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A songwriter loses his hearing. What remains are forty years of music inside his head and the question of which song was written for whom. In twenty-four chapters, each hung on a single piece of music, he retraces the women of his life – from a girl on a church pew in the North German village of his youth to the late encounters of a life built entirely of sound. Ellen Bruhns weaves half a century ... Read more

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A songwriter loses his hearing. What remains are forty years of music inside his head and the question of which song was written for whom. In twenty-four chapters, each hung on a single piece of music, he retraces the women of his life – from a girl on a church pew in the North German village of his youth to the late encounters of a life built entirely of sound. Ellen Bruhns weaves half a century
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Birthmarks

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One hundred days after the birth. Nora lies in the maternity ward, and the belly is still there - soft, empty and strange. In one hundred short chapters, one for each day, Ellen Bruhns tells of the first months of a young mother: of breastfeeding and sleeplessness, of a body that is suddenly someone else's, and of the tenderness and exhaustion that take turns. And as Nora holds her child, she ... Read more

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One hundred days after the birth. Nora lies in the maternity ward, and the belly is still there - soft, empty and strange. In one hundred short chapters, one for each day, Ellen Bruhns tells of the first months of a young mother: of breastfeeding and sleeplessness, of a body that is suddenly someone else's, and of the tenderness and exhaustion that take turns. And as Nora holds her child, she
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The Summer When Everyone Lied

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Five friends. A holiday house on the Black Lake. And one summer none of them has ever forgotten - however hard they have tried. Decades later, Jonas returns to the place of their childhood, and one by one Clara, David, Mia and Leon find their way back too. What begins as a reunion becomes a reckoning with an old lie: that summer, a boy drowned in the lake. An accident, they said. But each of the ... Read more

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Five friends. A holiday house on the Black Lake. And one summer none of them has ever forgotten - however hard they have tried. Decades later, Jonas returns to the place of their childhood, and one by one Clara, David, Mia and Leon find their way back too. What begins as a reunion becomes a reckoning with an old lie: that summer, a boy drowned in the lake. An accident, they said. But each of the
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Dandelion in Concrete

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July 14, 2003: Diploma in hand, Ellen leaves her parents' working-class apartment - and steps into a world where people eat with five forks and let wine "breathe." Every step of her rise, every new word, every polished vowel takes her further from the kitchen with the oilcloth table, from her father's scarred hands, from the language she grew up speaking. "Dandelion in Concrete" tells the story of ... Read more

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July 14, 2003: Diploma in hand, Ellen leaves her parents' working-class apartment - and steps into a world where people eat with five forks and let wine "breathe." Every step of her rise, every new word, every polished vowel takes her further from the kitchen with the oilcloth table, from her father's scarred hands, from the language she grew up speaking. "Dandelion in Concrete" tells the story of
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Hotel Silence

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"[A] novel of mid-life redemption . . . Ólafsdóttir writes about a good man in crisis with a raw beauty, as he gradually awakens to life and love." — Financial TimesWinner of the Icelandic Literary Prize, Hotel Silence is a delightful and heartwarming new novel from Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, a writer who "upends expectations" ( The New York Times).Jónas Ebeneser is a handy DIY kind of man with a ... Read more

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"[A] novel of mid-life redemption . . . Ólafsdóttir writes about a good man in crisis with a raw beauty, as he gradually awakens to life and love." — Financial TimesWinner of the Icelandic Literary Prize, Hotel Silence is a delightful and heartwarming new novel from Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, a writer who "upends expectations" ( The New York Times).Jónas Ebeneser is a handy DIY kind of man with a
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Galena Bay Odyssey

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A writer and educator reflects on the idealistic, tumultuous, and eye-opening time she spent as a back-to-the-land hippie homesteader in Kootenays in the 1970s.What compelled a nice Jewish girl from the suburbs of New York to spend a decade of her life as a hippie homesteader in the BC wilderness? Galena Bay Odyssey traces Ellen Schwartz’s journey from a born-and-raised urbanite who was terrified ... Read more

