W.D. Valgardson

• Oct-1995
• / General Fiction
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While helping his grandfather, who is an ice fisherman on Lake Winnipeg, Thor spots a man who has driven his snowmobile through a weak patch of ice, and the boy makes a dramatic attempt to rescue the drowning man....

• Aug-1996
• / General Fiction
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Twelve-year-old Sarah is told by her widowed father that she must leave the Frog Bay wilderness and go to school in the city to learn to speak English, but when the family that she lives with is cold and cruel, keeping her out of school, she earns th...

• Sep-1997
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1998
• / General Fiction
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Eight short stories deal with problems of immediate concern to today's young readers, including maintaining friendships, resolving conflicts, caring for animals, and protecting the environment. Reprint....

• Mar-2002
• / General Fiction
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Frances lives in a beach town on Lake Winnipeg, the center of Manitoba’s Icelandic community. Her family has lived in the town since Icelandic immigrants settled there in the late 1800s. One day Frances finds an old journal. The entries are writ...

• Apr-2002
• / General Fiction
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This is a collection of stories about young people who prevail against the odds. Sam’s parents ban him from using the Internet, forcing him to get out of the house and �"surf” reality. Tracy’s parents are old hippies, yet all she wants is to ma...

• Dec-2009
• / General Fiction
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Urban paranoia and rural innocence are the themes of these stories, in which W.D. Valgardson moves effortlessly from examining West Coast city life to fishing the inland sea of Manitoba.

With a quietly understated and often disturbing realis...

• Aug-2011
• / Fantasy
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Past winner of INL Reads! A land of volcanoes, geothermal pools, and barren wilderness, Iceland is full of mists and mystery. Bears, wolves, fish, forests, swamps, harsh winters, insect-infested summers, the unpredictable waters of Lake Winnipeg, peo...

• Mar-2019
• / Literary
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Ever since the accident, ex-cop Tom Parsons’s life has been crumbling around him: his marriage and career have fallen apart, his grown children barely speak to him, and he can’t escape the dark thoughts plaguing his mind. Leaving the urban misery...