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  • Only Children

    A Novel

    by Alison Lurie ...
    A novel of childlike wonder and adult discord during the Great Depression—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Nowhere City.Dozing in the back seat of her father's car, Mary Ann Hubbard is the happiest eight-year-old in the country. It's 1935, and she and her parents are going to spend Fourth of July weekend at her headmistress's farm in upstate New York. Joining them are the Zimmerns, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War Between the Tates

    A Novel

    by Alison Lurie ...
    A husband's affair pushes a suburban wife to her breaking point in this "near perfect comedy of manners" by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Real People ( The New York Times).Erica Tate wouldn't mind getting up in the morning if her children were less intolerable. Until puberty struck, Jeffrey and Matilda were absolute darlings, but in the last year, they have become sullen, insufferable ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Bending Toward the Sun

    A Mother and Daughter Memoir

    by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, Rita Lurie ...
    Narrated by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, Beata Pozniak ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 46 min

    A miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, BENDING TOWARD THE SUN tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror.Weaving together the voices of three generations of women—Rita, her daughter, Leslie, and her granddaughter, Mikaela—the memoir provides powerful and inspiring evidence of the resilience of the human spirit, relevant to every culture in every corner of the ... Read more

    $32.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Real People

    A Novel

    by Alison Lurie ...
    An artists' colony is a false paradise for a frustrated writer in this "witty, knowing, and perceptive" novel from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( The New Yorker).The mansion is called Illyria, but for the writers and artists who flock there each summer, it's a Garden of Eden where every artistic curiosity is explored. Away from family, friends, and ordinary responsibilities, the creative spirit ... Read more

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  • The Nowhere City

    A Novel

    by Alison Lurie ...
    In this "excellent" novel of "rare understanding" from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, culture shock consumes a young Harvard couple in Los Angeles ( The New York Times).When his mentor at Harvard University suddenly leaves for Washington, Paul Cattleman finds himself adrift in the wilds of academia. After losing his fellowship, he is out of work and one thesis short of a PhD. Rather than doom ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Truth About Lorin Jones

    A Novel

    by Alison Lurie ...
    In this comedy by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a biographer out to vindicate a neglected female artist learns that the truth is never tidy.Polly Alter is through with men. Recovering from her divorce, she has taken a year off from her museum job to write a biography of Lorin Jones, a sensitive painter who died young and nearly forgotten. Polly is determined to bring the artist the public ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love and Friendship

    A Novel

    by Alison Lurie ...
    In the Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "excellent" debut, a professor's wife searches for liberation at the hands of a music instructor ( The New York Times).Though born in New York, the men of Emmy Turner's family have long found their spiritual home in the idyllic Convers College. Her father, brothers, and uncles entered the New England intellectual enclave as boys and came out men, ready to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Resort

    A Novel

    by Alison Lurie ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "sparkling, smart" tale of an aging writer and his younger wife looking for new life—or a way to end it—in Key West ( The New York Times).Every schoolboy in America knows the work of author Wilkie Walker, who won fame and fortune with his accessible nature books. But as he turns seventy, his renown is nearly gone. Now he sits up at night torturing himself with ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life Must Go On

    The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania's Jews

    by Bea Lurie ...
    The remarkable story of Sol Lurie, a child survivor of six concentration camps during the Holocaust, who continues to be a beacon of hope.After a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just eleven when the Nazis invaded and he and his family were forced to move into the Kovno Ghetto. The Kovno Ghetto was one of the only ghettos to later become a concentration camp, and Sol was among just a ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Foreign Affairs

    A Novel

    by Alison Lurie ...
    Two unexpected romances in London unfold in this Pulitzer Prize–winning novel from "one of this country's most able and witty novelists" ( The New York Times).In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. Then, alone on a flight to London for a research trip, she sits next to a man she would never have viewed as a ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atheism Kills

    The Dangers of a World Without God – and Cause for Hope

    by Barak Lurie ...
    In "Atheism Kills," Barak Lurie exposes the horrors of a world without God. Contrary to the mantra we’ve heard time and time again that religion is responsible for more deaths than anything else, it is in fact the absence of God which has killed—in obscene numbers. Ever since atheism first assumed government control in the French Revolution, it has done nothing but kill. Atheism has killed through ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Ghosts

    by Max Lury ...
    After being reunited at Annie's memorial, Kieran and Harlow begin separate searches for their lost friend, all while trying to repair their friendship. Harlow, recently retired from the CGI company she helped found, discovers fragments of the dead - faces, gestures, glances - in AI generated videos; meanwhile Kieran, aimless and isolated, stumbles into an occult community of those dedicated to ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD