Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Wiebe was born on October 4, 1934, in an isolated farm community of about 250 people in a rugged but lovely region near Fairholme, Saskatchewan. His parents had escaped Soviet Russia with five children in 1930, part of the last generation of homesteaders to settle the Canadian West, and part of a Mennonite history of displacement and emigration through Europe and Asia to North and South America since the seventeenth century. In 1947 his family gave up their bush farm and moved to Coaldale, Alberta, a town east of Lethbridge peopled largely by Ukrainians, Mennonites, Mormons, and Central Europeans, as...
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Come Back
eBook | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Amish & Mennonite
978-0-345-80887-5 (0-345-80887-8)
September 30, 2014 | $13.99
From a 2-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, an intense novel of loss, memory and the limitless nature of family love.
Hal Wiens, a retired professor, is mourning the sudden death of his loving wife, Yo. To get through each day, he relies on the bare comfort of...
Written by Rudy Wiebe
eBook | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Amish & Mennonite
978-0-345-80887-5 (0-345-80887-8)
September 30, 2014 | $13.99
From a 2-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, an intense novel of loss, memory and the limitless nature of family love.
Hal Wiens, a retired professor, is mourning the sudden death of his loving wife, Yo. To get through each day, he relies on the bare comfort of...
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hardcover.
Come Back
Hardcover | 288 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Amish & Mennonite
978-0-345-80885-1 (0-345-80885-1)
September 30, 2014 | $26.95
From a 2-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, an intense novel of loss, memory and the limitless nature of family love.
Hal Wiens, a retired professor, is mourning the sudden death of his loving wife, Yo. To get through each day, he relies on the bare comfort of...
Written by Rudy Wiebe
Hardcover | 288 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Amish & Mennonite
978-0-345-80885-1 (0-345-80885-1)
September 30, 2014 | $26.95
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From a 2-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, an intense novel of loss, memory and the limitless nature of family love.
Hal Wiens, a retired professor, is mourning the sudden death of his loving wife, Yo. To get through each day, he relies on the bare comfort of...
Also available as an
eBook.
Stolen Life
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - Canada; Social Science - Indigenous Studies
978-0-307-36713-6 (0-307-36713-4)
July 31, 2012 | $17.99
"Written with primal intensity, touched with redeeming compassion, Rudy Wiebe--has explored our history, our roots and the secrets of our hearts with moral seriousness and great feeling." - Governor General's Award for Fiction Citation, l994
A powerful, major work of non-fiction, beautifully written, with the impact of Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the...
Written by Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - Canada; Social Science - Indigenous Studies
978-0-307-36713-6 (0-307-36713-4)
July 31, 2012 | $17.99
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"Written with primal intensity, touched with redeeming compassion, Rudy Wiebe--has explored our history, our roots and the secrets of our hearts with moral seriousness and great feeling." - Governor General's Award for Fiction Citation, l994
A powerful, major work of non-fiction, beautifully written, with the impact of Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the...
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trade paperback.
A Discovery Of Strangers
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36714-3 (0-307-36714-2)
June 1, 2011 | $4.99
A Discovery of Strangers is a story--based on true events--of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin's small group of British officers and Canadian voyageurs, on their first expedition to search for a route through the incomprehensible North, encounter the...
Written by Rudy Wiebe
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36714-3 (0-307-36714-2)
June 1, 2011 | $4.99
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A Discovery of Strangers is a story--based on true events--of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin's small group of British officers and Canadian voyageurs, on their first expedition to search for a route through the incomprehensible North, encounter the...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Blue Mountains of China
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-602-8 (1-55199-602-2)
April 13, 2011 | $13.99
For readers of Wiebe's Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest and Sandra Birdsell's The Russländer.
An epic novel on the Mennonite experience, by a Governor General's Award-winning author.
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-602-8 (1-55199-602-2)
April 13, 2011 | $13.99
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For readers of Wiebe's Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest and Sandra Birdsell's The Russländer.
An epic novel on the Mennonite experience, by a Governor General's Award-winning author.
Also available as a
trade paperback.
River Of Stone
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-36715-0 (0-307-36715-0)
March 4, 2011 | $14.99
A rare and marvellous collection by a master teller of tales, together in one volume for the first time.River of Stone brings to readers an appealing selection of Rudy Wiebe's best and most loved writing — and draws us into a world that he has made distinctively his own. In this...
Written by Rudy Wiebe
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-36715-0 (0-307-36715-0)
March 4, 2011 | $14.99
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A rare and marvellous collection by a master teller of tales, together in one volume for the first time.River of Stone brings to readers an appealing selection of Rudy Wiebe's best and most loved writing — and draws us into a world that he has made distinctively his own. In this...
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trade paperback.
Temptations Of Big Bear
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36622-1 (0-307-36622-7)
November 5, 2010 | $17.99
Written by Rudy Wiebe
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36622-1 (0-307-36622-7)
November 5, 2010 | $17.99
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Early in his writing career, Rudy Wiebe’s imagination was caught by a heroic character of Cree and Ojibwa ancestry whose birthplace was within twenty-five miles of where Wiebe himself was born 110 years later. The man’s name translated into English was Big Bear, and he came to be the subject of...
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Sweeter Than All The World
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36621-4 (0-307-36621-9)
October 22, 2010 | $13.99
Rudy Wiebe’s latest novel is at once an enthralling saga of the Mennonite people and one man’s emotional voyage into his heritage and his own self-discovery. Ambitious in its historical sweep, tender and humane, Sweeter Than All the World takes us on an extraordinary odyssey never before fully related in a...
Written by Rudy Wiebe
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36621-4 (0-307-36621-9)
October 22, 2010 | $13.99
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Rudy Wiebe’s latest novel is at once an enthralling saga of the Mennonite people and one man’s emotional voyage into his heritage and his own self-discovery. Ambitious in its historical sweep, tender and humane, Sweeter Than All the World takes us on an extraordinary odyssey never before fully related in a...
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trade paperback.
Peace Shall Destroy Many
eBook | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36620-7 (0-307-36620-0)
October 15, 2010 | $19.99
In 1944, as war rages across Europe and Asia, famine, violence and fear are commonplace. But life appears tranquil in the isolated farming settlement of Wapiti in northern Saskatchewan, where the Mennonite community continues the agricultural lifestyle their ancestors have practised for centuries. Their Christian values of peace and love lead...
Written by Rudy Wiebe
eBook | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36620-7 (0-307-36620-0)
October 15, 2010 | $19.99
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In 1944, as war rages across Europe and Asia, famine, violence and fear are commonplace. But life appears tranquil in the isolated farming settlement of Wapiti in northern Saskatchewan, where the Mennonite community continues the agricultural lifestyle their ancestors have practised for centuries. Their Christian values of peace and love lead...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Of This Earth
eBook | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | History - Canada; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-37347-2 (0-307-37347-9)
June 12, 2009 | $14.99
A beautiful, moving memoir of a boy’s coming of age, infused with a deep love of the land, from one of Canada’s most cherished and acclaimed writers.
In Of This Earth, Rudy Wiebe gives vivid life again to the vanished world of Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite community - and...
Written by Rudy Wiebe
eBook | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | History - Canada; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-37347-2 (0-307-37347-9)
June 12, 2009 | $14.99
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A beautiful, moving memoir of a boy’s coming of age, infused with a deep love of the land, from one of Canada’s most cherished and acclaimed writers.
In Of This Earth, Rudy Wiebe gives vivid life again to the vanished world of Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite community - and...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Fruits of the Earth
eBook | 400 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-3644-6 (0-7710-3644-2)
January 13, 2009 | $17.99
First published in 1933, Fruits of the Earth has come to be regarded as a landmark in Canadian fiction, an unparalleled depiction of the ordeals endured by the early pioneers of the western prairies. In his portrait of Abe Spalding, Frederick Philip Grove captures the essence of the pioneering spirit: its...
eBook | 400 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-3644-6 (0-7710-3644-2)
January 13, 2009 | $17.99
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First published in 1933, Fruits of the Earth has come to be regarded as a landmark in Canadian fiction, an unparalleled depiction of the ordeals endured by the early pioneers of the western prairies. In his portrait of Abe Spalding, Frederick Philip Grove captures the essence of the pioneering spirit: its...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Blue Mountains of China
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9471-2 (0-7710-9471-X)
December 9, 2008 | $19.99
For readers of Wiebe's Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest and Sandra Birdsell's The Russländer.
An epic novel on the Mennonite experience, by a Governor General's Award-winning author.
From the eBook edition.
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9471-2 (0-7710-9471-X)
December 9, 2008 | $19.99
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For readers of Wiebe's Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest and Sandra Birdsell's The Russländer.
An epic novel on the Mennonite experience, by a Governor General's Award-winning author.
From the eBook edition.
Also available as an
eBook.
Fruits of the Earth
Trade Paperback | 408 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-3645-3 (0-7710-3645-0)
January 29, 2008 | $22.95
First published in 1933, Fruits of the Earth has come to be regarded as a landmark in Canadian fiction, an unparalleled depiction of the ordeals endured by the early pioneers of the western prairies. In his portrait of Abe Spalding, Frederick Philip Grove captures the essence of the pioneering spirit: its...
Trade Paperback | 408 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-3645-3 (0-7710-3645-0)
January 29, 2008 | $22.95
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First published in 1933, Fruits of the Earth has come to be regarded as a landmark in Canadian fiction, an unparalleled depiction of the ordeals endured by the early pioneers of the western prairies. In his portrait of Abe Spalding, Frederick Philip Grove captures the essence of the pioneering spirit: its...
Also available as an
eBook.
Of This Earth
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | History - Canada; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-676-97753-0 (0-676-97753-7)
February 6, 2007 | $22.00
A beautiful, moving memoir of a boy’s coming of age, infused with a deep love of the land, from one of Canada’s most cherished and acclaimed writers.
In Of This Earth, Rudy Wiebe gives vivid life again to the vanished world of Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite community - and...
Written by Rudy Wiebe
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | History - Canada; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-676-97753-0 (0-676-97753-7)
February 6, 2007 | $22.00
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A beautiful, moving memoir of a boy’s coming of age, infused with a deep love of the land, from one of Canada’s most cherished and acclaimed writers.
In Of This Earth, Rudy Wiebe gives vivid life again to the vanished world of Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite community - and...
Also available as an
eBook.
Sweeter Than All The World
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97341-9 (0-676-97341-8)
September 17, 2002 | $21.00
Rudy Wiebe’s latest novel is at once an enthralling saga of the Mennonite people and one man’s emotional voyage into his heritage and his own self-discovery. Ambitious in its historical sweep, tender and humane, Sweeter Than All the World takes us on an extraordinary odyssey never before fully related in a...
Written by Rudy Wiebe
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97341-9 (0-676-97341-8)
September 17, 2002 | $21.00
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Rudy Wiebe’s latest novel is at once an enthralling saga of the Mennonite people and one man’s emotional voyage into his heritage and his own self-discovery. Ambitious in its historical sweep, tender and humane, Sweeter Than All the World takes us on an extraordinary odyssey never before fully related in a...
Also available as an
eBook.
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