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A Different Hurricane

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Two gay men with a lifetime of secrets face their insular, homophobic island’s rancour.Growing up in neighbouring villages on the tiny island nation of St Vincent, teenage best friends Gordon and Allen are secret lovers until they are forced apart their community’s traditional expectations and their fear of how others will react. They each complete their university studies abroad, encountering ... Read more

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Two gay men with a lifetime of secrets face their insular, homophobic island’s rancour.Growing up in neighbouring villages on the tiny island nation of St Vincent, teenage best friends Gordon and Allen are secret lovers until they are forced apart their community’s traditional expectations and their fear of how others will react. They each complete their university studies abroad, encountering
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Behind the Face of Winter

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A coming-of-age novel set in a Montreal in which immigrant youth totter on the edge of self-destruction and oblivion, in the face of brutal and racist police, an insensitive education system, and few prospects for the future. Thomas’s language is spare, and his crackling dialogue and use of patois can compare with the best in Caribbean literature.“. . . a hard story, sometimes despairingly bleak, ... Read more

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A coming-of-age novel set in a Montreal in which immigrant youth totter on the edge of self-destruction and oblivion, in the face of brutal and racist police, an insensitive education system, and few prospects for the future. Thomas’s language is spare, and his crackling dialogue and use of patois can compare with the best in Caribbean literature.“. . . a hard story, sometimes despairingly bleak,
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Easily Fooled

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Series Book 185 - Essential Prose Series
**A Caribbean minister grapples with faith, identity, and forbidden desires.**Millington, a former Methodist minister, seeks a fresh start in Montreal, but his past and hidden desires follow him. As he navigates immigration and a strained marriage, he confronts his sexuality and the psychological trauma that haunts him.Will Millington find peace, or will the secrets he carries consume him? Easily ... Read more

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**A Caribbean minister grapples with faith, identity, and forbidden desires.**Millington, a former Methodist minister, seeks a fresh start in Montreal, but his past and hidden desires follow him. As he navigates immigration and a strained marriage, he confronts his sexuality and the psychological trauma that haunts him.Will Millington find peace, or will the secrets he carries consume him? Easily
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When the Bottom Falls Out

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The past sits uneasily on the characters of these stories, whether on their native Isabella Island or in Montreal, where some of them now live. Life is ultimately lived according to the choices that were made, and retribution does not always go where it belongs. Thus, Robertson, taking action against his wife and her lover, creates a situation he’s not quite prepared for. The wealthy and proper ... Read more

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The past sits uneasily on the characters of these stories, whether on their native Isabella Island or in Montreal, where some of them now live. Life is ultimately lived according to the choices that were made, and retribution does not always go where it belongs. Thus, Robertson, taking action against his wife and her lover, creates a situation he’s not quite prepared for. The wealthy and proper
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No Safeguards

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Series Book 113 - Essential Prose Series
No Safeguards, the first book in a trilogy, follows Jay's life from age six to twenty-six - and to a lesser extent that of his brother Paul. We witness the destructive impact of fundamentalist Christian beliefs on his mother and father, opposition to those beliefs by the boys' grandmother and each boy's very different response to their parents' religiosity. This is especially poignant after they ... Read more

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No Safeguards, the first book in a trilogy, follows Jay's life from age six to twenty-six - and to a lesser extent that of his brother Paul. We witness the destructive impact of fundamentalist Christian beliefs on his mother and father, opposition to those beliefs by the boys' grandmother and each boy's very different response to their parents' religiosity. This is especially poignant after they
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Lives: Whole and Otherwise

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Meet Mary Fellows, a sex-worker organizing a demonstration on St Catherine Street; how can she make the Anglican dean support it? . . . Disappointment follows disappointment as Margaret tries to find a suitable man; her latest folly is the suave younger man she brought over from Jamaica; . . . Greta, a domestic help, proudly holds up her son’s high school diploma; but can he read it? . . .These ... Read more

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Meet Mary Fellows, a sex-worker organizing a demonstration on St Catherine Street; how can she make the Anglican dean support it? . . . Disappointment follows disappointment as Margaret tries to find a suitable man; her latest folly is the suave younger man she brought over from Jamaica; . . . Greta, a domestic help, proudly holds up her son’s high school diploma; but can he read it? . . .These
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The Voyage

by H Nigel Thomas ...

The Voyage is a collection of poems culled from a lifetime of meditations on self, family, time, and ageing; it also reflects on political and social aspects of human lives, such as hubris, abuse of power, racism and oppression.“Vivid in detail, vibrating with emotion and outrage, The Voyage travels deep into the past to unleash the burdens of history and expose its corroded foundations. With ... Read more

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The Voyage is a collection of poems culled from a lifetime of meditations on self, family, time, and ageing; it also reflects on political and social aspects of human lives, such as hubris, abuse of power, racism and oppression.“Vivid in detail, vibrating with emotion and outrage, The Voyage travels deep into the past to unleash the burdens of history and expose its corroded foundations. With
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Why We Write

Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists

by H Nigel Thomas ...

In this volume, African Canadian novelists and poets discuss the complexities of the writing experience. Most of the writers interviewed here are humanists; i.e., they see their work as serious depictions of the human condition, admit that their works are informed by an African Canadian ontology, and adhere to the notion that their books must delight and instruct. These interviews, therefore, are ... Read more

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In this volume, African Canadian novelists and poets discuss the complexities of the writing experience. Most of the writers interviewed here are humanists; i.e., they see their work as serious depictions of the human condition, admit that their works are informed by an African Canadian ontology, and adhere to the notion that their books must delight and instruct. These interviews, therefore, are
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Return to Arcadia

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When at age 51, Joshua Éclair—victim of a pygmalianism gone awry—emerges from amnesia in a hospital in Montreal, he must explore what makes him want to erase his identity, and must undertake the process of exorcising what has brought him to this pass. This is the gripping story of a man’s search for sanity set in the fictional Caribbean Isabella Island and the various places Joshua has fled to: ... Read more

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When at age 51, Joshua Éclair—victim of a pygmalianism gone awry—emerges from amnesia in a hospital in Montreal, he must explore what makes him want to erase his identity, and must undertake the process of exorcising what has brought him to this pass. This is the gripping story of a man’s search for sanity set in the fictional Caribbean Isabella Island and the various places Joshua has fled to:
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Saga Boy

My Life of Blackness and Becoming

by Antonio Michael Downing ...

A Black immigrant journeys from the Caribbean to Canada—and through multiple musical personas—in a "deeply moving" memoir "suffused with poetic prose" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).As a clever, willful boy in a tiny village in the tropical forests of Trinidad—raised by his indomitable grandmother, Miss Excelly, and her King James Bible—Antonio Michael Downing is steeped in the legacies of ... Read more

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A Black immigrant journeys from the Caribbean to Canada—and through multiple musical personas—in a "deeply moving" memoir "suffused with poetic prose" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).As a clever, willful boy in a tiny village in the tropical forests of Trinidad—raised by his indomitable grandmother, Miss Excelly, and her King James Bible—Antonio Michael Downing is steeped in the legacies of
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High Water Mark

Stories of Atlantic Canada 1983-2023

by Lesley Choyce ...

High Water Mark is an anthology of short fiction from some of the finest writers of Atlantic Canada over the last forty years. Included are writers from various communities throughout the region and stories that reflect a wide range of writing talent from older and younger writers.Nineteen authors have contributed work to this long-awaited collection representative of the literature of the late ... Read more

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High Water Mark is an anthology of short fiction from some of the finest writers of Atlantic Canada over the last forty years. Included are writers from various communities throughout the region and stories that reflect a wide range of writing talent from older and younger writers.Nineteen authors have contributed work to this long-awaited collection representative of the literature of the late
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Lost and Found in Cedar Cove (Short Story)

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDebbie Macomber’s heartwarming series, set at the Rose Harbor Inn in picturesque Cedar Cove, displays the author’s signature talent for creating characters who feel like friends, and small towns that feel like home. In this original short story, Jo Marie Rose readies her inn for spring, turning to her new friends Grace and Olivia when she needs them most.Jo Marie has big ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDebbie Macomber’s heartwarming series, set at the Rose Harbor Inn in picturesque Cedar Cove, displays the author’s signature talent for creating characters who feel like friends, and small towns that feel like home. In this original short story, Jo Marie Rose readies her inn for spring, turning to her new friends Grace and Olivia when she needs them most.Jo Marie has big
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