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Blue Grey
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While navigating life in her new home, and the cold world of science and engineering, a young Maya Castro faces the challenges of social marginalization, gender inequality, addiction, and sexual confusion. An immigrant to Canada from Latin...
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Porn Tales & Sex Demons
Eavesdropping on Therapy
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What do we learn about sex if our teacher is porn? What is the difference between entering and being entered? What haunts us in the wake of childhood abuse? Porn Tales & Sex Demons eavesdrops on a psychotherapist’s consulting room as 23-year-old...
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Place
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JADE is in her last year of high school, turning eighteen. She is a resident of Turtle Point First Nations Reserve in the north and descended from a hereditary line of medicine women and men. Jade is a brilliant student, driven to complete high...
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What The Callen Women Know
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Nula Callen knew two things for certain: she would escape her oppressive County Cork village, and she would not be like her parents. Armed with nothing but dreams of who she can become and an iron will, Nula flees to America. She’s determined to...
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Forgotten Followers
from Broken to Bold
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AFTER YEARS OF SUBMISSION, Mara lives in anxiety and isolation, unsure of herself and her place in the world. But when her nephew Jesus is chased off a cliff, she is thrust into the unknown and forced to confront her deepest fears. As she...
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Ashes in My Peanut Butter
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In the 1970s, Gwen is an ambitious young student looking for a profession that will grant her independence. She decides on dental school, and asks to shadow Dr. Lee, a well-respected and very successful dentist. Dr. Lee has a happy marriage of...
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The Woman Reporter and the Halifax Explosion
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A wartime explosion in Halifax harbour has wrecked the city killing 2,000, injuring 9,000 and destroying 1,600 houses. Toronto Advocate cub reporter Kate Dawson is sent to Halifax to cover the explosion's aftermath and in the process prove...
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Letters from Gerald
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Soon after the war ended, a young Eleanor Hutchinson dreams of a job as an ornithologist. Without the training, experience and social standing the chances are slim. Undaunted she writes to the British Museum for advice and promptly receives a...
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Medusa Gorgonis
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The story of Medusa Gorgonis is partly based on the classical Medusa, one of the three Gorgon sisters, and Greek mythology. It depicts the untold story of Medusa: the brave girl who becomes a powerful leader of women warriors, the monstrous...
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No Love Is Greater Than a Parent's Love
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Imagine if one moment of indiscretion changed the entire course of your life, catapulted you into single parenthood, and required that you give up all of your youthful dreams. What would you do? For Mary Watson, the feisty protagonist of No Love...
