Winner, Roehampton Poetry Prize, Finalist, Man Booker Prize, Finalist, Goldsmiths Prize. Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia,...
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Author: Robertson, RobinSummary:
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Author: Okonkwo, Joe.Summary:
On a sweltering summer night in 1925, beauties in beaded dresses mingle with hepcats in dapper suits on the streets of Harlem. The air is thick with reefer smoke, and jazz pours out of speakeasy...
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Author: AnonymousSummary:
This "picture of what the early saints endured for our Lord Jesus Christ under one of the bitterest persecutions of Rome" will challenge and stimulate the mind and soul of anyone who dares to read...
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Author: FLYNN, VinceSummary:
CIA superagent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to The New York Times bestselling Separation of Power - another chillingly authentic adventure from the master of the...
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Author: Korzan, Mary Rita SchilkeSummary:
"When I wrote a tribute for my mother years ago, I never anticipated it would take a worldwide journey. Nonetheless, that is exactly what happened. The story I am about to share with you may read...
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Author: Walker, JeffreySummary:
Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the technê, or "handbook," tradition—which it controversially suggests began with Isocrates—as the central tradition in ancient rhetoric and a potential model...
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Author: Kerrin, Jessica ScottSummary:
Finalist for the Canadian Library Association's 2014 Book of the Year for Children Award Selected as a New York Public Library Book for Reading and Sharing While tracking clues from a secret code...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:
Three of Dickens's most compelling orphan protagonists'Oliver Twist, Pip, and Esther Summerson'in three of his greatest novels. Perhaps no writer in the English language is more closely associated...
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Author: Norton, AndreSummary:
After suffering defeat in the Civil War, a young man struggles to establish his identity and begin life anew in a raw and unsettled land. In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into...
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Author: Brossard, NicoleSummary:
Nominated for a Governor General's Award for Translation Yesterday, on my way back from the museum: my head is full of images of storms. A boundless sea of paintings and photographs. Other storms...
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Author: Spencer, LivSummary:
“Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight is a Twilighter essential. With beautiful full color pages, this book takes you from the beginnings of Stephenie Meyer to the future release...
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Author: Samawi, Mohammed AlSummary:
A young man's moving story of war, friendship, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a...
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Author: Chard, RosieSummary:
When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for 'listeners' to work on an unconventional project, he anticipates that his team of eavesdroppers will...
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Author: AnonymousSummary:
Furious at being cuckolded, a sultan beds a new virgin each night, then murders each before she can betray him. Only Scheherazade finds a way to keep herself alive: for 1,001 nights she tells the...
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Author: AnonymousSummary:
A biography and history of Queen Victoria [1819-1901]of Great Britain.