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World Without End
Ken Follett
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Dutton
Oct 9 2007
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Eighteen years after Pillars of the Earth weighed in with almost 1,000 pages of juicy historical fiction about the construction of a 12th-century cathedral in Kingsbridge, England, bestseller Follett returns to 14th-century Kingsbridge with an equally weighty tome that deftly braids the fate of several of the offspring of ...
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Playing for Pizza: a Novel
John Grisham
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Doubleday
Sep 24 2007
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Third-string Cleveland Browns quarterback Rick Dockery becomes the greatest goat ever by throwing three interceptions in the closing minutes of the AFC championship game. Fleeing vengeful fans, he finds refuge in the grungiest corner of professional footba...
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The Assassin's Song
M.G. Vassanji
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Doubleday Canada
Aug 21 2007
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The tension between India's centuries-old spiritual traditions and contemporary religious militancy drives this memorable, melancholy family saga by two-time Canadian Giller Prize...
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October (SC)
Richard B. Wright
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Harper Collins Canada
Sep 6 2007
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A new novel that Richard B. Wright's Clara Callan fans will adore, October effortlessly weaves a haunting coming-of-age story set in World War II Quebec with a contemporary portrait of a man still searching for answers in the autumn of his life. ...
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A Lifetime of Secrets: A Postsecret Book
Frank Warren
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Harper Collins Canada
Sep 27 2007
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Late Nights on Air
Elizabeth Hay
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McClelland & Stewart
Sep 18 2007
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Books in Canada
A tale about the Canadian North brings with it expectations of battles against the wilderness, get-rich schemes, big personalities escaping desperate situations, rugged individualism, and (in a different age at least) Mounties inevitably getting their man....
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The Almost Moon: A Novel
Alice Sebold
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Little Brown and Company
Oct 16 2007
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Sebold's disappointing second novel (after much-lauded ...
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Run
Ann Patchett
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Harper Collins Canada
Sep 13 2007
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SignatureReviewed by Andrew O'HaganNovelists can no longer take it as an insult when people say their novels are like good television, because the finest American television is better written than most novels. Ann Patchett's new one has the texture, the pace and the fairy tale elegance of a half ...
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The Choice
Nicholas Sparks
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Warner Books
Sep 24 2007
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In his 13th book, bestselling Sparks (At First Sight, etc.) limns the far-reaching implications of several seemingly ordinary choices made by Beaufort, N.C. veterinarian Travis Parker and his next-door neighbor Gabrielle Holland, a physician's assistant an...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home Season 8
Georges Jeanty
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Dark Horse
Oct 31 2007
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Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers - newly legion - have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything's fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains. Meanwhile...
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Kasztner's Train
Anna Porter
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Douglas & McIntyre
Sep 6 2007
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Peter C. Newman, author & Holocaust escapee
"Every once in a long while a book comes along that makes history so real that it trumps fiction. ...
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Remembering the Bones
Frances Itani
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Harper Collins Canada
Aug 30 2007
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Georgina Danforth Witley has never felt she has led anything but an ordinary life. But here she is on her way to meet the Queen. Born on April 21, 1926, the exact same day as Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Georgie is one of 99 privileged Commonwealth ...
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Mister B. Gone
Clive Barker
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Harper Collins Canada
Oct 30 2007
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This offbeat novel in the form of a minor demon's diary may satisfy devoted Barker fans eager for his return to adult fiction after several years writing the Abarat series, but others, especially first-time readers, are likely to find this fable about good...
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The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945
Geoffrey C. Ward
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Knopf
Sep 11 2007
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This lavishly illustrated companion to the September PBS documentary series reduces the American side of WWII to the local and personal. Documentarian Burns (...
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The Gum Thief
Douglas Coupland
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Random House Canada
Sep 25 2007
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Starred Review. Two misfits find common ground and a unique, surreal friendship via unspoken words in Coupland's latest (after JPod), a fine return to form. In the two years since his wife's (nonfatal) cancer was diagnosed, Roger Thorpe has devolved into a dejected, hard-drinking, divorced father and the ...
