Book Description
Profiles of works of fiction and non-fiction worthy of at least one hour of group discussion.
Author : Mark Kaufman
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780964487680
Profiles of works of fiction and non-fiction worthy of at least one hour of group discussion.
Author : Reading Group Choices
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780975974476
Author : Paz & Associates
Publisher : Paz & Associates
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2002-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780964487673
This edition of Reading Group Choices was produced by Pax & Associates, and lists titles which have been popular sellers and stimulating for group discussion.
Author : Carol Shields
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307365891
“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.” Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publisher for a sequel. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner, with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck. GOODNESS. With the inconceivable loss of her daughter like a lump in her throat, Reta tackles the mystery of this message. What in this world has broken Norah, and what could bring her back to the provisional safety of home? Reta’s wit is the weapon she most often brandishes as she kicks against the pricks that have brought her daughter down: Carol Shields brings us Reta’s voice in all its poignancy, outrage and droll humour. Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields’s fiction.
Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784878535
VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed wit[Bokinfo].
Author : Reading Group Choices
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 2007-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780975974230
A list of fiction and non-fiction books with summaries, author biographies, and conversation starters.
Author : Elizabeth Harper Neeld
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2008-12-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 044655538X
Inspiring, profound, intimate, and moving, this updated edition of the classic self-help book brings solace, hope, and advice to anyone who has suffered loss. Everyone experiences grief, but few books offer real help with the debilitating emotions of bereavement. Now, an internationally respected authority on personal change maps the terrain between life as it was and life as it can be. Readers can move at their own pace through the seven distinct phases of loss and can work towards a stronger, more balanced self. The author's own story of the loss of a young husband, combined with the tales of dozens of individuals, and the most recent research on coping with loss, helps readers to become happier, healthier, and wiser beings.
Author : Mary Lawson
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2003-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385337639
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing—a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent. Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur—offstage. Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt’s protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks she’s outgrown her siblings—Luke, Matt, and Bo—who were once her entire world. In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning one’s expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today.
Author : Barbara Drummond Mead
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780975974216
Author : Dr Helen Cousins
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1409478904
In January 2004, daytime television presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan launched their book club and sparked debate about the way people in Britain, from the general reader to publishers to the literati, thought about books and reading. The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader brings together historians of the book, literature scholars, and specialists in media and cultural studies to examine the effect of the club on reading practices and the publishing and promotion of books. Beginning with an analysis of the book club's history and its ongoing development in relation to other reading groups worldwide including Oprah's, the editors consider issues of book marketing and genre. Further chapters explore the effects of the mass-broadcast celebrity book club on society, literature and its marketing, and popular culture. Contributors ask how readers discuss books, judge value and make choices. The collection addresses questions of authorship, authority and canon in texts connected by theme or genre including the postcolonial exotic, disability and representations of the body, food books, and domesticity. In addition, book club author Andrew Smith shares his experiences in a fascinating interview.