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Above All Things
by Tanis Rideout
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 (9 customer reviews)
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McClelland & Stewart
Jun 19 2012
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“This is a fascinating, true story and Canadian Tanis Rideout has done justice to its harrowing quality in her debut novel, Above All Things. . . . The great power of the novel, understandably, is not these internal debates but Rideout’s description of the battle between the vulnerable bodies ...
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Maidenhead
by Tamara Faith Berger
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 (3 customer reviews)
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Coach House Books
April 15 2012
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'For those of us who secretly read V.C. Andrews and The Story of O under the covers with flashlights in early adolescence, Tamara Faith Berger is our grown-up literary saint. Her prose has consistently traversed extreme, forbidden territory, infusing filth with intelligence and sophistication unseen in much of Canadian ...
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The Headmaster's Wager
by Vincent Lam
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 (16 customer reviews)
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Doubleday Canada
April 24 2012
Hardcover
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Amazon.com - Best 100 Books of 2012Amazon.ca - Best 100 Books of 2012Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize“Lam has created a genuine page-turner. The author takes full advantage of the inherent suspense as the fall of Saigon looms and Chen finally realizes that he and his family may not ...
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Everybody Has Everything
by Katrina Onstad
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 (5 customer reviews)
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Emblem Editions
May 29 2012
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A Globe and Mail 100 Best Book of 2012A NOW magazine Top 10 Book of 2012“More ambitious and assured that Onstad’s debut, but just as gripping. . . . Onstad’s timely new novel examines how and why adults choose to be parents, and what happens when you don’t have ...
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Malarky
by Anakana Schofield
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(10 customer reviews)
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Biblioasis
Mar 5 2012
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Further Praise for Malarky An Edmonton Journal Favourite for 2012A Three-Time Best-Of-The-Year Georgia Straight Selection"Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction—international in scope and electrically alive."—Colum McCann "Malarky is a terrific read, a brilliant collision of ...
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Stray Love
by Kyo Maclear
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(2 customer reviews)
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Phyllis Bruce-Non Perennial
Mar 20 2012
Hardcover
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Stray Love is a vibrant and deeply moving book about a boy of uncertain origins who seeks belonging in a world of harsh divides and stifling conventions. It is a book about parents who have been called to witness the evils of a war, and about children who ...
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Book of Great Worth
by Dave Margoshes
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Coteau Books
April 3 2012
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Amazon.ca Editors' Pick: Best Books of 2012Set largely among the Jewish community of inter-war New York City, this is a beautifully-told collection of scenes from Morgenstern’s life. The tricky ground of writing the advice column for a provincial Yiddish daily; successes during, and hard times after, ...
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People Park
by Pasha Malla
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(1 customer review)
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House of Anansi Press
Jun 11 2012
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When I got to the last page, I wanted to flip the thing over and start right back at the beginning. I can't think of a better testament to the pleasure of reading a novel. (Suzannah Showler ...
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The Bellwether Revivals
by Benjamin Wood
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McClelland & Stewart
Mar 20 2012
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“Benjamin Wood's debut novel, The Bellwether Revivals, draws readers in, much as Eden's organ draws Oscar, a young nursing-home care assistant, into King's College Chapel, at Cambridge. It doesn't matter that Oscar is an atheist. Before he knows it, he's sat through an entire service – just as the ...
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Matter of Life and Death or Something, A
by Ben Stephenson
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(1 customer review)
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Douglas & McIntyre
Feb 24 2012
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"Ben Stephenson's debut novel is intimate, overwhelming and personal." (The Coast 20120404)"Arthur is truly the novel's best feature. He's annoying yet undeniably endearing. He has the charm and sassiness of a Roald Dahl character -- think of the unnamed boy from The Witches or the title character in James ...
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