Author: Irene Baird
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776618059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage is a groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in 1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt Striker, a 23-year-old from Saskatchewan, and his simple-minded companion Eddy, as they travel from Vancouver to Victoria following the occupation of the Vancouver Post Office. Like the unemployed masses that took siege of the Post Office, Matt and Eddy yearn for relief after years of economic depression. Empathetic and tragic, Waste Heritage has been praised as Canada’s Grapes of Wrath and the most important Canadian novel of the 1930s. A new critical apparatus surrounds Baird’s original text, informing the reader of the historical and literary contexts of the work, as well as providing exhaustive textual analysis.
The Finn Chronicles: Year One
Author: Gwen Romack
Publisher: Gwen Romack
ISBN: 9781735247304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Training rescued hoomans is a stressful and tiring job, but someone has to do it. Get ready for lots of laughs and awww-moments, because The Finn Chronicles is a unique story told by an extraordinary dog. He's irreverent, funny, and full of sass. Based on his real life, join Finn as he issues weekly reports back to the K9 Rescue Headquarters on the strange behaviors and rituals of his rescue-hoomans. With sarcastic wit, he observes the curious world around him, heroically saves his unwitting hoomans from dangers (see also: evil electric toothbrush), and shares his musings about the often-lackluster level of service he feels he receives.
Publisher: Gwen Romack
ISBN: 9781735247304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Training rescued hoomans is a stressful and tiring job, but someone has to do it. Get ready for lots of laughs and awww-moments, because The Finn Chronicles is a unique story told by an extraordinary dog. He's irreverent, funny, and full of sass. Based on his real life, join Finn as he issues weekly reports back to the K9 Rescue Headquarters on the strange behaviors and rituals of his rescue-hoomans. With sarcastic wit, he observes the curious world around him, heroically saves his unwitting hoomans from dangers (see also: evil electric toothbrush), and shares his musings about the often-lackluster level of service he feels he receives.
Waste Heritage
Author: Irene Baird
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776618059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage is a groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in 1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt Striker, a 23-year-old from Saskatchewan, and his simple-minded companion Eddy, as they travel from Vancouver to Victoria following the occupation of the Vancouver Post Office. Like the unemployed masses that took siege of the Post Office, Matt and Eddy yearn for relief after years of economic depression. Empathetic and tragic, Waste Heritage has been praised as Canada’s Grapes of Wrath and the most important Canadian novel of the 1930s. A new critical apparatus surrounds Baird’s original text, informing the reader of the historical and literary contexts of the work, as well as providing exhaustive textual analysis.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776618059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage is a groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in 1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt Striker, a 23-year-old from Saskatchewan, and his simple-minded companion Eddy, as they travel from Vancouver to Victoria following the occupation of the Vancouver Post Office. Like the unemployed masses that took siege of the Post Office, Matt and Eddy yearn for relief after years of economic depression. Empathetic and tragic, Waste Heritage has been praised as Canada’s Grapes of Wrath and the most important Canadian novel of the 1930s. A new critical apparatus surrounds Baird’s original text, informing the reader of the historical and literary contexts of the work, as well as providing exhaustive textual analysis.
Phineas at Bay
Author: John F. Wirenius
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781499177329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
“Phineas at Bay is at once an entertaining romp and a serious inquiry into how Victorian problems are also our own. It is a pleasure to read.”—Nicholas Birns, author of Understanding Anthony Powell. Set in 1890s England, Phineas at Bay picks up where Anthony Trollope's Palliser series left off: now two decades after the unconventional marriage of Phineas Finn, an Irish Catholic, to the Viennese Jewish widow Marie "Madame Max" Goesler. Phineas has become an almost entirely independent member of Parliament, nominally belonging to the Liberal Party. But his independence has come at a cost. Having made no political gains, his own party no longer takes him seriously. But an awakening of his political and social conscience leads him to revitalize his political activism and become involved in the newly forming Labor Party. Meanwhile the rivalry between Socialist Jack Chiltern and the newest member of Parliament, Savrola Vavasor, the two suitors of Phineas's orphaned niece, Clarissa Riley, draws Phineas into becoming the maître d'arms at a violent duel. And alongside all the other action, the beautiful Lady Elizabeth Eustace adds to the drama with her shady past and her entanglements with Jack and her ex-husband, a clergyman with a dark reputation of his own. Scholar and lawyer John F. Wirenius sets the Victorian-era author's pointed satire loose on today's political and social excesses, creating a novel that can be read alone or in conjunction with Trollope's novels.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781499177329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
“Phineas at Bay is at once an entertaining romp and a serious inquiry into how Victorian problems are also our own. It is a pleasure to read.”—Nicholas Birns, author of Understanding Anthony Powell. Set in 1890s England, Phineas at Bay picks up where Anthony Trollope's Palliser series left off: now two decades after the unconventional marriage of Phineas Finn, an Irish Catholic, to the Viennese Jewish widow Marie "Madame Max" Goesler. Phineas has become an almost entirely independent member of Parliament, nominally belonging to the Liberal Party. But his independence has come at a cost. Having made no political gains, his own party no longer takes him seriously. But an awakening of his political and social conscience leads him to revitalize his political activism and become involved in the newly forming Labor Party. Meanwhile the rivalry between Socialist Jack Chiltern and the newest member of Parliament, Savrola Vavasor, the two suitors of Phineas's orphaned niece, Clarissa Riley, draws Phineas into becoming the maître d'arms at a violent duel. And alongside all the other action, the beautiful Lady Elizabeth Eustace adds to the drama with her shady past and her entanglements with Jack and her ex-husband, a clergyman with a dark reputation of his own. Scholar and lawyer John F. Wirenius sets the Victorian-era author's pointed satire loose on today's political and social excesses, creating a novel that can be read alone or in conjunction with Trollope's novels.
