Magpies have an eye for shiny things. They search for bright bits of meaning amongst the dirt and filth of their world. Living in a small town on the outskirts of Saskatoon with his emotionally distant and alcoholic father, Ben...
Road fiction
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Author:James, MichaelSummary: - Author:Wallen, Amy.Summary:
A hysterical romp across the Southwest, it pits a spunky Texan mom against the star-studded power of Hollywood. While watching TV one day, Ruby Kincaid catches sight of her runaway daughter Violet in a commercial. Quicker than a...
- Author:Kuhn, WilliamSummary:
An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn - author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books - Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the...
- Author:Binnie, ImogenSummary:
This program is read by the author."Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping...
- Author:Little, AshleySummary:
Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little's follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to eleven-year-old Tucker Malone-the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper-who believes his father is Sam...
- Author:Aritha, Van HerkSummary:
Arachne Manteia is a road rider, a traveling sales rep who drives a classic Mercedes and peddles women's underwear for a living. From her working class childhood to her comfortable adult life, Arachne refuses the conventional and...
- Author:Steinbeck, JohnSummary:
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck's dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics'...
- Author:Town, Florida AnnSummary:
How do you cope when your husband of more than 30 years announces he’s leaving — and you didn’t see it coming? Ellen is blindsided by her husband’s request for a divorce and the news that everything she thought they jointly owned is in...
- Author:Kerouac, JackSummary:
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
- Author:Shriver, LionelSummary:
For ten years, Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. Her latest destination is Belfast, in Northern Ireland. Here the spiteful Farrell O'Phelan wrangles through the maze of factions in the North by despising every side. Farrell's...
- Author:Novak, Ali.Summary:
"I'm sorry," he said, slowly untying the ribbon that held his mask in place. "It's just-I didn't want you to think of me any differently." Somehow I kept my mouth from falling open. I knew his face,...
- Author:Pennypacker, SaraSummary:
From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes the long-awaited sequel to Pax; this is a gorgeously crafted, utterly compelling novel about chosen families and the healing power of love. It's been a year since...
- Author:Guay-Poliquin, ChristianSummary:
When the electricity inexplicably goes out nationwide, the mundanities of life gradually shift to the rigours of survival. In this post-apocalyptic setting, an unnamed mechanic jumps into his beat-up car and drives east, journeying 4,...
- Author:Guest, JacquelineSummary:
The Depression has ruined Henry Dafoe's life: his father has left the family farm to look for work, his mother is sick and now she's decided to send Henry to Nova Scotia to work on his uncle's fishboat. But Henry has other ideas. He...
- Author:Huser, GlenSummary:
At fifteen, Tamara has survived the foster-care system through brains, will and attitude. Now there's high school to get through, along with her teacher's latest community project -- volunteering at the local seniors' home. Tamara...
- Author:Gaston, BillSummary:
Sans donner d’explications, Evelyn quitte précipitamment son mari et sa riche résidence en banlieue de Toronto pour se rendre sur la côte ouest au chevet de Claude, son ex-amant québécois qu’elle n’a plus revu depuis des années. Claude...
- Author:Kelly, LynneSummary:
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, fly from Texas to California and then take a cruise ship to Alaska-- armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
This moving story of love and family is told through the eyes of five people: Jane Jones, her daughter Rebecca, and three very different men in their lives. After a watershed moment in their marriage, Jane leaves Oliver, her renowned...
- Author:Kay, AfsheenSummary:
A child of Mars, Najib has a wanderer’s heart, and ventures to Psyche for work. But he finds factory life on the asteroid intolerable, and escapes to Callisto. When the arrivals officer misspells his name, Najib takes the opportunity to...
- Author:Toews, MiriamSummary:
Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alicia's twins, and the two welfare mothers and their five children set off on a journey to find him, facing along the way the complications...
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