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A novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak of change, Followed by the Lark inhabits the life of Henry David Thoreau.Composed in small scenes, Followed by the Lark is a novel of meditations-on loss, on change, on the danger and healing that come from communion with the natural world.Henry David Thoreau's connection to nature was tied to his feelings of grief, before he was twenty-seven years ol...

Physical and fiercely lyric, Helen Humphreys' Anthem is a litany of want. A song of poverty and of desire, of the reach forward and the relentless backward glance. With stark images and subtle, tensile strength, her poems touch that rare interval between presence and absence, echo and answer, between wall and window and sky-that gap in which we live, the space words make.SHORTLISTED for the 2000 Pat Lowther Award for best book of poetry by a w...

Precisely etched meditations on public and private experience, charged landscapes and reconceived Greek myths. Words are signals, flares sent up in desperation, a cryptic language of longing. - Leslie McAllister, Toronto Star

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And a Dog Called Fig is the story of one writer's life with dogs (including a frisky new puppy), how they are uniquely ideal companions for building a creative life, and some delightful tales about dogs and their famous writersInto the writer's isolation comes a dog, to sit beside the chair or to lie on the couch while the writer works, to force them outside for a walk, and suddenly, although still lonely, the writer has a companion. An artist...

And A Dog called Fig is a study of how animals help writers deal with the challenges of the creative process, insterspersing the author's own experience with stories of other famous writers and their dogs

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And a Dog Called Fig is the story of one writer's life with dogs-including a frisky new puppy, how they are uniquely ideal companions for building a creative life, and a sprinkling of delightful tales about dogs with famous writer palsInto the writer's isolation comes a dog, to sit beside the chair or to lie on the couch while the writer works, to force them outside for a walk, and suddenly, although still lonely, the writer has a companion.An...

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A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a local outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story. Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local outsider, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn't talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling. Being with Bill is everything to young Leonar...

The teenage years can be a rollercoaster of emotional highs and lows leading to behaviour that many adults find difficult and disturbing. This book seeks to help parents, teachers and other adults who are significant in the lives of teenagers to understand this troubled and troublesome behaviour.

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As long as people view couple conflict as being about the relationship between individuals, rather than within each person, breakdown is the inevitable outcome. This book demonstrates the potential for all breakdowns to become breakthroughs.

In un affascinante intreccio tra verità e finzione Helen Humphreys racconta la misteriosa vita di Megan Boyd, tra i più importanti e influenti costruttori di esche a mosca per salmoni, amica personale del principe Carlo d'Inghilterra e insignita di una delle più alte onorificenze britanniche dalla regina Elisabetta. Una vita appartata, in simbiosi con la natura, nel nord della Scozia, dove fino alla fine degli anni Novanta Megan Boyd ha vissut...

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