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Peace Tower is about the struggles to adjust to the first year of marriage. Mark Trecroci and Jennifer Drury, a young couple in love, learn what it means to uncover the reality behind the love.

The poems in Courage Underground burrow beneath the skin to examine the relationship between consciousness and body.

Kenneth Scambray's first collection of short stories, set in Southern California, the Central Coast, and the San Joaquin Valley, depict that expansive California landscape also found in John Fante'

Each of these impeccably crafted and sensitive stories is built around the outstanding ordinary individuals, the eccentrics of the rural working class of Mary Bush's native upstate New York.

Whether it's Toronto, a French or Italian town, Pierre L'Abbe's stories are rich with a sense of place where the ambiance and characters fuse in a loaded sense of expectation.

Andrea has an unusual sense of smell. She grows up to be a pheromone researcher for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a perfume maker in Paris.

Hard Edge is about art, modern art and the age-old art of seduction and betrayal, set in Ontario, New York, and Paris.

Death and its many mysteries are explored in these autobiographical poems about the passing of the poet's beloved brother, the dementia that claimed her father, and the inevitable bodily changes th

A stunning collection of poems, these works explore moments of empathy in suffering, epiphany in ruin, and grace in surrender.

Existentialist in approach, this collection of tightly woven, abstract poems explores ageing and what it means to not be young anymore.

On Order and Things is the story of an impossible love between a man and a woman. Confused characters living in a senseless world where love and creativity are irrelevant.

Her characters stumble into the light, clutching their existential problems. Their stories float up like dark episodes from the subconscious.

The appearance of Dark Man cannot be an event without consequence. Once come into this world, he will entice you with candy, seep into your skin, and savour your blissful ignorance of his purpose.

These meticulous, skillful, and endlessly revealing poems are astounding in their restraint and delicate comprehension of the natural world.

Where other poets of his generation developed strategies of deconstruction, Jean-Pierre Vallotton invented a brave new mosaic with the parameters left behind by traditionalism, modernism and postmo