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General fiction
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Author:Wedderburn, AndrewSummary: - Author:Colford, IanSummary:
Enrique Tomás lives a quiet life with a large, loving family in an unnamed South American country. But Enrique has secrets. When his second eldest son, Hector, and Hector’s beloved friend Nadia uncover one of Enrique’s secrets, the...
- Author:Pynchon, ThomasSummary:
Quite unexpectedly, Mrs. Oedipa Maas finds herself the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a man she used to know in a more-or-less intimate fashion. Oedipa leaves her home and her husband and heads to Southern California to...
- Author:Creelman, LibbySummary:
An affair. A marriage. Accidental encounters. A secret spying mission masquerading as research for a short story on desire. This is the rich ground from with The Darren Effect springs, carrying us through the complexities, tragedies,...
- Author:Reed, DeborahSummary:
An emotionally searing novel of second chances from an author whose "gorgeous and wise prose" (Cheryl Strayed) will stay with you long after you're done June is in transition, reeling from her divorce, trying to stay...
- Author:Gold, NoraSummary:
The Dead Man is a compelling novel about a woman who is obsessed. Eve, a composer of sacred music and a music therapist, is well aware of the saying, “Physician, heal thyself,” but she just can’t seem to do this. For some...
- Author:Tolstoy, Leo.Summary:
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a...
- Author:Neuhaus, MareikeSummary:
In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to...
- Author:Medaglia, LinaSummary:
A mesmerizing novel of betrayal, loss, and multiple identities, this is the story of Licia Giganteschi, for whom it takes half a lifetime to go back home, to a place she loves and hates at the same time. Licia grows up in the beautiful...
- Author:Brochu, André, Newall, AlisonSummary:
Like any young man, Etienne longs for independence and dreams about a bright future. But he’s a Tourangeau, part of a sprawling Quebec family that, though destitute, thrives as insecurely as weeds in a well-tended garden, nurtured by a...
- Author:Hoagland, EdwardSummary:
From the pages of the New Yorker, Esquire, and the Paris Review, "Edward Hoagland's collected stories are dazzling" (Ann Beattie). Saul Bellow called him "one of the very best writers of his generation."...
- Author:Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
In Haiti during the dictatorial 1960s, the man known as the "dew breaker" was a torturer. Now an American and a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, he maintains a quiet life as a husband and father. His terrible deeds lie buried. As...
- Author:NoNieqa, RamosSummary:
A 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection.
A 2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens.Macy's school officially classifies her as "disturbed," but Macy isn't interested in how others define her. She's...
- Author:Eddie, ChristineSummary:
An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013. Roman was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land rather than his family’s wealth. Éléna flees a house of blood and...
- Author:Tomp, Sarah WonesSummary:
After an injury forces Ria off the diving team, an unexpected friendship with Cotton, a guy on the autism spectrum, helps her come to terms with the abusive relationship she's been in with her former coach. Ria Williams was an...
- Author:Herriot, TrevorSummary:
A debut novel about the heartbreak of habitat loss and family trauma by one of Canada's most beloved writer-naturalists. This debut novel by Trevor Herriot is the richly observed story of Nell Rowan, who has inherited her family's...
- Author:MacKinnon, DavidSummary:
Writer Jack Fingon realizes too late that his life of "intuition and attraction" has produced little to value, and nothing to remember. To settle a piece of unfinished business, Fingon devises a plan to fulfil the testamentary wish of...
- Author:Caillé, Anne-Renée, Mullins, RhondaSummary:
He tells her about cases he remembers. The two young women found in the forest, the drowned boy whose organs were eaten by eels, the casket that caught on fire at the funeral. He reveals the secrets of his profession. The powder that...
- Author:Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:
The portrait of three generations of the Chan family living in Vancouver's Chinatown, where history repeats itself through the generations. Abandoned by her sisters, jobless and stuck in a city she resents, Sammy finds herself cobbling...
- Author:Twigg, AlanSummary:
From Franz Boas to Alice Munro: welcome to an unprecedented panorama of the most significant authors and books of British Columbia culled from Alan Twigg's unrivalled knowledge of more than two centuries of B.C. literary history. The...
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