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“tara borin”

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  • The Pit

    by Tara Borin ...
    Set in a small-town, sub-Arctic dive bar, this debut poetry collection explores the complexities of addiction and the person beneath, and the possibility of finding home and community in unexpected places. Among Borin’s poems are portraits of the bar’s regular customers and employees—recurring characters, like those who might appear in a dark and unconventional sitcom. The religious night janitor ... Read more

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    In TOO LATE, 15-year-old Greg is in a teen sex offenders’ facility because of an assault on his stepsister. He hates the professionals who try to help him and can’t wait to go home. When he enters a room for a meeting, his mother is there crying. Her partner, whom Greg calls Step Dude, sits at her side. They have come to tell Greg they don’t want him back. It’s too late to be good, they say. Greg ... Read more

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  • Cluck

    by Lenore Rowntree ...
    Cluck is a darkly comic novel about Henry, an only child whose mother has bipolar disorder. As a teen, Henry becomes a radio junkie lost in the world of music. As a young man, he becomes obsessed with a female DJ whose evening show mysteriously beams out of Idaho and into his car while he’s driving over Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge. Henry has to live his life in the shadow cast by his mother, but ... Read more

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  • The Lease

    by Mathew Henderson ...
    The lease is meaningless: a square paced first by seismic workers, and then your father, and then by every other man you know. Distilled from his time in the Saskatchewan and Albertan oilfields, Mathew Henderson’s The Lease plumbs the prairie depths to find human technology and physical labour realigning our landscape. With acute discipline, Henderson illuminates the stubborn and often ... Read more

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  • The Freeze of 2060

    by Ami Blackwelder ...
    Series series Water Jug: Anthology of shorts
     If we had the chance to do things again differently, would we?           Hard to say when the snow began falling. In the 2020s, there were rumors of global warming, of severe weather changes and it was not all rumor. Many of us could feel the changes. Warm and then cold. Rain and then the sunniest of days. Then all went bad, warmer and warmer each day. ... Read more

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  • The Orchid Grower

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    by Katia Lief ...
    “A must-read for fans of psychological suspense.” –Wendy Corsi StaubIn this chilling tale of psychological suspense, a woman home alone in the middle of the night surprises an intruder who expected to have the upper hand. In the days that follow, she tends her prized orchid while hiding evidence of her growing list of crimes.Derringer Award nomination, 2016 ... Read more

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  • A Series of Dogs

    by John Armstrong ...
    John Armstrong uses his wry wit and vivid prose to evoke a life immeasurably enriched by one best friend after another. He tells boyhood tales of romping along the railroad tracks with Spooky the mutt, touching accounts of Sluggo the Rottweiler befriending sex workers, howl-inducing memories of laying a treasured friend to rest during a rain- and beer-soaked night, and many more stories both ... Read more

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  • Where's Burgess?

    by Laurie Elmquist ...
    Illustrated by David Parkins ...
    Series series Orca Echoes
    Reece Hansen is missing two things: his father and his frog.Reece's parents are newly separated, and his dad is now living in another city, fighting forest fires. Reece struggles to get used to daily life without him. When he loses his pet frog, Burgess, Reece puts posters up around the neighborhood. But frogs are difficult to find. It takes an unusual classmate, the boy who wears a bathrobe to ... Read more

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  • The Fat Kid

    by Paul Vermeersch ...
    Poetry kills the beautiful people. The Fat Kid , Paul Vermeersch's second full-length collection of poetry, chronicles a childhood troubled by obesity, poor body image, and low self-esteem. The media's perfect faces, societal expectations, family concerns, and primitive socialization rituals collide with the already horrendous physical and emotional tribulations of adolescence to drive Calvin ... Read more

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  • Perpetual Darkness, Perpetual Spring

    by Janna Hill ...
    Perpetual Darkness and Perpetual Spring.Perpetual Darkness is told from the man's perspective; this is his side of the story. Max Hubbard is a drifter and like most transients he prefers living a life of anonymity. That is until he lays eyes on Abigail."He merely followed his instinct, not giving any thought as to why he watched her."Perpetual Spring is told from the woman's point of view; this is ... Read more

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  • Congratulations, Rhododendrons

    by Mary Germaine ...
    In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.Through poems that speak to plastic bags and drones as much as they admire roses and the moon, Germaine surfs the confluence of artificial and natural environments, technology, and our small but consequential feelings about them. At turns devotional and ... Read more

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  • The Bridge

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    by Daniel Orozco ...
    A young bridge painter is awakened from the hum of daily routine by a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall."The Bridge" is a story from Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection Orientation, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of ... Read more

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