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  • The Poet's House

    by Jean Thompson ...
    In this warm and witty story, a young woman gets swept up in the rivalries and love affairs of a dramatic group of writers.Carla is stuck. In her twenties and working for a landscaper, she’s been told she’s on the wrong path by everyone—from her mom, who wants her to work at the hospital, to her boyfriend, who is dropping not-so-subtle hints that she should be doing something that matters.Then she ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

    by Jean Thompson ...
    From National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home comes a “powerful, beautifully crafted” (People) family saga about three generations of women who struggle to find freedom and happiness in their small Midwestern college town.A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl is a poignant novel about three generations of the Wise family—Evelyn, Laura, and Grace—as ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Year We Left Home

    A Novel

    by Jean Thompson ...
    Series series Bestselling Fiction
    A New York Times bestseller, The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson’s mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family that captures the turbulent history of the country at large.Named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a People magazine “Pick of the Week,” and an Indie Next and Midwest Connections selection, The Year We Left Home is the career ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD

  • The Humanity Project

    A Novel

    by Jean Thompson ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home and A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, this dazzling novel is hailed as an “instantly addictive...tale of yearning, paradox, and hope.” (Booklist)After surviving a horrific shooting at her high school, fifteen-year-old Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, in California. Art, not much more than a child himself, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • City Boy

    A Novel

    by Jean Thompson ...
    Where is the line between love and crazy? How much of life can ever be planned out or foreseen, even by intelligent, savvy, well-meaning people? Newlyweds Jack and Chloe have all such advantages. Ensconced in their affordable Chicago apartment, Jack struggles to pursue his writing career while Chloe works downtown applying herself to the world of high finance. The city is theirs to savor and enjoy ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Witch

    And Other Tales Re-Told

    by Jean Thompson ...
    National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jean Thompson’s new collection of “bewitching improvisations on fairy tales” are “spellbinding” (Booklist, starred review).Capturing the magic and horror in everyday life, The Witch and Other Tales Re-told revisits beloved fables that represent our deepest, most primeval fears and satisfy our longings for good to triumph over evil ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Wide Blue Yonder

    A Novel

    by Jean Thompson ...
    A National Book Award finalist for her story collection Who Do You Love, Jean Thompson towers into the stratosphere with her new novel, Wide Blue Yonder.It is the summer of 1999, and something big and bad is coming to Springfield, Illinois, "the place the Weather lived." Wide Blue Yonder is a novel about weather in all its permutations -- climatic, emotional, even metaphysical. Our guides through ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • She Poured Out Her Heart

    by Jean Thompson ...
    Tracing the complicated friendship of two very different women who meet in college, She Poured Out Her Heart is a novel of remarkable psychological suspense, crafted by National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson.The night that Jane and Bonnie meet on a college campus sets them on paths forever entwined. Bonnie, the wild and experimental one, always up for anything, has spent the past two decades ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • La-La Land

    by Jean Thompson ...
    Alexis grew up in a dysfunctional family controlled by alcohol, giving her a childhood filled with a navet that extended into adulthood and was noticeable by the people she met. They did not hesitate to add to the confusion Alexis was already experiencing in a life filled with physical, mental, and verbal abuse. The only event that gave her any peace was meeting the man of her dreams, who would ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Throw Like A Girl

    Stories

    by Jean Thompson ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book | San Francisco Chronical Best Book of the YearA master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary fiction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl.**Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Do Not Deny Me

    Stories

    by Jean Thompson ...
    When Jean Thompson—“America’s Alice Munro” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)—is telling stories, “You cannot put the book down” (The Seattle Times), and her superlative new collection, Do Not Deny Me, is one to be savored, word by word.• Award-winning storyteller gaining popularity: Jean Thompson’s short fiction has been honored by the National endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation; ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Therapy

    by Jean Thompson ...
    Jean Thompson lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, two of her three children and five of her seven grandchildren. She loves bonding with her grandchildren, giving honorable mention to her newest addition, Maya Ann, to her Thompson Family village. She is a sister to Charles, James, Marie, Iris, Sandy, Gail and Mary who have supported and encouraged all of her dreams how far-fetched they ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD