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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From "Hay Fever" 1917 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	"La fièvre des foins," translated by Wayne Grady as "Hay Fever," was first published in 1917, and is taken here from Clapin’s Contes et nouvelles, a collection of …	Sylva Clapin	20	1997	$1.20 Add
From "How I Learned to Speak English" 1900 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	Fréchette was in love with language. His Originaux et détraqués is full of wild descriptions and untranslatable puns, and his later work also explores the limits of conventional …	Louis Fréchette	5	1997	$0.30 Add
From "In My Condition" 1989 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	"Dans mon état," the story translated here by Matt Cohen as "In My Condition," first appeared in XYZ in 1989. Like the stories of Claire Dé, Pellerin’s blend …	Gilles Pellerin	5	1997	$0.30 Add
In Pursuit of Justice Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op and the Fair Trade Movement Fernwood Publishing	This is the story of Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op, Canada’s first fair trade coffee roaster. This book describes its successes and its failures and details how a small group of people …	Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne	144	2014	View
From Introduction From: In Pursuit of Justice View Fernwood Publishing		Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne	5	2014	$0.50 Add
From "La Gothe and Her Husband" 1895 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	"Le mari de la Gothe," translated here by Patricia Sillers as "La Gothe and Her Husband," first appeared in Fleurs champêtres. Closer in character to the gothic tales of …	Robertine Barry	11	1997	$0.66 Add
From "Last Rites" 1960 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	Bessette’s only book of short stories, La Garden-Party de Christophine, was published in 1980 and has never been completely translated. It contains stories from many periods in …	Gérard Bessette	12	1997	$0.72 Add
From "Mother Soubert’s Pig" 1944 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	A study of primitivism, violence, and eroticism, in which characters struggle, often in vain, against basic and sometimes brutal human passions, it is a startling and disturbing work by a writer …	Yves Theriault	9	1997	$0.54 Add
From "Mrs. Filly" 1942 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	"Madame Pouliche," here translated by David Homel as "Mrs. Filly," first appeared in La Fin du voyage, and in 1962 it was included in Gerard Bessette’s Anthologie Albert …	Albert Laberge	13	1997	$0.78 Add
From Organizing for Self-Reliance From: In Pursuit of Justice View Fernwood Publishing		Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne	14	2014	$1.40 Add
From "Part II of Children of My Heart" 1979 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	Although Ces enfants de ma vie (1977), translated by Alan Brown in 1979 as Children of My Heart, has also been called both memoir and novel, it transcends genre classification, just as its author …	Gabrielle Roy	28	1997	$1.68 Add
From "Pomme Douly and the Instant of Eternity" 1988 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	Jacob’s most recent book, Les Aventures de Pomme Douly (1988), is a collection of linked short stories depicting the somewhat chaotic life of a beautiful, intelligent, but directionless …	Suzanne Jacob	8	1997	$0.48 Add
From "Portraits of Elsa" 1990 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	The story included here is the title story of Portraits d’Elsa et autres histoires, translated by David Homel. A remarkably subtle yet powerful story about the disappearance of the self, …	Marie Jose Theriault	12	1997	$0.72 Add
From NEW! Prologue The Fight of My Life From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	Alex Wood introduces readers to his journey, his family, and notes that he’s been battling addiction since childhood. In three years, he quit 14 different addictions, each covered …	Alex Wood	8	2021	$0.80 Add
From The Beginnings From: In Pursuit of Justice View Fernwood Publishing		Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne	14	2014	$1.40 Add
From "The Chronicles of l’Anse Saint-Roch" 1968 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	In 1968, a complete edition of Perron’s stories appeared. Called simply Contes, it included the stories from the two earlier collections as well as four previously unpublished stories, one …	Jacques Ferron	15	1997	$0.90 Add