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Passing Through

by R W K Clark

Published: 2018-01-03

Paperback: 263 pages

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Little do they all know, a horrible murderer has escaped from prison just as the small town is about to get hit with a record blizzard. But the trusting innocence of these small-town people will prove to be their undoing, for they cannot conceive the likes of the stranger they are helping ...

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The Heart of War: Misadventures in the Pentagon

by Kathleen J. McInnis

Published: 2018-09-25

Paperback: 384 pages

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Featured in The NY Times magazine!Featured in “Best of 2018” by Foreign Policy magazine! The Devil Wears Prada meets Catch-22; a novel about a young woman’s journey into the heart of Washington’s war machine.Dr. Heather Reilly has been an anti-war activist since her brother die...

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Immigrant, Montana: A novel

by Amitava Kumar

Published: 2018-07-31

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARCarrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to settle into American existence, Kailash comes under the indelible influence of a charismati...

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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

by Sebastian Faulks

Published: 1997-06-02

Paperback: 496 pages

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Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair ...

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The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was

by Chantal Hebert

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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A #1 national bestseller, winner of the QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, and finalist for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, The Morning After is a sly, insightful and wonderfully original book from one of Canada's ...

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Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

by Shani Mootoo

Published: 2017-05-02

Paperback: 310 pages

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"Readers who enjoy rich details of place will find Mootoo’s writing about her settings to be luxuriant; we are especially treated to abundant descriptions of Trinidad...[A] thoughtful exploration of place and identity."--Kirkus Reviews"Mootoo’s character-driven novel is rich in setting...

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Who By Fire

by Fred Stenson

Published: 2015-08-11

Paperback: 368 pages

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"On the page Stenson is like Frank Sinatra in a stetson--smooth and pitch perfect. And if details give literature its staying power, Stenson is writing for the ages." --Caroline Adderson, The Globe and Mail      The heart of this moving story belongs to Tom Ryder--a man whose expecta...

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No Great Mischief

by Alistair MacLeod

Published: 2006-10-01

Paperback: 262 pages

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In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum McDonald set sail from the Scottish highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey, Calum settles his family in "the land of the trees" until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan, with its own identity and history.

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Outcry Witness

by Thomas Zigal

Published: 2019-02-22

Hardcover: 320 pages

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It’s the 1980s. A priest is found murdered in his New Orleans rectory. When compromising videotapes are discovered in his bedroom, the Bishop and his staff withhold this damaging evidence from the police. The district attorney, a faithful Catholic and good friend of the Bishop, helps bur...

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On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle

by Hampton Sides

Published: 2018-10-02

Hardcover: 416 pages

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"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinemati...