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The Grandmothers
“Here is yet more evidence that this writer of enormous insight and prodigious talent should have won the Nobel Prize decades ago.” — Chicago TribuneShocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories…
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The Great Canadian Sonnet
‘Just because I’m writing this long story doesn’t mean to say I think I’m a great writer, or even mildly talented. No, I am merely trying to put things down…
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The Hanging Tree
Twenty-five years later, Wilson’s nephew Bill decides to tell some of the stories hidden beneath his own family’s silence. He finds a letter, written before he was born, by a…
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The Hard Word
Vera. Miriam, Laura – one family, three generations – with Miriam at the centre, balancing the needs of her mother and daughter with those of her marriage and career.Vera is…
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The Ides of March
“Mr. Wilder has brought to his character the warmth which was totally lacking in the Caesar of schoolbooks and Shakespeare, and in his hero’s destruction there is the true catharsis.”…
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The Inheritance of Exile
In The Inheritance of Exile, Susan Muaddi Darraj expertly weaves a tapestry of the events and struggles in the lives of four Arab-American women. Hanan, Nadia, Reema, and Aliyah search…
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The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger
“If you’re black you don’t need to get at anything. You’re already there. You can live right out of your insides.” So says the antihero of this legendary novel that…
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The Nightingales
Desire and deceit, love and loathing – The Nightingales is a novel about best friends.It’s summer 1989, and as an insufferable heat stalks the city of Toronto, Julie and Alex…
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The Odyssey of Homer
Homer’s great epic The Odyssey—one of Western literature’s most enduring and important works—translated by Richmond LattimoreA classic for the ages, The Odyssey recounts Odysseus’ journey home after the Trojan War—and…
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The Overstory
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Over One Year on the …
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The Painted Drum
“Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond…