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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

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 house called... 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

1927. From Canadian author de la Roche, comes the popular Jalna saga. The series, consisting of 16 volumes, made her a popular novelist. The story covers 100 years of the wealthy Whiteoak family history, and it is partly based on de la Roche's own experiences. The central characters... 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