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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE: A wondrously wise, genuinely unputdownable new novel from Sally Rooney, winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (at 26, tied with Zadie Smith for the youngest-ever recipient)–the quintessential coming-of-age love story for our time. Connell Waldron is one of the most popular boys in…

Vivid, evocative, moving, The Stone Angel celebrates the triumph of the spirit, and reveals Margaret Laurence at the height of her powers as a writer of extraordinary craft and profound insight into the workings of the human heart. Margaret Laurence’s most celebrated novel introduced readers to one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction.…

Stranger Music brings together, at last, the words of a Canadian artist who has been anything but a stranger to so many of us for so long … Cohen has woven a chain of words that binds us together. –Calgary Herald.

When Sparrowhawk, the Archmage of Earthsea, returns from the dark land stripped of his magic powers, he finds refuge with the aging widow Tenar and a crippled girl child who carries an unknown destiny.

After being left at the altar, Jade Roberts seeks solace at her best friend’s ranch on the Colorado western slope. When her friend’s reticent brother kisses her, all bets are off. Talon Steel is broken. Having never fully healed from a horrific childhood trauma, he simply exists, taking from women what is offered and giving…

Presents a guide to perfecting French writing, speaking, and reading skills, in a work that covers pronunciations, verb tenses, grammar, and phrases for communicating in everyday settings.

This book shows how we can move beyond secular mindfulness and compassion techniques to the cultivation of insight–seeing into and thereby becoming free of the repetitive thinking that keeps us trapped in cycles of suffering. Most books in the secular mindfulness tradition stop with mindfulness and self-compassion but do little to uncover the root causes…

“Teaches school-age children cognitive-behavioral techniques to reduce and overcome anxiety, fears, and worry, through writing and drawing activities and self-help exercises and strategies. Includes introduction for parents”–Provided by publisher.

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen’s most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint. By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, Beautiful Losers explores…

Presents spiritual poems that deal with loss, perception, prayer, grace, achievement, loneliness, death, sorrow, and sacredness.