Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
By Gaslight TP
Longlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize No. 1 National Bestseller Globe and Mail’s “20 Books to Read in 2016,” Maclean’s bestseller, Toronto Star bestseller, Ottawa Citizen’s “Best on the Shelf,” Huffington Post’s “Best Fall 2016 Books,” Publishers Weekly “Books of the Week,” National Post bestseller, Vanity Fair 2016 “Must Read Books of the Fall”…
Read MoreThe Harem Midwife
The Midwife of Venice
At midnight, the dogs, cats, and rats rule Venice. The Ponte di Ghetto Nuovo, the bridge that leads to the ghetto, trembles under the weight of sacks of rotting vegetables, rancid fat, and vermin. Shapeless matter, perhaps animal, floats to the surface of Rio di San Girolamo and hovers on its greasy waters. Through the…
Read MoreOne Brother Shy
From the two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and author ofThe Best Laid Plans, comes a new story about a man tormented by an event from his youth, and the journey he finds himself on to heal and to learn who he is. Few people know the real Alex MacAskill. Most of…
Read MoreThe Marriage Lie
Everyone has secrets… Iris and Will have been married for seven years, and life is as close to perfect as it can be. But on the morning Will flies out for a business trip to Florida, Iris’s happy world comes to an abrupt halt: another plane headed for Seattle has crashed into a field, killing…
Read MoreA Trial in Venice
The thrilling conclusion to the #1 national bestselling historical trilogy by Roberta Rich. In The Midwife of Venice, set in 1575, Hannah Levi was forced to flee Venice with the baby of a Venetian aristocratic family whom she rescued. Roberta Rich followed that action-packed adventure with The Harem Midwife, which exiled Hannah and her beloved…
Read MoreThe Accusation
In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung’s totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking window into this most secretive…
Read MoreWestern Light
Finalist for the 2013 OLA Evergreen Award Mouse’s world is constrained by a number of factors: her mother is dead, her father – the admired country doctor – is emotionally distant, her housekeeper Sal is prejudiced and narrow, and her grandmother and aunt, Big Louie and Little Louie, the only lifeaffirming presences in her life,…
Read MoreThe Girls
THE INSTANT BESTSELLER * An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * NPR * The Guardian * Entertainment Weekly * San Francisco Chronicle * Financial Times * Esquire *…
Read MoreGray Mountain
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer’s career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track–until the recession hits and she is downsized, furloughed, and escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is offered…
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