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Series: Five Little Indians A Novel Paperback Michelle Good 9781443459181 $22.99 FICTION Apr 14, 2020

WINNER: Canada Reads 2022WINNER: Governor General’s Literary Award for FictionWINNER: Amazon First Novel AwardWINNER: Kobo Emerging Author Prize Finalist: Scotiabank Giller PrizeFinalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust PrizeFinalist: BC & Yukon Book PrizeShortlist: Indigenous Voices AwardsNational Bestseller; A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year; A CBC Best Book of the Year; An Apple Best Book of the Year; A Kobo Best Book of the Year; An Indigo Best Book of the YearTaken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, chur... + Read More
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Series: Butter Honey Pig Bread Paperback Francesca Ekwuyasi 9781551528236 $23.95 FICTION Sep 03, 2020

2021 CANADA READS FINALIST Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada); Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize; finalist, Governor General's Literary Award; finalist, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; finalist, Lambda Literary Award An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and me... + Read More
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Series: Indians on Vacation A Novel Hardcover Thomas King 9781443460545 $32.99 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

A #1 Indie bestseller and a Canadian bestseller for 22 weeks, the brilliant latest novel from one of Canada’s foremost authorsInspired by a handful of postcards sent nearly a hundred years ago, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace long-lost uncle Leroy and the family medicine bundle he took with him to Europe.“I’m sweaty and sticky. My ears are still popping from the descent into Vaclav Havel. My sinuses ache. My stomach is upset. My mouth is a sewer. I roll over and bury my face in a pillow. Mimi snuggles down beside me with no regard for my distres... + Read More
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Series: Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies Paperback Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 9781487007645 $22.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel, one that combines narrative and poetic fragments through a careful and fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering a long-ago time of hopeless connection and now finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the seven main characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator’s will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents thei... + Read More
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Series: The Baudelaire Fractal Paperback Lisa Robertson 9781552453902 $22.95 FICTION Jan 21, 2020

The debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she's written the works of Baudelaire. One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris. This is the legend of a she-dandy’s life. Part magical realism, part feminist ars poetica, part history of tailoring, part bibliophilic anthem, part love affair with nineteenth-cen... + Read More
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Series: Norma Jeane Baker of Troy Paperback Anne Carson 9780811229364 $17.95 POETRY Feb 25, 2020

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano RenÃ©e Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell.
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Series: Eight Track Paperback Oana Avasilichioaei 9781772012385 $19.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2019

Poet and intermedia artist Oana Avasilichioaei’s Eight Track is a transliterary exploration of traces. Sound recordings, surveillance cameras, desert geoglyphs, drone operators, refugee interviews, animal imprints, and audio signals manifest moments of inspired wonder, systems of power, slippages, debris. In “the great era of seeing” when the boundary between tracking agent and monitored subject is worn thin by politics and commerce, Eight Track assembles a set of discordant melodies, polyphonic voices, transcriptions, theatres, and images in a... + Read More
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Series: Orrery Poems Paperback Donna Kane 9781550179187 $18.95 POETRY Sep 19, 2020

Orrery is a collection that orbits around the theme of Pioneer 10, an American space probe launched in 1972 to study Jupiter’s moons. Having achieved many firsts before reaching Jupiter and a few more after being hurled away from the solar system, the probe was retired in 2003 when NASA stopped sending signals to it, leaving it to wander alone through deep space. On a trajectory that may long outlast Earth, Pioneer has transformed from a finite object into an infinite one, a muddling of the mundane and the sublime, of mortality and immortality,... + Read More
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Series: Render Paperback Sachiko Murakami 9781551528274 $18.95 POETRY Aug 06, 2020

Governor General's Literary Award finalist Searing, intimate poems that render a history of trauma, addiction, and recovery through dreams and waking experience. Render (v.tr.): to submit, as for consideration; to give or make available; to give what is due or owed; to give in return, or retribution; to surrender; to yield. To represent; to perform an interpretation of; to arrange. To express in another language or form; to translate. To deliver or pronounce formally; to cause to become; to reduce, convert, or melt down, by heating. Journey ... + Read More
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Series: The Dyzgraphxst Paperback Canisia Lubrin 9780771048692 $21.00 POETRY Mar 24, 2020

