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At Your Side
A Collection of Final Days
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Take a closer look at the unpredictable world of elder care, and you will see people who cannot speak suddenly find their voices. They will not sit together but will happily sing together. They will not look at each other but share a prolonged...
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"I Had a Swell Time"
The Diary of a Young Girl Searching for Love in the 1930s
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Have you ever wanted to read someone else’s diary? What if the writer of that diary lived almost 100 years ago? Bernice Hodgins, born in 1916 in Seaforth, Canada, received a diary for her 12th birthday. She began to record her everyday...
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The Book of Letters
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
