Set in the mid-1980s between Canada and Thailand, The Two Faces of Paradise rockets Ted Smith onto into the scene with this skillful debut. After being conscripted into service by his older brother, Robert Percy reluctantly agrees to return...Loe edasi...
When an accident upends their lives, fourteen-year-old Shiloh and her mother Ruth must leave their idyllic home to make a new life in the city. They find housing — through an evangelical church operating out of a strip mall — that backs onto the g...Loe edasi...
When Athena was a young girl in the 60s, she lost her hearing to a childhood fever but was misdiagnosed as profoundly retarded and institutionalized for thirty years. Now shes out of the institution, awkward and bookish, and learning to integra...Loe edasi...
Fifteen-year-old Gale is desperate to get out of Whitehorse, a fact that is immediately clear to counsellor Helen Cotillard when Gale walks into her office with her reluctant stepmother. Its 1995, and one counselling agency for kids and families...Loe edasi...
Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a sprint up a mountain. Charlotte, wife of a tech tycoon, is combing the farm belt for local cheese and a sense of purpose. Back in the city their fami...Loe edasi...
Philippine-born Vancouverite Sophia is most grateful for two things: her modest hair salon and Adrian, her mild-mannered fiancé. She is eager to get married, move away from her highly educated but career-frustrated parents, who believe that t...Loe edasi...
Ana and Win find themselves stuck, lifting the weight of their pasts, while frustrated by their present jobs: photographing vacant lots and decayed industrial sites, cataloguing the decline of capitalist excess to digitally scrub away humanity, ma...Loe edasi...
Things that are and are not, she thinks, and the dog is a snake.In this fantastic and fantastical debut, C.J. Lavigne concocts a wondrous realm overlaying a city that brims with civic workers and pigeons. Led by her synesthe...Loe edasi...
Traci Skuces Hunger Moon is a collection of stories that echo with the yearning to be replenished, to be made full. Here are characters at cusp-points in their lives, attempting to shift their trajectories: to cease wrapping up their heart...Loe edasi...
When an accident jeopardizing the family farm draws Amiah Williams back to Kingsley, Alberta, population 1431, she doesnt expect her homecoming to make front-page news. But there she is in The Inquirer, the mysterious tabloid that is airing her hom...Loe edasi...
Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregors life is strikingly different from a literary heroines. Named for one of literatures least romantic protagonists, Moll Flanders, Molly lives in Edmonton, a city she finds irredeemably unromantic, where she writ...Loe edasi...
Only Pretty Damned is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep Rowlands World Class Circus afloat for another season. When Toby, former trap...Loe edasi...
Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen--a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who must keep the citys spirits up over the following winter. But t...Loe edasi...
Its 1994 and Pete Curtis is pretty much done with Thunder Bay, Ontario. Hes graduating high school and playing drums in a band thats ready to hit the road. Even though his parents, teachers, and new girlfriend seem a little underwhelmed, Pete k...Loe edasi...
In 59 Glass Bridges, an unnamed narrator travels through a maze that is at once mutable and immutable: walls fall to vine-filled forests, hallways to rivers, bridges to lamp-lit boats. What remains is the desire to escape. He is led along h...Loe edasi...
Paper Teeth, through interconnected short stories, follows the lives of the Lees, a Canadian-Chinese family and their friends who reside in Edmonton, Alberta. While playing with time, from the 1960s and 70s up to the present, Paper Teeth cr...Loe edasi...
In his debut story collection, Kevin A. Couture creates a world where the veneer of humanness stretches thin and often cracks, while burdened characters take on a variety of beast-like traits. In his desperate survival plan, a pre-teen rescues d...Loe edasi...
