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The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami

by Linden MacIntyre

Published: 2019-08-27

Hardcover: 384 pages

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In the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writersOn November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves, up to three storeys high, hit...

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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

by Fumio Sasaki

Published: 2017-04-11

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo?he’s just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decide...

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Meely LaBauve

by Ken Wells

Published: 2001-08-14

Paperback: 248 pages

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Fifteen-year-old Meely LaBauve is growing up on Catahoula Bayou and living by his wits. Not since Huck Finn rafted down the Mississippi has there been a coming-of-age story like this, told in such an utterly authentic unlettered American voice. From a charming encounter with first love in ...

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Suzanne

by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Published: 2017-06-06

Paperback: 264 pages

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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother’s mother. Curious to understand why her grandmother, Suzanne, a sometime painter and poet associated with Les Automatistes, a movement of dissident artists that included Paul-Émile Borduas, abandoned her husband and young family, Barbeau-La...

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Cinnamon Gardens

by Shyam Selvadurai, Shyam Selvadurai

Published: 1998-03-01

Paperback: 390 pages

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Set among the upper classes in the gracious, repressive and complex world of 1920s Ceylon (Sri Lanka), this evocative novel tells the story of two people who must determine if it is possible to pursue personal happiness without compromising the happiness of others. A young teacher, Annalukshmi, whose...

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Careful What You Wish For: A Novel of Suspense

by Hallie Ephron

Published: 2019-08-06

Hardcover: 304 pages

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"Thrilling and suspenseful...a modern-day grown-up Nancy Drew." -- Jamie Lee Curtis, TimeEmily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives; she’s married to man who can’t drive past a yard sale without stopping. He’s filled their basement, attic, and gar...

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A Burglar's Guide to the City

by Geoff Manaugh

Published: 2016-04-05

Paperback: 304 pages

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Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again.At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City...

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How Proust Can Change Your Life

by Alain De Botton

Published: 1998-04-28

Paperback: 208 pages

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Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich ...

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Always Coming Home (California Fiction)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Published: 2001-02-05

Paperback: 525 pages

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Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it total...

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Landscape with Invisible Hand

by M.T. Anderson

Published: 2017-09-12

Hardcover: 160 pages

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National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization.When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth — but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can i...