Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony and tenderness. Carol Shields gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between...
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Author: Shields, CarolSummary:Genre: Domestic fiction, Canadian fiction
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Author: Tourangeau, Pierre, Lederhendler, LazerSummary:
Short-listed for the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Translation Larry Volt is one of the rare Quebec novels that deals with the FLQ crisis. Pierre Tourangeau captures a generation of young...
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Author: Johnson, Dawn KimberlySummary:
Judson Heart, like all of us, has some regrets. Not his job: he writes for a daily newspaper. Maybe his introspection: he eats lunch alone. Definitely his timing: he hasn’t had much luck in the...
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Author: Bond, LarrySummary:
In a bid to dominate Asia and the western Pacific, China provokes a military crisis with the United States and then starts shooting down GPS satellites. America has only a short amount of time to...
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Author: Bond, LarrySummary:
When, after years of tough negotiations, North Korea's Kim Jong Il suddenly agrees to surrender all of his nuclear weapons, a suspicious U.S. government sends the First Team in to stop a...
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Author: Bond, LarrySummary:
When the CIA is tipped off that one of its most wanted men is going to be in Bologna, Italy, Ferg and the First Team are tasked to apprehend him at any cost--but under no circumstances can Italian...
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Author: Levine, JoshSummary:
Readers can’t curb their enthusiasm for Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good.
As a comedian, then producer of Seinfeld, and subsequently the creator and star of Curb...
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Author: Lowe, JanetSummary:
Lowe profiles what some call the prototypical 21st-century company, Internet giant Google. In less than 15 years, creators Sergey Brin and Larry Page built what was supposed to be a simple search...
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Author: Barr, JohnSummary:
The definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history: the crimes of osteopathic physician Larry Nassar who sexually assaulted hundreds of young gymnasts...
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Author: Olshaker, Mark, Douglas, John E.Summary:
From John Douglas, the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhunter?comes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of...
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Author: Loyie, LarrySummary:
En 1944, Larry Loyie, alors connu sous le nom de Lawrence, avait dix ans et vivait avec sa famille crie près de Slave Lake, dans le nord de l’Alberta (Canada). Tant que couleront les rivières s’...
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Author: Brown, LarrySummary:
Presents a gritty autobiography of a firefighter.
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Author: Fessenden, JamieSummary:
Zack and Larry have been best friends since middle school and are now college roommates. But when Larry hears that other guys they know are getting paid to have gay sex on camera, he convinces...
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Author: Dwyer, PhilSummary:
The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well. We all die. Most of us spend the majority of our lives ignoring this...
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Author: Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
Lawrence "Fast Larry" Shaw was the quickest gun alive until his beloved Rosa died. Turning to the bottle for solace, he takes a job helping a widow tend her ranch. But when the Barrows Brothers...
Genre: Western fiction