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Product Description: It was supposed to be a homecoming and reunion, but when Anne Tennyson Miller (Tenn to her friends and family) returns to Driftwood Bay with her new friend Una, they find a ghost town. Something has gone terribly wrong in the world...read more
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9781927068915 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, March 30, 2014, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: It was supposed to be a homecoming and reunion, but when Anne Tennyson Miller (Tenn to her friends and family) returns to Driftwood Bay with her new friend Una, they find a ghost town.
Product Description: During a a seemingly ordinary ferry trip, Anne ""Tenn"" Tennyson Miller is transported instead to a fantasy land, Greensward. There she is elected to rescue her new friend Una from a nearby country occupied by evil forces determined to destroy Greensward...read more
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9781897235836 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, September 30, 2011, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: During a a seemingly ordinary ferry trip, Anne ""Tenn"" Tennyson Miller is transported instead to a fantasy land, Greensward.
Product Description: Ellen's Book of Life is the fourth installment in the popular and multi-award-winning Ellen Fremendon series. Off enjoying an exciting summer in the big city, Ellen is far away from her sleepy hometown when she receives heartbreaking news: her mother has died...read more
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9780888998538 | Groundwood Books, September 1, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Ellen is excited.
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9780888998606 | Groundwood Books, March 23, 2010, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Ellen's Book of Life is the fourth installment in the popular and multi-award-winning Ellen Fremendon series.
Product Description: Blessed  or cursed, depending on her mood  with an active mind, incessant curiosity, and uncontrollable nosiness, Ellen Fremedon is not looking forward to another summer. Her best friend, Jenny, is going away to art school, and none of their usual projects seem like much fun anymore...read more
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9780888997432 | Groundwood Books, February 28, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Ellen thinks that volunteering at the local retirement home during the summer will be boring, but her attempts to reunite a friend with her missing mother and to stop the retirement home from closing keep things interesting.
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9780888997449 | Reprint edition (Groundwood Books, September 1, 2008), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Blessed  or cursed, depending on her mood  with an active mind, incessant curiosity, and uncontrollable nosiness, Ellen Fremedon is not looking forward to another summer.
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9780888996688 | Groundwood Books, August 10, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Ellen Fremedon and her best friend Jenny start a local newspaper over summer break, and even though it is harder than they thought, they may have a huge story if they can discover who the mysterious stranger is that moved in next door.
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9780888996916 | Reprint edition (Groundwood Books, September 28, 2006), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Ellen Fremedon and her best friend Jenny start a local newspaper over summer break, and even though it is harder than they thought, they may have a huge story if they can discover who the mysterious stranger is that moved in next door.
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9780888995575 | Groundwood Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: During summer vacation, Ellen Fremedon, with the help of her best friend Jenny, decides to write a novel about the inhabitants of her village, but she gets more than she bargained for when her research leads her to mystery and danger.
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9780888996404 | Reprint edition (Groundwood Books, October 30, 2005), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: During summer vacation, Ellen Fremedon, with the help of her best friend Jenny, decides to write a novel about the inhabitants of her village, but she gets more than she bargained for when her research leads her to mystery and danger.
Product Description: Harrietâs acting career suffers a catastrophic setback when memory loss forces her to quit her role as Sarah Bernhardt. In turmoil, she accepts the role of Mazo de la Roche in a production written by an amateur playwright and being performed in small-town Saskatchewan...read more
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9781550025378 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, October 4, 2004, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Harrietâs acting career suffers a catastrophic setback when memory loss forces her to quit her role as Sarah Bernhardt.
Product Description: Fiction. Thanks to advances in biotechnology, the female protagonists of HALF KNOWN LIVES experiment with a fine upstanding citizen of their prairie city. They take Max Hoffman hostage, impregnate him, and keep him prisoner for the duration of the pregnancy...read more
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9780921586784 | New Star Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Fiction.
Product Description: Fiction. Literary Criticsm. Joan Givner engages the heart and mind in this refreshing and readable collection of short stories and essays. Nineteen pieces demonstrate how fiction insinuates itself into non-fiction, and how biography finds its way into fiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780921586678 | New Star Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Fiction.
Hardcover:
9780778010562 | Oberon Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $27.95
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9780778010579 | Oberon Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $13.95
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9780820315522 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A biography of literary biographer Katherine Anne Porter.
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9780887508585 | Oberon Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $29.95
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9780887508592 | Oberon Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $14.95
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9780820313481 | Rev sub edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, June 1, 1991), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A biography of one of American literature's most enigmatic figures portrays the award-winning writer through all the drama, passion, excitement, and carefully constructed fiction of her ninety-year life
9780671432072 | Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1982, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A full-scale biography of one of American literature's most enigmatic figures portrays the award-winning fiction writer through all the drama, passion, excitement, and carefully constructed fiction of her ninety-year life
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9780820313405 | Revised edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, June 1, 1991), cover price $38.95 | About this edition: A biography of one of American literature's most enigmatic figures portrays the award-winning writer through all the drama, passion, excitement, and carefully constructed fiction of her ninety-year life
Product Description: Mazo de la Roche leaped to prominence as one of the most successful writers of the 20th century when the first novel in her Whiteoaks of Jalna series won the Atlantic Monthly prize in 1927. The award was hailed not only as a triumph for de la Roche but as marking the coming of age of Canadian literature...read more
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9780195407051 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 7, 1989, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Mazo de la Roche leaped to prominence as one of the most successful writers of the 20th century when the first novel in her Whiteoaks of Jalna series won the Atlantic Monthly prize in 1927.
Hardcover:
9780878052660 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, March 1, 1987, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The distinguished American author discusses literature, her life, and her writing
Paperback:
9780023891700, titled "The Modern Writer''s Handbook" | 3rd edition (Macmillan Coll Div, August 1, 1992), cover price $17.00 | also contains The Modern Writer''s Handbook
9780878052677 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, March 1, 1987, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The distinguished American author discusses literature, her life, and her writing
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9780252012037 | Univ of Illinois Pr, July 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In the tradition of the European comedy of manners, these short stories display a keen sense of dialogue and humor, which ranges from delicate wit and satire to slapstick foolishness
Hardcover:
9780224020930 | Olympic Marketing Corp, June 1, 1982, cover price $7.98 | About this edition: The Life of Katherine Anne Porter
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