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  • The Sky Is Falling

    A Novel

    by Caroline Adderson ...
    From the winner of the 2006 Marian Engel Award comes a funny, absorbing and timely novel about fear in our time.On a spring day in 2004, Jane Z. a physician's wife and mother of a teenage son, opens her morning newspaper and is shocked to see a familiar face on the front page. Sonia, a lost friend accused of terrorism, has just been released after twenty years in prison. It all comes flooding back ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pleased to Meet You

    Stories

    by Caroline Adderson ...
    These nine razor-sharp stories herald the return of one of Canada’s most accomplished writers to the short story form. Stylistically varied and linguistically confident, here are compulsively readable stories that plumb the complexities of the human heart. A dying Finn, a philandering photographer recovering from an emergency splenectomy, a young woman heavy with an hysterical pregnancy - these ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ellen In Pieces

    A Novel

    by Caroline Adderson ...
    In this witty, compelling and genre-bending novel, a single mother navigates the loves, lusts and losses of middle age to arrive at a final, bittersweet contentment.Ellen McGinty: sexy, impulsive, loud-mouthed, chock full of regrets. In middle age she sells the house she raised her daughters in, slips off the shell of her old life, and steps out for a first, tentative foray into real contentment- ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • I, Bruno

    by Caroline Adderson ...
    Illustrated by Helen Flook ...
    Series series Orca Echoes
    Bruno is a boy with particular tastes and ideas.He will not, for example, eat anything green. He spends one day as Sir Bruno and another as the Queen. He is an entrepreneur and he understands the language of Car. Bruno is a boy worth knowing. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Middle of Nowhere

    by Caroline Adderson ...
    At first Curtis isn't that worried when his mother doesn't come home from her all-night job at the local gas bar. She'll be back, he's ten out of ten positive. After all, she promised she would never leave him again. Besides, Curtis is used to looking after himself and his five-year-old brother, Artie, and for a time he manages things on his own, keeping their mother's absence a secret. He knows ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sunny Days Inside

    and Other Stories

    by Caroline Adderson ...
    When the “grownup virus” hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings.And they survive brilliantly, each in their own way. Twin boys throw themselves into an independent research assignment on prehistoric people and embrace their own devolution. A budding track star is encouraged to run laps on his balcony ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Off the Record

    by Caroline Adderson, Kristyn Dunnion, Cynthia Flood, Shaena Lambert, Elise Levine, Kathy Page ...
    Editor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how they became writers instead of radio announcers or cabinet makers. The essays collected here, each accompanied by a short story, offer fascinating insight into the relationships between writers, their ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Mostly True Story of Pudding Tat, Adventuring Cat

    by Caroline Adderson ...
    Illustrated by Stacy Innerst ...
    The delightful adventures of a visually impaired barn cat and his annoying flea, as they set off to experience the world and find themselves participants in some of the most remarkable events of the early twentieth century.Pudding Tat is born on the Willoughby Farm in 1901 — just another one of Mother Tat’s kittens. But it turns out that Pudding is anything but ordinary. He is pure white with pink ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Way to Be Happy

    by Caroline Adderson ...
    Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A CBC Best Fiction Book of the YearShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness.On New Year’s Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town, where she receives a life-changing ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests

    by Caroline Adderson ...
    Illustrated by Lauren Tamaki ...
    A funny new fable about artistic creation and chasing fame, imagined by award-winning author Caroline Adderson, and inspired by one of Japan’s most famous haikus, “The Old Pond.”Bashō, a 17th-century poet on an evening walk, stops to rest next to a murky old pond. Here, readers may expect he will encounter the frog that inspired his renowned poem:Old pond—Frog jumps inSplash!But before the frog ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Forgetting

    by Caroline Adderson ...
    Caroline Adderson's Ellen in Pieces, forthcoming this fall, is whispered to be the best Canadian book of the year. The title story ("Ellen-Celine Celine-Ellen") won the Gold National Magazine Award in Canada in 2013. If Ellen in Pieces makes as many shortlists as we expect it might, Caroline Adderson will have considerable CDN media buzz going into spring 2015.A reprint title that's never been ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Bruno for Real

    by Caroline Adderson ...
    Illustrated by Helen Flook ...
    Series series Orca Echoes
    Seven-year-old Bruno is back and tackling problems with his trademark originality.He defeats hiccups. He trades his mother for a new hat. He skillfully avoids math. And thanks to his special Flutter Kick, he easily advances to the next level—in swimming and in life! Bruno is ready for any challenge as he learns all there is to know about being a boy.The epub edition of this title is fully ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus