    New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry. The initial essays, which discuss ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

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    A Home Child Experience

    by Patricia Skidmore ...
    Marjorie Arnison was one of the thousands of children removed from their families, communities, and country and placed in a British colony or commonwealth to provide "white stock" and cheap labour. In Marjorie's case, she was sent to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, just north of Victoria, British Columbia, in 1937. As a child, Patricia was angered that her mother wouldn't talk about the ... Read more

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  • Hardscrabble

    The High Cost of Free Land

    by Donna E. Williams ...
    When the Free Grants and Homestead Act was first introduced in 1868, fierce debates erupted in Ontario's Legislature over whether land in the Muskoka region should be opened to settlement or reserved for the Aboriginal population. From the beginning, many people vented serious doubts about the free grant scheme, citing the district's poor agricultural prospects. In the end, such caution was ... Read more

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  • Barkerville and the Cariboo Goldfields

    by Richard Thomas Wright ...
    The stories of the men and women who dug for gold on Williams Creek are told in this revised and updated edition of a Canadian bestseller.The legendary town of Barkerville is flourishing today, just as it did more than 150 years ago, but this time under the care of professional and amateur historians. Richard Thomas Wright peels back the pages of history as he unearths the area’s history and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Sometimes It Snows in America

    by Marisa Labozzetta ...
    Series Book 96 - Essential Prose Series
    Combining fable, story telling and the grubbiness of harsh reality, Marisa Labozzetta tells the story of Fatma, a young woman from a storied family in Somalia. Brought to the United States as part of an arranged marriage, Fatma must undergo losing her child, drug addiction, abuse and prison before coming out the other side. A tale of someone who never gives up, no matter how bleak her prospects. A ... Read more

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  • Tobacco Road

    by Erskine Caldwell ...
    Even before the Great Depression struck, Jeeter Lester and his family were desperately poor sharecroppers. But when hard times begin to affect the families that once helped support them, the Lesters slip completely into the abyss. Rather than hold on to each other for support, Jeeter, his wife Ada, and their twelve children are overcome by the fractured and violent society around them. Banned and ... Read more

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  • Quarriers Story

    One Man's Vision That Gave 7,000 Children a New Life in Canada

    by Anna Magnusson ...
    In 1878, Glasgow shoemaker William Quarrier founded an organization that offered help to the thousands of desperate, poverty-stricken children in Glasgow’s infamous slums. A few years later Quarrier’s Village was opened, providing a refuge for the abandoned and the orphaned in the rolling fields of Renfrewshire. Since these beginnings, Quarriers has cared for more than 40,000 children in need. It ... Read more

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  • The Building of Jalna

    by Mazo de la Roche ...
    Series Book 1 - Jalna
    First published in 1944, The Building of Jalna is one of sixteen books in the Jalna series written by Canada's Mazo de la Roche. In The Building of Jalna, Adeline, an impulsive bride with an Irish temper, and her husband, Captain Whiteoak, select Lake Ontario as the site of their new home. De la Roche chronicles their trials and tribulations during the building of the house, the swimming and ... Read more

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