Northwest Territories-
Robert Alexie------ Pale Indian, Porcupines and China Dolls
Richard Van Camp------ Lesser Blessed, Welcome Song For Baby, What’s the Most Beautiful Thing You know About Horses, Man Called Raven, etc.
Rene Fumoleau------ Here I Sit (Poetry), They Gave Me A Chance
Elizabeth Hay------Late Nights On Air, The Only Snow In Havana, A Student of Weather, Garbo Laughs, Small Change, etc.
Lee Selleck/ Francis Thompson-----Dying for Gold: The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders (non-fiction)
Steve Zipp------ Yellowknife
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Canadian Authors-----Yukon
Yukon-
Pierre Berton------ The Great Klondike Goldrush, The Secret World of Og (children’s), Prisoner of the North, Marching to War: Canada’s Turbulent Years, Vimy, Cat’s I have Known and Loved, The National Dream (Non-fiction), and many many more titles by this wonderful Canadian author
Ted Harrison------ Children of the Yukon, A Northern Alphabet (Children’s Books)
PJ Johnson------ Rhymes of the Raven Lady (Poetry)
Jack London------ Call of the Wild, White Fang, People of the Abyss, The Sea Wolf, plus many other stories.
Dick North------ The Mad Trapper of Rat River (Non-fiction), The Man Who Didn’t Fit In: How Canada’s Most Wanted Outlaw Began His Life of Crime, Sailor On Snowshoes: Jack London’s Klondike Caper, The Lost Patrol: The Mounties Yukon Tragedy, etc.
Al Pope------ Bad Latitudes
Robert Service------ The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Cremation of Sam McGee (Poetry) Collected Works of Robert Service, etc.
Pierre Berton------ The Great Klondike Goldrush, The Secret World of Og (children’s), Prisoner of the North, Marching to War: Canada’s Turbulent Years, Vimy, Cat’s I have Known and Loved, The National Dream (Non-fiction), and many many more titles by this wonderful Canadian author
Ted Harrison------ Children of the Yukon, A Northern Alphabet (Children’s Books)
PJ Johnson------ Rhymes of the Raven Lady (Poetry)
Jack London------ Call of the Wild, White Fang, People of the Abyss, The Sea Wolf, plus many other stories.
Dick North------ The Mad Trapper of Rat River (Non-fiction), The Man Who Didn’t Fit In: How Canada’s Most Wanted Outlaw Began His Life of Crime, Sailor On Snowshoes: Jack London’s Klondike Caper, The Lost Patrol: The Mounties Yukon Tragedy, etc.
Al Pope------ Bad Latitudes
Robert Service------ The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Cremation of Sam McGee (Poetry) Collected Works of Robert Service, etc.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Canadian Authors----New Brunswick
New Brunswick-
Donna Allard----- Minago Streets (Poetry)
Linda Hall----- Black Ice, Steal Away, Shadows at the Window (not yet released—out in July/08), Dark Water, Hockey: Canada’s National Game, Margaret’s Peace, Chat Room, Island of Refuge, Sadie’s Song, Katheryn’s Secret, Shodows in the Mirror, etc.
Elisabeth Harvor-----Excessive Joy Injures the Heart, Fortress Of Chairs, All Times Have Been Modern, Let Me Be The One, Lone Cold Green Evenings, Close to the Heart, etc.
Antonine Maillet----- Pelagie: The Return To Acadie, The Tale of Don L’ Original, etc.
David Adams Richards-----The Lost Highway, The Friends of Meager Fortune, Mercy Among The Children, The Bay Of Love and Sorrows, Hockey Dreams, Blood Ties,
River of the Brokenhearted, Lives of Short Duration, Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, etc.
Charles G. D. Roberts----- The Collected Poems (Poetry)
T. G. Roberts----- The Red Feathers
Donna Allard----- Minago Streets (Poetry)
Linda Hall----- Black Ice, Steal Away, Shadows at the Window (not yet released—out in July/08), Dark Water, Hockey: Canada’s National Game, Margaret’s Peace, Chat Room, Island of Refuge, Sadie’s Song, Katheryn’s Secret, Shodows in the Mirror, etc.
Elisabeth Harvor-----Excessive Joy Injures the Heart, Fortress Of Chairs, All Times Have Been Modern, Let Me Be The One, Lone Cold Green Evenings, Close to the Heart, etc.
