The Breakdown So Far

by M. A. C. Farrant

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The Jonathan Swift of the bingo hall and elder-care,
the Alexander Pope of pet-care and the dinner parties of the liberal intelligentsia,
M.A.C. Farrant continues her assault on the unaccountably disaffected and disillusioned
of the Western world with The Breakdown So Far, her latest volume of
extremely short stories for those of us who seem to have lost both our way and
our attention span.

Exit Strategy

by Kelley Armstrong

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Popular fantasy author Kelley Armstrong (Women
of the Otherworld series) makes her first foray into crime fiction, with
the debut of a series of non-paranormal novels featuring female assassin Nadia
Stafford.

No Margins: Writing Canadian Fiction
in Lesbian

by Catherine Lake

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Elegant tomboys, academic femmes, and small-town
kisses; encounters on the road and in the bar; questions arising from an in-between
culture; cane stalks, sake, fresh-cut flowers, home insemination, and hotel-room
orgasms. Crossing race, culture, and gender constraints, No Margins leads the
reader through the lushness of lesbian life and the vastness of the Canadian
experience.

Stuck in Downward Dog

by Chantel Simmons

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In this charming first novel, the dueling
worlds of yoga and cosmetic enhancement, gourmet dinners and Frankenberry cereal,
self-help books and too-helpful loved ones all conspire to nearly unravel 25-year-old
Mara Brennan. Dumped by her boyfriend, stuck in a job she hates, and living
in a basement apartment, Mara realizes it's time for an identity makeover.

Best Canadian Stories (2006)

by Douglas Glover

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The stories in this collection are technically
fertile, display a curiosity about mysteries of the human heart, and are almost
alarmingly modernist in their tendency to engage in philosophical ruminations
about certainty-they seem to want to know, in other words, what keeps people
going.

The Penguin Book of Contemporary Canadian
Women's Short Stories

by Lisa Moore

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Master short story writer and novelist Lisa
Moore brings her talents to The Penguin Book of Contemporary Canadian Women's
Short Stories, an enthralling and irresistible collection of twenty-two
established writers and talented new voices who attest to the richness and continued
popularity of the short story.

These Four Walls

by Susan Cameron

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Rose Morash is a woman who guards her privacy
and her secrets. From an early age to old age, keeping certain things hidden
was essential to her survival. It is only after Rose's death that her daughter
Barbara uncovers some starting truths - truths that rewrite the past and transform
her own future.