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  • The Ruin of Magic

    Longing and Belonging in Strange Times

    by Kate Holden ...
    A poetic, roaming work of creativity and intellectIs it possible to live wondrously by fluorescent light?In The Ruin of Magic, award-winning writer Kate Holden follows in the footsteps of Katherine May, Maggie Nelson and André Aciman, crafting essays of intimate personal experience and sharply informed rumination on life in strange times.In gorgeous prose Holden meditates on her instinctive ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In My Skin

    A Memoir of Addiction

    by Kate Holden ...
    This is the frank, harrowing, and true story of one young woman’s descent into addiction and prostitution, and the long arduous struggle to reclaim her life. A shy, bookish college graduate, a nice girl from a solid middle-class home but uncertain of her way in life, Kate Holden tried her first hit of heroin as a one-time experiment—an adventure with friends—but the drug took over. Hooked, she ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Winter Road

    A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek

    by Kate Holden ...
    True crime writing at its finest, from the multi-award-winning, bestselling author of In My SkinWinner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award, 2022 NSW Premiers Literary Awards: Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, and 2022 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (non-fiction).In July 2014, on a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales, 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull took out a .22 and shot ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    The Ruin of Magic

    Longing and Belonging in Strange Times

    by Kate Holden ...
    Narrated by Anna Hruby ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    A poetic, roaming work of creativity and intellectIs it possible to live wondrously by fluorescent light?In The Ruin of Magic, award-winning writer Kate Holden follows in the footsteps of Katherine May, Maggie Nelson and André Aciman, crafting essays of intimate personal experience and sharply informed rumination on life in strange times.In gorgeous prose Holden meditates on her instinctive ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Notes From the Underground: Spring 2019 - Growing Pains

    Notes from the Underground: Maclay Upper School's Journal of Creative Writing, #6

    by Mariam Alvi, Emma Grace Bass, Jolie Baus, Helen Bradshaw, Maria Cascio, Ellie Casteel, Ananda Chatterjee, Isabella Choice, Madison Cordle, Simon Corpuz, Jainey Coates, Tayley Cotton, Mercy Crapps, Julia Croston, Holden Crumpler, Anna Kate Daunt, Ryan Daunt, Chandler Downie, Emily Dudley, Ezi Emenike, Lauren Fleischer, Laura Kathryn Foote, Lindsay Garrett, Lindsay Gray, Noah Greenstein, Chloe Harbin, Jack Hildebrandt, Abigail Hugill, Jackson Hugill, Isabel Hutchinson, Eli Jaffe, Riley Karpinski, Kate Krizner, Clara Catherine Lunny, Kenzie Mazziotta, Mary Allison McCue, Eli Mears, John Messer, Lexi O'Rourke, Cody Paddack, Sonu Patel, Eric Phipps, Sameer Ponnaluri, Devin Rankin, Collin Roberts, Madeleine Roberts, Emily Roden, Lilly Simons, Holly Sims, Lucy Smith, Bella Snider, Abbey Stejskal, De'Yanni Stephens, Spencer Sundberg, Michael Sweeney, Owen Tabah, Ethan Tetrault, Isabel Thompson, Grant Valveri, Judy Wang, Prophecy Wilson ...
    Series Book 6 - Notes from the Underground: Maclay Upper School's Journal of Creative Writing
    We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existentialist piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature. The unnamed narrator is frequently named an anti-hero and is described by the note on the back of the Dover edition as "a profoundly alienated individual in whose ... Read more

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  • Notes from the Underground: Fall 2018 - I Am Entirely Up to Me

    Notes from the Underground: Maclay Upper School's Journal of Creative Writing, #5

    by Rachel Abbott, Mariam Alvi, Emma Grace Bass, Helen Bradshaw, Dylan Burhans, Ellie Casteel, Ananda Chatterjee, Jainey Coates, Madison Cordle, Simon Corpuz, Mercy Crapps, Holden Crumpler, Anna Kate Daunt, Drew Daunt, Justine de Saint Mars, Chandler Downie, Emily Dudley, Lauren Fantle, Lauren Fleischer, Braden Foster, Linsdey Grey, Sarah Halbert, Hailey Hobbs, Abigail Hugill, Jackson Hugill, Isabel Hutchinson, Nahal Suzanne Jamir, Madeline Lillie, Caroline Rose Lunny, Clara Cather Lunny, Haley Mainwaring, Kenzie Mazziotta, Mary Allison McCue, Eli Mears, John Messer, Kendall Minter, Ashlynn Moayad, Victor Oguledo, Lexi O'Rourke, Cody Paddack, Eljin Rhymes, Madeline Roberts, Avery Shaver, Lilly Simons, Holly Sims, Lucy Smith, Bella Snider, Abbey Stejskal, Rachael Stockel, Madelyn Stout, Logan Sundberg, Spencer Sundberg, Ethan Tetrault, Kenny Tran, Judy Wang, Grace Wells ...
    Series Book 5 - Notes from the Underground: Maclay Upper School's Journal of Creative Writing
    We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature. The unnamed narrator is frequently named an anti-hero and is described by the note on the back of the Dover edition as a "profoundly alienated individual in whose ... Read more

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    From Being Perfect to Being Real

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  • Demon Copperhead

    A Novel

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