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A Fine Balance is in mid-1970s India.

Shunned as an outsider and mistreated due to an undiagnosed learning disability, the young and imaginative Mari-Jen Delene retreats into silence. Around her, the fictional community of Ste.

In 1913 Dr. Louis Thomas and his family settle on the French islands of St. Pierre and Michelon.

Half Moon, a hauntingly beautiful saga set in Paris, New York, and Atlantic Canada, explores themes of passion, betrayal, art, and redemption in the story of an elusively beautiful woman and the wo

In the early twentieth-century, Anthony Patch, a socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, finds himself falling madly in love with another socialite.

The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby.

When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity.

This program is read by the author.

Emma Woodhouse, belle, intelligente et riche a vingt-et-un ans.

A "Globe 100" Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail) Lambda Literary Award finalist In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make up one cell.

A fast-paced comic extravaganza and from the author of the runaway bestseller and Governor General's Award-nominated How Insensitive.

De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a real estate transaction, only to find himself embroiled in a criminal conspiracy.

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague.

While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral and a profound personal unravelling as she struggle

'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were.