Alan Cumyn

• Aug-1993
• / General Fiction
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While Teachers' College officials argue over him, Rudy Seaborn waits nervously in an antiquated limousine. As he stares through the windows at the strange sights surrounding him, a curious crowd stares back at the foreigner who has come to Laozhou to...

• Oct-1995
• / Literary
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A father's untimely death, a gothic grandfather who falls in love with his son's beautiful widow, a mysterious girl, a rogue golfer, and the watchful eyes of two young people trying to overcome the quirky gravity of their own families -- these are ...

• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction
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Sometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to a former student with whom he has a young son. In the space of a week his...

• Feb-2004
• / General Fiction
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By the award-winning author of Burridge Unbound, a finalist for the Giller Prize
A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year

Highly praised as one of the best novels of the First World War, Alan Cumyn’s The Sojourn tells the story of a ...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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Nominated for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award and the TD Children's Literature AwardAs the new school year unfolds, the magic of the Skye brothers' antic adventures is replaced by a different kind of magic -- of...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the OLA's Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express AwardSylvia Tull -- the girl whose very glance turns Owen's face into a burning tomato -- has moved away from the small village where Owen lives with his parents and two brothers. But he stil...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Hackmatack Children's Choice Book AwardOwen Skye is skinny and quiet and has big ears. He does everything (just about) his older brother, Andy, says, while trying to stay one step ahead of little brothe...

• Jan-2011
• / General Fiction
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After surviving a terrifying ordeal at the hands of terrorists in the South Pacific island of Santa Irene, Bill Burridge returns home to Ottawa and casts himself single-mindedly into building a human-rights organization to stand watch over the worldâ...

• Aug-2011
• / General Fiction
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Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until he’s blindsided by the unexpected attentions of Janine Igwash. Suddenly Stan is no longer ...

• Aug-2013
• / General Fiction
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Jess and Gregor live in a cold basement apartment. Gregor is a comedian who stacks chairs for a living. Jess is an actor who works in a restaurant. The sudden death of their close friend, Peter, forces them to think about their lives. They stay up al...

• Mar-2016
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Prepare to be blown away―or rather, carried away on huge muscular wings―by this blissfully outlandish, bracingly-smart, tour de force about a teen who has to come to terms with relinquishing control for the first time as she falls for the hot new...

• Nov-2018
• / General Fiction
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Hatchet meets Maybe a Fox in this piercing novel about Edgar, a boy who has lost the ability to speak and can only bark, and his dog Benjamin as they travel through the freezing Yukon wilderness in order to stop Edgar’s mother from making a huge mi...

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Man of Bone has a thriller's taste for blood, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a heart-wrenching portrait of an ordinary Canadian jerked into third-world terrorism. Bill Burridge, his wife and their little son have moved to the "island para...