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Brick Lane - trade paperback
By Monica Ali - $16.50 - add to cart

After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born. Her new world is full of mys...

 

De Niro's Game - trade paperback
By Rawi Hage - $14.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.DE NIRO'S GAME, RAWI HAGE'S critically acclaimed and astonishing first novel, is an unflinching and timely look at civil-war era Lebanon. Through fles...

 

Half of a Yellow Sun - trade paperback
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction.With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughte...

 

House of Meetings - trade paperback
By Martin Amis - $21.00 - add to cart

In the slave labour camps of the Soviet Union, conjugal visits were a common occurrence. Valiant women would travel vast distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending just one night wit...

 

King John of Canada - trade paperback
By Scott Gardiner - $19.99 - add to cart

A hilarious political satire in the tradition of Mordecai Richler. This is a funny, biting political satire set in the not-too-distant future. A series of minority governments, and endless Quebe...

 

Loving Frank - trade paperback
By Nancy Horan - $16.50 - add to cart

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her...

 

Mister Pip - trade paperback
By Lloyd Jones - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.After the trouble starts and the soldiers arrive on Matilda’s island, only one white person stays behind. Mr. Watts, whom the kids...

 

Mudbound - trade paperback
By Hillary Jordan - $18.95 - add to cart

Calling to mind the depth and storytelling power of Lewis DeSoto’s A Blade of Grass and Lori Lansens’ Rush Home Road, Hillary Jordan’s stunning debut novel reveals how prejudice can take many forms...

 

Oscar and Lucinda - trade paperback
By Peter Carey - $19.00 - add to cart

Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force. Made for eac...

 

Soul Mountain - trade paperback
By Gao Xingjian - $16.50 - add to cart

In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no...

 

Stormy Weather - trade paperback
By Paulette Jiles - $16.50 - add to cart

A child of the Texas oil fields, Jeanine Stoddard grew up in poverty. Her father's death and the gambling debts he left behind force the family back to their abandoned farm to eke out a living form...

 

Strawberry Fields - trade paperback
By Marina Lewycka - $18.00 - add to cart

On an idyllic patch of English countryside a handful of migrant workers spend their days picking strawberries and dreaming of a better life, and their nights in two tiny trailer homes--one for men ...

 

Sweetness in the Belly - trade paperback
By Camilla Gibb - $21.00 - add to cart

Lilly, the main character of Camilla Gibb’s stunning new novel, has anything but a stable childhood. The daughter of English/Irish hippies, she was “born in Yugoslavia, breast-fed in the Ukraine, w...

 

The Book of Negroes - trade paperback
By Laurence Hill - $24.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.Longlisted for the 2007 Giller Prize.Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her vi...

 

The Brief History of the Dead - trade paperback
By Kevin Brockmeier - $16.00 - add to cart

From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those wh...

 

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