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  • The Cobra and the Key

    A Novel

    by Sam Shelstad ...
    "The Cobra and the Key is a funny and charming satire of writing advice and the people who give it." —The Paris ReviewSam Shelstad's brilliantly funny, slightly unhinged creative writing guide is How Fiction Works by James Wood meets Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov.To the untrained eye, Sam Shelstad may look a lot like a Value Village cashier who shares an apartment with his Uncle Herman and has ju. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Citizens of Light

    A Novel

    by Sam Shelstad ...
    “Sam Shelstad has a funny, lively, engaging, peculiar mind—charming and surprising.” —Sheila Heti, bestselling author of Motherhood and Pure ColourThis debut novel set in southern Ontario captures call-centre life, faded tourist attractions, and suburbia with oddball wit and sharp realism.Colleen Weagle works in a call centre and lives in a bungalow with her mother in a quiet Toronto suburb. In ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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    A Novel

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  • Only Because It's You

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  • Away from the Dead

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  • Our Last Wild Days

    A Novel

    by Anna Bailey ...
    From the author of the “irresistible” (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Where the Truth Lies, an atmospheric novel about a young woman who searches for answers after her estranged friend is found dead in the bayou of their rural Louisiana hometown.The Labasques aren’t like other families.Living in a shack out in the swamps, they made do by hunting down alligators and other ... Read more

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  • If We're Being Honest

    A Novel

    by Cat Shook ...
    For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s debut novel If We’re Being Honest is the snappy, smart, heartwarming story of the Williams family, and the sweltering summer that rewrote their history.When Gerry, the beloved Williams patriarch, dies suddenly, his grandchildren flock from across the country to the family home in Eulalia, Georgia. But ... Read more

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    by Taichi Yamada ...
    Translated by Wayne P. Lammers ...
    Now a Major Motion Picture starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell.A man is drawn back to his childhood home and discovers his parents living just as they were on the day they died thirty years before…Screenwriter Harada is disconnected from the world. Lonely and jaded, he’s drifted apart from his son and is dismissive when approached with gestures of friendship, including ... Read more

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  • Diva

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    by Daisy Goodwin ...
    New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world.In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she ... Read more

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  • Cold

    A Novel

    **INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Longlisted for the Leacock Medal of Humour • One of Kobo CA's Top Horror Ebooks and Top Horror Audiobook of 2024A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle.**Elmore ... Read more

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  • Everything There Is

    by M.G. Vassanji ...
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