by LaurenEBC | Mar 9, 2021
Dual Citizens Alix OhlinPublisher: House of Anansi Book Description All her life, Lark Brossard has felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother, Marianne; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliantly talented pianist as wild...
by LaurenEBC | Mar 9, 2021
Aria Nazanine HozarPublisher: Knopf Canada Book Description It is the early 1950s in a restless Iran, a country powerful with oil wealth but unsettled by class and religious divides and by a larger world hungry for its resources. One night, a humble driver in the...
by LaurenEBC | Mar 9, 2021
Greenwood Michael ChristiePublisher: McClelland and Stewart Book Description They come for the trees. It’s 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists in one of the world’s last...
by LaurenEBC | Mar 9, 2021
Lampedusa Steven PricePublisher: McClelland and Stewart Book Description In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy,...
by LaurenEBC | Mar 9, 2021
Mistakes to Run With Yasuko ThanhPublisher: Penguin Canada Book Description Mistakes to Run With chronicles the turbulent life of Yasuko Thanh, from early childhood in the closest thing Victoria, BC, has to a slum to teen years as a sex worker and, finally, to her...
