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On the afternoon that two tonnes of explosives are set to dismember Toronto's Metropolitan Library, poet Henry Black hides himself away in his favourite wing; when his mangled body is uncovered, there's a book lodged in his chest. Jay Post, a hapless filmmaker, is hired to chronicle the life, death and writings of the poet. In the process of making his documentary, Jay must try to unravel the threads of Henry's labyrinthine, suicide-obsessed mind with only the poems as tools; he...
| Автор | Rob Budde |
Isabel Norris has never left the ice. Her father was a hockey legend who died before she was born, and her grandparents have raised her in his skates. When Iz leaves her grandmother behind to play for the Winnipeg University Scarlets, she struggles to fit in on this team of hard-hitting, tough-talking women with a penchant for buffets, beer bongs and raunchy humour – and a fierce loyalty to one another and to their sport. But in their raucous midst, Iz can't quite find her own...
| Автор | Cara Hedley |
Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize[b]Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards[b]Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize"[Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read … A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized." – [b] Kirkus Reviews "This might be the best set-up of the spring." – The Globe & Mail "André...
| Автор | Andre Alexis |
En la era de las parejas que no son hasta que la muerte nos separe sino hasta que nos separemos, y en el contexto de la reformulación del amor romántico, la pareja y la maternidad impulsada por los feminismos, Seamos felices acá ofrece diez relatos cuya protagonista, recién separada y con un hijo a cargo, se reencuentra con esa mirada, cargada de estupor y de preguntas, que tantas veces está en el origen de la literatura.
| Автор | Vanina Colagiovanni |
Die junge Lisa kommt nach drei Jahren in Island zurück nach Deutschland, weil sie der Meinung ist, ihre Mutter braucht sie. Zurück in ihrem Herkunftsland gibt es ein großes und herzliches Wiedersehen mit der Familie, doch die neue Umgebung und Situation fällt ihr nicht leicht. Und dann geraten ihre Gefühle auch noch in ein Durcheinander, als sie Florian kennenlernt. So viel Veränderung auf einmal fällt nicht leicht, aber Lisa gibt alles um glücklich zu werden.-
| Автор | Lise Gast |
Momentaufnahmen der Höhen und Tiefen des Lebens. Aus dem Alltag gegriffen, aber trotzdem nicht alltäglich. Geschichten und Erlebnisse sind die Spuren, die wir auf unserem Weg hinterlassen, Abdrücke und Eindrücke, die bleiben. Und genau darum geht es im Leben. Als Einladung zum Sich-Wiederfinden, zum Nachdenken, zum Reifen von Tiefe und Erfüllung.
| Автор | Martina Jochum |
Hoping to erase her unhappy old life, Hazel jumps in her beat-up old car and speeds away. When she pulls up to the Evening and Morning Star Trailer Park, where nothing turns into even more of nothing, she decides it just might be the new life she's looking for. At the centre of this new life is King, a motorcycle-riding, hard-drinking, guitar-playing kind of guy. Hazel loves him to death. He spends his days fixing cars, while Hazel spends hers working at the town’s thrift shop....
| Автор | Tanya Chapman |
Can a breakup break you apart? In Self-Titled, Geoffrey Brown stares into a mirror and writes what he sees, what he thinks, what he feels. The result? A self-portrait that's at once comic and psychotic, a complex consciousness captured in crystalline prose. Memories, manias, miasmas – Brown morphs the machinery of his mind into an utterly original entity, equal parts diary, criminal confession, sex manual and mash note, as he contemplates a breakup. The novel splits into two...
| Автор | Geoffrey Brown |
"Bock's language crackles with the energy of a Québécois folk song, impassioned and celebratory but also melancholy and cheekily ironic." —The New Yorker, on Atavisms A young, floundering author meets Robert «Baloney» Lacerte, an older, marginal poet who seems to own nothing beyond his unwavering certainty. Over the course of one summer evening, Lacerte recounts his unrelenting quest for poetry, which has taken him from Quebec's Boreal forests to South...
| Автор | Maxime Raymond Bock |
March 6, 1934. Hundreds gather outside City Hall to celebrate the Toronto Centenary. In the crowd, pickpocket Mona Kantor and her partner, Chesler, are ‘in the tip,’ finding easy pickings among the jostling masses. Eli Morenz, city man for the Daily Star, is covering the festivities and uncovering the pickpocket racket working the scene. A surreptitious photo and some keen research lead him to an underworld dive in Kensington Market where Toronto’s pickpockets...
| Автор | Howard Akler |
Novela que narra los dos errores principales de la percepción: el razonar sustentado en la memoria y el razonar sustentado en las necesidades afectivo-fisiológicas. El personaje principal lleva sus tautologías a la consecuencia final. En ese callejón sin salida encuentra la mejor respuesta, que lo conduce a la libertad: su raíz es la concepción yóguica del dukanichanata.
| Автор | Sadú León |
¿Os imagináis cómo es ver el mundo siendo la friki de la clase? Cinco historias, cinco relatos, cinco maneras de aprender del amor y del sexo, de eso trata Las frikis también soñamos. Fantasías medievales, futuros apocalípticos, ángeles, demonios y vampiros nos acompañarán en el viaje de Ayla, sobre cómo una friki soñadora aprenderá acerca de las relaciones tóxicas, la atracción sexual y los amores imposibles a través de sus increíbles mundos.
