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The magical story of friendship between twenty-something Sylvia Hardy and Lydie Jim, an eighty-two year old Tlingit elder from the Yukon who met when the Sylvia agreed to be Lydie’s tutor.

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam.

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 is no other book like this one.

British couple Andrew and Sarah O'Rourke, vacationing on a Nigerian beach in a last-ditch effort to save their faltering marriage, come across Little Bee and her sister, Nigerian refugees fleeing f

A powerful and moving novel, by one of the Arab world's leading novelists, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state.