“Powerful. . . . Full of dark nostalgia.” —NATHAN ENGLANDER“A literary high-wire act, not for the faint of heart.” —ALISSA YORKAn unflinching and masterful collection of award-winning stories, Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush is a career-making debut. Ranging from an island holiday gone wrong to a dive bar on the upswing to a yuppie mother in a pricey subdivision seeing her worst fears come true, these deftly written stories are popu...

"Powerful ... full of dark nostalgia."-Nathan Englander*The LifeboatAll night in his lifeboat my father sangto keep the voices of the other menwho cried in the wreckage from reaching him,he sang what he knew of the requiem,of the hit parade and the bits of hymns,he sang until he would never sing again,scalding his raw throat with sea-wateruntil his ribs heaved, until the saltwept from his eyes on dry...

Circle Rainbows is but one of the many God stories included in these personal memoirs. The stories reveal Gods presence as He has provided his guidance, protection, and provision throughout the life of the author. This book tells what it was like growing up in the hills of West Virginia, living on a small farm with no electricity, no motorized farm equipment, and no water. The farm horse pulled the plow, and water came from a spring over the hill. Entertainment on the farm was listening to...

Starting a church plant or leading a church can be hard. Every church plant or those with leadership responsibilities are looking to effectively grow their church. As Christians, we were commanded by Jesus to fulfill the great commission. The mission was simple when CedarCreek Church started in 1995, and it is still simple today. Move people to love Jesus, serve others and tell the world about Christ. Why not share the leadership, marketing and innovative knowledge that has been gained for...

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500-year-old Jewish parrot.Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron...

Shortlisted for the 2016 Giller PrizeSelected for Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2016Catherine Leroux's first novel, translated into English brilliantly by Lazer Lederhendler, ties together stories about siblings joined in surprising ways. A woman learns that she absorbed her twin sister's body in the womb and that she has two sets of DNA; a girl in the deep South pushes her sister out of the way of a speeding train, losing her legs; and a po...

In the indeterminate future in an unnamed western city, physical impediments to immortality have been overcome. The prospect of eternal life, however, presents a new problem: rejuvenated bodies require rejuvenated identities. To make the transition, traces of a person’s past are erased and new, complete fictions are implanted in their stead. On occasion, though, cracks emerge, and reminders of discarded lives seep through, thoughts from a previous existence burrowing in the conscious mind....

**Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Toronto Book Award, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction PrizeLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by Globe and Mail, National Post, Guardian, Esquire, New York Public Library, NOW Magazine, Chatelaine, CBC, Quill & Quire, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Kirkus Reviews, and moreA Canada Reads FinalistA...

Following on the heels of his New York Times–bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill gran...

**SHORTLISTED 2014 – Scotiabank Giller PrizeFrom internationally acclaimed New Face of Fiction author Padma Viswanathan, a stunning new work set among families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing, registering the unexpected reverberations of this tragedy in the lives of its survivors. A book of post-9/11 Canada, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao demonstrates that violent politics are all-too-often homegrown in North America but ignored at our peril.**

**Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique.”—The Guardian**In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes “interesting,” the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sister’s ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom literary superstar Ian McEwan Ian McEwan comes Nutshell, a gloriously entertaining, wonderfully imagined novel—a mesmerizing thriller to delight all readers.**"Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space—were it not that I have bad dreams."--William Shakespeare's HamletTrudy has betrayed her husband, John, who trusts and adores her. She'...