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: Nelson, MaggieSummary:
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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...
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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...
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Author: Kidd, Sue MonkSummary:
"An extraordinary novel... a triumph of insight and storytelling."—Associated Press. "A true masterpiece."—Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed. An extraordinary story set in the first century about a...
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One of the greatest challenges faced by African women writers is finding the time and the space to write. In November 2011 the third FEMRITE African Women Writers Residency alleviated this...
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Manley, RachelSummary:
Friends since attending university in Jamaica, 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