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Czech Techno & Other Stories of Music

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From the author of 19 Knives and My White Planet comes a brilliant suite of stories built around music and travel. Whether it’s a band coming apart at the ruins […]

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Dance the Rocks Ashore

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<p>Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. This collection of short stories, <i>Dance the Rocks Ashore</i>, is certainly choice Choyce.</p> <p><i>Dance the Rocks Ashore</i> contains substantial new stories including […]

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Danger Revealed

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<p><b>Can Rayen escape her ruthless Chicago crime boss? Escape with the riveting rollercoaster ride of “Danger Revealed.” This suspenseful novel will keep you on the edge-of-your-seat until the very end and wanting more!</b></p>

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Daughters of Silence

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<p><b>Strong female voice, a clear-eyed narrator examining self and family.</b></p><p>Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe. Dessie, a cosmopolitan flight attendant from Canada, finds […]

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Day for Night

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Set in London against a backdrop of growing authoritarianism and anxiety, a story of cinema and desire, the mysteries of marriage and creativity, and the often-violent returns and reversals of history.

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Days of Feasting and Rejoicing

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<p>In this brilliant existential portrayal of identity, David Bergen introduces Esther Maile, an expat American living in Thailand in a house rented by the richer, more popular Christine. While on […]

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Dead and Not Dead

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Calvin’s life is at a crossroads. He needs to figure out why he exists, or if he exists at all. He begins a relationship with Susie, who lives in Pi’tawk, […]

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Dead Letter

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<p>It is 2001 and the police constable’s girlfriend is murdered in a fit of jealous rage. When the constable realizes what he has done, he manages an elaborate cover-up. Only one person knows the truth. </p>
<p>Flash forward to 2012. Anne Brown is still running her late uncle, Bill Darby’s, detective agency after spending four or five years as his assistant. One day, the postman delivers an eleven year-old letter. The letter is addressed to her uncle from a woman named Carolyn Jollimore. She says she has evidence about a murder and begs for help from Darby. But Bill Darby is dead. And when Anne looks up the letter’s author, she finds that Jollimore too is now dead. Troubled with the evidence at hand, Anne must decide if she should investigate this eleven-year old murder.</p>

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Death & Other Inconveniences

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<p><b>National bestselling author Lesley Crewe’s new novel explores widowhood, complicated family dynamics, and growing up at any age.</b></p> <p>Well, Dick’s dead. Now what?</p> <p>Margo, his widow, is trying to dodge […]

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Death and Life of Strother Purcell

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<p><b>The man, the myth, the one-eyed legend: a frontier epic for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy.</b></p><p>In 1876, the fabled lawman Strother Purcell disappears into a winter storm in […]

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Death on Darby’s Island

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<b>A gripping contemporary murder mystery set in rural Newfoundland from the author of Last Lullaby</b>

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Decoding Dot Grey

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<p><b>A heartfelt YA coming-of-age novel set in an animal shelter from the award-winning author of In the Wake, exploring grief, first love, and growing pains.</b></p> <p>Eighteen-year-old Dot Grey doesn’t hate […]

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Flynn’s War

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<p>After returning from active service in the Second World War, Jimmy Flynn is living alone with his nightmares — until a suspicious death and unexpected inheritance draw him back to […]

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Folk Tale Journey Through the Maritimes

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<p>These are the folk tales from Dr. Helen Creighton’s life journey through the Maritime Provinces, collecting songs and ghost stories and old cures–and folk tales. Helen serves as our guide, introducing us to storytellers, setting the scene of the telling–and then she lets the person tell the story just as it was told to her.</p><p>The feel of the kitchen and the fish shed still cling to these stories. Some are long, really miraculous folk tales–miraculous in detail and in that they have managed to survive. Others are the brief riddle or the tantalizing quick-telling that a folklorist can expect along the way. Helen kept it all. And taken as a whole, the reality and intensity of those rare smaller pieces reveal their value in among the more finished, well-told tales.</p><p>Both Helen Creighton and <i>A Folk Tale Journey Through the Maritimes</i> are Atlantic treasures. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Taft and Ronald Caplan, and a Motif Index by Michael Taft.</p>

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Forbidden Purple City

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<p><b>Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019</b></p><p>A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge […]

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Foul Deeds

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A professional criminologist, Rosalind works with a cranky private investigator named McBride—a long-time association that has led her from one sordid foray to another in the world of crime. Her passionate escape is theatre and her latest venture is with a company of out-of-work actors putting on an independent production of Hamlet. Shakespeare’s language is a fabulous distraction until the uncanny parallels between life and art begin to unnerve her. Peter King, a respected environmental lawyer working tirelessly to keep water in the public domain, dies suddenly. Is it murder? His son Daniel thinks so. And as Roz and McBride delve deeper into the case, it becomes all too clear that there are those who will stop at nothing to ensure their foul deeds stay buried.