Antonine Maillet----- Pelagie: The Return To Acadie, The Tale of Don L’ Original, etc.
David Adams Richards-----The Lost Highway, The Friends of Meager Fortune, Mercy Among The Children, The Bay Of Love and Sorrows, Hockey Dreams, Blood Ties,
River of the Brokenhearted, Lives of Short Duration, Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, etc.
Charles G. D. Roberts----- The Collected Poems (Poetry)
T. G. Roberts----- The Red Feathers
Canadian Authors--Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia-
Ernest Buckler----- The Mountain and the Valley, Cruelest Month, Whirligig, Oxbells and Fireflies
George Elliott Clarke----- Whylah Falls (Poetry), Black, George and Rue, Blue, Beatrice Chancy, Trudeau: Long March, Spinning Path; Execution Poems, etc.
Frank Parker Day----- Rockbound, The Autobiography of a Fisherman
Brad Kessler----- Birds In Fall: A Novel; Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion: A Classic Southern Tale; The Woodcutter’s Christmas, John Henry: The Legendary Folk Hero, Lick Creek: A Novel, etc.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton----- The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville, The Clockmaker, The Job, Nature and Human Nature, Costa’s Daughter, The Attache or Simon Slick in England, etc.
Ann-Marie MacDonald-----Playwright and Novelist---Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Fall On Your Knee, The Way The Crow Flies, Belle Morale: A Natural History, etc (she now resides in Toronto).
Linden MacIntyre----- Causeway—A Passage from Innocence (Non-fiction), The Long Stretch: A Novel, Who Killed Ty Conn?
Hugh MacLennan----- The Watch That Ends The Night, Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes, Each Man’s Son, Voices In Time, Return of the Sphinx, etc.
Alistair MacLeod-----In Everything There is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story, As Birds Bring forth The Sun and other Stories, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, No Great Mischief, Island: Collected Short Stories, etc.
Mary Jane Maffini----- Cluttered Corpse, Lament for a Lizard Lounge, The Devil’s in the Details, Organize Your Corpses, Too Hot to Handle, Speak Ill of the Dead, etc.
Ami McKay----- The Birth House
Alden Nolan----- Alden Nolan Selected Poems, The Wanton Troupers, White Madness, Road Dancers, Nine Micmac Legends, The Best Of (Poetry), Between Tears and Laughter, etc.
Anne Simpson----- Loop, Quick, Light Falls Through You (all Poetry), Canterbury Beach (novel), Falling (novel)
Budge Wilson-----Before Green Gables: The Prequel to Anne of Green Gables, Friendships, Oliver's Wars, Cassandra's Driftwood, Our Canadian Girl 02 Trongate Fury, Thirteen Never Changes, The Courtship, Duff's Monkey Business, etc.
Ernest Buckler----- The Mountain and the Valley, Cruelest Month, Whirligig, Oxbells and Fireflies
George Elliott Clarke----- Whylah Falls (Poetry), Black, George and Rue, Blue, Beatrice Chancy, Trudeau: Long March, Spinning Path; Execution Poems, etc.
Frank Parker Day----- Rockbound, The Autobiography of a Fisherman
Brad Kessler----- Birds In Fall: A Novel; Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion: A Classic Southern Tale; The Woodcutter’s Christmas, John Henry: The Legendary Folk Hero, Lick Creek: A Novel, etc.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton----- The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville, The Clockmaker, The Job, Nature and Human Nature, Costa’s Daughter, The Attache or Simon Slick in England, etc.
Ann-Marie MacDonald-----Playwright and Novelist---Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Fall On Your Knee, The Way The Crow Flies, Belle Morale: A Natural History, etc (she now resides in Toronto).
Linden MacIntyre----- Causeway—A Passage from Innocence (Non-fiction), The Long Stretch: A Novel, Who Killed Ty Conn?
Hugh MacLennan----- The Watch That Ends The Night, Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes, Each Man’s Son, Voices In Time, Return of the Sphinx, etc.
Alistair MacLeod-----In Everything There is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story, As Birds Bring forth The Sun and other Stories, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, No Great Mischief, Island: Collected Short Stories, etc.
