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On Impulse eBook Series

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  • 2000 Deciduous Trees

    Memories of a Zine

    by Nath Jones ...
    Series series On Impulse
    2000 Deciduous Trees is an exploration of individual experience selected from Nath Jones’s ‘90s zine, The Skirt. The writing resists losing its balance during a time when gasoline was cheap and no one drove slowly on the cusp of the new millennium. The voice yearns for change. But nothing can be done in a twenty-something world where one-night stands get forgotten with execution-style murders ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • Love & Darts

    Stories

    by Nath Jones ...
    Series series On Impulse
    2012 Anderbo Self-Published Book Award Entry of NoteHonorable Mention at the 2012 Paris Book FestivalYou'll be entranced by these twenty-four stories as Nath Jones finds her way into this fun and biting life. She does not shy away from mortality but conducts you from the kaleidoscopic moment when a toddler loses her innocence to the last breath an old man takes in a rowboat at sunrise.About the On ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • The War is Language

    101 Short Works

    by Nath Jones ...
    Series series On Impulse
    Winner of the 2013 Eric Hoffer E-book Fiction AwardThe War is Language is a destruction of narrative, an experimental collection of flash fiction. These often humorous pieces exist at story's amorphous limit of spoken word and deconstruction. This disordered collection makes a mosaic with cathartic, inflammatory language.About the On Impulse eBook Series:If you read the tag on a shirt and think, ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

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  • How Did You Get This Number

    by Sloane Crosley ...
    From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City-always teetering between the glamour of Manhattan parties, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

    A Novel

    by Tom Robbins ...
    Get ready for “the ride of your life” (Entertainment Weekly) with this blazingly original novel from the New York Times bestselling author hailed by Financial Times as “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world.”“Tom Robbins has proved he is the emperor of description, the master of metaphor, the sultan of simile—the man is like Jackson Pollock with a word processor.”—San ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • You & Me

    A Novel

    by Padgett Powell ...
    Padgett Powell, author of the acclaimed The Interrogative Mood and “one of the few truly important American writers of our time” (Sam Lipsyte), returns with a hilarious Southern send-up of Samuel Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot.Truly a master of envelope-pushing, post-postmodern American fiction, in a class with Nicholas Baker and Lydia Davis, Powell brilliantly blends the sublime, the trivial ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Truck

    A Love Story

    by Michael Perry ...
    A part-time emergency medical technician humorously chronicles life in a small Wisconsin town, featuring tales of romance and auto repair.Hilarious and heartfelt, Truck: A Love Story is the tale of a man struggling to grow his own garden, fix his old pickup, and resurrect a love life permanently impaired by Neil Diamond. In the process, he sets his hair on fire, is attacked by wild turkeys, and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Versed

    by Rae Armantrout ...
    A double collection—containing Versed and Dark Matter—from one of the most brilliant poets of her generation.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the National Book Award for PoetryRae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences toge... ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Symmetry

    by Anthony Liccione ...
    In a world of imperfection and instability, Symmetry is a collection of poetry that reflects an imprecise sense of dissonant and indefinite moments in time proportional to balance; such that it underlies the beauty and perfection that may linger in life. It runs the off-course of the extraordinary structural beauty, by focusing on the balanced and pleasant view of tragically opposed wills, that ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Somebody Else Sold the World

    by Adrian Matejka ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer PrizeThe poems in Adrian Matejka's newest and fifth collection, Somebody Else Sold the World, meditate on the ways we exist in an uncontrollable world: in love and its aftermaths, in families that divide themselves, in protest-filled streets, in isolation as ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Easy Math

    by Lauren Shapiro, Marie Howe ...
    Witty poems that are “full of vim and vinegar . . . Remember when we all got out of school for the fire alarm? This is even better” (Dean Young).Selected by Marie Howe for the 2011 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Easy Math is anxious and exuberant both. Lauren Shapiro’s poems are Aesop stood on end, wry fables that defy our instinct to find a moral to the story. Instead, she offers us a gimlet eye to the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Year of Endless Sorrows

    A Novel

    by Adam Rapp ...
    From "one of the more daring young stylists working today" ( Time Out New York) comes a novel of New York in the early '90s and one man's brutally funny coming of age.New York City, the early 1990s: the recession is in full swing and young people are squatting in abandoned buildings in the East Village while the homeless riot in Tompkins Square Park. The Internet is not part of daily life; the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD