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ANANSI READING GUIDES
You buy a book. You spend hours with it, make time for it, ponder and enjoy it. Now you want to talk about it! Whether gathering with a group of friends over coffee, sharing the commute into town with a co-worker or reconnecting with your best friend across the globe, reading guides are the perfect entry point into discussion about your favourite books. We get you started with these downloadable pdfs. Take ‘em! Pass ‘em around! Email them to booklover’s just like you!
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Alligator
by Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore's Alligator moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland -- a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in Flannery O'Co >>more
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Atonement
by Gaétan Soucy
Atonement is Sheila Fischman's translation of Gaétan Soucy's brilliant novel, originally published in French as L'Acquittement.
Twenty years after leaving the tiny village of Saint Aldor, Louis Bapaume has come home to make amends. D >>more
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The Big Why
by Michael Winter
The Big Why is both Michael Winter's dazzling reinvention of the historical novel and a passionate and witty faux memoir of Rockwell Kent, the famous illustrator of Moby Dick.
Focusing on the year Kent and his family spent in Brigus, Newfou >>more
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De Niro's Game
by Rawi Hage
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."
In Rawi Hage's astonishing and unforgettable novel, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two young men caught in Lebanon's civil war. Bassam and George are >>more
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Die With Me
by Elena Forbes
Somewhere in London, a lonely young woman is reaching out to the wrong man. It's up to Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia and the rest of the local murder squad to find her before it's too late.
When fourteen-year-old Gemma Kramer's broken body i >>more
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Gargoyles
by Bill Gaston
Here is the best of Bill Gaston's stories since the publication of his Giller Prize nominated collection, Mount Appetite (2002). In this extraordinary new work, Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the "gargoyle" -- the concrete repres >>more
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The Immaculate Conception
by Gaétan Soucy
East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tre >>more
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The Law of Dreams
by Peter Behrens
Gorgeously written, Homeric in scope, haunting in its depiction of a young man's perilous journey from innocence to experience: The Law of Dreams is an extraordinary debut novel by an accomplished writer and screenwriter.
The story follows >>more
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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
by Gaétan Soucy
It caused a sensation in Quebec. It rocked France's literary establishment. It's been translated into more than ten languages, including Spanish, Chinese, and Finnish.
Gaétan Soucy's second novel with Anansi, originally published in French as L >>more
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The Outlander
by Gil Adamson
In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand.
Gil Adamson's extraordinary novel opens in heart-pounding mid-flight and propels the reader thr >>more
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Returning to Earth
by Jim Harrison
In Returning to Earth, literary legend Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece -- a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and finding redemption in sometimes unlikely places.
Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish m >>more
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The Tracey Fragments
by Maureen Medved
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Now an award-winning motion picture by Bruce McDonald, starring Ellen Page!
Naked under a tattered shower curtain, fifteen-year old Tracey Berkowitz has been sitting in the back of a bus for two days, looking for her bro >>more
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Vaudeville!
by Gaétan Soucy
We are in New York at the end of the 1920s. Xavier X. Mortanse, a seventeen-year-old apprentice demolition man, who claims to be an immigrant from Hungary, falls into a hole -- the beginning of myriad bizarre humiliations he suffers, only to be shown >>more
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