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Focuses on the importance of public relations and the ways to develop an effective program and improve communication with employees and the community

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9780379112139 | Oceana Pubns, June 1, 1968, cover price $5.95 | also contains The Finest Tree: And Other Christmas Stories from Atlantic Canada | About this edition: Focuses on the importance of public relations and the ways to develop an effective program and improve communication with employees and the community

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Product Description: Horizon blends stories, poems, essays, a play, and historical material from sixty writers to portray the social and literary tradition of a unique region of Canada. In the process of examining both a state of mind and the varied imaginative responses to a sometimes hostile but often generous and awe-inspiring environment, this anthology celebrates the commitment to survival that is at the core of the Prairie experience...read more

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9780195402629 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1977, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Horizon blends stories, poems, essays, a play, and historical material from sixty writers to portray the social and literary tradition of a unique region of Canada.

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9780888640543 | Univ of Alberta Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $11.95

Smokey Lopez finds herself torn between her desire for the outlaw Frank Coleman and her love for his lawman brother

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9780345326379 | Ballantine Books, July 1, 1986, cover price $2.95 | also contains Bitter Lake | About this edition: Smokey Lopez finds herself torn between her desire for the outlaw Frank Coleman and her love for his lawman brother

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Product Description: Yarmarok is the Ukrainian word for "fair" or "marketplace". It effectively conveys both the spirit and the substance of this first anthology of Ukrainian writing in Canada to be published in English. It includes a wealth of literary works, in a variety of genres and styles, by an array of poets, playwrights, and prose writers...read more
By Jars Balan (editor) and Yuri Klynony (editor)

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9780920862520 | Canadian Inst of Ukranian Study Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Yarmarok is the Ukrainian word for "fair" or "marketplace".

By Joy Bennett (compiler)

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9780919813885 | Univ of Calgary Pr, March 30, 1989, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: This collection of 20 classic Canadian mystery and detective stories, spanning almost a century and a half, will delight readers. Death in a convent, two corpses in a neighbouring house, a mystery writer plotting his next novel, with his wife in the trial run, and an undertaker with a special talent are only a few of the riddles posed by these lively stories...read more

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9780195408201 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This collection of 20 classic Canadian mystery and detective stories, spanning almost a century and a half, will delight readers.

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Product Description: This selection of Western Icelandic writings, the first of its kind in English, represents a wide collection of first and second generation Icelandic-Canadian authors.The stories, first published between 1895 and 1930, are set mainly in North America (especially Manitoba)...read more
By Kirsten Wolf (editor)

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9780887556289 | Univ of Manitoba Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: This selection of Western Icelandic writings, the first of its kind in English, represents a wide collection of first and second generation Icelandic-Canadian authors.

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A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.

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9780399233845 | Philomel Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A meteor lands in Grandpa and Gramma's backyard and the entire town of Union City, Michigan, is abuzz with rumors and gossip as meteor madness takes hold
9780399216992, titled "Meteor" | Dodd Mead, June 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A meteor lands in Grandpa and Gramma's backyard and the entire town of Union City, Michigan, is abuzz with rumors and gossip as meteor madness takes hold

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9780698114104 | Reprint edition (Puffin, August 1, 1996), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A meteor lands in Grandpa and Gramma's backyard and the entire town of Union City, Michigan, is abuzz with rumors and gossip as meteor madness takes hold
9780399224072 | Reprint edition (Putnam Pub Group, September 1, 1992), cover price $5.95 | also contains Do Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes | About this edition: A meteor lands in Grandpa and Gramma's backyard and the entire town of Union City, Michigan, is abuzz with rumors and gossip as meteor madness takes hold

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9780606054652 | Demco Media, September 1, 1992, cover price $15.81 | About this edition: A meteor lands in Grandpa and Gramma's backyard and the entire town of Union City, Michigan, is abuzz with rumors and gossip as meteor madness takes hold

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9780833591647 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: A meteor lands in Grandpa and Gramma's backyard and the entire town of Union City, Michigan, is abuzz with rumors and gossip as meteor madness takes hold

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Product Description: Each of the stories in this book reflects something about the city — what it means to be born here, to escape here, to live and die here. In exploring life in Toronto through the stories of some of the country's finest writers — including Neil Bissoondath, Matt Cohen, Timothy Findley, Katherine Govier, Norman Levine, Rohintin Mistry and more — the city's complex personality emerges, takes shape and, for a moment, makes sense...read more

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9781895204025 | E C W Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Each of the stories in this book reflects something about the city — what it means to be born here, to escape here, to live and die here.

