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False Face
Katz, Welwyn Wilton
Groundwood Books 0888990820 / 9780888990822
2001
Paperback
Very Good
0.38 x 7.5 x 5.1 Inches; 155 pages; Laney McIntyre is an ordinary 13-year-old trying hard to cope with her divorced parents -- her mother, an enigmatic antique dealer, and her father, a man Laney's mother sees as an impractical, incompetent rchaeologist. Tom Walsh is half-Iroquois and struggling to come to terms with his father's death and a move away from the reserve where he grew up. One day Laney and Tom discover Iroquois false-face masks in a nearby bog. They soon learn that these are much more than mere ancient artifacts. Tom and Laney must experience harrowing fear and danger before realizing the full power the masks hold over each other, and especially over the people who possess them. The two friends must come to grips with the terrible peril posed by trying to control both the masks and the emotions they engender in their owners, a power that definitely does not want to be controlled.
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2.75 CDN
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Out of the Dark
Katz, Welwyn Wilton
Douglas & McIntyre 0888992416 / 9780888992413
1995
Paperback
Very Good
185 pages; Thirteen-year-old Ben, unhappy with his new home in Newfoundland and haunted by memories of his mother, becomes increasingly absorbed with the remains of a Viking settlement which inspire him to build and sail a model ship in her honor.
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5.00 CDN
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Out of the Dark
Katz, Welwyn Wilton
Groundwood Books 0888992629 / 9780888992628
2001
Mass Market Paperback
Very Good
; Ex-Library; 0.43 x 7.12 x 4.35 Inches; 185 pages; After the violent death of Ben’s mother, his father moves the family from Florida to his boyhood home, a tiny village in Newfoundland. Ben hates it. Even the local accent is an obstacle. But when he discovers the remains of a Viking settlement, his imagination is ignited, and he finds a much-needed distraction from the unhappiness of his new life. In his elaborate fantasy world, he is Tor, a Viking shipbuilder. Through his daydreams, Ben is able to deal with suppressed feelings about his mother’s death. When he uses her wood-carving tools to craft a miniature Viking ship named Frances, after his mother, he unconsciously constructs the vehicle for the release of his crippling feelings of sadness and guilt. A compelling tale that mixes Viking lore with a contemporary story of loss, Out of the Dark is about a boy coming to terms with the death of his mother.
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0.50 CDN
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Show World A Novel
Barnhardt, Wilton
Picador USA 0312208103 / 9780312208103
1999
Paperback
Very Good
; 0.9 x 9.1 x 5.8 Inches; 341 pages; The author of the acclaimed novels Gospel and Emma Who Saved My Life, Wilton Barnhardt is a writer of rare and extraordinary talent who has yet to walk the same ground twice. With Show World he offers a contemporary woman's story that will haunt its every reader. Samantha Flint, the figure at the book's center, flees the Midwest for Smith College to shake her past, to invent a future she can live with. There she meets the redoubtable Mimi Mohr; together and apart they move from New York to D. C. to L. A. Yet even as each new city takes them to fresh heights of power and wealth, everything Sam wants seems to elude her--and after a series of lapses, both desperate and careless, she finds her dreams have turned against her. A work of wicked satire and unmatched imagination, Show World is Wilton Barnhardt's clear-eyed estimate of America and what we all want out of her.
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20.00 CDN
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The Prophecy of Tau Ridoo
Katz, Welwyn Wilton
Tree Frog Press 0889670455 / 9780889670457
2011
Paperback
Good+
Good Condition: cover crease; 0.6 x 8.3 x 5.4 Inches; 175 pages; The Aubrey children are transported to mysterious world by a sorceress and a prince to help defeat the Red Guard, an evil force which has kept the world in darkness for over 700 years.
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15.00 CDN
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Whalesinger
Katz, Welwyn Wilton
Groundwood Books 0888991916 / 9780888991911
1993
Paperback
Good
Ex-Library; 0.45 x 6.98 x 6.1 Inches; 212 pages; Hurt and angry after his brother's death while working for a conservation project everyone had warned him about, seventeen-year-old Nick escapes the pressures of his family in Vancouver by working as a research assistant for a professor whose work takes him to the beautiful Point Reyes coastline of California. There he finds to his horror that the professor's work is linked to the organization that Nick is convinced caused his brother's death. He's ready to quit until he meets Marty, whose quiet, self-effacing attitude draws Nick, despite himself. Raw with guilt over not saying goodbye to his brother, Nick finds himself telling Marty things he had never before confided in anyone. He even tells her about how he feels like the brother of Sir Francis Drake's best friend, whom Drake had murdered nearly five hundred years before. The deep emotions Nick feels echo through Marty to a mother and baby gray whale pair who, to Marty's astonished joy, have no trouble at all communicating with her despite the dyslexia that has kept her silent through all the years of her schooling. The two whales are summering where Drake had careened the Golden Hinde and cruelly abandoned his murdered friend's brother. Too much is occurring that makes the whale-history seem to be repeating itself like a chorus. Together Nick and Marty use her new communicative skill to put together the clues that link the old pirate's past to the present conservation project. When the mother whale sings, is it the chorus that changes history or history that summons forth the chorus? Either way, Nick and Marty gain a perspective on the conservation project that is very frightening. Meanwhile, this beautiful seacoast, which long ago was the epicentre for the great San Francisco earthquake, also resonates with whalesong, and soon it is impossible to be sure what causes what. This book's stunning conclusion brings all the strands of this remarkable story together as the mother whale sings an old song that is now also new. The magic of Whale Song moves Marty and Nick and the true story of Nick's dead brother to its own riveting and unforgettable ending, where everything is smoothed into its own kind of perfection, not empty of loss, but carrying its own new beginning within it.
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0.25 CDN
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