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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom
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Broadway
Oct 8 2002
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No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. It's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it ...
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It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
by Lance Armstrong
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Berkley Trade
Sep 1 2001
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People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong--a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de France, the multiday bicycle race famous for its grueling intensity. Armstrong is a thor...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond
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Penguin
April 1 1999
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Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age ...
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
by Arthur Herman
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Broadway
Sep 24 2002
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"I am a Scotsman," Sir Walter Scott famously wrote, "therefore I had to fight my way into the world." So did any number of his compatriots over a period of just a few centuries, leaving their native country and traveling to every continent, carving out ...
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Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry
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Feb 25 2003
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For Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry puts his own spin on Tolstoy's maxim that "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." The result is a thoroughly absorbing tale about matters of family, told with wise, gentle humour. In the early 1990s, Hindu fundamentalists, ...
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
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Vintage Canada
Oct 10 2002
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Serious novels about young boys being drawn closer to God while trapped on lifeboats with dangerous wild animals ought to be impossible. ...
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Heavier Than Heaven
by Charles Cross
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Hyperion
Aug 21 2002
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The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure as T.S. Eliot's. Now Charles Cross has cracked the code in the definitive biography ...
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Lucky: A Memoir
by Alice Sebold
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Back Bay Books
Sep 16 2002
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When Sebold, the author of the current bestseller The Lovely Bones, was a college freshman at Syracuse University, she was attacked and raped on the last night of school, forced onto the ground in a tunnel "among the dead leaves and broken beer bottles." I...
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
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Vintage Canada
Nov 5 2002
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Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated Atonement is his first novel since Amsterdam took home the prize in 1998. But while Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece, Atonement is a more sturdy, more ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to play, think, and experiment. We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the ...
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Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
by Stephen King
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Dec 30 2002
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In his introduction to Everything's Eventual, horror author extraordinaire Stephen King describes how he used a deck of playing cards to select the order in which these 14 tales of the macabre would appear. Judging by the impact of these stories, from the first words of the darkly fascinating ...
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
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Picador
Sep 15 1998
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The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a bi...
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The Summons
by John Grisham
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Dell
Dec 17 2002
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Law professor Ray Atlee and his prodigal brother, Forrest, are summoned home to Clanton, Mississippi, by their ailing father to discuss his will. But when Ray arrives the judge is already dead, and the one-page document dividing his meager estate betwee...
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Catch Me If You Can
by Frank W. Abagnale
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Broadway
Aug 1 2000
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When this true-crime story first appeared in 1980, it made the ...
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Finding Peace
by Jean Vanier
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House of Anansi Press
Feb 1 2003
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One of our deepest human desires and needs is to live in peace. We all yearn for peace, but what is it exactly? How do we find it, and how can we bring peace to our lives and our communities? Jean Vanier reflects on recent world events, identifying the sou...
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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
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Harper Perennial
Jan 2 2003
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Bernard Lewis is the West's greatest historian and interpreter of the Near East. Books such as ...
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No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
by Naomi Klein
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Dec 4 2000
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Toronto Star columnist Naomi Klein's No Logo, published at the very end of 1999, caught the imagination of the next millennium's first generation of activists, becoming the bible for the international anti-globalization movement. Documenting the ubiquity of brand identities and the harsh labour practices and self-censorship that the megabrands ...
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Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'
by Robert Jordan
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Tor Fantasy
Jan 7 2003
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The eagerly awaited 10th installment (after 2000's Winter's Heart) in Jordan's monumental Wheel of Time has all the breadth and depth that have made this fantasy author one of the acknowledged greats of the genre. Like Tolkien's Ring trilogy, Wheel of Time...
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9-11
by Noam Chomsky
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Open Media
Dec 4 2001
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It is always instructive to read American's premier dissident thinker if only simply to get an alternative take on what constitutes our present day "common sense"--an urgent project he undertakes in ...
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
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Little, Brown and Company
July 3 2002
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On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her ...
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How to Be a Canadian (Even if You Already Are One)
by Will Ferguson
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Douglas & McIntyre
Sep 1 2001
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How to be a Canadian. Don't worry: here, the phrase is not punctuated by the usual soul-searching question mark. Instead, the Ferguson brothers boldly assert that, since they have both been Canadian their whole lives, they are uniquely qualified to dissect...
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The Stone Monkey
by Jeffery Deaver
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Pocket Books
Jan 28 2003
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When a vicious smuggler known as the Ghost scuttles a ship filled with undocumented Chinese immigrants less than a mile from New York harbor, only a handful of survivors--and the Ghost himself--manage to escape the burning vessel. Lincoln Rhyme, the qua...
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan
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Random House
Oct 29 2002
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Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is a colourful, epic history of the momentous days after World War I that saw U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and the other Allied leaders reshape the world. Wilson arrived in France to referee the Paris Peace Conference only a month after the ...
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The Hours: A Novel
by Michael Cunningham
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Picador
Nov 9 2002
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The Hours is both an homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a dream ...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
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Perennial
Jan 1 2002
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Clara Callan
by Richard Wright
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Phyllis Bruce Books Perennial
Aug 9 2002
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A finely detailed depiction of the Depression era, ...
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Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
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GP Putnam And Sons
Feb 4 2003
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With Pattern Recognition, William Gibson, the man who introduced cyberpunk to the world, gives us his first novel set in the present. But as Gibson's imagination makes clear, our corporation-dominated, technologically advanced reality doesn't need much tweaking to take on the aura of science fiction. ...
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Leadership.
by Rudolph W. Giuliani
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Hyperion
Jan 1 2002
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The Polished Hoe
by Austin Clarke
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Thomas Allen Publishers
Sep 3 2002
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Austin Clarke, Toronto resident and Barbados native, maintains that he doesn't write for the limelight, but alas the honours have come in: the Rogers Communications Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for ...
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