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Roch Carrier's La Guerre Trilogy

Product Description: Roch Carrierâs La Guerre trilogy is a vital, moving, and assured portrait of life in Quebec.This volume includes:La Guerre, Yes Sir! A surrealist fable set in rural Quebec during WWI. Canadian Literature greeted its first appearance in these terms: ÂIt is the French-Canadian writer Roch Carrier who comes closest to the significance, power, and artistry of Faulkner at his best ...read more

By Roch Carrier and Sheila Fischman (trans)

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9781770893733 | House of Anansi Pr, September 24, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Roch Carrierâs La Guerre trilogy is a vital, moving, and assured portrait of life in Quebec.

This Sweater Is for You!: Celebrating the Creative Process in Film and Art With the Animator and Illustrator of "The Hockey Sweater"

Product Description: The Sweater is one of the most beloved animated films of all time. Based on Roch Carrierâs short story, also known as ÂThe Hockey Sweater,â the film recounts the most horrifying moment of the authorâs childhood. Sheldon Cohen adapted the story into animation and created a film that is as much about childhood emotions and the desire to fit in, as it is about hockey, the clash of cultures, and a harkening to bygone times...read more

By Roch Carrier (other contributor)

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9781550229608 | E C W Pr, February 1, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Sweater is one of the most beloved animated films of all time.

The Flying Canoe

Having moved away to the Ottawa Valley to work with other lumberjacks, eleven-year-old Baptiste begins to feel homesick for his friends and family in the Quebec region of Canada and so magically creates a special canoe that sends him sailing through the night sky and across lands to get back home before the stroke of midnight on New Years Eve.

By Roch Carrier (other contributor), Sheldon Cohen (illustrator) and Sheila Fischman (trans)

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Hardcover:

9780887766367 | Tundra Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Having moved away to the Ottawa Valley to work with lumberjacks, eleven-year-old Baptiste feels homesick for his family in QuÃ©bec, so he magically creates a canoe to fly himself and his coworkers home before midnight on New Yearâs Eve.

La Chasse-Galerir/the Flying Canoe

By Roch Carrier (other contributor) and Sheldon Cohen (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780887766350 | Tundra Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $15.95

The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories

Product Description: The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring classic: a Quebec boy and Habs fan is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake. It encapsulates everything you need to understand French and English Canada, told with humour and love...read more

By Roch Carrier

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Paperback:

9781770892514 | Reprint edition (House of Anansi Pr, March 26, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring classic: a Quebec boy and Habs fan is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake.

9780887840784, titled "Hockey Sweater and Other Stories" | House of Anansi Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The title story, about the Quebec boy who is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake, has become a Christmas favorite.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780864923332 | Abridged edition (Goose Lane Editions, January 1, 2004), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Few stories better capture the spirit of what it is to be Canadian than Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780864923325 | Abridged edition (Btc Audio Books, October 1, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Few stories better capture the spirit of what it is to be Canadian than Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater.

The Basketball Player

Product Description: Away from home and off to a seminary boarding school for the first time, Roch finds he is expected to play basketball. Itâs seen as an important tool for facing lifeâs challenges if he is âto go very far on the road of life...read more

By Roch Carrier

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9780887765537 | Tundra Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Away from home and off to a seminary boarding school for the first time, Roch finds he is expected to play basketball.

Le Plus Long Circuit

Product Description: âThe longest home run in the history of baseball was hit by a girl.â So begins a baseball misadventure in the village of Ste. Justine. This time, a strange girl named Adeline shows up at the daisy field where Roch and his friends play baseball all summer...read more

By Roch Carrier and Sheldon Cohen (illustrator)

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9780887763014 | Tundra Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: âThe longest home run in the history of baseball was hit by a girl.

Paperback:

9780887763137 | Tundra Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: âThe longest home run in the history of baseball was hit by a girl.

The Longest Home Run

When Adeline joins a group of boys playing baseball, she surprises everyone by hitting the longest home run they had ever seen, and by admitting to them all that she is a magician.

By Roch Carrier and Sheldon Cohen (illustrator)

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9780887763007 | Tundra Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When Adeline joins a group of boys playing baseball, she surprises everyone by hitting the longest home run they had ever seen, and by admitting to them all that she is a magician.

Paperback:

9780887763120 | Tundra Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: When Adeline joins a group of boys playing baseball, she surprises everyone by hitting the longest home run they had ever seen, and by admitting to them all that she is a magician.

Le Joueur De Basket-Ball

Product Description: Le prÃªtre pousse les garÃ§ons Ã jouer au basket-ball pour qu'ils aillent Â«loin sur le chemin de la vieÂ». Mais ses paroles terrorisent le jeune Roch, qui vient tout juste d'arriver au sÃ©minaire vÃªtu d'un costume trop grand pour lui...read more

By Roch Carrier and Sheldon Cohen (illustrator)

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9780887763687 | Tundra Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Â« La meilleure faÃ§on d'apprendre, dit le vieux prÃªtre, c'est de jouer.

Paperback:

9780887765544 | Tundra Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Le prÃªtre pousse les garÃ§ons Ã jouer au basket-ball pour qu'ils aillent Â«loin sur le chemin de la vieÂ».

UN Champion: Winner of the Governor General's

By Roch Carrier and Sheldon Cohen (illustrator)

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9780887762581 | Tundra Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $7.95

Hockey Sweater

With every boy in a small Quebec town wearing the sweater of the Montreal Canadiens to play hockey, one child is horrified when, because of a mail order mix-up, he is forced to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.

By Roch Carrier

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Hardcover:

9780887761690 | Tundra Books, September 1, 1984, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: With every boy in a small Quebec town wearing the sweater of the Montreal Canadiens to play hockey, one child is horrified when, because of a mail order mix-up, he is forced to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.

Paperback:

9780887761744, titled "The Hockey Sweater" | Tundra Books, September 1, 1984, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: With every boy in a small Quebec town wearing the sweater of the Montreal Canadiens to play hockey, one child is horrified when, because of a mail order mix-up, he is forced to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.

Prebinding:

9780833568458 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: With every boy in a small Quebec town wearing the sweater of the Montreal Canadiens to play hockey, one child is horrified when, because of a mail order mix-up, he is forced to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.

Boxing Champion

Traces the attempts of a French Canadian boy in the 1950's to build himself up in time for the spring boxing season

By Roch Carrier

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Hardcover:

9780887762499 | Tundra Books, March 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Traces the attempts of a French Canadian boy in the 1950's to build himself up in time for the spring boxing season

Paperback:

9780887762574, titled "The Boxing Champion" | Tundra Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Traces the attempts of a French Canadian boy in the 1950's to build himself up in time for the spring boxing season

Prebinding:

9780785737056 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.70 | About this edition: Traces the attempts of a French Canadian boy in the 1950's to build himself up in time for the spring boxing season

In the Shadow of the Wind

Product Description: On a hot summer night in 1936, Olivia and Nora Atkins go for a stroll along the beach in GaspÃ©. They never return. When the body of one of them is washed ashore days later, the tiny community of Griffin Creek is electrified. The teenagers have been murdered. But by whom?

By Roch Carrier and Sheila Fischman (trans)

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9780887845567 | House of Anansi Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: On a hot summer night in 1936, Olivia and Nora Atkins go for a stroll along the beach in GaspÃ©.

LA Guerre, Yes Sir!

Product Description: La Guess, Yes Sir! is a wedding, a funeral, and best of all, a full company of Carrier's joyful, blaspheming, vigorous characters.

By Roch Carrier

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Paperback:

9780887846267 | House of Anansi Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: La Guess, Yes Sir!

9780887845154 | Reprint edition (Stoddart Pub, August 1, 1993), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: La Guess, Yes Sir!

9780887843105 | Stoddart Pub, June 1, 1970, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: La Guess, Yes Sir!

Lady With Chains

Product Description: In nineteenth-century Quebec a woman plots the murder of her husband after the death of their child. After brewing a poison, she is arrested, denounced as a witch, and in a devastating conclusion, released from her terrifying obsessions.

By Roch Carrier

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9780887845116 | House of Anansi Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In nineteenth-century Quebec a woman plots the murder of her husband after the death of their child.

9780887841392 | House of Anansi Pr, July 1, 1984, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In nineteenth-century Quebec a woman plots the murder of her husband after the death of their child.

The Basketball Player

By Roch Carrier, Sheldon Cohen (illustrator) and Sheila Fischman (trans)

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9780887763670 | Tundra Books, September 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Away from home and off to a seminary boarding school for the first time, Roch finds he is expected to play basketball.

El Jonron Mas Largo

Product Description: "...a privileged peek at the world at the world of adults through the tentative, in-between awareness of a young boy". -- Quill & Quire (starred)

By Roch Carrier and Sheldon Cohen (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780887763045 | Tundra Books, March 1, 1994, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: ".

Heartbreaks Along the Road

By Roch Carrier and Sheila Fischman (trans)

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Paperback:

9780140127577 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1992), cover price $13.00

UN Bonne Et Heureuse Annee

Product Description: Book by Carrier, Roch

By Roch Carrier

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Hardcover:

9780887762680 | Tundra Books, September 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Carrier, Roch

Canada Je Taime/I Love You

Paintings and descriptive text, in French and English, celebrate the people and places of sixteen cities across Canada, from St. John's, Nova Scotia, to Victoria, British Columbia

By Roch Carrier

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Hardcover:

9780887762536 | Tundra Books, July 1, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Paintings and descriptive text, in French and English, celebrate the people and places of sixteen cities across Canada, from St.

UN Champion

Product Description: Book by Carrier, Roch

By Roch Carrier and Sheldon Cohen (illustrator)

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9780887762505 | Tundra Books, March 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Book by Carrier, Roch

A Happy New Year's Day

Describes the celebration and tradition of a family in a small Canadian village on New Year's Day

By Roch Carrier and Gilles Pelletier (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780887762673 | Tundra Books, September 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes the celebration and tradition of a family in a small Canadian village on New Year's Day

Le Chandail De Hockey

Product Description: In the days of Rochâs childhood, winters in the village of Ste. Justine were long. Life centered around school, church, and the hockey rink, and every boyâs hero was Montreal Canadiens hockey legend Maurice Richard. Everyone wore Richardâs number 9...read more

By Roch Carrier and Sheldon Cohen (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780887761713 | Tundra Books, August 1, 1985, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Book by Roch Carrier

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9780887761768 | Tundra Books, August 1, 1985, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In the days of Rochâs childhood, winters in the village of Ste.

Garden of Delights

Product Description: An entertaining tale of good and evil in a backwoods Quebec village.

By Roch Carrier and Sheila Fischman (trans)

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9780887845130 | House of Anansi Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An entertaining tale of good and evil in a backwoods Quebec village.

They Won't Demolish Me

Product Description: This hilarious novel is about one man's fight against high-rise development and urban madness.

By Roch Carrier

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9780887843280 | House of Anansi Pr, June 1, 1974, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: This hilarious novel is about one man's fight against high-rise development and urban madness.

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