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Nutshell: A Novel

by Ian McEwan

Published: 2016-09-13

Hardcover: 208 pages

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New from the bestselling author of Atonement and The Children ActTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home—a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse—but John's not there. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have ...

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Yiddish for Pirates

by Gary Barwin

Published: 2016-04-05

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500-year-old Jewish parro...

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Pillow

by Andrew Battershill

Published: 2015-11-17

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZEMost of the things Pillow really liked to do were obviously morally wrong. He wasn't an idiot; clearly it was wrong to punch people in the face for money. But there had been an art to it, and it had been thrilling and thoughtful for him. T...

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Stranger: A Novel

by David Bergen

Published: 2016-09-06

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From Giller prize–winning author of The Time in Between and Canada Reads finalist for The Age of Hope comes a stirring tale that lays bare the bonds of motherhood, revealing just how far a mother will go to reclaim her stolen child.Íso, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility cli...

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The Party Wall (Biblioasis International Translation Series)

by Catherine Leroux

Published: 2016-07-12

Paperback: 200 pages

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Shortlisted for the 2016 Giller PrizeSelected for Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2016Catherine Leroux's first novel, translated into English brilliantly by Lazer Lederhendler, ties together stories about siblings joined in surprising ways. A woman learns that she absorbed her twin sister's b...

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The Two of Us

by Kathy Page

Published: 2016-09-06

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"[Page] is a fierce writer."—Kirkus ReviewsThe stories in this collection focus on pairs: intense one-on-one relationships and encounters. Characters undergo genetic testing, garden, overeat, starve themselves, travel, fall pregnant, all while simultaneously driving each other towards mo...

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Willem De Kooning's Paintbrush

by Kerry Lee Powell

Published: 2016-04-26

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“Powerful. . . . Full of dark nostalgia.” —NATHAN ENGLANDER“A literary high-wire act, not for the faint of heart.” —ALISSA YORKAn unflinching and masterful collection of award-winning stories, Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush is a career-making debut. Ranging from an island ho...

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Death Valley

by Susan Perly

Published: 2016-06-01

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Legendary war photographer Vivienne Pink has five days to photograph servicemen about to deploy for active combat. Racing to meet her deadline, she heads to Las Vegas, where she'll capture images of men who may die the next day?and where she'll confront an abuser from her past to force a reckoning. Accompanied...

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By Gaslight: A Novel

by Steven Price

Published: 2016-10-04

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A literary tour de force of a detective's ceaseless hunt for an elusive criminalBy Gaslight is a deeply atmospheric, haunting novel about the unending quest that has shaped a man’s life. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most notorious detective of all time, when he des...

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Do Not Say We Have Nothing

by Madeleine Thien

Published: 2016-05-31

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, this extraordinary novel tells the story of three musicians in China be...