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In Niagara of the 1960s, a mysterious proxy bride arrives from Italy to marry a candy shop owner with crime connections, only to fall in love with her proxy husband’s teenaged son.

In Revenge of the Grand Narrative, the oldest man in the world, an activist with a suspiciously persuasive singing voice, and the author of the most anticipated debut novel ever set out to investig

Much as one would define a garden, designed according to patterns of flowers, colors and other sensory effects, the formalist quality of parterre becomes the garden itself.

Itessa is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and as her marriage unravels we follow her in and out of denial that her marriage is over and into a world of drugs and fantasies about other men and

“If people think your life’s shot to hell, they don’t want to waste time on you.

One False Move is Tim Conley’s debut collection of poetry.

A love-you-love-you-not daisy petal game for the 21st century, And the Cat Says… is a whimsical, delectable treat; a poetry collection which weaves in some strange haircuts, flying carpets and two

A diplomat is captured by supposed insurgents and is waiting in a room for his execution. Texas is a provocative story of death against the backdrop of ugly and uncompromising politics.

Set in a decade before Twitter and Facebook, Terminal Grill introduces a woman to her perfect stranger. Looks, style and wit make him irresistible and hopping into a cab with him — inevitable.

Set in an AIDs hospital in an undisclosed African nation, Tea With the Tiger concerns itself with medicine and ethics.

This book gives us an in-depth look at what is happening in diverse classrooms in Canada, and how teachers are making a difference in their students’ lives.

This is the third anthology of Italian Canadian writers organized and edited by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni with support from Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana, Toronto.

No other Canadian writer is as thoroughly conversant with the fertile tradition of surrealism as Beatriz Hausner.

These elegantly crafted works of social and psychological realism, counterpointed with expressionistic and surrealist textures, employ a language teeming with images, ideas and rhythms.

Pin Pricks is a collection of deceptively simple poems and aphorisms, each of which expresses an understanding of what it means to be human in this high-tech, global age.