Author : Cora Sandel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015008914973
Alberta and Jacob
Cora Sandel
Alberta And Jacob
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Alberta & Jacob
Cora Sandel
Author : Cora Sandel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Norwegian fiction
ISBN : 0821407570
Alberta & Jacob by Cora Sandel Pdf
Hailed as a masterpiece on its British publication in 1962, this Modern Classic reissue should bring this magnificent novel to a new generation. Imaginative and intelligent, Alberta is a misfit trapped in a stiflingly provincial town in the far north of Norway whose only affinity is for her extrovert brother Jacob. Combining mastery of style and characterization with brilliant descriptive writing, this powerful story of a young woman's rebellion is universally regarded as one of the greatest novels to come from Scandinavia.
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
Esi Edugyan
Author : Esi Edugyan
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847659576
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne by Esi Edugyan Pdf
Samuel Tyne always believed he was destined for greatness. Emigrating to Canada from Ghana in the 1960'S was the first step on this path, but fifteen years later his grand plans have stalled. He now has a wife Maud, twin thirteen year old daughters Chloe and Yvette, and a mind-numbing job. But then he is thrown a life line. His uncle Jacob dies, leaving him a grand but crumbling house in the town of Aster, and Samuel persuades his reluctant family to seize this chance for a new beginning. At first Aster seems perfect, but soon the town's faultlines are revealed, and the family begins to feel the strain. Samuel opens an electrical shop, but the business falters as he falls victim to his own outlandish ambitions, trying to build computers when all the townspeople want is lightbulbs and radios. His wife is unhappy, and as for his daughters - they are drifting into a private world of two, their behaviour becoming ever more sinister and disturbing to everyone around them. When their school friend Ama comes to stay and nearly drowns in mysterious circumstances, and then a series of fires around the town go unexplained, Samuel and Maud must face up to the secrets within their own family, secrets that threaten to completely tear apart the life they have built.
Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson
Author : Katherine Paterson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780061975196
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson Pdf
Katherine Paterson's remarkable Newbery Medal-winning classic about a painful sibling rivalry, and one sister’s struggle to make her own way, is an honest and daring portrayal of adolescence and coming of age. A strong choice for independent reading, both for summer reading and homeschooling, as well as in the classroom, Jacob Have I Loved has been lauded as a cornerstone young adult novel and was ranked among the all-time best children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal. "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated . . ." With her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. Caroline, her selfish younger sister, was the one everyone loved. Growing up on a tiny Chesapeake Bay island, angry Louise reveals how Caroline has robbed her of everything: her hopes for schooling, her friends, her mother, even her name. While everyone pampers Caroline, Wheeze (her sister's name for her) begins to learn the ways of the watermen and the secrets of the island, especially of old Captain Wallace, who has mysteriously returned after fifty years. The war unexpectedly gives this independent girl a chance to fulfill her dream to work on the water alongside her father. But the dream does not satisfy the woman she is becoming. Alone and unsure, Louise begins to fight her way to a place for herself outside her sister's shadow. But in order to do that, she must first figure out who she is...
Alberta and Freedom
Cora Sandel
Author : Cora Sandel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:30296314
Alberta and Freedom by Cora Sandel Pdf
God Is Loser Friendly
Tim W Callaway
Author : Tim W Callaway
Publisher : Vogelstein Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1989977022
God Is Loser Friendly by Tim W Callaway Pdf
Callaway brings his unique pen and personality to a stimulating re-examination of 'the stars' of the book of Genesis. He is uninhibited and downright irreverent in unmasking the likes of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel. His purpose is to make the critically important point that even the most heralded humans have been anything but perfect-far from it. Yet the irony is that God not only shows grace but actually chooses to make use of "losers." Callaway exhibits unusual range in telling the story with skills that reflect his academic and pastoral expertise, along with a rich abundance of humour. The result: a thought-provoking, entertaining, and uplifting treatise that warrants a wide and varied audience.Reginald W. Bibby, Professor of Sociology, University of Lethbridge;Research Affiliate, Prentice Institute for Global Population & Economy
Alberta Alone
Cora Sandel
Author : Cora Sandel
Publisher : Alberta
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0720613140
Alberta Alone by Cora Sandel Pdf
The work of one of Norway's most distinguished 20th-century novelists, Alberta Alone forms the last part of the Alberta trilogy, which traces the emotional development of a lethargic and unhappy girl into a self-sufficient woman. In this third part, which stands as a novel on its own, Alberta, now mistress to Sivert, a Norwegian artist, is living in Paris with their small son. While Sivert is involved in a liaison with a Swedish painter, Alberta falls in love with Pierre, a writer who has just returned from the First World War. After a period of conflict Sivert and Alberta return to Norway, and there Alberta's self-realisation becomes complete. With subtlety and insight, Cora Sandel depicts the gradual corrosion of a relationship, against the background of the aftermath of the Great War.
Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan
Harold Cardinal,Walter Hildebrand
Author : Harold Cardinal,Walter Hildebrand
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Indian aged
ISBN : 9781552380437
Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan by Harold Cardinal,Walter Hildebrand Pdf
"It is my hope, and the hope of the Office of the Treaty Commissioner, that this publication can help provide the historical context needed to intelligently and respectfully forge new relations between First Nations people and non-Aboriginal people in the province of Saskatchewan. It has already done so, in part, by facilitating the work of our office in bringing together the parties of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and Canada to reach common understandings and to use the Treaties as a bridge from the past to the future ... so that we can learn from the past and work together towards a future built on co-operation and mutual respect." Judge David M. Arnot, Treaty Commissioner for Saskatchewan"We were told that these treaties were to last forever. The government and the government officials, the Commissioner, told us that, as long as the grass grows, and the sun rises from the east and sets in the west, and the river flows, these treaties will last." Treaty 6 Elder Alma Kytwayhat"We say it's our Father; the White man says "our Father" in his language, so from there we should understand that he becomes our brother and we have to live harmoniously with him. There should not be any conflict, we must uphold the word 'witaskewin,' which means to live in peace and harmony with one another." Elder Jacob Bill
Runaway Devil
Robert Remington,Sherri Zickefoose
Author : Robert Remington,Sherri Zickefoose
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780771073618
Runaway Devil by Robert Remington,Sherri Zickefoose Pdf
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all—a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April 23, 2006, their bodies were discovered in their basement, covered in savage stab wounds. Upstairs, Jacob lay dead on his bed, his toys spattered with blood. Investigators worried for JR’s safety, but unknown to them, the pretty honour roll student had been developing a disturbing alter ego online. Runaway Devil professed a fondness for a darker world of death metal music, the goth subculture, and a love for Jeremy Steinke, a twenty-three-year-old high-school dropout who lived in a rundown trailer park. Soon, shocking evidence in JR’s school locker—printed here for the first time—led police to believe the girl was a suspect in her family’s murders. The case horrified parents everywhere. Journalists Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose have been covering it from the beginning, and in Runaway Devil, they reveal what really happened: the unlikely young love, the teenage rebellion, a troubling world of adolescent drifters, and a small community torn apart by an unthinkable crime. A modern cautionary tale, Runaway Devil is also a chilling portrait of an approval-seeking man smitten with a manipulative young girl—who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted.
