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Cover: A Daughter's Place by Martha Bátiz. Artwork of two young women in seventeenth-century clothing. One leans on a window ledge, resting her chin on her hand and smiling, while the other peeks out from behind a curtain, holding a cloth to her face. The title and author’s name appear in large, white brush script.

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A Daughter's Place

A sweeping historical romance inspired by the real-life daughter of Miguel de Cervantes, celebrated author of Don Quixote

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A thin branch has four smaller branches coming out of it. Each smaller branch has 4 to 7 slender green leaves on it. Seven small birds sit side-by-side squished together on the main branch. The birds have brown bellies, green heads, yellow and black chins, and thin black beaks. Text: A Family Affair. Nadine Bismuth. ÒA wide-open window onto intimacy, betrayal, and the battle of the sexes. Nadine Bismuth writes with a clear voice and a big heart.Ó Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author David Bergen.

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Cover: A Horse at the Window by Spencer Gordon. A painting of a person with fire coming out of their head. They are wearing a black suit jacket. and holding a flaming flower.

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A mossy green forest has a small clearing between trees. Mirrors in the shape of people stand in the grass. They reflect the grass and look like they blend into the surrounding area. Text: A Twilight Celebration. Marie-Claire Blais. Governor GeneralÕs Literary Award Winner.

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The eighth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. A Twilight Celebration is a spellbinding novel brimming with urgent concerns and irrepressible empathy, true to Blais' singular idiom.

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Full of wonder.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Literarische Welt","OtherText_Review_5":"Robert Seethaler's quietly mesmerizing novel - elemental in both tone and subject - shows what joy and nobility can be found in a life of hardship, patience and bereavement. It is at once heart-rending and heart-warming. A Whole Life, for all its gentleness, is a very powerful book.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Jim Crace","OtherText_Review_6":"It's refreshing to read a story marked by quiet, concentrated attention . . . a reaction to all around us that is prolix, narcissistic and mindlessly technology-worshipping. What is perhaps most remarkable about this remarkable novel is the way that it continually weaves past, present and future into a single fabric. 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A chilling horror novel about a young Indigenous woman haunted by the oppressive legacies of colonization.

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As the Earth Dreams

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Soucy's brilliant second novel is a captivating and suspenseful examination of guilt.

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