Homesick
By: Guy Vanderhaeghe
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
It is the summer of 1959, and in a prairie town in Saskatchewan, Alec Monkman waits for his estrang…
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1. Fall on Your Knees
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
3.97
Format: 672 pages, Mass Market Paperback
They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach… read more
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- fiction
- canadian literature
- canada
- historical fiction
"She is why purgatory was invented."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
2. The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles, #2)
By: Jeffrey Archer
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
On the heels of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweep… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
3. The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)
By: Lee Child
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watc… read more
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- fiction
"You think you've been in deep shit before, and then you realise you have absolutely no conception of how deep shit can really be."-Lee Child, The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)
"He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the manic barking sirens and the crush of people. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both …"-Lee Child, The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)
4. The Whole Truth (A. Shaw, #1)
By: David Baldacci
4.07
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
"Matt, I need a war."So begins David Baldacci's new book--a thriller unlike any he's written before… read more
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- fiction
"It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry."-David Baldacci, The Whole Truth (A. Shaw, #1)
"She talked to herself as she wrote. "Dark hair, about six four five, two-forty. Shoulders the size of Nebraska. Amazing blue eyes." She put down her pen. Amazing blue eyes?Where did that come from? "-David Baldacci, The Whole Truth (A. Shaw, #1)
"A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin. …"-David Baldacci, The Whole Truth (A. Shaw, #1)
5. The Way the Crow Flies
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Paperback
The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the excitement of the space race and the menace of … read more
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- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
6. The Tennis Partner
By: Abraham Verghese
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New Y… read more
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7. The Affair (Jack Reacher, #16)
By: Lee Child
3.50
Format: 824 pages, Hardcover
March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the … read more
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- fiction
8. On Chesil Beach
By: Ian McEwan
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
9. Homesick
By: Guy Vanderhaeghe
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
It is the summer of 1959, and in a prairie town in Saskatchewan, Alec Monkman waits for his estrang… read more
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- fiction
- canadian literature
- canada
- historical fiction
10. I Know This Much Is True
By: Wally Lamb
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticu… read more
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11. Who Has Seen the Wind
By: W.O. Mitchell
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When W.O. Mitchell died in 1998 he was described as "Canada's best-loved writer." Every commentator… read more
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12. Black Cross
By: Greg Iles
4.07
Format: 248 pages,
It is January 1944 -- and as Allied troops prepare for D-day, Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve… read more
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13. Paradise
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of… read more
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14. The Shipping News
By: Annie Proulx
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Paperback
When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his an… read more
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15. A Most Wanted Man
By: John Le Carré
3.96
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
"A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of nigh… read more
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16. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
17. The Marriage Act
By: John Marrs
3.81
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey?Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government be… read more
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- fiction
18. Westwind
By: Ian Rankin
3.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For the first time in the US, this timeless cat-and-mouse classic from the Edgar Award-winning "gen… read more
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- fiction
19. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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20. The Paris Apartment
By: Kelly Bowen
4.29
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This heart-wrenching novel about family and war unearths generations of secrets and sacrifices—perf… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
21. The Clockmaker's Daughter
By: Kate Morton
3.75
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Being a parent’s a breeze,"-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
"Her curiosity was unquenchable."-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
"Those who seek to know gossip will hear ill about themselves."-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
"No matter what evil might come one's way to be loved is to be protected."-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
22. The Good Women of Safe Harbour
By: Bobbi French
4.39
Format: 304 pages, ebook
An unforgettable, life-affirming novel about a woman living on her own terms at last and reclaiming… read more
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- canada
23. When We Lost Our Heads
By: Heather O'Neill
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destro… read more
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- canada
- historical fiction
"Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
24. The Bittlemores
By: Jann Arden
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more
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- canada
25. Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more
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- canada
"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
26. High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
By: Tiffany Jenkins
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A few years ago, Tiffany Jenkins was detoxing behind bars at a Florida prison, incarcerated on 20 f… read more
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"A flicker of hope in one’s heart, is capable of lighting the path to a new destiny…"-Tiffany Jenkins, High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
27. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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- canadian literature
- canada
- historical fiction
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
28. The Nest
By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
3.41
Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An instant Globe and Mail bestseller. On a wintry afternoon in New York City, Melody, Beatrice a… read more
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- fiction
"Jack picked a piece of mint from his glass and chewed on it for a second. “I’m curious,"-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
"How tragic could a breakup be when it was a part of the fabric of expectation from the beginning?"-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
"Right now, it felt like there was nowhere for his thoughts to alight that wasn't rife with land mines of regret or anger or guilt."-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
"People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been."-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
29. The Bird Hotel
By: Joyce Maynard
4.30
Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition
Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard. After… read more
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- historical fiction
"A person can start off fresh in this place,"-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel
"I hadn’t shaken my bone-deep sadness, but in small ways, I was coming back to life. My body, that had gone numb, began to feel again. Sun on my skin, good food, something as simple as the smell of th…"-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel
30. The Memory Keeper of Kyiv
By: Erin Litteken
4.46
Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition
Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Beekeeper of Aleppo. In the 1930s, Stalin… read more
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31. If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging
By: Jann Arden
4.04
Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition
Jann Arden--bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star--is back with this funny… read more
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- canada
"Since the big things find you no matter where you are, it's okay to unhook from your portable news source so you're not in the middle of what's happening every minute of the day. It doesn't mean you …"-Jann Arden, If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging
