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SENSE OF PLACE: Novels with Canadian settings

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		Cape Breton Road From the prize-winning short-story writer, a rich, masterfully crafted novel, set against the beautiful but harsh Nova Scotia landscape. MacDonald, D. R. FIC MACDONA

		Downhill chance Prude Osmond reads her tea leaves and predicts dark days ahead. Meanwhile, an hour's boat ride away, Job Gale leaves his wife and two young daughters behind to fight in the war, a cause neither they nor their neighbors understand. The war and the secrets it holds cascade over the Gale family, afflicting the sensitive yet resourceful Clair, an unforgettable heroine. Forced to restart her life in a different place, she must forsake the family she loves and her community. Morrissey, Donna, 1956- FIC MORRISS

		Fall on your knees : a novel MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958- FIC MACDONA

		Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage : stories This is the tenth collection of stories from Canada's matchless chronicler of women's external fates, inner lives, and painful journeys toward and away from self-understanding. These particular nine tales are set mostly in Munro's native Ontario or in Western Canada, and they're sure to leave listeners mesmerized once again. Munro, Alice. FIC MUNRO

		No great mischief This novel weaves together the story of a Scottish man who sets sail with his wife and 12 children for Cape Breton in 1779 and the tale of his descendant, who struggles with family loyalty 200 years later on the same bleak landscape. MacLeod, Alistair. FIC MACLEOD

		Stanley Park Already a bestseller in Canada, Taylor's literary debut is a comic novel of the first order--a love story wrapped in a murder mystery, served up as a laugh-out-loud satire of the trendy urban restaurant scene. A finalist for Canada's Giller Prize 2001. Taylor, Timothy L., 1963- FIC TAYLOR

		The blind assassin Containing a novel within a novel, "The Blind Assassin" is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms of the 1930s and 1940s, it unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- FIC ATWOOD

		The collected stories of Mavis Gallant. With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of such intricate simplicity and spare complexity that critics have rightly compared her with Henry James and Anton Chekhov. Readers will discover, or rediscover, the pleasure of reading one of the finest writers of our time. Gallant, Mavis. FIC GALLANT

		The cunning man : a novel "Canada's leading man of letters and literary virtuoso" (Chicago Tribune Books) crowns an astonishing literary career with a new novel in the spirit of his bestselling What's Bred in the Bone. In searching for the answers to a priest's death, Dr. Jonathan Hullah looks back over his own long life--including portraits of the dazzling intellectual highjinks and compassionate philosophies of himself and his circle. Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995. FIC DAVIES

		The shipping news E. Annie Proulx focuses on a Newfoundland fishing town in a tale about a third-rate newspaperman and the women in his life-- his elderly aunt and two young daughters-- who decide to resettle in their ancestral seaside home. The transformation each of the character undergoes following move is profound. Proulx, Annie. FIC PROULX

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