Shannon_Z
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Calgary Public Library
A voracious reader, I love the written wor...Read More
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"A new governess comes to work at an isolated manse and things get weird (and bloody) in a hurry in this twisted novella. Part horror, part satire - won't be everyone's cup of tea, but think Edward Gorey meets Patrick Bateman."
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is...
From a poet whose "poems don't merely attempt beauty; they attain it" ( Boston Review ), an enchanting and harrowing journey through the landscape of dreams and twenty-first century hopes and disillusions. "Your dreams / have no hidden / agenda...
"Arnott has an astonishing facility with language, and his prose imbues the Tasmanian wilderness with an extraordinary, immanent beauty . . . Starkly beautiful and deeply felt." --James Bradley, The Guardian "Arresting . . . Readers will be...
