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Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

By: Badami, Anita Rau

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Knopf Canada: January 2006

Seller ID: 13165

ISBN: 0676976042

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women - Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo - each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes. The ambitious, defiant Sikh Bibi-ji, born Sharanjeet Kaur in a Punjabi village, steals her sister Kanwar's destiny, thereby gaining passage to Canada. Leela Bhat, born to a German mother and a Hindu father, is doomed to walk the earth as a half-and-half. Leela's childhood in Bangalore is scarred...
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Tamarind Mem

By: Badami, Anita Rau

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Knopf Canada: January 2004

Seller ID: 28660

ISBN: 0676976360

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Hero's Walk

By: Badami, Anita Rau

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Vintage: January 2001

Seller ID: 30813

ISBN: 0676973604

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary lives. Set in the dusty seaside town of Toturpuram on the Bay of Bengal, The Hero's Walk traces the terrain of family and forgiveness through the lives of an exuberant cast of characters bewildered by the rapid pace of change in today's India. Each m...
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Heros Walk : A Novel

By: BADAMI, ANITA RAU

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Workman Pub Co: April 2001

Seller ID: 28718

ISBN: 1565123123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In a small town by the Bay of Bengal in India, Sripathi Rao, a headstrong man and disenchanted copywriter, lives in his crumbling ancestral home, uncomfortably aware of the encroaching modern world. Then, early one morning, Sripathi is awakened by a call from Canada: his long-estranged daughter and her husband have been killed in a car accident. Their surviving seven-year-old child, Nandana, is about to become his reluctant ward. Yet Nandana has never met her grandfather, has never been to India, and hasn't spoken a word since the tragedy.

With" The Hero's Walk," Anita Rau Badami ushers us ...
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The Hero's Walk

By: Badami, Anita Rau

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Vintage: January 2001

Seller ID: 62350

ISBN: 0676973604

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Tell It to the Trees

By: Badami, Anita Rau

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Knopf Canada: September 2011

Seller ID: 63115

ISBN: 0676978932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Book and Dust Jacket As New.
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If Clara

By: Baillie, Martha

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Coach House Books: September 2017

Seller ID: 56118

ISBN: 1552453561

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Praise for The Search for Heinrich Schl gel

"Martha Baillie has written a timeless masterpiece. Every page is full of haunting wonderment. Truly, I know of no novel quite like it--it's a blessing. The Search for Heinrich Schl gel has dreamlike locutions, it tells the most unusual tale, and it brings the margins of the world to us with photographic immediacy." --Howard Norman, author of Next Life Might Be Kinder

In If Clara, nobody stands on firm ground. Daisy, a writer confined to her home, her leg in a cast from hip to ankle, receives a parcel conta...
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Abra: A Novel

By: bARFOOT, jOAN

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Key Porter Books: 2000

Seller ID: 12875

ISBN: 0886194008

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Duet for Three (US)

By: Barfoot, Joan

Price: $11.50

Publisher: HB Fenn: January 2003

Seller ID: 21593

ISBN: 0886194164

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Plain Jane

By: Barfoot, Joan

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada: June 1992

Seller ID: 37981

ISBN: 0771591578

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Between You Me and the Fencepost

By: Barr, Jennifer

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Glendevon & Whiteside: 2003

Seller ID: 43024

ISBN: 281BQL1002224

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Matter with Morris

By: Bergen, David

Price: $9.95

Publisher: HarperCollins Canada: January 2010

Seller ID: 6153

ISBN: 1554687748

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shortlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize

When Morris Schutt, a prominent newspaper columnist, surveys his life over the past year, he sees disaster everywhere. His son has just been killed in Afghanistan, and his newspaper has put him on indefinite leave; his psychiatrist wife, Lucille, seems headed for the door; he is strongly attracted to Ursula, the wife of a dairy farmer from Minnesota; and his daughter appears to be having an affair with one of her professors.

