Barbara Gowdy

• Aug-1988
• / General Fiction
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The son of a peasant farmer, Michael Malone grows up surrounded by the poverty, hardships, and injustices of life in eighteenth-century Ireland, struggling to understand his place in society and to cope with the overwhelming effects of bitterness, an...

• Aug-1993
• / General Fiction
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This masterfully crafted story collection by the author of the internationally best-selling novel Mister Sandman is a haunting audiobook that is certain to both disturb and entertain. With a particular focus on obsession and the abnormal, We So Se...

• Apr-1998
• / General Fiction
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Gowdy’s “delightfully quirky novel”(New York Times Book Review) about an oddball Toronto family is “so brilliantly crafted and flat-out fun to read that she makes sinners of us all” (Washington Post Book World). A Publishers Weekly Best Boo...

• Jun-2000
• / General Fiction
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A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive.

If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel im...

• Jul-2003
• / General Fiction
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The three daughters of the Field family, aged 17 to 19, are bound together by the love and protection of their fragile alcoholic mother and fear of their abusive father. In a family on the brink of madness, they learn to survive in a dangerously p...

• May-2004
• / General Fiction
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When she is nine-years-old, Louise Kirk's mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only--and incorrectly--"Louise knows how to work the washing machine." It is not long before a strange couple and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the st...

• Mar-2007
• / Suspense
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Nine-year-old Rachel Fox has the face of an angel, a heart-stopping luminosity that strikes all who meet her. Her single mother, Celia, working at a video store by day and a piano bar by night, is not always around to shield her daughter from the att...

• May-2017
• / General Fiction
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The farthest place you can go is closer than you can imagine. Rose is a sensible woman, thirty-four years old. Together with her widowed mother, Fiona, she runs a small repertory cinema in a big city.Fiona is in the early stages of dementia and is...