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  • Unatoned

    A Memoir

    by Brent LaPorte ...
    For readers of Alan Cumming’s Not My Father’s Son comes a heart-wrenching memoir that interrogates an abusive father and his dark legacy.Children who experience physical, mental, and emotional trauma at the hands of a parent often grow into adults who suffer from mental illness and find it difficult to build lasting, healthy relationships. Some find it impossible to integrate into society and are ... Read more

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  • Hope Burned

    by Brent LaPorte ...
    You sit down at the weathered harvest table to write a letter to your son. You need to explain the horrific events of the night, the circumstances that stained your hands with so much blood - the horrors that led you to take the lives of your own father and grandfather. You journey back through darkness, deliberately, tentatively, to recover your own childhood. You compose your captivity, your ... Read more

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  • Fruit

    A novel about a boy and his nipples

    by Brian Francis ...
    CBC Canada Reads 2009 Runner-UpBarnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection"Hilarious and gentle.” — Booklist“Beguilingly alive.” — Seattle Times“Laugh-out-loud funny.” — NOW“Bracingly off-centre.” — Globe & Mail“Lovely and odd.” — Kirkus Review“Sweet, tart... ... Read more

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  • Ruby Tuesday

    An Eddie Dancer Mystery

    by Mike Harrison ...
    Series Book 3 - An Eddie Dancer Mystery
    Paul Menzies is an out-of-shape, middle-aged advertising executive, who arrives at work one morning to discover he’s lost his job. Downsized. That evening, he stops by a bank machine to check his finances. Ahead of him, a scruffy young couple is arguing about the state of their own finances.When the muscular husband, Victor Shriver, loses his temper and smacks his wife hard, Paul steps in and ... Read more

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  • The Complete Lockpick Pornography

    by Joey Comeau ...
    Now in one volume, Lockpick Pornography and its thematic sequel, We all Got it ComingLockpick Pornography is a genderqueer adventure story, and We All Got It Coming is about a young couple dealing with the aftermath of an act of violence. From kidnapping the son of a “family values” politician in Lockpick Pornography to the violent confrontation of We All Got It Coming, these are characters who ... Read more

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  • The Boy Must Die

    by Jon Redfern ...
    A fourteen-year-old boy has been found hanged and mutilated in the basement of Satan House. It’s the second life the derelict mansion has claimed. The work of a brutal predator? A curse? Or a ritual cult murder? The boy’s death shocks parents in the Alberta city of Lethbridge, and police chief Eddy “Butch” Bochansky knows there will be reprisals. Trying to ward off panic, he persuades his old high ... Read more

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  • The Last Hiccup

    A Novel

    "A strange and surprisingly touching novel about how people find good and evil where they look for them" ( Booklist).In 1930s Russia, an eight-year-old boy named Vladimir is suddenly stricken with a chronic case of the hiccups. He soon finds himself spirited away to a Moscow hospital by the famous physician Sergei Namestikov, who puts him through a series of extraordinary—and often bizarre ... Read more

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  • Slander

    Slander is set in rainy, foggy Seattle. The narrator, Liz Finnegan, is a brash, bright, petite women’s rights lawyer. She’s 26, and a defender of abortion clinics (they’re being bombed by “Christian” rednecks), abused women, and related liberal causes. Her nemesis is a handsome, long-haired judge (Vandergraaf) whom she publicly savages, at a press scrum, for giving a slap-on-the-wrist sentence to ... Read more

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  • One Bloody Thing After Another

    by Joey Comeau ...
    Jackie has a map of the city on the wall of her bedroom, with a green pin for each of her trees. She has a first-kiss tree and a broken-arm tree. She has a car-accident tree. There is a tree at the hospital where Jackie’s mother passed away into the long good night. When one of them gets cut down, Jackie doesn’t know what to do but she doesn’t let that stop her. She picks up the biggest rock she ... Read more

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  • Girl in Shades

    A Novel

    A poignant novel of loss, growing up, and an unusually gifted girl finding her way in the world.Maya Devine has a strange ability to see colors that surround other people—and sometimes even to hear the thoughts in their heads. But even with these gifts, she still struggles to understand her mother, Marigold. Desperate for enlightenment, Marigold drags Maya to library lectures on making money and ... Read more

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  • Overqualified

    by Joey Comeau ...
    “Overqualified's cover letters are like a slap in the face, but the slap is hilarious, and you can't stop laughing, and as soon as it’s over you want to tell all your friends about the slap. You know the kind?” — Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics“Joey Comeau’s Overqualified is Judy Blume’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret as chewed up and spit out by J. G. Ballard.…A book whose melancholy is ... Read more

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  • Interference

    A Novel

    "An immaculately constructed page-turner that is also, miraculously, a redemptive meditation on loneliness and community" (Carrie Snyder, author of Girl Runner).The inhabitants of Edgewood Drive in the small Canadian town of Parkville seem to live simple, peaceful lives, but as the children attend elementary school and the senior ladies play Leisure League hockey, secrets and hardships and menaces ... Read more

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