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  • Hellgoing Stories
    Author:

    Coady, Lynn

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    Winner of the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe's Top 10 Books of 2013.

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  • How Should a Person Be
    Author:

    Heti, Sheila

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    A brilliant portrayal of finding a beautiful life by one of Canada's most exciting literary talents, now available as an Anansi Book Club edition featuring discussion questions.How Should a Pe

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  • Methodist Hatchet
    Author:

    Babstock, Ken

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    Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Trillium Book Award Marooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, the poems in Methodist Hatchet cl

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  • The Order of Good Cheer
    Author:

    Gaston, Bill

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    Indian summer, 1607. Intrepid explorer and map-maker Samuel de Champlain has founded a new and precarious settlement in Annapolis Royal, New France (present-day Nova Scotia).

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  • Up Up Up
    Author:

    Booker, Julie

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    Up Up Up heralds the arrival of a writer of astonishing range, compassion, and acuity.

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  • The Exclusives
    Author:

    Thornton, Rebecca

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    In 1996, Josephine Grey and Freya Seymour are best friends and on the brink of great success.

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  • My Heart Is Africa Three Years with the Flying Doctors
    Author:

    Griffin, Scott

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    In 1996, Scott Griffin left the comfortable routine of his life as a successful businessman to fly solo to Africa in his single-engine Cessna 180 to work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African

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  • Jeremiah, Ohio
    Author:

    Sol, Adam

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    In Jeremiah, Ohio, Adam Sol reinvents the Biblical prophet and doomsayer Jeremiah for the postmodern age, and sends him on a reeling road trip through the strip malls and back roads of the United S

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  • A Bird's Eye
    Author:

    Fagan, Cary

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    Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book.

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  • The City of Words
    Author:

    Manguel, Alberto

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    In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism.

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  • The Disciple of Las Vegas
    Author:

    Hamilton, Ian

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    Ava Lee goes deep inside the shady world of online gambling in the second installment of the pulse-pounding series.

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  • Affairs of Art
    Author:

    Bissonnette, Lise

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    Fischman, Sheila

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    An art critic dies alone, leaving only a letter to a former lover about the women and men he has loved.

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  • Butterfly Mind Revolution, Recovery, and One Reporter's Road to Understanding China
    Author:

    Brown, Patrick

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    Fascinating, revelatory, and powerful, Butterfly MindM is a memorable work from a renowned reporter on the front line of history.

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  • The Place of Shining Light
    Author:

    Sheikh, Nazneen

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    Three men race against time to take possession of a sacred 5,000-year-old Buddhist sculpture: Khalid, a leading Pakistani antiquities dealer, arranges for the illegal importation of the statue from

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  • 1953: Chronicle of a Birth Foretold
    Author:

    Daigle, France

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    France Daigle casts a droll eye on what it means to be born a writer in the middle of the twentieth century.

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