Emily Donaldson

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Green_Teens Gone Wired (TEENS GONE WIRED: Are You Ready? by Lyndsay Green)Maté_In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (IN THE REALM OF HUNGRY GHOSTS: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté)Silent House (THE SILENT HOUSE by Orhan Pamuk)Lalwani VILLAGE (THE VILLAGE by Nikita Lalwani)Durcan_Garcia’s Heart (GARCIA’S HEART by Liam Durcan)Li_Gold Boy Emerald Girl_EDRev (GOLD BOY, EMERALD GIRL by Yiyun Li)ON Such a Full Sea – Chang-Rae Lee (ON SUCH A FULL SEA by Chang-rae Lee)Rakoff_Don’t Get Too Comfortable (DON’T GET TOO COMFORTABLE by David Rakoff)Burnard_Suddenly_EDRev (SUDDENLY by Bonnie Burnard)Helwig_Killing McGee (KILLING McGEE by David Helwig)Son of a Gun J. Germain (SON OF A GUN by Justin St. Germain)Ellis_No Safe Place (NO SAFE PLACE by Deborah Ellis)Patchett_State of Wonder Review_Donaldson (STATE OF WONDER by Ann Patchett)Cope_So We Sold Our House and Ran Away to the South Pacific (SO WE SOLD OUR HOUSE AND RAN AWAY TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC by Gordon Cope)Bynum_Ms. Hempel Chronicles_EDRev (MS. HEMPEL CHRONICLES by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum)Urquhart_Sanctuary Line (SANCTUARY LINE by Jane Urquhart)ALL OUR NAMES Dinaw Mengestu (ALL OUR NAMES by Dinaw Mengestu)The Lola Quartet (THE LOLA QUARTET by Emily St. John Mandel)Harbour View (THE COUSIN by John Calabro A PLEASANT VERTIGO by Egidio Coccimiglio HARBOUR VIEW by Binnie Brennan)Parcel – Anosh Irani (The Parcel by Anosh Irani)Ken McGoogan_How the Scots Invented Canada (HOW THE SCOTS INVENTED CANADA by Ken McGoogan)Santur_Something Remains (SOMETHING REMAINS by Hassan Gehdi Santur)Shaughnessy Bishop_Ghosted (GHOSTED by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall)Vincent_Bodies and Souls (BODIES AND SOULS: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas by Isabel Vincent)Phillips_Tragedy of Arthur_EDRev (THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR by Arthur Phillips)TIADVERT-KENNY (TRUTH IN ADVERTISING by John Kenney)Summer Books for WEB (THE BEST OF SUMMER READING 2013)MEET ME IN VENICE Suzanne Ma (MEET ME IN VENICE: A Chinese Immigrant’s Journey from the Far East to the Farawy West by Suzanne Ma)Edeet Ravel_Look for Me (LOOK FOR ME by Edeet Ravel)Werschler-Henry_The Iron Whim (THE IRON WHIM: A Fragmented History of Typewriting by Darren Wershler-Henry)Joseph Anton (JOSEPH ANTON by Salman Rushdie)At Night We Walk – Daniel Alarcon (AT NIGHT WE WALK IN CIRCLES by Daniel Alarcon)Ven Begamudré_Vishnu Dreams (VISHNU DREAMS by Ven Begamudré)POETRY NOTEBOOK Clive James (POETRY NOTEBOOK: REFLECTIONS ON THE INTENSITY OF LANGUAGE by Clive James)Ellis et al_Whispers from BOTH (WHISPERS FROM THE GHETTOS by Kathy Kacer and Sharon McKay CHILDREN OF WAR Voices of Iraqi Refugees by Deborah Ellis)best152013-star (BOOKS FOR THE HOLIDAYS: FIFTEEN OF THE MOST INTRIGUING OF 2013)Maidenhead (MAIDENHEAD by Tamara Faith Berger)April & Oliver (APRIL & OLIVER by Tess Callahan)Lolette Kuby_Out of Cleveland (OUT OF CLEVELAND by Lolette Kuby)Kennedy_City Kids (CITY KIDS by X.J. Kennedy)Kendall_The Man Who Made Lists_EDRev (THE MAN WHO MADE LISTS: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget’s Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall)MOUNTAIN CITY GIRLS Jane and Anna McGarrigle (MOUNTAIN CITY GIRLS: The McGarrigle Family Album by Jane and Anna McGarrigle)IN REAL LIFE Cory Doctorow (IN REAL LIFE by Cory Doctorow)Barfoot_Exit Lines_EDRev (EXIT LINES by Joan Barfoot)Duplex DAVIS (DUPLEX by Kathryn Davis)Bad Animals (BAD ANIMALS by Joel Yanofsky)starpreview (FALL 2012 BOOK PREVIEW By Emily Donaldson and Alex Good)INTERFERENCE Michelle Berry (INTERFERENCE by Michelle Berry)Absolution (NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT by Nadine Gordimer ABSOLUTION by Patrick Flanery)NW (NW by Zadie Smith)Douglas Coupland_jPod (jPOD by Douglas Coupland)Risk (RISK: The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner)Jan Andrews_Rude Stories (RUDE STORIES by Jan Andrews)Selecky_Cake for the Party (THIS CAKE IS FOR THE PARTY by Sarah Selecky)Pure Gold Baby DRABBLE a (THE PURE GOLD BABY by Margaret Drabble)Monk_Joni Mitchel A Creative Odyssey (JONI: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell by Katherine Monk)Steven Galloway_The Cellist of Sarajevo (THE CELLIST OF SARAJEVO by Steven Galloway)Dawn Howat_International Date Line (INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE by Dawn Howat)Drew Hayden Taylor_Me Funny (ME FUNNY by Drew Hayden Taylor)Spalding_Who Named the Knife (WHO NAMED THE KNIFE: A Book of Murder and Memory by Linda Spalding)Chemistry of Tears (THE CHEMISTRY OF TEARS by Peter Carey)Robert Hilles_A Gradual Ruin (A GRADUAL RUIN by Robert Hilles)Ford (CANADA by Richard Ford)Grushin_The Line_EDRev (THE LINE by Olga Grushin)CLOUD Eric McCormack (CLOUD by Eric McCormack)Gilbert_Abbott_Double Revi BOTH (COMMITTED: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert A HISTORY OF MARRIAGE by Elizabeth Abbott)Westoll_The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary (THE CHIMPS OF FAUNA SANCTUARY: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery by Andrew Westoll)SO LONG MARIANNE Kari Hesthamar (SO LONG, MARIANNE by Kari Hesthamar)Kelman_Pigeon English (PIGEON ENGLISH by Stephen Kelman)Gladwell_Blink (BLINK: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell)Mantel_Wolf Hall_EDReview (WOLF HALL by Hilary Mantel)THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF PORTUGAL Yann Martel (THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF PORTUGAL by Yann Martel)McCann TRANSATLANTIC (TRANSATLANTIC by Colum McCann)BIRDING WITH YEATS Lynn Thomson (BIRDING WITH YEATS by Lynn Thomson)Bryson_At Home_EDRev (AT HOME: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson)Richler and Hodgson_Can BOTH (CAN I HAVE A WORD WITH YOU? by Howard Richler CARNAL KNOWLEDGE: A Navel Gazer’s Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology and Trivia by Charles Hodgson)Nicholl_The Good Mayor_EDRev (THE GOOD MAYOR by Andrew Nicholl)Red Sky In Morning LYNCH (RED SKY IN MORNING by Paul Lynch)Next

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