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  • Come to the Window

    A Novel

    by Howard Norman ...
    A drama of murder, love, and redemption set in Nova Scotia in the final year of World War I.It's 1918. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, a more confined drama—harrowing and provocative—slowly unfolds. It begins when Elizabeth Frame murders her husband hours after their wedding and ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Next Life Might Be Kinder

    A Novel

    by Howard Norman ...
    This haunting story of love and the aftermath of a murder is “Minneapolis Star-Tribune).Sam Lattimore met Elizabeth Church in an art gallery in 1970s Halifax. But their brief, erotically charged marriage was extinguished with Elizabeth’s murder.Since that traumatic loss, Sam’s life has grown complicated. In a moment of desperate confusion, he sells his life story to a Norwegian filmmaker named ... Read more

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  • What Is Left The Daughter

    A Novel

    by Howard Norman ...
    Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country's finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books— The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L—in this erotically charged and morally complex story.Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges—the result of their ... Read more

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  • The Bird Artist

    A Novel

    by Howard Norman ...
    A young artist confesses to a shocking murder that rocks his remote coastal village, in the first novel of the author's acclaimed Canadian trilogy.A National Book Award FinalistNewfoundland, 1911. Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of his small hometown, Witless Bay. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Ghost Clause

    A Novel

    by Howard Norman ...
    National Book Award finalist Howard Norman delivers another "provocative . . . haunting"* novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost.*Janet Maslin, New York TimesSimon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. It's been several months since he keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia–bound ferry, ... Read more

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  • Devotion

    A Novel

    by Howard Norman ...
    A "striking, beautifully rendered" novel of love gone wrong, by the author of National Book Award finalist The Bird Artist ( The Washington Post Book World).Devotion is an unconventional love story that begins with the recounting of an unlikely crime.Shortly after his marriage to Maggie Field, David Kozol and his father-in-law, William, came to blows on a London sidewalk. William stumbled backward ... Read more

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  • I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place

    A Memoir

    by Howard Norman ...
    "Some books celebrate the human condition; others commiserate with us. This memoir does both." —Helen Oyeyemi, NPRThis spellbinding memoir by the National Book Award–nominated author of The Bird Artist begins with a portrait, both harrowing and hilarious, of a midwestern boy's summer working in a bookmobile, under the shadow of his grifter father and the erotic tutelage of his brother's girlfriend ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wound is the Place the Light Enters

    by Howard Norman ...
    Series series Sowell Collection Books
    The warmth of this book is sustained by friendship. More specifically, the novelist Howard Norman documents what he didn’t know would be the final evening and morning he spent with his dear friend Jake Berthot. In that single evening is the entire world of their relationship and the story of a unique artistic figure of the twentieth century.After the controversial exhibit of his "Red Paintings," ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • My Darling Detective

    by Howard Norman ...
    “[An] ingeniously plotted novel . . . Norman knows how to weave an enticing and satisfying mystery, one tantalizing thread at a time.” — New York Times Book ReviewA witty, engrossing homage to noir, from National Book Award finalist Howard NormanJacob Rigolet, soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction—his mother, former head librarian at the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sanctuary

    The Preservation Issue

    by Peter Straub, Martine Bellen, Rick Moody, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro, Brian Evenson, Peter Gizzi, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Howard Norman, Karen Russell, Joanna Scott, David Shields, John Edgar Wideman, Diane Ackerman, Dinaw Mengestu ...
    Series Book 70 - Conjunctions
    Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom seed-saver, the family photographer, the Monuments Men. Old two-by-two Noah and taxonomist Linnaeus. ... Read more

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  • In Fond Remembrance of Me

    A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic

    by Howard Norman ...
    Howard Norman spent the fall of 1977 in Churchill, Manitoba, translating into English two dozen "Noah stories" told to him by an Inuit elder. The folktales reveal what happened when the biblical Noah sailed his Ark into Hudson Bay in search of woolly mammoths and lost his way. By turns startling, tragic, and comical, these inimitable narratives tell the history of the Arctic and capture the ... Read more

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  • Why I Like This Story

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD