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Sointula
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Summoned to the deathbed of a long-ago lover, Evelyn is overcome by emotion. Off her medications, she impulsively steals a kayak and embarks on a quest that takes her deep into the Canadian wilderness in order to find her lost son, Tom. On the way to Sointula, a remote fishing village off Vancouver Island, she gains a traveling companion, Peter Gore, a writer working on the quintessential book on the region. Stymied by illness, writer's block, and whiskey, Peter makes an unlikely and unreliable shipmate and paramour. Tom, the survivor of a gunshot wound that slowed his speech and his drug-dealing, finds solace in his isolated life, collecting data for a whale researcher. As Evelyn and Peter approach, Tom waits for the whales' irregular visits to the water's edge. Like the novels of David Malouf and Jonathan Raban, Sointula is a celebration of place, a novel where the landscape comes as fully alive as its memorable characters.
Mount Appetite
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Short-listed for Canada's prestigious Giller Prize, Mount Appetite presents 12 vibrant, intensely human tales of desire and alienation. "Everyone at the top of Mt. Appetite is as close as they can get to heaven. It's work to get there and agony to be denied." Whether a salmon researcher, professional taster, illiterate faith healer, or Malcolm Lowry's illegitimate son, the protagonists in these sly and witty stories have all climbed the mountain, and all share a restless, relentless longing that they struggle to satiate through alcohol, drugs, sex, or schemes of the heart. Bill Gaston, author of the critically acclaimed The Good Body, evinces a remarkable dexterity of voice as he moves effortlessly among his colorful cast of characters, drawing the junkie with the same skill and compassion as the teenaged 7-11 clerk. Grotesque, unsettling, and oddly tender, Mount Appetite is short fiction at its finest.
The Order of Good Cheer
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A fascinating yet little-known figure in North American history, the French explorer and mapmaker Samuel de Champlain was the subject of a recent best-selling biography by historian David Hackett Fischer. The Order of Good Cheer, a highly readable novel by master storyteller Bill Gaston, offers a beautifully shaded, fictionalized portrait of Champlain, as well as a marvelous window into Canadian culture past and present. In 1607, Champlain and his companions struggled to establish a French colony on foreign soil while warding off scurvy. Separated by the breadth of a continent and exactly 400 years is 21st-century blue-collar worker Andy Winslow and his friends, whose urban landscape is threatened by encroaching environmental and economic disaster. In alternating narratives, Gaston bridges the divide across land and time in this illuminating story about survival, love, feast, and friendship.
Gargoyles: Stories
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In this remarkable collection, Bill Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. This marvelous, riotous, Rabelaisian world contains gargoyles that are physical manifestations of the disfigurements and contortions to which human beings subject themselves. Each of the collection's 12 stories has a strange and unique guardian spirit whose sometimes benevolent, sometimes malevolent presence informs the characters and their actions. A boy struggles with self-image and the need to fit in. A grieving parent tries to prevent others from making his mistake; tragedy ensues. A vengeful son settles a score with mom and her new lover. Other stories focus on familial delight, as well as discord in the lives of an over-the-top artist, a drunken uncle, and a bitter writer. All show one of Canada’s finest writers at the top of his form.
Speech of Hon. William Gaston of North Carolina, on the bill to authorise a loan of twenty-five millions of dollars. Delivered in the House of representatives, February. 1814
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This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.
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Vendors bone up on prehistoric past - Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - May 25, 2009
Vendors bone up on prehistoric pastVendor Robert Gaston, of Gaston Design Inc., in Fruita, Colo., focused on the treasure trove of fossils from the late Cretaceous Period buried in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Gaston said he works with museums to get
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Leader: NC has good shot at landing plant - Gaston Gazette
Gaston Gazette, NC - May 26, 2009
Leader: NC has good shot at landing plantThe needs of such a facility would help small businesses regionally, including Gaston, Hoyle's home county. "They'll continue to maintain the building - landscaping, roofing, security, catering and such," he said. The company in question is expected to
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Rethinking lobbyists and legislation - Burlington Times News
Burlington Times News, NC - May 24, 2009
Rethinking lobbyists and legislationSteen did not explain the bill on the floor. Another one of the bill sponsors, Rep. Wil Neumann, R-Gaston, did. There's also been some question among lobbyist as to whether an actual bribe took place. Some suggest that the communication was
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Indianapolis 500 Winners - Bleacher Report
Bleacher Report, CA - May 24, 2009
Indianapolis 500 Winners 1921 Tommy Milton 89.621 1920 Gaston Chevrolet 88.618 1919 Howard Wilcox 88.050 1918 no race 1917 no race 1916 Dario Resta 84.001 1915 Ralph depalma 89.040 1914 Rene Thomas 82.474 1913 Jules Goux 75.933 1912 Joe Dawson 78.719 1911 Ray Harroun 74.602.Indianapolis 500 Winners by Position Indianapolis 500 Winners by Age
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Bill to pause grad projects gains ground - Rocky Mount Telegram
Rocky Mount Telegram, NC - May 24, 2009
Bill to pause grad projects gains groundThree representatives also voted against the bill — opting instead to keep the mandatory project in place. “We should be encouraging our students to learn more, not less,” said NC Rep. Ric Killian, R-Mecklenburg. NC Rep. William Current Sr., R-Gaston,
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