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Author: Ibsen, HenrikSummary:
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Author: Schein, MaggieSummary:
An enticing collection of tales told in the fabulist and metafiction traditions, Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves embraces a cyclical movement of renewal, like the ancient ouroboros motif itself...
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Author: Brant, JohnSummary:
In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall's Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a...
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Author: Hamon, TracySummary:
In a series of poems that move between narrative and lyric, the personas of Austrian artist Egon Schiele and his mistress/model Valerie Neuzil are revealed in exquisite detail. Dividing the work...
Genre: Canadian poetry -
Author: Windsor, Lee; Sarty, Roger; Milner, MarcSummary:
Loyal Gunners uniquely encapsulates the experience of Canadian militia gunners and their units into a single compelling narrative that centres on the artillery units of New Brunswick. The story of...
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Author: Kamboureli, SmaroSummary:
Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government...
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Author: Javid, Ali; Javeed, TabassumSummary:
Hundreds of India's stunning temples are catalogued and copiously illustrated in this two-volume work loaded with color photographs. A brief introduction to the principal religious groups who have...
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Author: Alcott, William; Thomas, AnnaSummary:
The dedicated lifestyle philosophy advocated in Alcott’s Vegetable Diet might have been written by a contemporary vegetarian food critic. Alcott’s complete disdain for meat and all animal products...
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Author: Gespe'gewa'gi Mi'gmawei MawiomiSummary:
Nta'tugwaqanminen provides evidence that the Mi'gmaq of the Gespe'gewa'gi (Northern New Brunswick and the Gaspé Peninsula) have occupied their territory since time immemorial. They were the sole...
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Author: Downe, LiseSummary:
Propositions and Prayers, Lise Downe's first book of poetry in nine years, is a collection in two parts: "Propositions" is a series of short poems-as-possibilities, structured by the compression...
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Author: Tacitus, Caius CorneliusSummary:
AD 69, the year following Nero's suicide and marking the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome, was one of the most dramatic and dangerous in the city's history. In the surviving...
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Author: Kenyon, MichaelSummary:
Parallel Rivers is a collection of stories that were coaxed into existence from Kenyon’s interest in seeing what fiction might learn from film, particularly the German, French, Italian, and...
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Author: ABC Radio NationalSummary:
An audio tour of the Nullarbor plain in southern Australia.
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Author: Stratton-Porter, GeneSummary:
Freckles, a plucky orphan who has lost one hand, finds work with the kindly owner of a vast lumber camp and discovers the plot of a former employee to cut and steal some of the trees.
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Author: Stratton-Porter, GeneSummary:
An old-fashioned novel that describes the struggles and achievements of spirited Kate, the youngest daughter of a rich Indiana farmer. Her father presents each of her brothers with a 200-acre farm...
Genre: Historical fiction