David Adams Richards

• Jun-1988
• / General Fiction
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David Adams Richards’ Governor General’s Award-winning novel is a powerful tale of resignation and struggle, fierce loyalties and compassion. This book is the first in Richards’ acclaimed Miramichi trilogy. Set in a small mill town in norther...

• Oct-1995
• / Fantasy
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The Terris are engaging people, but they are a family in collapse. Alcoholism, drugs, and loveless sex have reduced them to a petty and wasted bunch. Worse, they typify aspects of the larger community besieged by financial woes and by creeping econom...

• Oct-1998
• / General Fiction
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Written in taut, penetrating prose, Richards' new novel offers a wide array of unforgettable characters. All are wrestling with issues of integrity, self-preservation, and power in the close confines of their coastal community, and tragedy is waiting...

• Sep-2000
• / General Fiction
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At the age of twelve, Sidney Henderson, in a moment of anger, pushes his friend Connie Devlin off the roof of a local church. Looking down on Connie’s motionless body, Sidney believes he is dead. Let Connie live and I will never harm another soul, ...

• Aug-2003
• / Suspense
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A suspenseful and moving novel which has at its centre one of Richards’ most memorable and haunting characters. It is the fall of 1989 in a small Miramichi mill town. Jerry Bines is acquitted of murder and returns home to his estranged wife and you...

• May-2004
• / General Fiction
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From David Adams Richards, winner of the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, comes a magnificent and haunting novel about the entwinement of remembered love and unforgotten hate.Spanning generations, River of the Brokenhearted tells the ...

• Jun-2004
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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Growing up in a prominent lumber family in the Miramichi, brothers Will and Owen Jameson know little of the world beyond their town and the great men who work the forest, including their father. But as young men, the boys couldn’t be more different...

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction
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A highly suspenseful story of greed, betrayal and murder, The Lost Highway signals a thrilling new direction for one of this country's greatest authors. 'You can be a good man, a kind man, an officer of the human race, without having luck on your ...

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction
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Cindi and Ivan Basterache have been married only twenty months. There is a disagreement over a loan, and rumours of violence in the ensuing quarrel begin to spread throughout the northern New Brunswick mill town in which they live, setting in motion ...

• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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For David Adams Richards, blood ties is not merely a figure of speech, but an assertion of the reality of life in small-town Canada, where blood ties people in countless, almost unknowable ways to friends, community, and landscape. The lives of three...

• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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David Adams Richards finds universal truths in the very particular setting of New Brunswick’s Miramichi Valley. This, his first novel, provides a window upon a world that is as unsettling, as uncontrollable, and as inescapably authentic as a sudden...

• Aug-2016
• / Mystery
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Highly charged and profoundly important, "Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul" is a new masterpiece from one of Canada's greatest writers. On a bright morning in June 1985, a young Micmac man starts his first day of work -- but by noon he is dea...

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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An emotionally charged masterpiece from a Canadian literary legend.

John Delano is a broken man, seemingly at the end of everything: the end of his legendary but controversial career as a police officer; the end of his sad and difficult marria...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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A fresh new novel from a Canadian literary legend--this time with an extraordinary and unforgettable woman protagonist who is sure to become one of the great characters in our literature.

Mary Cyr opens in Mexico, just as a disaster strikes a ...

• Oct-2022
• / Literary
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Literary legend David Adams Richards follows the epic Miramichi Trilogy with a startling standalone novel of concentrated power.The Raskin brothers were once proud to be producers of a much sought-after material of great benefit to society--asbestos....