In the waning days of World War II, Sheilagh Fielding makes her way to an island off the coast of Newfoundland, deserted except for some horses and a pack of wild dogs. But she comes to suspect anoth
In the waning days of World War II, Sheilagh Fielding makes her way to a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland. But she soon comes to suspect another presence: that of a man known only as
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams--at once a mystery and a love story spanning five dec
Offering further evidence of his astounding range as a novelist, the bestselling author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Navigator of New York crafts a hilarious and moving paean to the dawn
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A moving memoir of life in Newfoundland traces three generations of men in the Johnston clan as they fish, live, survive, and prosper along the rocky coastline of this unique region. Reprint. 17,500 f
In 2008 Wayne Johnston became the second prominent Canadian writer to enlighten and entertain audiences as a speaker in the Canadian Literature Centre's Henry Kreisel Lecture Series. He spoke to an en
Dreams of escape from her privileged but empty life are only fantasies until Kristen finds a Canadian birth certificate under her mother's jewelry box. Kristen has no memories of her early childhood o
Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as A"a modern classic,A" Robertson DaviesA's acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mys
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For too long people with intellectual disabilities have been shut out of most societies around the world, or more accurately, they have been shut in---forcibly confined in mental institutions, quietly
