Books written by Beth Powning
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The Hatbox Letters: A Novel
touched the score, the eggplant purple of Casey's fleece, while the rest of the room fell gradually into undifferentiated shadow. Here at her lessons, Kate thinks, smiling, as the child finally steps out the door, Casey's future quivers ...
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The Sea Captain's Wife
The night nurse shooed Carrie into the parlour just as Nathaniel and Simon finished shaking hands. ... That Simon was a part of their life—hers and Carrie's—as it had been, once. n Several days later, Azuba and Nathaniel sent Mr.
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The Hatbox Letters: A Novel
Thanks to the marvellous team at Knopf Canada — especially Scott Richardson , freelancer Sue Sumeraj , and Scott Sellers — and to my editor , Diane Martin , whose enthusiasm , wise guidance and careful touch has shaped , honed and ...
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Edge Seasons: A Mid-life Year
A Mid-life Year Beth Powning ... The water makes a cool trickling, blending with the trills of robins and white-throated sparrows. ... I'm in a clear-cut, and now I can see all the way up to the top of a hill I never knew existed.
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Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life
Chronicle of a North Country Life Beth Powning. All day long , I felt a peculiar passivity ; in the space between the end of one era , and the start of another , I was free for ... We left the highway , ground up a hill on a dirt road .
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The Hatbox Letters
Beth Powning offers readers an unforgettable story of love, grief and renewal — both past and present — as well as her extraordinary perceptions of the natural world.
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The Hatbox Letters: A Novel
They touch down. They fluff their feathers, Kate observes, the way humans pull coats up around necks after a shock. Trying to put ourselves back as we were. "From the Hardcover edition.
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The Sister's Tale
Reconnecting with characters of Beth Powning's beloved The Sea Captain's Wife, while navigating the class realities of Victorian Canada and the rise of women's suffrage, The Sister's Tale is a story of women finding their way, together, ...
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The Sister's Tale: A Novel
With murder dominating the news, the respected wife of a New Brunswick sea captain is drawn into the case of a British home child whose bad luck has turned worse.
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The Sea Captain's Wife: A Novel
Blending the high-tension drama of missed chances and unexpected twists of the sort that made A Reliable Wife a bestseller with the pluck and spirit of a heroine in the vein of Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Sea Captain's Wife will captivate ...
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Shadow Child: A Woman's Journey Through Childbirth Loss
National Bestseller Like many young women, Beth Powning faced decisions of whether and when to start a family.
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A Measure of Light
"In this brave and passionate novel, Mary Dyer, a little-remembered woman of monumental importance to America's past, is at last given her due in fiction, nearly four hundred years after her story began.
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Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life
Originally published: Seeds of another summer: finding the spirit of home in nature.
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Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss
The author relates the circumstances of her failed first pregnancy, which resulted in a stillbirth, and the later birth of her son Jacob
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The Sister's Tale
Reconnecting with characters of Beth Powning's beloved The Sea Captain's Wife, The Sister's Tale is a story of women finding their way, together, through terrible circumstances they could neither predict nor avoid, but will stop at nothing ...
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The Sea Captain's Wife
Azuba Galloway, daughter of a shipwright, sees ships leaving for foreign ports from her bustling town on the Bay of Fundy and dreams of seeing the world.