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Ballet shoes: the story of three children on the stage
By Noel Streatfeild. 1959
Antic hay
By Aldous Huxley. 1923
A tangled web
By L. M Montgomery. 1931
Over the years, members of the Dark and Penhallow families have married and feuded. When Aunt Becky, the eccentric matriarch…
of the Dark and Penhallow families, bequeaths an heirloom, a brown jug, many secrets are revealed. For junior and senior high readers. 1989, c1931.In "Rabbit, run", Harry Angstorm, nicknamed Rabbit, is 26 years old and demonstrating kitchen gadgets. Real life turns out to…
be intolerable and Rabbit runs. The Rabbit, of "Rabbit redux" rarely thinks of his bid for freedom and now it is his wife, Janice, who bolts. In "Rabbit is rich", our hero is tasting the delights of the 1980s' abundant materialism. 1990.1984: a novel
By George Orwell. 1949
The temptations of Big Bear (New Canadian library)
By Rudy Henry Wiebe, Robert Kroetsch. 1973
In 1876, Big Bear, a Plains Cree, refused to let the government push his people off their land and onto…
a reserve. While courageous, his stand brought starvation to his followers and tore apart the Cree community and eventually his own family. A fictional account of Big Bear's struggle and the culture and history of the Cree Indians. Winner of the 1973 Governor General's Award.Watership Down
By Richard Adams. 1972
Only a few rabbits escape with their lives when men destroy their warren. Many dangers have to be faced as…
they search for a safe place to establish a new one. Followed by "Tales from Watership Down". Grade 5-8. 1972.Two solitudes (New Press Canadian classics)
By Hugh MacLennan. 1945
The division between French and English Canadians is dramatically shown in this novel about two families -- one, French landowners…
in a small Quebec village; the other, English businessmen from Montreal. Winner of the 1945 Governor General's Award for Fiction.Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-pooh Ser.)
By A. A Milne. 1992
The old man and the sea
By Ernest Hemingway. 1952
An old Cuban fisherman hooks a giant marlin after eighty-five days without a catch. He then fights a losing battle…
with sharks that deprive him of his triumph. Recorded in textbook format. Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1952.The great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1953
The glitter and recklessness of the Jazz Age is the backdrop for this novel about Jay Gatsby's desperate attempt to…
recapture the past and, along with it, the love of Daisy Buchanan. Grade I braille.Women in love
By D. H Lawrence. 1921
Set in Midlands mining country against a background of class consciousness, the development of the love affairs of two sisters…
is examined through their relationship with each other and through the feelings between the men with whom they are in love. 1921.Within a budding grove (In search of lost timet ; #2)
By Marcel Proust. 1918
Recollections of a youth in French society at the turn of the century. As the young narrator succumbs to the…
charms of the enchanting Gilberte, we are presented with an unparalleled account of the pangs of adolescent life. Following an illness, Marcel is sent to recuperate at the seaside resort of Balbec, together with his grandmother. Sequel to "Swann's way" (DC31597) followed by "Guermantes way" (DC31599). Some strong language. 1918. (In search of lost time ; 2)Whistle down the wind
By Mary Hayley Bell. 1997
A classic novel about a group of siblings who find a man in a barn who they believe is Jesus,…
and they keep the secret to themselves until the adults find out and suspect the man is a recently escaped convict. Grades 3-6. 1997, c1961.When we were very young & Now we are six
By A. A Milne. 2004
Poems about the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace; the three little foxes who kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard…
boxes; and, of course, Christopher Robin, named for A. A. Milne's son. Read about the naughty Mary Jane and bears on the corners of London's streets. Grades K-3. First published in 1924. 2004.Wakefield's course (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; #12)
By Mazo De la Roche. 1942
It is the year 1939. Renny and his daughter Adeline are visiting Ireland and London, where they meet up with…
Finch and Wakefield. War breaks out and once again the Whiteoaks are united by all the drama and suspense which such an event brings. Sequel to "Whiteoak harvest" (DC31474). Followed by "Return to Jalna" (DC04270). 1942. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 12)Vie et mort d'un cochon ((Le Livre de poche : Jeunesse ; 9).)
By Robert Newton Peck, Marie-Alyx Revellat. 1974
A douze ans, Robert fait presque le travail d'un homme. Quand il trouve la vache du voisin en train de…
s'étouffer et le veau qui n'arrive pas à naître, il sait la tirer d'affaire, même si c'est dur. En récompense,, il recevra un petit cochon, un animal doux et rose, rien que pour lui. Mais dans une ferme si pauvre, comment garder une bête seulement pour le plaisir ? Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. Titre uniforme: A day no pigs would die.Ulysses (Twentieth Century Classics Ser.)
By James Joyce. 1922
Ulysses is the epic reconstruction of the minutiae of a single day in Dublin--June 16, 1904. It records in immense…
detail the events of the day as Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1922.Typhoon and other stories (Twentieth Century Classics Ser.)
By Joseph Conrad, Paul Kirschner. 1990
In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bids a gradual farewell to his adventurous life at…
sea and begins to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. Originally published in 1903, 1990.Two on a tower: a romance
By Thomas Hardy, Sally Shuttleworth. 1999
Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St…
Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted into an astronomical observatory where together the lovers 'sweep the heavens'. Science and romance are destined to collide, however, as work, ambition and the pressures of the outside world intrude upon the pair. 1999.