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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood

ISBN 1417671963 (1-4176-7196-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century.

Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.

Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend? A bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she the victim of circumstances? [via]
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Away
by Jane Urquhart

ISBN 0771086504 (0-7710-8650-4)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd

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An evocative chronicle of the lives, loves, and passions of four generations of women begins near Lake Ontario as Esther O'Malley Robertson reminisces about her family's past, from its origin in Ireland where her great-grandmother had a demon lover. 15,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood

ISBN 0385720955 (0-385-72095-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin , she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a- novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin , it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience. The novel has many threads and a series of events that follow one another at a breathtaking pace. As everything comes together, readers will discover that the story Atwood is telling is not only what it seems to be--but, in fact, much more. The Blind Assassin proves once again that Atwood is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of our time. Like The Handmaid's Tale , it is destined to become a classic. [via]
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Bugs of Ontario
by John Harrison Acorn, Ian Sheldon

ISBN 1551052873 (1-55105-287-3)
Softcover, Lone Pine Pub

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A fun-filled field guide into the creepy-crawly world of Ontarios bugs. Learn about 125 of the coolest bugs you might encounter in the provinces great outdoors. John Acorn, an avid "bugster" and TV's Nature Nut, supplies a lively and personable text that evokes each species character. Meanwhile, respected Canadian artist and naturalist Ian Sheldon has created brilliant illustrations that bring each bug to life. [via]
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Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood

ISBN 1853811262 (1-85381-126-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life. [via]
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The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyond
by Martha K. Smith

ISBN 0965034909 (0-9650349-0-9)
Softcover, Cuchipanda Inc

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From the author of the critically acclaimed "The Handmaid's Tale" comes this 2000 novel-within-a-novel centering on entangled relationships in 1930s-40s Ontario, Canada. [via]
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Clara Callan
by Richard B. Wright

ISBN 0060506075 (0-06-050607-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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A finely detailed depiction of the Depression era, Clara Callan is told entirely in the letters and journal entries of two adult sisters, Clara and Nora Callan, and their older lesbian friend, Evelyn. The novel, Wright's ninth, made a surprising sweep of Canada's major awards for best novel--the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award--in 2001. Wright has the gift of making the reader care deeply about these characters and their worlds, which include small town Ontario, where Clara is a sensitive schoolteacher, and New York City, where the younger Nora has moved to become a radio soap opera star. Since both sisters are still "on the shelf," their roller-coaster love lives--Nora's in worldly Manhattan and Clara's in the more restrictive atmosphere of small-town spinsterhood--are a primary subject of their letters and Clara's journal.
This is a quiet book, studied and well researched, but thoroughly engaging and readable. Numerous references to period music, political events, and the looming war quite successfully place the reader at both the centre and the periphery of life in the 1930s. Side trips to Italy and to view the Dionne quintuplets feel entirely authentic. With deceptive simplicity, the author creates a world of clear images: "Nora came in from her shuffleboard game with a sweater tied across her shoulders, her hair damp from the rain." Most importantly, Wright has realized characters that come alive on the page--quite a feat considering the self-imposed limitations of this novel's form. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Crow Lake
by Mary Lawson

ISBN 0385337639 (0-385-33763-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thinga literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent.

Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural badlands of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occuroffstage.

Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matts protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks shes outgrown her siblingsLuke, Matt, and Bowho were once her entire world.

In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning ones expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today. [via]
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- Crow Lake: ISBN 038533611X (0-385-33611-X)
  Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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Deafening
by Frances Itani

ISBN 080214165X (0-8021-4165-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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Frommer's Toronto
by Hilary Davidson

ISBN 0764565257 (0-7645-6525-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Frommer's 2003 Toronto
by Hilary Davidson

ISBN 0764566989 (0-7645-6698-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Frommer's 2005 Toronto
by Hilary Davidson

ISBN 0764575309 (0-7645-7530-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Ghost Towns of Ontario
by Ron Brown

ISBN 0889830207 (0-88983-020-7)
Hardcover, Stagecoach

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Ghost Towns of Ontario: A Field Guide
by Ron Brown

ISBN 1896757049 (1-896757-04-9)
Hardcover, Polar Bear Press

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The Girls: A Novel
by Lori Lansens

ISBN 0316066346 (0-316-06634-6)
Softcover, Back Bay Books

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In 29 years, Rose Darlen has never spent a moment apart from her twin sister, Ruby. She has never gone for a solitary walk or had a private conversation. Yet, in all that time, she has never once looked into Ruby's eyes. Joined at the head, "The Girls" (as they are known in their small Ontario town) are the world's oldest surviving craniopagus twins. In her astonishing second novel, Lori Lansens (author of Rush Home Road) ventures into the strange world of physical abnormality that Barbara Gowdy so chillingly explored in We So Seldom Look on Love. While some writers might be tempted to play up the grotesque aspects of life as a conjoined twin, Lansens treats her so-called freaks with sensitivity and respect. The result is an extraordinarily moving narrative about human connectedness that questions the very meaning of "normal."
The Girls is a fictional autobiography of the Darlen twins, mostly told by Rose but with occasional chapters by Ruby. The stronger and more frustrated of the two, Rose longs to become a published writer but tends to conceal or distort disturbing incidents from their shared past. Ruby, by contrast, tells it like it is, but is much more accepting of their intertwined fate. (Ruby is also the prettier twin, and one of the most poignant and shocking scenes in the novel is Rose's account of her--or rather their--first sexual experience.) As Rose and Ruby describe their relatively sheltered childhood, rocky adolescence, and tentative experiments with love, the interplay between these two distinct voices heightens the dramatic tension of what's to come. The saddest part is saying good-bye--to "The Girls" and to this compassionately written novel. --Lisa Alward [via]
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
by Alice Munro

ISBN 0375727434 (0-375-72743-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Readers know what they are going to get when they pick up an unfamiliar Alice Munro collection, and yet almost every page carries a bounty of unexpected action, feeling, language, and detail. Her stories are always unique, blazing an invigorating originality out of her seemingly commonplace subjects. Each collection develops her oeuvre in increments, subtly expanding her range.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is, of course, no exception. It is a fairly conservative collection of nine stories, none of which move far beyond Munro's favored settings: the tiny towns and burgeoning cities of southern Ontario and British Columbia. There are glimpses of youth here--in the title story, an epistolary prank by two teenage girls leads to a one-sided cross country elopement and, seemingly, a happy marriage, and in "Nettles," disrupted childhood affection fleetingly returns through a chance meeting--but most of these pieces are stories of aging women and men, confronting the twin travails of death and late love. As is always the case with Munro, their plots are too elegantly elaborate to summarize, and their unsentimental power is a given; baroque praise would be futile. Read these stories--it is the only way to really understand the miracles that Munro so regularly performs. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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Hole in One
by Stewart

ISBN 0771083076 (0-7710-8307-6)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd

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Hurricane Hazel
by Mike Filey, Jim Gifford

ISBN 1550025260 (1-55002-526-0)
Softcover, Dundurn Pr Ltd

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Last Summer at Barebones
by Diane Baker Mason

ISBN 1552782395 (1-55278-239-5)
Softcover, McArthur & Co Pub Ltd

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Lonely Planet Toronto
by Sara Benson

ISBN 1741041791 (1-74104-179-1)
Softcover, Lonely Planet

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Extensive local advice details the best food, entertainment and excursion options while on a trip to Toronto. 19 maps. of color photos. [via]
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- Lonely Planet Toronto: ISBN 1864502177 (1-86450-217-7)
  Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lost Girls
by Andrew Pyper

ISBN 0440235464 (0-440-23546-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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A Map of Glass
by Jane Urquhart

ISBN 1596922133 (1-59692-213-3)
Softcover, Lawson Library

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In the typical Urquhart mold, A Map of Glass is a novel about the past, the land, and art, subjects found in many of her previous novels. A young artist, Jerome, is alone on Timber Island to take photos of temporary art creations, or "absences," he has dug in the snow. While there, he finds the body of Andrew Woodman, an Alzheimer's sufferer, frozen in the ice of the river. Later, an older woman, Sylvia, searches out Jerome and his girlfriend in Toronto. Slightly autistic, she has fled her doctor husband in rural eastern Ontario because she wants to talk to Jerome about Andrew, her lover. The three sections of the book are intelligently constructed, with the two contemporary sections framing the central section, which recounts the history of the Woodman family, 19th-century shipbuilders and hotelkeepers on Lake Ontario.
Urquhart's writing is extremely resonant and always echoes her larger themes: "How wonderful the snow was; every change of direction, each whim, even the compulsion of hunger was marked on its surface, like memory, for a brief season." Her writing is also highly cerebral--little happens in this novel but there is an enormous quantity of thoughtful reflection. The depiction of the Woodman past, with its near-mythical characters and its grand hotel invaded by sand, is so deeply realized that the present feels amorphous in contrast, its characters infused with the ambiguity of modernism. In the end, however, Urquhart shows how this makes perfect sense for, with profound subtlety, she raises a startling question: In the face of shocking change--in landscapes, in memories that fade to nothing, even in the complete dissolution of the human personality in Alzheimer's--what can still be called reality? Urquhart is a subtle master at work. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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- A Map of Glass: ISBN 1596921706 (1-59692-170-6)
  Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub
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  Softcover, Lawson Library
Memory Book
by Howard Engel, Sacks, Oliver W. (AFT)

ISBN 0786717173 (0-7867-1717-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub

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Midnight At The Dragon Cafe
by Judy Fong Bates

ISBN 1582431892 (1-58243-189-2)
Softcover, Counterpoint

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The life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divided loyalties in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Judy Fong Bates's fresh and engaging first novel is the story of Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese girl growing up the only daughter of an unhappy and isolated immigrant family in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Through Su-Jen's eyes we see the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Caf, the local diner her family runs. Her half-brother Lee-Kung smolders under the responsibilities he must carry as the dutiful Chinese son. Her mother, beautiful but bitter, lays her hopes and dreams on Su-Jen's shoulders, until she turns to find solace in the most forbidden of places, while Su-Jen's elderly father strives to hek fuh, swallow bitterness, and save face at all costs. [via]
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- Midnight At The Dragon Cafe: ISBN 0771010982 (0-7710-1098-2)
  Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart
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Moonheart
by Charles De Lint, Charles Vess

ISBN 1596060212 (1-59606-021-2)
Hardcover, Subterranean

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- Moonheart: ISBN 0441537219 (0-441-53721-9)
  Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Moons of Jupiter
by Alice Munro

ISBN 0679732705 (0-679-73270-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with an anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force. [via]
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- Moons of Jupiter: ISBN 0771597258 (0-7715-9725-8)
  Hardcover, Nelson Canada
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No Great Mischief
by Alistair MacLeod

ISBN 1574904345 (1-57490-434-5)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler

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For the MacDonalds, the past is not a foreign country. This Cape Breton clan may have lived in the New World since 1779, when Calum Ruadh ("the red Calum") and his wife, 12 children, and dog landed. Scotland, however, remains their true home. So profound is their connection to their lost land that on brief visits they find themselves welcomed by strangers. When one descendent tells a Scotswoman that she's from Canada, she is offered a gentle rejoinder: "That may be.... But you are really from here. You have just been away for a while." In some ways this is unsurprising, since the MacDonalds either have deep black hair or their ancestor's coloring. And those with the latter have "eyes that were so dark as to be beyond brown and almost in the region of glowing black. Such individuals would manifest themselves as strikingly unfamiliar to some, and as eerily familiar to others." Another sport of nature? Many are fraternal twins, including Alistair MacLeod's narrator, Alexander, and his sister.
But No Great Mischief is far more than the straightforward saga of one family over the generations. Instead the author has created a painfully beautiful myth in which the long-ago is in many ways more present than modern existence. Even in the last decades of the 20th century, the MacDonalds fall into Gaelic--its inflections, rhythms, and song--with deep nostalgia. This is a family that is used to composing itself in the face of disaster. They often assure one another, "My hope is constant in thee," and in the light of their many losses, the clan must cling to its motto.
No Great Mischief begins with Alexander's visit to Toronto, where his eldest brother now subsists on a diet of drink and memories. The narrator, a successful orthodontist, doesn't have much to do with the former but is unable (or unwilling) to escape the latter. As the novel proceeds, Alexander fills in his family history, including such key episodes as his great-great-grandfather's self-exile from Scotland. Though Calum Ruadh had intended to leave his dog behind, it broke away and tried to catch up with him. MacLeod piercingly captures the animal's struggle as her master first tries to make her head for shore and then--realizing she won't desert him--spurs her on. Throughout No Great Mischief various people recall this incident, an emblem of intensity, hope, and dependence. A descendant of the bitch is also on hand when Alexander's parents and one of his brothers disappear under the ice on a cold spring night. She persists in searching for her people and tries to protect their lighthouse from the new keeper, receiving in return "four bullets into her loyal waiting heart." When Alexander's grandfather hears of her death, he uses a phrase that becomes one of the book's litanies, "It was in those dogs to care too much and to try too hard."
This is a MacDonald characteristic as well. A good deal of No Great Mischief's strength stems from scenes of longing and despair--for those who die for a lost cause, whether in 1692 when one leader is killed ("the redness of his hair dyed forever brighter by the crimson of his blood") or in an Ontario uranium mine where one brother is decapitated. MacLeod evokes his clan, and the elemental beauty of their landscape, in quiet, precise language that gains power with each repetition. (A sentence such as "All of us are better when we're loved" comes to acquire a near proverbial ring.) If he occasionally tips his hand too much, pressing home his point that present-day prosperity isn't all it's cracked up to be, no matter. I doubt that this inspired and elegiac novel will ever leave those who are lucky enough to read it--proving after all the persistence of the clann Chalum Ruaidh. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Ontario: An Informal History of the Land and Its People
by Catherine Price, Robert Choquette, Ontario, Margaret Woollard

