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  • Come to the Window

    A Novel

    par Howard Norman ...
    A drama of murder, love, and redemption set in Nova Scotia in the final year of World War I.It's 1918. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, a more confined drama—harrowing and provocative—slowly unfolds. It begins when Elizabeth Frame murders her husband hours after their wedding and ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Bird Artist

    A Novel

    par Howard Norman ...
    A young artist confesses to a shocking murder that rocks his remote coastal village, in the first novel of the author's acclaimed Canadian trilogy.A National Book Award FinalistNewfoundland, 1911. Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of his small hometown, Witless Bay. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place

    A Memoir

    par Howard Norman ...
    "Some books celebrate the human condition; others commiserate with us. This memoir does both." —Helen Oyeyemi, NPRThis spellbinding memoir by the National Book Award–nominated author of The Bird Artist begins with a portrait, both harrowing and hilarious, of a midwestern boy's summer working in a bookmobile, under the shadow of his grifter father and the erotic tutelage of his brother's girlfriend ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • What Is Left the Daughter

    par Howard Norman ...
    A two-time National Book Award finalist delivers a stirring tale of the passions - tender, obsessive, even murderous - that are unleashed by a wartime love triangle.Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges - the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Wound is the Place the Light Enters

    par Howard Norman ...
    Collections series Sowell Collection Books
    The warmth of this book is sustained by friendship. More specifically, the novelist Howard Norman documents what he didn’t know would be the final evening and morning he spent with his dear friend Jake Berthot. In that single evening is the entire world of their relationship and the story of a unique artistic figure of the twentieth century.After the controversial exhibit of his "Red Paintings," ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Sanctuary

    The Preservation Issue

    Collections Livre 70 - Conjunctions
    Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom seed-saver, the family photographer, the Monuments Men. Old two-by-two Noah and taxonomist Linnaeus. ... En savoir plus

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  • Livre audio

    My Darling Detective

    par Howard Norman ...
    Lu par Bronson Pinchot ...

    Version Longue

    7 heure 11 min

    Jacob Rigolet—a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector—looks up from his seat at an auction to see his mother, the former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of black ink at master photographer Robert Capa’s Death on a Leipzig Balcony. What’s more, Jacob’s police detective fiancée, ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • In Fond Remembrance of Me

    A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic

    par Howard Norman ...
    Howard Norman spent the fall of 1977 in Churchill, Manitoba, translating into English two dozen "Noah stories" told to him by an Inuit elder. The folktales reveal what happened when the biblical Noah sailed his Ark into Hudson Bay in search of woolly mammoths and lost his way. By turns startling, tragic, and comical, these inimitable narratives tell the history of the Arctic and capture the ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Why I Like This Story

    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • When I Was Your Age, Volume Two

    Original Stories About Growing Up

    "Ehrlich offers more of a good thing in this second volume of memoirs of adolescence by renowned, contemporary YA authors." – Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Tell me a story of when you were little," children everywhere love to ask. In this acclaimed collection, ten award-winning, well-known writers comply by reaching across their own childhoods to those of their readers. Whether telling of ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Der Bilderwächter

    par Howard Norman ...
    Traduit par Maria Andreas ...
    "Das Gemälde, das ich für Imogen Linny stahl – ´Jüdin auf einer Straße in Amsterdam´ –, kam am 5. September 1938 im Glace Museum in Halifax an..." So beginnt der Museumswächter DeFoe Russet seine Geschichte von ungeheurer Suggestivkraft. DeFoe, ein junger Mann in den Zwanzigern, verdankt die Anstellung im Museum, wie fast alles in seinem Leben, seinem Onkel Edward. Dieser Onkel war es auch, der ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Livre audio

    The Ghost Clause

    par Howard Norman ...
    Lu par Jim Meskimen ...

    Version Longue

    7 heure 5 min

    National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another provocative, haunting novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost.Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. It’s been several months since he keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia–bound ferry, a massive heart attack to blame. ... En savoir plus

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