1.
Series:
Autant
Paperback
Paulette Dubé
9781771871563
$19.95
FICTION
May 01, 2018
“If heaven is full of angels like me, hell must be empty.” So begins Autant, a tale woven over the course of four days and fifty-four years, based on the relationship between bees and one Franco-Albertan family, the Garances, of Autant, Alberta. Tension emerges in the balance of power between siblings, between seen and unseen forces of good and evil, between perception and reality, between loyalty and traitors, and between what we are taught and what we actually learn. Poised between an ever-practical God and a quixotically old Coyote, it is a...
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2.
Series:
The Things She'll Be Leaving Behind
Paperback
Vanessa Farnsworth
9781771871570
$19.95
FICTION
May 01, 2018
The stories in Farnsworth’s The Things She’ll Be Leaving Behind explore what it means to be a woman in the modern world, struggling against circumstances that are often unfair, inexplicable, and destructive. The women in this book don’t always behave in ways that are sensible or advisable or, for that matter, likely to result in success, but there’s a warped logic to what they do and the reasons they do it are intrinsically human. These women have nothing in common except that they all find themselves trying to find their footings, preserve the...
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3.
Series:
The Spoon Asylum
Paperback
Caroline Misner
9781771871556
$15.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Reading age from 14 - 18
May 01, 2018
It is the summer of 1933 and young Haven Cattrell, seeking work, finds himself abandoned in the small northern Ontario town of Davisville. At an exclusive summer camp for girls he befriends Wetherby Moss and his son Jude who introduce him to the joys and heartaches of jazz. Jazz had taken a hard blow, during the first-half of the 1930s. Although there was still work to be had for some in places like New York, musicians in other parts of the country were barely existing on what venues remained. Wetherby and Jude had come from that reality and, ...
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4.
Series:
Matronalia
Paperback
A. B. Dillon
9781771871532
$20.00
POETRY
May 01, 2018
A mother reveals a festering secret to her daughter after years of trying to conceal it. Since her daughter’s birth, she has been suffering from a disease that causes bizarre symptoms: sudden calcification, the growth and disintegration of extra ribs, coral splinters in the heart, unrelenting depression. As the mother examines the pathology of her disease, she offers her daughter fierce and harrowing advice on everything from sex to survival to love. A mother is a recorder, a journal, an illimitable, constant aperture. We are seers, voyeurs of ...
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5.
Series:
Culverts Beneath the Narrow Road
Paperback
Brenda Schmidt
9781771871549
$20.00
POETRY
May 01, 2018
A culvert anchors a key scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The 39 Steps and a scene in Two for the Road starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. Culverts appear in books by Tony Burgess, Dennis Cooley, Alice Munro, Annie Proulx, and Virginia Woolf. Culverts called to Brenda Schmidt’s imagination as well. As a child she played in and around their steel dark openings and took risks. In the daring poetry and prose of Culverts Beneath the Narrow Road the risk-taking continues. In her journeys, she asked people from all walks of life — construction...
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