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  • To All Appearances a Lady

    by Marilyn Bowering ...
    To All Appearances a Lady is Marilyn Bowering’s haunting, evocative debut novel and one of her most loved and memorable works.As Robert Lam sets off on his voyage up the coast of Vancouver Island, the last passenger he expects is a ghost. But when the spirit of Lam Fam—the woman who raised him—suddenly and mysteriously appears, the trip they embark on initiates a quest for the truth about a past ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Visible Worlds

    by Marilyn Bowering ...
    Gerhard and Albrecht Storr are twins, though they share little in common beyond an eccentric upbringing. Raised by a father devoted to the powers of “Personal Magnetism” and a German-immigrant mother unhappy with life in Winnipeg and obsessed with the ghosts of her past, the two brothers grow further and further apart, eventually fighting on opposite sides of the Second World War.Exhaustion is ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Alchemy of Happiness

    by Marilyn Bowering ...
    In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness. Like an alchemist of old, she transmutes experiences, perceptions, and perspectives into something richer and rarer despite the passage of years and the loss and death they have brought. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unfinished World

    by Marilyn Bowering ...
    A magnificent novel for a global culture seemingly intent on stripping the young of the possibilities of love, purpose and belonging. Pearl stands at the end of her strand of descent and DNA with the resources of the lives of those who have come before to act as warning and counsel. Can she uncover their significance to her own life and change its course? ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Soul Mouth

    Poems

    by Marilyn Bowering ...
    Through evocative storytelling and stylish prose, this collection of poetry explores the story of childhood and the development of observation, sexuality, and spirituality through their connections to the animal world and nature. Nostalgic scenes are depicted through the lens of religion, dreams, and the dangerously unpredictable development of the young soul. Eloquent yet concise, these poems ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cat's Pilgrimage

    by Marilyn Bowering ...
    The author of the acclaimed To All Appearances a Lady has done it again—produced a magical, multi-layered page-turner of a novel that scales vast imaginative heights. Cat’s Pilgrimage is the story of 14-year-old Cathreen, who, estranged from her mother and fleeing the consequences of a schoolmate’s murder, escapes to England to live with her father. There, she is swept up into a place where good ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • More Richly in Earth

    A Poet’s Search for Mary MacLeod

    by Marilyn Bowering ...
    Mary MacLeod (Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh) was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. While her lyrics were honoured, she was also marginalized, denigrated as a witch, and exiled, both for being a writer and for what she wrote.Presented as a chronicle of journeys through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s legacy, preserved within landscape, memory, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • What It Takes to Be Human

    by Marilyn Bowering ...
    What It Takes to Be Human, the haunting new novel by Orange Prize–shortlisted author Marilyn Bowering, considers the life of Sandy Grey, an idealistic young air cadet who wants nothing more than to enlist in the Second World War. Sandy’s father, a fundamentalist preacher, refuses to grant his son’s request, fearing that the world is living its very last days. When Sandy’s attempts to oppose his ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Alchemy of Murder

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