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Lord John and the Hand of Devils
Diana Gabaldon
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Doubleday Canada
Nov 27 2007
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The indefatigable Gabaldon, who has made the British 18th century her own, offers a trio of novellas about Lord John Grey, whose minor role in the Outlander novels (concerning Jacobite Jamie Fraser and including ...
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Diary of a Bad Year
J M Coetzee
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Harvill Secker
Oct 2 2007
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Nobelist Coetzee's 19th book features a stand-in for himself: Se...
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Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo
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Knopf
Sep 25 2007
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SignatureReviewed by Jeffrey FrankRichard Russo's portraits of smalltown life may be read not only as fine novels but as invaluable guides to the economic decline of the American Northeast. Russo was reared in Gloversville, N.Y. (which got its name from the gloves no longer manufactured there), and a lot ...
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On The Road The Original Scroll
Jack Kerouac
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Viking USA
Aug 21 2007
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In introducing the fabled first draft of Kerouac's autobiographical novel-written on a single giant roll of paper, without breaks in the text, in an amphetamine-fueled marathon-editor Howard Cunnell refers to Allen Ginsberg's claim that "the published nove...
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The Architects Are Here
Michael Winter
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Viking Canada (AHC)
Sep 4 2007
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The Globe & Mail
"A flamboyant gem of a novel ... an intense, textured, tangled love story... puts [Winter] in the front rank of writers worth reading."...
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The Deportees
Roddy Doyle
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Knopf Canada
Sep 11 2007
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“Doyle’s remarkable strength as a writer includes his ability to take the hardscrabble realities of Irish life, highlight its casual cruelties and kindnesses, inject the country’s trademark black humour, and weave it all into a coherent tale that resonates to readers elsewhere.” —Maclean’s“Like all great comic writers, Roddy Doyle ...
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The Frozen Thames
Helen Humphreys
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McClelland & Stewart
Oct 16 2007
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“Humphreys has an impeccable command of imagery, and her prose finds strength in its subtlety.” — Publishers Weekly“Delicate and incandescent . . . [Humphreys’s] descriptions bristle with nuance, and scenes are pared down to their bare essence.” — San Francisco Chronicle...
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The Orc King: Transitions, Book I
R.a. Salvatore
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Wizards of the Coast
Sep 25 2007
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Celebrating his 20th year as one of Salvatore's most popular ...
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Home To Holly Springs
Jan Karon
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Viking USA
Oct 30 2007
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Karon's bestselling series of Mitford novels has concluded with 25 million copies sold to date, but to the relief of eager fans, she introduces a new series featuring Father Tim. The beloved Episcopal priest returns to his childhood town of Holly Springs, ...
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Winnie and Wolf
a.N. Wilson
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Hutchinson
Sep 25 2007
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A bold, ambitious piece of fiction—Terry Eagleton, GuardianA subtle and captivating fiction—The TimesAn extraordinary work whose achievements are almost Wagnerian in scale—Daily MailThis novel should carry a warning: its appeal will be greatest for fans either of Wagner and European history, or of politics and philosophy—Sunday Times...
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Fire in the Blood
Irene Nemirovsky
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Knopf Canada
Sep 25 2007
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When she was writing Suite Franaise in 1940, Nmirovsky, who died in Auschwitz in 1942 before turning 40, was also reworking this novel, newly discovered among her papers. Though composed on a smaller canvas, it is another keenly observed study of human nature, and in this case of Burgundy ...
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Turtle Valley
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
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Knopf Canada
Sep 4 2007
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Praise for Gail Anderson-Dargatz:“Anderson-Dargatz has something that no amount of craft can give a writer: She is hopelessly in love with and attentive to her subject, the physical world and all its gifts.” —The Globe and Mail“Those who go hunting for ‘the next Margaret Laurence’ or ‘the next Alice ...
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Exit Ghost
Philip Roth
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Viking Canada (AHC)
Oct 9 2007
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Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, n...
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