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Shadows on the Rock Willa Cather - Set in 17th century Canada. A year in the life of a widow and his young daughter and the trappers, missionaries, craftsmen, friends and others who come to their house and shop, it highlights the men and women who struggled to adapt to the "new world" and make a new life for themselves even as they clung to the one they had left behind
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Simon & Schuster
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[1991]
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English
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A New York Times Notable Book: Sour parents, a sleazy ex, '70s radicalism, and murder spoil a California lawyer's homecoming in this mystery by the author of Hidden Agenda.
Working in the LA office of a Wall Street law firm, attorney Willa Jansson was drowning in bankruptcy codes and mourning the loss of her love life. But now, after almost a year in that purgatory of dull men in thousand-dollar suits, she's landed a new position clerking for a federal...
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Simon & Schuster
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1996.
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English
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Que serait Montréal sans la souveraineté de ses arbres ?
L'arbre est politique. Bertrand Laverdure sait parler aux arbres. Sans eux, les femmes et les hommes perdraient leur chemin et leur cœur. Une musique infinie, un vertige, un piano, ou une danse projette sa lumière sur la ville. Que serait Montréal sans ce peuple vertical qui enseigne la douceur, l'espoir et l'humilité.
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« Écrire aux arbres, c'est écrire...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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In San Francisco, lawyer Willa Jansson undertakes to defend a man who claims, not he but spacemen crashed his car into another, killing the driver. The man's explanation stops being a joke when a hitchhiker corroborates the presence of a UFO.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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San Francisco lawyer Willa Jansson becomes involved with spies, smugglers, and a jailed poet as she searches Havana for her missing mother. The mother failed to return from a goodwill visit to Cuba, which she made with a group of women.
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Midnight Ink
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[2018]
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English
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Ex-cop Willa Pennington is asked to help a friend's daughter move out from her abusive boyfriend's apartment. This simple favor soon is complicated by a dead body (the boyfriend) and a missing person (the friend's daughter). Now Willa is drawn into a battle of wits with an old friend who has dangerous secrets. Secrets that lead into a labyrinth of lies and deception in the shadows of Washington, D.C.
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Willa ; 1
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English
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"In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people--and their greatest enemy." --
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2021.
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English
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"Willa and her clan are the last of the Faeran, an ancient race of forest people who have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for as long as the trees have grown there. But as crews of newly arrived humans start cutting down great swaths of the forest she loves, she is helpless to stop them ... How can she fight the destroyers of the forest and their powerful machines? When Willa discovers a mysterious dark hollow filled with strange and beautiful...
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