Books from Anchor Canada
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Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings
By Mary Henley RubioFrom the Hardcover edition.
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River of the Brokenhearted
By David Adams RichardsNINE From the mid-1960s on, my grandmother would wake at night without breath, and sitting up in bed, she would haul on a cord, and Roy would come to her aid with an oxygen tank. He would place the mask over her face, and she would ...
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
By Chuck PalahniukTodd Rutz: The kid slides an arm inside the sock, all the way up to his skinny elbow, and he drags out a fistful of. . . we're talking i//1/ram/1/e coins. It wouldn't matter how bad they smell. A 1955 gold twenty-dollar in gem condition ...
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The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
By Stephen Bown... 273 returns to Rocky Mountain House , 265 search for pass to the west , 269-70 skills , 257 , 259 training by Turnor , 285 travels of , 259 , 265-66 Thorn , Jonathan , 252 , 253 , 254-55 tobacco , 176 Todd , John , 320 , 388–89 Todd ...
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God's Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal, and the Dream of Discovery
By Douglas HunterJohn Barnes could have been from the Bamel Barnes family, merchants who were prominent in the Muscovy Company's history. And Humfrey Gilby was a possible relation of the late Sir Humphrey Gilbert, perhaps his eldest son, ...
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Playing With Matches: Misadventures in Dating
By Amy CameronShe wondered where Uncle Lloyd was with those bows. Uncle Lloyd, as it turned out, was racing across western Canada like a madman to make it to the church on time. He arrived just after Mum finished cleaning.
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Keeper'n Me
By Richard WagameseAfter that I watched him each day after school an' ev'ry day he was up in that hay mow trackin' Mr. Wright with that .22. Ev'ry day. ... I don't know." We walked through the bush that day for a few more hours, me'n Stanley.
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King Leary
By Paul QuarringtonAnyway, Wallace ran through some prestidigitations and thimbleriggery, and he even had one of the dowagers squawking like a chicken, which was the best part of the show. Then he turns all spooky, wrapping a black cape around his ...
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A Perfect Hell: The Forgotten Story of the Canadian Commandos of the Second World War
By John NadlerIn 2nd Regiment, young Don MacKinnon, the under-age soldier from 1-2 who had crouched with ]oe Glass and witnessed the horrifying quick deaths of Syd Gath and Bill Rothlin, fell too. While working to supply 3rd Regiment in the early ...
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A Spot of Bother: A Novel
By Mark HaddonDr. Forman was one of those men who did humor without smiling. He looked like a villain from a James Bond film. It was disconcerting. “Weeping, sleeplessness and anxiety,” said Dr. Forman. “Always makes me laugh when l read that under ...
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The Orchid Shroud
By Michelle WanMichel favored his daughter-in-law with a look of distaste. “At least let me put the record straight, Father,” Guy said. “You see, before the war, my grandfather Guillaume Verdier and Hérault de Bonfond, Antoine's father, ...
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Petite Anglaise
By Catherine SandersonMoments charged with significance; snapshots of myself which, if I join the dots together, lead me unswervingly to where I stand today: from French, to France, to Paris, and to Petite Anglaise.” [ed. note - excerpted from Petite Anglaise, ...
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French Kissing
By Catherine SandersonName: Sally Marshall Status: Single mother Age: 32 Nationality: Ten years in France, yet still English through and through.
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Northern Links
By Brian KendallGallagher asked happily when we were introduced, turning his already meat-red face to better catch the sun. “Who'd have thought you'd get to golf and have a day at the beach all at the same time?” A mixed bag of celebrities had preceded ...
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Midnight Hockey: All About Beer, the Boys, and the Real Canadian Game
By Bill GastonIn the pregame dressing room, and now along the bench, there were curses, and then plaintive mumlurings, “VI/here the fuck's Neal?” “Neals not here!” and even the head thrown back, pleadingly whispered, “Oh my Cod . . . Neal!
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Lord John 4-Book Bundle
By Diana Gabaldonhour later, Grey and Wainwright bade farewell to Signor Berculi and the salle des armes, and turned toward Neal's Yard, where one of Grey's favorite chophouses did a bloody steak with roast potatoes and the proprietor's special mushroom ...
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Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
By Diana Gabaldon... and turned toward Neal's Yard, where one of Grey's favorite chophouses did a bloody steak with roast potatoes and the proprietor's special mushroom catsup—an appealing prospect to ravenous appetites. Grey was entirely aware that ...
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Jackson Brodie 4-Book Bundle
By Kate AtkinsonHis mother was defensive, worried that Leslie would carry her son off to a faraway continent and all her grandchildren would have accents and be vegetarians. Leslie wanted to reassure her, say, It's only a holiday romance, ...
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Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings
By Mary Henley RubioElspeth Reid of the University of Glasgow; Anne Dondertman and Monique Flaccavento of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book ... Kenneth Foulds, W.H.C. Boyd, Roy Clement Sharp, W. G. C. Howland, David Ongley, Rupert Parkinson, Mervin Mirsky, ...
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A Red Herring Without Mustard
By Alan BradleyFlavia's discovery of an old Gypsy woman who's been attacked in her wagon sends the girl off on an investigation that will reveal more of Buckshaw's secrets as well as new information about Harriet, the mother Flavia never knew.