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“lenore rowntree”

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  • Dovetail Joint And Other Stories

    by Lenore Rowntree ...
    Dovetail Joint—the strongest of joints, it works best under tension.Front cover final 200 wideIn Dovetail Joint and other stories, Lenore Rowntree portrays the subtle deceits of intimacy that arise when an expectation is not met. We encounter Vanessa in six linked stories, at five distinct and evocative moments in her life, as she moves through a series of beautifully drawn relationships and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cluck

    by Lenore Rowntree ...
    Cluck is a darkly comic novel about Henry, an only child whose mother has bipolar disorder. As a teen, Henry becomes a radio junkie lost in the world of music. As a young man, he becomes obsessed with a female DJ whose evening show mysteriously beams out of Idaho and into his car while he’s driving over Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge. Henry has to live his life in the shadow cast by his mother, but ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • See You Later Maybe Never

    by Lenore Rowntree ...
    Her name is Vanessa and she’s pissed off with getting old. Forced out of her high fashion job in Toronto, Vanessa freewheels into the rapid destruction of her long and comfortable marriage which in turn sends her on a comical retreat to a holistic campus on a far-flung island. There she grapples with being a single, childless woman closing in on sixty who only now realizes that she never finished ... Read more

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  • Hidden Lives

    True Stories from People Who Live with Mental Illness

    Edited by Lenore Rowntree, Andrew Boden ...
    A revised and updated edition of a collection of personal essays that illuminate what life is like for those who live with mental illness, and how it impacts their family members.More than 4 million Canadians and 57 million Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental illness, and yet there are still considerable stigmas and a great deal of misunderstanding surrounding even the most common diagnoses ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

    by Min Jin Lee ...
    **One of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan.“Stunning.” —New York Times Book Review**In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger. When she discovers she is pregnant—and that ... Read more

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  • The Edge of Lost

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    From bestselling author Kristina McMorris comes an ambitious and heartrending story of immigrants, deception, and second chances.On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guard’s only daughter—one of the youngest civilians who lives on the island—has gone missing. Tending the warden’s greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits ... Read more

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  • We Are Water

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    “A mesmerizing novel about a family in crisis.”— Miami HeraldA disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has fallen in love wit. ... Read more

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  • Little Fires Everywhere: Reese's Book Club

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    by Celeste Ng ...
    The #1 New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and more“To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s a deep psychological ... Read more

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    **“Zelda is a marvel, a living, breathing three-dimensional character with a voice so distinctive she leaps off the page.” —**The New York TimesSometimes life isn’t as simple as heroes and villains in this “heartwarming and unforgettable” (People) debut novel perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and The Rosie Project.**For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking enthusiast who liv.. ... Read more

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  • Fishbowl

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    by Bradley Somer ...
    A goldfish catches intimate glimpses of life as he plummets to his fate in this "irrepressible novel—breezy, funny, sexy, and bursting with life" (Tom Perrotta).A goldfish named Ian is falling from the 27th-floor balcony on which his fishbowl sits. He's longed for adventure, so when the opportunity arises, he escapes from his bowl, clears the balcony railing and finds himself airborne. Plummeting ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Daughter

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    by Joanna Goodman ...
    For fans of Jojo Moyes, from the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls, comes another compulsively readable story of love and friendship, following the lives of two women reckoning with their pasts and the choices that will define their futures.Divided by their past, united by love.1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebec's fight to gain independence, and wild, beautiful Véronique ... Read more

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