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Deep in the wilderness of the Laurentian mountain range lives a community of troubled souls. There's Lila, the landlady of the forest who shoulders a ... More

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"There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." These words by the poet Leonard Cohen could aptly describe this book, which takes ... More

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An insider account by Iran's first female vice-president, Massoumeh Ebtekar, of the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran.

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As Fred A. Reed travels through Turkey, he finds its Islamists to be reappropriating culture and beliefs despite secular fundamentalism.

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In "Persian Postcards," Reed looks at Iranian history, in its meeting with the peculiar traditions of Shi'ite Islam.

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In his 18 years with the Montreal Canadiens (1942-1960), Maurice Richard's story appeared everywhere from novels to songs, and his name marked ... More

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Asks (and answers) the simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world's mining companies?

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The fourth and most acclaimed of Desjardins' novels creates a sensual and exotic world combining history, magic, and the bizarre.

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This novel explores the snares of individual and collective memory as they are used to justify and preserve ancestral grudges.

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A brilliant, complex, witty, moving book about writing and writers. Florence doesn't like writers--they're so full of hang-ups--and she likes their ... More

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In his extensive travels in the Balkans, Reed encounters a landscape inscribed with a shocking testimony of ethno-racialist aspirations.

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The second volume in Hentsch's epic survey of the formative texts of the Western narrative tradition.

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Candid conversations with Iranian artists, journalists and political activists document the fall of Mohammed Khatami's reform movement.

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A reading of seminal texts--from "Ulysses" to "Hamlet" and from the Torah to the Gospels--that shape Western perspectives.

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This literary translator brings us a finely wrought autobiography that arcs from southern California through Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Canada.

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A story of betrayal and vengeance set against the nuclear blast that destroyed Nagasaki in 1945.

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Haunted by the iron jealousy of their commanding officer, Dulac and Nell must risk everything to pursue their desires.

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Set in the post-apocalyptic future, this novel of fragments represents contemporary prose at its most daring and experimental.

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Hans-Jrgen Greifs novel calls forth, with the impetuous elegance of a baroque opera, the power of the human voice to stir our souls. It places the ... More

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