Windham-Campbell Prize, WinnerOCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, WinnerOCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Poetry, WinnerGriffin Poetry Prize, WinnerDerek Walcott Prize for Poetry, Winner Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers’ Awards, FinalistGovernor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, FinalistTrillium Book Award for Poetry, FinalistRaymond Souster Award, LonglistPat Lowther Memorial Award, LonglistQuill & Quire 2020 Books of the Year: Editor’s PicksCBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020Winnipeg Free Press Top 10 Poetry Picks of 2020The Par... + Read More
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Series: Kamloopa An Indigenous Matriarch Story 1st edition Paperback Kim Senklip Harvey 9781772012422 $16.95 DRAMA Oct 27, 2019

TIME: All.SPACE: The Multiverse.Come along for the ride to Kamloopa, the largest Powwow on the West Coast. This high-energy Indigenous matriarchal story follows two urban Indigenous sisters and a lawless Trickster who face our postcolonial world head-on as they come to terms with what it means to honour who they are and where they come from. But how to go about discovering yourself when Christopher Columbus allegedly already did that? Bear witness to the courage of these women as they turn to their Ancestors for help in reclaiming their power i... + Read More
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Series: bug Paperback Yolanda Bonnell 9781927922668 $15.95 DRAMA Oct 01, 2020

bug is a solo performance and artistic ceremony that highlights the ongoing effects of colonialism and intergenerational trauma experienced by Indigenous women, as well as a testimony to the women's resilience and strength. The Girl traces her life from surviving the foster care system to her struggles with addictions. She fights, hoping to break the cycle in order to give her daughter a different life than the one she had. The Mother sits in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, recounting memories of the daughter that was taken from her, and the str... + Read More
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Series: Guarded Girls Paperback Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman 9780369100436 $17.95 DRAMA Oct 07, 2019

The stories and experiences of three imprisoned women and a guard intertwine in dramatic and dangerous ways, as the psychological destruction that is solitary confinement taunts each of their lives. Nineteen-year-old Sid is transferred to a new prison, finding friendship with her cellmate Brit, but she also forms a complicated relationship with a guard who seems to be watching their every move. In another time, an older inmate named Kit talks to an unseen audience about a coming visitor and how she’ll stop at nothing to see them, even if that m... + Read More
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Series: Quick Bright Things Paperback Christina Cook 9780369100863 $17.95 DRAMA May 20, 2020

“Everyone hears voices. I’m treated like I’m broken for admitting it.” Can a weekend trip to visit family ever be smooth? Nick was hoping for a quick dinner at his brother Reid’s house when he stopped by with his seventeen-year-old adopted son, Gerome, on their way to meet Gerome’s birth mother. Gerome was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he wants to know more about his family history. Though Reid and his family wreak havoc with their well-meaning but misguided ideas about Gerome’s diagnosis, they manage to convince Nick and his son ... + Read More
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Series: Sound of the Beast Paperback Donna-Michelle St. Bernard 9780369100764 $17.95 DRAMA Sep 21, 2020

"Compassion is good, but it’s just motivation. Cars need engines. Movements need mobilization." Through spoken word, storytelling and hip hop, acclaimed wordsmith Donna-Michelle St. Bernard illuminates racial discrimination, the suppression of expression and the trials of activism. Her experience as a Canadian emcee is woven through with allusion to Tunisian emcee Weld El 15’s unjust imprisonment for rhymes against a regime. This story creates a space to reflect on how we are connected to the systems that oppress us, and how we can empower each... + Read More
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Series: This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart A Memoir in Halves Paperback Madhur Anand 9780771007774 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 30, 2020

WINNER OF THE 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION“Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…. This is an important book: an emotional and intellectual tour de force.”—Jane UrquhartAn experimental memoir about Partition, immigration, and generational storytelling, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma using the imagined voices of the past and the vital authority of the present.We begin before the red line is draw... + Read More
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Series: A History of My Brief Body Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735237780 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 25, 2020

WINNER OF THE HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2020-2021 ALCUIN DESIGN AWARD FOR NON-FICTION PROSEFINALIST FOR THE JIM DEVA PRIZE FOR WRITING THAT PROVOKESFINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONFINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHYThe youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in t... + Read More
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Series: Exploded Views Disfigured On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space Paperback Amanda Leduc 9781552453957 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Feb 11, 2020

A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022) Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that... + Read More
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Series: Rebent Sinner Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551527734 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 25, 2019

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Their most recent book, Tomboy Survival Guide, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book, and longlisted for Canada Reads. In their latest, Ivan takes on the patriarchy and the political, as well as the intimate and the personal in these beguiling a... + Read More
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Series: Shame on Me An Anatomy of Race and Belonging Paperback Tessa McWatt 9780735277434 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 24, 2020

FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONInterrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction.Tessa McWatt has been called Susie Wong, Pocahontas and “black bitch,” and has been judged not black enough by people who assume she straightens her hair. Now, through a close examination of her own body—nose, lips, hair, skin, eyes, ass, bones and blood—which holds up a mirror ... + Read More
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Series: The King of Jam Sandwiches Paperback Eric Walters 9781459825567 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 22, 2020

★ “Tug at the heartstrings and tickle the funny bone…This warm tale is definitely one for the keeper shelves. Highly recommended.”—School Library Journal, starred review Thirteen-year-old Robbie leads a double life. It's just Robbie and his dad, but no one knows that his dad isn't like most parents. Sometimes he wakes Robbie up in the middle of the night to talk about dying. Sometimes he just leaves without telling Robbie where he’s going. Once when Robbie was younger, he was gone for more than a week. Robbie was terrified of being left alone b... + Read More
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Series: The Harvey Stories Harvey Holds His Own Hardcover Colleen Nelson 9781772781144 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Aug 11, 2020

The West Highland Terrier that brought Harvey Comes Home to life returns with his tail wagging and his nose sharp, ready for a new adventure Harvey the West Highland Terrier is back with his beloved Maggie. He is also back at Brayside retirement home, where he and Maggie now volunteer along with their friend Austin. There Maggie is drawn to a new resident, Mrs. Fradette, who tells stories of learning to fix cars as a twelve-year-old during the flood of 1950. Mrs. Fradette, with her bold fashion and love of poker, doesn’t fit in among the beige-... + Read More
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Series: Nevers Paperback Sara Cassidy 9781459821637 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 03, 2019

Resourceful fourteen-year-old Odette is on the move again, traveling as a stowaway on a cheese cart with her hapless mother, Anneline. They are in Burgundy, France, in 1799, fleeing yet another calamity caused by Anneline (who is prone to killing people accidentally). At dawn they find themselves in a town called Nevers, which is filled with eccentric characters, including a man who obsessively smells hands, another who dreams of becoming a chicken and a donkey that keeps the town awake at night, braying about his narrow life. As Odette establi... + Read More
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Series: Pine Island Home Hardcover Polly Horvath 9780735268623 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 01, 2020

From Newbery Honor—and National Book Award—winning author Polly Horvath comes a story of four sisters searching for home.Fiona, Marlin, Natasha, and Charlie McCready are left on their own when their missionary parents are washed away in a tsunami. Fortunately, their great-aunt Martha volunteers to have them live with her on her farm in British Columbia. But while they are traveling there, Martha dies unexpectedly, forcing Fiona, the eldest, to come up with a scheme to keep social services from separating the girls—a scheme that will only work i... + Read More
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Series: The Misewa Saga The Barren Grounds The Misewa Saga, Book One Hardcover David A. Robertson 9780735266100 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Sep 08, 2020

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home—until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing ... + Read More
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Series: The Barnabus Project Hardcover Terry Fan 9780735263260 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Sep 01, 2020

In a world built for Perfect Pets, Barnabus is a Failed Project, half mouse, half elephant, kept out of sight until his dreams of freedom lead him and his misfit friends on a perilous adventure. A stunning picture book from international bestsellers The Fan Brothers, joined by their brother Devin Fan.Deep underground beneath Perfect Pets, where children can buy genetically engineered “perfect” creatures, there is a secret lab. Barnabus and his friends live in this lab, but none of them is perfect. They are all Failed Projects. Barnabus has neve... + Read More
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Series: I Talk Like a River Hardcover Jordan Scott 9780823445592 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 01, 2020

