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(0)Carol Shields
1) Unless
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Language
English
Description
Reta Winters life as an author, mother and wife starts to crumble when her eldest daughter takes to sitting silently on a street corner wearing a sign that says "Goodness."
Author
Language
English
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Description
With the profound maturity and exquisite eye for detail that never failed to capture readers of her prize-winning novels, Carol Shields dazzles with these remarkable stories. Generous, delightful, and acutely observed, this essential collection illuminates the miracles that grace our lives; it will continue to enchant for years to come.
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Series
Language
Français
Description
Le Carnaval du quotidien, version française de Dressing up for the Carnival, est le troisième et dernier recueil de nouvelles de Carol Shields. Les nouvelles de Shields dévoilent le cté ludique et l'imagination féconde de cette grande dame de la littérature canadienne. Une grève de météorologistes provoque une suspension totale du climat (Acclimatement). Le gouvernement instaure une taxe sur les fenêtres qui incite la population à se replier...
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Language
English
Description
Carol Shields had a knack for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary and nowhere more than in this luminous collection of short stories. Throughout these stories runs Shields' preoccupation with identity-as in the title story, about a compacted day in the life of the world, in which a procession of characters try on new selves. Yet these stories and their quiet epiphanies reflect all the contrasts of human existence-from the bittersweet sexuality...
9) Jane Austen
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Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the Stone Diaries focuses on the life and fiction of Jane Austen in a critical biography of the reclusive author of Pride and Prejudice and other great novels. Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. Jane Austen reveals both the very private woman and the acclaimed author behind the enduring classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and...
12) Wombat walkabout
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Publisher
Dutton Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text follows six little wombats on walkabout and a hungry dingo following, envisioning them as his lunch until the wombats turn the tables on him
13) The box garden
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Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
1996, c1977
Physical Desc
269 p. (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
14) Food fight!
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Publisher
Handprint Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Late one night, the food in the kitchen has a party, but an insult turns it into a food fight
15) The bugliest bug
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
All kinds of insects compete to see who is the "bugliest" bug of all, but there is a sinister surprise behind the contest
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
This comic, kid-centric poetry collection contains twenty-one humorous poems ranging from brushing to bathing to potty-training your baby brother. Alongside Paul Meisel's hilarious and wry illustrations, these poems are a sure bet for anyone who's ever waited in line for the loo, shared a sink with a sibling, or just wanted a good laugh