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The reluctant national coroner of Laos, Dr. Siri Paiboun, is no respecter of persons or Party; at the age of seventy-two he can afford to be independent. In...

Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century - a quirky community in...

Georgina Danforth Witley shares her birthday―April 21, 1926―with Queen Elizabeth II, a coincidence that has led to an invitation to a special 80th-birth...

A life-changing adventure of the soul for a young country boy growing up in turn-of-the-century Canada. Ethan is young boy faced with many adventures, for...

The eighth installment in the universally beloved, internationally bestselling series.In the life of Mma Ramotswe €“ a woman duly proud of her fine trad...

Winner of the 2000 Scotiabank Giller PrizeAs a boy, Sydney Henderson thinks he has killed Connie Devlin when he pushes him from a roof for stealing his sand...

The Booker finalist and beloved novel that has taken the world by storm is now a major motion picture starring Hugh Laurie. Thirteen-year-old Matilda lives ...

Following in the footsteps of The Birth House, her powerful debut novel, The Virgin Cure secures Ami McKay's place as one of our most beguiling storytellers...

While The World Was Still Reeling From The Staggering Losses Incurred In The First World War, A Little-known Canadian Sculptor Was Raising A Colossal Monume...

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journa...

"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life l...

A Look At The Odyssey From Penelope's Point Of View. Margaret Atwood.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

Now a feature film starring Alexandra Daddario An achingly honest debut novel of memory, self-destruction, and relationships set in contemporary Tokyo Somet...

This brilliant novel with universal resonance tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and...

In A Farming Community On The Windswept Plains Of Northern Manitoba, The Fiery Judith Gare Struggles For Freedom From Her Father's Brutal, Controlling Rule....

With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter...

Trouble is brewing in the small, bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. An American who came to Trafalgar as a Vietnam War draft dodger has l...

Maintaining a bedside vigil for her comatose uncle, Annie Bird remembers a painful search for her missing model sister; while her uncle Will, a legendary Cr...

Something strange is happening in the seaside town of Bareneed. Mythical creatures are being pulled from the sea, perfectly preserved corpses of long-lost ...

Palimpsest Press and Molly Peacock are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of A FRIEND SAILS IN ON A POEM, available for presale in Canada and t...

Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh, the Old One. It is 1926, and because of f...

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by Greg Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of ...

One of the saddest, funniest, strangest, and most romantic books. . . . Brilliant!-The Bookseller (UK) All Tom's friends really are superheroes. Tom even m...

Beth Powning offers readers an unforgettable story of love, grief and renewal — both past and present — as well as her extraordinary perceptions of the ...

God Is Nowhere God Is Now Here God Is Nowhere God Is Now Here Using The Voices Of Four Characters Deeply Affected By A High-school Shooting, Though In Remar...

“There is a vast part of this city with mouths buried in it . . . . Mouths capable of speaking to us. But we stop them up with concrete and build over th...

The Story Of A Young Girl Married To A Wealthy Sikh Whose First Wife Resents Her.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

The story of Atlas and Heracles.Atlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In W...

The Order Of Words -- Language I -- Myth I -- Metaphor I -- Typology I -- The Order Of Types -- Typology Ii: Phases Of Revelation -- Metaphor Ii: Imagery --...

M.g. Vassanji.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary nove...

From the exquisitely talented and award-winning author of the Outlander Saga come two additions to the oeuvre, both featuring Lord John Grey. This dashing c...

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but ha...

Showing the Story collects nonfiction by new writers: clear voices, fresh content, engaging storytelling.This collection shows what people new to writing, ...

This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the bac...

Aldous Huxley ; With An Introduction By Margaret Atwood. Originally Published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1932. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 2...

With all the qualities that P. D. James’s readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterization, a vivid evocat...

Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Villa...

Elizabeth Hay.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

A lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, Coupland’s forthcoming novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.Ethan Jarlewski and five c...

In Lansens's second novel, readers come to know Rose and Ruby, 29-year-old conjoined twins. When one of the girls decides to write her autobiography, the di...