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Simon Austen has the names people have called him tattooed all over his body. Waste of Space. Bastard. A Threat to Women. Murderer.

Eduardo, an architect from Lisbon, has come to Montreal to be with his wife Geneviève. Geneviève researches fungi and likes to catalogue her orgasms.

She might be crazy, but she was still Barbara Joan Bradley whose deaf little sister had named her Bo, and she was not going to walk away from reality and a little boy with almost no time left.

Now in its 47th year, 'Best Canadian Stories' has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shap

At Dream Inc., a lifestyle-magazine publisher, people are struggling to do more than their jobs. They struggle to fall in love. They struggle to stay that way.

In the Cote-de-Negre area of Montreal, the first stop for many new immigrants, live people of more than 100 nationalities, Marcelo, the sensitive son of Chilean refugees, and Cleo, a shy boy from H

Reveals the weaknesses of today's new breed of leader, as well as the Bible's most famous ones.

In the rough hill country of rural Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War is over and the villagers live under occupation by the fascist Civil Guard.

What are boys and men thinking? That's what the wry, observant, heartbroken and hilarious girls and women in these stories want to know.

In this sparkling collection of stories drawn from the surreal edge of life, playful irony vies with more poignant evocations of solitude, mortality, and the dawn of sexual awareness - all bodied f

Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade.

When Brenda Bray, better known to the world as Rae Brand, author of the popular Elsinor Grey mystery series, returns home to Hamilton, she is set upon by vivid memories of the fall of 1962 when she

Rose LeClair has everything she ever wanted: a successful career as a box office starlet, a handsome, successful Hollywood husband, more fans and money than she could have hoped for, her face on th

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What has to die before you force yourself to change? That's the question facing the always quirky and often-queer characters of Canary.