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Early Days, Early Dancersdocuments the first decade of the National Ballet, focusing on the dancers of the 1950s, especially principal dancers Lois Smith, David Adams, Angela Leigh, Donald Mahler,

This debut poetry collection is a breathtaking array of poems, wisdom, reflection, and all that comes in between.

The Path of Loneliness explores separateness and the many facets of love, desire, grief and loss that we experience during our life journey.

Dear Heartsis a collection of character-driven stories that are whimsical, sometimes magical, unsentimental yet poignant, and focus on the ways in which girls and women who were teenagers in the 19

Underneath the Water with the Fishis a collection of short fiction that explores the murky underwater existence of women’s uncensored thoughts and desires.

It is 1971 and Bellport, Massachusetts is a dying factory town. But the coming urban redevelopment will have even more implications for the residents.

Centuries from now, in a post-climate change dying boreal forest of what used to be northern Canada, Kyo, a young acolyte called to service in the Exodus, discovers a diary that may provide her wit

When British immigrant Selena Jones marries Aidan Gilmor, a Sinhalese-Eurasian — part British — from Sri Lanka in the 1960s in Toronto, a passionate clash of culture ensues.

They make an odd pair: Verena Vitek, a youthful refugee from Serbia, and John Borrowman, a London, Ontario zoologist moonlighting as an animal-rights activist.

p>The House of Izeiuis a novel inspired by the life and experiences of Sabine Zlatin who, as a Jew using a fake identity, managed to find families to care for Jewish children who were in French

Mina's Childimagines a second generation springing from the “heroes"' in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

A love story to the emotional self—this heart is tender, but it also has a savage bite.What does it mean to be the big heart? Or to hope to be the big heart? Or to fail to be that big heart?

Poems that sing, in various notes of female voice, the human being as an embodied, contemplative, feeling animal.In Skov-Nielsen's thrumming debut, The Knowing Animals, our consciousness is interco

Poems written by Cyborgs in the future – this collection melds sci-fi and poetry, human and machine.The Cyborg Anthologytakes place in a future where there wasa thriving world of Robots and Cyborgs

Precision-built poems that attempt CPR on their own irregular meter, on their own unreliable meaning.Vancouver poet Shaun Robinson’s If You Discover a Fire is a debut collection of poems that make