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  • The Quantum Theory of Love and Madness

    by Jerry Levy ...
    Series series Essential Prose Series
    To fill gaping holes in their lives, the protagonists in The Quantum Theory of Love and Madness embark on bizarre quests that ultimately lead them astray. Whether a child savant who sings the lyrics to hundreds of songs (and never talks), a woman who has to decide whether to turn in her arsonist brother, a failed writer whose fictional character suddenly comes to life, an unhappy insurance ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Philosopher Stories

    by Jerry Levy ...
    The dozen stories in this collection chronicle the life of Karl Pringle, a wannabe philosopher who had once been enrolled in the graduate Philosophy program at the University of Toronto where he imagined himself as an Ubermensch, a Superman derived from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche. But he was summarily dismissed from the program after punching out his academic supervisor. Now Karl ... Read more

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  • Urban Legend

    by Jerry Levy ...
    Jerry Levy’s gritty, urban tales are driven by arresting prose and engaging human drama. Urban Legend is psychologically intense with characters attempting to overcome personal loss in peculiar ways. In “Paris is a Woman” a man hopes that, by escaping to Paris, he will learn to manage his uncontrollable emotions; devastated by the death of his fiancée, a man in “The Golem of New York” enlists the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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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

    $8.69 USD

  • Nondescript Rambunctious

    by Jackie Bateman ...
    Winner, Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University’s First Book CompetitionNondescript Rambunctious is a genre-busting thriller with a beating, human heart. More than a simple story of a killer and his victims, the novel takes the reader into the life of a family, the days of a community, and the very real possibility that evil is everywhere—maybe even inside us. Woven through this dark tapestry ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Mostly Happy

    by Pam Bustin ...
    Bean E. Fallwell's story in Mostly Happy begins with an inventory of items, shiny bits of beauty that she has collected and tucked into a red Samsonite Saturn suitcase. This suitcase, a dominant metaphor in the novel, becomes Bean's touchstone that keeps her from spiralling into the dark worlds of her beautiful, screwed up mother and all the stray men she brings home; her sad, exhausted father; ... Read more

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  • Cadillac Cathedral

    by Jack Hodgins ...
    In Jack Hodgins’ new novel, Cadillac Cathedral, he is at his humorous best in describing the eccentric but lovable characters in the little town of Portuguese Creek on Vancouver Island. Arvo is the main figure, a Finn who has worked in logging camps all his life and who now spends his retirement fixing old cars, often ones that he finds discarded in the bush. Along with Arvo there is a collection ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Crisp

    by R.W. Gray ...
    Series Book 29 - Nunatak First Fiction Series
    Shortlisted for the 2010 Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction!Crisp confronts the unspeakable parts of memory, meditating on characters caught in isolation and struggling to make sense of grief, disappointment, and the occasional dinner party gone wrong. Along the way, these characters don’t always make sound decisions: a grieving widow pursues a priest, an unhappy wife whittles her husband to ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Nod

    by Adrian Barnes ...
    An insomnia pandemic terrorizes near-future Vancouver in this dystopian nightmare for fans of cerebral end-of-the world stories like P.D. James’ The Children of Men andJose Saramago’s Blindness.“The creepiest book of the year.” —SlateDawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people—perhaps 1 in 10,000—can still sleep, and they’ve all ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • This All Happened

    A Fictional Memoir

    by Michael Winter ...
    Series series A List
    The A List edition of Michael Winter’s brilliant fictional memoir, This All Happened depicts one man’s descent from love to fury over a calendar year. Featuring an introduction by Lisa Moore.In this journal-a-clef, we are exposed to the kernel of truth that exists in each day. Told from the viewpoint of Gabriel English, This All Happened opens windows onto a richly textured, fast-paced filmic ... Read more

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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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  • One Night in Mississippi

    by Craig Shreve ...
    After fifty years of guilt over his brother’s brutal murder in Civil Rights–era Mississippi, Warren Williams decides to renew his fight to bring the men responsible to justice. His efforts put him face-to-face with one of the murderers, Earl Olsen, in a remote Ontario town, where a contest of wits will end in death.One Night in Mississippi is the story of a young activist named Graden Williams, ... Read more

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