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Peacocks of Instagram

Par (auteur) Deepa Rajagopalan
Catégories: Nouvelles

Engrossing, witty yet devastating stories about diasporic Indians that deftly question what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.

An underappreciated coffee shop server haunted by ...

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit

Par (auteur) Nadine Sander-Green
Catégories: Littérature générale

A young woman’s coming-of-age through a toxic relationship, isolation, and betrayal—set against the stark landscape of the far north

Millicent is a shy twenty-four-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse ...

Autokrator

Par (auteur) Emily A. Weedon
Catégories: Littérature générale

I am a gender criminal. I am Unmale, yet I write as though I am a person.

Driven by a Machiavellian mind and ego, Tiresius has risen through the ranks of the Autokracy to become Imperial Treasurer, has ...

Silver Repetition

Par (auteur) Lily Wang
Catégories: Littérature générale

Having left China for Canada with her parents as a child, Yuè Yuè yearns to discover who she is as she nears the end of her degree and starts a new relationship. In urgent poetic fragments, she seeks ...

Yara

Par (auteur) Tamara Faith Berger
Catégories: Littérature générale

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Breaking and Entering

Par (auteur) Don Gillmor
Catégories: Littérature générale

Longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize • An Oprah Daily Best Book of 2023 • One of the Globe and Mail's Most Anticipated Titles of 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction ...

This Is How You Start to Disappear

Par (auteur) Astrid Blodgett
Catégories: Nouvelles
Séries: Robert Kroetsch Series

These twelve new short stories from Astrid Blodgett explore the consequences of grief and denial and single moments that change perceptions, lives, and attachments forever. Crisp prose and unexpected ...

A Hostage

When Charlotte is kidnapped by Middle Eastern dictator Kassem, panic is only held at bay by a sardonic Inner Voice, which alternately consoles and condemns. While Kassem appears determined to explain ...

We Have Never Lived On Earth

Par (auteur) Kasia Van Schaik
Catégories: Nouvelles
Séries: Robert Kroetsch Series

Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother ...

The Raw Light of Morning

Par (auteur) Shelly Kawaja
Catégories: Littérature générale

***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – WINNER***

The Raw Light of Morning is a powerful debut novel about women and children finding humour and love in the aftermath of domestic violence. 

Fourteen-year-old Laurel ...