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Product Description: Book by Shields, Carol, Williamson, Dave

Paperback:

9780921368816 | Blizzard Pub Ltd, July 1, 1998, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Book by Shields, Carol, Williamson, Dave

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Product Description: The story of a woman dancing on the edge of a difficult lifeEver since her husband left her—seemingly vanishing into thin air—Charleen Forrest has supported herself and her fifteen-year-old son on what she earns as an obscure poet and part-time gofer for an even more obscure scientific journal...read more

Hardcover:

9780745148762 | G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1996, cover price $25.01
9780783816654, titled "Box Garden" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, May 1, 1996), cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9781480459816 | Ingram Pub Services, December 17, 2013, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: The story of a woman dancing on the edge of a difficult lifeEver since her husband left her—seemingly vanishing into thin air—Charleen Forrest has supported herself and her fifteen-year-old son on what she earns as an obscure poet and part-time gofer for an even more obscure scientific journal.
9780745148779 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1996), cover price $42.01
9780140251364 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 1996), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Charleen, a divorced woman attending her widowed mother's second wedding, makes startling discoveries about other family members attending the reunion and achieves a new understanding of herself and her own life
9780394221021 | Vintage, August 27, 1990, cover price $19.00

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A collection of short works by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer features definitive pieces written throughout the course of her career, including the previously unpublished, 'Segue,' a portrayal of a sonnet writer who faces an unknown darkness. By the author of The Stone Diaries. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780060762032 | Fourth Estate, February 1, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A collection of short works features definitive pieces written throughout the course of the author's career, including the previously unpublished 'Segue,' a portrayal of a sonnet writer who faces an unknown darkness.

Paperback:

9780060762049 | Reprint edition (Perennial, December 1, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of short works features definitive pieces written throughout the course of the author's career, including the previously unpublished 'Segue,' a portrayal of a sonnet writer who faces an unknown darkness.

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Product Description: In a record breaking "hat trick," Carol Shields was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel,The Stone Diaries, the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize...read more

Paperback:

9780886291877 | Carleton Univ Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In a record breaking "hat trick," Carol Shields was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel,The Stone Diaries, the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780886293055 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, October 15, 1992, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In a record breaking "hat trick," Carol Shields was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel,The Stone Diaries, the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize.

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Product Description: Un renombrada novelista ve como su mundo de desmorona el dia que descubre que su hija mayor decide Dejarlo Todo para mendigar en la esquina de una calle con un letrero al cuello que dice: Bondad. Una busqueda desesperada por conocer los motivos que han impulsado a su hija a tomar esa decision introducen al lector en el sutil mundo que rodea a la novelista...read more

Paperback:

9788483102398 | Tusquets, June 1, 2003, cover price $30.75 | About this edition: Un renombrada novelista ve como su mundo de desmorona el dia que descubre que su hija mayor decide Dejarlo Todo para mendigar en la esquina de una calle con un letrero al cuello que dice: Bondad.

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Paperback:

9780921368137 | Blizzard Pub Ltd, September 1, 1990, cover price $10.95

Product Description: "Directions" is a ready reference tool aimed at studentsand researchers, business and professional people, and anyone with aninterest in discovering the range of resources and services offeredby Manitoba's more than 170 libraries and information centers...read more

Paperback:

9781896239354 | J Gordon Shillingford Pub Inc, February 1, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: "Directions" is a ready reference tool aimed at studentsand researchers, business and professional people, and anyone with aninterest in discovering the range of resources and services offeredby Manitoba's more than 170 libraries and information centers.

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Product Description: Dressing Up for the Carnival cruises through a diverse set of players at different stages of life, most of whom — like the interconnected cast of characters in the title story — fortify themselves in symbolic ways to tackle the business of life...read more

Hardcover:

9780786227921 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 2000), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The theme of identity and guises run through this collection of twenty-two short stories.
9780754042716 | Largeprint edition (Chivers, June 1, 2000), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: The theme of identity and guises run through this collection of twenty-two short stories.
9780679310211 | Canadian edition (Random House Inc, June 1, 2000), cover price $55.01
9780670889211 | Viking Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The theme of identity and guises run through this collection of twenty-two short stories
9780070167513, titled "Fddi: Technology, Architecture, and Implementation" | McGraw-Hill, December 1, 1993, cover price $40.00 | also contains Fddi: Technology, Architecture, and Implementation

Paperback:

9780141001913 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The theme of identity and guises run through this collection of twenty-two short stories.
9780754042723 | Largeprint edition (Chivers, June 1, 2000), cover price $22.01 | About this edition: The theme of identity and guises run through this collection of twenty-two short stories.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780864923547 | Btc Audio Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Dressing Up for the Carnival cruises through a diverse set of players at different stages of life, most of whom — like the interconnected cast of characters in the title story — fortify themselves in symbolic ways to tackle the business of life.
9781574533521 | Unabridged edition (Audio Literature, January 1, 2001), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The theme of identity and guises runs through this collection of twenty-two short stories.

