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The Girl Giant

A Novel

By: Kristen den Hartog

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Ostracized by her peers because of her rapidly increasing height, Ruth realizes that she has also developed the ability to perceive the experiences of others and glimpses the inner lives of those around her and the ways in which World War II shaped all of their lives.

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242

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Simon and Schuster

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ISBN 10

1451656173

ISBN 13

9781451656176

The Cowkeeper's Wish

A Genealogical Journey

By: Tracy Kasaboski,Kristen Den Hartog

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The Cowkeeper's Wish

A Genealogical Journey

By: Tracy Kasaboski,Kristen Den Hartog

Part intimate family memoir, part robust social history, The Cowkeeper's Wish is a genealogical excursion through an era of astonishing change.

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448

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Douglas & McIntyre

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1771622024

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9781771622028

The Occupied Garden

A Family Memoir of War-Torn Holland

By: Kristen Den Hartog,Tracy Kasaboski

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The Occupied Garden

A Family Memoir of War-Torn Holland

By: Kristen Den Hartog,Tracy Kasaboski

A moving, revealing memoir about a man and his young family during the Nazi occupation of Holland, as told by his granddaughters, one a beloved novelist. At once a memoir and a social history of a time, The Occupied Garden is the story of a good but poor man, a market gardener, and his fiercely devout wife, raising their young family in Holland during the Nazi occupation. Pieced together by the couple’s granddaughters, who combed through historical research, family lore, and insights from a neighbour’s wartime diary, the story chronicles how the couple struggled to keep their children from starving, but could not keep them from harm, and reveals the strife and hardship endured not just by them, but by a nation. These experiences, kept from subsequent generations of the family, were almost lost until, long after their deaths, the path of the couple through the war and on to Canada was uncovered. A personal and intimate account within the larger context of a terrorized nation, this is also a story of the bonds and strains among family, told with the haunting, evocative prose for which Kristen den Hartog is known.

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381

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Emblem Editions

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1551996502

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9781551996509

Water Wings

A Novel

By: Kristen Den Hartog

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Water Wings

A Novel

By: Kristen Den Hartog

The seedy underbelly of small-town life is exposed in Water Wings, but there are flower growing out of the decay as two grown sisters unearth both ugly secrets and the strange resiliency of love.

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284

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MacAdam/Cage Publishing

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1931561613

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9781931561617

The Girl Giant

A Novel

By: Kristen den Hartog

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A Novel

By: Kristen den Hartog

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The Cowkeeper's Wish

A Genealogical Journey

By: Tracy Kasaboski,Kristen den Hartog

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The Cowkeeper's Wish

A Genealogical Journey

By: Tracy Kasaboski,Kristen den Hartog

In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London’s “black holes,” remains mired there for generations. The Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the couple’s descendants in and out of slum housing, bleak workhouses and insane asylums, through tragic deaths, marital strife and war. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In The Cowkeeper’s Wish, Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors’ path to Canada, using a single family’s saga to give meaningful context to a fascinating period in history—Victorian and then Edwardian England, the First World War and the Depression. Beginning with little more than enthusiasm, a collection of yellowed photographs and a family tree, the sisters scoured archives and old newspapers, tracked down streets, pubs and factories that no longer exist, and searched out secrets buried in crumbling ledgers, building on the fragments that remained of family tales. While this family story is distinct, it is also typical, and so all the more worth telling. As a working-class chronicle stitched into history, The Cowkeeper’s Wish offers a vibrant, absorbing look at the past that will captivate genealogy enthusiasts and readers of history alike.

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463

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Douglas & McIntyre

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1771622032

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9781771622035

Origin of Haloes

By: Kristen Den Hartog

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Origin of Haloes

By: Kristen Den Hartog

When sixteen-year-old gymnast Kay Clancy finds herself pregnant by the handsome Coach Halliwell, she tells a lie that has dire consequences. Despite her transgressions, she manages to marry the young Joe LeBlanc, and embarks on a happy life with him until suddenly, late in Kay’s third pregnancy, he vanishes, along with his treasured canoe. Joe is nowhere to be found, but his paddle surfaces near a dock in front of the Halliwell home, where the coach lives with his manic but fragile wife, Marie, and their son, Eddie. Years on, Margar, the mischievous daughter Joe never knew, is determined to find her father. Time and again she is drawn to that house by the river. What Margar discovers there will change forever the way she views her family. From the acclaimed author of Water Wings and The Perpetual Ending, Origin of Haloes is a novel of lives large and small, interweaving captivating vignettes from Olympic history and Greek mythology with small-town Ontario to tell a story of love, betrayal, and loss.

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323

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551996510

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9781551996516

The Perpetual Ending

By: Kristen Den Hartog

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The Perpetual Ending

By: Kristen Den Hartog

From a writer acclaimed for her “probing, idiosyncratic intelligence and emotional generosity” (Calgary Herald), comes a deeply imagined novel that takes us into the lives of devoted twin sisters and their world of opposites, doppelgängers and ghosts. Jane and Eugenie Ingrams are mirror-image twins, and thus exact opposites. Halves of a whole, they are inseparable, each understanding her world through the other. But when Lucy, their artistic mother, moves her daughters from Deep River to Toronto (leaving behind a bewildered husband), she finds she can’t entirely escape the remains of their troubled marriage. Eugenie thrives in the jumble of urban life, but Jane is sickened by its underside: the mess of lost souls who live on the streets, the garbage, the noise and the violence. When their father eventually seeks them out, Jane is relieved for the chance to go back to Deep River. Eugenie agrees to return for the sake of her beloved sister -- a soon-to-be-tragic concession. Years later, Jane is a writer in Vancouver, living with her lover, Simon, a gifted illustrator. Although troubled by her past, she finds solace (and commercial success) in the rich, fabulist tales she and Simon create -- which are expertly woven throughout the book -- tales of people born with extraordinary qualities: horns, the gift of prophesy, spiderweb hair or unquenchable thirst. Wondrous, inventive and brimming with charm, The Perpetual Ending is an exploration of love and artistry that shows the world as a whole, in all its grotesqueness and beauty. And it uncovers the surprising ways we sometimes arrive at the heart of one story through the telling of others.

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228

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Vintage Canada

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0307368904

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9780307368904

The Occupied Garden

A Family Memoir of War-Torn Holland

By: Kristen Den Hartog,Tracy Kasaboski

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The Occupied Garden

A Family Memoir of War-Torn Holland

By: Kristen Den Hartog,Tracy Kasaboski

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Water Wings

A Novel

By: Kristen Den Hartog

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Water Wings

A Novel

By: Kristen Den Hartog

The seedy underbelly of small-town life is exposed in Water Wings, but there are flower growing out of the decay as two grown sisters unearth both ugly secrets and the strange resiliency of love.

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