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Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his mu ...Show more
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Canons Ser.
INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight into ...Show more
Highland River by Neil M. Gunn; Dairmid Gunn (Introduction by)
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Kenn returns to the Highlands of his youth, back to the river which has haunted his dreams since boyhood. Determined to walk all the way back to its source, Kenn embarks on a journey that will lead him deep into the wilderness of his own heart. Profound and moving, Highland River is a stirring tale of w ...Show more
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski; Howard Sounes (Introduction by)
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
'What will you do?' 'Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.' 'What are you going to call it?' 'Hollywood.' Henry Chinaski has a penchant for booze, women and horse-racing. On his precarious journey from poet to screenwriter he encounters a host of well-known star ...Show more
How to be a Grrrl - By Lucy van Pelt by Charles Schulz
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Category: Humour | Series: Canons Ser.
'The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!'Entrepreneur, psychiatrist, fussbudget - Lucy van Pelt is the much-loved crabby heroine of the Peanuts gang. Never one to suffer in silence, in this brand new book she is presented as the role model she has always wanted to be. Pack ...Show more
Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a young man.An unprecedented debut published to immediate accla ...Show more
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger ...Show more
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi; Patrick Creagh (Translator); Mohsin Hamid
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira's apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of ...Show more
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZETeoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see ...Show more
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The first novel from the internationally bestselling, Booker-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Penang, 1939. Being half Chinese and half English, Philip Hutton always felt like he never belonged. That is until he befriends Hayato Endo, a mysterious Japane ...Show more
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
"It's wild writing: sexy, unguarded, raw, and ardent ... highly recommended."--The Millions After a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy's inspiring recovery as she walks along windy coast ...Show more
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