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Winner of the 2012 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2012 Edmonton Public Library Alberta Readers' Choice Award In 1941, a young man imagines thrilling battles and heroic acts when he lies about his age and joins the army. Assigned to the Winnipeg Grenadiers, part of the Canadian army in Hong Kong, Freddy McKee becomes a prisoner of war six weeks after arriving in Hong Kong. Five years pass and Freddy finally retu...

Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction nominee Like most women born before the turn of the century, Maime Elizabeth lived, by the standard of her day, an ordinary existence. She lived with her family near Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, and like many they were wiped out by the Great Depression. As Mamie often said, life was going to the dogs. Yet day by day this determined woman cobbled together a rich, full existence that was played o...