Literary Figures

Elizabeth Bishop

By: Sandra Barry (CA)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) is best known as an American author, but she spent formative years in Great Village, Nova Scotia, and in fact called herself “3/4ths Canadian.” In recent… Read More

Imagined Truths

By: Richard Lemm (CA)

Richard Lemm grew up in 1950s Seattle, raised by alcoholic grandparents, with an absent mother and a fabled father who died shortly after he was born. To avoid the draft,… Read More

Lucy Maud Montgomery – eBook

By: Stan Sauerwein (CA)

This is the story of a life that doesn’t go according to plan. Despite this, Lucy Maud Montgomery has created a world that still resonates deeply with… Read More

Pluck

By: Donna Morrissey (CA)

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA deeply personal account of love’s restorative ability as it leads renowned novelist Donna Morrissey through mental illness, family death, and despair to becoming a… Read More

Ray Guy

By: Ron Crocker

There was a time—not so long ago—when the rich and influential quivered with trepidation as they opened the pages of the Evening Telegram. For within that newspaper lurked Ray Guy,… Read More

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