This new collection looks unflinchingly at life's bountiful sorrows: the loss felt by abandoned children, the sudden intrusion of sickness or death, the journey away from home and the shining, difficult path of return. >>
Jill and Blaine are twelve years old, poised between innocence and experience, childhood and adolescence. By the end of this summer, everything will have changed for the two best friends and their neighbourhood will have become much less safe. >>
In Once Houses Could Fly, ten kayakers snail along the rugged fjords of Ellesmere Island in the High Arctic. These poems speak of the bite and beauty of weather and the limits it sets on us. Beginner’s prowess ends in taking inventory of thumbs and “aging’s howl,” yet the light’s redemptive peace settles all distress, and what lasts is the quiet gratitude that overtakes the narrator, as the journey sets the pace for the soul to catch up with the body.
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One for the Road: New Plays for One Actor
One for the Road is a collection of recent Canadian plays for one actor. >>
NYPD Detective Nicola Cortese, veteran of three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, is demoted and transferred to a desk job in Operations after his PTSD spirals out of control following a drug bust gone bad. When he returns to active duty, his first case, a B&E homicide, leads him to uncover an international conspiracy that is using a genetically engineered seed to take control of the world’s wheat. >>
Our Extraordinary Monsters is Vanessa Moeller's debut poetry collection which uses language(s) to build a written architecture where meaning(s) reside(s). >>
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