Finn and the Fianna
Author: Daniel Allison
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750995858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The stories of Finn MacCoull and his warriors were once told at every fireside in Scotland and Ireland. After centuries in obscurity, this collection brings the tales soaring to life again. Here you will find Diarmuid, whom no woman can help but fall in love with, and Ossian, a warrior-poet raised in the woods by a wild deer. There is Grainne, ancient ancestor of Iseult and Guinevere, and Finn himself, whose name was once a byword for wisdom, generosity and beauty. Enter a world of feasting and fighting, battles and poetry, riddles and omens; join Finn and the Fianna on their never-ending quest to drink deeper and deeper of the cup of life.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750995858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The stories of Finn MacCoull and his warriors were once told at every fireside in Scotland and Ireland. After centuries in obscurity, this collection brings the tales soaring to life again. Here you will find Diarmuid, whom no woman can help but fall in love with, and Ossian, a warrior-poet raised in the woods by a wild deer. There is Grainne, ancient ancestor of Iseult and Guinevere, and Finn himself, whose name was once a byword for wisdom, generosity and beauty. Enter a world of feasting and fighting, battles and poetry, riddles and omens; join Finn and the Fianna on their never-ending quest to drink deeper and deeper of the cup of life.
Finn's Journal
Author: Gray Armstrong
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479702218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
As a child, genius Yury Shinault witnessed the brutal murders of her mother and stepfather before being kidnapped along with and eventually separated from her identical triplet sisters. Raised in seclusion by a military couple, she has only fragmented memories of the murders and her sisters, but she is highly trained in a number of grueling military survival and combat skills. While she searches for her sisters and attempts to piece together her past, she joins an elite FBI investigative team. Her colleagues are quickly drawn into her troubled world as, unbeknownst to Yury or her new friends, her quest to bring her mother s killer to justice overlaps with an ongoing FBI investigation into the disappearances of several young women whose bodies were never found. As the threads are woven together, a net is created to capture a sociopath placing Yury, her sisters and their friends and colleagues in great danger.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479702218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
As a child, genius Yury Shinault witnessed the brutal murders of her mother and stepfather before being kidnapped along with and eventually separated from her identical triplet sisters. Raised in seclusion by a military couple, she has only fragmented memories of the murders and her sisters, but she is highly trained in a number of grueling military survival and combat skills. While she searches for her sisters and attempts to piece together her past, she joins an elite FBI investigative team. Her colleagues are quickly drawn into her troubled world as, unbeknownst to Yury or her new friends, her quest to bring her mother s killer to justice overlaps with an ongoing FBI investigation into the disappearances of several young women whose bodies were never found. As the threads are woven together, a net is created to capture a sociopath placing Yury, her sisters and their friends and colleagues in great danger.
