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Set in a small town in Quebec, Running Downhill Like Water is made up of four interconnected stories spanning fifty years of the lives of four people whose prospects have been violently shattered. Lucy, a perennial misfit, is thwarted in her desperate hope for love and belonging; Sheila, a classical violinist, fails miserably in both her career and as a mother; and Brothers Evan and Neil, struggling with the disastrous fallout of a rigid fundamentalist upbringing, endure not only severe mental illness but catastrophic crises of faith.

A barber named Buddy Monk has a wife who has left him to work at his mother's diner. A family will appears after twenty-five years which throws his life into a tailspin.

Four writers, four different perspectives on the problematic notion of purity."All purity is created by resemblance and disavowal." With this sentence as a starting point, four authors each write a novella considering the concept of purity, all from astonishingly different angles. Jean Marc Ah-Sen writes about love blooming between two writers belonging to feuding literary movements. Emily Anglin explores an architect's search for her twin at a rural historic house. Devon Code documents the Wittgensteinian upheavals of the last days of an elderly woman.

Away From Hermeets Strangers on a Trainin this follow-up to cult bestseller And the Birds Rained DownAfter And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique outlook on self-determination in this unsettling story about a woman's disappearance. Gladys might look old and frail, but she is determined to finish her life on her own terms.

The characters in Pigeon Soup & Other Stories are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food. These tales portray the dark places they inhabit physically, emotionally, or metaphorically, with twists that sometimes provide a flicker—or even a bright beam—of hope. The collection begins with a light offering of Pigeon Soup, in which two Canadian university students who have arrived in Italy to help in an earthquake relief mission accept a ride from a quirky taxi driver.

Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc's internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.In the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d'Annunzio waits in his opulent villa - a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence - for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a tale of art, sex, violence and the meaning of complicity in an authoritarian state.

'Dark family secrets, the lore of the sea, and a tender, protective friendship between women all converge in The Speed of Mercy, an unusual and surprising story set in idyllic rural Nova Scotia. With subtle humour, Conlin picks the locks on the long-closed doors of two families and bares the ugly, painful skeletons everyone knew were there but chose to hide.' - Sylvia D. Hamilton,  author of And I Alone Escaped To Tell You.

A time warp into the strange and painful life of men past, present, and future. The second time Andrew sees his half-brother, Hugh, is at their father's funeral. Andrew has little interest in the father with whom he grew up, but Hugh, who looks like a country-rock star, is fascinated by the life and writings of the reclusive man he hardly knew. When Hugh finds a book in his father's study, a mysterious work by Rafael Estrada, he is certain that it holds the key to his identity. A Song from Faraway takes readers from 19th-century Prince Edward Island to modern-day Iraq.

Three Feathers bilingual edition includes Slavey and English. Three young men-Flinch, Bryce, and Rupert-have vandalized their community and are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing process. There, the young men learn to take responsibility for their actions and acquire the humility required to return home. But, when they do return, will they be forgiven for what they've done? Det'on? ?T'á Ta?

Three Feathers bilingual edition includes Chipewyan and English. Three young men-Flinch, Bryce, and Rupert-have vandalized their community and are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing process. There, the young men learn to take responsibility for their actions and acquire the humility required to return home. But, when they do return, will they be forgiven for what they've done?