World Literature

A remarkable and true tale of loyalty, vengeance, and ritual suicide. . . . In the spring of 1701, the regional lord Asano Naganori wounded his supervising...

Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Marquez's extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) relates one of literature's most remarkable stories ...

Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous...

Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. L...

(book Jacket Status: Jacketed) introduction By Ivan Turgenev; Translation By Charles And Natasha Hepburn ivan Turgenev’s First Literary Masterpiece Is A S...

Joseph Boyden.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

Carmichael's Dog -- The Christimas Tree. David Adams Richards.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

A touchy-feely board book with simple, repetitive text, tactile patches and bold illustrations suitable for babies and toddlers. A little white mouse appear...

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures welcomes readers into a world where the most mundane events can quickly become life or death. By following four young m...

The Testament by Grisham,John. [1999] PaperbackCategories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thrillers & SuspenseSuspense

'"The Republic of Love" marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy!a love-surveying story tha...

Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member ...

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize: With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of t...

Retired From The Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn Is Called Upon Once Again To Solve A Crime. This Time It's Joe's Last Case, A Case That Remai...

International BestsellerWhen Will There Be Good News?is the brilliant new novel from the acclaimed author of Case Historiesand One Good Turn, once again fe...

The novel opens on a sweltering summer day in 1935 at the Tallis family’s mansion in the Surrey countryside. Thirteen-year-old Briony has written a play i...

from Chuck Palahniuk, The Master Of Literary Mayhem And Provocation, A Full-frontal Triple X Novel That Goes Where No American Work Of Fiction Has Gone Be...

Paris, un atelier d'artiste au fond d'une allée verdoyante.Madeline, une ex-flic londonienne, y est venue pour panser ses blessures.Gaspard, un auteur misa...

In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket wit...

The “Guermantes Way,” in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes’s châte...

this Is The Story Of Brida, A Young Irish Girl, And Her Quest For Knowledge. She Has Long Been Interested In Various Aspects Of Magic But Is Searching For...

set In Postwar Germany, the Reader Is A Provocative, Morally Challenging, And Deeply Moving Novel About A Young Boy's Erotic Awakening In A Clandestine Lov...

The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.The Princes of Ireland, the first volum...

Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford...

Arthur & George is a masterful novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all, it’s a ...

First time in the New Canadian Library“Northwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield, the Ottawa ...

Fictional autobiography of a writer and traveller who suddenly finds his gender changed overnight. Now female, she meanders through a rich, humane, complica...

The setting is Sri Lanka. Steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition, the country has been ravaged in the late twentieth century by bloody c...

In the Skin of a Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the 20s and 30s. Michael Ondaatje e...

Psychosis: any form of severe mental disorder in which the individual’s contact with reality becomes highly distorted.Douglas Coupland, the author whom To...

the Enchantress Of Florence Is The Story Of A Mysterious Woman, A Great Beauty Believed To Possess The Powers Of Enchantment And Sorcery, Attempting To Co...

set In Postwar Germany, the Reader Is A Provocative, Morally Challenging, And Deeply Moving Novel About A Young Boy's Erotic Awakening In A Clandestine Lov...

Now that her business, the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, is firmly established, the agency's founder, Precious Ramotswe, can look upon her life with pride:...

Ten-year-old Orphan Mary Lennox Is Sent To Live In A Largely Uninhabited Mansion On The Yorkshire Moors And Discovers An Invalid Cousin And The Mysteries Of...

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...

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only ...

twenty-three-year-old Veronika Seems To Have Everything She Could Wish For. She Goes To Popular Night Spots, Dates Attractive Men, And Has A Caring Family...

In the ninth century b.c., the Phoenician princess Jezebel orders the execution of all the prophets who refuse to worship the pagan god Baal. Commanded by ...

February In Newfoundland Is The Longest Month Of The Year. Another Blizzard Is Threatening To Tear A Strip Off Downtown St. John's, While Inside The Hazel R...

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 ...

perfect For Beginning Students Of Spanish, This Affordable Anthology Is Filled With 41 Delightful Stories And Proverbs Based On Works Of Don Juan Manuel, ...

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

Lilly, the main character of Camilla Gibb’s stunning new novel, has anything but a stable childhood. The daughter of English/Irish hippies, she was “bor...

The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, sh...

Drawn by some sympathetic not in one of his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. Booknews This classic of sincerity and ...

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racia...

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 2The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderf...

A new edition of Mary Shelley's 1818 classic, Frankenstein.Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist...