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Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris. All over the...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2024.When Margaret finds a cottage to rent in the moorlands for her visiting Aunt Dorothea, she pays no mind to its rumored...

ONE OF LIT HUB'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 - ESQUIRE's August 2023 Book Club Pick"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important...

The 2018 edition of Canada's go-to yearly anthology, guest edited by Hoa Nguyen, ushers readers into the heart of the vibrant Canadian poetry scene. The Best Canadian Poetry Series annually features...

"[This] series of Christmas ghost stories, miniature books chosen and illustrated by the cartoonist Seth ... [offers] chills--and charm."--New York Times Book ReviewWorld-renowned cartoonist Seth...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022.Peter Wood enters a charming antiques shop owned by two young women one stormy evening. But after he returns a second time...

This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet. Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, the Cobra, a young debt collector...

An antique collector hears of an ancient woman with a large collection of china. Hoping to complete a particular set, the collector pays a visit to the woman's ramshackle house, where she makes a...

The DebtAuthor: Andreae CallananPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: April 06, 2021Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1771964170ISBN-13: 9781771964173

While engrossed in an account of the death of a student obsessed with his own hair, a man leans down to absently pet his dog--oblivious of the true nature of the creature crouching beside him. This...

Longlisted for the 2024 Toronto Book Awards - A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title - A 49th Shelf Can't Miss Title for SpringA young writer finds his way in and out of love in the late...

The follow-up to Guriel's NYT New & Noteworthy Forgotten Work is a mashup of Moby-Dick, The Lord of the Rings, Byron, cyberpunk, Swamp Thing, Teen Wolf ... and more. It's 2070. Newfoundland has...

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own kingdom in the trees. In an alternate history of Detroit, the Motor City was never surrendered to the...

"[This] series of Christmas ghost stories, miniature books chosen and illustrated by the cartoonist Seth ... [offers] chills--and charm."--New York Times Book ReviewWorld-renowned cartoonist Seth...

A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 - A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 - A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks...

On a Caribbean island in the mid-1960s, a young girl copes with the heavy cost of migration. When her mother emigrates to England to find work, Wheeler and her older sisters are left to live with...

Award-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the promise and potential of storytelling. Approached by an ecumenical society representing many faiths, from Judeo-Christians to fellow...

These dark and exhilarating narratives, reminiscent of Annie Proulx's Wyoming stories, won the 2015 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award.Author: Carys DaviesPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: Apr 11,...

The Unseen (Biblioasis International Translation Series)Author: Roy JacobsenPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: April 21, 2020Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A historical work that chronicles the little-known true stories of black railway porters - the so-called "Pullmen" of the rail lines.Author: Cecil FosterPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: May 28,...

A gripping portrait of contemporary urban Africa--by turns magic realist, deeply emotional, and savagely satirical.Author: Ondjaki, Stephen HenighanPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: May 15,...

Following his New York Times Best of the Year Dark Woods, Richard Sanger's fourth collection is a clear-eyed and big-hearted inventory of the passions of a life well lived. Understated, tender,...

White Shadow (The Barr??y Trilogy, 2)Author: Roy Jacobsen, Don BartlettPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: April 06, 2021Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Essays and critical writing drawn from a wide-ranging fifty-year career in letters Drawn from essays and reviews written over the course of nearly fifty years, Work to Be Done showcases both the...

A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside,...