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  • Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

    by Emily Carr ...
    Canadian artist Emily Carr tells her life story growing up in British Columbia; attending art schools in London, San Francisco and Paris; and her work back in B.C., Canada. ... Read more

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  • Klee Wyck

    by Emily Carr ...
    Klee Wyck is Canadian artist Emily Carr's memoir. Through short sketches, the artist tells of her experiences among First Nations people and cultures on British Columbia's west coast. The book won the 1941 Governor General's Award and occupies an important place in Canadian literature. ... Read more

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  • Klee Wyck

    by Emily Carr ...
    The amazing Emily Carr was essentially a painter, however, she initially picked up acknowledgment as an essayist. Her first book, distributed in 1941, was titled Klee Wyck ("Laughing One"), to pay tribute to the name that the Native individuals fo the west coast gave her as a fearless young lady. The book was a hit with the two pundits and people, in general, won the lofty Governor Generals' Award ... Read more

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  • 13 Ways of Happily

    Books 1 & 2

    by Emily Carr ...
    Series series Free Verse Editions
    If ostranenie—to make strange—is the mandate of contemporary poetry, EMILY CARR has achieved this both brilliantly and beautifully. Kaleidoscopic in its glimmering slivers, the life she brings us is built of charged familiars slightly and completely changed: the sun turns on its stem; the stallion rolls in a pasture of blue ether. Although she references poetic antecedents from Wallace Stevens and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Small (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Luminous Childhood Sketches of Family, Gardens, and Colonial Life in Victorian British Columbia

    The Book of Small is Emily Carr's affectionate, sharply observed memoir of childhood in late-nineteenth-century Victoria, British Columbia, where the young narrator—called "Small"—encounters family discipline, animals, gardens, domestic rituals, and the strange immensities of the adult world. Written in brief, luminous sketches, the book combines autobiographical intimacy with the painterly ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of All Sorts

    Enriched edition. Vancouver Island Stories of a Canadian Boarding House, Nature's Presence, and Identity in the Early 20th Century

    by Emily Carr ...
    In "The House of All Sorts," Emily Carr masterfully weaves an intricate tapestry of life on Vancouver Island during the early 20th century. This semi-autobiographical work reveals Carr's keen observations of her surroundings, melding autobiographical elements with imaginative storytelling. The narrative unfolds in a uniquely vivid and expressive style, richly characterized by Carr's deep affection ... Read more

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  • Klee Wyck

    by Emily Carr ...
    In "Klee Wyck," Emily Carr offers a rich tapestry of her experiences as an artist and observer of Indigenous cultures on the Pacific Coast of Canada. Written in a lyrical and impressionistic style, the book comprises a collection of autobiographical sketches that vividly depict the landscapes, peoples, and spiritual essence of the First Nations. Carr's profound appreciation for the natural world ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unvarnished

    Autobiographical Sketches by Emily Carr

    by Emily Carr ...
    This highly readable manuscript—edited by Royal BC Museum curator emerita Kathryn Bridge and illustrated with sketches and photographs from the BC Archives—spans nearly four decades, from 1899 to 1944. In an almost stream-of-consciousness outpouring of stories, Carr chronicles her early years as an art student in England, her life-altering sojourn in France and subsequent travels to Indigenous ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Childhood in Victoria

    Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914

    This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. ... Read more

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  • This and That

    The Lost Stories of Emily Carr; Revised and Updated

    by Emily Carr ...
    Once available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007. Finally, readers are given a new glimpse into Emily Carr's life with this collection. Carr began to write these stories in the last two years of her life. She wrote of the project: ". . . they are too small each to be taken singly, but each, complete in itself, serves to ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Practical Change Management for IT Projects

    by Emily Carr ...
    Transform your IT project and make change stick with this step-by-step guide. In today's fast-paced world of change, companies expect you to do more, with less. Drawing on over a decade of Change Management experience as a consultant with Fortune 500 companies including IBM and NCR, Emily Carr shares the secrets to making change happen smoothly. If your company is like most, the number one reason ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Penguin Black Classics: Klee Wyck

    by Emily Carr ...
    Emily Carr’s painting and writing were inspired by her lifelong fascination with Native culture and the landscape of British Columbia that she so cherished. Available for the first time in enriched e-book format, this edition offers visual and historical insights into Carr's perspective via electronic weblinks. Like a full-colour footnote, select words and phrases throughout the book are links to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD