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“nicolette polek”

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  • Ackermann

    by Nicolette Polek ...
    **A young woman investigates the disappearance of her beloved piano teacher in the snowy Carpathian mountains.Exploring love and grief, synthetic biology, music and divinity, Ackermann is a dreamlike literary suspense for readers of Donna Tartt, Fleur Jaeggy, and Marilynne Robinson.**Sasha, a dental assistant in a Carpathian mountain town, has fallen in love with her piano teacher, Ackermann. ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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  • Bitter Water Opera

    A Novel

    by Nicolette Polek ...
    An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without itIn 1967, the dancer Marta Becket and her husband were traveling through Death Valley Junction when they came across an abandoned theater. Marta decided it was hers. She painted her ideal audience on its walls and danced her own dances until her death five decades later.In the present day, Gia has ended a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Imaginary Museums

    Stories

    by Nicolette Polek ...
    "A collection of flash fiction that feels seemingly arbitrary with an ache of human longing for connection peppered in. . . . These bizarre but beautiful stories transport you elsewhere with no intention of bringing you back." —Ashleah Gonzales, W magazineIn this collection of compact fictions, Nicolette Polek transports us to a gently unsettling realm inhabited by disheveled landlords, a fugitive ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

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    Bitter Water Opera

    A Novel

    by Nicolette Polek ...
    Narrated by Alex Picard ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 19 min

    In 1967, the dancer Marta Becket and her husband were traveling through Death Valley Junction when they came across an abandoned theater. Marta decided it was hers. She painted her ideal audience on its walls and danced her own dances until her death five decades later.In the present day, Gia has ended a relationship and taken a leave from her job in film studies at a university. She is sleeping ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Moral Disorder

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    Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since Wilderness Tips.In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death. With settings ranging from Toronto, northern Quebec, ... Read more

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  • Arboreality

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    $8.99 CAD

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  • A Box of Matches

    by Nicholson Baker ...
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    Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks.What Emmett thinks about is the subject of this wise and closely observed novel, which covers vast distances while moving no further than Emmett’s hearth and home. Nicholson Baker’s ... Read more

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  • Ballistics

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    by Billy Collins ...
    In this moving and playful collection, Billy Collins touches on an array of subjects—love, death, solitude, youth, and aging—delving deeper than ever before into the intricate folds of life. ... Read more

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  • The Apple Trees at Olema

    New and Selected Poems

    by Robert Hass ...
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  • Little Bandaged Days

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