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Finalist, 2022 International Book Award for Multicultural FictionThese twelve short stories dive deep into imaginary worlds where everyday life is marked and marred by war. They speak of wounded …

Not far away from here is a lake. You have to pay for access to its shores, but I know where there's a hole in the fence. The water will be icy, but it will still be in a liquid state. That&…

Growing up in a small, riverside town, Little Bright is thrusted into the political whirlwinds along with his family during China's Cultural Revolution. When a reversal of the winds of re…

«Моя гениальная подруга» – первый роман неаполитанского квартета. Это рассказ о детстве двух девчонок из бедного неаполитанского квартала и начале дружбы длиною в жизнь. Первый раз пути девочек р…

Finally, after 58 years The Body on Mount Royal is back in print, starring hard-drinking private dick, Russell Teed.From the back cover of the 1953 edition: Take a brutally beaten body, a lonely …

Живущая в глуши смотрительница заповедника Айно обнаруживает на берегу озера едва живого мужчину. Лингвист Томас только что прилетел в Финляндию, его похитили прямо из аэропорта, накачали парализ…

A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant collects the writing of Beth Brant, Mohawk lesbian poet, essayist, and activist. During her life, Brant's work gave voice to an often unacknowl…

It is 2058, and the glaciers are gone. A catastrophic drought has hit the prairies. Willa Van Bruggen is desperately trying to keep her family goat farm afloat, hoping against hope that the new w…

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) navigates the unsettling, but necessary. When love of, and respect for, culture goes awry, it is our Indigenous women who bring us back to what is important…

Действие почти всех романов Орхана Памука происходит в Стамбуле, городе загадочном и прекрасном, пережившем высочайший расцвет и печальные сумерки упадка. Подобная двойственность часто находит св…

On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree – and that's where it …

Move back through time into the alluring worlds of the Alchemists' Council The anticipated second book in Cynthea Masson's series takes readers to Flaw Dimension, centuries before the e…

Writing at the top of her game, Sharon Butala returns to the short story in this astounding new collection. In Butala's world, the season of fury and wonder is the season of old age. The …

Henry «Biggie» Abbott is the son of one of Finch, Iowa's most famous athletes. His father was a baseball legend and his step-dad is a close second. At an obese 300+ pounds though, Biggie him…

The bonds between women are hard to break. Tomboy Joan Ogden just wants to move to London, study medicine, and live with Elizabeth. But her mother has other ideas. She wants her to remain at home…

Действие разворачивается в маленьком городке на самом севере Швеции. Пять юных девушек встречаются в читательском клубе, обсуждая любимые книги. Однако напряжение нарастает, ведь все девушки влюб…

A woman must emerge from the virtual world she’s created to confront her flesh-and-blood past and family. Growing up with a menacing drunk for a father and a grief-stricken mother, a girl spends …

Ghost stories from Canada's most haunted city, including tales from iconic sites such as the Empress hotel, Hatley Castle, and Ross Bay Cemetery. Beautiful, charming Victoria is world renown…

When a devastating fire sweeps through St. John's, Newfoundland, in the summer of 1892, nineteen-year-old Lily Hunt hopes it's the beginning of a new life that will transform her from a…

Is it possible that there are family pets so loyal they return even after death? Some people report experiencing the sensation of a cat rubbing up against a pant leg after their favorite feline h…