Why Birds Sing: A Novel
By: Nina Berkhout
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
After a very public onstage flameout, a disgraced opera singer is confronted with her crumbling mar…
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1. The Gunners
By: Rebecca Kauffman
3.68
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Achieving bold emotional complexity, The Gunners explores just how much one moment, one decision, o… read more
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- contemporary
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"That makes my vagina contract and disappear inside itself. Sam said, Mine too."-Rebecca Kauffman, The Gunners
"Alice said, “I think we were all sort of in love with each other at different times. Isn’t that just what happens when friends grow up together?"-Rebecca Kauffman, The Gunners
"When they could not reach any single conclusion as to what might have caused Sally to turn on them, they began to turn on one another, with accusations and assumptions, resentment and suspicion. The …"-Rebecca Kauffman, The Gunners
"As children, The Gunners could not have imagined that by the time they were sixteen years old, one of them would turn her back on the others, and the group would be so fractured by the loss, the sudd…"-Rebecca Kauffman, The Gunners
2. The Magdalen Girls
By: V.S. Alexander
5.00
Format: 160 pages,
Dublin, 1962.Within the gated grounds of the convent of The Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies one… read more
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- fiction
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3. The Peach Keeper
By: Sarah Addison Allen
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest loc… read more
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- fiction
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4. The Museum of Modern Love
By: Heather Rose
3.80
Format: 654 pages, Paperback
A mesmerising literary novel about a lost man in search of connection - a meditation on love, art a… read more
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5. The Education of Dixie Dupree
By: Donna Everhart
3.46
Format: None pages, ebook
In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for he… read more
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6. The Princess and Curdie
By: George MacDonald , Helen Stratton
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Princess Irene's great-grandmother has a testing task for Curdie. He will not go alone though, as s… read more
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7. On Turpentine Lane
By: Elinor Lipman
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes insti… read more
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8. February
By: Lisa Moore
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of Canada Reads 2013 and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Rang… read more
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9. The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
By: Matt Cain
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Albert Entwistle is a private man with a quiet, simple life. He lives alone with his cat Gracie. An… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- audiobook
"I feel like a carefree, beautiful butterfly!"-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
"In some ways I’m like a picture that hasn’t been colored in yet."-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
"Come on, we only get one chance at life. This isn't a dress rehearsal."-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
"I love you a little bit more than yesterday and a little bit less than tomorrow."-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
10. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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11. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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- fiction
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
12. The Stone Girl
By: Dirk Wittenborn
4.17
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Three women scarred by a chain of misogyny and death at the hands of a secret brotherhood seek a re… read more
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13. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
By: Eva Jurczyk
3.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
What holds more secrets in the library: the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who p… read more
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- canada
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14. Fayne: A Novel
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.26
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more
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- canada
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"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel
15. The Rain Heron
By: Robbie Arnott
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slop… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
16. The Porcelain Moon
By: Janie Chang
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs a… read more
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- fiction
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17. The Lady in the Silver Cloud (Stewart Hoag, #13)
By: David Handler
3.85
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
"This is confection in the guise of a mystery novel; it goes down easy as a milkshake."—Sarah Weinm… read more
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- fiction
18. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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19. The Boy in the Field
By: Margot Livesey
3.71
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous, unfo… read more
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20. Que notre joie demeure
By: Kevin Lambert
3.58
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Un spectre hante le roman de Kevin Lambert : le spectre du capitalisme. L’éblouissante Céline Wacho… read more
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21. The Last Beekeeper
By: Julie Carrick Dalton
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Julie Carrick Dalton's The Last Beekeeper is a celebration of found family, an exploration of truth… read more
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22. Twice a Quinceañera
By: Yamile Saied Méndez
3.43
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
An accomplished young woman decides to throw herself a quinceañera (times two) for her 30th birthda… read more
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- fiction
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23. All the Quiet Places
By: Brian Thomas Isaac
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more
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24. Rosie and Ruby
By: Patricia Dixon
4.32
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
Is their family bond unbreakable?Ruby lives one-step away from poverty on a rundown, crime-infested… read more
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25. A Very Typical Family
By: Sierra Godfrey
3.47
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
All families are messy. Some are disasters. Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and s… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
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26. Small Days and Nights
By: Tishani Doshi
3.42
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and original story of family, of the ties that bind and the secrets we bury, set agai… read more
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27. Shy Creatures
By: Clare Chambers
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more
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28. Why Birds Sing: A Novel
By: Nina Berkhout
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
After a very public onstage flameout, a disgraced opera singer is confronted with her crumbling mar… read more
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29. Bad Ideas: A Novel
By: Missy Marston
3.38
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
Wildly funny and wonderfully moving, Bad Ideas is about just that -- a string of bad ideas -- and t… read more
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"She doesn't need to see him go to know he is gone."-Missy Marston, Bad Ideas: A Novel
"Mostly, she wanted to be loved and left alone. Not sequentially, but simultaneously. In equal measure. Love me. And leave me the fuck alone."-Missy Marston, Bad Ideas: A Novel
"But what did she want? Mostly she wanted to be loved and left alone. Not sequentially, but simultaneously. Love me. And leave me the fuck alone."-Missy Marston, Bad Ideas: A Novel
"You might think that Darren and Claire were hoping for the best as they had sex over and over again at the height of their young blossoming fertility, or that they were blind to the likely consequenc…"-Missy Marston, Bad Ideas: A Novel
30. The Treasure Hunters Club
By: Tom Ryan
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone meets The Goonies in The Treasure Hunters Club—a rollickin… read more
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31. Misconduct of the Heart
By: Cordelia Strube
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Toronto Book Award Winner Cordelia Strube is back with another caustic, subversive, and darkly humo… read more
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