Water Rites
Jim Ellis
Author : Jim Ellis
Publisher : Calgary Institute for the Huma
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1552389979
Water Rites by Jim Ellis Pdf
"Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West brings together artists, activists, conservation groups, and scholars to illuminate the diverse issues surrounding water in Alberta. Examining the human right to water, the effects of resource extraction on Indigenous communities, oil spills, and protest movements, this vital collection explores key water-related issues with a focus on environmental and Indigenous perspectives. It shows how deeply water is tied to human life, not only as a necessary resource, but also as a source of artistic inspiration and as part of our collective consciousness."--
A Rhinestone Button
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Author : Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307363879
A Rhinestone Button by Gail Anderson-Dargatz Pdf
Gail Anderson-Dargatz, the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees, brings readers once again into the heart of rural Canada with A Rhinestone Button. As funny as it is tender, it is a novel full of true-to-life characters, natural wonder, and sweet surprises. Despite growing up in the small farming town of Godsfinger, Alberta, Job Sunstrum was always a bit of an outsider. A thin young man with blond, curly hair, he loved baking and cooking, and certainly did not fit in with the rough-and-tumble farm boys around town. Even when Job takes over the farm after his father’s death and his brother’s departure to train as a pastor, his community remains his animals, and perhaps the church women with whom he shares his baking on Sundays. Lonely beyond belief, overwhelmed by religious guilt, and taut with fear at the thought of what life might have in store for him, Job can only turn to God and hope that someday, things will turn around. Only his synesthesia — his ability to see sounds as colours, and feel vibrations as solid forms — provides him with passing moments of solace, but it also reaffirms for him that he experiences the world in a way the other people of Godsfinger could not possibly understand. Then one year, Job’s “tightly coiled” life begins to fall apart, and even the small sureties that got him through the days are torn away from him. The colours even disappear from sounds. Faced with change on every level and not knowing how to live outside the world he was brought up in, Job allows himself to be caught up in the Pentecostal drive of a preacher named Jack Divine, in hopes that clinging to his beliefs, proving his faith, and doing what others expect of him will make everything all right. But when his new-found religious fervour only accelerates his despair and his world continues to crumble, Job is surprised to find that true faith can be found in earthly experiences, and come from the most unlikely of sources. That a world without the familiar colours and shapes of sound is not half-heard, as he feared, but freed to break out in song. Like Anderson-Dargatz’s previous novels, A Rhinestone Button is a loving and magical portrait of small-town life that makes us question what we believe is real, and true.
Down Sterling Road
Adrian Michael Kelly
Author : Adrian Michael Kelly
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1552451577
Down Sterling Road by Adrian Michael Kelly Pdf
Nominated for an Alberta Book Award. Time you had a haircut. Look like a mop. Not that skinny. Skin and bloody bone, boy. Jacob breaks the point of his pencil but makes it look like an accident. And away Dad goes out the door and thump thump down the stairs. Jacob eyes the hole at the end of his pencil. Listens till he can't hear the Torino anymore. Crawls under the covers. Hopes the rest of December comes and goes like a heartbeat. Eleven-year-old Jacob McKnight doesn't like running. He doesn't like the hills, the cold wind, the slushy electrolyte drinks, the interval training. He doesn't like the way his dad is always pushing him: harder, faster, what's wrong with you, boy? But mostly he doesn't like the way it gives him time to think about the accident that shattered his brother's body and his parents' marriage. Jacob would rather be drawing than running. He likes the Anatomy Colouring Book his dad gave him, and he likes how it helps him to better draw superheroes, with their unbreakable bodies. He likes, too, how drawing makes him forget about how much he misses his mum, about how hard his dad works to pay for their tiny apartment and secondhand clothes, about the pitying whispers that follow them around Glanisberg. Down Sterling Road parses the anatomy of childhood with wisdom, wit and wonder; it's one of the most charismatic books you'll read all year. 'Down Sterling Road lopes into the periscope of Canadian literature, strides through the barking back alleys of small-town childhood, drifts like a leaf over the skin of memory. Adrian Michael Kelly has captured the bittersweet ache of growing pains and growing up, of adolescent loss and daydream and rage. This dazzling bildungsroman fractures paternity and anatomy and necromancy to become an exquisite marathon of filial love and acceptance.' -- Aritha van Herk
Return to Odessa
Harold N. Wiens
Author : Harold N. Wiens
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Mennonites
ISBN : 9781460282533
Return to Odessa by Harold N. Wiens Pdf
Fictional events inspired by the experiences of the authors parents, Nikolai and Anna Wiens, who in 1925, as Russian Mennonites immigrated to Hepburn, Saskatchewan from Tschongrav, Crimea, and then two years later relocating to Manitoba.
The Battle of London
Frédéric Bastien
Author : Frédéric Bastien
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459723306
The Battle of London by Frédéric Bastien Pdf
Historian Frederic Bastien describes how Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Margaret Thatcher entered one of history's most unlikely marriages of convenience in order to repatriate the Canadian Constitution.
Alberta Alone
Cora Sandel
Author : Cora Sandel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039603555