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Degrees of Nakedness

By (author) Lisa Moore
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

In Degrees of Nakedness, Lisa Moore's first story collection, the joys and distresses of love course through modern-day Newfoundland like an electric current.

Lisa Moore's stories are bright, emotionally ...

Escape!

By (author) John Reid
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Based on Leon Trotsky’s real-life imprisonment in Amherst, Nova Scotia, this adventure tells the tale of 13-year-old Russian emigré Alexi Gertoff and his chance meeting with Lev, Leon Trotsky’s son. ...

Family Matters

Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, Family Matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman ...

Open

By (author) Lisa Moore
Categories: Short stories

Lisa Moore's Open makes you believe three things unequivocally: that St. John's is the centre of the universe, that these stories are about absolutely everything, that the only certainty in life comes ...

Strike the Wok

Edited by Lien Chao & Jim Wong-Chu
Categories: Anthologies: general

A young man contemplates piano lessons and hockey; two misfits in Chinatown discover love; a Vancouver woman fondly recalls her parent’s old house in Newfoundland; a girl goes to Canada to escape her ...