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"In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-old Oliver and his father, a story-loving writer. Haunted by the ghost of his alcoholic mother, Oliver finds comfort in his father's impromptu tales: the Black Dove, an elusive flower that gives strength;...

"Told simultaneously from the perspective of humans and chimpanzees, set in a Vermont home and a Florida primate research facility, A Beautiful Truth--at times brutal, other times deeply moving--is about the simple truths that transcend species, the meaning of family, the lure of...

The time is the seventies. The place is Ottawa. As two men's careers and successes run parallel, we see how love is suffocated by work and how individuals are crushed by greed and "progress."

Noel reflects back on his time spent in an exclusive boarding school and his interactions with his roommate Julius and Julius's girlfriend Fall.

Walt and Judy are deeply in love, but Judy longs for a child and finds that life is holding few surprises. Walt measures all beauty against that of Judy but doesn't want her eyes to get any sadder. They stay side by side and search for distractions, realizing they may never have ...

"In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-old Oliver and his father, a story-loving writer. Haunted by the ghost of his alcoholic mother, Oliver finds comfort in his father's impromptu tales: the Black Dove, an elusive flower that gives strength;...

This novel told from the perspectives of both humans and chimpanzees "packs a huge emotional punch" ( The Gazette , Montreal). Looee is a chimp raised by a well-meaning and compassionate human couple who cannot conceive a baby of their own. He is forever set apart-not human, ...

Told from the perspectives of both humans and chimpanzees, A Beautiful Truth is about Looee, a chimp raised by a compassionate human couple in Vermont who cannot conceive a baby of their own. When Looee’s two natures collide, this unique family is forever changed.

A girl named Fall disappears, leaving behind her good-looking and well-liked boyfriend Julius. Hovering about the proceedings too is Noel, an odd loner who may hold the key to Fall's disappearance.