Gloria Whelan
National Book Award-winning author Gloria Whelan weaves rich historical detail into this compelling mystery. Ms. Whelan is the bestselling author of many novels for young readers, including Homeless Bird, winner of the National Book Award, Parade ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Amity Gaige
Amity Gaige is a graduate of Brown University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She is the author of the acclaimed novel O My Darling, chosen by the National Book Foundation for its "5 Under 35" program to recognize the achievements of five ... [... more]
Random House |
Jenna Stern
Hailed as "a writer of uncommon clarity" by the New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers as The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls. . [... more]
Random House |
Martin Marty
Martin Marty has written a number of seminal works on religion, including The Christian World, and has received some seventy-five honorary doctorates. His awards include the National Book Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the Medal of the ... [... more]
Random House |
Tai Alexandra Ricci
THE WINNER OF a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, and countless other awards has written her richest, most spirited book yet, filled with characters that readers will love, and never forget. Jane is 12 years old, and she is ready for ... [... more]
Random House |
Philip L. Fradkin
Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of ... [... more]
Random House |
Philip Ball
Philip Ball is a consulting editor for Nature magazine and a regular commentator on science in Great Britain. His book Bright Earth was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and he won Great Britain's prestigious Aventis Prize ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel
 Nothing funny about this one.: The blip on the front cover sold me. Augusten Burroughs, author of two of the funniest books I've ever read, "Running with Scissors" and "Dry" says that this book by Jincy Willett is "the funniest [... more]
CDN$36.07
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Monkey Hunting
Too short!: In her first novel in six years, National Book Award nominee Garcia ("Dreaming in Cuban") explores the Chinese-Cuban experience across the span of four generations and more than a century. The novel opens in 1857 China. Impoverished, [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories
From Amazon.com: With the very first sentence of the first story in this remarkable collection, Annie Proulx demonstrates what makes her great: images sharp as paper cuts conveyed in language so imaginative and compressed it's just this side of poetry; a [... more]
CDN$37.00
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In the Time of the Butterflies
From Amazon.com: From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the [... more]
CDN$22.87
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Voyage Of The Narwhal
From Amazon.com: In Andrea Barrett's extraordinary novel of Arctic and personal exploration, maps are deceitful, ice all-powerful, and reputation more important than truth or human lives. When the Narwhal sets sail from Philadelphia in May 1855, its [... more]
CDN$17.50
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