Fred Stenson
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Language
English
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Description
From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving.
The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land. The Boers have turned out to be more resilient than expected, so the British have sent a call to arms to their colonies — and an...
The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land. The Boers have turned out to be more resilient than expected, so the British have sent a call to arms to their colonies — and an...
2) Who by fire
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Language
English
Description
Tom Ryder is a man whose expectations for the future and assumptions about his own strength and power are persistently and devastatingly undermined by the arrival of a sour gas plant on the border of his southern Alberta farm in the early 1960s. The emissions from the plant poison not only his livestock but the relationships he has with his family, most especially with his wife Ella. The novel moves into the present with the story of Tom's son, Bill,...
3) Lightning
Author
Publisher
CNIB
Language
English
Description
In 1881, Doc Windham, a Texan, is one of the cowboys trailing the vast Cochrane herd from Montana to Alberta. Pearly, the lover he lost along the West's frontiers of silver and gold, is hiding somewhere in this vast land. An enemy lurks as well, who has hunted him with joyless determination for decades. Sequel to "The trade". Some violence and some strong language. 2003.
Author
Publisher
CNIB
Language
English
Description
Charlie Russell, one of the world's foremost authorities on wild bears, travels to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. There he turns up cause for worry and hope alike - worry that bears may disappear, hope that humans can learn to live with them so that they don't. Russell and partner Maureen Enns set up a cabin and take care of a trio of orphan cubs while learning how to interact with their elders. 2002.