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In the tradition of short story writers Alice Munro and Carol Shields, Binnie Brennan examines the minutiae of ordinary life.

What if your best friend’s ghost was still hanging around town? What if your girlfriend mysteriously lost her voice and didn’t seem to care?

Why is desire so irresistible? This is the question that faces Grace, a rebellious young dreamer who takes a long-awaited leap of faith when she meets a charismatic stranger.

This is a collection inspired by Coleridge’s doctrine of bringing the “the whole soul of a man into activity."

A Peeping Tom, a child’s disappearance, a fire, a startling decision and a truth learned too late: these are the elements that make up Break Me, an entertaining and sinister little book.

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.