Literary

The Tin Can Tree: A Novel

von Anne Tyler

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye.

In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental...

Fatigue Artist

von Lynne Sharon Schwartz

The Fatigue Artist is a refreshingly candid story

about life, love, and survival in the contemporary

world. A writer living in New York City, Laura is

overwhelmed by a mysterious lethargy and retreats

to her...

Strange but True

von John Searles

After a mysterious fall from his Manhattan apartment, Philip Chase has moved home with his mother, Charlene, a bitter woman who has never fully accepted the death ofher younger son, Ronnie, five years earlier....

Ladder of Years: A Novel

von Anne Tyler

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead...

The Letter Killers Club

von Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky & Caryl Emerson

The Letter Killers Club is a secret society of self-described “conceivers” who, to preserve the purity of their conceptions, will commit nothing to paper. (What, after all, is your run-of-the-mill scribbler...

The Angel Makers

von Jessica Gregson

When the men of a remote Hungarian village go off to war in 1916, the women left behind realize their lives are much better without them. Suddenly, they are not being beaten; they have time for friendships;...

Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon

von Nicole Brossard & Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood

Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization....

Mauve Desert

von Nicole Brossard & Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood

First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writers alike....

The Dream Chasers

von Claudette Oduor

Four months to the disputed December 2007 general elections in Kenya, Lulu is living with a divorced, jobless mother prone to periodic lunacy. The radio and television are filled with campaigns, which Lulu pays...

Daniel O'Thunder

von Ian Weir

"A frightening, funny, moving, page-turning romp." Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo "Daniel O'Thunder smacks of London life a century and a half ago: drunken costermongers, beggars and whores,...

The Jade Peony

von Wayson Choy

The Jade Peony is a 2010 Canada Reads Selection! Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and '40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three...

Obomsawin of Sioux Junction

von Daniel Poliquin & Wayne Grady

One fine spring morning, a float plane lands on a lake near the northern Ontario town of Sioux Junction, and three men get out: a judge, a Crown prosecutor and a defence attorney. The trial of Thomas Obomsawin,...

The Speed of Light

von Javier Cercas

Javier Cercas' third and most ambitious novel has already been heralded in Spain as "daring," "magnificent, complex, and intense," and "a master class in invention and truth."As a young writer, the novel's protagonist-perhaps...

The Interloper

von Antoine Wilson

A novel about obsession that makes for obsessive reading.

All Owen Patterson wants is an normal life, a happy marriage, and a stable family. But following the brutal and random murder of his brother-in-law, that...

The Lesser Blessed: A Novel

von Van Camp, Richard

Larry is a Dogrib indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. His tongue, his hallucinations and his fantasies are hotter than the centre of the sun. At sixteen, he loves Iron Maiden, the North...

One Hundred and One Nights: A Novel

von Benjamin Buchholz

After 13 years in America, Abu Saheeh has returned to his native Iraq, a nation transformed by the American military presence. Alone in a new city, he has exactly what he wants: freedom from his past. Then he...

The Widower's Tale

von Julia Glass

In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however,...

Going After Cacciato

National Book Award for Fiction 1979

von Tim O'Brien

"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales."

So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award,...

Roam (with embedded audio): A Novel with Music

von Alan Lazar

They say you never forget your first love . . .

Born under a sparkling crescent moon, Nelson is a bright-eyed, inquisitive half beagle, half poodle. He lives with Katey and Don, newlyweds whose marriage is straining...

The Flamboyant

von Lori Marie Carlson

In the tradition of Beryl Markham's West with the Night, The Flamboyant tells the story of Lenora Demarest, a strong–willed, soft–spoken American beauty intent on becoming the first aviatrix in her adopted...