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Give Us This Day is a striking collection of short fiction that explores the weight of the past through a kaleidoscope of voices and styles. Whether intimate or expansive, meditative or urgent, each story reveals how missteps and circumstances shape identity, and how, for many, the past is never truly left behind. >>
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RCMP officer Roxanne Calloway is supposed to be on maternity leave, but when a body is found in a field near her home in the Interlake, she feels compelled to investigate. With the help of the victim's daughter, Roxanne races to uncover the truth, putting her career, her family, and her life on the line. >>
Pertice McIlveen, lover of Hemingway and hater of hats, finds that she has been mysteriously willed a cottage and the hats that come with it on Gannet Island, off the coast of New Brunswick. As she wears the hats and finds her life being tangled up in those of the islanders, she begins her journey to a new kind of grace under pressure. >>
Narrated by Bertie, the oldest of nine children in a working-class Catholic family, these stories uncover some of the hidden secrets and the mysterious bonds that hold families together. >>
Tommy Wolfstein escaped from Hungary with his parents when he was eight years old, and while his parents will never forget the persecution they endured as Jews, Tommy's memories of that time are scant. He has become thoroughly Canadianized. However, when his university soccer team is invited to Hungary to play Tommy will learn about his family's difficult past and the ongoing dangers they —and he — face. >>
Landon and Joy share an instant connection, and within a matter of days, they buy a beautiful but troubled house together. However, when the heat of summer--and their initial infatuation--begins to wane, the two realize how little they know about each other and the house they now call home. In the Country In the Dark is a thrilling psychological exploration of the secrets we keep--and the lengths we might go to keep them. >>
In the First Early Days of My Death
As Wendy Li floats above the city, unravelling the story of her own untimely end, she learns that things aren't always what they seem. An unusual ghost story from the author of Latent Heat. >>
It Is Just That Your House Is So Far Away
His father dead, approaching forty, Jeff Mott is drifting across China, because he wants to learn the language. The Chinese agree that his Mandarin is pretty good, but only want to speak English with him. >>
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