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  • Far to Go

    by Alison Pick ...
    Series series Anansi Book Club Editions
    Winner of the Helen and Stan Vine Jewish Book Award and finalist for the Man Booker Prize In Far to Go, one of our most accomplished young writers takes us inside the world of an affluent Jewish family in Prague during the lead-up to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia.In 1939, Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are secular Jews whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of Hitler. They are unable ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Gods

    A Memoir

    by Alison Pick ...
    From the Man Booker-nominated author of the novel Far to Go and one of our most talented young writers comes an unflinching, moving and unforgettable memoir about family secrets and the rediscovered past.Alison Pick was born in the 1970s and raised in a loving, supportive family, but as a teenager she made a discovery that forever changed her understanding of who she was: She learned that her Pick ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Strangers with the Same Dream

    by Alison Pick ...
    A brilliant, astonishing and politically timely page-turner set in 1921 Palestine, from the author of the bestselling novel Far to Go, nominated for the Man Booker Prize.This beautifully written, shocking and timely novel whisks us back to 1921, when a band of young Jewish pioneers set out to realize a dream: the founding of a settlement on a patch of land that would, twenty-five years later, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Dream World

    by Alison Pick ...
    In her elegant new collection, Alison Pick, a brilliant poet of sensuous moods, atmospheres, and dreams, explores the mystery concealed within the world we know and recognize. Always evocative, always alluring, her poems are not interested in mere events, but in the fabric inside the emotions that events can provoke. She writes of love, of leaving, of wandering, and of home — not necessarily in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Journey Prize Stories 23

    The Best of Canada's New Writers

    by Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick, Sarah Selecky ...
    Series Book 23 - Journey Prize
    Discover some of Canada's best new writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology, made possible by the generosity of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener.For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting new writers. Previous contributors -- including such now well-known, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Eureka, Colorado, #1

    by Cindi Myers ...
    Series Book 1 - Eureka, Colorado
    When the father she never knew dies and leaves her a gold mine, recently divorced Maggie Stevens heads for the remote community of Eureka, Colorado to claim her inheritance and to solve the mystery of the man who abandoned the family when Maggie was only three days old.But the answers Maggie hopes to find aren't buried in her father's past or deep inside the mine. The real treasures in Eureka are ... Read more

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  • The Journey Prize Stories 25

    The Best of Canada's New Writers

    by Various ...
    Series Book 25 - Journey Prize
    “This year, eighty-one different stories battled for our affections, ranging in content from a post-apocalyptic suburb coping with rumours of cannibalism, to a movie theatre in Mauritius where dreams of a better future flicker onscreen, to a mattress store where a long-lasting friendship threatens to come undone. For each of us, it was a chance to partake in a process that now stretches back ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Blue Mercy

    A Heartbreaking, Page-Turning Irish Family Drama

    by Orna Ross ...
    A literary family drama with patricide at its heart.When Mercy Mulcahy was 40 years old, she was accused of killing her elderly and tyrannical father. Now, at the end of her life, she has completed a book about what really happened on that fateful night of Christmas Eve, 1989.The tragic and beautiful Mercy has devoted her life to protecting Star from her grandfather. His behavior so blighted her ... Read more

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  • The Journey Prize Stories 24

    The Best of Canada's New Writers

    by Various ...
    Series Book 24 - Journey Prize
    The Journey Prize Stories is Canada’s most celebrated annual fiction anthology. With settings ranging from Mount St. Helens, Barcelona, Halifax, Victoria Island, and Alberta’s Red River Badlands, these stories represent the year’s best short fiction by some of our most exciting emerging writers.Among the stories this year: After months of trying to sell the worthless collection of sports cards his ... Read more

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  • Arabic for Beginners

    by Ariela Freedman ...
    When Hannah accompanies her husband and small children to Jerusalem for the year, she becomes fascinated with a group of expat women at her son’s daycare, as well as a young Palestinian woman named Jenna. As she grows close to Jenna she starts to question her own marriage and her relationship to Israel. A novel of domestic and political ambivalence, Arabic for Beginners is about marriage, ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • The Journey Prize Stories 22

    The Best of Canada's New Writers

    by Various ...
    Series Book 22 - Journey Prize
    Discover the next generation of great Canadian writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology.For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting up-and-coming new writers. Previous contributors — including such now well-known, bestselling writers as Yann Martel, Elizabeth Hay, Michael Crummey, ... Read more

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  • The PEN O. Henry Prize Stories 2012

    Including stories by John Berger, Wendell Berry, Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Yi

    Edited by Laura Furman ...
    Series series The O. Henry Prize Collection
    The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army training camp in China, the salt mines of Detroit, a divided Balkan town, and the eye of a hurricane. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD