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Essential Anthologies eBook Series

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  • Polish(ed)

    Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction

    Edited by Kasia Jaronczyk ...
    Series Book 10 - Essential Anthologies
    What is the literary and cultural benefit of a diaspora anthology? It presents work from a community, a family of writers. It represents a cultural contribution to Canadian literature. It makes it known where they come from personally and metaphorically, what inspires them. In this case, they are all writers who share Polish-ness, in whatever ways we define it, as a part of their personal story, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Zsuzsi Gartner ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZEA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOKThe perfect next read for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh and George Saunders, an electrifying debut about a woman who is transformed into a real life “flesh-and-blood Wailing Wall” as strangers unburden their sins to her at every turn.**Lucy is a lapsed Catholic whose adolescent pretensions to sainthood are unexpectedly revived ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Between Men

    Best New Gay Fiction

    by Richard Canning ...
    Lambda Literary Award-winning editor Richard Canning brings together all new work by Edmund White, Dale Peck, James McCourt, Andrew Holleran, and others. ... Read more

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  • The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

    50 North American Stories Since 1970

    by Michael Martone ...
    Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The End of Me

    by John Gould ...
    56 very short stories about death from Giller Prize finalist John GouldThe End of Me is an astonishing set of sudden stories about the experience of mortality. With an ear attuned to the uncanny and the ironic, John Gould catches his characters at moments of illumination as they encounter the mystery of their finite being. A marooned astronaut bonds with a bereft cat; kids pelt a funeral ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Escape

    short Australian stories

    by Bronwyn Mehan ...
    All the best stories are but one story in reality−the story of escape. It is the only thing whichinterests us all and at all times, how to escape.A.C. BensonEscapist literature is traditionally the domain of well-loved genres. In Escape,we aim to disturb expectations, and to delight. Turn the page and here isexperimentation, here fantasy. Here’s crime, existentialism and romance. Nowan escape ... Read more

    $7.15 USD

  • Best Canadian Stories 2023

    Edited by Mark Anthony Jarman ...
    Series series Best Canadian
    Selected by editor Mark Anthony Jarman, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2021.A collection that takes us into a firey near-future and a notorious feminist’s personal past, from a near-drowning to a fake breakdown, through mothers who fail us to crummy jobs, to thieves, to grief, to revenge with a bottle of tabasco sauce. With work ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • We Have Never Lived On Earth

    by Kasia Van Schaik ...
    Series series 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 and daughter wait out the end of a bad year in a Mexican hotel; a friendship is tested as forest fires demolish Charlotte’s town; a childhood friend disappears while travelling through Europe; and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Leaving Now

    by Arleen Paré ...
    In Leaving Now Arleen Paré, winner of the 2008 Victoria Book Prize, weaves fable, prose and poetics to create a rich mosaic of conflicted motherhood. Set in the volatile 1970s and '80s, when social norms and expectations were changing rapidly, Leaving Now is the emotionally candid story of a mother's anguish as she leaves her husband to love a woman. In this second book, Paré masterfully blends ... Read more

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  • Granta 115

    The F-Word

    by John Freeman ...
    Women in the twenty-first century - from Kent to Accra - still live in a world in which the balance of power remains tipped towards men.This bold, political issue of Granta will explore this dynamic from a wide variety of literary genres and perspectives. Rachel Cusk provides a startlingly honest account of a marriage, its breakdown, and the aftermath; Caroline Moorehead gives voice to women who ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Fat Kid

    by Paul Vermeersch ...
    Poetry kills the beautiful people. The Fat Kid , Paul Vermeersch's second full-length collection of poetry, chronicles a childhood troubled by obesity, poor body image, and low self-esteem. The media's perfect faces, societal expectations, family concerns, and primitive socialization rituals collide with the already horrendous physical and emotional tribulations of adolescence to drive Calvin ... Read more

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  • The Art of Trespassing

    Edited by Anna Leventhal ...
    The Art of Trespassing explores the systems and structures that frame our everyday lives. Contributors imagine networks, neighbourhoods and relationships, exposing them as both confining and liberating. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD