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Literary fiction
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Author:Reid, KileySummary: - Author:Morrison, ToniSummary:
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of...
- Author:Lowry, Malcolm, Doyen, Vik, Mota, Miguel, Ackerley, Chris, McCarthy, Patrick A., Tiessen, Paul, Surrey, PhilipSummary:
Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic...
- Author:Goudreault, DavidSummary:
Marie-Maude Pranesh-Lopez est aux prises avec un « trou blanc » qui la pousse à toujours fuir vers l'avant, à tout essayer, ce qui se solde invariablement par une profonde indifférence. Sa mère provoque volontairement des accidents...
- Author:Perkins-Valdez, DolenSummary:
Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she hopes to help women shape their destinies,...
- Author:Lowry, Malcolm, Mota, Miguel, Tiessen, Paul, Ackerley, Chris, Large, David, Doyen, Vik, McCarthy, Patrick A., Théorêt, Hugues, Van Gennip, Ferdinanda, Scott, HowardSummary:
The 1940 Under the Volcano—hidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpiece—differs from the latter in significant ways. It is a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In Ballast to the White Sea) and the 1947...
- Author:Crummey, MichaelSummary:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Innocents, a dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of...
- Author:Mahajan, KaranSummary:
The Association of Small Bombs is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in empathy, dazzling in acuity, and ambitious in scope.When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their...
- Author:Fitzgerald, F. ScottSummary:
In the early twentieth-century, Anthony Patch, a socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, finds himself falling madly in love with another socialite. Self-absorbed and vain, Gloria Gilbert jumps at the chance to marry...
- Author:Gibb, CamillaSummary:
Searching for answers about her dissident father's disappearance, a Vietnamese-American art curator returns to her ancestral country, where she meets a venerable pho stall soup maker and a dynamic young tour guide whose historical...
- Author:Plath, SylviaSummary:
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life...
- Author:Manley, RachelSummary:
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 unbreakable as they spend the next...
- Author:Ozeki, RuthSummary:
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and learning to take charge of one's life, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. Benny Oh is a fourteen year-old boy living in the Pacific Northwest...
- Author:Díaz, JunotSummary:
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants,...
- Author:Otsuka, JulieSummary:
Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER " The Circle is a polyphonic masterpiece." -Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant and unwavering epic told...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER " The Circle is a polyphonic masterpiece." -Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant and unwavering epic told...
- Author:Dunic, NinaSummary:
The clarion trumpet is the highest register. A "clarion call" is an urgent, singular request for something to occur, a longing. Peter is a musician. He longs for collective belonging. The Clarion covers five days in Peter's life --...
- Author:Shelstad, Sam.Summary:
To the untrained eye, Sam Shelstad may look a lot like a Value Village cashier who shares an apartment with his Uncle Herman and has just emerged from a failed relationship with a woman forty years his senior whom he met at his mother's...
- Author:Emezi, AkwaekeSummary:
"Electrifying." — O: The Oprah Magazine
Named a Best Book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, USA TODAY, Vanity Fair, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Shondaland, Teen Vogue, Vulture, Lit Hub, Bustle, ...
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