ISBN 0774389591 (0-7743-8959-1)
Softcover, Ministry of Education

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Contains information on the following topics: Ontario's Native Peoples, French Empire, Loyalist Refuge, Little England, Industrial Ontario, the Struggle for Social Maturity, Contemporary Ontario [via]
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The Other Side of the Bridge
by Mary Lawson

ISBN 1597224561 (1-59722-456-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood

ISBN 0606208879 (0-606-20887-9)
Hardcover, Tandem Library Books

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Exploring the paradox of female villainy, this tale of three fascinating women is another peerless display of literary virtuosity by the supremely gifted author of Cat's Eye and The Handmaid's Tale. Roz, Charis and Tony all share a wound, and her name is Zenia. Beautiful, smart and hungry, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, Zenia is the turbulent center of her own neverending saga. She entered their lives in the sixties, when they were in college. Over the three decades since, she has damaged each of them badly, ensnaring their sympathy, betraying their trust, and treating their men as loot. Then Zenia dies, or at any rate the three women -- with much relief -- attend her funeral. But as The Robber Bride begins, Roz, Charis and Tony have come together at a trendy restaraunt for their monthly lunch when in walks the seemingly resurrected Zenia... In this consistently entertaining and profound new novel, Margaret Atwood reports from the farthest reaches of the war between the sexes with her characteristic well-crafted prose, rich and devious humor, and compassion. [via]
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- The Robber Bride: ISBN 0553569058 (0-553-56905-8)
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The Rom Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Ontario
by Ross D. Macculloch

ISBN 0771076517 (0-7710-7651-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Our amphibians and reptiles hold a fascination for young and old alike. Often very beautiful and frequently misunderstood, they are worthy of closer acquaintance and greatly reward attentive study in the field. The definitive ROM Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Ontario is researched, written, and designed specifically for the Ontario reader and visitor. It is the most authoritative, easy to use, and beautifully designed guide available, with a stunning selection of photographs unsurpassed anywhere.

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"Detailed and clearly written descriptions of every species of amphibian and reptile in Ontario mudpuppies, newts, salamanders, toads, frogs, turtles, skinks, and snakes including notes on Appearance, Habitat and Behaviour, Reproduction (including mating calls), and Status.
"Stunning full-colour photographs from Canadas top wildlife photographers, carefully selected for quick and easy identification in the field.
"Easy-to-read Ontario and North America colour distribution maps.
"Handy size and format, with photos, description, and range maps for each species all on one page spread.
"Glossary, Checklists, and Index.

This unique guide, produced in association with one of Canadas most widely recognized and popular scientific and cultural institutions, is the guide to the fascinating world of Ontarios reptiles and amphibians. [via]
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  Softcover, Random House Inc
Roughing It in the Bush
by Susanna Moodie

ISBN 1596055367 (1-59605-536-7)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc

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Roughing It in the Bush or Life in Canada
by Susanna Strickland Moodie

ISBN 0807070238 (0-8070-7023-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Rush Home Road
by Lori Lansens

ISBN 0316069027 (0-316-06902-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co

