Wesley Case abandons his wealthy father's expectations and chooses life in the NWMP of 1876, where he befriends Major James Walsh. Later Case takes up ranching in Montana where he spies for Walsh on the American government's obliteration of its remaining Indian tribes. As Sitting Bull and the Sioux drift across the border into Canada, Case observes Walsh's efforts to support them. Case falls in love with the redoubtable widow Ida Tarr but doesn't count on the murderous intentions of Michael Dunne, a roughneck who is also vying for Ida's attention. rich, compassionate exploration of Sitting Bull's character glitters through multiple strands of hope and desperation as government treachery and personal tragedy set the stage in this fabulous story of the early west. A Good Man completes a trio of novels with western settings by that includes The Last Crossing and The Englishman's Boy. Categories: Reviews, New Releases
In a future right-wing evangelical America a religious young woman, Hannah, is punished for the abortion she endures and her refusal to name the father - her skin is "chromed" red to identify her as one of the most vicious criminals. After her prison term, she has to escape north to Canada. Will her lover rescue her? Who else would risk their lives to help a criminal like her? Older teens will be chilled at how Jordan reminds us how slippery the slope is in this haunting evocation of The Scarlet Letter.
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Tony looks back over his life with the advantage of experience, wisdom and thoughtful philosophical questions. But how does his former lover Veronica tie in with his friend Adrian's long-ago suicide? And why did Veronica's mother leave Adrian's diary to Tony in her will? As Tony says, "What did I know of life, I who had lived so carefully?" Slowly but surely revealing what he has learned, Tony wonders as he approaches the ending of his life if it is enough.
Winner of this year's Booker Prize, The Sense of an Ending is meticulously written, offering its pleasures with subtlety and precision.
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In this creepy, three generation novel, tells the story of how a teacher/principal sexually assaults girls he teaches on the Canadian prairies in the 1920's and '30's. We watch in horror as Parley Burns slip slides through the lives of women, destroying them utterly. glowing prose exposes the secretive nature of women's relationships with their mothers and daughters as, unable to name the horror that slinks among them, they live with austerity and pressure-cooker sexual repression.
From the author of the Giller Prize-winning Late Nights on Air, Alone in the Classroom is a beautifully written novel about a difficult subject.
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Hired killers Eli and Charlie Sisters set out from Oregon City in 1851 for Sacramento, California and the gold fields to complete a contract for their boss. In a fog of alcohol and the stress of coping with a beloved but bumbling horse, Eli and Charlie stagger on, executing anyone who gets in their way. As they win and lose a fortune in gold on more than one occasion, the brothers re-examine their relationship and their purpose in life.
The Sisters Brothers is a gory, brutal yet somehow funny re-telling of the classic western and has just won the 2011 Governor General's Award for Fiction as well as the 2011 Rogers Writer's Trust Award for Fiction. It is being talked about by many booksellers around here and will appeal to readers of any age and of many literary tastes.
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