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Four for Fogo Island

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<p><strong>Award recognition for Two for the Tablelands: </strong></p> <p><strong >***THE HOWARD ENGEL AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL SET IN CANADA 2021 – SHORTLIST***</strong></p> <p><strong >***ATLANTIC BOOKS TODAY STAFF PICK 2021 […]

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Glace Bay Miner’s Museum

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In a colliery town, sirens from the mine can mean cave-ins, explosions, or, as in the Westray disaster, sudden death.
Sheldon Currie, author of The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum was born in Reserve Mines, Cape Breton, and judging by the headlong intensity of this novel, he still hears those sirens.
The story begins as shy, awkward Margaret MacNeil meets a strapping miner named Neil Currie. She’s already had her father and a brother die in the coalpits, but she hopes that Neil will be more lucky.

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Glass Voices

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Surviving the Halifax Explosion is one thing, but how do Lucy Caines and her wayward husband, Harry, a couple who lose everything to the event’s horrors, make peace with their grief? Rebuilding on the rustic shores of Halifax’s Northwest Arm, steps from where the shaft of the <I>Mont Blanc</I>’s anchor lands that fateful day in 1917. But coping with the disappearance on that day of their infant daughter, they descend into an isolating denial: Lucy through guilt and reticence, and Harry through drinking and gambling. Despite the birth of a treasured son, each faces a future clouded by fear and apprehension. Then, fifty-two years after the catastrophe, Harry suffers a stroke. Lucy confronts the miracle of their survival and their debilitating loss, re-examining the past and her role in its making, and struggling to become the author of her own happiness.

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Going Fast

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<p>In this punchy, uproarious romp of a novel, the Halifax boxing world — peopled with has-beens, wannabes, and posers dressed in spandex, leopard prints, and tie dye — touches gloves […]

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Growing Up Next to The Mental

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<p align=”left”><span style=”COLOR: rgb(33,33,33); TEXT-ALIGN: justify; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial”>Wish Mooney’s earliest memory in life is finding a corpse in the Waterford River. </span>Jarring stuff for a four-year-old, yet far from the most shocking or bizarre event he would witness growing up in west-end St. John’s, next door to the Waterford Hospital. Or as it was unabashedly labelled before the advent of political correctness: The Mental. An unfortunate moniker by today’s stigma standards, but one legitimately derived from the original name of the place—The Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases—when it opened in 1854. Not until 1972 would it be renamed after the river that runs by it. But in Mooney’s world, which revolves mostly in and around the asylum’s drab, depressing confines, it was colloquially The Mental just as its largely despondent inhabitants were the mental patients. Of course, they were called a lot of other things, too. Such terms and corresponding attitudes were still very much par for the course in the mid-1970s, as the bullied Mooney and co-horts traipsed all over The Mental, and its adjacent field, with reckless abandon and little regard for the consequences of what they did or, maybe more importantly, what they said. Even less consideration was given to any risk in all that, since run-ins with patients—for whom the field was allegedly put there—were usually harmless and sometimes honestly comical. Thus was the oft-surreal environment that unavoidably enveloped Wish and the rest of his strictly Irish-Catholic eight-member Mooney clan, including the quietly acknowledged other realities of the place—the sad, the tragic, the maniacal. Little did Wish ever consider that any or all of that would come full circle later in life when, as the court reporter for the <i>Daily News</i>, he is thrust into the middle of his own life story, replete with shocking conclusion.</p></span></span>

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Gunsmith’s Daughter

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<p>1971. Lilac Welsh lives an isolated life with her parents at Rough Rock on the Winnipeg River. Her father, Kal, stern and controlling, has built his wealth by designing powerful […]

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Hard Ticket

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<p><strong>hard ticket noun (Nfld) a lively character, a tough or headstrong person, someone not easily controlled. </strong></p> <p><em >Hard Ticket</em> showcases some of the most exciting writers in Newfoundland. Selected by […]