Friends since attending university in Jamacia, Lethe and Daniel have long realized they would never be good for each other. But Lethe is Daniel's muse, and theirs is a connection that proves...
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Author: Manley, RachelSummary:Genre: Canadian fiction, Literary fiction
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Author: Barclay, ByrnaSummary:
This collection of short stories from Canada all have a central, connecting theme -- haunting pasts and how they weave their way into the lives of those they haunt.
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Author: Gollner, AdamSummary:
Montreal writer Dany Laferrière became "Immortal" in 2015, when he was inducted into the Académie française, the highest honour in all French literature. In these wide-ranging...
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One of the greatest challenges faced by African women writers is finding the time and the space to write. In November 2011 the third FEMRITE African Women Writers Residency alleviated this...
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Author: Manley, RachelSummary:
Friends since attending university in Jamaica, Lethe and Daniel have long realized they would never be good for each other. But Lethe is Daniel's muse, and theirs is a connection that proves...
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Author: Foran, CharlesSummary:
Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. Foran describes...
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Author: Mallory, EnidSummary:
In 1907, a shy bank clerk sent a collection of his poems south from the Yukon to be privately published and shared with a small group of friends. Fate intervened, however, and Robert Service...
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Author: Leyner, MarkSummary:
In this utterly unconventional, autobiographical novel, Mark Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall. Besides Mark's mother, who's driven him to the mall and introduces him before he...
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Author: MURRAY, AndrewSummary:
If you were put on trial for being a Christian, would you be convicted? Christians have asked themselves this question, or ones like it, for millennia. In his book, The Deeper Christian Life,...
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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...
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Author: Wilson, TeriSummary:
Jenna, a single mom and successful author, has five weeks to deliver her next young adult novel to the publisher. This year's summer getaway with her kids will be a working vacation. The only...
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Author: Brewer, WilliamSummary:
When a once promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous particle physicist's memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: plagued by debt after failing to deliver a novel, he'...
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Author: Wiesel, ElieSummary:
Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of their...
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Author: Siegemund-Broka, Austin, Wibberley, EmilySummary:
Popsugar's Best New Romances of 2022GMA.com, Shondaland, and Bustle's Best of JanuaryE! News' Books to Add To Your Reading List in JanuaryBookbub's Most Anticipated Romances of...
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Author: Illidge, PaulSummary:
A gripping and moving memoir The Bleaks is the true story of a harrowing nightmare into which writer Paul Illidge's life is plunged one summer night, when a police drug-squad raids his...