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Erebus : The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Made in Wales -- Magnetic north -- Magnetic south -- Far-off shores -- "Our southern home"--"Farther south than any (known) human being has been" -- Dancing with the captains -- "Pilgrims of the ocean" -- "Such a wretched place as this you never saw" -- "Three years from Gillingham" -- Homeward bound -- "So little now remains to be done" -- North by north-west -- No signal -- The truth -- Life and death -- The inuit story -- Resurrection.
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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Fans of Exciting Times and Convenience Store Woman will devour this funny and original literary debut about the unintentional consequences of anxiety and the relentless pressures of modern life, starring the most unforgettable literary creation since Eleanor Oliphant and Fleabag.
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Explicacion de la noche by Edem Awumey ES
TogoDescription:
Un tren cruza la noche invernal del Quebec; Ito Bataka está volviendo a su hogar, un subsuelo con connotaciones suicidas, sólo iluminado por el amor y los tiernos pechos de Kimi, también quebrada, vencida, pero aún capaz de amar.
Hubo, en algún momento de la vida de Ito, alegría y la euforia universitaria de amigos y libros en su tierra natal, en Lomé; con sueños de libertad e igualdad, manifestaciones. Y también hubo en tiempo del fin de esa ilusión, de un cielo negro cargado de plomo. Y hubo también, en los momento... continue
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Fauna by Christiane Vadnais EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species - humans included - are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her. Ten lush and bracing linked climate fictions depict a world gorgeous an... continue
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Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis EN
Country: North America / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize "[Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read … A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized." – Kirkus Reviews "This might be the best set-up of the spring." – The Globe & Mail "André Alexis has established himself as one of our preeminent voices." – Toronto Star — I wonder, said Hermes, what it would be like if animals had human intelligence. — I'll wager... continue
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Five Little Indians : A Novel by Michelle Good EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
WINNER: Canada Reads 2022 WINNER: Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction WINNER: Amazon First Novel Award WINNER: Kobo Emerging Author Prize Finalist: Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize Finalist: BC & Yukon Book Prize Shortlist: Indigenous Voices Awards National Bestseller; A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year; A CBC Best Book of the Year; An Apple Best Book of the Year; A Kobo Best Book of the Year; An Indigo Best Book of the Year Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Cl... continue
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Flight Against Time by Emily Nasrallah EN
LebanonDescription:
Flight against time is a moving story about the immigrant experience. An elderly couple leaves their village in Lebanon to visit their children and grandchildren now living in the new world: Prince Edward Island, Canada. They find a world of peace and great comfort, but despite the war back home, the old man longs for his small village and a way of life deeply etched in his heart.Nasrallah skillfully weaves truth and imagination to create a story rich in human emotion and psychological insight. The novel stands as witness to a time and its people, a mirror of the whole culture and historical m... continue
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For Joshua: One Ojibway Father Teaches His Son by Richard Wagamese EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
“An expansive work about healing, resilience, humanity, respect, inheritance, Indigenous teachings, and most of all, love” from the author of Indian Horse (Literary Hub). “We may not relight the fires that used to burn in our villages, but we can carry the embers from those fires in our hearts and learn to light new fires in a new world.” Ojibwe tradition calls for fathers to walk their children through the world, sharing the ancient understanding “that we are all, animate and inanimate alike, living on the one pure breath with which the Creator gave life to the Universe.” In this intimate ser... continue
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Friend of my Youth by Alice Munro EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Presents a collection of ten stories that convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience; from a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother to an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins, and more.
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Greenwood by Michael Christie EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A magnificent generational saga that charts a family's rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, and the conflicted relationship with the source of its fortune--trees--from one of Canada's most acclaimed novelists It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free aft... continue