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“harriet richards”

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  • The Lavender Child

    by Harriet Richards ...
    A year in the lives, dreams, and awakenings of the Protheroe family . . .Like most families, the Protheroes live together but dream in solitude: daydreams, night dreams, and the reveries of memory. Although much love connects them, they are alone within themselves, as are we all, each orbiting a unique inner sun coalescing from the raw material of birth and circumstance.The much-anticipated ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Waiting for the Piano Tuner to Die

    by Harriet Richards ...
    "There are forces at play so simple, natural, and accidental that nobody can figure them out and see them coming."Finalist, Book of the Year, 2003 Saskatchewan Book AwardsIn a small prairie town, a teenage girl’s unexpected pregnancy upends her family’s quiet rhythms, revealing the tender absurdities of love and loss. In shadowed ravines and forgotten sheds, a child confronts the rats of her ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Pious Robber

    by Harriet Richards ...
    Few writers have Harriet Richards’ understanding of childhood, and fewer still can evoke the never-lost child at the heart of our adult experience. Like her previous, critically-acclaimed books, this new collection is deft, comic, and poignant, but there is malice and tragedy at work in these stories — their gaiety and cool observation counterbalance the troubled lives they explore. In the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Outlaw in India

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  • The Weeping Chair

    by Donald Ward ...
    Donald Ward’s stories are written in a straight-ahead narrative style that offers conceptual and philosophical underpinnings. Despite this intentional layering, he maintains the kind of economy of description and simplicity of exposition that is perfectly suited to the short story genre. Throughout his stories he likes to explore the human willingness to carry on in the face of often hostile and ... Read more

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  • The Alchemist's Daughter

    by Eileen Kernaghan ...
    The Alchemist’s Daughter will pull you from whatever you are supposed to be doing into Sidonie’s fortunes, and hold you there cover to cover.Marked by high adventure, and delicious language, Kernaghan’s use of real historical figures like Dr. John Dee, Lady Mary Herbert, Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare, blended with original fictional characters are a powerful mix, while her impeccable ... Read more

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  • We Don't Listen to Them

    by Sean Johnston ...
    Sean Johnston will leave readers smiling at the acrobatics of his words and techniques in this eagerly anticipated second short story collection after the Relit award winning A Day Does Not Go By. Several stories, such as “We Don’t Celebrate That”, explore the difficulty of survival in an increasingly indifferent political reality, while others artfully probe the Pandora’s box of life’s ... Read more

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  • Nod

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  • The Wolsenburg Clock

    by Jay Ruzesky ...
    In his debut novel, The Wolsenburg Clock, Vancouver Island poet Jay Ruzesky sets out to tell the multi-century history of an astronomical clock in a small Austrian city. The clock is a mechanical marvel for its time, viewed in much the same way as we treat current 3-D wonders like Avatar. As the hours and minutes tick by, the movement of the planets and special events are marked by clockwork ... Read more

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    by Dawn Dumont ...
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  • Sophie, In Shadow

    by Eileen Kernaghan ...
    It’s 1914. Sixteen year old Sophie Pritchard, orphaned two years earlier by the sinking of the SS Titanic, is about to begin a new life in the unfamiliar world of British India. For Sophie, still devastated by her parents’ death, India proves a dangerously unsettling environment. Are her terrifying experiences in Kali’s temple and the Park Street cemetery hallucinations, or has she somehow been ... Read more

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