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Town Is by the Sea
In a small mining town, a young boy enjoys a summer day, but his thoughts constantly return to his father, who is digging for coal deep under the sea.
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Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
This ecstatic long poem of hope and creeks and cats and rain is a translation of Alberto Caeiro/Fernando Pessoa's classic long poem O Guardador de Rebanhos.
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Lucky Dog
A heartwarming memoir by a renowned veterinary oncologist who tells us what we can learn about health care and ourselves from our most beloved pets.
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Three Times a Day
Three Times a Day delves into an intimate universe full of flavors, colours, and beauty and offers more than 100 easy to make recipes.
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Away
Love shines through in the sticky notes shared between a mother and daughter in this picture book about making time for family in our busy lives.
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Buddy and Earl Go Exploring
Our favorite odd-couple friends explore the wilds of their house after dark in book two of the Buddy and Earl series.
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Rochdale
The fascinating story of Rochdale's rise and fall is told in this well-researched, entertaining book.
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I had to keep reminding myself that I wasn't reading a forgotten classic.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth Is Missing","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBitter Orange\u003c\/em\u003e is a twisty, thorny, darkly atmospheric page turner about loneliness and belonging, a book that delves into its protagonist’s mind and heart even as she explores the secret-filled mansion at the novel’s centre.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Gabriel Tallent, author of My Absolute Darling","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Twenty years,” I whisper.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe memory of my first sight of Cara stirs me too: a pale long-legged sprite. I hear her shouting outside on Lynton’s carriage turn. I stopped pulling up my bathroom carpet and crossed the narrow corridor to the window in one of the empty rooms opposite mine. Below the attic windows, a lead-lined gutter edged by a stone parapet was packed with decaying leaves, and the sticks and feathers of ancient pigeon nests. Far below, Cara was standing on the fountain in front of the house. The mass of her hair was the first thing I noticed — almost solid with its dark, tight curls and centre parting, hiding all but a strip of her milk-white face. She was shouting in Italian. I didn’t know the words; the closest I have come to understanding Italian is the Latin names of plants, and even these have faded now. A test: Cedrus … Cedrus … Cedrus Libani, Cedar of Lebanon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree storeys below, Cara stood on the fountain, her bare feet balancing on the plump thighs of a putto. One hand gripped the robes of a stone woman as though she were trying to wrest them from her and the other held a pair of flat ballet pumps. I winced at the damage she might be doing to the already chipped and broken marble. I half-hoped that the fountain might be a Canova or one of his pupils. Cara was wearing a long crocheted dress, and I was certain even from my distance, no brassiere. The sun had nearly set on the other side of the house and her body was in shadow, but her head, where she tilted it back to look up, was vivid. I knew her already: hot-blooded and prickly, bewitching; a flowering cactus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI thought she was shouting at me, up in my attic. I have never liked loud sounds, harsh words; I’ve always preferred the quiet of a library, and back then I couldn’t remember anyone raising their voice to me, not even my mother, although of course, things are different now. But before I could reply, although goodness knows what I would have said, the sash was raised in one of the stately rooms below mine, and a man — funny that my first sight of Peter was his hair — stuck out his head and shoulders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cara,” he called to the girl on the fountain, giving me her name. “Don’t be ridiculous. Wait.” He sounded exhausted.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe shouted again, arms waving, mouth working, fingers pinching at the air, pushing her hair over her shoulder where it didn’t stay, and then jumping off the fountain into the long grass. She was always nimble, Cara. She came towards the house and went out of sight. Peter’s head vanished back inside, and I heard him running through Lynton’s empty and echoing rooms, imagined the dust rising and settling in the corners as he passed. From my window I saw him burst out of the front door onto the carriage turn just as Cara was pushing a bicycle at a trot through what was left of the gravel and simultaneously putting on her shoes. When she reached the avenue, she pulled up her and jumped on the bicycle like a circus acrobat jumping onto a moving horse, something I could never have managed then and certainly not now.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Cara!” Peter called. “Please don’t go.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe watched her, Peter and I, swerve around the potholes along the avenue of limes. Peddling away from us, she let go of the bicycle with one hand and stuck up two fingers in reply. It is difficult to recall the exact emotions for those early memories of Cara after everything that happened, I was probably shocked by the gesture, but I like to think that I must have also been excited by an anticipation of reinvention, of possibility, of summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Peter walked to the gates, eight feet tall and rusted open, and struck his palms against Lyntons 1806 coiled in the ironwork. I was puzzled by his frustration, had I witnessed the end of their relationship or a lovers’ tiff?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I guessed that Peter was about my age, ten years or so older than Cara, blondish hair flopping over his forehead, and a way of holding himself as though gravity, or the world, had got the better of him. Attractive, I thought, in a worn down way. Mother would have described him as the tiger’s eye. He shoved his hands into his jeans’ pockets and as he turned towards the house he looked straight up to my window. Without knowing why, since I had every reason to be there, I slid back into the room and ducked below the sill. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"The atmosphere [Fuller] conjures creates its own choking sense of dread.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"Claire Fuller’s Bitter Orange, a carefully contained mystery, thriller, and horror novel, is a haunting contemporary echo of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_2":"The story builds to a shocking finale, resulting in a thoroughly enjoyable book with a well-paced plot and plenty of twists and turns.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Elle Canada","OtherText_Review_3":"Page by page, Fuller enchants us with prose as thick as clotted cream, only for us to realize too late that she’s been ensnaring us at every turn.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Paris Review","OtherText_Review_4":"A novel you don’t want to end.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A suspenseful novel set in 1969 England about one woman’s obsession with a glamorous, hedonistic couple living downstairs who aren’t what they seem.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"International Dublin Literary Award","PrizeYear_0":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-10-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A suspenseful novel set in 1969 England about one woman’s obsession with a glamorous, hedonistic couple living downstairs who aren’t what they seem.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Bitter Orange
A suspenseful novel set in 1969 England about one woman’s obsession with a glamorous, hedonistic couple living downstairs who aren’t what they seem.