| Автор | Ayla Hurst |
Alice Charles has just moved to Montreal to go to McGill University. She’s never had a boyfriend and doesn’t know how to do laundry. She joins the Film Society and hangs out in the library. She drifts away from boring Bethany, her best friend from high school, and starts to trail after Allegra, the caffeine-addicted, dish-throwing artist in the dorm room next to hers. And, most of all, she thinks about how she’s still a virgin and how she’ll never figure...
| Автор | Golda Fried |
Shortlisted for the 2012 Furro-Grumley Award for LGBT FictionShortlisted for the 2012 W.O. Mitchell Award for Best Calgary FictionShortlisted for the 2012 Georges Bugnet Award for Alberta FictionLonglisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Praise for Suzette Mayr: “Venous Hum never fails to impress. Brash, macabre, and irreverent, it’s the kind of story you want to hear from a latter-day Scheherazade: so intoxicating you crave more.”—Vancouver Sun A...
| Автор | Suzette Mayr |
Nothing slips by Brecken Hancock's deft ear as she seductively plumbs the depths of the evolution of bathing, doppelgangers, the Kraken, and the minutiae of family with all its tragic misgivings. The poems in Broom Broom pervert the rational, safe parts of the world to extoll and absorb the sweep of human history. What I mean to say is, the evidence is always there.From where we stand, we confuse lampposts for ghosts. Brecken Hancock 's poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews have...
| Автор | Brecken Hancock |
Auden flees the small town of Capreol for Toronto, bewildered, HIV positive, and in search of an entirely new personality. He falls in love with orgy maestro Wrik, mainly because the old Auden would never even have talked to him. And through Wrik, he meets Steve Reinke, his new best friend. Steve – and here’s where it gets confusing – is, in real life as well as in The Steve Machine, a renowned video artist, someone who makes television for one person at a time,...
| Автор | Mike Hoolboom |
Siempre hay verdad en la mentira y la mentira puede ocultar verdad.En la vida de Emma, la enfermedad de su hermana, la ausencia de su padre y la huida de una madre que apenas conoció lo invaden todo. Y la llegada de aquellos que se hacen llamar Progeniem cambiará los límites de lo que creía saber como cierto.¿Está preparada para saber la verdad? ¿Para saber del calor de Derek, de la risa de Ana o de la amistad de Carlos y Luis?¿Está preparada para perderlo todo?Ella os responderá por mí.
| Автор | María Cuesta |
In the town of Lake Wachannabee, Ontario, lies the Winter Garden, home to matron Giggy Andrewes and her brood: her strung-out nephew Jem Waferly, his friend Cora, Chappy the whippet, two peacocks, and Jem's lover Rob, who lies convalescing after having had most of his flesh stripped away. A mystery? Well, yes, it would be if only the characters weren't so easily distracted by the noir-ishly handsome chief inspector, the seductive female veterinarian and the dashing anthropology...
| Автор | Dennis Denisoff |
Tell It Slant is a bold, luscious first novel by Beth Follett, publisher of one of Canada's most exciting and respected small presses, Pedlar Press. The novel tells – slantedly, of course – the story of Nora Flood, a young woman who lives between two sets of voices: those of her own fragmented desires and the internalized voices of western culture, which have always denigrated or refused her deepest desires. She struggles with these contradictory forces, overwhelmed, at...
| Автор | Beth Follett |
David spends his days as an underworked copy writer for an ad agency and his nights lost in old war movies, fantasizing about his strange teenage cousin and revisiting his father's suicide. His dreary life is upended when he finds himself at the mysterious Chaos Farm, a lavish wilderness retreat populated by those seeking to right their lives' imbalances through New Age games and rites of necromancy. In a paranormal experiment gone awry, they inadvertently raise a mysterious...
| Автор | Rob Benvie |
Theirs is a world of ancient desires and forbidden pleasures. They are men of mystery and women of seduction, wild creatures with the power to entrance and enchant, tease and tantalize. Enter their secret world, if you dare. . . The Yearning by Hannah Howell Alpin has lived for centuries with a lust that can never be quenched with mere physical pleasure. And then he meets Sophie whose own search for lasting love binds them together in a cloak of shimmering sensuality. . . A Hell of a Time by...
| Автор | Lynsay Sands |
Leoron of Alera has learned the truth about his new mate's identity, but landed in the hands of her enemies. The time for secrets is over…Welcome to the Interstellar Brides® all new Ascension Saga and the planet Alera, where women from Earth not only find their mates, but fight to rule the world.Download now as the adventure continues!
| Автор | Grace Goodwin |
Eine Novelle, die zur Zeit der Burgunder- und Mailänderkriege in der Schweiz spielt: Der Waisenjunge Dietegen wird in Ruechenstein zu Unrecht verurteilt und soll gehängt werden. Wie durch ein Wunder stirbt er jedoch nicht, sondern wird von dem Mädchen Küngolt aus Seldwyla gerettet. Dietegen und Küngolt wollen später heiraten, doch die beiden Liebenden werden auseinandergebracht…-
| Автор | Gottfried Keller |