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  • Belizaire the Cajun

    A Novel

    by Glen Pitre ...
    Set in the Cajun country of Louisiana's Vermilion Parish during the 1850s, this historical novel, based on the 1986 motion picture, recounts the exploits of Belizaire Breaux, a Cajun herbalist and traiteur (faith healer).Finding himself at the center of an explosive chain of events, Belizaire defies a group of cattle barons who terrorize the region. He fails to save his cousin from their vengeance ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crawfish Book

    by Glen Pitre ...
    American Indians worshiped them as creators of the world, Napoleon ate them to celebrate his victories, Swedes have them shipped in from halfway around the world, and for Louisiana's Cajuns the humble crawfish is the centerpiece of cuisine, a symbol of ethnic pride, a staple commodity for thriving business ventures, and an inextricable part of folklore.Research and interviews spice this delightful ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Crawfish Book

    by Glen Pitre ...
    American Indians worshiped them as creators of the world, Napoleon ate them to celebrate his victories, Swedes have them shipped in from halfway around the world, and for Louisiana's Cajuns the humble crawfish is the centerpiece of cuisine, a symbol of ethnic pride, a staple commodity for thriving business ventures, and an inextricable part of folklore.Research and interviews spice this delightful ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Cajun Country

    by Barry Jean Ancelet, Jay Edwards, Glen Pitre ...
    The first book in the Folklife in the South series and by far the broadest look at traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It not only describes the traditions as they are but also explains how they came to be. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Cajun Country

    by Barry Jean Ancelet, Jay Edwards, Glen Pitre ...
    Series series Folklife in the South Series
    This insightful book is by far the broadest examination of traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It goes beyond the stereotypes and surface treatment given to Cajuns by the popular media and examines the great variety of cultural elements alive in Cajun culture today—cooking, music, storytelling, architecture, arts and crafts, and festivals, as well as traditional occupations such as fishing, ... Read more

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  • The Keepers of the House

    by Shirley Ann Grau ...
    Grau’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, about the racial prejudice and long-buried secrets that threaten to destroy a distinguished Southern familyThe Howland dynasty began after the War of 1812, when a young Tennessee solider fighting for Andrew Jackson settled in Alabama. Over the next century, the Howlands accumulated a fortune, fought for Secession, helped rebuild the South, and established ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Words in a French Life

    Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France

    by Kristin Espinasse ...
    Based on the popular blog (french-word-a-day.com) and newsletter with thousands of subscribers -- a heart-winning collection from an American woman raising two very French children with her French husband in Provence, carrying on a lifelong love affair with the language.Imagine a former French major getting vocabulary tips from her young children! That was the experience of Kristin Espinasse, an ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Home (Oprah's Book Club)

    A Novel

    by Marilynne Robinson ...
    WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTGlory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with torment and pain.A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Underground To Canada

    by Barbara Smucker ...
    Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday. So when workers from the Underground Railroad offer to help the two ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Wisdom in Nonsense

    Invaluable Lessons from My Father

    by Heather O'Neill ...
    Series series CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with those of the geniuses. —Heather O’Neill With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep a diary, and that ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Lady Cop Makes Trouble

    by Amy Stewart ...
    Series Book 2 - A Kopp Sisters Novel
    **“A colorful and inventive adventure tale.”—Washington Post“It’s True Grit, New York style.”—New York Post“One of the best mystery novels of the year: wonderful and very entertaining.”—New York Journal of Books“Stewart deftly combines the rough-and-tumble atmosphere of early twentieth-century New York City with the story of three women who want to live life on their own terms.”**—Library Journal, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

    An Anatomy of a Book Burning

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Series series Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD