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Mary Swann by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
Mary Swann, a latter day Emily Dickinson, submitted a paper bag of poems to newpaper editor Frederic Cruzzi mere hours before her husband hacked her to pieces. How could someone who led such a dull, sheltered life produce these works of genius? Four very different people search for the elusive answer. ...Show more
Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp by Carol Diggory Shields
Category: Fiction
In this dinosaur picture book, the author reveals what the dinosaurs did when they wanted to let off some steam - they rocked and rolled, twirled and tromped, at the biggest, loudest, wildest party ever. Join Diplodocus, Iguanodon, Duckbill and Tyrannosaurus.
Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp by Carol Diggory Shields
Category: Picture Books
This is a rollicking rhyming dinosaur picture book for young children. Have you ever wondered what the dinosaurs did for fun? What really happened when the Jurassic gang wanted to let off some steam? They danced, of course! They rocked and rolled, they twirled and tromped! They had themselves a dinosaur ...Show more
The Box Garden by SHIELDS, CAROL
Category: Fiction
The story of a woman dancing on the edge of a difficult life Ever since her husband left her--seemingly vanishing into thin air--Charleen Forrest has supported herself and her fifteen-year-old son on what she earns as an obscure poet and part-time gofer for an even more obscure scientific journal. But w ...Show more
The Collected Stories by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
For the first time, all of Carol Shields's remarkable short stories are gathered together in one volume. This definitive anthology contains the previously unpublished story "Segue," her last work.In these stories Carol Shields combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers t ...Show more
The Collected Stories by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
For the first time, all of this late, great writer
The Republic of Love by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
The Republic of Love is a hymn to the pleasures and pains, the raptures even of an unspectacular life. Fay discovers that happiness is "a kind of by-product of existence, and not an end in itself". Carol Shields was born and raised in Chicago and has lived in Canada since 1957. She studied at Hanover Co ...Show more
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields; Margaret Atwood (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction
Widely regarded as a modern classic, The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life; that of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman born in Canada in 1905. Beautifully written and deeply compassionate, it follows Daisy's life through marriage, widowhood, motherhood, and old age, as she cha ...Show more
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize?winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition ONE OF THE MOST successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett is a subtle bu ...Show more
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
Stone Diaries Large Print Edition is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.