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Sharla Cody is only five, but has already lived a troubled life- only to find herself dumped on an elderly neighbor's doorstep when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two soon forge a deep bond. To Addy's surprise, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s. She reminisces about her family, her first love, and the painful experience that drove her away from home. Brilliantly structured-and achingly lyrical, this is a story about the redeeming power of love and memory, and about two unlikely people who transform each other's lives forever. [via]
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The Scotch
by John Kenneth Galbraith

ISBN 0771598424 (0-7715-9842-4)
Softcover, Macmillan of Canada

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Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
by Charlotte Gray

ISBN 0670881686 (0-670-88168-6)
Hardcover, Viking

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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
by Stephen Leacock

ISBN 1406814334 (1-4068-1433-4)
Softcover, Echo Library

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Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock's most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with the skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere. As fresh, funny, and insightful today as when it was first published in 1912, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock at his bestcolorful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.
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The Underpainter
by Jane Urquhart

ISBN 0670877263 (0-670-87726-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA

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Unless
by Carol Shields

ISBN 0060874406 (0-06-087440-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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"A life is full of isolated events," writes Carol Shields near the end of Unless, "but these events, if they are to form a coherent narrative, require odd pieces of language to link them together, little chips of grammar (mostly adverbs or prepositions) that are hard to define... words like therefore, else, other, also, thereof, therefore, instead, otherwise, despite, already, and not yet." Shield's explanation for her novel's title lends meaning to this multilayered narrative in which a mother's grief over a daughter's break with the family revises her feminist outlook and pushes her craft as a writer in a new direction.
The oldest daughter of 44-year-old Reta Winters suddenly, inexplicably, drops out of college and ends up on a Toronto street corner panhandling, with a cardboard sign around her neck that reads "goodness." The quiet comforts of Reta's small-town life and the constancy of her feminist perspective sustain her hope that her daughter will snap out of this, whatever "this" is. Threaded into her family's crisis is her ongoing internal elegy on the exclusion of women from the literary canon, which she transposes to mean her daughter's exclusion from humanity. Reta wonders if her daughter has discovered, as she herself did years before, that the world is "an endless series of obstacles, an alignment of locked doors," and has chosen to pursue the one thing that doesn't require power or a voice: goodness.
In her own writing, Reta reaffirms her own sense of self, as well as her sense of humor. As her theoretical reflections on modern womanhood play counterpoint to her unwavering sense of creating a home and keeping her family together, Reta's smarts and fears form a wonderfully coherent narrative--a life worth reading about. With Unless, the inaugural title in HarperCollins's Fourth Estate imprint, Shields (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Stone Diaries) once again asserts her place in the canon. --Emily Russin [via]
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Up North: A Guide to Ontario's Wilderness from Blackflies to the Northern Lights
by Doug Bennet, Martha Scythes, Tim Tiner

ISBN 0771011164 (0-7710-1116-4)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart

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Up North Again: More of Ontario's Wilderness, from Ladybugs to the Pleiades
by Doug Bennet, Tim Tiner, Marta Lynne Scythe

ISBN 0771011156 (0-7710-1115-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Utopia: Towards a New Toronto
by Alana Wilcox, Jason Mcbride

ISBN 1552451569 (1-55245-156-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr

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The View from Castle Rock: Stories
by Alice Munro

ISBN 1400042828 (1-4000-4282-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers.

In stories that are more personal than any that shes written before, Alice Munro pieces her familys history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburghs Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of his fathers dream. In stories that follow, as the dream becomes a reality, two sisters-in-law experience very different kinds of passion on the long voyage to the New World; a baby is lost and magically reappears on a journey from an Illinois homestead to the Canadian border.

Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory, the towns and countryside around Lake Huron, where the past shows through the present like the traces of a glacier on the landscape and strong emotions stir just beneath the surface of ordinary comings and goings. First love flowers under the apple tree, while a stronger emotion presents itself in the barn. A girl hired as summer help, and uneasy about her place in the fancy resort world shes come to, is transformed by her employers perceptive parting gift. A father whose early expectations of success at fox farming have been dashed finds strange comfort in a routine night job at an iron foundry. A clever girl escapes to college and marriage.

Evocative, gripping, sexy, unexpectedthese stories reflect a depth and richness of experience. The View from Castle Rock is a brilliant achievement from one of the finest writers of our time. [via]
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The Way the Crow Flies
by Ann-Marie MacDonald

ISBN 0060586370 (0-06-058637-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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What's Bred in the Bone
by Robertson Davies

ISBN 0670809160 (0-670-80916-0)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books

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