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A writer and educator reflects on the idealistic, tumultuous, and eye-opening time she spent as a back-to-the-land hippie homesteader in Kootenays in the 1970s.What compelled a nice Jewish girl from the suburbs of New York to spend a decade of her life as a hippie homesteader in the BC wilderness? Galena Bay Odyssey traces Ellen Schwartz’s journey from a born-and-raised urbanite who was terrified
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What the Soul Doesn't Want

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In her newest collection, Lorna Crozier describes the passage of time in the way that only she can. Her arresting, edgy poems about aging and grief are surprising and invigorating: a defiant balm. At the same time, she revels in the quirkiness and whimsy of the natural world: the vision of a fly, the naming of an eggplant, and a woman who — not unhappily — finds that cockroaches are drawn to her. ... Read more

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In her newest collection, Lorna Crozier describes the passage of time in the way that only she can. Her arresting, edgy poems about aging and grief are surprising and invigorating: a defiant balm. At the same time, she revels in the quirkiness and whimsy of the natural world: the vision of a fly, the naming of an eggplant, and a woman who — not unhappily — finds that cockroaches are drawn to her.
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Subterrane

by Valérie Bah ...

A speculative comedy comprised of a carousel of Black and Queer voices being pushed further underground by urban prosperity.New Stockholm, a metropolis like any other across North America, is unofficially divided between two worlds. Its upwardly mobile form the centre of its gleaming eye, but their prosperity and affluence are not the focus of Zeynab’s government-funded abstract documentary. Her ... Read more

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A speculative comedy comprised of a carousel of Black and Queer voices being pushed further underground by urban prosperity.New Stockholm, a metropolis like any other across North America, is unofficially divided between two worlds. Its upwardly mobile form the centre of its gleaming eye, but their prosperity and affluence are not the focus of Zeynab’s government-funded abstract documentary. Her
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Wild Geese

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Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender FictionIrish novelist Soula Emmanuel’s debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire—charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she’s overeducated and underpaid, but finally settling into her new ... Read more

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Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender FictionIrish novelist Soula Emmanuel’s debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire—charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she’s overeducated and underpaid, but finally settling into her new
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To the Forest

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CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 202349th SHELF EDITORS' PICK FOR JUNE 2023When a family is forced to return to the mother’s childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the violent beauty of the natural world.Fleeing the city at the beginning of the pandemic, two families are cramped together in a small century-old country house. Winter seeps ... Read more

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CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 202349th SHELF EDITORS' PICK FOR JUNE 2023When a family is forced to return to the mother’s childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the violent beauty of the natural world.Fleeing the city at the beginning of the pandemic, two families are cramped together in a small century-old country house. Winter seeps
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For Your Safety Please Hold On

by Kayla Czaga ...

For Your Safety Please Hold On is a truly remarkable first poetry collection from debut talent Kayla Czaga. Her poems are already making waves-several from this collection have received award attention, including: The Fiddlehead's 23rd annual Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, The Malahat Review's 2012 Far Horizon's Award for Poetry and an Editor's Choice Award in *ARC Poetry Magazine'*s 2012 Poem of ... Read more

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For Your Safety Please Hold On is a truly remarkable first poetry collection from debut talent Kayla Czaga. Her poems are already making waves-several from this collection have received award attention, including: The Fiddlehead's 23rd annual Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, The Malahat Review's 2012 Far Horizon's Award for Poetry and an Editor's Choice Award in *ARC Poetry Magazine'*s 2012 Poem of
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Swollening

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Jason Purcell is a writer and musician from amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6, (Edmonton, Alberta), where they are also the co-owner of Glass Bookshop. As a chronically ill writer, they write at the intersection of queerness and illness and is the author of the chapbook A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). Swollening is their first full-length collection. ... Read more

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Jason Purcell is a writer and musician from amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6, (Edmonton, Alberta), where they are also the co-owner of Glass Bookshop. As a chronically ill writer, they write at the intersection of queerness and illness and is the author of the chapbook A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). Swollening is their first full-length collection.
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