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Product Description: The hidden emotional territory of women's lives--from the joys of belly dancing to the agony of caring for a dying child--is revealed in the pages of Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told. Editors Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson bring together 34 eclectic and engaging pieces by renowned authors (e...read more

Hardcover:

9780679310716 | Villard Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: The hidden emotional territory of women's lives--from the joys of belly dancing to the agony of caring for a dying child--is revealed in the pages of Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told.

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Product Description: Book by Shields, Carol, Shields, Caterine

Paperback:

9780921368595 | Blizzard Pub Ltd, November 1, 1998, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Book by Shields, Carol, Shields, Caterine

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A week spent apart for a long-time married couple brings new and frightening experiences for each. Bewildered in a new city, Brenda struggles to cope. Meanwhile, at home, Jack's world falls apart; but while dealing with the crises around him, he learns something about himself.

Hardcover:

9780070923775 | McGraw-Hill, November 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Portrays a happily married man's mid-life crisis, involving new evaluations of friends, family, career associates, and particularly himself, when his loving wife goes away for a short time

Paperback:

9781841154688 | New edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, March 3, 2003), cover price $12.35 | About this edition: A week spent apart for a long-time married couple brings new and frightening experiences for each.

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Portrays the changes in a marriage, involving new evaluations of friends, family, career associates, and particularly the partners themselves, when the loving wife goes away for a short time and the happily married husband has a mid-life crisis

Paperback:

9780140179514 | Penguin USA, March 1, 1994, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Portrays the changes in a marriage, involving new evaluations of friends, family, career associates, and particularly the partners themselves, when the loving wife goes away for a short time and the happily married husband has a mid-life crisis

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Product Description: Two novels in one, Happenstance tells the story of a marriage from the individual perspectives of a husband and wife at a turning point in their relationshipWhen we meet Brenda Bowman in “The Wife’s Story,” the forty-year-old mother of two is preparing to fly to Philadelphia to attend a craft convention that will feature one of her quilts...read more

Paperback:

9781480459823 | Reprint edition (Ingram Pub Services, December 17, 2013), cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Two novels in one, Happenstance tells the story of a marriage from the individual perspectives of a husband and wife at a turning point in their relationshipWhen we meet Brenda Bowman in “The Wife’s Story,” the forty-year-old mother of two is preparing to fly to Philadelphia to attend a craft convention that will feature one of her quilts.

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Product Description: A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist celebrates the life of one of the most renowned and beloved female novelists of all time.In her brilliant fictional biography, The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields created an astonishing portrait of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a modern woman struggling to understand her place in her own life...read more

Hardcover:

9780754045977 | Largeprint edition (Chivers, June 1, 2001), cover price $55.01
9780670894888 | Viking Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Reveals Austen's private life and identity, including her family life, broken engagement, relationship with her sister Cassandra, and her writing process behind such novels as 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Sense and Sensibility.

Paperback:

9780786235254 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 2001), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist celebrates the life of one of the most renowned and beloved female novelists of all time.
9780753812563 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, November 1, 2001), cover price $14.25 | About this edition: Jane Austen spent the first 25 years of her life in Steventon and the last eight in Chawton, doing most of her writing in these two places.
9780754045984 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2001), cover price $22.01

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736668156 | Abridged edition (Books on Tape, April 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years.

Product Description: With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra...read more

Paperback:

9780143035169 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 2005), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Reveals Austen's private life and identity, including her family life, broken engagement, relationship with her sister Cassandra, and her writing process behind such novels as 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Sense and Sensibility.

Prebinding:

9781435293069 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years.

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A detailed look at the ordinary life of Larry Weller between 1977 and 1997 follows the floral designer as he deals with the rapidly changing world and two marriages and two divorces along the way. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries. 200,000 first printing. Tour.

