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    Unless

    Carol Shields

    Reta Winters, 44-year-old author of light summertime fiction and mother of three beautiful teenage daughters, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously…

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    Larry’s Party

    Carol Shields

    Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction. In the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court’s maze, Larry Weller discovers the passion of his life. Larry’s Party presents an ironic odyssey through…

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    The Republic Of Love

    Carol Shields

    ‘ The Republic of Love marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy…a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.’ Times Literary Supplement

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    The Canadian Shields

    Carol Shields

    The Canadian Shields brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields, including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays. Invaluable to scholars and admirers of Shields's work…

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    The Canadian Shields

    Carol Shields

    Brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields (1935-2003), including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays and two dozen essays previously published but never before collected.

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    Clinical Cases in Ocular Oncology

    The complex area of ocular oncology requires adaptable approaches to treatment depending on the type and anatomical region of the tumor, tumor characteristics, the patient's age, co-morbidities, and response to…

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    The Worlds of Carol Shields

    The Worlds of Carol Shields is the first book to examine Shields’ extraordinary career and life through the lens both of close friends and of literary critics.

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    The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields

    Carol Shields

    Carol Shields received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. Yet she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span…

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    The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields

    Carol Shields

    Carol Shields received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. Yet she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span…

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    Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic

    Brenda Beckman-Long

    Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic contributes to the scholarship on life writing and autobiography, literary criticism, and feminist and critical theory.

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    Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic

    Brenda Beckman-Long

    Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic contributes to the scholarship on life writing and autobiography, literary criticism, and feminist and critical theory.

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    The Orange Fish

    Carol Shields,Carol Shields

    A superb collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General’s Award.

    Emerging from these twelve beautifully articulated stories are portraits of men…

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    Dressing Up for the Carnival

    Carol Shields

    A Pulitzer Prize-winning author distills all of her wisdom, elegance, eroticism and insouciant humor into 22 wonderful narratives, each so rich that it seems to hold within it the kernel…

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    The Box Garden

    Carol Shields,Carol Shields

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries. Charleen, a divorcee eking out a living as a poet and part-time assistant for an obscure scientific journal, returns home to…

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    Various Miracles

    Carol Shields,Carol Shields

    Twenty-one stories depict ordinary people encountering extraordinary situations, including coincidences and revelations.

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    Small Ceremonies

    Carol Shields

    Shields’ first novel tells the story of Judith Gill, a woman whose world is shaped by the actions of those around her. As a biographer, she spends her days analyzing…

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    The Box Garden

    Carol Shields

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries. Charleen, a divorcee eking out a living as a poet and part-time assistant for an obscure scientific journal, returns home to…

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    Happenstance: Two Novels in One about a Marriage in Transition

    Carol Shields

    Contains two novels, each about the events of one weekend - one from the wife’s point of view, one from the husband’s. Brenda and Jack have rarely been apart. But…

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    Various Miracles: Stories

    Carol Shields

    ‘Shield writes with that big heart of hers ablaze’ Sunday Times

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    Swann

    Carol Shields

    Mary Swann, a latter-day Emily Dickinson, submitted a bag full of poems to newspaper editor hours before her husband hacked her to pieces. How could someone who lived such a…

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    The Orange Fish: Stories

    Carol Shields

    Winner of the Marian Engel Award: Passion, longing, regret, and transformation infuse these twelve tales by one of our most shrewd and skillful storytellers (Chicago Tribune)
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    The Republic of Love

    Carol Shields

    ‘ The Republic of Love marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy…a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.’ Times Literary Supplement

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    Jane Austen: A Life

    Carol Shields

    Jane Austen gets the biography she deserves from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries.

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    Collected Stories

    Carol Shields

    With a new Introduction by Margaret Atwood, this essential anthology represents the entire writing career of Carol Shields, from 1985 until her untimely death in 2003.

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    Larry’s Party

    Carol Shields

    A detailed look at the ordinary life of Larry Weller between 1977 and 1997 follows the floral designer as he deals with the rapidly changing world and two marriages and…

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    Thirteen Hands And Other Plays

    Carol Shields,Carol Shields

    With a Foreword by the Author

    Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even…

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    Jane Austen

    Carol Shields

    Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all time. ‘Splendid … a gem’ LITERARY REVIEW

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    Le Carnaval du quotidien

    Carol Shields

    Translation of: Dressing up for the carnival.

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    Collected Stories

    Carol Shields

    For the first time all of Carol Shields’ remarkable short stories - some previously unpublished - are gathered together in one volume. ‘Carol Shields’ stories have given me happiness, not…

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    Unless

    Carol Shields

    Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of ‘The Stone Diaries’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and ‘Larry’s Party’, winner of the Orange Prize.

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    Duet

    Carol Shields

    Carol Shield’s portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life.

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    Dressing Up for the Carnival

    Carol Shields

    A collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry’s Party (winner of the Orange prize).

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    The Republic of Love

    Carol Shields

    ‘ The Republic of Love marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy…a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.’ Times Literary Supplement

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    Random Illuminations: Conversations with Carol Shields

    Eleanor Wachtel

    A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants. In this intimate, wide-ranging collection of conversations (and some correspondence), writer-broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel and her friend…

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    Carol Shields’s The Stone Diaries: A Reader’s Guide

    Abby Werlock

    This work is part of the Continuum Contemporaries series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains…

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    Liminal Spaces: The Double Art of Carol Shields

    Alex Ramon

    This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of the work of Carol Shields.

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    Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction

    Containing several essays on Swann and The Stone Diaries, Shields’s most popular works, and the most extensive annotated bibliography available of works by and about Shields, this collection will appeal…

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    Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction

    Containing several essays on Swann and The Stone Diaries, Shields’s most popular works, and the most extensive annotated bibliography available of works by and about Shields, this collection will appeal…

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    A Study Guide for Carol Shields’s The Stone Diaries

    Cengage Learning Gale

    A Study Guide for Carol Shields’s The Stone Diaries, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

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    Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders

    This collection of essays explores celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields’s experimentation with the essay genre in relation to her fiction.

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    Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told

    Carol Shields,Marjorie Anderson

    The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren’t Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the women’s…

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    Mansfield Park

    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen’s novel with an introduction by Carol Shields, plus commentaries, notes and a reading group guide.

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    Life in the Clearings versus the Bush

    Susanna Moodie

    This is a sequel (1853) to Roughing It in the Bush (1852). Useful as social history and as a candid self-portrait of a remarkable woman, the book chronicles Canadian society…

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    The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Carol Shields

    Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to…

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    A Celibate Season

    Carol Shields,Blanche Howard

    A novel which give us both sides of a story about the breakdown of traditional roles, rules and communication in a marriage.

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    Happenstance

    Carol Shields

    “The beautiful irony of Happenstance is that its novels are both bound together and held apart by the strength of the marriage they describe.‘ Rupert Christiansen, Harpers and Queen

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    Mary Swann

    Carol Shields

    Mary Swann submitted some poems to a newspaper just hours before her husband hacked her to pieces. The poems are works of genius, and are extraordinary coming from someone who…

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    Lunch Money: And Other Poems About School

    Carol Diggory Shields

    From an unusual pledge of allegiance and jungle gym gossip to recess rules and the rules of addition, Shields captures the experiences of schoolgoers with wit and verve. This rollicking…

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