Winner of the Schneider Family Book AwardBoston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to? Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing.A New York Times Best Children’s Book of the YearI wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me. And I can’t say them all…When a boy who stutters feels isolated, alone, and incapable of communicating in the way he’d like, it takes a kindly father and a ... + Read More
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Series: Our Little Kitchen Hardcover Jillian Tamaki 9781773062624 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 01, 2020

A picture book about a lively evening in a community kitchen from Governor General’s Award–winning author and illustrator Jillian Tamaki. Tie on your apron! Roll up your sleeves! Pans are out, oven is hot. The kitchen’s all ready, Where do we start?In this lively, rousing picture book from Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki, a crew of resourceful neighbours come together to prepare a meal for their community. With a garden full of produce, a joyfully chaotic kitchen and a friendly meal shared at the table, Our Little Kitchen is a celebration of f... + Read More
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Series: Swift Fox All Along Hardcover Rebecca Thomas 9781773214481 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 08, 2020

What does it mean to be Mi’kmaq? And if Swift Fox can’t find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family? When Swift Fox’s father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she’ll learn how to be Mi’kmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. Though her father reassures her that Mi’kmaq is who she is from her eyes to her toes, Swift Fox doesn’t understand what that means. Her family welcomes her with smiles and hugs, but when it’s t... + Read More
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Series: Weekend Dad Hardcover Naseem Hrab 9781773061085 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 01, 2020

A little boy spends the weekend at his dad’s new apartment in this picture book about how things change when parents separate — and the important things that stay the same. “This home is home because my dad is here, and it’s nothing like home because my mom isn’t here,” thinks the boy in this story when he enters his dad’s new apartment for the first time. His dad moved out on Monday and now it’s Friday night, the start of his weekend with his dad. The boy and his dad follow their normal weekend routine — they eat eggs for breakfast, play cards... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series If You Hear Me Paperback Pascale Quiviger 9781771962711 $22.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

Sliding doors open and close automatically, exit to the left, entrance to the right. Beyond it, cars go by, and pedestrians and cyclists. A large park behaves as if nothing has happened. The mirage of a world intact. In an instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son Bertrand—but despite their devoted efforts, there’s no crossing the ineffable divide between consciousness and the mysterious world Dav... + Read More
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Series: Amaryllis & Little Witch Paperback Pascal Brullemans 9780369101143 $19.95 DRAMA Jul 15, 2020

In these dark fairy tales, two girls face danger while grieving loved ones, and learn some hard truths about growing up along the way. Imaginative and curious, these fables illustrate adventures for children who have to make big choices. In Amaryllis, a preteen goes missing on her birthday. Amaryllis heads out with her sister Fey’s ashes, determined to scatter the remains and set Fey free. But when she discovers that Fey is stuck between life and death, she realizes she has to join Fey on a trek to the Land of the Dead. In Little Witch, a sickl... + Read More
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Series: Back Roads Paperback Andrée A. Michaud 9781487005801 $22.95 FICTION Mar 31, 2020

In Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author Andrée A. Michaud’s genre-defying, ethereal mystery, a writer encounters her double and must grapple with an undetermined crime — and her own identity.In the dubious sanctuary of a wintry forest, a writer encounters a woman who she suspects may be her double. So begins a journey of inquiry in which nothing, not even the author’s own identity, is certain. Who is Heather Thorne? Is she a stranger dangerously out of place in the woods, the victim of an accident or of a crime? Who is the author? Is her o... + Read More
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Series: The Country Will Bring Us No Peace Paperback Matthieu Simard 9781552453933 $19.95 FICTION Sep 17, 2019

Simon and Marie can’t seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where things will certainly be better. But the town is gloomy, even hostile -- things haven’t been the same since the factory closed down and a broadcast antenna was erected. Now there are no birds singing, and people have started disappearing.
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Series: The Neptune Room Paperback Bertrand Laverdure 9781771665810 $20.00 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

Sandrine's parents are dead—or they are about to be. Her father, certainly; her mother, not quite yet. Alone and suffering from an incurable disease, the eleven-year-old girl finds companionship in her doctor, Tiresias, who morphologically changes sex in unpredictable ways and seemingly without anyone noticing.The Neptune Room, a melancholic tale about the mysteries of identity and the power dynamics associated with it, opens a door unto a universe of agonies: the long agony of an entire civilization and, microscopically, the spectrum of pain e... + Read More