When West meets East in India, tradition, modernity, and necessity cast disturbing slants on the truth. When Georgia accepts the assignment to research prostitution in India, she enters blithely, confident of her ability to remain...
General fiction
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Author:Oakes, JulieSummary: - Author:Cole, TrevorSummary:
Major League Baseball player Zep Baker gets help from a neuroscience researcher in order to pursuade his wife to take him back in a 'brain-versus-heart' love debate.
- Author:Brooks, GeraldineSummary:
"Brooks' chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling."--The New York Times Book Review "Horse isn't just an animal story--it's a moving narrative about race and art." --TIME. A discarded...
- Author:Onoseta, RimmaSummary:
An emotionally riveting novel for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Erika L. Sánchez about two sisters in Nigeria on their journey to break free of an oppressive home. Sisters Cheta and Zam couldn't be more different. Cheta, sharp-tongued and...
- Author:Forster, E. M.Summary:
In turn of the century England, the Wilcoxes are wealthy, the Schlegels are intellectuals and the Basts are poor. But though they are from three different social classes, they are bound by passions, friendships and the occasional murder...
- Author:Chang, Lan SamanthaSummary:
Not since Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan has a fiction writer explored with such powerful intensity the experience of being Asian American. The characters who inhabit this extraordinary fictional debut are caught between the burden of...
- Author:Caputo, PhilipSummary:
From the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin, a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private and the past is never really past. Hunter's Moon is set in Michigan's wild...
- Author:MacIntyre, WendySummary:
This novel interweaves Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo’s fifteenth-century viewpoint with the twenty-first-century reality of two young Canadian students: Agnes Vane, an art history major fascinated by di Cosimo’s multi-layered...
- Author:Sánchez, Erika L.Summary:
Long-listed for the National Book Award! The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures...
- Author:Birrell, HeatherSummary:
Kleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies: here are children and adults, men and women, all struggling to define themselves. The stories in I know you are but what am I? are like snow domes - perfect little self-...
- Author:Kuhn, SarahSummary:
When Kimi travels to Japan to escape her problems, she quickly learns more about the mother she left behind and realizes she must figure out where her own heart lies.
- Author:Robertson, RaySummary:
'So,' she says. 'Who died tonight?' Sam Samson, meet Samantha. Sam's a novelist: his dad has Alzheimer's, his mother died of stroke, his wife was killed seventeen months ago in a car crash. Samantha, eighteen, is a cutter. She lives...
- Author:Cha, FrancesSummary:
A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-...
- Author:Theis, LeonaSummary:
Meet Sylvie -- funny, sly, sensual and flawed. She can't always count on herself to make good choices. She may or may not recognize a life-or-death moment, may or may not cancel her own wedding with a day to spare, might just try...
- Author:Weiss, LeahSummary:
"...masterful use of language...Weiss' novel is a great suggestion for fans of the Big Stone Gap books, by Adriana Trigiani, and Mitford series, by Jan Karon."-Booklist, STARRED Review He's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and...
- Author:Farizan, SaraSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They've shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love-Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten,...
- Author:Grimaldi, VirginieSummary:
À 33 ans, Iris trimballe sa vie dans une valise.Théo, 18 ans, a peu de rêves, car ils en foutent partout quand ils se brisent.À 74 ans, Jeanne regarde son existence dans le rétroviseur. Rien ne les destinait àse rencontrer.Quand...
- Author:D'Agostino, SaroSummary:
Immigrant Songs is a posthumous collection of the works of Saro (Rosario) D’Agostino. It includes poems, fiction works that may be chapters of an unfinished novel, and letters. These fragments from a seminal Italo-Canadian writer whose...
- Author:Williams, SeanSummary:
Music is Simon’s life - which is why he is devastated when a stroke destroys his hearing. He resists attempts to help him adjust to his new state, refusing to be counseled, refusing to learn sign language, refusing to have anything to...
- Author:Branden, VictoriaSummary:
This indispensable guide to the English language belongs beside the dictionary in every Canadian home. Written in an easy-to-understand light-hearted style, the content of the book is nevertheless serious and important. Our language is...
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