Contemporary Women

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Fake It So Real

Fake it so Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle—the future of “no future. ” It’s 1983, and Gwen, a Nancy Spungen look-alike, meets Damian, the enigmatic leader of a punk band. ...

Why Birds Sing

A charming novel about a disgraced opera singer, her cancer-plagued brother-in-law, a temperamental parrot named Tulip, and a competitive whistling group called the Warblers.

The Spoon Stealer

Emmeline has liberated hundreds of spoons over her lifetime—from the local library, Cary Grant, Winston Churchill. She is a compulsive spoon stealer. When Emmeline unexpectedly inherits the farm she ...

Disappearing in Reverse

By (author) Allie McFarland
Categories: Fiction: general and literary
Series: ISSN

Devin died five years ago. She got an infection, lost her arm, and died. How can Devin be in a picture posted online today?

Disappearing in Reverse is a story of grief and discovery that crosses genres ...

Butter Honey Pig Bread

The acclaimed intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women—twin sisters, Kehinde and Taiye, and their mother—set across three continents: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. | 2021 Canada ...

Cardinal Divide

A father comes out to his daughter as a woman. Or at least, he was once a woman. It’s complicated. Funny. Painful. Eventually joyful. Meanwhile the daughter, who was adopted, has her own identity issues. ...

All I Ask

By (author) Eva Crocker
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Like Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls, All I Ask by the award-winning and highly acclaimed author Eva Crocker is a defining novel of a generation, a bold ...

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 ...

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 ...

I Can't Get You Out of My Mind

Ariadne, a single, fortysomething writer embroiled in an affair with a married man, is writing a book about what it means to say, “I love you. ” To make ends meet while writing, she joins a research ...