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Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most respected and sought-after interviewers. This book, celebrating her show's twenty-five year…
anniversary, presents her conversations with legendary authors like Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro, and J.M. Coetzee, who share their views on process, the writing life, and the hazards of literary fame. 2016.
When George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual assault at his school, his…
family is left to pick up the pieces. His wife, Joan, a trauma nurse, is unable to triage her emotional reactions, and vaults between rage and denial. Daughter Sadie, the consummate overachiever, finds herself paralyzed on her boyfriend’s couch with a bong, while a local author attempts to exploit her story. Their son, Andrew, a lawyer in New York, assists in his father’s defense while wrestling with the unhappy memories of his own teen years in high school. Unfolding over a one-year period, the novel focuses on the Woodbury family as they struggle to support George while privately grappling with the possibility of his guilt. Bestseller. 2016.
The author recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around…
her -- the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual gorilla pregnancy at a local zoo -- for signs that she is not alone. She also explores other aspects of fertility and infertility: the way longing for a child plays out in the classic Coen brothers film "Raising Arizona"; the depiction of childlessness in literature, from "Macbeth" to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"; the financial and legal complications that accompany alternative means of family making; the private and public expressions of iconic writers grappling with motherhood and fertility. She reports complex stories of couples who adopted domestically and from overseas, LGBT couples considering assisted reproduction and surrogacy, and women and men reflecting on childless or child-free lives. 2016.
In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert…
and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. In 2012, thousands of Al Qaeda militants from northwest Africa seized control of most of Mali, including Timbuktu. They imposed Sharia law, chopped off the hands of accused thieves, stoned to death unmarried couples, and threatened to destroy the great manuscripts. As the militants tightened their control over Timbuktu, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali. 2016.
Told from the point of view of a six-year-old child, this is the story of Anna and her little brother,…
Stick, two young children forced to fend for themselves in Algonquin Park after a black bear attacks their parents. 2014.
This book is a self-help workbook for anxiety disorders. Packed with effective skills for assessing and treating anxiety, it can…
be used alone or as a supplement to therapy to help you develop a full arsenal of skills for quieting worried thoughts and putting yourself back in control. 2015.
Everton Dorril learns that his father has run off to track down a woman he has been in love with…
for thirty-five years. An "outside" child born to his father's mistress, Everton deeply resents his father, but feels he has no choice but to go find him. He does, but is soon fed up with his father's lies and excuses, and confronts him one drunken night and airs his resentments. He discovers that his father, frightened and unhappy with the failings of his past, is seeking closure and reconciliation. Fearing this is his last chance to find out more about the father who had no time for him when he was growing up, Everton and his father set out on an adventurous quest across Jamaica, hoping to make up for lost time. 2016.
Twenty-five hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought.…
Since that time, all levels of the military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu for warfare, and others have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life. 2006.
In his store in a neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., Ethiopian immigrant Stepha Stephanos regularly meets with fellow Africans Ken the…
Kenyan and Joe from the Congo, discussing how their immigrant expectations measure up to the reality of life in America. Stephanos makes keen observations of American race and class tensions, seeing similarities to his hometown of Addis Ababa. When Judith, a white woman, and Naomi, her mixed-race daughter, move into the neighbourhood, Stephanos finds tentative prospects for friendship beyond his African compatriots. Some descriptions of violence. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. c2007.
The romantic, inspiring story of a northerner who comes to war-ravaged Georgia on business. He loses his heart to St.…
Simons Island and dedicates his life to its people. Sequel to "New Moon Rising". c2000, 1965. (St. Simons trilogy ; 3)
Now a widow, thirty-two-year-old Julia Huntington plans to sell the Santa Cruz beach house where she and Ken spent many…
wonderful hours. As she and the summer tenants spend their last weeks at the cottage, each goes through a transition from despair to joy. c1997.
Rae Faith flees her abusive childhood home and, for ten years, leads a decent life, marrying a salesman. Then one…
day her husband doesn't return home, and his brother-in-law, Dallas Calhoun, accuses them both of embezzlement. Hoping to clear her own name, Rae follows Dallas and falls in love. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. c1998.
O'Reilley embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, she describes her work in an agricultural…
barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France. She seeks in both places a spirituality based not in "climbing out of the body" but rather in existing fully in the world. 2000.
The essential wisdom of Morihei Ueshiba, founder of the martial art known as Aikido, is explained in this book. Aikido…
promotes a way of life that fosters fearlessness, wisdom and compassion. The sayings in this book are drawn from Ueshiba's writings, poems and calligraphy. 2002.
In a land where sudden death is an everyday fact of life, a boy dodges bullets and searches through rubble…
for news of his soldier father. An aging rabbi's faith is tested by a crippling, seemingly supernatural affliction. A middle-aged man comforts his Holocaust-survivor mother as she faces senility, convinced that Nazis are conspiring against her. And the mysterious biblical red heifer makes a startling appearance in the midst of a decidedly contemporary struggle. 2002.
Lawyer Steve Winslow is fired and blacklisted after his first case for a prestigious firm. He drives a cab until…
a beautiful young heiress asks him to clear her of a murder charge. Some strong language. 1988.
A biography of Major General Sir Isaac Brock, describing his life, career, and legacy, particularly in the Canadas, and the…
context within which he lived. An unlikely hero of the War of 1812, he was admired by his American foes almost as much as by his own people. Even more striking was how a British general whose military role in that two-and-a-half-year war lasted less than five months became its best known hero, and one revered far and wide. 2011.
A collection of nine linked stories following a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters, from bank manager, crackhead, and retired…
Samaritan to mental patient, web designer and car thief, as they drift through each other's lives like ghosts in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. Stories about people searching in the jagged margins of life, for homes, drugs, love, and forgiveness. Explicit descriptions of sex and explicit strong language. c2011.
Fifteenth-century Spain is a richly multicultural society in which Jews, Muslims and Christians coexist, but under the zealous Christian Queen…
Isabella, the country abruptly becomes one of the most murderously intolerant places on Earth. The Benvenistes, a family of scribes, are attempting to eke out a living, but they have a secret - they are Conversos: Jews who converted to Christianity. Now, with neighbours and friends turned into spies, fear hangs in the air. The story is written in verse. For junior high readers and older. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.
Elena and Mahfouz meet in the spring of 2008 in Montreal. But that summer Mahfouz doesn't return from a trip…
to Cairo, and his father is picked up and held indefinitely for unknown charges on undisclosed evidence. No longer in contact with each other, Elena and Mahfouz must separately come to terms with their historical situation, preparing for a future shaped by forces they struggle to understand. 2014.