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-- Improbable love story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis2018., Thomas Nelson Call No: Fic Cal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis--known as Jack--she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn't holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak and poverty, discovering friendship and faith, and against all odds, finding a love that even the threat of death couldn't destroy.
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c2014., Adult, Talonbooks Call No: QWF Fic Tre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Desrosiers diaspora Volume: 2Summary Note: The second part of the diaspora of the Desrosiers tells the story, in parallel, of Maria and Nana, mother and daughter, in the early years of 20th century Montréal with the determination to rebuild their lives, thinking that happiness lies elsewhere.
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2015., Adult, New York Review Books Call No: Fic Sza Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: New York Review Books classics.Summary Note: "The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship with Hungary's Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda's housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda's household, becoming indispensable to her. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. They share a kind of love--at least until Magda's long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation. Len Rix's prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern European writer."--Publisher.
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2008., New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton Call No: Fic Man Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alcoholism and a friend's accident.
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c2008., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 813.54 R134f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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Ã2018., Harper Call No: Fic Goo Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phoenix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents send the baby Elodie to an orphanage where she receives horrible treatment. Seventeen years later, Maggie, married to a businessman eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long-lost daughter, finally reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both.
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2009., Picador Call No: Fic Oga Edition: 1st Picador ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: She is a housekeeper by trade, a single mom by choice, shy, brilliant, and starting a new tour of duty in the home of an aging professor. He is the professor, a mathematical genius, capable of limitless kindness and intuitive affection, but the victim of a mysterious accident that has rendered him unable to remember anything for longer than eighty minutes. Root, the housekeeper's ten-year-old son, combines his mother's sympathy with a sensitive curiosity all his own. Over the course of a few months in 1992, these three develop a profoundly affecting friendship, based on a shared love of mathematics and baseball, that will change each of their lives permanently.
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1989., Juvenile, Collins Lions Call No: 823.912 S564l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A companion to "The Chronicles of Narnia," explaining how their creator, C.S. Lewis, came to write them, what sort of person he was, and the hidden meaning of the Narnia stories.
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c2003., McClelland & Stewart Call No: QWF 823.91 A2162l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Every year, Robert Adams prepares a series of five reviews of contemporary novels, to be delivered alone on a theatre stage to sold-out audiences in Toronto and Montreal. In A Love of Reading, the Second collection - Adams has now gathered 14 of his reviews. In them he skillfully interweaves a nimble and entertaining discussion of plot, theme, and characterization with fascinating historical, biographical, and literary context. ing their way in a hostile world, and as a.
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c2011., Adult, Viking Call No: Fic Lod Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and many loves-of author H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells, author of 'The Time Machine' and 'War of the Worlds', was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact with the most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored and disillusioned in his own utopian visions. Novelist and critic David Lodge has taken the compelling true story of Wells's life and transformed it into a witty and deeply moving narrative about a fascinating yet flawed man.
