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 imagined ent...

• 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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From the author of The White Bone, a piercing novel of passionate attachment and of the fear and freedom of letting goLouise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leavi...

• 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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A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2017 "[A] supernatural domestic thriller and a crackling tour de force." -- The New York TimesThunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one brea...