Posts Tagged ‘canadian’
Oh Canada
A trip across Canada to see briefly each province and territory.
Read MoreAngel Catbird
“On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment when his DNA is merged with that of a cat and an owl”–
Read MoreWhat Casanova Told Me
” Rich in interesting digressions into subjects as diverse as Minoan goddess worship and Western Orientalist stereotypes. Swan…has much to say about the emotional risks required to live a fulfilled life.” — “Washington”” Post” A dazzlingly imagined novel that embraces two centuries, two young women, a long-lost journal, and the mystery behind the legendary Casanova’s…
Read MoreThe Wives of Bath
With a new introduction by the author about the process of the novel becoming a film. Now a film – Lost and Delirious – based on the bestselling novel, directed by Lea Pool and starring Piper Perabo, Jessica Paréand Mischa Barton. This fall Susan Swan’s gothic tale of sexual longing and repression at a boarding…
Read MoreThe Western Light HC
Annabel
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy…
Read MoreHeart of the City
Ari attempts to leave behind his life as a police officer by taking a construction job and bringing his adult daughter home to Toronto, but when he discovers the corpse of a developer he is plunged back into his old career.
Read MoreDo Not Say We Have Nothing TP
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 before, during and after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Madeleine…
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Ontario’s Ghost Town Heritage
Well-illustrated with photos and maps this book has the best 80 ghost towns in Ontario described in Ron Brown’s previous books. Each essay explores a town, some abandoned, some still populated, whose former glory makes it an interesting destination.
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