What is a thinking man to do but turn to Cicero and Plato and Socrates in search of the truth? Or better still, ca...
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The Matter with Morris

By: Bergen, David

Price: $9.95

Publisher: HarperCollins Canada: January 2010

Seller ID: 15245

ISBN: 1554687748

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shortlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize

What is a thinking man to do but turn to Cicero and Plato and Socrates in search of the truth? Or better still, ca...
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The Retreat

By: Bergen, David

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Emblem Editions: June 2009

Seller ID: 21053

ISBN: 0771012543

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bestselling novelist David Bergen follows his Scotiabank Giller Prize--winning The Time in Between with a haunting novel about the clash of generations -- and cultures.

In 1973, outside of Kenora, Ontario, Raymond Seymour, an eighteen-year-old Ojibway boy, is taken by a local policeman to a remote island and left for dead.

A year later, the Byrd family arrives in Kenora. They have come to stay at "the Retreat," a commune run by the self-styled guru Doctor Amos. The Doctor is an enigmatic man who spouts bewildering truisms, and who bathes naked every morning in the pond...
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See the Child: A Novel

By: Bergen, David

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: May 2002

Seller ID: 31087

ISBN: 0743229258

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

What is more devastating than the death of a child? When Harry, the local cop, knocks on Paul Unger's door early one morning to give him the grim news -- that his son, Stephen, has been found drowned -- Paul descends into a grief that carries him to a dark and unfamiliar place.

"See the Child" is an extraordinary exploration of love and loss: between parent and child, man and woman, grandfather and grandchild. Paul Unger has a comfortable life, but it starts to unravel when his son becomes involved with a provocative young woman, Nicole. Soon his world is overturned, Stephen is gone, and h...
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The Time in Between

By: Bergen, David

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Emblem Editions: May 2006

Seller ID: 38828

ISBN: 0771011393

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In search of love, absolution, or forgiveness, Charles Boatman leaves the Fraser Valley of British Columbia and returns mysteriously to Vietnam, the country where he fought twenty-nine years earlier as a young, reluctant soldier. But his new encounters seem irreconcilable with his memories.

When he disappears, his daughter Ada, and her brother, Jon, travel to Vietnam, to the streets of Danang and beyond, to search for him. Their quest takes them into the heart of a country that is at once incomprehensible, impassive, and beautiful. Chasing her father's shadow for weeks, following slim lead...
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Leaving Tomorrow

By: Bergen, David

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: September 2015

Seller ID: 43554

ISBN: 1443411396

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the Giller Prize-winning author of the #1 bestseller The Age of Hope, a thoughtful, tender, often wry novel of growing up and falling in love

In the small Alberta town of Tomorrow, young Arthur yearns for a larger life. His father loves horses and good books, while his mother follows practicality and her faith. Bev, his rough-edged brother, chooses action over thought. Arthur lives among them--intelligent, curious, romantic and at odds with his surroundings and his religion. His one ally is his adopted cousin, the fearless Isobel. Their mutual admiration for the lan...
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The Age Of Hope

By: Bergen, David

Price: $9.95

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers: January 2013

Seller ID: 44940

ISBN: 1443411361

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Born in 1930 in a small town outside Winnipeg, beautiful Hope Koop appears destined to have a conventional life. Church, marriage to a steady young man, children - her fortunes are already laid out for her, as are the shiny modern appliances in her new home. All she has to do is stay with Roy, who loves her. But as the decades unfold, what seems to be a safe, predictable existence overwhelms Hope. Where - among the demands of her children, the expectations of her husband and the challenges of her best friend, Emily, who has just read The Feminine Mystique - is there room for her? And...
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What We All Want

By: Berry, Michelle

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Vintage Canada: January 2002

Seller ID: 23351

ISBN: 0679311289

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In Michelle Berry's darkly funny and poignant first novel, three siblings come together to arrange the funeral of their mother, Becka, who has died after a struggle with liver cancer. Yet Hilary, Thomas and Billy can't agree on a plan of action. Grief, and having to deal with one another in the difficult surroundings of their childhood home, has brought to the fore all their fears and insecurities. Besides, they are a strange trio.
Hilary put her life on hold to care for their agoraphobic mother who had never recovered from the fact that her husband had walked out. With only dolls for comp...
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The Girl in Black

By: Bianchini, Angela

Price: $2.75

Publisher: Canadian Society for Italian Studies: 2002

Seller ID: 84

ISBN: 0921831919

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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