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Frontiers and Sanctuaries

A Woman's Life in Holland and Canada

By: Marianne Brandis

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Frontiers and Sanctuaries

A Woman's Life in Holland and Canada

By: Marianne Brandis

The life of Madzy Brender a Brandis (1910-1984) - her experiences in war, as an immigrant and pioneer, wife and mother, writer and painter, and an invalid - exemplifies the challenges faced by women in the twentieth century. This work chronicles Madzy's life through a narrative that combines fact, reconstruction, and informed imagination.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773576223

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9780773576223

The Sign of the Scales

By: Marianne Brandis

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The Sign of the Scales

By: Marianne Brandis

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256

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Erin, Ont. : Porcupine;s Quill

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0889841640

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9780889841642

The Quarter-pie Window

By: Marianne Brandis

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The Quarter-pie Window

By: Marianne Brandis

After the death of their parents Emma and John meet the challanges of a new life. Emma will work in her anut's hotel while her brother is employed at a nearby livery stable.

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236

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Tundra Books (NY)

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0887766242

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9780887766244

The Tinderbox

By: Marianne Brandis

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The Tinderbox

By: Marianne Brandis

Flames are bright against the night sky. Thirteen-year-old Emma watches with horrified fascination as they consume the family’s log cabin, leaving her and her younger brother orphaned. These three books are set in the early 1830s. Emma’s grief and shock, and her bravery in building a new life, are timeless. Marianne Brandis’s vivid evocation of pioneer life in Upper Canada – the texture of the log cabin, the sights and smells of harvest, the raw cold of outdoor chores at dawn – has been delighting readers since the first book was first published in 1982.

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180

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Tundra Books (NY)

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0887766269

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9780887766268

Elizabeth, Duchess of Somerset

By: Marianne Brandis

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Elizabeth, Duchess of Somerset

By: Marianne Brandis

`Brandis shows us the private story as well as the public one, by taking us into the houses and estates of the Percy family. Like Marion Fowler, in her portrait of the Blenheim Palace of the Marlborough family, Brandis stoops to conquer. She shows us the stuff of daily life among people of every class and transforms the dust of history into the texture of human existence and passion. This epic canvass is bound together and animated by one superb creation: Elizabeth.

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388

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Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill

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0889840954

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9780889840959

The Grand River

Dundalk to Lake Erie

By: Marianne Brandis

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The Grand River

Dundalk to Lake Erie

By: Marianne Brandis

The Grand River, winding for nearly 300 kilometres through southwestern Ontario, is a Heritage River, its watershed rich in prehistoric, historical and contemporary features. It is important in the history of First Peoples, and the story of European settlement along its banks is a microcosm of that in Canada as a whole. The watershed contains many treasures, such as part of the Carolinian Forest, some of the best farmland in Canada, the spectacular Elora Gorge and a wealth of historic architecture. Far more than that, the Grand is both uniquely itself and also typical of many of the planet’s rivers in the challenges it faces: issues of water management, farmland versus urban development, exploitation of natural resources and restoration of a polluted environment. Each of us lives in a watershed, and this is the story of our world. In the images and words of two artists, The Grand River explores the river’s history, beginning with its formation after the end of the last Ice Age. The book gives insight into the private life of a river—the dialogue of land and water—as well as the ways in which a river interacts with humans, vegetation, wildlife, weather and the planet. It takes the reader on an imaginary journey from the Grand’s first drop of moving water at the source to the point where it flows into Lake Erie.

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The Porcupine's Quill

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0889843813

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9780889843813

Frontiers and Sanctuaries

A Woman's Life in Holland and Canada

By: Marianne Brandis

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9780773576223

Fire Ship

By: Marianne Brandis

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Fire Ship

By: Marianne Brandis

Thirteen-year-old Dan Dobson and his family have just immigrated to Upper Canada from the American States when the War of 1812 flares up. Their neighbours in the town of York -- today's Toronto -- suspect them of spying for the Americans, but the Dobsons are loyal to Britain and determined to remain in York. Dan's dream is to sail with the British frigate Sir Isaac Brock which he and his father are helping to build. He sees war as an exciting adventure -- that is until he gets his first taste of battle on the day the American forces invade York. Fire Ship is a fast-moving historical novel for young people that brings the War of 1812 to life in a way that only Marianne Brandis can. The attention to detail and acute historical sensibility that so distinguished Brandis's `Emma' trilogy are in full evidence once again. From the opening scene of Fire Ship in which Dan paddles across the silent bay towards Toronto Island to the graphic scenes of cannon fire and rough military doctoring in Fort York, Brandis invites us to experience Toronto exactly as it was in 1813. She also introduces us to a strong new character in Dan who grapples with issues of loyalty and nationality and the brutality of war. `The story must work as a story; it must not be a sugar-coated history lesson,' Brandis says of her approach to historical fiction. `My goal is to give fiction the verisimilitude of fact, and to touch fact with the colour and vivacity of fiction.

