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Alison Lohans

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Award-winning Canadian Alison Lohans has published 30 books with presses in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Many of her books have been finalists for awards such as the CLA Young Adult Book Award, three different categories of the Saskatchewan Book Awards, the High Plains Book Awards, the Shining Willow Award, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, The Prix Aurora Award, and the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award. This Land We Call Home (Pearson Education New Zealand/now Australia) won the 2008 Saskatchewan Book Award for YA Literature. Alison was named the 2012 Regina YWCA Jacquie Schumiacher Woman of Distinction for her many contributions to the arts in Regina, Saskatchewan, which has been Alison's home since 1976.

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Alison Lohans The freedom to explore fascinating ideas and bring them to life through sympathetic characters.

Writing can also be a highly cathartic experience for …more
The freedom to explore fascinating ideas and bring them to life through sympathetic characters.

Writing can also be a highly cathartic experience for dealing with major life issues such as loss and grief. In placing characters in difficult situations and having them live through these challenging situations and come to some sort of resolution, the writer empathetically experiences all of this. For some of my books I've come out a different person after having worked through, and completed, a novel--for example, Foghorn Passage, which deals with Sammie Franklin's "complicated grief" after her dad's death of cancer.(less)
Alison Lohans I'm actually working on two different projects.

Over the short term, I'm working on a sequel to No Place for Kids - titled No Choice for Kids. This no…more
I'm actually working on two different projects.

Over the short term, I'm working on a sequel to No Place for Kids - titled No Choice for Kids. This novel for ages 9-12 follows sisters Sarah and Jen who have an unexpectedly bumpy ride settling in with their Aunt Ellen, after having had a chaotic, unhappy life with their drifter alcoholic dad.

The second project is an adult novel for which the working title is Murder at Glencoe. Featuring a middle-aged woman of Scots ancestry, it explores links between her troubled past and the Glencoe Massacre of 1693. (less)
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This Land We Call Home

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Who Cares About Karen?

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Don't Think Twice

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No Place for Kids

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Timefall

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Can You Promise Me Spring?

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Germy Johnson's Secret Plan by Alison Lohans
"I thought this was a delightful tale! The other illustrated cover edition is what I have( my son) as "jeremy" resembled him so much.... it's an endearing story of a young boy's maturing....don't want to ruin what the "secret" was.... short chapter bo" Read more of this review »
The Wind and Amanda's Cello by Alison Lohans
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*The Wind and Amanda’s Cello* by Alison Lohans is a charming and imaginative tale that beautifully weaves together music and magic. The story revolves around Amanda, a young girl dedicated to practicing her cello, until one day a playful a" Read more of this review »
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"“The Wind and Amanda’s Cello” by Alison Lohans is a delightful children’s story. Its protagonist, Amanda, is a young girl learning to play the cello. One day, while she is practising, a playful gust of wind slips into her cello, and suddenly the inst" Read more of this review »
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A truly beautiful and evocative work of creative nonfiction. In The Day My Mother Walked on Water, Helen Mourre explores the many seasons of the human spirit in ways that resonate deeply. Her empathetic narrative takes us many places - emotional, spi ...more
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A truly gripping novel based upon the deadly 1692 Massacre of Glencoe. Characters are very well crafted in strong fictional manner, and many crises of conscience are portrayed in a convincing manner. The setting itself is vividly brought to life.

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“The Empty Door

I will meet you,
At the empty door,
Enter the atrium,
Of dreams once bold,
Regrets untold,
Walk the corridor,
Of restlessness,
Bathe in the pool,
Of forgetfulness,
And in the grand salon,
Where the threads of life,
Now grey,
Fray in the dying light,
Share verses,
Forged by the night.”
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