We're All in This Together
Author: Amy Jones
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771050658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Winner of Northern Lit Award Finalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour Quill & Quire "Books of the Year 2016" Globe & Mail "Best Canadian Fiction of 2016" A Penguin Book Club Pick A woman goes over a waterfall, a video goes viral, a family goes into meltdown—life is about to get a lot more complicated for the Parker family. Like all families, the Parkers of Thunder Bay have had their share of complications. But when matriarch Kate Parker miraculously survives plummeting over a waterfall in a barrel—a feat captured on a video that goes viral—it's Kate's family who tumbles into chaos under the spotlight. Her prodigal daughter returns to town. Her 16-year-old granddaughter gets caught up in an online relationship with a man she has never met. Her husband sifts through their marriage to search for what sent his wife over the falls. Her adopted son fears losing the only family he's ever known. Then there is Kate, who once made a life-changing choice and now fears her advancing dementia will rob her of memories from when she was most herself. Set over the course of four calamitous days, Amy Jones's big-hearted first novel follows the Parkers' misadventures as catastrophe forces them to do something they never thought possible—act like a family.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771050658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Winner of Northern Lit Award Finalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour Quill & Quire "Books of the Year 2016" Globe & Mail "Best Canadian Fiction of 2016" A Penguin Book Club Pick A woman goes over a waterfall, a video goes viral, a family goes into meltdown—life is about to get a lot more complicated for the Parker family. Like all families, the Parkers of Thunder Bay have had their share of complications. But when matriarch Kate Parker miraculously survives plummeting over a waterfall in a barrel—a feat captured on a video that goes viral—it's Kate's family who tumbles into chaos under the spotlight. Her prodigal daughter returns to town. Her 16-year-old granddaughter gets caught up in an online relationship with a man she has never met. Her husband sifts through their marriage to search for what sent his wife over the falls. Her adopted son fears losing the only family he's ever known. Then there is Kate, who once made a life-changing choice and now fears her advancing dementia will rob her of memories from when she was most herself. Set over the course of four calamitous days, Amy Jones's big-hearted first novel follows the Parkers' misadventures as catastrophe forces them to do something they never thought possible—act like a family.
FINN'S TWINS!
Author: Anne McAllister
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459269055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
FROM HERE TO PATERNITY Bachelor baby-sitter! When it comes to the female sex, Finn MacCauley is an expert. Except, that is, when the females in question are his six-year-old-nieces—and identical twins. Finn just isn't equipped to be a father…. Izzy, on the other hand is an ideal mother. If only she wasn't engaged to another man! All Finn has to do is persuade Izzy that being temporary surrogate parents will be terrific fun—nearly as much fun as sharing Finn's glamorous life-style…and his bed! "Anne McAllister hits the love and laughter buttons with triumphant success. FINN'S TWINS! is a sparkling, tender story…" —Lucy Gordon FROM HERE TO PATERNITY—men who find their way to fatherhood by fair means, by foul, or even by default!
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459269055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
FROM HERE TO PATERNITY Bachelor baby-sitter! When it comes to the female sex, Finn MacCauley is an expert. Except, that is, when the females in question are his six-year-old-nieces—and identical twins. Finn just isn't equipped to be a father…. Izzy, on the other hand is an ideal mother. If only she wasn't engaged to another man! All Finn has to do is persuade Izzy that being temporary surrogate parents will be terrific fun—nearly as much fun as sharing Finn's glamorous life-style…and his bed! "Anne McAllister hits the love and laughter buttons with triumphant success. FINN'S TWINS! is a sparkling, tender story…" —Lucy Gordon FROM HERE TO PATERNITY—men who find their way to fatherhood by fair means, by foul, or even by default!
The Huntsman
Author: Douglas Hill
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473202639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
They had come - on the first day of the world as it now was. They stalked over the world with cold, alien indifference. They are the Slavers, alien invaders on an embattled Earth. In this brutal world, Finn Ferral is a young huntsman with a dangerous gift - he is wild and instinctive, more wolf or hawk than man. When his father and sister are captured by Slavers, Finn follows - right to the heart of the Slavers' lair...
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473202639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
They had come - on the first day of the world as it now was. They stalked over the world with cold, alien indifference. They are the Slavers, alien invaders on an embattled Earth. In this brutal world, Finn Ferral is a young huntsman with a dangerous gift - he is wild and instinctive, more wolf or hawk than man. When his father and sister are captured by Slavers, Finn follows - right to the heart of the Slavers' lair...
Fore'n'aft
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Pages : 542
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Healed by the Midwife's Kiss
Author: Fiona McArthur
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 148807965X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Finn can’t imagine loving anyone again… But could one woman change that forever? After Dr. Finn Foley’s wife abandoned him and their adorable baby daughter, he threw himself into being a father. But when he meets a kindred spirit in widowed midwife Catrina Thomas, he can’t resist getting to know her better. One sizzling kiss later, the happiness Finn has been searching for finally seems within his grasp…if only he’s willing to claim it!
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 148807965X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Finn can’t imagine loving anyone again… But could one woman change that forever? After Dr. Finn Foley’s wife abandoned him and their adorable baby daughter, he threw himself into being a father. But when he meets a kindred spirit in widowed midwife Catrina Thomas, he can’t resist getting to know her better. One sizzling kiss later, the happiness Finn has been searching for finally seems within his grasp…if only he’s willing to claim it!