A family becomes estranged by secrets in a novel that for fans of "psychological, plot-driven fiction by writers such as Sue Miller or Anita Shreve" ( School Library Journal).Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia, fifteen-year-old Natalie Ward knows little of the outside world. But she knows family. A family so close and loving that they are the envy of the nearby town of Atwood. Natalie cherishes her position as the only daughter ...

Growing up in the 1960s on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia, Natalie Ward knew little of the outside world. But she had her family. A family so close and loving that Natalie believed they were the envy of the nearby town of Wakefield - particularly her eldest brother Boyer, whom Natalie held especially close to her heart.But Natalie began to question her family's idyllic existence the summer she turned fifteen.The arrival of a soft-spoken stranger, an Ameri...

Juillet 1966. Natalie Ward a quinze ans. Elle a grandi dans une ferme au cœur des montagnes de la Colombie-Britannique, à quelques kilomètres de la frontière avec les États-Unis. Son univers se limite à sa famille aimante et unie, qui, Natalie en est convaincue, fait l’admiration et l’envie des habitants d’Atwood, la ville voisine.En pleine guerre du Vietnam, l’arrivée d’un conscrit réfractaire, un Américain à la voix douce surnommé River, va mettre à l’épreuve la moralité et les ce...

Vancouver, 1962 : une mère de famille est retrouvée morte. Sa fille Ethie, onze ans, veut comprendre : pourquoi, le jour de sa disparition, sa mère était-elle si bouleversée ? Pourquoi son père, qui a combattu à Hong Kong pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, est-il rongé par un mal mystérieux ?Lorsqu’une jeune fille asiatique se met à errer chaque jour devant leur maison, Ethie n’y tient plus : elle se lance dans une émouvante enquête, une plongée dans le passé de Vancouver à Hong Ko...

Following tragic events, from which Julie O’Dale believes she and her husband, Ian, will never recover, Julie buys into Ian’s dream to give up their comfortable city lives and retreat to the Chilcotin area of British Columbia. Along with a team of draft horses, four cow ponies, and the range cattle, which are included in the purchase of the remote six-hundred-acre ranch, they reluctantly inherit the reclusive tenant who lives in an old trapper’s cabin on the property. As both Julie and Ian...

Cuando Natalie Ward recibe la noticia de la enfermedad terminal de su madre Nettie, no duda en regresar a su pueblo natal, en la pequeña localidad canadiense de Atwood, tras más de treinta años de ausencia. En el largo viaje de autobús que emprende desde Vancouver, rememora su idílica infancia y los acontecimientos que en 1968 le cambiaron la vida, y la de su familia.Entonces ella vivía en la granja familiar con sus padres y sus cuatro hermanos varones. Pero un caluroso día de julio, al en...

For young Ethie Coulter the sudden death of her mother in strange circumstances is a shock almost too painful to bear. Her dad was already withdrawn; now he becomes silent, drinking too much and leaving Ethie and her brother Kipper to fend for themselves.Ethie was born after her father's return from the war in the Far East, so she never knew him as the open-hearted, loving husband he used to be. However, she senses that whatever happened to him back then had something to do with he...

Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done to address these issues. Second, it centers on research on diverse populations, bringing together both research on diversity and research on diversity in teacher education. The contrib...

Business as usual is extinct. Disruption and social pressure are the new norm and change is inevitable for enterprises of all kinds—businesses, governments, non-profits and social institutions. We’ve reached a turning point and it’s time to evolve, or go the way of the dinosaurs.Enterprise everywhere needs to act now to survive and find new ways to thrive in a changed world. But in an age of polarized debates on complex issues (such as fairness and climate...