Mary Jane Maffini----- Cluttered Corpse, Lament for a Lizard Lounge, The Devil’s in the Details, Organize Your Corpses, Too Hot to Handle, Speak Ill of the Dead, etc.
Ami McKay----- The Birth House
Alden Nolan----- Alden Nolan Selected Poems, The Wanton Troupers, White Madness, Road Dancers, Nine Micmac Legends, The Best Of (Poetry), Between Tears and Laughter, etc.
Anne Simpson----- Loop, Quick, Light Falls Through You (all Poetry), Canterbury Beach (novel), Falling (novel)
Budge Wilson-----Before Green Gables: The Prequel to Anne of Green Gables, Friendships, Oliver's Wars, Cassandra's Driftwood, Our Canadian Girl 02 Trongate Fury, Thirteen Never Changes, The Courtship, Duff's Monkey Business, etc.
Mary Ellen's Canadian Authors Picks-July1/08 to July 1/09
Author----- ---------------Book Title----------------------------- Province
I have not finished all my picks yet for each of the provinces/territories. I will add to my list in the coming months. But these are my definate picks for the year. I hope all of you enjoy the challenge.
I will also be using some of these titles for another challenge that I am involved in.
Happy Canada Day!!!!! Let the games begin!!!!
Don't forget to publish a wee review for everybook that you complete. It might encourage others to give that author a try. Let's promote Canada and our Canadian authors.
- Cheryl Kaye Tardif----- Divine Intervention----- Alberta
- Anita Rau Badami------ Can You Hear The Nightbird Call? ------Alberta
- Margaret Laurence -----The Stone Angels----- Manitoba
- Carol Shields -----Unless------ Manitoba
- David Bergen ------The Case of Lena S.----- Manitoba
- Margaret Atwood -----The Blind Assassin----- Ontario
7. Trevor Cole -----Fearsome Particles----- Ontario
8. Michael Ondaatje----- Divisadero -----Ontario
9. Jane Urquhart----- Map of Glass----- Ontario
10. Budge Wilson-----Before Green Gables: Prequel to Anne of Green Gables----Nova Scotia
11. Alistair Mac Leod-----In Everything there is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story---- Nova Scotia
12. L. M. Montgomery-----Anne of Green Gables-------Prince Edward Island
13. Elisabeth Harvor-----Excessive Joy Injures the Heart-----New Brunswick
14. Linda Hall----- Dark Water, Black Ice-----New Brunswick
15. David Adams Richards-----? The Friends of Meager Fortune, River of the Brokenhearted or The Bay of Love and Sorrows or Lost Highway (haven't quite decided yet)----- New Brunswick
16. Leo Furey-----The Long Run-----Newfoundland
17. Wayne Johnston-----? (still haven't decided which one I will read yet) -----Newfoundland18. Lisa Moore-----Alligator or Open? Newfoundland
19. Jack London-----Call of The Wild-----Yukon
20. Jack London-----White Fang-----Yukon
21. Louise Penny-----Still Life--------Quebec
22. Louise Penny-----Dead Cold-------Quebec
23. Steven Galloway-----The Cellist of Sarajevo-----British Columbia
24. Phyllis Smallman-----Margarita Nights-----British Columbia
25. ?-----?----- Northwest Territories
26. ?-----?-----Northwest Territories
27. ?-----?-----Saskatchewan
28. ?-----?-----Saskatchewan
29. Jan Brett-----?-----Nunavut
30. ?-----?-----Nunavut
Canadian Authors--Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island-
Milton Acorn----- I Shout Love and Other Poems, No Feather No Ink, More Poems For People, etc. (Poetry)
Anne Compton----- Processional , Opening the Island (Poetry)
Stompin’ Tom Connors and Brenda Jones (Illustrator)----- The Hockey Song, Hockey Night Tonigh, Bud The Spud, (Children’s Book), My Stompin’ Grounds, Stompin’ Tom and the Connors Tone, Stompin’ Tom Before the Fame, etc.
David Helwig------Salt Sea, Living Here, This Human Day, Duet, The Names of Things, Smuggling Donkeys, Close to the Fire, etc.
Michael Hennessey----- The Betrayer
Lucy Maud Montgomery----- Anne of Green Gables, Anne of The Island, The Story Girl, Rilla of Ingleside, Further Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard, Pat of Silver Bush, Rainbow Valley, Jane of Lantern Hill, plus many many more titles—this is just the tip of the iceberg. LOL!
J. J. Steinfeld------ Would You Hide Me? (Short Stories), Disturbing Identities, Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown (Short Stories)
Milton Acorn----- I Shout Love and Other Poems, No Feather No Ink, More Poems For People, etc. (Poetry)
Anne Compton----- Processional , Opening the Island (Poetry)
Stompin’ Tom Connors and Brenda Jones (Illustrator)----- The Hockey Song, Hockey Night Tonigh, Bud The Spud, (Children’s Book), My Stompin’ Grounds, Stompin’ Tom and the Connors Tone, Stompin’ Tom Before the Fame, etc.
David Helwig------Salt Sea, Living Here, This Human Day, Duet, The Names of Things, Smuggling Donkeys, Close to the Fire, etc.
Michael Hennessey----- The Betrayer
Lucy Maud Montgomery----- Anne of Green Gables, Anne of The Island, The Story Girl, Rilla of Ingleside, Further Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard, Pat of Silver Bush, Rainbow Valley, Jane of Lantern Hill, plus many many more titles—this is just the tip of the iceberg. LOL!
J. J. Steinfeld------ Would You Hide Me? (Short Stories), Disturbing Identities, Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown (Short Stories)
Canadian Authors---Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador-Bernard Assiniwi----- The Beothuk Saga
Ken Babstock-----(Poetry) Air stream Land Yacht, Mean, Days Int oFlatspint
Cassie Brown----- Death on The Ice: The Great Newfoundland Fishing Disaster of 1914, A Winter’s Tale: The Wreck of the Florizel, Standing Into Danger, Writing the Sea, The Caribou Disaster (Non-fiction)
Paul Butler----- Easton’s Gold, Rogues and Heroes, Stoker’s Shadow, Easton, Surrogate Spirit, St. John’s: City of Fire ,
Joan Clark----- An Audience of Chairs, Snow, Latitudes of Melt, Dream Carvers, Hand Of Robin Squires,
Michael Crummey----- River Thieves, Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation, The Wreckage, Salvage, Flesh and Blood, Hard Light
Mary Dalton----- Merrybegot (Poetry), Allowing the Light, A Time For Icicles, Red Ledger,
Bud Davidge and Ian Wallace (Illustrator)----- The Mummer’s Song (Children’s Book)
Jim Defede----- The Day The World Came To Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland (Non-fiction)
Kenneth J. Harvey----- The Town That Forgot How To Breathe, Blackstrap Hawco, , Inside, Flesh So Close, Woman in the Closet, Skin Hound, etc.
Harold Horwood----- White Eskimo, Bartlett The Great Explorer (Non-fiction), Evening Light, Remembering Summer, Dancing On the Shore, Pirates and Outlaws of Canada, Only the Gods Speak: Ten Tales, etc.
Percy Janes----- House of Hate, East Mall
Dale Jarvis----- Haunted Shores: True Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador, Ghost Stories of Newfoundland, The Golden Leg: and other Ghostly Campfire Tales,
Wonderful Strange: Ghosts, Fairies and Fabulous Beasties.
Wayne Johnston----- Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Baltimore’s Mansion, Custodian of Paradise, The Divine Ryans, The Story of Bobby O’Malley, Human Amusements, The Navigator of New York, The Time of Their Lives, etc.
Kevin Major----- Eh? To Zed (Children’s book), Far From Shore, Hold Fast, Ann and Seamus, No Man’s Land, House of Wooden Santa’s, etc.
Lisa Moore----- Alligator, Open (Short Stories), Degrees of Nakedness, etc.
Bernice Morgan----- Random Passage, Cloud of Bone, Waiting for Time, The Topgraphy of Love, Cape Random,
Donna Morrissey----- Kit’s Law, Sylvanus Now, What They Wanted, Downhill Chance,
Claire Mowat----- Outport People (Non-fiction), Travels with Farley—a memoir, Girl From Away, Last Summer In Louisbourg, The French Isles, The Girl Away Trilogy, etc.
Earl B. Pilgrim----- The Ghost of Ellen Dower, Curse of the Red Cross Ring, Will Anyone Search for Danny?, The Captain and The Girl, The Price Paid for Charley, etc.
Al Pittman----- West Moon (play), Down By Jim Long’s Stage (Children’s poems), Surviving The Storm, Thirty for Sixty, Dancing in Limbo, etc.
E. J. Pratt----- Complete Poems (Poetry)
E. Annie Proulx----- The Shipping News, Accordion Crimes, The Old Ace In the Hole, etc.
Edward Riche----- Rare Birds, Nine Planets
Ted Russell----- The Holdin’ Ground (play), The Chronicles of Uncle Mose,
Dillon Wallace----- The Lure of The Labrador Wild, The Long Labrador Trail, Bobby of the Labrador, Troop One of the Labrador, etc.
Michael Winter----- The Big Why, Architects are Here, This All Happened, etc.
Ken Babstock-----(Poetry) Air stream Land Yacht, Mean, Days Int oFlatspint
Cassie Brown----- Death on The Ice: The Great Newfoundland Fishing Disaster of 1914, A Winter’s Tale: The Wreck of the Florizel, Standing Into Danger, Writing the Sea, The Caribou Disaster (Non-fiction)
Paul Butler----- Easton’s Gold, Rogues and Heroes, Stoker’s Shadow, Easton, Surrogate Spirit, St. John’s: City of Fire ,
Joan Clark----- An Audience of Chairs, Snow, Latitudes of Melt, Dream Carvers, Hand Of Robin Squires,
Michael Crummey----- River Thieves, Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation, The Wreckage, Salvage, Flesh and Blood, Hard Light
Mary Dalton----- Merrybegot (Poetry), Allowing the Light, A Time For Icicles, Red Ledger,
Bud Davidge and Ian Wallace (Illustrator)----- The Mummer’s Song (Children’s Book)
Jim Defede----- The Day The World Came To Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland (Non-fiction)
Kenneth J. Harvey----- The Town That Forgot How To Breathe, Blackstrap Hawco, , Inside, Flesh So Close, Woman in the Closet, Skin Hound, etc.
Harold Horwood----- White Eskimo, Bartlett The Great Explorer (Non-fiction), Evening Light, Remembering Summer, Dancing On the Shore, Pirates and Outlaws of Canada, Only the Gods Speak: Ten Tales, etc.
Percy Janes----- House of Hate, East Mall
Dale Jarvis----- Haunted Shores: True Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador, Ghost Stories of Newfoundland, The Golden Leg: and other Ghostly Campfire Tales,
Wonderful Strange: Ghosts, Fairies and Fabulous Beasties.
Wayne Johnston----- Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Baltimore’s Mansion, Custodian of Paradise, The Divine Ryans, The Story of Bobby O’Malley, Human Amusements, The Navigator of New York, The Time of Their Lives, etc.
Kevin Major----- Eh? To Zed (Children’s book), Far From Shore, Hold Fast, Ann and Seamus, No Man’s Land, House of Wooden Santa’s, etc.
Lisa Moore----- Alligator, Open (Short Stories), Degrees of Nakedness, etc.
Bernice Morgan----- Random Passage, Cloud of Bone, Waiting for Time, The Topgraphy of Love, Cape Random,
Donna Morrissey----- Kit’s Law, Sylvanus Now, What They Wanted, Downhill Chance,
Claire Mowat----- Outport People (Non-fiction), Travels with Farley—a memoir, Girl From Away, Last Summer In Louisbourg, The French Isles, The Girl Away Trilogy, etc.
Earl B. Pilgrim----- The Ghost of Ellen Dower, Curse of the Red Cross Ring, Will Anyone Search for Danny?, The Captain and The Girl, The Price Paid for Charley, etc.
Al Pittman----- West Moon (play), Down By Jim Long’s Stage (Children’s poems), Surviving The Storm, Thirty for Sixty, Dancing in Limbo, etc.
E. J. Pratt----- Complete Poems (Poetry)
E. Annie Proulx----- The Shipping News, Accordion Crimes, The Old Ace In the Hole, etc.
Edward Riche----- Rare Birds, Nine Planets
Ted Russell----- The Holdin’ Ground (play), The Chronicles of Uncle Mose,
Dillon Wallace----- The Lure of The Labrador Wild, The Long Labrador Trail, Bobby of the Labrador, Troop One of the Labrador, etc.
Michael Winter----- The Big Why, Architects are Here, This All Happened, etc.
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