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"A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity...
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A novel about two sisters in their forties, daughters of a complicated Mennonite family: Elfreida and Yolandi. Elf, happily married, wealthy, glamorous, sophisticated, is a world-renowned pianist - wants to die. Yoli, divorced, broke, promiscuous, is author of a soon-to-be defunct series of YA rodeo novels - wants to keep her sister alive. Toews takes us on a wild journey that will put your heart in your throat while offering a profound reflection...
4) My ghosts
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My Ghosts is the second book by the author of Giller favourite "Boys in the Tree". The novel brings to vivid life a household of Scottish orphans trying to make their way in Toronto in 1879. Moving through a span of 150 years - World War I, the Great Depression - and ending in a contemporary story of Claire, who, with only a box of artifacts and knowing nothing of her family, tries to piece together the fabric of what has shaped her. As she unearths...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 26
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Following the curves of history in the first half of the twentieth century, Fall on Your Knees takes us from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battlefields of World War I, to the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and into the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The mythically charged family - James, a father of intelligence and immense ambition; Materia, his Lebanese child-bride; and their daughters: Kathleen, the eldest, a...
6) Home
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"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--Publisher.
8) Divisadero
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Fleeing the violence that destroyed her family and separated her from her sister Claire and Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them, Anna finds refuge in an isolated house in south-central France, while she struggles to reconcile the past and present.
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In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man has impossible expectations of his children and his wife, and if things don't go his way he becomes physically abusive....
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Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John's, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he encounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers. Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughters. Her father, Hans, lived in Amsterdam during the Second World War, and says he was in the Dutch resistance. When the war ended,...
12) Atonement
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From the Booker Prize winning author of Amsterdam, a brilliant new novel.
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis’s cleaning lady, whose education has been subsidized by Cecilia’s and Briony’s father, and who, like Cecilia, has...
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis’s cleaning lady, whose education has been subsidized by Cecilia’s and Briony’s father, and who, like Cecilia, has...
13) Western Lane
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Western Lane is the story of Gopi, the youngest of three sisters who live with their father on the outskirts of London. Their mother has died, their father's grief is palpable but unarticulated. Far away in Edinburgh their uncle and aunt worry and wait: unable to have children, the couple's wish to take a niece into their home and raise her as their own hangs over the girls like a curse in a fairy tale. In the meantime, the girls' father becomes obsessed...
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