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124

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The Porcupine's Quill

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0889841403

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9780889841406

The Tinderbox

A Novel

By: Marianne Brandis

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The Tinderbox

A Novel

By: Marianne Brandis

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155

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Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill

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0889840768

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9780889840768

The Grand River

Dundalk to Lake Erie

By: Marianne Brandis

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Dundalk to Lake Erie

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Ancient Sun, Modern Light

Greek Drama on the Modern Stage

By: Marianne McDonald

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Greek Drama on the Modern Stage

By: Marianne McDonald

Ancient Sun, Modern Light

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1260

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Columbia University Press

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0231516088

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9780231516082

South Africa

By: Marianne Fries

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South Africa

By: Marianne Fries

The writing is superb... each (Nelles) guide is delightfully comprehensive, a solid source of reliable information for the traveller... All travel guides claim to be comprehensive, but we found Nelles Guides superior". -- Arizona Senior World "(The Nelles Guides are) . . . beautifully photographed . . . the maps are better than Insight's, and practical information is integrated with the text, not relegated to the end". -- National Geographic Traveller -- Quality writing, often by native writers -- Detailed sections on the history, culture, special features and festivals -- Accommodations, restaurant guides, sights to see, places to shop, how to get around

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260

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3886184110

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9783886184118

Finding Words

A Writer's Memoir

By: Marianne Brandis

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Finding Words

A Writer's Memoir

By: Marianne Brandis

With remarkable candor, Brandis tells of her war-damaged childhood in Holland and of her experience of being the perpetual outsider as an immigrant to Canada after the Second World War, and later when she establishes herself as a working, successful novelist.

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240

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[Manotick, Ont.] : Penumbra Press

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1894131029

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9781894131025

Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh

The Love Story Behind Gone With the Wind

By: Marianne Walker

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Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh

The Love Story Behind Gone With the Wind

By: Marianne Walker

Based on almost 200 previously unpublished letters and extensive interviews with their closest associates, Walker's biography of Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, offers a new look into a devoted marriage and fascinating partnership that ultimately created a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. This edition of Walker's biography celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gone With the Wind in 1936. In lively extracts from their letters to family and friends, John and Margaret, who also went by Peggy, describe the stormy years of their courtship, their bohemian lifestyle as a young married couple, the arduous but fulfilling years when Peggy was writing her famous novel, the thrill of its acceptance for publication and its literary success, and the excitement of the making of the movie. In telling the private side of this twenty-four-year marriage, author Marianne Walker reveals a long-suspected truth: Gone With the Wind might have never been written were it not for John Marsh. He was Peggy's best friend and constant champion, and he became her editor, proofreader, researcher, business manager, and the inspiration and motivation behind her writing. At every point, including the turbulent years of Mitchell's first marriage to Red Upshaw, it was John who provided the intellectual stimulation, emotional support, and editorial insights that allowed Peggy to channel her talents into the creation of her astounding Civil War epic. From years of meticulous research, Marianne Walker details the intimate and moving love story between a husband and wife, and between a writer and her editor.

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465

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Holiday House

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1561456500

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9781561456505

MAMARAZZA. Edition en anglais

By: Marianne Sayn-Wittgenstein

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MAMARAZZA. Edition en anglais

By: Marianne Sayn-Wittgenstein

Whenever the Princess shows up with her cameras, doors open, and she is greeted with respect and affection: "Mamarazza" -- as she is widely known -- is a welcome visitor at festivities and events of her friends and acquaintances in the world of art, economy and diplomacy. It's been fifty years now since the Princess set out to systematically capture her personal environment by taking photographs -- at weddings, anniversaries, art openings, the Salzburg Festival, concerts and motor races. Ever since there has been hardly a society event that did not become a topic for her camera. Whether partying with Spanish Crown Prince Juan Carlos or actor Sean Connery, or being aboard an official flight with former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, everybody shows respect for her, and everybody knows that she would never cross the bounds of confidentiality. The Princess's thousands and thousands of photographs, some of which were published in major fashion and lifestyle magazines, have been collected, dated and kept with the utmost care. In this way an exciting, unparalleled chronicle of the beautiful and the rich, the high society of five decades has been collected, which now has been published in a beautiful, impressive large-format book edition.

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Steidl Dap

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3882437065

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9783882437065

Book's by Marianne Brandis

Frontiers and Sanctuaries

Frontiers and Sanctuaries

The Sign of the Scales

The Sign of the Scales

The Quarter-pie Window

The Quarter-pie Window

The Tinderbox

The Tinderbox

Elizabeth, Duchess of Somerset

Elizabeth, Duchess of Somerset

The Grand River

The Grand River

Frontiers and Sanctuaries

Frontiers and Sanctuaries

Fire Ship

Fire Ship

The Tinderbox

The Tinderbox

The Grand River

The Grand River

Ancient Sun, Modern Light

Ancient Sun, Modern Light

South Africa

South Africa

Finding Words

Finding Words

Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh

Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh

MAMARAZZA. Edition en anglais

MAMARAZZA. Edition en anglais

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