Joan Givner

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1985
  • Latest Book:
    March 2014
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Ellen Fremedon

Ellen Fremedon, Volunteer (Mar-2007)
Ellen's Book of Life (Sep-2008)

Book List in Order: 10 titles

  • Tentacles Of Unreason

  • Thirty-Four Ways of Looking at Jane Eyre

    Fiction. Literary Criticsm. Joan Givner engages the heart and mind in this refreshing and readable collection of short stories and essays. Nineteen pieces demonstrate how fiction insinuates itself into non-fiction, and how biography finds its way int...

  • Half Known Lives

    Fiction. Thanks to advances in biotechnology, the female protagonists of HALF KNOWN LIVES experiment with a fine upstanding citizen of their prairie city. They take Max Hoffman hostage, impregnate him, and keep him prisoner for the duration of the pr...

  • Playing Sarah Bernhardt

    Harriet’s acting career suffers a catastrophic setback when memory loss forces her to quit her role as Sarah Bernhardt. In turmoil, she accepts the role of Mazo de la Roche in a production written by an amateur playwright and being performed in sma...

  • Ellen Fremedon

    During one long summer Ellen Fremedon decides to write a novel. Her small village, Partridge Cove, is full of interesting people to write about. There’s Larry, the librarian who let her photocopy her sneakers, and crotchety old Mr. Floyd, the shopk...

  • Ellen Fremedon, Journalist

    An aspiring yet practical author, Ellen Fremedon decides to start a newspaper. After all, everyone buys newspapers, so she’s bound to turn a profit. But after promising her subscribers a paper full of truth and free of errors, Ellen finds that jour...

  • Ellen Fremedon, Volunteer

    Ellen Fremedon

    Thirteen-year-old Ellen Fremedon is not looking forward to summer. Her best friend Jenny is going away to art school, and none of her usual projects seem like very much fun anymore. She isn’t thrilled when she considers all the ways she could spend...

  • Ellen's Book of Life

    Ellen Fremedon

    Ellen is excited. She's just won a provincial public speaking contest, and her new friends Dimsie and Catriona have invited her to visit them in Toronto for a month. She can't wait to sample all the fun of the big city, but she vows to write her moth...

  • A Girl Called Tennyson

    Anne "Tenn" Tennyson Miller's adventure begins during an ordinary ferry trip, but reality soon melts away as Tenn is transported to the fantasy land of Greensward. When she arrives in Greensward, Tenn is elected to rescue her new friend, Una, who ...



  • The Hills Are Shadows

    It was supposed to be a homecoming and reunion, but when Anne Tennyson Miller (Tenn to her friends and family) returns to Driftwood Bay with her new friend Una, they find a ghost town.
    Something has gone terribly wrong in the world. The sea is ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joan Givner has published 10 books.

Joan Givner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Hills Are Shadows, was published in March 2014.

The first book by Joan Givner, Tentacles Of Unreason, was published in August 1985.

Yes. Joan Givner has 1 series.
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