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1) Eileen
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Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
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"Stories you'll never forget--just try--from literature's favorite transgressive author. Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric...
5) Purity
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"A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland,and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have...
6) Martin John
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English
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Finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize
Among The National Post's Top 5 Books of 2015
Among The Toronto Star's Top 5 Fiction Books of 2015
Among Largehearted Boy's Favourite Novels of 2015
One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2015
Among The Edmonton Journal's Top 5 Books of 2015
A 49th Shelf Book of the Year, 2015
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"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes,...
11) Sleep
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Doubleday Canada
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David Pace is a man who has it all: a successful career as an almost-famous academic, a wife blessed with both beauty and brains, a young son and a lovely home. But David's brain has begun to misfire and his sense of what is real, who he is, and what he is capable of slips terrifyingly out of reach.
12) Silent melody
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Lady Emily Marlowe, who is deaf, dreams of her childhood friend, Lord Ashley Kendrick, who spent seven years in India and has now returned as a widower, but when he proposes, Emily feels that she needs to know the truth about his time in India.
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Keita Ali is on the run. He is desperate to flee Zantoroland, a mountainous black island that produces the fastest marathoners in the world. Keita signs on with the notorious marathon agent, Anton Hamm, who provides Keita with a chance to run the Boston marathon in return for a huge cut of the winning purse. But when Keita fails to place among the top finishers, rather than being sent back to his own country, he goes into hiding in Freedom State....
14) 30 days
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Before Alyssa's husband died, he left her thirty cards with instructions for thirty days of passion that she could use whenever she was ready, and now that her hot new neighbor has moved in, she is willing to try to utilize them.
16) Confidence
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Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize. Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Among the National Post's 50 Best Books of 2015One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2015Among NOW Toronto's Top 10 Books of 2015In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental...
18) Secondhand souls
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Death merchant Charlie Asher waits for a new body while a motley crew of would-be heroes tackles a thief who is stealing the souls of the dead in San Francisco.
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"In A Window Opens, Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice plays many roles (which she never refers to as "wearing many hats" and wishes you wouldn't, either). She is a mostly-happily married mother of three, an attentive daughter, an ambivalent dog-owner,...
20) Point blank
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Sisterhood series volume 26
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English
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When Harry Wong's daughter goes missing from her Shaolin temple school, the members of the Sisterhood and their friends organize a daring rescue mission to China.
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