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A young man killed in a car accident returns to Earth to visit his mother and to help those he cared for in life.

Isabelle and Bill are both trapped in empty marriages. Their telephone relationship is their only respite. When they finally meet in London their lives change in a painful but unexpected way.

This tale is about being lured into a place where nothing is as it seems.

As a partner in one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career, and the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty.

Even as a child, Gabriella Harrison's only escape is through the stories she writes. Only writing can dull the pain of her lonely world.

A powerful tale of three couples who face decisions about having children that will test, in unexpected ways, the ties that bind them as lovers, partners and friends.

Raphaella loves her ageing husband and grieves that a stroke has incapacitated him. Almost against her will, she falls in love with Alex, a virile young California attorney.

Three women who were inseparable during their college years meet again after 20 years at a ranch in Wyoming to find courage, healing and truth as they reach out to one another and rekindle old rela

Hiroko, an 18-year-old Japanese girl is staying with her uncle in California during World War II when President Roosevelt gives the military the power to remove the Japanese from their communities.

As Diana Morrison laid the table for six at her elegant Central Park apartment, there was no warning of what was to come.

Kezie, the offspring of British nobility and American aristocracy, finally comes to terms with her social position and decides what to do with her life.

"Most people go through life chasing illusions of success, fame, wealth, happiness, and few things are more painful than the reality-revealing loss of an illusion.

Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post as part of “The Afterword,” Steven Heighton’s memos and dispatches to himself — a writer’s pointed, cutt

This collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, author of the Governor General's Literary Award winner The Waking Comes Late, showcases a defining lyric poet of his g

A collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us.