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Gambling in America

William Norman Thompson

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

Collects short stories from authors across the literary landscape.

True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

Martha Brooks

A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba town

Sorceress

Celia Rees

Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England

Introducing Canada

Offers innovative suggestions about how to incorporate Canada into the social studies curriculum.

Quebec

Peter Kizilos

Examines the history of the Canadian province's ethnic conflict as French-speakers have struggled to preserve their cultural, religious, and ethnic identity in an English-speaking country and how that

Mike's World

Martin Knelman

Chronicles the career of actor Mike Myers, discussing the various roles he has played, his start in television, his most popular films, and other related topics.

Lucky Man

Michael J. Fox

The popular actor recounts his childhood in western Canada, his rise in film and television, his diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, and how he has worked to raise awareness of the disease and find a cu

Alias Grace

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

Grace Marks is convicted for her involvement in the vicious murder of her employer, a wealthy man, and his housekeeper and mistress.

The Incredible Journey

Sheila Every Burnford

A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family, facing starvation, exposure to the elements, and enco

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