Kate Evans
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Sylvia Bolfe sits in her nursing home, criticizes the food and the staff-all but her trusted confidant and registered nurse, Eleanor-and with humour and feistiness recounts her turbulent life. From an upper-class Irish family, Sylvia marries a young medical student beneath her station and leaves Ireland for Newfoundland. When her husband unexpectedly dies, she is left with the children to make her own way. As in Atwood's The Blind Assassin, Evans...
2) Wanderland
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From a Malaysian penthouse overlooking the turquoise Strait of Malacca, to a miniscule, under-furnished apartment in West Hollywood, Kate and her husband Dave travel the world living in other people's houses. They tend to their gardens, sleep in their beds, and care for their pets. Along the way, other opportunities appear, and they follow: working and living in China, attending a wedding in Vietnam, and tracking wild animals in Indonesia. Eventually...
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It's 1981 and 17-year-old Norma Rogers' parents drop her off at the college dorms. Soon, Norma finds herself drunk and nearly naked with three strangers. The strip poker event is the first of many experiences that prompt Norma to question who she is and who she wants to be. Norma's relationships with an array of characters induce her to grapple with society's messages about women, sex, and freedom. Many tumultuous events take Norma through an array...
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Who hasn't dreamed of chucking it all to live a traveling life? Yet two months after Kate and her husband Dave leave home to live on the road, she awakes in the grips of a seizure. The diagnosis of a brain tumor comes at a terrible time: It is their first-year wedding anniversary, and they have no home. Soon, though, this medical adventure becomes integral to their journey. Paralleling this story are Kate's painful and often humorous exploits of body,...
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What happens when a 31-year-old straight woman falls in love with a lesbian? It's 1993, and Gwen Sullivan is agitated. She's been married and divorced and is now living with her scientist boyfriend who loses himself in dark moods. Her job at a tutoring center and her work on the Bill Clinton-for-President campaign leave her vaguely dissatisfied. She hopes taking a night class in poetry might help. In the poetry class, the allure of two lesbians takes...
6) Crossed Oars
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English
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TC looks forward to a lazy summer at Semaphore's beach. Only problem, her mother has taken a job in the Hills and moved TC into an academically demanding high school. Signed up for rowing, TC is plunged into the harrowing sport, where she must quickly bond with the rowing quad if they are to have any chance of beating the favored private college team. As pressures mount at school and on the river, TC must find the courage to juggle old friends and...
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Verso
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Evans draws the faces of refugees coming from Syria, Africa, and elsewhere to *The Jungle, * a makeshift refugee camp in Calais, France, and in doing so she captures the refugees' full humanity, intelligence, and suffering as they search for family, home, and dignity. Accompanying the story of Evan's time spent among the refugees--the insights acquired and the lives recounted--is the counterpoint of prejudice and scapegoating arising from the political...
8) Weird weather: everything you didn't want to know about climate change but probably should find out
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Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
9) Walt Whitman
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English
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A sample of the author's most notable works. Considered by many to be the least necessary which should be read to understand the author.
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Verso
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She overcame physical infirmity and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become an active revolutionary whose philosophy enriched every corner of an incredibly productive and creative life--her many friendships,...
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In 1665, seventeen-year-old Griet becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. Johannes and Griet must hide their inspiration of each other from his volatile wife Catharina, which becomes difficult when the wealthy and troublemaking Master van Ruijven commissions Vermeer to paint Griet alone.
13) Birthday Girl
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A lonely bank employee desperately wants to meet the right girl. Through a Russian mail-order bride service, he meets quiet, attractive Nadia. John soon falls for Nadia but when her mysterious cousins show up, he realizes he is in over his head.
14) The American
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American Christopher Newman is smart, educated and rich. He is a Civil War veteran and a self made tycoon who goes to Europe to see the 'treasures and entertain' himself. He meets Claire and after the fifth meeting he asks her to marry him.