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The Honeyman Festival
A night in the life of a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between her family and the need for a life in which impulse can once again find play.
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{"id":6816108118075,"title":"On Writing","handle":"on-writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Writing\u003c\/em\u003e features missives from A. L. Kennedy's hugely popular \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e blog. Readers and aspiring writers will have almost everything they need to know about the complexities of researching, writing, and publishing fiction from one of the funniest and most alert of our contemporary authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy certainly has the authority to talk about the craft of writing books – it’s just a wonder she’s found the time. \u003cem\u003eOn Writing\u003c\/em\u003e features writing from the authorial front line – urgent and vivid, full of the excitement, fury and frustration of trying to make thousands of words into a publishable book. 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On Writing
Readers will have in this book almost everything they need to know about the complexities of researching, writing, and publishing fiction.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487002381","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487006075","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770899841","BASICMainSubject":"FIC019000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Literary","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJAMIE QUATRO’S\u003c\/strong\u003e debut collection, \u003cem\u003eI Want To Show You More\u003c\/em\u003e, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book, NPR Best Book of 2013, Indie Next pick, O, \u003cem\u003eThe Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e summer reading pick, and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Editors’ Choice. The collection was named a Top Ten Book of 2013 by Dwight Garner in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, a Favorite Book of 2013 by James Wood in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, and was a finalist for the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Georgia Townsend Fiction Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. Quatro’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eTin House\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBomb\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney’s\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEcotone\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. Her stories are anthologized in the \u003cem\u003eO. Henry Prize Stories 2013\u003c\/em\u003e and in Ann Charters’s \u003cem\u003eThe Story And Its Writer\u003c\/em\u003e. Quatro lives with her husband and four children in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Women","BISACSubject_0":"FIC019000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC044000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJAMIE QUATRO’S\u003c\/strong\u003e debut collection, \u003cem\u003eI Want To Show You More\u003c\/em\u003e, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book, NPR Best Book of 2013, Indie Next pick, O, \u003cem\u003eThe Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e summer reading pick, and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Editors’ Choice. The collection was named a Top Ten Book of 2013 by Dwight Garner in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, a Favorite Book of 2013 by James Wood in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, and was a finalist for the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Georgia Townsend Fiction Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. Quatro’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eTin House\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBomb\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney’s\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEcotone\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. Her stories are anthologized in the \u003cem\u003eO. Henry Prize Stories 2013\u003c\/em\u003e and in Ann Charters’s \u003cem\u003eThe Story And Its Writer\u003c\/em\u003e. Quatro lives with her husband and four children in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Quatro, Jamie","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eI Want to Show You More \u003c\/i\u003ecomes an unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarried twenty years to Thomas and living in Nashville with their two children, Maggie is drawn ineluctably into a passionate affair while still fiercely committed to her husband and family. What begins as a platonic intellectual and spiritual exchange between writer Maggie and poet James gradually transforms into an emotional and erotically-charged bond that challenges Maggie’s sense of loyalty and morality, drawing her deeper into the darkness of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing an array of narrative techniques and written in spare, elegant prose, Jamie Quatro gives us a compelling account of one woman’s emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual yearnings — unveiling the impulses and contradictions that reside in us all. \u003ci\u003eFire Sermon \u003c\/i\u003eis an unflinchingly honest and formally daring debut novel from a writer of enormous talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487002992","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487002992\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"fates and furies lauren groff; swimming lessons claire fuller; marriage; infidelity; affair; choices; allusion; short books; feminism; faith; passion; sex; christianity; evangelical; religion; adultery; women writers; women's literature; my name is lucy barton elizabeth strout; i want to show you more; hunting houses; book club","NumberOfPages":"256","OtherText_Accolades_0":"It’s rare, to the point of near non-existence, to find a book that has such literary weight and heft, yet reads like a sonnet. I look at it in puzzlement, wondering how Jamie Quatro gives such breadth, depth, and intensity in so few words. And it’s funny, and real, and painful, so painful. Also a shot of light. An education. A mirror. Terrifying.