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  • The Master of Happy Endings

    A Novel

    by Jack Hodgins ...
    The Master of Happy Endings is a powerful new novel about memory, belonging, helping others, and the vagaries of the human heart. It is also a compelling story about how a man in his late seventies manages to conjure one more great adventure for himself.Axel Thorstad lives in a shack on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia. Once a popular school teacher and thespian who touched the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invention of the World, The

    by Jack Hodgins ...
    Jack Hodgins begins The Invention of the World with a ferry worker waving you aboard a ship that will take you not only to Vancouver Island but into a world of magic. The far west coast of Canada has always been regarded as a “land’s end” where the eccentrics of the world come to plot out the last best utopia. Hodgins both invents a world and shows how we continually invent that world in all its ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Resurrection of Joseph Bourne

    Or, A Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles

    by Jack Hodgins ...
    In this new edition of Jack Hodgins’ Governor General–winning novel (for 1979), the reader is taken into the everyday eccentricities of life in Port Annie on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a town that keeps slipping into the ocean and whose people have long been in a continuous slumber. Everything changes, however, when a beautiful sea nymph is washed ashore from a stranded freighter. People ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

    by Stephen Leacock, Jack Hodgins ...
    Series series New Canadian Library
    Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining portrait of small town Ontario. This is Stephen Leacock at his best.Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, which first appeared as a newspaper serial, chronicles life in the fictional community of Mariposa, modelled on Orillia, Ontario, where Stephen ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Spit Delaney's Island

    by Jack Hodgins ...
    Jack Hodgins‘ first book, published originally in 1976, is once again in print — in a new edition. Winner of the Eaton's Book Prize and nominated for the Governor General's Award, Spit Delaney's Island, a collection of short stories, put Vancouver Island on the map as a Canadian literary locale and set Hodgins off on his literary career. Hodgins' prose brings Vancouver Island to life in its touch, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Cadillac Cathedral

    by Jack Hodgins ...
    In Jack Hodgins’ new novel, Cadillac Cathedral, he is at his humorous best in describing the eccentric but lovable characters in the little town of Portuguese Creek on Vancouver Island. Arvo is the main figure, a Finn who has worked in logging camps all his life and who now spends his retirement fixing old cars, often ones that he finds discarded in the bush. Along with Arvo there is a collection ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Barclay Family Theatre, The

    by Jack Hodgins ...
    With The Barclay Family Theatre, his second collection of short stories, Jack Hodgins introduces us to a cast of characters who transform the everyday world of Vancouver Island into a wondrous world of human warmth and comic energy. There is Barclay Desmond, caught between the ambitions of his mother, who wants him to become a concert pianist, and his father who wants him to follow in his steps as ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • A Better Man

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    by Louise Penny ...
    Series Book 15 - Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
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  • Women Talking

    A Novel

    by Miriam Toews ...
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  • Full Disclosure

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    by Beverley McLachlin ...
    Series series A Jilly Truitt Novel
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR ELLIS AWARDSFrom the former Chief Justice of Canada comes a riveting thriller starring Jilly Truitt, a rising, young defense attorney faced with a case that hits close to home.When everyone has something to hide, the truth is the only defense.There’s nothing Jilly Truitt likes more than winning a case, especially against her former mentor, ... Read more

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