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Held A Novel [electronic resource] : by Michaels, Anne.aut; cloudLibrary;
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE • Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize • A Heather's Pick • One of the Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2023 • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Kirkus Reviews A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast—as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river—alive, but not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, and transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. This resonance through time—not only of actions but also of feelings and perceptions—desire in its many forms—are at the heart of this novel’s profound investigation. Held is a deeply affecting and intensely beautiful novel, full of unforgettable characters and imagery, wisdom and compassion. It explores the deepest mysteries, and the ways in which desire in its many forms—and perhaps the deepest desire, to find meaning—manifests itself. Held moves through history to light upon Darwin, Sir Ernest Rutherford, North Sea ganseys, early photography, Ella Mary Leather, modern field hospitals…while lovers find each other and snow drifts down across the centuries. From the WW1 battlefield where the novel begins, and its opening lines, Held is alive with seeking: "We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?”
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Family Life;
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Held A Novel [electronic resource] : by Michaels, Anne.aut; Michaels, Anne.nrt; cloudLibrary;
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE • Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize • A Heather's Pick • One of the Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2023 • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Kirkus Reviews A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast—as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river—alive, but not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, and transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. This resonance through time—not only of actions but also of feelings and perceptions—desire in its many forms—are at the heart of this novel’s profound investigation. Held is a deeply affecting and intensely beautiful novel, full of unforgettable characters and imagery, wisdom and compassion. It explores the deepest mysteries, and the ways in which desire in its many forms—and perhaps the deepest desire, to find meaning—manifests itself. Held moves through history to light upon Darwin, Sir Ernest Rutherford, North Sea ganseys, early photography, Ella Mary Leather, modern field hospitals…while lovers find each other and snow drifts down across the centuries. From the WW1 battlefield where the novel begins, and its opening lines, Held is alive with seeking: "We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?”
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Literary; Family Life;
© 2023., Penguin Random House,
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Mink Returns to Tkaronto. by Maracle, Lee.;
In 'Mink Returns to Tkaronto', Lee Maracle describes the voyage undertaken by a young mink spirit and in doing so she reminds her readers to live their lives truthfully and to have good memories and stories to take with them to the spirit world. The novel is also an exploration of how Turtle Islands geography and ecosystems have been manipulated and changed. Maracle was a member of the Sto:Lo nation and was one of only five Canadian authors ever shortlisted for the Neustadt Award, aka the American Nobel. She lived in Vancouver, BC.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION / Animals; FICTION / Indigenous; FICTION / Literary;
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The Evening Shades. by Martin, Lee.;
'The Evening Shades' is a standalone novel that tells the story of two lonely people in a small Midwestern town slowly revealing their secrets to themselves, and each other. From the author of 'The Bright Forever', which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Small Town & Rural;
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The English Problem : A Novel. by Kamlani, Beena.;
In this stunning debut novel, a young Indian man comes to England in 1931, determined to overthrow British rule back home - but the insidiousness of colonialism as well as a sexual awakening get in his way. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION; FICTION / Coming of Age; FICTION / Literary;
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The Fisherman's Gift. by Kelly, Julia R.;
'The Light Between Oceans' meets 'The Snow Child' in this debut novel set in a Scottish village in the weeks after a young boy mysteriously washes up on shore, causing the buried secrets of the insular community to come to light and rekindling an old love story.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Romance / Historical / General;
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Awake in the Floating City : A Novel. by Kwan, Susanna.;
'Awake in the Floating City' is a transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for - two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future, the home neither is ready to leave. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Asian American; FICTION / Dystopian; FICTION / Literary;
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Juice. by Winton, Tim.;
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Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Dystopian; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Thrillers / General;
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Friends of the Museum : A Novel. by McGowan, Heather.;
Coworkers at a legendary but troubled New York City museum struggle with issues large and small over the course of one day in this extraordinary novel from Heather McGowan.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / City Life; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Women;
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My Documents : A Novel. by Nguyen, Kevin.;
The paths of four family members diverge drastically when the U.S. government begins detaining Vietnamese-Americans, in this touching novel informed by real-life events from Japanese incarceration, the Vietnam War, and modern-day immigrant detention. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Asian American; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Satire;
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