An exquisite new collection of short stories from award-winning author Simon Van Booy. Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people's stories. With these personal accounts...
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Author: Van Booy, SimonSummary:Genre: Short stories, General fiction
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Author: Boyd, WilliamSummary:
The Whitbread Award-winning author of A Good Man in Africa and the Costa Award-winning Restless now gives us a sweeping new novel that unfolds across fin-de-siecle Europe as it tells a story of...
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Author: Bowden, Charles, Kesey, KenSummary:
This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper...
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Author: Jalaluddin, UzmaSummary:
Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family...
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Author: White, SusanSummary:
"Maple Sugar Pie is the story of Hazel Whitford and her family's past, Told through old black and white photographs, we see the events that caused deep fractures in her family and her estrangement...
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Author: Ross, StuartSummary:
Brilliant experimental, surrealist fiction from the award-winning author of Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew
A wonderful dream and a horrific nightmare, a fuzzy consciousness of pain and...
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Author: Marom, MalkaSummary:
Does one honor one’s country or one’s heart? Malka Marom explores this classic dilemma in her stunningly powerful first novel, an extraordinary tale of people caught up in a violent and seemingly...
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Author: Di Michele, MarySummary:
The poems in The Flower of Youth depict the coming of age and into sexual difference of the great writer and film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The time of this story is World War II;...
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Author: Knox, MichaelSummary:
With The North End Poems, his always vivid new collection, Michael Knox has further honed his lucid, accessible style. In the tradition of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid,...
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Author: McCutcheon, Mark A.Summary:
Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon...
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Author: Pickett, RexSummary:
Two friends, Miles and Jack, head out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country, in this raucous novel about men, women, wine, and human relationships.
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Author: Egan, JenniferSummary:
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives...
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Author: Jackson, JoshilynSummary:
Every fifteen years, trouble comes after the three Slocumb women. Now, as the youngest turns fifteen, she's desperate to know who used their yard as a makeshift cemetery, and why. The unlikely...
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Author: Cassara, JosephSummary:
A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and '90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by...
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Author: Greer, DarrenSummary:
Cameron Dodds has just turned thirty. A writer, he get his ideas from the lives of others, often borrowing stories from the patients of his workplace, the Salvation Army Treatment Centre. When one...
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction