Literary Collections
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The Book of Letters
by Helen Calverley
Mail correspondence is a dying art, but there are still some who practise this special, genuine, and kind gesture—one of whom is Helen Calverley. Over the years, after reading a good book or watching a moving performance, Helen wrote to the...
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Contrarian Commentary
Honesty, Wry Humour and Clarity on Canadian Living by Mel Fisher
How did bananas come to be? Who is the most useless member of society? What do language fads tell us about the history of human development? What would space aliens say about our well-kept lawns? These short pieces and essays provide...
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Mosaic through East-Facing Glass
A Collection of Personal Essays by Marg Heidebrecht
2020. Yeah, that. Everything stopped except Marg Heidebrecht's habit of writing for ninety minutes a day. Four years, forty essays later, the author of In the Shade: Friendship, Loss, and the Bruce Trail provides us with this new collection....
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Blood Memory - an Anthology by Indigenous Poets Society
Thomas King said, “The truth about stories is . . . stories are all that we are.” Colonization has tried to erase and eradicate Indigenous narratives for centuries. Even mainstream literature features the same kinds of stories told by the same...
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A Nasty Piece of Work
number one by J. Andersen
J. Andersen loves to play with expectations. An ode to a city turns into a collection of its flaws. A beautiful waitress takes her belly button off at night. An embarrassed son watches his father choke to death on the very thing the son hates so...
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Eastwick Letters
by David J Knapp
EASTWICK LETTERS transcribes and illustrates 117 individual sheets written 1844–51 by Andrew McCalla Eastwick, his wife Lydia, their children, and business associates as the family set up works, and home in 19th century St. Petersburg, Russia....
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Stuffed Animals
A Collection of Microfiction by Wayne Johnston
Stuffed Animals is a collection of haunting, sparsely wrought micro fiction. Each story invites the reader in and then delights and torments them with surprises and plot twists. Whether you are in the mood for black humour, spine-tingling horror,...
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Finding Joy after Sorrow
The Collected Works of Beth Carol Solomon by Beth Carol Solomon
In her collected works, Finding Joy After Sorrow, author Beth Carol Solomon explores the impact people have on one another and the courage it takes to overcome adversity. This rerelease of the author’s Collected Works—originally published in...
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Tales From the Word Guy
What Your English Teacher Never Taught You by Jonathan Berkowitz
Tales from the Word Guy is a collection of essays adapted from the author’s segments on CBC Radio One’s North by Northwest. Jonathan Berkowitz takes the reader on a delightful journey through the history, idiosyncrasies, and sheer pleasures of...
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Letters to Annie
A Grandmother’s Dreams of Fairy Tale Princesses, Princes, & Happily Ever After by Monika B. Hilder
What do we love about fairy tales? How do they, along with Narnian and other fantasy stories, speak to us at any age? In the fictional voice of a grandmother writing to her granddaughter over the first twenty-five years of her life, Letters to...
