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The best Canadian fiction of 2024. From the bestselling author of Drunk Mom and Possessed comes Monster, a mesmerizing, brave new work of autofiction. Monster is a shattering, feminist manifesto exploring sexual awakening, motherhood, immigrant trauma, and the power of...
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Anvil Press
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2024-12-31
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Winner of the Annual 3-Day Novel Contest! In Gone to Pieces an entire family’s lives are consumed by a single story: a tall tale about a forest fire and the horses who fled into a lake of ice to escape the flames. Everything they do, everything they watch, and...
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Anvil Press
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2024-12-31
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Imagine a world where freedom is a distant memory, and the government controls every aspect of your life.
In the ruins of a post-apocalyptic London, Winston Smith lives in a society where independent thought is discouraged, and the totalitarian Party, led by the...
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Robin Classics
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2024-12-27
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Embark on the epic journey of a lifetime with Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca. After ten long years of battle in the Trojan War, Odysseus sets sail for home, but the gods have other plans.
With the help of the goddess Athena, Odysseus must navigate treacherous...
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Pomodoro Classics
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2024-12-20
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The Iliad is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It...
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Pomodoro Classics
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2024-12-20
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Heart of Darkness, the 1899 masterpiece by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, is about a voyage up the Congo River into theHeart of Africa.
The story is narrated by Charles Marlow, recalling his obsessive quest to locate the ivory trader Kurtz, who has become...
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Pomodoro Classics
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2024-12-14
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Part biblical fable, part magic realism, and part thriller. A ship’s carpenter becomes stranded on a small Mediterranean island. He has completely lost his memory but in exchange has acquired the ability to speak, write, and understand all languages. After his rescue,...
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Radiant Press
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2024-11-01
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At ten years old, Kid is increasingly disturbed by strange spider-infested visions of his next-door neighbour's shed. Pursued by shadowy memories that torment his waking thoughts, Kid falls deeper and deeper into a haunted inner world, retreating from his family and...
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Radiant Press
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2024-11-01
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It's 1979, and June has raised her son, Gerald, into adulthood as an unwed mother. She is in middle life now, sandwiched between Gerald—who is developmentally disabled and still lives in the family Hydrostone rowhouse—and her aging mother, Margie. When Gerald goes...
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Nimbus
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2024-09-24
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A Doll's House (Norwegian: Et dukkehjem; also translated asA Doll House) is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is significant for...
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Pomodoro Books
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2024-09-17
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Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean—the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread—Les Misérables ranks among the greatest novels of all time. In it, Victor Hugo takes readers deep into the Parisian underworld, immerses...
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Pomodoro Books
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2024-09-15
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Finalist, Amazon Canada First Novel Award When the grey bus came to take Rainor Schacht and his friends in the ward for disabled children to a remote hospital called Trutzburg, they had no idea what dark reality awaited them. No one would tell them what to expect — not...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2024-09-10
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First published in 1908, E. M. Forster’s “A Room with a View” is the story of a young English middle-class girl named Lucy Honeychurch. As the novel opens we find Lucy touring Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. The two are upset...
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Pomodoro Books
Parution :
2024-09-10
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The Iliad is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It...
Editeur :
CLXII
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2024-09-10
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Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between...
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Pomodoro Books
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2024-09-08
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Winner, Ottawa Book Awards “A stirring tale of the Great Depression on Canada’s Alberta prairie. Readers will be moved.” — Publishers Weekly One of the CBC’s Canadian Fiction Books to Read in Fall 2024 As the Great Depression winds down and war in Europe looms, the...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2024-09-03
ePub
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A witty, layered and compelling novel about a woman with Down Syndrome, exploring textile art, sibling relationships, good intentions gone awry, and friendships.What is intellectual disability? Ask Bruno, who is at his wits' end trying to predict what his sister, Mina,...
Editeur :
Freehand Books
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2024-09-01
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The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident.The...
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Horizon Ridge Publishing
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2024-07-28
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Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a Black woman in the ‘30s. Zora Neale Hurston's classic 1937 novel follows Janie's quest for identity -- a journey during which she learns what love is,...
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Horizon Ridge Publishing
Parution :
2024-07-28
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Negli anni a cavallo fra Otto e Novecento, quando in Austria e in Germania si diffonde il pensiero di Nietzsche e la letteratura di Kafka testimonia una crisi irreversibile, il giovane Rilke non sembra avvertire il problema della mancata identità fra parola e oggetti....
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2024-07-24
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