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The We're Still Here Book Club. Volume One: Elbows Up!
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What is wrong with the world when the disappearance of a single red baseball cap with an American political slogan on it—yes, one of those hats—can threaten the very existence of Canada? Yet isn’t there something absurdly fitting about the fact...
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On Second Thought Maybe I'll Live
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Robert Robert Robertson wants to commit suicide—and not just because of his stupid name. Determined to end it all and armed with a backpack full of stolen cash, Robert heads to the Utah desert for one last hurrah. But being inept, impulsive, and...
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Throwing the Hammer
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Paranoid administrators, interdepartmental feuds, quirky staff members, and an eccentric headmaster: welcome to Winston Grant High School. Mark Patterson has a master’s degree in physics, wants to do nothing more than surf and ski, and believes...
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They Don't Make Studebakers Anymore
A Fictional Memoir
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I was born on the hood of a Studebaker . . . So begins the story of Boy, coming of age in a small town in the 1960s. From trying to understand the Cold War, to first kisses, and the moon landing, Boy struggles to make sense of his world. The...
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H-Huh?
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Something strange sits hungrily in a teenager’s closet, an obsessive scientist meddles with ageing, a squirrel pays an early-morning visit and an unlikely friendships develops between prey and predator… In these four quirky short stories of the...
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I Guess I’m Not The Problem...
A Stepmom's Naive Optimism and Survival in a Toxic Family
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Racheli isn’t expecting to fall in love again later in life, but a chance encounter with a colleague transitions from a happenstance meeting at a local diner to a wedding proposal. Racheli is determined to make a successful blended family with...
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The Gonna Find Love Club
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You know, Ben, I teach my students that Petrarch should have said something. He should have told Laura de Noves how he felt. He should have trusted her with his heart… before it was too late.” None of us get through life without being a little...
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Sunset Oasis Confidential
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Sunset Oasis is the last resort. The end of the line for its baby boomer resident retirees. Doyens Tom, Estelle and Nish have discovered the illicit secret of longevity: cigarettes, alcohol, edibles and Led Zeppelin. Their hazy golden years were...
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Madness, All Over Again
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Milo is an inpatient at the Bellevue Psychiatric Institute & Hospital. He is clever, verbose, and wants absolutely nothing to do with the world outside—but doesn’t seem to want much to do with anything inside, either. He and his chatty roommate...
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Rise of the Jellies
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When flying jellyfish rise out of the ocean and maraud through Qualicum Beach, Canada’s “oldest” town, they set off a media circus that makes the sleepy retirement community an unlikely darling of every news organization and disaster fan on the...
