Modern Fiction (Post C 1945)
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Rouge Angel
Dante University of America Press (US)£22.99| /In 15th-century Florence, a frenzy of artistic creativity produced some of the world's greatest masterpieces in architecture, sculpture, and painti...
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Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /For more than fifty years, Canadian literary legend Rudy Wiebe has been defining and refining prairie literature through his oeuvre of world-renown...
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Ruins & Relics
NeWest Press (CA)£15.99| /These are short stories about people who harbour relics from their past: a postcard from Vienna, the cigarette burns that scar a boy's chest, a sto...
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Rumi and the Red Handbag
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /What is the soul? asks Rumi, the poet. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. Rumi and the Red Handbag...
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Run Out of Prose
Sagging Meniscus Press£13.99| /When asked by a friend why he recently he had been writing only poetry, Marvin Cohen, octogenarian author of many novels, stories, essays and plays...
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Running Toward Home
NeWest Press (CA)£17.99| /Transferred between foster homes for most of his life, twelve-year-old Corey Brinkman has developed a bad habit of running away. His new foster par...
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Safe Houses
Spinifex Press£11.95| /Against the background of the escalating violence of the 1980s, this novel tells a story of three families -- black and Jewish -- who are inextrica...
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Samara the Wholehearted
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /In Samara the Wholehearted, Bauer transports her readers to the slightly tilted world of Summerland, a communal summer retreat, where a series of u...
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Samaritan
Bancroft (US)£25.99| /After a youth marked by the death of his parents and a childhood spent with his shaman grandfather on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, Kevin "Ha...
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Sanctuary & Other Stories
DC Books (US)£13.99| /This debut collection of fiction introduces a brilliant and innovative new voice to Canadian literature. These fourteen stories, interconnected and...
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Santa Rosa
NeWest Press (CA)£12.99| /What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories? The young narrator of Santa Rosa...
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Sasquatch in Alberta
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£20.99| /This book is the republication of the authors earlier work of the same title. It covers Steenburg's investigations of the ongoing Sasquatch questio...
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Satou bi Marwahiya
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£11.99| /Text in Arabic. Four men, all worlds apart, come together to plan to robbery unlike anything ever attempted in Swedish history: Sami Farhan, the Ir...
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Savage Love
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /The Globe and Mail Top 100Quill & Quire Book of the YearAmazon.ca Editors' Pick, Top 100Now magazine, Top 10 BooksChatelaine, Favourite Books o...
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Savage Love
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013A Globe and Mail Top 100 for 2013A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2013Longlisted, Frank O'Connor International Short ...
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Saving Mona Lisa
Americas Group Publications (US)£20.99| /Book in slipcase. This is the story of Leonardo da Vinci and two of his apprentices clashing over the ultimate fate of a painting that had achieved...
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Savushun
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£13.50| /Savushun chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes...
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Sawbones Memorial
University of Alberta Press (CA)£14.99| /After practicing medicine for forty-five years, Doctor "Sawbones" Hunter is retiring. It's April 1948, and the long-awaited hospital in Upward, Sas...
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Scotland Before the Bomb
Sagging Meniscus Press£19.99| /Illustrated by Alan Lyons. In 2060, Scotland was annihilated in a series of merciless nuclear strikes from Luxembourg. In response to a curious pub...
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Scribes
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Maureen Foss's offbeat and darkly funny third novel begins when four quirky and mismatched women answer an ad to join a writing group. Unlikely fri...
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Sea Fangs
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Bob Sherman has a strength of character and purpose that would make Spencer Tracy. But signing on to the crew of the yacht Bonito, he'll need every...
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Seal Intestine Raincoat
NeWest Press (CA)£15.99| /After a severe winter storm and extended power failure, thousands become trapped in their homes during one of the coldest weeks of the year. For on...
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Search for M
Ariadne Press (US)£19.99| /The plot of "The Search for M" revolves around the lives in contemporary Vienna of two generations of European Jews, the survivors of the Holocaust...
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Season of Apples
Goose Lane Editions£12.99| /Ann Copeland jumps over the convent wall with Season of Apples, a book of stories about ordinary people surprised by their own sudden growth. With ...
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Season of Martyrdom
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£11.99| /Alwaleed is a struggling Jordanian youth, searching for meaning and soon seduced by the Recruiters promises, fighting the Syrian regime. But is th...
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See You in the Cosmos
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /Text in Arabic. Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl Sagannamed for his hero, the real-li...
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Selling America
Silk Label Books (US)£13.99| /Through light drama and dark humour, employing a spectrum of sales personalities and products in realistic as well as fantastic situations, these e...
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Serenity
Aiora Press£12.99| /This novel follows the journey of a group of Greek refugees who were displaced from their homeland in Asia Minor and settled in the summer of 1923 ...
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Serpent's Child
Ariadne Press (US)£17.99| /A coming-of-age novel that is set in a farming village near Klagenfurt and in Salzburg, Austria during the later 1970s. Its sure sense of place and...
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Servant
Blue Dome Press (US)£6.95| /The struggle between good and bad is the essence of the entire history of humanity. But the real struggle takes place in a person's inner world. Th...
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Seven Seeds of Summer
Primedia Elaunch LLC£15.99| /Summer has to decide to follow her heart or follow the same footsteps of the mysterious woman in her past life. Seven Seeds of Summer is a young ad...
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Seven Shades of Memory
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£13.50| /Terence O'Donnell lived in Iran from 1957-71, operating a farm from 1963-70 before returning to America. "Seven Shades of Memory" is his first coll...
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Sex in Russia
DC Books (US)£14.99| /This collection is comprised of mostly new and a few award-winning stories that still resonate over the years. Adroitly combining accessibility and...
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Shades of Exodus
Interactive Press£25.99| /This book revolves around the true story of a South African family who flee the violence of South Africa only to fall victim to a vicious and blood...
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Shades of Teale
Manor House Publishing Inc£15.99| /A lot of people get pushed around and take it - its safer than confrontation. But Teale was finding too much was being taken away from her - her o...
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Shake-speare's Oedipus
Piercemore Books£20.99| /This novel is an exciting romp back and forth through time between Elizabethan England and the present. Both serious and hilarious the story revolv...
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