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Product Description: This glorious miscellany of many of Pierre Berton's most sparkling pieces brings back lost treasures from his years as a journalist covering Canada and the world. Worth Repeating is a treat to read, but it's also a valuable reminder of Berton's fifty years of extraordinary contributions to reporting and social commentary...read more

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9780385257374 | Doubleday of Canada, May 18, 1999, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: This glorious miscellany of many of Pierre Berton's most sparkling pieces brings back lost treasures from his years as a journalist covering Canada and the world.

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Product Description: Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk may not be well-known authors today, but these women were publishing sensations in nineteenth-century America. Their lurid tales of life in two North American convents, one in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and the other in Montreal, Canada, sold more than one-half million copies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781557531346 | Purdue Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk may not be well-known authors today, but these women were publishing sensations in nineteenth-century America.

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Product Description: A fascinating look at the history of Canadian literature (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781552780732 | McArthur & Co Pub Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A fascinating look at the history of Canadian literature

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Product Description: Authors and Audiences reveals the cultural milieu that gave rise to the golden age of hardcover fiction. Karr describes the relationships between authors, literary agents, and publishers in Toronto, London, New York, and other centres; examines the relationship between authors and the movie industry; and discusses the reception of fiction by critics and readers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780773520769 | Carleton Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: From the 1890s through the 1920s, the best-selling fiction of Ralph Connor, Robert Stead, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Arthur Stringer was internationally recognised.

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9780773521094 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Authors and Audiences reveals the cultural milieu that gave rise to the golden age of hardcover fiction.

Miscellaneous:

9782760626478 | Ebrary, October 1, 2001, cover price $60.00

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Product Description: The more than 175 biographies in this volume together tell the story of writing in Saskatchewan. As David Carpenter notes in his Introduction to the volume: "The writers whose lives are told in these pages are part of an extraordinary cultural community that has touched and been touched by the people and landscape of this province...read more
By Heather Hodgson (editor)

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9780889771635, titled "Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present" | Canadian Plains Research Center, July 6, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The more than 175 biographies in this volume together tell the story of writing in Saskatchewan.

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Product Description: The success of George Elliott Clarke’s anthology Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature, published a decade ago, demonstrated the growing interest in black Canadian writing. In this exciting, provocative new collection, literary journalist Donna Bailey Nurse provides an up-to-date and fresh perspective on this vibrant, significant, and thriving literature...read more
By Donna Bailey Nurse (editor)

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9780771067631 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, February 7, 2006, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The success of George Elliott Clarke’s anthology Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature, published a decade ago, demonstrated the growing interest in black Canadian writing.

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Product Description: In recent years Mennonites have become one of the most visible ethnic literary communities in Canada. With the publication of Half in the Sun,BC writers of Mennonite heritage claim their place in this community. The authors represented in Half in the Sun are West Coast writers who share a history rooted in a dark region littered with stories of repeated migration, Soviet terror, displacement and resettlement...read more
By Elsie K. Neufeld (editor)

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9781553800385 | Ronsdale Pr, October 15, 2006, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In recent years Mennonites have become one of the most visible ethnic literary communities in Canada.

By Halli Villegas (editor)

Paperback:

9780973864557 | Paul & Co Pub Consortium, October 1, 2007, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: E.M. Forster, whose novels A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India probe the values of the English middle class, is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most distinguished authors. He was also a highly respected literary critic...read more
By Jeffrey M. Heath (editor)

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9781550025224 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, February 15, 2008, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: E.

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