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We Are All Welcome Here

By Elizabeth Berg

In the summer of 1964 in Tupelo, Mississippi, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations and 14-year old Diana Dunn is trying to lead a normal life.  Diane however has an ongoing responsibility to assist in the care of her mother, Paige. Challeneged by the effects of the polio she contracted during her pregnancy, Paige is a charming, intelligent and lively woman, but her needs are arduous and formidable so she is very reliant on her daughter and her caregiver Peacie.  Despite the difficulties thrust upon them, each of the women will find her own path  to independence, understanding and peace.

We Are All Welcome Here - $17.95 - Coho Books

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

By Barbara Kingsolver

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life--vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - $17.50 -Coho Books

Late Nights on Air

By Elizabeth Hay

Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined.

Dido and Harry are part of the cast of eccentric, utterly loveable characters, all transplants from elsewhere, who form an unlikely group at the station. Their loves and longings, their rivalries and entanglements, the stories of their pasts and what brought each of them to the North, form the centre. One summer, on a canoe trip four of them make into the Arctic wilderness (following in the steps of the legendary Englishman John Hornby, who, along with his small party, starved to death in the barrens in 1927), they find the balance of love shifting, much as the balance of power in the North is being changed by the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline, which threatens to displace Native people from their land.

This book won the presitigious Scotia Bank Giller Prize for 2007.

Late Nights on Air - $22.00 -Coho Books

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