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Rebellion is Portuguese literary celebrity Cristina Carvalho’s international debut. Born a rebel, Lena escapes her provincial existence and heads for Lisbon as a young woman to make a more exciting life for herself. Once there, however, she makes a series of fateful...
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Linda Leith Publishing
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2018-03-10
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Fans of Anne Tyler's quirky characters and her attention to family life, or Pete Hamill's depiction of diverse, ethnic, urban neighborhoods will connect to Most Precious Blood, set in the eleventh-hour of a declining Italian-American neighborhood where complex and often...
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Guernica
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2018-03-01
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Taking place during World War II, Somewhere in the Stars is the story of three young men from San Francisco -- Nick Spataro, his cousin Paolo, and friend Nathan Fein -- and their adventures as members of an American tank battalion chasing the Germans up the Italian...
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Guernica
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2018-03-01
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In the Panic of 1873, Frank Cowperwood’s fortune was destroyed and his criminal activity on the stock exchange was exposed. Now, with his prison sentence complete, he is ready to begin the next chapter of his life. Following the same creed of selfishness that guided him...
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Big Cheese Books
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2017-11-05
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Inspired by Erik Satie's work of the same name, Sports and Pastimes is the latest novel by acclaimed Montreal playwright and author Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard.Translated by Aimee Wall (whose translation of Vickie Gendreau's Testament for BookThug in 2016 drew...
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BookThug
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2017-10-25
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Delia Buckley hasn't seen Daniel Wolfe in twenty-two years, ever since he'd abandoned her and their unborn child. But now here he is, knowing all about Delia's family troubles and wanting to employ her to nurse him in his terminal illness. Desperate for money to keep...
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Signature Editions
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2017-10-24
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Moving, entertaining, and witty, A Thousand Consolations is a literary romantic comedy for fans of David Nicholls’s Us and Emma Straub’s Modern Lovers.Paula doesn’t put much faith in the candles she designs for her customers, which promise to cure everything from...
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Touchwood Editions
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2017-10-03
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Winner of the 2018 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardMaine, 1980. A utopian community is on the verge of collapse. The charismatic leader’s authority teeters as his followers come to realize they've been exploited for too long. To make matters worse, the...
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BookThug
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2017-10-03
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Beginning the day of the devastating Halifax Explosion of 1917, Dazzle Patterns is an unforgettable story about resilience, the power of art, and the casualties of war.
Halifax, 1917. Clare Holmes, a flaw checker at the local glassworks, is saving up for passage to...
Editeur :
Freehand Books
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2017-10-01
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The stunning debut by the author of the Globe & Mail bestsellerThe Last Secret. "Ambitious, broad, sweeping, historical mystery.” - Shelagh Rogers,The Last ChapterLouis Riel arrives at Batoche in 1884 to help the Métis fight for their lands and discovers that the...
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Ronsdale Press
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2017-09-30
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Will Crosswell’s decision to pursue acting shattered his father’s dream of him being a useful adult. When we first meet the youngWill he is a wolf in wolf’s clothing. But in the ensuing years, from relationships to the theatre, his life has become one shipwreck after...
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Latitude 46 Publishing
Parution :
2017-09-30
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Winner, 2017 Quebec Writers’ Federation Concordia University First Book PrizeShortlisted, 2017 Governor General's Award for FictionShortlisted, 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeNamed a Favourite Book of 2017 by The National PostMoscow, 1921. Tatiana and Sasha meet in a...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2017-09-19
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When twenty-two-year-old Marla finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she wishes for a family, but faces precariousness: an uncertain future with her talented, exacting boyfriend, Liam; constant danger from her roommate, Dani, a sometime prostitute and entrenched drug...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2017-09-15
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A gritty tragi-comic fairy tale of sexual obsession and longing, based in equal parts on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, Once UponA Time In West Toronto is the story of outsiders reinventing themselves in Toronto’s immigrant...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2017-09-15
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In the Belly of the Horse is a gripping story illuminating an historic period in the life of a Peruvian family separated and kept apart by seemingly insurmountable forces during a time of civil conflict. Outraged and fearful that war is surging too close to home, Manuel...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2017-09-15
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Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons draws on the lost histories of the women descended from African slaves who resisted English rule during the 1857 uprising in Lucknow, India. The book is about the event that triggered Queen Victoria’s reign in India for almost a century,...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2017-09-15
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Guinea-Bissau, 2012. Mixing fiction and fact, Sylvain Prudhomme revisits the famous '70s music group Super Mama Djombo, as seen through the eyes of Couto, the laconic guitarist. After learning of the death of the singer, Dulce—once the love of his life&mdashCouto...
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BookThug
Parution :
2017-09-07
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Part mystery, part elegy, This Side of Sad begins with an ending: the violent enigma of a man's death. Was it an accident, or did James commit suicide? In the shattering aftermath, his widow, Maslen, questions her own capacity for love and undertakes a painful...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2017-09-05
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It’s 1994 and Pete Curtis can’t wait to get out of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Already, he’s playing drums in a band whose songs belong on mix-tapes everywhere. Even though his new girlfriend seems underwhelmed, he knows it’s just a matter of time before he and his pals break...
Editeur :
NeWest Press
Parution :
2017-09-01
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Set in London, Bilbao, Alabama, Montauk, and more, this fresh, international novel weaves the fates of two unlikely friends whose days and nights are filled with movies and music, sleeping pills and shooting stars. A beautiful piece of magical realism with a modern,...
Editeur :
Qc Fiction
Parution :
2017-06-01
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