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|  | | Chicken Soup for the Soul, O Canada The Wonders of Winter, Bruno's Bruin
Bruno's Bruin, is a true wilderness story featured in this 2013 Chicken Soup for the Soul collection.
Dramatic, yet humorous, the story outlines a wilderness encounter in the Canadian Coastal Mountains of British Columbia. The author and her timid companion's biggest fears materialize during the night when a large bear, seeking refuge from a roaring blizzard outside, snuggles up against their flimsy tent and crowds in their space. | |  | | Claudia
Claudia, a young aristocrat from Spain arrives in Buenos Aires in 1810 as a mail-order bride to rich landowner, Don Jorge. On-board ship she falls for handsome Ignacio and on arrival is shocked at the reception; a tumultuous struggle for her life and her true love.
span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">span style="font-size: larger;">Claudia is a coming-of-age story of a young woman caught in the spin-off politics & desperate economy following the Spanish Armada/span>/span>/span> span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">span style="font-size: larger;">against Britian./span>/span> span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">span style="font-size: larger;">A blue-blood from Seville, she is offered to the highest bidder from wealthy Argentina. Don Jorge, her cruel fiance, is twice her age but ver | |  | | Mighty Orion - Fate
Both informative and entertaining, this first novel in the Mighty Orion trilogy, addresses fractured relationships within families; inter-generational.Its setting is the rich bilingual Northern New Brunswick region of Canada.
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Mighty Orion - Secrets, the second in the series, continues with old Percy and his family's struggle with secrets that have formed relationship barriers. When these threaten to spill over into the next generation, a major taboo secret is revealed.
span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA">The saga of the Kilkenny family headed by Percy, an old tall ship sailor, continues to unfold. In u>Mighty Orion - Fate/u>, the “waters were calmed” following Percy’s unwilling placement in a nursing home by his wife, Clara. Joe, the youngest of five Kilkenny children, has a viable relationship with his father and was made privy to the story of Percy’s painful beginnings; an abusive home, and his escape to sea as a cabin boy. Meanwhile, Joe wrestled with his own difficulties as he re-united with his high school sweetheart, a n |
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Breaking Out
by Bob Brink
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 A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of |
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