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It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is gravely wounded and addicted to morphine. As Niska slowly paddles her canoe on the three-day journey to bring Xavier home, travelling through the stark but stunning landscape of Northern Ontario, their respective stories emerge—stories of Niska’s...
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Anne of Green Gables volume 8
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English
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A fully restored edition of a unique Canadian classic, first published in 1921. "Rilla of Ingleside" is one of the only contemporary depictions in Canadian fiction of women on the home front during the First World War. Using her own wartime experience and imagination, Montgomery recreates the laughter and grief, poignancy and suspense, struggles, and courage of Canadian women at war. Print run 8,000.
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