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Series: Mont Babel Paperback Keith Henderson 9781927599525 $19.95 FICTION Oct 31, 2020

"Where is everybody?" That's the question physicist Enrico Fermi posed to his Manhattan Project colleagues now 70 years ago. They knew what he meant. Decades of reaching out to intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, and no response. Zero. Nothing. A fact which remains true today .Mont Babel sling-shots off the Fermi paradox using the opposing forces of father and son. Jim Benedict's a humanist, a man of the word, his son an engineer who's bored by Shakespeare and likes the NFL. "In the beginning was the word. In the beginning was the Big... + Read More
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Series: Punchy Poetry Ghost Face Paperback Greg Santos 9781927599518 $19.95 POETRY Sep 08, 2020

Ghost Face deals with the following themes:Parenthood, adoption, identity, migration, poetry as memoir, family mythologies, and mourning, The poetry is raw, intimate and deals with complicated and poignant family histories. "Don't be lulled by the seeming plain-spokenness and ease of Santos' poetry. Underlying his simplicity is a hard-earned wisdom and the courage of living with the truth of loss. Wherever he takes you to Angkor or Lisboa, to Paris or his backyard, these poems with their fragments and glimpses of connections will 'feel real.'''... + Read More
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Series: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Paperback Zsolt Alapi 9781927599501 $23.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2020

The protagonist of this novel, Stephen, twice exiled, first from his birthplace, Hungary, and then from the United States as a Vietnam draft resistor who settles in Montreal, Quebec, becomes obsessed with W.H. Auden?s poem, 'Mus?e des Beaux Arts' and Bruegel?s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, an obsession about the nature of suffering and art that leads to his attempted suicide and to the subsequent chaos of his life. Upon his discharge from a mental institute, he attends several sessions with his psychiatrist with whom he has a comi... + Read More
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Series: Kate Wake Paperback Mariianne Mays Wiebe 9781927599464 $21.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2019

Kate Wake is a tender and deeply engaging novel from a distinctive new voice. It’s 2008. Blue Hills is a haunted place. Katie fights to reclaim her life from the grip of a profound psychological crisis, tracing back a maternal thread through a stumbled-upon and uncertain family history at the nearby, now-abandoned prairie mental asylum. As Katie seeks to rehabilitate the present by understanding the past, her fate becomes imaginatively intertwined with that of her great-grandmother Kate Wake, an enigmatic independent-minded artist with a rema... + Read More
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Series: Nearly Terminal Punchy Poetry Paperback Eleni Zisimatos 9781927599495 $18.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2019

Nearly Terminal resonates with a sense of foreboding at what may be seen as the social collapse of the individual self in a society that is being 'whitened out.' Incorporating and intertwining aspects of the personal love relationship with a sense of a self under scrutiny, by itself and an imagined Other, the focus becomes one of loss, solitude, and the existential sense of being in a vast universe that is defined by traces of life increasingly lived as forms of abstraction within a virtual, disembodied reality. With a younger audience in mind,... + Read More
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Series: Sasquatch and the Green Sash Hardcover Keith Henderson 9781927599402 $29.95 FICTION Nov 05, 2018

Sasquatch and the Green Sash is at once a translation and adaptation of the medieval English poem Sir Gwain and the Green Knight, from a time when parts of English culture were closer to Old Norse roots. Novelist Henderson has chosen to Canadianize the original, setting it among the Dene of Nahanni National Park in the NWT. This new setting is darker, colder, and sub?arctic with the 'ominous green and violet and pink of Aurora Borealis," and the additional dimension of the ancint Green Man's origins as Al Khidr, vizier of Alexander the Great.
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Series: Net Worth Short Stories Paperback Kenneth Radu 9781927599457 $21.95 FICTION Apr 17, 2018

A woman wins a fabulous lottery; a frustrated middle-age man waits for his wealthy father to die; an unemployed father and widower struggles to earn a living wage; an older man of means has an affair with a much younger woman; a privileged but harassed suburban woman and a homeless man meet in a subway station: each story, built upon familiar motifs, leads into the core of the characters? sense of who they are. The narrative drama arises from what they face and how they live during their present circumstances. For the readers, the stories trans... + Read More
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Series: Excitement Tax Paperback John Emil Vincent 9781927599440 $18.95 POETRY Nov 22, 2017

