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Fans of Sara Pennypacker and Katherine Applegate will love this thrilling environmental fable—filled with laughter, music, and adventure.

At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha.

I shall refer to her as Lizard here, but not because of the small lizard tattoo that I discovered on her inner thigh.

Faulkner examines the changing relationship of black to white and of man to the land, and weaves a complex work that is rich in understanding of the human condition.

"The world can be a perilous place. And the seemingly friendly world of Canada's favourite fictional family is no different.

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog.

With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart.

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode.