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Shimmerdogs is the story of young Lester B. Hopkins — Mike to almost everyone except his mother, Master Corporal Alice Mackelwain.

Runaway teen Annabel, nicknamed Ghost, doesn’t speak.

Stephen Bett's 12th book, Sound Off: a book of jazz, is loosely, a "serial" poem, a book of 76 linked poems, each responding (himself as a jazz fan) to the work of 76 very current ja

The characters from Susan Musgrave’s A Cargo of Orchids are back in this brilliantly engaging novel.

Evocative and superbly rakish, these essays are a generous diagnosis of the often offbeat worlds of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through the real life adventures of Susan M

After the move to Delwood, Matt Humphreys, sixteen, comes to understand that his father, Jack, is a broken man not looking to heal after the death of his wife.

These short stories interconnect the friendships of four First Nations people — Everett Kaiswatim, Nellie Gordon, Julie Papequash, and Nathan (Taz) Mosquito — as the collection evolves over two dec

Bertrand Smith’s father, Alex, thinks he’s making the world a better place by developing a breed of super-intelligent canines.

When one describes fictional characters as “leaping off the page” the cliché generally invokes one of two ideas: either the characters, through their sheer force of presence, leave the reader desir

This vibrant collection of short fictions explores how families work, how they are torn apart, and, in spite of differences and struggles, brought back together.

Josh Dempster fantasizes about achieving material success with the comic book series that he is drawing from visions in his sleep.

As The Path of the Jaguar opens in 1997, Guatemala is emerging from thirty-six years of civil war.

In his third novel, Richard Scarsbrook returns to the fictional Faireville of his previous novels Cheeseburger Subversive (2003) and Featherless Bipeds (2006) to present Philip Skyler in a three pa

The stories in this collection represent the coming of age of a young writer. His earliest published work is here along with his later more sophisticated literary efforts.

A primitive story of transgression and transformation weaves its way through the centuries and cultures into the lives and conflicts and personal dramas of our own time.