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Freehand Books Spring 2020 Trade

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Series: Watershed Paperback Doreen Vanderstoop 9781988298597 $22.95 FICTION May 02, 2020

A fast-paced dystopian novel, about family bonds in the face of climate change, set in near-future Alberta after the glaciers have gone. In Watershed, water is now the most precious resource in Alberta. With the glaciers gone, the province's oil and gas pipelines are being converted to water pipelines. Tensions are high as "water terrorists" threaten to violently cut off the water supply. Against this precarious backdrop, Willa desperately tries to keep her family's failing goat farm afloat. But when her son, Daniel, goes to work for the water... + Read More
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Series: Speechless Paperback Anne Simpson 9781988298627 $22.95 FICTION May 02, 2020

A gripping, poignant novel about a Nigerian teenager and a Canadian journalist about the power of words. A'isha Nasir is a Nigerian teenager who has been charged with adultery. She is sentenced to death by stoning - a sentence to be carried out after her daughter is weaned. Sophie MacNeil is an ambitious, though inexperienced, Canadian journalist living in Nigeria. Speechless is the story of how their lives become intertwined in a fast-paced tale of justice, witness, and courage. Sophie MacNeil is working in Lagos as a contract reporter for t... + Read More
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Series: The End of Me Paperback John Gould 9781988298566 $22.95 FICTION May 02, 2020

56 very short stories about death by Giller Prize finalist John Gould The End of Me is an astonishing set of sudden stories that explores the experience of mortality. With an ear attuned to the uncanny and the ironic, John Gould catches his characters at moments of illumination as they encounter the dark mystery of their finite being. A marooned astronaut bonds with a bereft cat; kids get caught pelting a funeral procession with plums; a woman?s dreams swarm with victims of the new age of extinction; a young girl ponders the brief brutality of ... + Read More