Annette Gershon's odyssey from depression-era Winnipeg to Stalinist Russia and back to Canada in the 1950s is both the seldom-told story of those who actually made that hopeful, doomed, journey,...
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Author: Tregebov, RheaSummary:
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Author: Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where...
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Author: Zheutlin, PeterSummary:
On the cusp of turning 65, a man and his beloved rescue dog of similar vintage take a poignant, often bemusing, and keenly observed journey across America and discover a big-hearted, welcoming...
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Author: Andrews, D. LarraineSummary:
An eclectic collection of 11 global walks and hikes, the book includes destinations on every continent but Antarctica. From one-day saunters to two-week odysseys, readers will find the in-depth...
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Author: Ruhl, SarahSummary:
2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Longlist Selection. The extraordinary story of one woman's ten-year medical and metaphysical odyssey that brought her physical, creative, emotional,...
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Author: Nepveu, PierreSummary:
The Hardness of Matter and Water fulfills a poetic odyssey Quebecois poet Pierre Nepveu began over four decades ago. Through a sequence of four prose poems, his anonymous protagonist walks from...
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Author: Montag, KassandraSummary:
An unforgettable, inventive, and riveting epic saga with the literary force and evocative imagination of Station Eleven, Zone One, and The Road, that signals the arrival of an extraordinary new...
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Author: Bass, S. JonathanSummary:
Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in...
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Author: Kelly, Erin I., Rembert, WinfredSummary:
An artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era, Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery. A memoir in prose and paintings that celebrates Black life and summons readers to confront painful and urgent realities...
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Author: Reisman, JonathanSummary:
In this fascinating journey through the human body and across the globe, Dr. Reisman weaves together stories about our insides with a unique perspective on life, culture, and the natural world. Dr...
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Author: Sandford, Robert WilliamSummary:
In this latest RMB Manifesto, Canadian freshwater expert Robert Sandford takes readers to China and shares what it is like to deal with some of the most intractable freshwater problems in the...
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Author: Aikins, MatthieuSummary:
In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler's road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better...
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Author: Berkovits, Annette Libeskind, Libeskind, DanielSummary:
Annette Libeskind Berkovits thought her attempt to have her father record his life's story failed. But in 2004, three years after her father's death, she was going through his things and...
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Author: Towlson, JonSummary:
For many, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) is not so much a movie as a religious experience. On its release in 1977, CE3K virtually redefined the science fiction film, shifting it away...
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Author: Posnanski, JoeSummary:
A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski that is already being hailed as "an instant sports classic" (New York Post), The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and...