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Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, an Amazon.ca Best Book, and an iTunes Store Best BookWhen Grace, a highly competent and devoted therapist in Montreal, stumbles across a man in the snowy woods who has failed to hang himself, her instinct to help immediately kicks in. Before long, ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, an Amazon.ca Best Book, and an iTunes Store Best BookWhen Grace, a highly competent and devoted therapist in Montreal, stumbles across a man in the snowy woods who has failed to hang himself, her instinct to help immediately kicks in. Before long,
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Signs and Wonders

by Alix Ohlin ...

A New York Times Editors' Choice and an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading PickIn this brilliant new collection, Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize nominee Alix Ohlin skillfully displays the full range of human emotions through the subtly powerful dramas of everyday life.In "You Are What You Like" a young couple finds their life derailed by the arrival of a hard-partying ... Read more

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A New York Times Editors' Choice and an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading PickIn this brilliant new collection, Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize nominee Alix Ohlin skillfully displays the full range of human emotions through the subtly powerful dramas of everyday life.In "You Are What You Like" a young couple finds their life derailed by the arrival of a hard-partying
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We Want What We Want

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Thirteen glittering, surprising, and darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of their lives, from two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin.In the mordantly funny “Money, Geography, Youth,” Vanessa arrives home from a gap year volunteering in Ghana to find that her father is engaged to her childhood best friend. Unable to reconcile the girl she went to dances with in the ... Read more

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Thirteen glittering, surprising, and darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of their lives, from two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin.In the mordantly funny “Money, Geography, Youth,” Vanessa arrives home from a gap year volunteering in Ghana to find that her father is engaged to her childhood best friend. Unable to reconcile the girl she went to dances with in the
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Dual Citizens

by Alix Ohlin ...

From Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin comes an intimate and compelling novel of motherhood, love, a search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.All her life, Lark Brossard felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliant pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally by Lawrence Wheelock, a ... Read more

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From Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin comes an intimate and compelling novel of motherhood, love, a search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.All her life, Lark Brossard felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliant pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally by Lawrence Wheelock, a
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Little Bird Stories

Volume Three

by Alix Ohlin ...

This short story anthology showcases the first place winner and runners-up of Sarah Selecky's Little Bird Fiction Writing Contest. The first prize - mentorship, instruction and publication - is awarded annually to an exciting new writer of distinction, chosen by a new editor every year. The trick? The winning stories must incorporate one of Selecky's uncommon writing prompts (found on Twitter). ... Read more

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This short story anthology showcases the first place winner and runners-up of Sarah Selecky's Little Bird Fiction Writing Contest. The first prize - mentorship, instruction and publication - is awarded annually to an exciting new writer of distinction, chosen by a new editor every year. The trick? The winning stories must incorporate one of Selecky's uncommon writing prompts (found on Twitter).
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The Missing Person

by Alix Ohlin ...

Series series Vintage Contemporaries
When art history grad student Lynn Fleming finds out that Wylie, her younger brother, has disappeared, she reluctantly leaves New York and returns to the dusty Albuquerque of her youth. What she finds when she arrives is more unsettling and frustrating than she could have predicted. Wylie is nowhere to be found, not in the tiny apartment he shares with a grungy band of eco-warriors, or lingering ... Read more

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When art history grad student Lynn Fleming finds out that Wylie, her younger brother, has disappeared, she reluctantly leaves New York and returns to the dusty Albuquerque of her youth. What she finds when she arrives is more unsettling and frustrating than she could have predicted. Wylie is nowhere to be found, not in the tiny apartment he shares with a grungy band of eco-warriors, or lingering
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Babylon and Other Stories

by Alix Ohlin ...

Series series Vintage Contemporaries
In their various locales--from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious spell on its beholders) to New Mexico (where a Soviet-era exchange student redefines home for his hosts)--the characters in Babylon are coming to terms with life's epiphanies, for good or ill.They range from the very young who, confronted with their parents' limitations, discover their own resolve, to those facing ... Read more

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In their various locales--from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious spell on its beholders) to New Mexico (where a Soviet-era exchange student redefines home for his hosts)--the characters in Babylon are coming to terms with life's epiphanies, for good or ill.They range from the very young who, confronted with their parents' limitations, discover their own resolve, to those facing
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Ploughshares Summer 2026

by Justin Torres, Yahya Ashour, Kesiena Boom, Angie Cruz, Blue Fay, Fred D'Aguiar, Alix Ohlin, Sarah Tindal Kareem, Mai Der Vang ...

The Summer 2026 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats.The Summer 2026 issue, edited by Justin Torres, features poetry and prose by Yahya Ashour, Kesiena Boom, Angie Cruz ... Read more

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The Summer 2026 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats.The Summer 2026 issue, edited by Justin Torres, features poetry and prose by Yahya Ashour, Kesiena Boom, Angie Cruz
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Dual Citizens

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by Alix Ohlin ...

Narrated by Thérèse Plummer ...

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9 hours 44 min

A Scotiabank Giller Prize FinalistRaised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, half-sisters Lark and Robin form a fierce team in spite of their differences. When Lark flees to America to attend college, her sister soon joins her.But even as Lark discovers a calling working in documentary film, she struggles with self-doubt, and Robin chafes against the demands of studying piano at ... Read more

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A Scotiabank Giller Prize FinalistRaised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, half-sisters Lark and Robin form a fierce team in spite of their differences. When Lark flees to America to attend college, her sister soon joins her.But even as Lark discovers a calling working in documentary film, she struggles with self-doubt, and Robin chafes against the demands of studying piano at
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Inside

by Alix Ohlin ...

Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

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9 hours 53 min

A critically acclaimed, award-winning author, Alix Ohlin pens a masterpiece of emotional complexity with Inside. In this literary tour de force, a therapist named Grace attempts to help a man recover from his failed suicide attempt. Meanwhile, Grace's teen patient Annie runs away from home to reinvent herself in New York, and Grace's ex-husband leaves the comfort of a successful relationship to ... Read more

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A critically acclaimed, award-winning author, Alix Ohlin pens a masterpiece of emotional complexity with Inside. In this literary tour de force, a therapist named Grace attempts to help a man recover from his failed suicide attempt. Meanwhile, Grace's teen patient Annie runs away from home to reinvent herself in New York, and Grace's ex-husband leaves the comfort of a successful relationship to
... Read more

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Signs and Wonders

by Alix Ohlin ...

Narrated by Tandy Cronyn, Morgan Hallett, Graham Rowat ...

Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us-connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of ourselves. ... Read more

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These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us-connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of ourselves.
... Read more

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A Spool of Blue Thread

A novel

by Anne Tyler ...

Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

Unabridged

13 hours 19 min

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves ... Read more

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Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves
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