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Doubleday Canada
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A woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a lifeand artof her own. Claudia Dey chronicles our most intimate lives with penetrating insight and devilish humor. Daughter is an obsessive, blazing examination of the forces that drive us to become, to create, and to break free.
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"When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago's thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars and something called Love Potion Number...
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Doubleday Canada
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Every Family Has A Story sees psychotherapist Julia Samuel turn from her work with individuals to her sessions with a wide variety of families, revealing how deeply we are influenced by them. Diving into eight case studies, she analyzes a range of common issues, including separation, step-relationships, leaving home, trauma and loss. These insights inform her 12 touchstones for family wellbeing--from fighting productively, to making time for rituals;...
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William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Ella, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Ella's family declares her missing. Suddenly the community doesn't feel so safe. And William isn't the only one on his street...
5) Clock dance
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"A bewitching new novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread. Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother, yet the...
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When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside--but he's not alone. It seems the entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe, ostensibly to care for their matriarch, but truly to stake claim on the massive fortune that Su Yi controls. With each family member secretly fantasizing about getting the keys to Tyersall Park--a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of...
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Doubleday Canada
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A masterful, original examination of love, duty, art, and fame set in Rome, 1955. After Bear Bavinsky abandons his family, his son Pinch will still worship him, striving to live up to the Bavinsky name, trying to burn brightly in his father's shadow, Pinch's attempts flicker and die. Yet by the end of a career of twists and compromises, Pinch will enact an unexpected rebellion that will leave forever his mark upon the Bear Bavinsky legacy.
8) Grown-ups
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Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together. Under the surface, though, conditions are murkier. Everything stays under control until Ed's wife Cara, gets concussion and can't keep her thoughts to herself. One careless remark at Johnny's birthday party, with the entire family present, starts Cara spilling out all their secrets. Author of "The Break."
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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Set against the vivid backdrop of The Bahamas, these eighteen beautiful and haunting stories introduce us to women and girls searching for identity and belonging during moments of profound upheaval. These women are bold and big-hearted, complex and intimately familiar. They grapple with the bonds of kinship and the responsibilities of parenthood, with grief, longing, betrayal, coming of age and what it means to be a woman. In "Mango Summer," little...
10) No safe house
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Linwood Barclay delivers a sequel to "No Time for Goodbye" - an electrifying novel of suspense in which a family's troubled past is about to return in more ways than one. And this time, they may not be able to escape.
11) Into the water
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Doubleday Canada
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With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers around the world in her novel "The Girl on the Train," Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting, layered plot, interwoven with a powerful understanding of human instincts and the damage they can inflict.
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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Sharp, engaging, contemporary fiction from Governor General's Award winner Kate Pullinger, author of "The Mistress of Nothing." Based on a newspaper article Pullinger first read more than a decade ago about the body of an airplane stowaway landing in a southwest London supermarket car park, the novel is about the complex texture of modern life - airplanes, the internet, migrant labour, and the loneliness of the nuclear family. Kate has moved away...
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An immensely moving novel about a woman who becomes a man, and the effect of this change on the child she abandoned. Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his mother Sid vanished entirely from his life. It is not until he is a grown man that Jonathan finally reconnects with his beloved lost parent, only to find, to his shock and dismay, that the woman he knew as Sid has become an elegant man named Sydney living quietly in a well-appointed house in his...
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Doubleday Canada
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With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well-heeled, romantic Vivian Clift. But when Vivian meets Jack's mother and brother, everything she thought she knew about her new husband gets called into question. They don't live in the dream home that Jack depicted, they all...
15) Sweetland
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From the bestselling author of "Galore" comes another unforgettable novel. Darkly comic and heartbreakingly sad, "Sweetland" is a deeply suspenseful story about one man's struggles against the forces of nature and the ruins of memory.
16) Again, Rachel
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Walsh family volume 6
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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From author Marian Keyes comes the sequel to Rachel's Holiday. Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a great job as an addiction counsellor; she even gardens. Her only bad habit is a fondness for expensive running shoes. But with the sudden reappearance of a man she'd once loved, her life wobbles. She'd thought she...
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Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join him for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process and Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. Because of Haddon's extraordinary narrative technique, the stories of these eight people are anything but simple. Told through the alternating...
19) The survivors
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In the wake their mother's death, three estranged brothers return to the lakeside cottage where, over two decades before, an unspeakable accident forever altered their family. There is Nils, the oldest, who couldn't escape his suffocating home soon enough, and Pierre, the youngest, easily bullied and quick to lash out. And then there is Benjamin, always the family's nerve centre, perpetually on the look-out for triggers and trap doors in a volatile...
20) Who by fire
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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Tom Ryder is a man whose expectations for the future and assumptions about his own strength and power are persistently and devastatingly undermined by the arrival of a sour gas plant on the border of his southern Alberta farm in the early 1960s. The emissions from the plant poison not only his livestock but the relationships he has with his family, most especially with his wife Ella. The novel moves into the present with the story of Tom's son, Bill,...
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