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World Without End

World Without End

Ken Follett

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell

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Tis: A Memoir

Tis: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

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Brilliant!

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The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher

Elfriede Jelinek

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Jelinek has a unique style that is impossible to dulicate.

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The Birth House

The Birth House

Ami Mckay

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Water for Elephants: A Novel

Water for Elephants: A Novel

Sara Gruen

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Great book!

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A History of Mistresses

A History of Mistresses

Elizabeth Abbott

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Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon To Canada (and Doesn't Seem To Care)

Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon To Canada (and Doesn't Seem To Care)

William Marsden

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The Bonesetter's Daughter: A Novel

The Bonesetter's Daughter: A Novel

Amy Tan

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Tar Sands: Dirty Oil And The Future Of A Continent: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

Tar Sands: Dirty Oil And The Future Of A Continent: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

Andrew Nikiforuk

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Terrifying and brilliant! It's a must read! "Challenge the petrostate"

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Red Dog Red Dog

Red Dog Red Dog

Patrick Lane

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Simply brilliant! I am anxiously awaiting his next book.

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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Romeo Dallaire

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deeply disturbing! it is beyond belief that Canadian government could just cease to act when people were being slaugthered.

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Gulag: A History

Gulag: A History

Anne Applebaum

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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Discoveries And Opinions Of Galileo

Discoveries And Opinions Of Galileo

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House Of Sand And Fog: A Novel

House Of Sand And Fog: A Novel

Andre Iii Dubus

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The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum

Gunter Grass

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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

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Haven't had such a laugh in a long time. Even though the story is not always happy, McCourt is a master storyteller that contrasts sadness, irony and happiness.

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Night: Oprah Selection #55

Night: Oprah Selection #55

Elie Wiesel

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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

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Classic!

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Dog Years: A Memoir

Dog Years: A Memoir

Mark Doty

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The World Without Us

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

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Terrifying eyeopener, extremly well written and impossible to put down.

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The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle

The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle

DAVID WROBLEWSKI

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Fall on Your Knees

Fall on Your Knees

Ann-marie Macdonald

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It is unfortunate, that most of the characters die, or get old, which made me feel a bit sad after reading the last page. I feel that Macdonald created an unforgettable story on those pages and it was definitely worth my time to getting to know the intricacies of the life in Nova Scotia a the turn of the century.

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Marsden created a chilling masterpiece that I got through in barely a day. It is only astonishing, that we as Canadians do so little to prevent our politicians from creating an environmental horror that unveils in northern Alberta... we just have to challenge the petrostate! read review

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Reviewed: Bitter Chocolate: Investigating The Dark Side Of The World's Most Seductive Sweet | Carol Off

Great read!

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Reviewed: East Of Eden Oprah Pick | John Steinbeck

Impossible to put down! Really touching story...

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