Jolie Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the communists took over in 1975; the family lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded "new economic zone....
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Author:Hoang, Jolie PhuongSummary: - Author:Wangersky, RussellSummary:
A new short story from 2012 Scotiabank-Giller Prize finalist Russell Wangersky. In his first published short story since his critically acclaimed collection, Whirl Away, Russell Wangersky returns with a story about a lonely, ill old man...
- Author:Kelly, Erin EntradaSummary:
Fawn Creek Middle School might be small, but it has its tightly knit groups just like anyplace else. Who will claim newly arrived Orchid Mason? Who will save Orchid Mason? Or will Orchid Mason save them?
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Jeanne n'est plus. Le vent d'automne a emporté le dernier souffle de celle qui a semé tant de joie et d'amour. Thomas se retrouve seul, avec la moitié de lui-même. Il doit maintenant apprendre à vivre avec le vide, le trou béant que sa...
- Author:Williams, IsméeSummary:
Alex is a baseball player. A great one. His papi is pushing him to go pro, but Alex maybe wants to be a poet. Not that Papi would understand or allow that. Isa is a dancer. She'd love to go pro, if only her Havana-born mom weren't dead...
- Author:Straub, EmmaSummary:
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Harper's Bazaar, Oprah Daily, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Parade, Bustle, Marie Claire, PopSugar, Thrillist, Lit Hub and more! "The pages brim with...
- Author:Winspear, JacquelineSummary:
The bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her family's resilience in the face of war and privation. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir,...
- Author:Messud, ClaireSummary:
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists. Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos...
- Author:Anand, MadhurSummary:
An experimental memoir about Partition, immigration, and generational storytelling, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma, using the imagined voices of the...
- Author:Patchett, AnnSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto creates a resonant portrait of a life in this collection of writings on love, friendship, work, and art. "The tricky thing about being a writer, or about...
- Author:Moore, LisaSummary:
From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love? As the snowstorm of the century rages, twenty-one-year-...
- Author:Frankel, LaurieSummary:
"It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think."--Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies. This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives...
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Author:Carter, LaurenSummary:Set in Northern Ontario in the 1990s, this is a thrilling literary novel about two siblings coming to terms with their mother murdering their father and his mistress, and the history of abuse that fuelled her crime. It also features a...
- Author:Ahmed, SamiraSummary:
“Ahmed employs high stakes, increasing tensions, romantic near-misses, and adult hypocrisy to powerful effect.” – Publisher's Weekly, starred review. From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and...
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Author:Carr, Emily, Switzer, Ann-LeeSummary:Once available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007. Finally, readers are given a new glimpse into Emily Carr's life with this collection.. Carr began to write...
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Author:Deriso, Christine HurleySummary:Forrest Shepherd is convinced she's right. About what's best for her brother and his horrible girlfriend, Olivia. About her mother's need for control. Most of all, she thinks she's right about Scott, the first cute guy to hit on her....
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Author:Molavi, FereshtehSummary:To pursue her dream of building a life free from violence for her son and herself, Yalda flees from her nightmarish past as well as her troubled homeland, Iran. But in her new haven, she realizes that nightmares haunt not only her past...
- Author:Adams, HollieSummary:
Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. Take Carrie, for example. To get over her mother's death from ovarian cancer, she launches a passive-aggressive war with her fellow office workers, embarks on a campaign designed...
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Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:Zack Bernard has a thing for crime shows, especially the forensic-investigation kind. So when his friend Ella goes missing, Zack can't help piecing together what he thinks is concrete evidence that could lead to her whereabouts....
- Author:El-Wardany, SalmaSummary:
A razor-sharp debut novel of three best friends navigating love, sex, faith, and the one night that changes it all. It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their...
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