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All the Broken Things

by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Published: 2014-01-14

Paperback: 352 pages

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A novel of exceptional heart and imagination about the ties that bind us to each other, broken and whole, from one of the most exciting voices in Canadian fiction.      September, 1983. Fourteen-year-old Bo, a boat person from Vietnam, lives in a small house in the Junction neighbourh...

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The New Icelanders: A North American Community

by David Arnason

Published: 1994-09-01

Paperback: 104 pages

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Part history, part journey into memory and myth, The New Icelanders is a ­collage of photos and remembrances exploring a singular segment of the North American Icelandic ­community--a people who, in 1875, left their island of glaciers and volcanoes to settle the farms, cities and towns of the Canadian...

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The Garden of Eden

by Sharon Butala

Published: 1998

Paperback: 387 pages

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THE GARDEN OF EDEN tells the story of two women, Iris, a farm woman whose life is shattered by the premature death of her husband, and Iris's niece, Lannie, who is working alongside an aid organisation in the drought-ravaged deserts of Ethiopia. It is to Lannie that Iris turns for answers to the unresolved...

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You're Not Pretty Enough: Extraordinary stories from an (un) ordinary life.

by Jennifer Tress

Published: 2013-08-06

Paperback: 202 pages

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You're Not Pretty Enough is like Jenny Lawson's Let's Pretend This Never Happened meets Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar. From the "Sex Papers" Jen drew as a four-year-old when her mom was pregnant with her younger sister, to her sole teenage act of rebellion: going to church. "We're very disappointed in...

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Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

by Karen Swallow Prior

Published: 2014-11-04

Hardcover: 320 pages

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With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace.The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and taught a nation how to read.The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every l...

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The Hole in the Middle

by Kate Hilton

Published: 2016-01-05

Paperback: 304 pages

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The heartfelt and hilarious, international bestselling debut about having it all without losing your mind.Sophie Whelan is the kind of woman who prides herself on doing it all. In a single day, she can host a vegan-friendly and lactose-free dinner for ten, thwart a PTA president intent on ...

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My Name Used to Be Muhammad: The True Story of a Muslim Who Became a Christian

by Jeff Benedict, Tito Momen

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Tito Momen was raised Muhammad Momen. He was born in Nigeria and taught to observe the strict teachings of Islam. Beginning at age five he woke at 4:45 every morning to attend the mosque and perform dawn prayer with the other men in his village. He began training to memorize the Qur an at age six by...

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Becoming Lady Lockwood

by Jennifer Moore

Published: 2014-07-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Amelia Beckett is delighted to be a widow. Married by proxy to a man she'd never met, Amelia recognizes that a fortuitous entry into widowhood frees her from meddlesome chaperones and matchmakers. Heiress to her mother's sugar plantation in Jamaica, she happily anticipates working in a man's world, with...

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A Heart Revealed (Proper Romance)

by Josi S. Kilpack

Published: 2015-04-07

Paperback: 336 pages

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Amber Marie Sterlington, the Rage of the Season in Regency-era London, has her pick of men and she knows what she wants most in a husband: a title and a fortune. Why would she ever marry for something as fickle as love? And why would she ever look twice at Thomas Richards, a third son of a...

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Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars

by Sonia Faleiro

Published: 2012-03-06

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Already published in India to great acclaim and named a Time Out Subcontinental Book of the Year and an Observer Book of the Year, Beautiful Thing is a stunning piece of reportage that offers a rare firsthand glimpse into Bombay’s notorious sex industry.Sonia Faleiro was a reporter in se...