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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish physician and writer known around the world for his stories about detective Sherlock Holmes, which all but created the literary field of crime fiction and made the name Sherlock Holmes synonymous with detectives. Aside from the Sherlock Holmes stories, he was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.
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Song of Acadia volume 2
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2000
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In This Intimate Historical Epic, the Heart-wrenching Dilemmas of The Meeting Place Come to Rest on...The Sacred Shore Oceans and circumstances have forced families apart. For the banished French Acadians drifting in exile, the shore means safety--though it is a safety at a terrible price. For the lonely British nobleman, the shore holds a single chance to secure his legacy. For Andrew and Catherine Harrow, the shore marks a tragic separation. An...
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That "grey rock in the Canadian wilderness" known as Quebec - presage the long winter coming at the end of the seventeenth century for Cecile Auclair and her father, the town's apothecary. Their present life is very different from teh one they knew in Paris. With their small circle of friends and neighbors, they spend the difficult winter with no word from home - news of events in the world they have left behind must wait until spring, when the annual...
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Song of Acadia volume 1
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1999
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A Chance Encounter Forever Changed Their Lives--and Destinies. Crafted by two masters of inspirational fiction--Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn--and combining the engaging historical settings, rich characterization, and heartwarming messages quintessential to both authors, The Meeting Place is another timeless story for you to cherish. Set along the rugged coastline of 18th century Canada in what was then called Acadia (now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick),...
5) High towers
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1949
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Historical romance with a new setting for the author of The Black Rose and other popular novels. This time the master of historical detail has taken the New World instead of the Old — in a period paralleling that used in The Moneyman to some extent. It is set in New France, from Montreal to New Orleans—with the central characters the Le Moynes.
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Daughters of New France volume 2
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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2017.
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In 1677, an invisible wall separates settlers in New France from their Huron neighbors. Yet every woman's fate depends on the man she marries. Set amid the promise and challenge of the first Canadian colonies, this vividly rendered novel provides a fascinating portrait of the women who would become the founding mothers of New France.
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Daughters of New France volume 1
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
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They are known as the filles du roi, or "King's Daughters" -- young women who leave prosperous France for an uncertain future across the Atlantic. Their duty is to marry and bring forth a new generation of loyal citizens. Each prospective bride has her reason for leaving -- poverty, family rejection, a broken engagement. Despite their different backgrounds, Rose, Nicole, and Elisabeth all believe that marriage to a stranger is their best, perhaps...
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From the moment she arrives in Ville-Marie (Montreal) Laure Beausejour is expected to marry and produce children with a brutish French soldier who himself can barely survive the harsh conditions of his forest cabin. But through her clandestine relationship with an allied Iroquois, she finds a sense of the possibilities in this New World. What happens to a woman who attempts to make her own life choices in such authoritative times?
9) Sorceress
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Candlewick Press
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Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.
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""Caught between the warring French and English on Canadas rugged shores in 1755, Sylvie Galant is forced from her Acadian home and family and is alone in colonial Virginia. Now the enemy soldier who once tore her world apart might be the key to restoring her shattered past""--
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2002
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In 1542, eager to escape the French Huguenot household of her harsh father, sixteen-year-old Marguerite de la Rocque sails with her equally stern uncle, the Sieur de Roberval, to the New World, where she is left alone on an island with only her young Catholic lover and her chaperone to help her survive.
17) Elle: a novel
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Goose Lane Editions
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c2003
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A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza - this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor General's Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on what might be a true story, the novel chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman marooned on the desolate Isle of Demons during Jacques Cartier's ill-fated...
18) The bear woman
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Coach House Books
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[2022]
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"Blending autofiction and the essay, The Bear Woman takes us on a journey of feminism and literary detective work that spans centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was abandoned by her guardian in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with her maidservant and her lover. In present-day Stockholm, an author and mother of three becomes captivated by the image of Marguerite sheltered in a dark cave all alone after...
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