Hardcover:

9780670873920, titled "Larry's Party" | Viking Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A detailed look at the ordinary life of Larry Weller between 1977 and 1997 follows the floral designer as he deals with the rapidly changing world and two marriages and two divorces along the way.

Paperback:

9780140266771, titled "Larry's Party" | Penguin USA, September 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A detailed look at the ordinary life of Larry Weller between 1977 and 1997 follows the floral designer as he deals with the rapidly changing world and two marriages and two divorces along the way

CD/Spoken Word:

9780864924674, titled "Larry's Party" | Abridged edition (Goose Lane Editions, October 27, 2006), cover price $29.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780864921918, titled "Larry's Party" | Abridged edition (Btc Audio Books, April 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: At 26, Larry Weller thinks his future lies in flowers.
9780864921918, titled "Larry's Party" | Abridged edition (Btc Audio Books, April 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: At 26, Larry Weller thinks his future lies in flowers.
9780788718731, titled "Larry's Party" | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, June 1, 1998), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Book by Carol Shields
9780140866216, titled "Larry's Party" | Penguin/Highbridge, September 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A detailed look at the ordinary life of Larry Weller between 1977 and 1997 follows the floral designer as he deals with the rapidly changing world and two marriages and two divorces along the way.

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Hardcover:

9781568955377, titled "Larry's Party: A Novel" | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, March 1, 1998), cover price $25.95

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Product Description: In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls, Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times...read more
By Carol Shields (other contributor)

Paperback:

9780771093708 | Reprint edition (New Canadian Library, August 3, 2010), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario.

Miscellaneous:

9780771093715 | New Canadian Library, August 3, 2010, cover price $17.95

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The private and social world of three families are revealed through the experiences of the heroine Fanny Price.
By Carol Shields (introduced by)

Paperback:

9780375757815 | Modern Library, October 1, 2001, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: The private and social world of three families are revealed through the experiences of the heroine Fanny Price.

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Product Description: With provocative insights and humor Larry Krotz ventures through midlife or as he describes it, "halftime in the locker room." Too old now to recover easily from colossal mistakes, too young to rest on his laurels, Midlifeman feels a sense of urgency to do it now (whatever it is) and to do it right, a sense that this is the last kick at the can...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Larry Krotz and Carol Shields (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9781892123763 | Capital Books Inc, March 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: With provocative insights and humor Larry Krotz ventures through midlife or as he describes it, "halftime in the locker room.

Paperback:

9780771095900 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, October 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: With provocative insights and humor Larry Krotz ventures through midlife or as he describes it, "halftime in the locker room.

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Paperback:

9788483100844 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $26.95

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Twelve stories deal with affairs, recoveries, holiday family reunions, a Parisian vacation, and lovers' quarrels

Hardcover:

9780670833276 | 1 edition (Viking Pr, July 1, 1990), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Twelve stories deal with affairs, recoveries, holiday family reunions, a Parisian vacation, and lovers' quarrels

Paperback:

9781480459854 | Ingram Pub Services, December 17, 2013, cover price $13.99
9780140152821 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1992), cover price $13.00
9780394221182, titled "Orange Fish" | Vintage, July 27, 1990, cover price $19.00

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Product Description: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Stone Diaries gives us a love story for the ages: the tale of two polar opposites on a rocky road to romanceHe’s a thrice-divorced late-night talk-show host. She’s an unmarried folklorist obsessed with mermaids...read more

Hardcover:

9780919981379 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, November 1, 1997), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: '"The Republic of Love" marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy!
9780670838752 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A story of the persistence of love in modern times follows Fay, a fickle folklorist falling hard for her neighbor Tom, an all-night disc jockey three times divorced
9780394222189, titled "Republic of Love" | Random House of Canada Ltd, December 1, 1991, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: '"The Republic of Love" marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy!

Paperback:

9781480459861 | Ingram Pub Services, December 17, 2013, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Stone Diaries gives us a love story for the ages: the tale of two polar opposites on a rocky road to romanceHe’s a thrice-divorced late-night talk-show host.
9780140149906 | Penguin USA, April 1, 1993, cover price $24.00

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780140863574 | Abridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, October 1, 1996), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A story of the persistence of love in modern times follows Fay, a fickle folklorist falling hard for her neighbor Tom, an all-night disc jockey three times divorced.

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