by jfox | Nov 29, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Sarah PolleyGenres: & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHYIllustrator: Briar Hill FriendsPublished: 2022-03-01“A visceral and incisive collection of six propulsive personal essays.” – Vanity Fair *A New York Times Book Review Editors'...
by jfox | Nov 25, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Shelby Van PeltGenres: Human-animal, relationshipsIllustrator: Novel Neighbours Book ClubPublished: 2022"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a ... debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly...
by jfox | Oct 27, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Kim ThuyGenre: FictionPublished: 2019-04-02The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they...
by jfox | Oct 27, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Lisa SeeGenre: FictionPublished: 2018-04-03From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition,...
by jfox | Oct 27, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Yuri HerreraGenre: FictionPublished: 2015A streetwise heroine travels from Mexico to USA via the mythical and criminal underworlds in the search for her...
by jfox | Oct 27, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Jhumpa LahiriGenre: FictionPublished: 2019With a new afterword from Jhumpa Lahiri, a new edition of the contemporary classic. "Dazzling...An intimate, closely observed family portrait."--The New York Times "Hugely appealing."--People...
by jfox | Oct 27, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Zarqa NawazGenres: & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHYPublished: 2015-09-01SHORTLISTED FOR THE LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR, THE KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE AND TWO SASKATCHEWAN BOOK AWARDS Zarqa Nawaz has always straddled two cultures. She’s...
by jfox | Oct 27, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Lawrence HillGenre: FictionPublished: 2016-11-29From the beloved author of the national bestseller The Book of Negroes comes “a book for our times” (Maclean’s) about family, identity and the strength of the human spirit Keita Ali is on...
by jfox | Oct 27, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Isabel AllendeGenre: FictionPublished: 2015-12-15The Trueba family embodies strong feelings. This family saga starts at the beginning of the 20th century and continues through the assassination of Allende in...
by jfox | Oct 27, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Yaa GyasiGenre: FictionPublished: 2017-05-02A PENGUIN BOOK CLUB PICK "Homegoing is an inspiration." —Ta-Nehisi Coates An unforgettable New York Times bestseller of exceptional scope and sweeping vision that traces the descendants of two...
by jfox | Oct 27, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Arundhati RoyGenre: FictionPublished: 2017-05-02A beautiful reissue of the Booker Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling novel about an Indian family in tragic decline. Likened to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, this...
by jfox | Oct 27, 2023 | Book Club Sets
Category: Book Club SetsAuthor: Sharon BalaGenre: FictionPublished: 2020-08-11By the winner of The Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident, The Boat People is a gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to...
