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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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A magnificent, elegiac, and compelling novel of intersecting lives, set mainly in Ireland in the 1950s and in the years before the war. A telling of the interconnected stories of Tamara, a former pilot during World War II; her married lover Niall, a charismatic Irishman and meteorologist; and his troubled younger brother Kieran who, at age 11, is separated from his family and fostered in a mountain home by a maternal countrywoman. Strongly evocative,...
2) Astra
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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Raised on a remote BC commune by a neglectful father, Astra Brine eventually leaves for Calgary, where she struggles to find her way in the world, her life becoming a study of the thin line between dependence and love, need and desire. As her path intersects with others-- often only briefly, but always intensely-- she will encounter people who, by turns, want to rescue, control, become, change, and escape her, revealing difficult yet shining truths...
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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From Booker Award-winning bestselling author of "The Gathering" comes a darkly glinting novel set mainly in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The children of Rosaleen Madigan grow up in the West of Ireland, in a world that is about to change. In the years that follow, three of the children leave home for lives they could never have imagined. Dan for the frenzy of New York under the shadow of AIDS, Emmet for the backlands of Mali where he learns...
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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"On the eve of the new millennium, in a city in southern Japan that progress has forgotten, sixteen-year-old Anna Obata looks to the stars for solace. An outcast at school, and left to fend for herself and care for her increasingly senile grandfather at home, Anna copes with her loneliness by searching the night sky for answers. But everything changes the evening the Low Earth Orbit satellite (LEO for short) returns her gaze and sees her as no one...
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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It is 1945, and Hungarian Jewish physicist August Snow is on trial at the International War Crimes Court for patenting a technology that has been proven capable of destroying the entire world. He instigated humanity's ability to decide its death. Then he profited from the inevitable, but the initial reason for his research was to devise a way to cure his daughter, Leora, of cancer. August's wife, June, insists she had nothing to do with the bomb--after...
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Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
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English
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Sal is a young struggling magazine writer in Brooklyn, trying to overcome the humiliation of being conned by a playwright she profiled who wasn't quite what he seemed. Her life is further unmoored when she comes across a short story in The Paris Review written by Martin Keller, the much older writer who made a great impression on her years ago when their paths crossed one night at a reading. Much to her surprise, the piece is undeniably about her...
10) There there
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English
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"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after...
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