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  • Unless

    A Novel

    by Carol Shields ...
    "[Shields is] unsparing as she explores the black holes of uncertainty in women's lives . . . these are the dark thoughts of an illuminating novel." — Chicago TribuneThe final book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, Unless is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proving Shields's mastery of extraordinary fiction about ordinary life.For all ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Stone Diaries

    Pulitzer Prize Winner (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Carol Shields ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionOne of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett is a subtle but affecting portrait of an everywoman reflecting on an unconventional life. What transforms this ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Stone Diaries

    by Carol Shields ...
    Narrated by Deborah Drakeford ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 55 min

    Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeBorn in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in the unsettled decades of the twentieth century. At last, reflecting on her unobserved and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Republic of Love

    by Carol Shields ...
    With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There's Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man. And right across the street there's Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Happenstance

    by Carol Shields ...
    These two unique novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare weekend apart in their many years of marriage. Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents, while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. Brenda, travelling alone for the first time, is in a strange city grappling with an array of emotions and toying with the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dressing Up for the Carnival

    by Carol Shields ...
    A bestselling collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry’s Party (winner of the Orange prize)All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife’s lace-trimmed night gown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptionist when she wears that yellow skirt, she evolves into a stunning ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Larry's Party

    by Carol Shields ...
    The San Diego Tribune called The Stone Diaries a "universal study of what makes women tick." With Larry's Party Carol Shields has done the same for men. Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony, and tenderness. Larry's Party gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997, that seamlessly flash backward and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Jane Austen

    A Life

    by Carol Shields ...
    With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Various Miracles

    by Carol Shields ...
    The stories collected here offer an entrancing look at some of the various miracles of everyday life, the quirks of chance and coincidence, life's setbacks and improvisations. Carol Shields deftly draws us into the lives of a broad range of sharply observed characters, from the brilliant young violinist smothered by an overprotective family, to the elderly widow mowing her lawn while a long, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Dropped Threads 2

    More of What We Aren't Told

    by Carol Shields, Marjorie Anderson ...
    Continuing in the tradition of the beloved first volume, Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told taps into women’s compelling need to share their personal reflections on life’s defining moments of surprise and silence. These stories celebrate the female experience with an honestyand intimacy that will take your breath away. Readers will explore what may be unfamiliar terrain, and will come ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Unless

    A Novel

    by Carol Shields ...
    Narrated by Joan Allen ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 14 min

    For all of her days, Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction, novels 'for summertime.' This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when her beloved oldest daughter, Norah, drops out of life to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Orange Fish

    by Carol Shields ...
    A superb collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General's Award.Emerging from these twelve beautifully articulated stories are portraits of men and women whose affairs and recoveries in life take us into worlds that are both new and yet unnervingly familiar. A smile of recognition and a shock of surprise await readers of these finely crafted ... Read more

    $11.99 USD