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Penguin eBooks
| DAGMARS DAUGHTER (E3) by KIM ECHLIN
Full Length, Adobe Digital Editions,
PENGUIN CANADA, Release Date 03/20/09
Your Cost eBook $18.00
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Mystical, seductive, and brimming with music and magic, Dagmar's Daughter follows three generations of passionate women. Norea emerges from the destitute Irish village of her childhood and stows herself on a ship bound for a remote island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Her daughter, Dagmar, is born with an uncanny ability to control the weather, and Dagmar's daughter Nyssa is as musically brilliant as her father and as struck with wanderlust.
|  | ELEPHANT WINTER (E3) by ECHLIN KIM
Full Length, Adobe Digital Editions,
PENGUIN CANADA, Release Date 01/20/08
Your Cost eBook $17.00
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Sophie Walker is back from Africa to nurse her dying mother. Her mother's Ontario farm borders on "Safari"Â - a tacky tourist spot now deserted for the winter. From her mother's window Sophie sees not cows, or horses, but a group of Indian elephants playing gracefully in the snow. Elephant Winter is a novel about the forms of intimacy, from the turbulent love between a mother and daughter to the fulfilling bond between Sophie and the elephants.
| | EXTRAORDINARY CANADIANS NORMAN BETHUNE (E3) by ADRIENNE CLARKSON
Full Length, Adobe Digital Editions,
PENGUIN CANADA, Release Date 03/20/09
Your Cost eBook $26.00
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Honoured as a hero in China, Ontario-born Norman Bethune was a surgeon, medical innovator, and charismatic political activist who deployed his skills on the battlefields of Spain and China in the 1930s. His prodigious energy included inventing surgical instruments, mobile blood-transfusion units, teaching, and advocating for social justice at home and abroad. Adrienne Clarkson, a Chinese Canadian, has always been fascinated by the dynamic man who married his social conscience to his medical mission. Reviled as a Communist by some, revered as a ...
| | LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE BIBLE! (E3) by JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN
Full Length, Adobe Digital Editions,
PENGUIN CANADA, Release Date 03/20/09
Your Cost eBook $24.00
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Yes, it's the greatest story ever told, but let's face it: It always could have used a little punching up. In Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!, Jonathan Goldstein brings human depth, humour, and snappier dialogue to millennia-old biblical stories. Goldstein's version of the Bible answers the questions you need to know: Wouldn't a person get bored living inside a whale? How did Joseph explain Mary's pregnancy to the guys at work? How could anyone be as dense as Samson?
| | LOSER'S TOWN (E3) by DANIEL DEPP
Full Length, Adobe Digital Editions,
PENGUIN CANADA, Release Date 07/20/09
Your Cost eBook $24.00
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David Spandau, former stuntman and sometime cowboy, makes his living as a private investigator. His current assignment is Hollywood "it" boy, Bobby Dye, who's been receiving threatening letters. Spandau figures out Bobby's facing another threat-one that could ruin his career just as it's getting started. Loser's Town is gritty noir fiction, but also a Hollywood-insider novel written by someone who knows the town and the industry intimately.
| | TRANSFORMING POWER: FROM THE PERSONAL TO THE POLITICAL (E3) by JUDY REBICK
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PENGUIN CANADA, Release Date 03/20/09
Your Cost eBook $24.00
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In Transforming Power, veteran activist Judy Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship. Rebick argues that today's combination of environmental crisis, globalization, and rapid technological innovation is producing profound new ideas about social and political life, and that this groundswell is truly the vanguard of a global movement to change the way we live our lives, from the ground up.
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