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"Samantha Harvey, author of The Wilderness and Dear Thief","OtherText_Accolades_1":"I devoured this novel! Quatro is a fearless marvel. An exquisite story of female desire, faith, and commitment, and one of the most haunting portraits of a marriage I’ve ever read.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Src":"Lily King, author of the New York Times bestseller Euphoria","OtherText_Accolades_2":"It would be difficult to overstate the wonder I felt while reading this novel. It’s among the most beautiful books I’ve ever read about longing — for beauty, for sex, for God, for a coherent life. Great writers write with their whole lives, with everything they have seen and thought and felt, with their obsessions and their desires; their books have the density and richness of existence. Jamie Quatro is a such a writer, and Fire Sermon is such a book.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Src":"Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You","OtherText_Accolades_3":"This book is bright and dark by turns but always shot through with a vital, unerring grace. Plus it's about love and death, sex and God. What more could a reader want?","OtherText_Accolades_3_Src":"Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Chapter 1:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShall we walk back? James asked outside the theater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChicago, April 2017. The air chilly, the sky cleared off after an evening of rain. We’d left the play a half-hour after it began, a poorly-written, poorly-acted farce. Now the sidewalk was empty. Tiny lights strung between gas lamps and storefronts created a glittery canopy beneath which we stood. Charming, he’d said when we arrived earlier, a part of the city neither of us had seen. I was still in my clothes from that morning: white sweater, pencil skirt, suede ankle boots with zippers, high-heeled. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’ll call a car, I said. Your hotel’s on the way to mine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe rode in silence, the wet asphalt glowing red and green at stoplights. When we pulled up to his hotel, James turned to face me, adjusting his glasses. Okay, he said. Text me when you’re safely back. He leaned over to brush my cheek with his lips, but when the bellhop opened the rear door he didn’t get out. He sat looking ahead, rubbing a hand up and down, up and down his thigh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth of us 45, born in the same year, four months apart; both married to our spouses for twenty-three years. Two similarities in what had come to seem, in the time we’d known each other, a cosmically-ordained accumulation: born and raised in the desert southwest, allergic to peanuts, obsessed with the Christian mystics and quantum theory and Moby Dick. Children the same ages and genders—older girl, younger boy—and 96-year-old grandmothers who still lived independently. In the end it was this last fact that undid me, the longevity in our respective genes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe safe way to let yourself fall in love with someone who isn’t your spouse: imagine the life you might have together after both your spouses have passed away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(What I mean is, darling: when I made love with you that night, I was making love with the magnificent old man I knew you would become.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan I help with any bags? the bellhop said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou’re at the Hyatt? James said to me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTake us to the Hyatt, he said to the driver, and pulled the door shut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e**\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this story begins where most end: a boy and a girl in love, a wedding, a happily-ever-after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalibu, June. A bride and four attendants on a grassy bluff above the Pacific. The morning is overcast, typical on the coast, the diffuse light ideal for photographs. The bride’s dress is raw silk in antique ivory and appears backlit against the slate of ocean. Sweetheart neckline, cap sleeves, full skirt with a train that will later gather into a bustle. She cradles her bouquet like an infant, six-dozen roses in various stages of bloom, blush pink. The groomsmen, fraternity brothers, have already been photographed. They wait inside the chapel, where in half an hour the ceremony will begin. They wear gray tuxedos with ascot ties and slick black shoes. Three, including the groom, have the same round tortoise-shell glasses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown the coast, at the country club in Pacific Palisades, the caterers are assembling the cake: five tiers frosted in a basket-weave pattern, with real ivy and roses trailing down one side. The bride has selected a different flavor for each tier: butter cream, chocolate, spice, red velvet. The top layer—which will be placed in the couple’s freezer for their first anniversary, until one night while they’re out, the bride’s younger brother, knowing nothing about such traditions, eats the whole thing—is white-chocolate with raspberry-creme filling. The centerpieces are fishbowls with ivy and roses identical to those on the cake. They sit in a refrigerated van on Pacific Coast Highway, north of Sunset. The driver is stuck in beach traffic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there is plenty of time.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"There’s real humanity in this novel, and there are insights about love and longing.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"Rolling, raw, and sensual . . . The sentences burn with desire and disquiet. The novel is generously condensed, ardently focused, and its mechanisms poetic, not expository.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_Review_2":"A lean first novel steeped in theology, suburban domesticity, literary criticism, child-rearing and, most dramatically, infidelity, Fire Sermon sizzles and cools to the rhythm of its narrator Maggie's moods and meanderings.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_3":"The mechanics of Quatro’s novel are an enjoyable puzzle.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"An Economist Book of the Year","PrizeName_1":"Indie Next Pick","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-01-16","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Fire Sermon
An unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.
