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  • The Roots That Clutch

    by Beth Ann Hooper ...
    Secrets have a way of being found out.Uncovering the hidden secrets of her literary heroes was the last thing Jane expected when she began her PhD research on T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. But as she delves deeper into the prestigious universities and dusty manuscript libraries, she discovers a shocking truth: her own family may have been involved in a scandalous affair with another titan of American ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Roots That Clutch, The

    Based On a True Story

    by Beth Ann Hooper ...
    Narrated by Beth Ann Hooper, Megan Breuer ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    Secrets have a way of being found out.Uncovering the hidden secrets of her literary heroes was the last thing Jane expected when she began her PhD research on T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. But as she delves deeper into the prestigious universities and dusty manuscript libraries, she discovers a shocking truth: her own family may have been involved in a scandalous affair with another titan of American ... Read more

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  • Quite A Good Time to be Born

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  • The Mourner's Dance

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    by Katherine Ashenburg ...
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  • Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis

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    A book about memory, loss, and a love of books from one of Canada's finest essayistsEver since childhood, Susan Olding has been a big reader, never without a book on the go. Not surprising, then, that she turns to the library to read her own life. From the dissolution of her marriage to the forging of a tentative relationship with her new partner's daughter, from discovering Toronto as a young ... Read more

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