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2014., General, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic MacD Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A powerful drama about motherhood, the dark undercurrents that break and hold families together, and the power and pressures of love. Mary-Rose MacKinnon is a successful YA author who has made enough from her writing to semi-retire in her early 40s. She lives in a comfortable Toronto neighbourhood with her partner and their two young children trying valiantly and often hilariously to balance her creative pursuits with domestic demands. As a child, Mary-Rose suffered from an illness, long since cured and "filed separately" - in her mind. But as her frustrations mount, she experiences a flare-up of forgotten symptoms.
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1997, c1996., A.A. Knopf Canada : Vintage Canada Call No: Fic MacD Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2022., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: QWF SC Fic Mac Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition. Charlotte, strong and insatiably curious, revels in the moorlands, and has learned the treacherous and healing ways of the bog from the old hired man, Byrn, whose own origins are shrouded in mystery. Her idyllic existence is shadowed by the magnificent portrait on the landing in Fayne House which depicts her mother, a beautiful Irish-American heiress, holding Charlotte's brother, Charles Bell. Charlotte has grown up with the knowledge that her mother died in giving birth to her, and that her older brother, Charles, the long-awaited heir, died soon afterwards at the age of two. When Charlotte's appetite for learning threatens to exceed the bounds of the estate, her father breaks with tradition and hires a tutor to teach his daughter "as you would my son, had I one." But when Charlotte and her tutor's explorations of the bog turn up an unexpected artefact, her father announces he has arranged for her to be cured of her condition, and her world is upended. Charlotte's passion for knowledge and adventure will take her to the bottom of family secrets and to the heart of her own identity.
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2022., 30:54:50, Knopf Canada Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Sample Summary Note: THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition. Charlotte, strong and insatiably curious, revels in the moorlands, and has learned the treacherous and healing ways of the bog from the old hired man, Byrn, whose own origins are shrouded in mystery.  Her idyllic existence is shadowed by the magnificent portrait on the landing in Fayne House which depicts her mother, a beautiful Irish-American heiress, holding Charlotte’s brother, Charles Bell. Charlotte has grown up with the knowledge that her mother died in giving birth to her, and that her older brother, Charles, the long-awaited heir, died soon afterwards at the age of two. When Charlotte’s appetite for learning threatens to exceed the bounds of the estate, her father breaks with tradition and hires a tutor to teach his daughter “as you would my son, had I one.” But when Charlotte and her tutor’s explorations of the bog turn up an unexpected artefact, her father announces he has arranged for her to be cured of her condition, and her world is upended. Charlotte’s passion for knowledge and adventure will take her to the bottom of family secrets and to the heart of her own identity.
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2022., Flammarion Québec Call No: NEW FR QWF Fic MacD Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fin XIXe siècle. Charlotte Bell grandit à Fayne, un vaste domaine entouré d'une tourbiére, situé sur un territoire contesté à la frontière de l'Écosse et de l'Angleterre. En raison de sa santé délicate, son père adoré, lord Henry Bell, la tient à l'écart de la société. Dotée d'un esprit fort et d'une curiosité insatiable, Charlotte a acquis des connaissances encyclopédiques et un savoir remarquable pour une jeune fille. Son existence idyllique est cependant assombrie par le portrait de sa mère tenant dans ses bras son frère aîné, qui lui rappelle constamment que lady Marie Bell est morte à sa naissance, et que Charles, l'héritier tant attendu, est décédé à l'age de deux ans. Lorsque l'appétit d'apprendre de Charlotte menace de dépasser les limites de la lande broussailleuse, son père rompt avec la tradition et engage un précepteur d'Édimbourg, à qui il dit: "Éduquez ma fille comme vous éduqueriez mon fils, si j'en avais un." Lors d'une promenade exploratoire, Charlotte et M. Margalo trouvent dans le marais une mante rose. Au réveil, le lendemain, l'instituteur a quitté précipitament la maison. Pour consoler sa fille, lord Henry lui annonce que sa condition médicale n'est plus un obstacle à ce qu'elle découvre le monde extérieur. Sa soif d'instruction et d'aventures l'amènera à percer les secrets de la famille Bell et ses propres mystères.
