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1) Capital
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English
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Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Following the residents of Pepys Road, Capital features a cast of characters that you will be sad to leave behind.
2) A beauty
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Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Language
English
Description
In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena Huhtala finds herself living alone. But when a stranger shows up at a country dance, Elena needs only one look and one dance before jumping into his Lincoln Roadster, leaving the town and its shocked inhabitants behind. Moving and mysterious, a captivating tale of a woman who, without intending to, touched many lives, and sometimes alters them forever.
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Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Language
English
Description
Set against the shadow of the Vietnam War and the changing social mores of 1970s America, a sharply comic novel that follows the tumultuous coming of age of both a mother and daughter, at a time when womanhood itself was coming of age. Hilarious, insightful, and deeply moving, this novel illuminates those unforgettable moments in life when everything changes, whether we want it to or not.
4) A reckoning
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Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Language
English
Description
As the deeply moving and troubling account of a family's breakdown, this is the perfect companion to Linda Spalding's bestselling, award-winning novel "The Purchase." It's spring of 1855, when John Dickinson is involved in a shameful secret that will require a tragic decision. The family's resources have been wasted by a reckless brother, and, adding fuel to John's desperation, the enslaved workers have been visited by a Canadian abolitionist who...
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