Fiction, City Life
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Hollywood Parade
by David Becker
Four houses. A dozen people. All behind one ostentatious façade. The inhabitants of Hollywood Parade range in age from an infant to a pair of nonagenarians, and from the wealthy to welfare recipients. The actions of each affect the others as they...
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Today's Thomas Sawyer
Frank Minetti by Butch Arnold
This story begins where it ends, followed by a whimsical search for lucidity. The reader is taken for a particle infused gambol, a continuum circling spacetime. Isolation propels our hero, Thomas Sawyer. Exploring truth in blackholed fiction, our...
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Jodi’s Story
by Emily Leigh Curtis
Jodi was only a child when she was orphaned and taken into the care of a religious organization that hated everything that she was. They abused her physically and emotionally, robbed her of her culture and identity, and left her with emotional...
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A Twist In Her Fate
Sophia Destino Series by Samantha Sabelli Ion
Twenty-three-year-old Sophia Destino is a small-town girl about to plunge into life in the big city of Toronto. Still hung up on her past heartbreak, she is desperate for a change by taking on a new graduate degree in education. While living it...
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Arbutus Manor
by James Darren
Escape with a dynamic group of young adults that meet at a Vancouver West End room and board house named Arbutus Manor. Follow Matt the “lovable scoundrel”, Mina the beautiful runaway bride, Carol the physically challenged woman with a zest for...
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My (Mostly) Manitoba Stories
by Tom Goodman
With its racial, ethnic and language diversity, Manitoba is in many resepcts the most Canadian of our Canadian provinces. My (Mostly) Manitoba Stories is a collection of short stories (mostly) set in Manitoba and spanning a timeline from the...
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Lillian on Sunday
Stories of the Human Heart by Lionel Walfish
Lillian on Sunday: Stories of the Human Heart is an elegant collection of highly entertaining, provocative short stories exploring the rich nature of human existence. From love stories to city fables to ghost stories, these illuminating tales are...
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Changganli
by Jiwen
This story received Chinese National Best Network Novel Award for 2019. In the fictional Chinese city of Nandu, the ancient walls have enclosed the neighborhood of Changganli for 600 years. In the 1950s, as the citizens wanted to develop as fast...
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Unconventional Beginnings
by J.D. Knibbs
Unconventional Beginnings recounts the story of a young engineer’s introduction to the cutthroat oil and gas business in the Canadian prairies. While Garth Gibbins longs to be a farmer and maintain his family’s agrarian traditions, he discovers a...
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