A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her...
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Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary: - Author:Bennet, JimSummary:
In this memoir Jim Bennet portrays the Halifax of the 1930s and '40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs of young boys, freight trains and pine tar soap. He takes the reader "down the bank" with him to adventures all over the city's...
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Author:Arvin, EricSummary:Lo scrittore Logan Brandish è più che soddisfatto della vita che conduce nel paesino dove vive insieme alla sua migliore amica, al suo gatto e al suo ragazzo. Almeno fino a quando non incontra il suo nuovo editor, il bellissimo Brock...
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Author:Hesthamar, Kari, Goldman, Helle V.Summary:The story of the enigmatic beauty who captured the hearts of two extraordinary men. At 22, Marianne Ihlen travelled to the Greek island of Hydra with writer Axel Jensen. While Axel wrote, Marianne kept house, until Axel abandoned her...
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Author:Wilgus, NickSummary:Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageous—and he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum wage job and barely...
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Author:Tyne, Bryl R.Summary:Forty-one-year-old John Ashley Price was a Western writing superstar until his accountant stole his heart—and everything else he owned. Now, unable to write and suffering from debilitating panic attacks, all he wants is to start over...
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Author:Arvin, EricSummary:El escritor de ficción Logan Brandish es absolutamente feliz en su apacible rutina diaria de pequeña ciudad con su mejor amiga, su gata y su novio, hasta que conoce al editor de su próximo libro, el atractivo Brock Kimble, y la perezosa...
- Author:McDonald, CraigSummary:
When crime novelist Hector Lassiter hears his old friend Hemingway's missing manuscripts have turned up, he visits Hemingway's widow Mary to make sure the manuscripts don't reveal too many of Lassiter's personal details or hint too...
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Author:Vaughn, Piper, O' Shea, M.J.Summary:“Daddy” is not a title Rue Murray wanted, but he never thought he’d have sex with a woman either. Now he’s the unwitting father of a newborn named Alice. Between bartending and cosmetology school, Rue doesn’t have time for babies, but...
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Author:Cahoon, LynnSummary:Ever since her business partner, Shauna, fell for a wealthy landowner in town, Cat has been working double time to keep her writers' retreat running. And with the January session almost underway, that spells trouble. As if scheduling...
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Author:Vaughn, Piper, O’Shea, M. J.Summary:Buch 1 der Mr. Right-Serie Rue Murray wollte niemals „Daddy“ genannt werden, aber er hatte ja auch nie vorgehabt, mit einer Frau zu schlafen. Jetzt ist er der unabsichtliche Vater eines Mädchens namens Alice. Mit seinem Job als...
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Author:Bolaño, RobertoSummary:Comprising short biographies about imaginary writers, this novel is an entirely original mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere.
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he...
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Author:Bowdring, PaulSummary:After a thirty-year exile in Toronto, self-described ?mid-listing? Newfoundland author James Nightingale leaves behind a failed marriage to a successful classical musician, who has taken up with an avant-garde composer, and a middling,...
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Author:Gutman, Dan.Summary:Something weird is going on! Miss Suki is a famous children's book author'and she's coming to A.J.'s school! She lives in the rainforest and writes about endangered animals. But when her pet raptor gets loose in the...
- Author:Greenwald, AndySummary:
Twenty-something David Gould's girlfriend just left him, he's faced with an impossible book deadline, he's obsessed with the online blog of a 22-year-old woman who calls herself Miss Misery, and a 17-year-old girl has a...
- Author:London, JackSummary:
London tells the story of Martin Eden, a young sailor who, through self-education and determination, rises out of poverty to passionately pursue a dream of literary and intellectual achievement. But soon he discovers a life of success...
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Author:O'Shea, M. J., Vaughn, PiperSummary:“Papà” non era un titolo che Rue Morraway desiderasse, ma non aveva neppure mai pensato di fare sesso con una donna. Adesso è il padre involontario di una neonata di nome Alice. Tra il suo lavoro come barista e la scuola per...
- Author:Lavallée, FrançoisSummary:
Deux personnages antinomiques:David, jeune homme timide, indécis, qui étudie le piano et rêve d’écrire un roman et Octave, bourlingueur, coureur, cynique et sûr de lui. L’un sauve la vie de l’autre…pour mieux l’empoisonner. Entre les...
- Author:Chicoine, JeanSummary:
Histoire d’amour dans laquelle le narrateur trouve sa bien-aimée, l’ange de Jean Chicoine termine la trilogie du Village Osborne, quartier populaire et flyé près du centre-ville de Winnipeg. Ce roman bilingue et bilangue poursuit l’...
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