Excitement Tax uses a series of tonally various prose sonnets to trace the deeply uneasy relationship of a grown-up person and his imaginary friend, Walter Weaselbird. The pair crash through thickets of erudition in search of candy. Often they find candy. �
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Series: Where I Wanted To Be Dispirited by his performance review, Will G Paperback Tom Abray 9781927599204 $18.95 FICTION Apr 17, 2017

Dispirited by his performance review, Will Gough sets out to redeem himself by updating his company's quality control procedures, while casting a hopeful eye toward other career opportunities. Despite his best intentions, his work troubles follow him home——to his wife and two sons, where empty yogurt containers are half—sacred, technology a source of childhood wonder, and the business of the world bumps against the quiet walls that protect the rhythms of family life.It's difficult to pull off a portrait of a nice guy in ordinary circumstances, ... + Read More
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Series: Acqua Sacra Everything seems broken in Suzanna Ricci's life. Only 42, he Paperback Keith Henderson 9781927599372 $21.95 FICTION Oct 28, 2016

Everything seems broken in Suzanna Ricci's life. Only 42, her marriage to Len has disintegrated. Her relationship to their teenage boys, Robin and Logan, is in need of repair. Now her mother, 'that martial soul,' wants her to restore the family home in Acqua Sacra, damaged by earthquake. And she doesn't care how many trips from Montreal to their vivid Italianpatriaof Abruzzo her daughter has to make. At least when Len, a dodgy accountant, encourages her to take a job with a Montreal law firm headed by a man named Robert Bliss, Suzanna feels hop... + Read More
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Series: Fairfield the last sad stories of G. Brandon Sisnett When G. Brandon Sisnett dies at his computer 'a mild spring Paperback Robert Edison Sandiford 9781927599358 $18.95 FICTION Dec 09, 2015

How does a man or an artist express his deepest grief at what he has lost? How does he express his desperate disappointment at living? For a man, an artist, such as the reclusive G. Brandon Sisnett, it is by writing stories of death, decay, and resurrection such as these. At first, these pages seem a random collection of stories, fragments, and miscellany, some previously published, many not; some long, others very oddly brief; some linked by obvious preoccupation with death, whereas others could not be farther apart in tone or content. Occasio... + Read More
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Series: A Hamburger in a Gallery Stuart Ross's eighth collection of poems delivers a gallery Paperback Stuart Ross 9781927599334 $19.95 POETRY Apr 07, 2015

Stuart Ross's eighth collection delivers a gallery of emotionally charged poetry experiments along with a series of philosoph¬ical meditations on the aesthetically contrived and sometimes downright quirky processes followed to generate the poems in this book. A Hamburger in a Gallery provides an utterly distinc¬tive experience of the relationship between the finished poem and the process that informed its creation.
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Series: Punchy Poetry Proof Proof explores the worlds of entomology, memory and mathemat Paperback Larissa Andrusyshyn 9781927599303 $17.95 POETRY Nov 19, 2014

Proof explores the worlds of entomology, memory and mathematics. What can be proven with empirical evidence and what demands reason. The poems examine the means of observation from the entomologist to the grief stricken mathematician. From break-ups to Dung Beetles, these poems move from microscope to recollection and from the abstract math proof to the visceral sting of the wasp's barbed quill.
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Series: Butterfly in Amber A Novel Delia, an independent-minded Montreal woman of sixty and sex Paperback Kenneth Radu 9781927599242 $21.95 FICTION Apr 24, 2014

Delia, an independent-minded Montreal woman of sixty and sexually experienced, leaves her married lover to go on a cruise along the Volga and enters into a forbidden but lustful and satisfying liaison with Kostya, a young member of the ship's crew. Kostya, looking out for the best opportunity to leave his country, is in it for more than erotic pleasures, something Delia understands and acts accordingly. Inappropriate dalliance, however, on board and ports of call in a Russia at war with Chechnya is not the sole narrative engine of this acutely ... + Read More
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Series: And Sometimes They Fly The disasters of 9/11 trigger a Cataclysm that is unleashed every so many cycles. It can only be Paperback Robert Edison Sandiford 9781897190944 $19.95 FICTION Jul 12, 2013

The disasters of 9/11 trigger a Cataclysm that is unleashed every so many cycles. It can only be averted by the selfless act of the Elect, a trio of exceptional humans who are guided by Milton, a being known as an Elder. The three, all Barbadians, are David Rayside, Marsha Durant and Franck Hurley. And it is their time: to save the world before the deadliest characters of their legends and myths-the baccou, the steel donkey, la djablès, and the heart man-destroy it.... All their lives, the Elect have had their abilities: David, the power of fli... + Read More