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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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Series: Rose's Run Paperback Dawn Dumont 9781927068816 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

Rose Okanese, a single mother with two kids, has been pushed into a corner by Rez citizens to claim some self-respect, and decides that the fastest way to do that would be for her to run the reserve's annual marathon. Though Rose hasn't run in twenty years, smokes and initially has little motivation, she announces her intention to run the race. One quality Rose doesn't lack is spontaneity which sometimes clashes with her iron will and though she has initial regrets about opening her mouth, her life begins to dictate that she must follow through... + Read More
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Series: After You've Gone Paperback Lori Hahnel 9781927068908 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

After You've Gone is the story of two generations of musicians, a jazz grandmother and a punk granddaughter, who each struggle with balancing life, love, and art in their respective eras. The novel opens in 2007 with Elsa Taggart and her ex-husband watching their son's convocation from Seattle University. The events that bring about this everyday moment are then revealed in a series of spirited flashbacks that move convincingly between Elsa and her grandmother. Lita and Elsa's lives are revealed in a procession of parallel events. In 1935 Regin... + Read More
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Series: Motherwild Paperback Ken Rivard 9781927068854 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

Motherwild is an unvarnished journey, a celebration and depiction of struggles to survive on a sometimes violent, sometimes loving, always alive, Montreal working-class street. Set over the course of a year beginning in December 1959, Joey Cantell is trying to figure out his relationship with his mother. Joey's personal confusion with her has continued to grow from infancy to adolescence. The rest of the family occasionally present their own challenges, but it was Joey's "Ma" who exasperated him with her quick wit, strong will, and her drinking... + Read More
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Series: Parallel Rivers Paperback Michael Kenyon 9781927068823 $18.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

Parallel Rivers is a collection of stories that were coaxed into existence from Kenyon's interest in seeing what fiction might learn from film, particularly the German, French, Italian, and Japanese cinema of the 70s. While Kenyon's fictions are often immersed in postmodern sensibilities, adding the rituals and techniques and experiments of film to the process changes some of the ground rules. The collection has two sections that run stylistically parallel to each other. The first section consists of short, often surreal or uncomfortable ficti... + Read More
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Series: We Don't Listen to Them Paperback Sean Johnston 9781927068922 $18.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

In an inviting and challenging series of fictions, Sean Johnston's We Don't Listen to Them will leave readers puzzling while they smile at the acrobatics of his words and techniques. Some of Johnston's stories border on "flash fiction" where incidents rather than an actual narrative drive the story. In the open piece "How Blue" the boy Ronnie is caught in the vortex of his father who drinks and a mother who condones, and a church representative who reforms. There is no plot, just Ronnie eating his purple ice cream and thinking his way through t... + Read More
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Series: Miscellaneous Wreckage Paperback Greg Simison 9781927068861 $17.95 POETRY Mar 30, 2014

Miscellaneous Wreckage truly is a miscellany. There are no recurring themes or dominant sections, the subject matter of the poems is all over the map, exploring the poet's past lives, places he has lived, his elderly parents, his children, ex-wives, and his dogs. If there is a unifying force it is his recognition of his mortality and the great beyond of death. But, no matter how dark the subject matter may appear, Simison confronts it all head on with humour. As he says, "After all, you may as well laugh at death. Raging against death is as fut... + Read More
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Series: Red Curls Paperback Tracy Hamon 9781927068939 $17.95 POETRY Mar 30, 2014

In a series of poems that move between narrative and lyric, the personas of Austrian artist Egon Schiele and his mistress/model Valerie Neuzil are revealed in exquisite detail. Dividing the work into three sections, equal energy is given to the artist, his model, and the alluring energy of Viennese eroticism. Creating intimacy through the use of first person and exposing drama through the use of the third, Hamon's poems resonate with Egon's and Valerie's story: how they met, their intense desires, and the union and bond that would keep them tog... + Read More