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Autumn Rounds

by Jacques Poulin ...

Translated by Sheila Fischman ...

A heartfelt masterpiece about the joys of travel, reading, and companionship.In rural Canada, dotted along the coast of a vast mauve river, live villagers of different stripes: a recently divorced hydroplane pilot, a factory-worker who closely resembles her fisherman husband, a probing motorcyclist with a pet St. Bernard, a pair of beautiful blonde joggers, and other curious characters.For all ... Read more

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A heartfelt masterpiece about the joys of travel, reading, and companionship.In rural Canada, dotted along the coast of a vast mauve river, live villagers of different stripes: a recently divorced hydroplane pilot, a factory-worker who closely resembles her fisherman husband, a probing motorcyclist with a pet St. Bernard, a pair of beautiful blonde joggers, and other curious characters.For all
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Volkswagen Blues

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Translated by Sheila Fischman ...

A 2005 Canada Reads SelectionIn this classic road novel, Jacques Poulin tells the story of a man in search of his brother. The geographical journey — through Detroit, into Chicago, on to St. Louis, along the Oregon Trail and into California — becomes a metaphor for the exploration of the history of the French in North America. ... Read more

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A 2005 Canada Reads SelectionIn this classic road novel, Jacques Poulin tells the story of a man in search of his brother. The geographical journey — through Detroit, into Chicago, on to St. Louis, along the Oregon Trail and into California — becomes a metaphor for the exploration of the history of the French in North America.
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Birdie

A Novel

by Tracey Lindberg ...

Monkey Beach meets Green Grass, Running Water meets The Beachcombers in this wise and funny novel by a debut Cree authorBirdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions. Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons ... Read more

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Monkey Beach meets Green Grass, Running Water meets The Beachcombers in this wise and funny novel by a debut Cree authorBirdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions. Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons
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The Inconvenient Indian

A Curious Account of Native People in North America

by Thomas King ...

WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving ... Read more

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WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving
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The Orenda

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A visceral portrait of life at a crossroads, The Orenda opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. It has been years since the murder of his family and yet they are never far from his mind. In Snow Falls, Bird recognizes the ghost of ... Read more

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A visceral portrait of life at a crossroads, The Orenda opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. It has been years since the murder of his family and yet they are never far from his mind. In Snow Falls, Bird recognizes the ghost of
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A Man Called Ove

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The million-copy bestselling phenomenon: a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step.'Funny, moving, life-affirming, charming, delightful. Do not hesitate to read this'Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'How can anyone not like this gorgeous, grumpy old man??!!!'Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Typing this review after just finishing the book. Still wiping ... Read more

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The million-copy bestselling phenomenon: a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step.'Funny, moving, life-affirming, charming, delightful. Do not hesitate to read this'Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'How can anyone not like this gorgeous, grumpy old man??!!!'Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Typing this review after just finishing the book. Still wiping
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Crow Winter

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by Karen McBride ...

Nanabush. A name that has a certain weight on the tongue—a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless room or aluminum foil on a metal filling.Trickster. Storyteller. Shape-shifter. An ancient troublemaker with the power to do great things, only he doesn’t want to put in the work.Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point First Nation, Hazel Ellis has been dreaming of an old crow. He tells her he’s here to ... Read more

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Nanabush. A name that has a certain weight on the tongue—a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless room or aluminum foil on a metal filling.Trickster. Storyteller. Shape-shifter. An ancient troublemaker with the power to do great things, only he doesn’t want to put in the work.Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point First Nation, Hazel Ellis has been dreaming of an old crow. He tells her he’s here to
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Indians on Vacation

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A #1 Indie bestseller and a Canadian bestseller for 22weeks, the brilliant latest novel from one of Canada’s foremost authorsInspired by a handful of postcards sent nearly a hundredyears ago, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace long-lost uncle Leroy and the familymedicine bundle he took with him to Europe.“I’m sweaty andsticky. My ears are still popping from the descent into Vaclav Havel. Mysinuses ... Read more

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A #1 Indie bestseller and a Canadian bestseller for 22weeks, the brilliant latest novel from one of Canada’s foremost authorsInspired by a handful of postcards sent nearly a hundredyears ago, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace long-lost uncle Leroy and the familymedicine bundle he took with him to Europe.“I’m sweaty andsticky. My ears are still popping from the descent into Vaclav Havel. Mysinuses
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A goldfish catches intimate glimpses of life as he plummets to his fate in this "irrepressible novel—breezy, funny, sexy, and bursting with life" (Tom Perrotta).A goldfish named Ian is falling from the 27th-floor balcony on which his fishbowl sits. He's longed for adventure, so when the opportunity arises, he escapes from his bowl, clears the balcony railing and finds himself airborne. Plummeting ... Read more

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A goldfish catches intimate glimpses of life as he plummets to his fate in this "irrepressible novel—breezy, funny, sexy, and bursting with life" (Tom Perrotta).A goldfish named Ian is falling from the 27th-floor balcony on which his fishbowl sits. He's longed for adventure, so when the opportunity arises, he escapes from his bowl, clears the balcony railing and finds himself airborne. Plummeting
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Africville

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For readers of Lawrence Hill and George Elliott Clarke, a ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry. Set in the small Nova Scotia town of Africville, settled by former slaves, Jeffrey Colvin depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time and fate.A richly woven story, structured as a triptych, Africville ... Read more

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For readers of Lawrence Hill and George Elliott Clarke, a ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry. Set in the small Nova Scotia town of Africville, settled by former slaves, Jeffrey Colvin depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time and fate.A richly woven story, structured as a triptych, Africville
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For fans of Jojo Moyes, from the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls, comes another compulsively readable story of love and friendship, following the lives of two women reckoning with their pasts and the choices that will define their futures.Divided by their past, united by love.1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebec's fight to gain independence, and wild, beautiful Véronique ... Read more

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For fans of Jojo Moyes, from the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls, comes another compulsively readable story of love and friendship, following the lives of two women reckoning with their pasts and the choices that will define their futures.Divided by their past, united by love.1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebec's fight to gain independence, and wild, beautiful Véronique
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by Janie Chang ...

From the author of Three Souls andDragonSprings Road comes a captivating historical novel in which a convoy of student refugees travel acrossChina, fleeing the hostilities of a brutal war with Japan“Mythsare the darkest and brightest incarnations of who we are . . .”China, 1937. When Japanese bombs begin fallingon the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua... ... Read more

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From the author of Three Souls andDragonSprings Road comes a captivating historical novel in which a convoy of student refugees travel acrossChina, fleeing the hostilities of a brutal war with Japan“Mythsare the darkest and brightest incarnations of who we are . . .”China, 1937. When Japanese bombs begin fallingon the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua...
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