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JOANNE CULLEY is an award-winning writer and documentary producer whose previous book, Love in the Air: Second World War Letters, was published in 2015. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Peterborough Examiner, Legion Magazine, and Our Canada, as well as on CBC and Bravo Network. She has an MA in English from the University of Toronto and a Certificate in Creative Writing from Humber College. She grew up in Toronto and now lives in Peterborough, Ontario.

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Average rating: 4.38 · 60 ratings · 29 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Claudette on the Keys 4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Luciano, aka Lucky, Armstrong's name has changed so many times, she has to keep reminding herself who she is at the moment. As a sidekick to her con father, then a con boyfriend, both looking for the next big scam, she's lived a life running from the ...more
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Told from the point of view of a tortoise, this is a tale of a tortoise who lives in captivity on an estate in California, along with a menagerie of other animals, including a monkey, a peacock, donkey, alpaca, and others. She develops a special bond ...more
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In the Last Woman of Warsaw, author Judy Batalion focuses on the lives of two young Jewish women in 1938, before the Second World War, alternating perspectives between Fanny, a wealthy university student who aims to be a photographer, and Zosia, a so ...more
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Eliza Sunshine by Michelle Good is a multi-generational family saga centering on the changes, hardships and prejudice First Nations women have experienced from the 1800s to the 1960s, loosely based on the author's heritage. Great-grandmother Swan wit ...more
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The Chambermaid's Key by Genevieve Graham is told from the points of view of two young women in two different timelines: Rosie Ryan from 1929 who lives in the Ward, an impoverished area of Toronto, and Bridget Kelly from 2024, a building inspector ta ...more
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