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Eyo, the People

By: Donella Dunlop

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Young Noha, favourite of the Fox Spirit, third son of the leader of the Eyo, has a dream. Siberia is emptying of great reindeer herds. It is the time of low water, new land revealed where once there was an Endless Lake, ice corridors opening between the northern sea and the grasslands far to the south, land known only to the Sprit. Noha would follow the disappearing reindeer and mammoths to the east. Will his people, the Eyo, children of the Giant Reindeer, listen and follow him? Che, too, has a dream. She would follow Noha as his mate. But not as a mindless beast of burden, mother of cubs, warmer of the sleeping place, and obedient child. She would be as a hunter, free to kill for meat, explore the unknown lands, challenge the beasts of the Endless Lake, and give the desires of her artist's heart fruition. They explore the shores of the Endless Lake, meet seal and walrus and narwhal, thrill at the multitude of birds on the cliffs, discover and conquer the southward-leading Granfather of all Rivers. Explore the Nahanni Valley where giants tear the very heads from the shoulders of the bravest hunters. Challenge the Rocky Mountains. Discover the beautiful Bow Valley; the limitless grasslands, the swarming herds of buffalo. Will they find the Valley of the Dream far, far, far to the east? Will they find the Adawa River, pathway to the north where ice has fled. Will they find that haven on the Precambrian Shield in which the Eyo will establish a presence to last ten thousand years? Will Noha realize his dream? Will Che be finally free to be?

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Decent People

A Novel

By: Donella Dunlop

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Decent People

A Novel

By: Donella Dunlop

The scene is an Ottawa Valley village. The tale flashes between the hungry thirties, the Second World War, and the tentative fifties and early sixties. In "Decent People" the Protestants hate the Catholics and the Catholics hate the Protestants and almost everyone hates the Algonkins and, of course, everyone detests the soldiers from Petawawa. Yes, this situation existed. Exists in some cases? Still? Anna Dunkeld appeared in the Valley on the hottest day in Canadian history, hatched in a nest of decent people. But can this stubborn, open hearted, strangley rapt child, who lives in a world of stories with herself as hero and the rest of the village as cast of characters, survive the discovery that not everyone is good, not everyone in her beloved village, in her beloved Valley, even in her own family is decent? Even the most wonderful story of all, her Catholic religion, falls from grace. Since everyone knows that endings are scarcely ever happy, this story ends with a happy beginning. Yes, they exist. Still.

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Sagganosh the Britisher

A Novel

By: Donella Dunlop

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Sagganosh the Britisher

A Novel

By: Donella Dunlop

If the raconteurs of the Ottawa Valley, Ontario could tell but one story it would be the story of Sagganosh, the brash young Scot, Angus Dunkeld, who arrived, bereft of his Scottish inheritance, in Montreal Harbour in 1857. Angus intends to recreate a dynasty in the hauntingly beautiful and mysterious valley. He has no doubt that this will happen with great facility. But not before he faces a white-hot inferno on the steamboat, Montreal. Not before his attempts to carve from the pathless Upper Ottawa Valley wilderness a homestead present him with a crop of rocks. Children die. Rapids kill. But being a persistent Scot Angus plunges instead into the arduous life of the lumberman's shanty, where he is hated for his uppity ways and his very name. Expecting help from his relatives, Angus faces indifference and hostility. He accepts as his due the kindness of strangers such as James Dunlop and James Carmichael despite attempts made to kill him. Disease, forest fire, wily Frenchmen; Irish rapscallions who do not know their place; Scots who do not appreciate him; Irish girls with voluptuous charms to offer; an Algonquin woman who is as lovely and elusive as the wind; Shiners; Grangers; and most of all a wonderful, mind enthralling, impassable River - all these and more Angus must conquer. Will he marry the languorous Maurie despite the fact that she is both Irish and Catholic and he a Presbyterian? What will the people in Pembroke and Bytown say? Will he escape the inexplicable malice of the French shantyman, Rene Perrault? And what of Rene's dusky Algonquin wife, Agwacone who knows that the Valley belongs to her people and Angus is only a brash interloper? And most importantly, who wants him dead and why? The new Dunkeld Dynasty will be carved from the wilderness. But at what cost? A must read for all who love the Ottawa Valley or stubborn Scots.

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