Taking inspiration from John Glassco's Memoirs of Montparnasse, Young Hunting is both a story of discovery and transformation. While Toronto changes around him, from a puritanical British colonial outpost to a mixing...
Literature
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Author:Hunter, MartinSummary: -
Author:Heighton, StevenSummary:Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post as part of “The Afterword,” Steven Heighton’s memos and dispatches to himself — a writer’s pointed, cutting take on his own work and the work...
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Author:Weiden, David Heska WanbliSummary:An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation and hailed by CJ Box as " a hell of a debut" "Winter Counts is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book....
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Author:Simms, William GilmoreSummary:During William Gilmore Simms’s life (1806–1870), book reviews and critical essays became vital parts of American literary culture and intellectual discourse. Simms was an assiduous reviewer and essayist, proving by example the...
- Author:Owens, DeliaSummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON More than 6 million copies sold A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick A Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade "I can't even express how much I love this book!...
- Author:Jones, Amy.Summary:
Winner of Northern Lit Award Finalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour A Penguin Book Club Pick Quill & Quire "Books of the Year 2016" Globe & Mail "Best Canadian Fiction of 2016" A woman...
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Author:Murphy, BrendaSummary:Understanding David Mamet analyzes the broad range of David Mamet's plays and places them in the context of his career as a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction prose as well as drama. Over the past three decades, Mamet has written...
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Author:Frye, StevenSummary:Named by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait...
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Author:Furman, JanSummary:In this revised introduction to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s novels, Jan Furman extends and updates her critical commentary. New chapters on four novels following the publication of Jazz in 1992 continue Furman’s explorations of...
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Author:Belcourt, Billy-RaySummary:Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to 'cut a hole in the sky to world inside.' Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like...
- Author:Frankel, LaurieSummary:
New York Times Bestseller The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected." —Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book...
- Author:Turnbull, BrynSummary:
"Brimming with scandal and an equal amount of heart...a sweeping yet intimate look at the lives of some of history's most notorious figures from Vanderbilts to the Prince of Wales... A must-read." —Chanel...
- Author:Chase, Eve.Summary:
"An enthralling story of secrets, sisters, and an unsolved mystery." —Kate Morton An evocative novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne Du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds...
- Author:Guillory, JasmineSummary:
A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in this fun and flirty multicultural romance debut by  New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory—author...
- Author:MacDonald, Ann-MarieSummary:
“The sun came out after the war and our world went Technicolor. Everyone had the same idea. Let’s get married. Let’s have kids. Let’s be the ones who do it right.&rdquo...
- Author:Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings...
- Author:Camus, AlbertSummary:
With millions of copies sold The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world. It stands as perhaps the greatest existentialist tale ever conceived. When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent...
- Author:Faulkner, WilliamSummary:
"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no...
- Author:Gerritsen, TessSummary:
A woman trying to outrun her past is drawn to a coastal village in Maine—and to a string of unsolved murders—in this novel of romance and psychological suspense from New York Times bestselling author Tess...
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