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Off the Map

Vancouver Writers With Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues

Edited by Betsy Warland, Seema Shah, Kate Bird ...

Off the Map, an anthology of writing by Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues, aims to bring diverse and distinctive voices to the literary landscape. In works of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, you'll discover writing on a wide range of subjects. These narratives showcase unique storytelling styles and forms, offer fresh and fascinating perspectives, and are ... Read more

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Off the Map, an anthology of writing by Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues, aims to bring diverse and distinctive voices to the literary landscape. In works of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, you'll discover writing on a wide range of subjects. These narratives showcase unique storytelling styles and forms, offer fresh and fascinating perspectives, and are
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Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate

by Hari Bansha Dulal, Craig Johnson, Nora Lustig, Luis F. López-Calva, Subrata Mitra, Jivanta Schöttli, Markus Pauli, Kate Bird, Kate Higgins, George Joseph0, Quentin Wodon1, Enrique Hennings2, Arup Mitra3, John Weiss4, Sergei Soares5, Dilys Roe6, Terry Sunderland7, Bryan R. Bushley8, Rishikesh R. Bhandary9, Roberto Foa0, Milo Vandemoortele1 ...

Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to increase in the coming decades, affecting more and more impoverished people across the globe.Poverty ... Read more

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Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to increase in the coming decades, affecting more and more impoverished people across the globe.Poverty
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Splinters

Another Kind of Love Story

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true,
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Life Inside

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The patient is an ascetically pretty 15½-year-old white female. She is intelligent, fearful, extremely anxious, and depressed. Her rage is poorly controlled and inappropriately expressed.Diagnostic Impression: Program for social recovery in a supportive and structured environment appears favorable.Life InsideIn 1967, three months before her sixteenth birthday, Mindy Lewis was sent to a state ... Read more

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The patient is an ascetically pretty 15½-year-old white female. She is intelligent, fearful, extremely anxious, and depressed. Her rage is poorly controlled and inappropriately expressed.Diagnostic Impression: Program for social recovery in a supportive and structured environment appears favorable.Life InsideIn 1967, three months before her sixteenth birthday, Mindy Lewis was sent to a state
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The Trouble with Fairy Tales

A Memoir

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The long-awaited second memoir from Plum Johnson, bestselling author of They Left Us Everything.The Trouble with Fairy Tales is a wise and insightful reflection on the relationships that sprawl across a lifetime. In it, Plum explores how we often sacrifice our independence and identity in our love lives, falling for the fairytale notion of “happily ever after”, and how it can take years, and many ... Read more

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The long-awaited second memoir from Plum Johnson, bestselling author of They Left Us Everything.The Trouble with Fairy Tales is a wise and insightful reflection on the relationships that sprawl across a lifetime. In it, Plum explores how we often sacrifice our independence and identity in our love lives, falling for the fairytale notion of “happily ever after”, and how it can take years, and many
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You Have a New Memory

by Aiden Arata ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn open-hearted interrogation of our digital selves, braiding cultural criticism, memoir, and narrative musings into an exploration of identity, girlhood, media, tech, nature and "finding the depth and beauty in the fucked-up world we live in" from a writer, artist, and influencer (Phoebe Bridgers).**YOU HAVE A NEW MEMORY is a deeply human inventory of the digital sphere, a ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn open-hearted interrogation of our digital selves, braiding cultural criticism, memoir, and narrative musings into an exploration of identity, girlhood, media, tech, nature and "finding the depth and beauty in the fucked-up world we live in" from a writer, artist, and influencer (Phoebe Bridgers).**YOU HAVE A NEW MEMORY is a deeply human inventory of the digital sphere, a
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Best Canadian Stories 2023

Edited by Mark Anthony Jarman ...

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Selected by editor Mark Anthony Jarman, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2021.A collection that takes us into a firey near-future and a notorious feminist’s personal past, from a near-drowning to a fake breakdown, through mothers who fail us to crummy jobs, to thieves, to grief, to revenge with a bottle of tabasco sauce. With work ... Read more

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Selected by editor Mark Anthony Jarman, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2021.A collection that takes us into a firey near-future and a notorious feminist’s personal past, from a near-drowning to a fake breakdown, through mothers who fail us to crummy jobs, to thieves, to grief, to revenge with a bottle of tabasco sauce. With work
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Hidden Lives

True Stories from People Who Live with Mental Illness

Edited by Lenore Rowntree, Andrew Boden ...

A revised and updated edition of a collection of personal essays that illuminate what life is like for those who live with mental illness, and how it impacts their family members.More than 4 million Canadians and 57 million Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental illness, and yet there are still considerable stigmas and a great deal of misunderstanding surrounding even the most common diagnoses ... Read more

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A revised and updated edition of a collection of personal essays that illuminate what life is like for those who live with mental illness, and how it impacts their family members.More than 4 million Canadians and 57 million Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental illness, and yet there are still considerable stigmas and a great deal of misunderstanding surrounding even the most common diagnoses
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Impact

Women Writing After Concussion

Edited by E. D. Morin, Jane Cawthorne ...

In Impact, 21 women writers consider the effects of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the painstaking work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after a traumatic event. By sharing their complex and sometimes incomplete healing journeys, these women convey the magnitude of a disability which is often doubted, overlooked ... Read more

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In Impact, 21 women writers consider the effects of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the painstaking work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after a traumatic event. By sharing their complex and sometimes incomplete healing journeys, these women convey the magnitude of a disability which is often doubted, overlooked
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Heartbroken

Field Notes on a Constant Condition

by Laura Pratt ...

Imbued with longing, erudition and hard-earned wisdom, Heartbroken dares to delve into a universal ordeal—perhaps the one that makes us the most human of all.When Laura Pratt’s long-distance partner of six years tells her “it’s over” at a busy downtown train station, she is sent reeling, the breakup coming out of the blue. He, meanwhile, closes himself off, refusing to acknowledge Laura and her ... Read more

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Imbued with longing, erudition and hard-earned wisdom, Heartbroken dares to delve into a universal ordeal—perhaps the one that makes us the most human of all.When Laura Pratt’s long-distance partner of six years tells her “it’s over” at a busy downtown train station, she is sent reeling, the breakup coming out of the blue. He, meanwhile, closes himself off, refusing to acknowledge Laura and her
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Subterrane

by Valérie Bah ...

A speculative comedy comprised of a carousel of Black and Queer voices being pushed further underground by urban prosperity.New Stockholm, a metropolis like any other across North America, is unofficially divided between two worlds. Its upwardly mobile form the centre of its gleaming eye, but their prosperity and affluence are not the focus of Zeynab’s government-funded abstract documentary. Her ... Read more

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A speculative comedy comprised of a carousel of Black and Queer voices being pushed further underground by urban prosperity.New Stockholm, a metropolis like any other across North America, is unofficially divided between two worlds. Its upwardly mobile form the centre of its gleaming eye, but their prosperity and affluence are not the focus of Zeynab’s government-funded abstract documentary. Her
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Wild Geese

by Soula Emmanuel ...

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender FictionIrish novelist Soula Emmanuel’s debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire—charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she’s overeducated and underpaid, but finally settling into her new ... Read more

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Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender FictionIrish novelist Soula Emmanuel’s debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire—charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she’s overeducated and underpaid, but finally settling into her new
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