Title: Gladdy’s Wake Author: B. K. Anderson Publication Year: 2010 Pages: 384 Genre: Fiction Source: Review copy from the publisher From the cover: Gladys Sage escaped the backwoods of Northern Ontario, leaving behind the body of her stepfather, to arrive in New York and the world of political revolutionaries. Hired to find her is Pinkerton [...]
Title: Water for Elephants Author: Sara Gruen Narrators: David LeDoux & John Randolph Jones Publication Year: 2006 Pages: 350 (audio length: 11 hours 27 minutes) Genre: Fiction Source: Audiobook version purchased from Audible.com From the cover: As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini [...]
Title: The Beauty of Humanity Movement Author: Camilla Gibb Publication Year: 2011 Pages: 320 Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Source: Review copy from the publisher, for TLC Tours From the cover: Maggie, an art curator who is Vietnamese by birth but who has lived most of her life in the United States, has returned to her country [...]
Title: One Bird’s Choice: A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home Author: Iain Reid Publication Year: 2011 Pages: 264 Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir Source: Review copy from the publisher, for TLC Tours From the cover: Meet Iain Reid: an overeducated, underemployed twenty-something, living in the big city in a [...]
Title: Annabel Author: Kathleen Winter Publication Year: 2010 Pages: 480 Genre: Fiction, Canadiana Source: Purchased from Chapters From the cover: Kathleen Winter’s luminous debut novel is a deeply affecting portrait of life in an enchanting seaside town and the trials of growing up unique in a restrictive environment. In 1968, into the devastating, spare atmosphere [...]
