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1) Consent
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Saskia and Jenny are twins who are alike only in appearance. When Jenny is severely injured in an accident, Saskia puts her life on hold to be with her sister. Sara and Mattie are sisters with a difficult relationship. When their mother dies, Sara inherits the duty of caring for her sister. The waves from these events eventually engulf Sara and Saskia, sisters in mourning, in a quest for revenge. Author of "The Golden Mean."
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Random House Canada
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"Creepy and atmospheric, evocative of Stephen King's classic Pet Sematary, The Migration is a story of sisterhood, transformation, and the limitations of love, from a thrilling new voice in Canadian fiction. When I was younger I didn't know a thing about death. I thought it meant stillness, a body gone limp. A marionette with its strings cut. Death was like a long vacation--a going away. Storms and flooding are worsening around the world, and a mysterious...
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Random House Canada
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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is the author of the novels "Perfecting" and "The Nettle Spinner," which was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. A book that reminds one of John Irving, this is a story of a bear fighting circle and what happens on the streets of Toronto. Fourteen-year-old Bo, who is from Vietnam, is training to fight bears at the Canadian National Exhibition. His sister, Orange, is deformed because of Agent Orange exposure, and...
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Random House Canada
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"From the award-winning author of Bang Crunch and Boo, Jones is the harrowing, funny, utterly unforgettable story of a pair of siblings attempting to survive the horror show of their family. Abi and Eli share a special bond. Eli looks up to his sister Abi, two years older, who knows how to inhabit the souls of animals, and sometimes even the soul of her brother. They share jokes, codes, and an obsession with impressive feats of word power -- such...
6) Only sisters
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Random House Canada
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English
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Joan has always done the right thing, both as a palliative care doctor and as a caregiver for her widowed mother, Sheila. Joan's adventurous sister, Vivien, is a different story. She left home as soon as she was able -- running from an insecure childhood troubled by an alcoholic father and a mother who constantly threw away all their possessions in order to buy new ones. Vivien's rarely been back, working as a nurse in the world's trouble zones, leaving...
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