By Khaled Hosseini
The story follows its characters and the ramifications of their choices and loves around the globe. From Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos, the story becomes more emotionally complex with each page.
By Kathleen Winter
In 1968, into a remote coastal town of Labrador, Canada, a child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once. The parents decide to raise the child as a boy named Wayne.
By Lawrence Hill
Rich in historical detail and gracefully flowing from the slave trade of nineteenth-century Virginia to the present, Any Known Blood gives life to the story of five generations of a black Canadian family.
By Jan-Philipp Sendker
When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia have any idea where he might be… until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of.
By Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson “writes a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on.
By Ian McEwan
Thirteen-year-old Briony witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives brings about a crime that will change all their lives.
By Lesley Crewe
Ava Harris is a famous actress living the life in L.A. when a family crisis calls her home. It’s been ten years since she’s set foot in Glace Bay — back when she was plain old Libby MacKinnon. Why she ran away, no one knows.
