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Fresh water for flowers. by Perrin, Valérie.;
Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues--gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest--visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole--local police chief--who insists on scattering the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julien's inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violette's own difficult past.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Women;
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The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf [electronic resource] : by Taylor, Timothy.aut; cloudLibrary;
“A sumptuously written story about culinary ambition, restaurant-world vice, and the frailties of the heart.” — KEVIN CHONG, author of The Double Life of Benson Yu Restaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame is peaking just as a series of scandals and reckless decisions threaten to destroy everything. Teo’s life as a Paris brasserie apprentice is filled with challenges and triumphs, as well as all the regular abuses of slammed commercial kitchens. Still, he rises through the ranks, eventually returning to his hometown of Vancouver to open Rue Véron, a French restaurant that goes on to become a sensation. His second restaurant, Orinoco, is also successful. But on the cusp of opening his third, a news story breaks suggesting that his popular sous chef, Frankie, is a sexual predator. The media firestorm and subsequent public relations disaster threaten to destroy Teo’s empire, as well as his own personal life. And when the compounding consequences lead to unimaginable tragedy, Teo is left to question the impact of both individual action and people acting in great numbers. A RARE MACHINES BOOKGeneral adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Jewish; Literary;
© 2024., Dundurn Press,
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Twist : A Novel. by McCann, Colum.;
'Twist' is a beautifully written novel about a reporter assigned to a story about the human cost of maintaining the underwater fiber optic cables that allow instant communication across the ocean, and an Irish engineer/diver on a maintenance ship off the coast of Africa in the midst of some major repairs that may have been sabotage.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / General; FICTION / Literary;
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Rooms for Vanishing : A Novel. by Nadler, Stuart.;
In 'Rooms for Vanishing', the violence of war has fractured the universe for the Altermans, a Jewish family from Vienna. Moving across decades, and across the world, the novel finds the Altermans alone in their separate futures, haunted by the loss of their loved ones, each certain that they are the sole survivor of their family.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION / Jewish; FICTION / Literary;
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Death Takes Me : A Novel. by Garza, Cristina Rivera.;
'Death Takes Me' is a genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence. Moving from the professors classroom into the slippery worlds of Latin American poetry and art, this book explores the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality. From the author of 'Liliana's Invincible Summer', which won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Romance fiction.; FICTION / Feminist; FICTION / Literary;
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A Horse at the Window [electronic resource] : by Gordon, Spencer.aut; cloudLibrary;
A genre-bending collection of dramatic monologues shining a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness. Borrowing stylistic elements from the prose poem, faux memoir, online diatribe, and philosophical investigation, the twenty-five dramatic monologues in Spencer Gordon’s genre-bending collection shine a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness. CEOs lose their obscene wealth in lurid hellrealms; an aspiring writer reassembles a personal history out of fragments from the 2000s; police cadets receive a curious crash course in transduction and ethics; the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Deepwater Horizon oil spill reveal the immanent sublime. Ranging from ironic and furious to pleading and melancholic, Gordon’s speakers exist in a world of social media think pieces, hot takes and take downs, fake news and distorted facts, steeped in pop culture and its discontents. They are real people, intimate as kin. But they’re also pseudonyms, ghosts, and playbacks, echoing from insubstantial handles drifting on the web. They lie and lurk and love online, channelling the morphemes of digital language and filtering the concerns of self, performance, digital identity, and complicity through the irreverence, non-rationality, and surprising beauty of Zen.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Absurdist;
© 2024., House of Anansi Press Inc,
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On the Savage Side A novel [electronic resource] : by McDaniel, Tiffany.aut; cloudLibrary;
Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty. "Capture[s] what goes horribly wrong when women don’t fit a customary victim profile...McDaniel artfully evokes each facet of their common humanity, the sinuous landscape, and defiant community in the face of evil." —Oprah Daily Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their grandmother’s stories. Together, they disappear into their imaginations and forge a world all their own.  But what the two sisters can’t escape are the generational ghosts that haunt their family. Growing up in the shadow of their rural Ohio town, the sisters cling tightly to one another. Years later, Arcade wrestles with the memories of her early life, just as a local woman is discovered drowned in the river. Soon, more bodies are found. As her friends disappear around her, Arcade is forced to reckon with the past while the killer circles closer. Arcade’s promise to keep herself and her sister safe becomes increasingly desperate and the powerful riptide of the savage side becomes more difficult to survive. Drawing from the true story of women killed in Chillicothe, Ohio, acclaimed novelist and poet Tiffany McDaniel has written a moving literary testament and fearless elegy for missing women everywhere.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Crime;
© 2023., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
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Mona Acts Out : A Novel. by Berlinski, Mischa.;
In 'Mona Acts Out', celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid impulsively walks out of her house in the middle of her family's Thanksgiving with the family dog in tow, in order to find her estranged mentor. Monas escape turns into an overnight adventure that brings her face-to-face with her past, with her creative power and its limitations, and ultimately, with all the people she has ever loved. From the author of 'Fieldwork', which was a finalist for the National Book Award.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION; FICTION / Holidays; FICTION / Literary;
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The certainties. by Hunter, Aislinn.;
From Aislinn Hunter, the author of 'The World Before Us', comes a vivid novel reminiscent of Anthony Doerr and Michael Ondaatje, about the entwined fates of two very different refugees in two distinct moments: a war-torn Spanish border town in the 1940s and a British island in the 1970s, as a ship full of would-be migrants approaches shore. Hunter lives in Vancouver, BC. A Dewey Diva Pick. Please Note: The following title was included in a previous Bestseller list; libraries may need to re-order.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION; FICTION / Historical; FICTION / Literary;
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The Midnight Library A Novel [electronic resource] : by Haig, Matt.aut; cloudLibrary;
Between life and death there is a library.  When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger. Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Science Fiction;
© 2020., HarperCollins Canada,
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