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Author:Pinker, Steven
,Ridley, Matt
,de Botton, Alain
,Gladwell, Malcolm
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Author:Kenner, Hugh
Summary:Acclaimed literary critic Hugh Kenner examines Western culture's insatiable need for stimulation encountered elsewhere - from the eighteenth century's Grand Tour, to the self-imposed exil
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Author:Yadlin, Amos
,Krauthammer, Charles
,Zakaria, Fareed
,Nasr, Vali
,Griffiths, Rudyard
Summary:With tensions between Iran, Israel, and Western powers reaching new highs over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment program, the tenth edition of the Munk Debates investigates how th
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Author:Ho-Kei, Chan
,Tiang, Jeremy
Summary:From award-winning Hong Kong writer Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a Hong Kong detective who rises from constable to senior inspector over the span of several decades,
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Author:Hoffman, Patrick
Summary:Trust no one.San Francisco is about to receive the biggest delivery of MDMA to hit the West Coast in years.
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Author:Quatro, Jamie
Summary:Jamie Quatro’s remarkable first book of stories, I Want to Show You More, published to spectacular reviews, announced her arrival to American letters as “a writer of great origi
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Author:Babstock, Ken
Summary:From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.
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Author:Hamilton, Ian
Summary:An iTunes Store Best Book Ava is back, and she is tougher than ever as she uncovers the secret world of art fraud, in the third book in the wildly popular and bestselling Ava Lee Series.
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Author:Turok, Neil
Summary:Winner of the Lane Anderson Award, longlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize, shortlisted for the Libris Award for Non-Fiction and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book "With [The Universe Within&a
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Author:Harrison, Jim
Summary:Literary legend Jim Harrison's collection of novellas, The Farmer's Daughter, finds him writing at the height of his powers, and in fresh and audacious new directions.
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Author:Coady, Lynn
Summary: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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Author:Heti, Sheila
Summary: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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Author:Babstock, Ken
Summary: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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Author:Gaston, Bill
Summary: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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Author:Booker, Julie
Summary:Up Up Up heralds the arrival of a writer of astonishing range, compassion, and acuity.
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