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A failed journalist flees New York for a Newfoundland outpost and slowly rebuilds his life through the rhythms of a small coastal community.
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Solar Storms
Angela Jensen, seventeen, scarred and raised in foster homes, comes back to the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada to find the women of her family, as a dam project threatens their land.
The Wedding People
Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand old inn in Newport, Rhode Island, alone and in despair, and finds every other room booked for a lavish wedding, whose exacting bride is not pleased to have her there.
Medicine Walk
Franklin Starlight, sixteen, is summoned by the father who never raised him, dying of drink, who asks to be taken into the British Columbia backcountry and buried in the warrior way.
Shallows
In Angelus, a West Australian whaling town in its last season, Queenie Cookson joins the protesters against the whalers, while her husband Cleve reads the journals of her great-grandfather.
The Gentleman from Indiana
John Harkless, an Eastern college man who bought the failing newspaper of Plattville, a small town in Indiana, has spent years there alone when a summer begins to change the town around him.
Lives of Girls and Women
Del Jordan grows up in the small Ontario town of Jubilee in the 1940s, among the women of her family and the town, and wants to be a writer.
Dance of the Happy Shades
Munro's first collection, fifteen stories of childhood and young womanhood in the towns of southwestern Ontario.
Larry's Party
Larry Weller, an ordinary florist from Winnipeg, discovers a passion for garden mazes, and the novel follows him chapter by chapter from 1977 to 1997.
The Labyrinth
Erica, whose son is in prison for a terrible crime, moves to a small coastal town to be near him, and sets out to build a labyrinth.
Dear Edward
Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills 191 people, his parents and older brother among them, and as he goes to live with his aunt and uncle in New Jersey the novel moves between his new life and the last hours of the flight.
The Idea of Perfection
In the New South Wales country town of Karakarook, Douglas Cheeseman, a shy engineer sent to pull down an old bridge, and Harley Savage, a gawky museum consultant, are drawn to each other.
Empire Falls
A struggling restaurant manager in a declining Maine mill town holds together his family, his friendships, and his sanity by a thread.