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Anne Green Gables

ISBN 0340715006 (0-340-71500-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square Books

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A brother and sister send for a boy to help them on their farm, Green Gables. By mistake they are sent an 11-year-old girl. She picks a fight with anyone who mentions the colour of her hair and causes havoc, but ends up being loved. The author wrote "Anne of Avonlea" and "Anne of Ingleside". [via]
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Anne of Avonlea
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 1595401091 (1-59540-109-1)
Softcover, Authorhouse

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Large format paper back for easy reading. One of a series of fictional, semi-historical novels. [via]
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Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 1419107178 (1-4191-0717-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Anne of Green Gables
by Greenwood, Barbara Greenwood

ISBN 1550133543 (1-55013-354-3)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd

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Anne Of Green Gables
by Kathleen Olmstead, Lucy Corvino

ISBN 1402711301 (1-4027-1130-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.

Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic tale, with its engaging heroine and evocative description of the Prince Edward Island landscape, never fails to delight youngsters. When Matthew Cuthbert goes to the train station to pick up the orphan he and his sister Marilla plan to adopt, he expects to meet a boy who can help on the family farm. Instead it's Anne--a talkative, dreamy, red-haired, freckle-faced 11-year-old little girl who transforms the Cuthberts' life forever and fills it with love and joy.
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Anne of Green Gables
by Scott McKowen

ISBN 1402714513 (1-4027-1451-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.

Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.

One things for certain, no house that Annes in will ever be dull. Thats what Marilla Cuthbert says about Anne, the lively red-headed orphan she and her brother Matthew adopt. For decades, girls have agreed, eagerly reading every book in Lucy Maud Montgomerys series that chronicles Annes coming of age.
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Anne of the Island
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 1588275965 (1-58827-596-5)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com

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This volume contains "Anne of The Island" and "Anne of Windy Willows". Anne is older now, and her friends are beginning to get married and move away; meanwhile her romance with Gilbert Blythe begins to blossom, and there are developments in her career as a schoolteacher. [via]
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The Annotated Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Anne Doody, Wendy E. Barry, Mary E. Doody Jones

ISBN 0195104285 (0-19-510428-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been a continuous international best-seller, enjoying successful television adaptations on PBS and The Disney Channel, and captivating children and adults alike with the irresistible charms of its remarkable heroine, Anne Shirley. This wildly imaginative, red-headed chatterbox tries to fit into the narrow confines of Victorian expectations, but her exuberant spirit keeps leaping delightfully beyond the bounds. Indeed, when Maud Montgomery decided to reject the sermonizing formulas of the children's books of her day, she brought to life a character much closer to Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and Tom Sawyer--also orphans, like Anne--than to the self-sacrificing, conformist heroines then in demand. In doing so, Montgomery subtly questioned the values of her society--the stifling restraints of its religion and most especially its treatment of women--while giving readers all the pleasures of her considerable story-telling gifts.
Now, in this first fully annotated edition of Anne of Green Gables, readers will appreciate more clearly than ever before the scope and depth of this extraordinary novel. Editors Margaret Anne Doody, Mary Doody Jones, and Wendy Barry provide a richly illustrated, completely revised text, along with hundreds of notes describing the real-life characters and settings Anne encounters, the autobiographical connections between Anne and Maud Montgomery, and the book's astonishing range of literary, biblical, and mythological references. Additional essays offer fascinating background information on such topics as the geography and settlement of Prince Edward Island (where Anne takes place); the education, orphanages, music, and literature of Anne's time; and the horticulture, homemade artifacts, and food preparation that are so prevalent in the story. Margaret Anne Doody supplies a comprehensive introduction, which situates the novel in its literary and social contexts, explores those aspects of Montgomery's life most relevant to the story, examines revisions in the manuscripts, and provides an overall sense of both the impulses that drove Montgomery to write Anne of Green Gables and the larger concerns it dramatizes so compellingly. This edition also contains a chronology of Montgomery's life, an extensive bibliography, songs and poems that appear in the text, and a selection of original reviews of the book. This wealth of material enables readers to grasp the marvelous multi-layeredness of the novel and to understand more fully its place in both its own time and in ours.
Elegantly and beautifully designed, with generous illustrations from previous editions, photographs of the places the novel inhabits, and explanatory drawings that reproduce the texture of Anne's world, The Annotated Anne of Green Gables is a major event in the publishing history of one of the world's most charming stories. [via]
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Bachelor Brother's Bed & Breakfast
by Bill Richardson

ISBN 1550541129 (1-55054-112-9)
Hardcover, Douglas & McIntyre

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Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw: Travels In Search Of Canada
by Will Ferguson

ISBN 184195652X (1-84195-652-X)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd

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He may not know it--and he may not even want the job--but author and humourist Will Ferguson is poised to replace Pierre Berton as national keeper of the facts. Think about it: both men are clearly obsessed with Canada, its history and wrinkles and seams. Both conjure characters from the past to help explain our present. Both have forgotten more about this country than most of us will ever know. The key difference between them, if a metaphor might be permitted, is that while Berton tends to move vertically through the annals of Canada, Ferguson moves horizontally. And he's funnier. So it is with Ferguson's travel memoir, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw. The author grabs us by the hand for a guided coast-to-coast tour of the country, peppering each stop with factoids. In Alberta, we learn that boreal forest covers one-third of our overall landscape. On a polar bear excursion in Manitoba, we discover that the Arctic fox has the warmest, thickest fur on earth. And at Lake Superior, we are reminded that half the world's fresh water supply resides here. But Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw is more than just a grocery list of information. As with his bestselling How to Be a Canadian, Ferguson attempts to capture the essence of Canada, this time through topography and history. Take this passage lifted from his visit to Newfoundland. "This wasn't Ireland. It was Ireland lost. And Ireland found. It was Ireland cast adrift and washed up on a cold island. It was Ireland reconstructed, like a portrait assembled by someone working from memory, getting the mood right if not the details." Beauty Tips gets the mood and the details just right, with some welcome conjecture and lots on winking humour thrown in. Required reading for Canucks and wannabes. --Kim Hughes [via]
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- Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw: Travels In Search Of Canada: ISBN 0676976433 (0-676-97643-3)
  Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
- Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw: Travels In Search Of Canada: ISBN 184195652X (1-84195-652-X)
  Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver
by Douglas Coupland

ISBN 1550548182 (1-55054-818-2)
Softcover, Douglas & McIntyre, Limited

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Toronto has Margaret Atwood, Montreal has Mordecai Richler, and now Vancouver has its own literary spokesperson. Douglas Coupland, author of societal pulse-taking novels like Generation X, Microserfs, and Shampoo Planet, turns his bemused eye on his hometown's quirks and quarks in this easy-going, photo-heavy tour. Coupland's voice is droll, whether explaining the way the ferries work ("the ferry experience involves waiting; that's because it's government-run") or theorizing on the origins of street names like Biddesden and Pyrford (he conjectures they were named by old English lords having a good laugh over a dram back in London). Having grown up in Vancouver, the author has a wellspring of childhood memories to draw from, and his reminisces add an even more personal note to pieces on well-known destinations like Grouse Mountain and Chinatown. An artist as well as an author, Coupland has an opinion on just about everything, from Greenpeace (begun in Vancouver) to the number eight (considered lucky by Chinese residents), but he is especially astute at capturing the essence of the city from an architectural perspective. "They made about as much sense in the neighbourhoods into which they were inserted as a UFO in Versailles," he writes of the type of dwelling units he calls "monster houses." And an essay about Lions Gate Bridge, in which Coupland mixes personal recollections with bridge lore, is enough to make even the most jaded Vancouverite see the town in a teary-eyed new light.
Though by no means comprehensive--what about, say, the people mosaic of Commercial Drive?--Coupland's book is a colourful, chatty guide, hitting on both obscure and famous Vancouver characteristics alike. Whether the reader is familiar with the city or a complete stranger, or simply a fan of witty, insightful prose, he or she will find much to enjoy in this portrait of what the author calls--rightfully, one is convinced by the end--"a dream of a city." --Shawn Conner [via]
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Complete Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0553609416 (0-553-60941-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Av... [via]
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How to Be a Canadian
by Ian Ferguson, Will Ferguson

ISBN 1550548913 (1-55054-891-3)
Softcover, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd

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L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
by Jennifer Dussling, Lydia Halverson

ISBN 0448424592 (0-448-42459-2)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Larry's Party
by Carol Shields

ISBN 1568955375 (1-56895-537-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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Larry Weller is a regular guy, or so Carol Shields has him think. When we first meet him in 1977 Winnipeg at age 26, he's pondering the pluses of Harris tweed, still living at home, and realizing he's in love with his girlfriend, Dorrie, a flinty car saleswoman. Larry is proud of his job at Flowerfolks, even though he fell into floral design by accident, and if his relationship with his parents isn't perfect, it's not too bad, either. (Stu and Flo Weller may have less page-time in Larry's Party, but they are hugely memorable. He is a master upholsterer, happiest when working; she is a woman ruined by nervous guilt, having inadvertently killed off her mother-in-law with some improperly preserved green beans.)
Carol Shields has said that she had "always been struck by the fact that in most novels people aren't working." Though her hero climbs the floral managerial trellis for 17 years and finds more rhapsody in work than marriage, Larry and Dorrie's honeymoon in England points him toward what will be his true vocation--mazes. These living constructs turn him into a thinker, a man of imagination, and the author's descriptions are quietly spectacular as well as effortlessly sweet. Larry wonders at their "teasing elegance and circularity ... a snail, a scribble, a doodle on the earth's skin with no other directed purpose but to wind its sinuous way around itself." Just as Larry changes with the times--each elliptical chapter ages him by one or two years--so does his art. In 1990, he designs a maze in which you can't really lose yourself. In 1997, the McCord Maze "is intended to mirror the descent into unconscious sleep, followed by a slow awakening." Larry, too, has a slow awakening, taking several false turns before reaching midlife. As the novel closes, with a bravura dinner party scene, he may finally be at ease in the world. But his creator knows that he is only halfway there, and still has to negotiate his way from the center of the maze to its exit. [via]
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Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey
by Geoff Pevere, Greig Dymond

ISBN 0132630885 (0-13-263088-5)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall Canada

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Souvenir of Canada
by Douglas Coupland

ISBN 1550549170 (1-55054-917-0)
Softcover, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd

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Souvenir Of Canada 2
by Douglas Coupland

ISBN 1553650433 (1-55365-043-3)
Softcover, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd

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Timbit Nation a Hitchhikers View of Canada
by John Stackhouse

ISBN 067931167X (0-679-31167-X)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd

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Why I Hate Canadians
by W. Ferguson

ISBN 1550546007 (1-55054-600-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Canada

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Anne, la Maison aux Pignons Verts
by L. M. Montgomery

ISBN 0920304508 (0-920304-50-8)
Softcover, Ragweed Press

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