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  • Commune

    A Novel

    by Des Kennedy ...
    This is the spellbinding story of six young dreamers who set out from Vancouver in the seventies to haphazardly establish a back-to-the-land commune on a small island in the Salish Sea.Against all odds, the dream endures for half a century through fierce internecine squabbling, occasional community uproar, births and deaths, disasters in animal husbandry, the War in the Woods, RCMP raids and the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Way of a Gardener

    A Life's Journey

    by Des Kennedy ...
    Accomplished novelist, satirist, and garden writer Des Kennedy describes his life journey from a childhood of strict Irish Catholicism in England to a charmed existence amid the gardens of his Gulf Island home in British Columbia. From his First Holy Communion to his days as a young seminarian, through the Beat poetry scene in New York and the social upheavals of the 1960s, this monk-turned ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heart & Soil

    The Revolutionary Good of Gardens

    by Des Kennedy ...
    Writer, environmentalist and gardener Des Kennedy has gathered together his best, most outrageous and most contemplative articles and essays of the past decade into a book full of playful wit and insight.Kennedy recounts one newspaper’s April Fool’s Day prank that had men across the UK buying heather in order to propagate a poor-man’s Viagra, expands on his trials creating a sod sloped roof, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Passionate Gardener

    Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb

    by Des Kennedy ...
    In this rollicking read, Des Kennedy demonstrates his unerring skill with a satirical pitchfork. The 13 short pieces here roam widely and wildly, examining, among other things, common idiosyncrasies and the collective chaos of garden clubs. The book hilariously ponders the host of psychopathologies that afflict plants people,” from weather phobias and general anxiety disorders to obsessive ... Read more

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  • Beautiful Communions

    by Des Kennedy ...
    Chrissie Crosby is young, split-second smart and completely pissed off at just about everything. Ginger Flynn is pushing eighty and still seeking answers the way wise people do. These two have much to show each other. Years earlier, a charismatic young professor, Nigel Childes, captivated Ginger while she was one of his students. Their furtive romance and eventual wedding appalled Ginger’s ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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  • Poe's Children

    The New Horror: An Anthology

    by Peter Straub ...
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  • Dark Gods

    by T.E.D. Klein ...
    T.E.D. Klein's highly acclaimed first novel The Ceremonies—which Stephen King called "the most exciting novel in my field to come along since Straub's Ghost Story—established him in the top rank of horror writers. Now, with the four novellas gathered here, Klein proves himself to be a master of this classic shorter form.The collection opens with "Children of the Kingdom", a beautifully crafted ... Read more

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  • Fraud

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    by David Rakoff ...
    From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff clearly demonstrates how he doesn’t belong–nor does he try to.In ... Read more

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  • Best Canadian Stories 2024

    Edited by Lisa Moore ...
    Series series Best Canadian
    Selected by editor Lisa Moore, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2022.Featuring:Madhur Anand • Sharon Bala • Gary Barwin • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Xaiver Michael Campbell • Corinna Chong • Beth Downey • Allison Graves • Joel Thomas Hynes • Elise Levine • Sourayan Mookerjea • Lue Palmer • Michelle Porter • Sara Power • Ryan Turner • Ian ... Read more

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    by Sam Savage ...
    The four-month odyssey of a literary lowlife.Set in middle America during the economic hard times of the Nixon era, this tragicomic, epistolary masterpiece chronicles everything Andrew Whittaker—literary journal editor, negligent landlord, and aspiring novelist—commits to paper over the course of four critical months.From his letters, diary entries, and fragments of fiction, to grocery lists and ... Read more

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