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Winner of the 1927 Atlantic-Little, Brown Award

First published in 1927, this international bestseller is now back in print. Jalna is the first book in the popular series about a Canadian family named Whiteoak, who live in southern Ontario in a red-brick... Read Full Overview

I'll bet every public librarian of my era remembers the shelf full of books in the Jalna series. (They're still available in my library system; not at my library but scattered throughout with a title here and there.) That's what made us curious to read this first title chronologically... Read Full Overview

I'll bet every public librarian of my era remembers the shelf full of books in the Jalna series. (They're still available in my library system; not at my library but scattered throughout with a title here and there.) That's what made us curious to read this first title chronologically... Read Full Overview

In Jalna, Mazo de la Roche introduces the Whiteoak family. At 99, Grandmother Adeline is the dominating head of the clan, watching it face a particularly tense period of its history. With secret entanglements, moody adolescents and the reconciliation of old lovers, this is an... Read Full Overview

Livet p? Jalna forts tter sin vante gang. Familien styres stadig med h?rd h?nd af Jalnas gamle matriark, Adeline, der efterh?nden n rmer sig de 100 ?r. Men da Piers stikker af med den smukke og delikate Pheasant, chokerer han alle, for Pheasant er nemlig den u gte datter af Megs... Read Full Overview

In Jalna, Mazo de la Roche introduces the Whiteoak family. At 99, Grandmother Adeline is the dominating head of the clan, watching it face a particularly tense period of its history. With secret entanglements, moody adolescents and the reconciliation of old lovers, this is an... Read Full Overview

In Jalna, Mazo de la Roche introduces the Whiteoak family. At 99, Grandmother Adeline is the dominating head of the clan, watching it face a particularly tense period of its history. With secret entanglements, moody adolescents and the reconciliation of old lovers, this is an... Read Full Overview