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A landmark collection that rescues the voices of the great women writers of Latin America. "This is so far the best anthology of Latin American women's literature in translation published in this country. Highly recommended."-Choice

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Life isn't easy for 12 year old Peter Kim. The super and other thugs in his neighbourhood are out to get him. His best friend suddenly hates his guts. And he's stuck wasting his summer babysitting his weirdo little brother. Things hit rock bottom when his family's apartment gets burglarised and he loses his most prized possession.

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Introducing an unforgettable heroine for our times, Nina de la Mer's bold and unflinching novel captures the mood of an urban generation, seduced by celebrity and fuelled by drink, drugs and pornography.

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From a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the angst of the young American abroad.

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Therese Wolley is a mother who has made a promise. She works as a secretary, shops for groceries on Saturdays, and takes care of her two girls. She doesn't dwell on the fact that her girls are fatherless, mostly because her own father abandoned her before she was born and she has done just fine without him.

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This is a deeply affecting, sprawling, beautiful novel about finding one's way in life and the world. Lemniscate - a line that travels continuously outward as it travels continuously inward.

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Longlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Lemon is the story of a teenaged girl with the numbers against her.

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An existential murder mystery about two rival writers willing to do anythinglie, steal, killto get the perfect story.

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Guy Mankowski's portrayal of the ballerina Yelena is wholly convincing, taking us inside her thoughts and feelings as she describes the course of her life, from harrowing childhood to professional success, punctuated with turbulent emotional crisis.

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Part human comedy and part mystery, "Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told" is a delightful, enthralling, and masterful story of what holds a village together and what keeps people apart. When journalist Patrick Bracken returns to Gohen, the Irish village where he was born, he knows the eyes of the townspeople are on him.

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Wrought with empathy, precision and a steady finger on the pulse of the complexities facing todays changing, often turbulent West, Barness stories show a writer at the apex of his craft, offering an updated take on a West that is rapidly descending into the annals of legend.

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Moore can't remember the first time she saw the ocean--it has been there for as long as she can remember. In her memoir, she weaves reminiscences of her childhood with some of her favorite pieces of literature and marks her return to the island world where she came of age.

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Reminiscent of Dorothy Allisons Bastard Out of Carolina, Debra Busmans like a woman is a vivid coming of age story, revealing the lives of teenage girls on the streets of Los Angeles, trying to hold onto their self-defined sense of ethics and humanity against a backdrop of racism, poverty, sexism and violence.

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A groundbreaking second novel that recalls both Sandra Cisneros and Andr Breton.

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A contemporary historical novel about the ties that bind and wounds that never heal.