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  • Doubting Thomas

    A Novel about Caravaggio

    by Atle Naess ...
    Coming somewhere between Peter Ackroyd and Perfume, Doubting Thomas is an innovative and fascinating novel about the renowned Italian painter Caravaggio. The plot centers around the events of a May evening in Rome in 1606, when Caravaggio was challenged to a duel and killed a man. Who was this man Caravaggio? What happened on that fateful night? What was the cause of the fight that forced him to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • When We Get There

    A Novel

    by Shauna Seliy ...
    Over the course of one winter in 1974, in the coal-mining town of Banning, Pennsylvania, the youngest member of a large and boisterous Eastern European family gives himself a tall order: to find his mother, who recently disappeared without explanation. Lucas, an only child whose father died several years earlier in a coa-mine blast, lives with the legacy of loss. Despite his heavy inheritance, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Don't Make Me Stop Now

    Stories

    These eleven arresting, comic, and moving stories by acclaimed writer Michael Parker testify to the driving force of love, the lengths to which we’ll go to claim it and pursue it, the delusions we’ll float to keep it going, the torment that goes part and parcel with it. And despite all of the above, the absolute necessity of it, no matter its consequences.Whether it’s a college student undone by ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Tell

    A Novel

    by Hester Kaplan ...
    An elegant and haunting novel of love and family, The Tell demands that we reconsider our notions of marriage—duty, compromise, betrayal, and the choice to stand by or leave the ones we loveFor Mira and Owen, a young, childless couple living in Providence, marital and financial troubles are simmering just below the surface—until Wilton Deere, a wealthy, over-the-hill actor, moves in next door. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

    by Laila Lalami ...
    In this literary novel, four Moroccans escape their circumstances to seek a new beginning for themselves—and places they can home—in Spain."A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise." —Junot DiazHope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, the debut of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami, evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. The book ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

    A Novel

    by Brock Clarke ...
    "Funny, profound . . . a seductive book with a payoff on every page."—PeopleA lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Tampa

    A Novel

    “In this sly and salacious work, Nutting forces us to take a long, unflinching look at a deeply disturbed mind, and more significantly, at society’s often troubling relationship with female beauty.” (San Francisco Chronicle)In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Underworld

    A Novel

    by Don DeLillo ...
    Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters“A great American novel” (San Francisco Chronicle) that spans five decades of American history, following the intimate lives of the men and women who lived through them.It b... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

    A Novel

    by Rhonda Riley ...
    "Strange and powerful. . . . the most resonant and touching love story I've read in a very long time." Lauren Groff, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies and The MatrixDuring WWII, teenager Evelyn Roe is sent to manage the family farm in rural North Carolina, where she finds what she takes to be a badly burned soldier on their property. She rescues ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar

    A Novel

    It is 1923. Evangeline (Eva) English and her sister Lizzie are missionaries heading for the ancient city of Kashgar on the Silk Road. Though Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, Eva's motives are not quite as noble, but with her green bicycle and a commission from a publisher to write A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar, she is ready for adventure.In present day London, a young woman, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Plan C

    Just in Case

    by Lois Cahall ...
    A screwball comedy with a heart. Thelma & Louise go to Europe. A revenge on midlife crisis.Plan A: We grow up, get married, have babies, white picket fence.Plan B: Mortgages, marriages, mistresses, divorce, my kids, his kids, stepkids, blended families. College tuition. Empty nest. Empty soul.Plan C: Cabernet, passports, jet lag, Ambien, Europe. Who needs reality?Until we realize reality can't be ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Shoemaker's Wife

    A Novel

    "…an old-fashioned, romantic tale of two star-tangled lovers...but also a paean to artisanal work, food, friendship and family…Trigiani is a master of palpable and visual detail." — Washington PostBeloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking epic romance and multigenerational love story that spans two ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD