Claire ripples between generations of women, carried as a middle name within one family, in this very special story of magic, pregnancy, adventure and love never ending. Meet Amelia Claire Earl in the present day as she discovers she’s...
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Author:Brunelle, CatherineSummary: - Author:Ireland, AnnSummary:
This special 3-book bundle collects three masterful novel by one of Canada’s finest writers of literary fiction. A Certain Mr. Takahashi: To Mrs. Hopper, Yoshi Takahashi may be just another name from her daughters’ past, but for Jean...
- Author:MacIntyre, WendySummary:
In the legend-steeped Borders region of Scotland, a writer discovers the hidden past of the man she loves and the truth of her mothers teachings.
- Author:Coelho, PauloSummary:
From the #1 best-selling author of The Alchemist comes an inspiring story about a young man seeking wisdom from an elder, and the practical lessons imparted along the way. Includes stunning illustrations by Christoph Niemann. “A...
- Author:Demarinis, RickSummary:
The Art & Craft of the Short Story explores every key element of short fiction, including story structure and form; creative and believable characters; how to begin and where to end; and the generation of ideas; as well as technical...
- Author:Kokis, Sergio, Wilson, W. DonaldSummary:
Where is reality to be found: at the surface of things or behind it?Max Willem, a young art student in Montreal at the end of the 1960s, becomes obsessed with outward appearances - with makeup, costume, and masks of all kinds. For him,...
- Author:James, HenrySummary:
Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers.
- Author:Clarke, AustinSummary:
Gathered together are three extraordinary books by renowned storyteller and memoirist Austin Clarke. ’Membering, Clarke’s breathtaking memoir, spans over fifty years of his life as a writer, chronicling his coming to Canada in the...
- Author:Fitzgerald, F. ScottSummary:
Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, "The beautiful and damned" chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's...
- Author:Zola, ÉmileSummary:
Immerse yourself in the world of Florent Quenu, a man wrongly accused of plotting to overthrow the French government and exiled from his beloved Paris. As he makes his way back home, Quenu envelopes us a richly detailed commentary on...
- Author:Grau, Shirley Ann.Summary:
National Book Award Finalist: A stunning collection of Southern short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Keepers of the House. A family hides its poverty behind a facade of gentility. A mysterious stranger sows discord...
- Author:Davids, C. A.Summary:
Historian, Zara Black, is far from home, trying to come to terms with her family's past. The unearthing begins with her grandfather who concealed his race to escape the harsh realities of the diamond mines before ultimately changing his...
- Author:Brossard, NicoleSummary:
Nicole Brossard's lucid, subversive and innovative work on language has influenced an entire generation of readers and writers. But three of her seminal works of postmodernism and feminism have been lost to us for years. The Blue Books...
- Author:Ireland, AnnSummary:
Nerves crunch at the international classical guitar competition in Montreal. There is more than pretty music being performed on this stage. At the International Classical Guitar Competition in Montreal, top-flight musicians fly in from...
- Author:Mattison, AliceSummary:
In 1975 the young timid Toby Ruben begins a life-long bond with the dynamic, boisterous Deborah Laidlaw. Through the years, they raise their children together, find jobs teaching, and argue over the intricacies of life. Although at...
- Author:Collins, PaulSummary:
The first complete collection of Shakespeare's plays was almost never printed. Only the machinations of several wealthy donors and publishers brought it into existence, and even then it was practically unnoticed. Many of the...
- Author:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSummary:
Dostoevsky’s last work, about a family torn apart by greed and jealousy. Three, possibly four, brothers gamble, steal, commit patricide and talk to the devil. It’s like daytime T.V. mated with a tract on existential philosophy, but in...
- Author:Cormier, RobertSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Barney has only fleeting memories about his past but, as a voluntary patient at the institute for experimental medicine, he knows he is different from the terminally ill patients surrounding him. His involvement with...
- Author:Hayden, CarlaSummary:
The Library of Congress brings booklovers an enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books. Featuring more than 200 full-color images of original catalog cards, first edition book covers...
- Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
A surveyor is lost in a labyrinth in this 1926 German novel, reflecting the author's concern with man's inability to assert himself in the face of bureaucracy. It is a new translation that restores the eccentricities in style...
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