In this utterly unconventional, autobiographical novel, Mark Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall. Besides Mark's mother, who's driven him to the mall and introduces him before he...
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Author: Leyner, MarkSummary: -
Author: Brannon, Barbara A.Summary:EVERY WRITER KNOWS YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN. But that's just what is required of West Texas expatriate Dee Bennett-Kaufmann when her mother is badly injured in a mysterious car accident....
Genre: Humorous fiction -
Author: Harrison, JimSummary:
A collection of three novellas from New York Times bestselling writer Jim Harrison, in which an aging Montana-based writer copes with an unplanned litter of piglets, a woman attempts to have a...
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Author: Nelson, MaggieSummary:
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory"...
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Author: Wachtel, EleanorSummary:Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most respected and sought-after interviewers. This book, celebrating her show's 25 year anniversary, presents many of her best conversations...
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Author: Gentill, SulariSummary:
USA Today bestseller • Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee • 2022 BookPage Best Mysteries and Suspense • Library Reads Top 10 Books of 2022 • Crime Reads Best New Crime Fiction. "Investigations...
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Author: Klassen, JulieSummary:
In an abandoned gatehouse on an old estate, Mariah Aubrey lives in seclusion. She supports herself by writing novels in secret--at a time when such writing is considered improper and unladylike....
Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Carter, AllySummary:
"Full of tongue-in-cheek humor, excellent dialogue, and fantastic characters, this expertly crafted story from Carter (The Blonde Identity) is a heart-melting rivals-to-lovers romance...
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Author: Braithwaite, Max.Summary:
Max Braithwaite has the unique capacity to be both tender and caustic – both nostalgic and uncompromisingly honest. He is also one of Canada’s few original humorists. All these qualities are...
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Author: Milne, ChristopherSummary:
The autobiography of Christopher Milne and the background to the poems and stories about Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin.
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Author: Cook, MéiraSummary:Shortlisted for the 2012 Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry
A fascinating, ambling, loitering mystery story in verse, a whoizzit rather than a whodunit.
In this innovative and arresting...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Poetry -
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...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Literary fiction -
Author: Barclay, ByrnaSummary:This collection of short stories from Canada all have a central, connecting theme -- haunting pasts and how they weave their way into the lives of those they haunt.
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Author: Gollner, AdamSummary:
Montreal writer Dany Laferrière became "Immortal" in 2015, when he was inducted into the Académie française, the highest honour in all French literature. In these wide-ranging...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Discursive works -
Author: Min, AncheeSummary:
Traces the author's journey from the painful deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the United States, where she endured five jobs, crime, and a painful marriage before the birth of...