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The resistance of the human spirit in face of time, disloyalty, and oblivion is the theme of Marina Sonkina’s new collection of short stories.

Len Gasparini is a master of the dark, hard-edged, densely layered story.

Italians as indentured labourers in Southern cotton plantations at the turn of the twentieth century?

Born into Somali royalty and Saudi Arabian wealth, Fatma is given away in infancy and, at age 12, forced into an arranged marriage with a young Peace Corps worker.

The game of life. Stories about competition in sports and games and activities.

Tallie Jones is happy with life.

Louise Aubert leaves Mathieu Lord when he joins the Stalinist party.

The first novel by renowned Slovene publisher, politician, and TV personality Luka Novak is an intellectual farce, a surrealistic gallop through philosophy and art.

Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself.

From celebrated Toronto poet, Domenico Capilongo, comes a collection of powerful and humorous stories inspired by love: the love of family and tradition, the passion shared between two people when

I have written Life Stories virtually in the space of one breath -- these stories have been imagined in such concentration, that I had to free myself from them.

Twelve stories that provide startling glimpses of contemporary life in Bombay, and elsewhere.

A Latino bar in Toronto, 1978. The men can't take their eyes off Lisa, but there is something about her that scares them off. She is a little too intense, a little too needy.

Leonard Edison's wife has a dark and frightening premonition - that her husband will die before his next birthday.

In this satirical take on the goings on in the halls of academia, Christian private-college style, Ricapito tells the story of Bert Russo, a naive professor who learns the hard way that making wave