As news of war and terror dominates the headlines, scientist Malcolm Potts and veteran journalist Thomas Hayden take a step back to explain it all. In the spirit of Guns, Germs and Steel, Sex and...
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Author: Potts, MalcolmSummary:Genre: Math and science -
Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:Malcolm Firth is an aging hairdresser whose partner, Denis, in the late stages of Alzheimer's, has become inexplicably anti-Semitic. Alison, his young suburban protege, has never heard of the...
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Author: deWitt, PatrickSummary:Finalist, Scotiabank Giller Prize. Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son...
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Author: Kleinhuis, HarrySummary:Jack is 14 going on 15. For the past seven years, he and his younger brother and sister, and his mother and father, have lived in a remote cabin on the Athabasca River west of Edmonton. It's...
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Author: Jackson, JennySummary:
Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her inheritance when she married...
Genre: Domestic fiction, Literary fiction -
Author: Herron, MickSummary:
Something happened in 1994 Berlin that forever changed MI5. Very few know that story and those who do will do anything to keep it secret. Two years ago, a hostile prime minister launched the...
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Author: Hanrahan, MauraSummary:Twenty-seven dead. Staggering property losses.
Triggered by an offshore earthquake on the Grand Banks, a tsunami unleashed its fury on the coastline of the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland,...
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Author: deWitt, PatrickSummary:Frances Price--tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature--is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son, Malcolm, is no help, mired in a...
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Author: Prest, Thomas PreskettSummary:
Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood was a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story by Thomas Preskett Prest (alternatively attributed to James Malcolm Rymer). It first appeared in 1845...
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Author: Squires, Malcolm F.; Naysmith, John KennedySummary:Nearing the end of a lifetime in the boreal forest, a retired forester writes a passionate plea for rational, science-based forest management. The boreal forest is constantly changing, often...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Political science -
Author: Lowry, Malcolm; McCarthy, Patrick A.; Ackerley, Chris; Doyen, Vik; Mota, Miguel; Tiessen, PaulSummary:In Ballast to the White Sea is Malcolm Lowry’s most ambitious work of the mid-1930s. Inspired by his life experience, the novel recounts the story of a Cambridge undergraduate who aspires to be a...
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The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet...
Genre: Poetry -
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The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet...
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Author:Summary:West by Northwest is a classic collection of British Columbia stories, beginning with Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst's ribald creation myth "The Raven and the First Men" and closing with Edith...
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Author: Romaniuk, AnatoleSummary:Experts from around the world review and extend the research on Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the circumpolar North, mapping recent changes in their demography, health,...