Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships
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Anton's family is destroyed when a Nazi collaborator is assassinated in the last dark days of war. When the grown-up Anton decides to uncover the circumstances surrounding his family's brutal murder, what he eventually replays are events that are infinitely more complex and morally ambiguous than childhood memories will allow.
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During the Cultural Revolution in Communist China of the '60s and '70s the two teenage boys are sent to a mountain village. They find themselves transformed when they uncover a forbidden treasure trove: a suitcase filled with Western literary classics. The secret books become the catalyst for provocative and unexpected ending.
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The urban sensibility of immigrant Jewish Montreal is chronicled in this darkly satirical portrait of 67-year-old Barney Panofsky.
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A midwife in rural Nova Scotia fights to keep her traditions alive when a doctor arrives with promises of fast and easy childbirth
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In apartheid South Africa, Marit has moved from the city to her husband's family farm where Tembi, the new housekeeper, has also been separated from her past, and the two forge an alliance when war breaks out.
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Winner of the 2006 Giller prize, this collection of short stories follows four characters from their student days to their careers as doctors.
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The Book of Negroes
Hill, Lawrence
Follows the life of one black woman from when she was captured as a child in Africa, sold into slavery in South Carolina, escaped to Nova Scotia as a black Loyalist, then returned to Sierra Leone with other freed slaves.
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The novel begins in 1988 when the 1913 diary of Alfred Corbin, a British colonial administrator, is found in an East African shopkeeper's backroom. The diary enflames the curiosity of retired schoolteacher Pius Fernandes. Pius's obsessive pursuit of history leads him on an investigative journey The Book of Secrets juxtaposes different cultures and generations and tells us something fresh about the nature of storytelling.
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel, a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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