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By (author) Ed Seaward
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Eyan, homeless and all but invisible on the streets of Los Angeles, finds solace in the friendship of “the professor,” an erudite and tragic figure who reads to him from Milton’s Paradise Lost. ...

Melt

By (author) Heidi Wicks
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Jess is a sensitive creature of habit. Cait is her passionate and impulsive best friend. In Melt, Heidi Wicks follows the lives of these characters from their teenage years into their late thirties—through ...

Running from the Dead

A six-year search for a kidnapped boy ends in a murder that leaves a private detective trying to find a girl on the run before the police find him.

Rolling Thunder

Former pro wrestler “Hammerhead” Jed Ounstead, now a fully-fledged private investigator, is riding high after his first successful case. In this second episode, Jed leaves the wrestling realm to enter ...

Some People's Children

Imogene Tubbs has never met her father and, raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically. But as she grows older, she learns that many people in her small, rural town believe her father ...

The Transaction

De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily’s hinterland to negotiate a real estate transaction. While en route, the train he’s on mysteriously ...

Speechless

A’isha Nasir is a Nigerian teenager who has been charged with adultery and sentenced to death. Sophie MacNeil is an ambitious young Canadian journalist who meets A’isha and writes an impassioned article ...

In Veritas

In this fantastic and fantastical debut, C. J. Lavigne concocts a wondrous realm overlaying a city that brims with civic workers and pigeons. Led by her synesthesia, Verity Richards discovers a hidden ...

The Liars

Newfoundland, 1895. Alice and John MacDonald, both running from pasts that were too traumatic to face, meet by chance and stay together in a fragile world that’s rife with lies and secrets. The only ...

The Woman in the Attic

On the coast of rural Newfoundland, Hannah Fitzgerald’s mother has lived her life in near total isolation. When Hannah returns to the lonely saltbox house to prepare her mother for the transition into ...