When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket-list road trip, she impulsively says yes. Before she knows it, Tilly has said good-bye to her family and is on an adventure that will transform her in ways she could not predict, just as it will for the elders who soon dub themselves “the Crazy Eights.” The Crazy Eights each choose a stop—somewhere or something they’ve always wanted to experience—on the way to their ultimate goal, the Gathering of Nations...

The author's desire to read the Bible and acquire a relationship with God, resulted in her becoming disgusted at the God in the Bible. Almost an atheist because of the it, the Bible left her feeling angry and let down.The author breaks down many scriptures in the Bible that reveal the horrific truth about who God in the Bible really is. The God that people many people don't want us to know exists is finally revealed, scripture, by horrifying scripture.

After being tossed from foster family to family throughout his life, Aidan has never known anything more than survival. After a fight with his foster father, he is forced to do community service for an elderly shut in. Things are not as they seem with his new acquaintance, and he finds that her true identity reveals a much bigger story than he ever imagined. After waking from reading a mysterious book, Aidan finds himself in a place out of time, with the chance to be a part of something li...

"I almost died today. What have you been up to?" - mit diesem Satz beginnt ein intensives Hörstück über das erste Jahr an der Dialyse. Noël Labridy, die auch als Projektassistentin bei Kulturregen Berlin tätig ist, erzählt von innerer Stärke, Angst und Abhängigkeit. Ihre ehrlichen Beobachtungen machen die Erfahrung universell und berührend. Autorin: Noël Labridy (instagram: @_labridy_) Coach: Svenja Gräfen Sprecherin: Monique Smith-McDowell (instagram: @mon_sm) Musik und Sounddesign: Mr. S...

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEAward-winning author David Bezmozgis’s first story collection in more than a decade, hailed by the Toronto Star as “intelligent, funny, unfailingly sympathetic”In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version of his immigrant childhood. A mysterious tech conference brings a writer to Montreal, where he discovers new designs on the past in “How It Used to...

“One of the best—and most wonderfully experimental—historical fiction titles of the year. . . . Truly spectacular.” —Toronto StarWhat is an ordinary life worth?A seasoned writer stumbles across an obituary and imagination is sparked. The brief words of memoriam describe a woman who was both extraordinary—eccentric, revered in her field, a renowned expert—but also utterly ordinary. How does a writer, intrigued by all that isn’t said, create a story,...

In 1808, the Russian Ship St. Nikolai ran aground off the Olympic Peninsula; this novel is based on this astounding historical event and the lives of the people affected.In 1808, eighteen-year-old Anna Petrovna Bulygina is aboard the Russian ship St. Nikolai when it runs aground off on the west coast of Washington State on the Olympic Peninsula. The crew, tasked with trading for sea otter pelts and exploring the coast, are forced to shore...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom the #1 nationally bestselling author of By Gaslight, a novel of exquisite emotional force about love and art in the life of one of the great writers, reminiscent of Colm Tóibín's The Master, or Michael Cunningham's The Hours.**In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that wil...

From Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin comes an intimate and compelling novel of motherhood, love, a search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.All her life, Lark Brossard felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliant pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally by Lawrence Wheelock, a filmmaker who is both Lark’s employer and her occasional lover. When...

Kobo Originals and West End Phoenix present the second installment of Telegrams from Home, a collection of stories, reflections, and non-traditional work from some of Canada's greatest literary voices writing on the subject of life under quarantine during COVID-19. Featuring work by Amy Stuart, Karen Connelly, Eternity Martis, Kevin Chong, and more, these pieces are interwoven with stories from citizens across Canada providing a diverse set of reflections on the personal ...

This stunningly intimate collection of stories is an exquisite portrait of a Jewish community — the secular and religious families who inhabit it and the tensions that exist there — that illuminates the unexpected ways we remain connected during times of change.When Uncle Isaac moves back from L.A. to help his sister, Elaine Levine, care for her suddenly motherless grandchildren, he finds himself embroiled in even more drama than h...

Set in the neighbourhood of “Little Jamaica,” Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants experiencing first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity in a predominantly white society.Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her North American identity and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandm...