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  • Big & Fabulous

    The Life and Times of Brenda Cankles
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    Imperfect, impervious and improving, Brenda Cankles is an unlikely heroine. Unfazed by the enduring censure of society, she is determined to realize the fabulous life that she has always believed is her destiny. Brenda’s story—written in the...


  • Behind the Smoke

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    Early in life Garth Winters admired the bravery of firefighters not dreaming one day he would become one. This novel covers the real world of this service industry as it was fifty years ago. It will show you how these men, living in close...


  • The Roofers

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    Life is anything but boring for a roofing crew of good old Northern Ontario boys who work hard and party harder. This unforgettable cast of characters includes Dillon, Bossman, Brudder, Johnny the Ripper, Glenny, and What – a man of few words who...


  • The Lobby

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    Welcome to The Shipley Hotel, where the perky and attentive staff provides the gold standard in artificial concern and comfort to all the colorful characters who pass through its polished brass revolving door and find themselves in The Lobby....


  • The Chaplin Cane

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    The Chaplin Cane explores the life and times of Calman Mencher, a mild mannered accountant who starts off his practice in an office located next to a “smelly deli” then rises up to become a successful businessman with his hands in several pots....


  • The Truth About Caroline

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    Honesty has always presented a problem for Caroline. Manipulating situations and navigating around blunders and deceptions have become second nature to Caroline. She could justify every lie she has ever told, and any truth she ever stretched....


  • Caressing Isis

    A love chronicle
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    Wayne Lacombe is searching for love, recklessly, yet the relationships he pursues repeatedly end in calamity and disaster. The journey begins with a failed marriage, from which Wayne has learned little, and proceeds through a series of comic...


  • Short Haired Wig and Other Stories

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    The Ritz Hotel stood on the corner downtown for decades. Once a proud beacon of the upper classes she hosted, the hotel has fallen on hard times. Hookers stroll the strip in front of the entrance where members of high society once promenaded down...


  • Where is it Written that I have to be like you?

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    Where is it Written that I have to be like you? is an ant farm of rich, quirky characters who live very interesting lives. It is a story about a group of friends who love each other and make us think about what friendship truly is. The reader...


  • Marvin's Novel

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    In this funny and heartwarming novel, a man who has been bullied all his life, first by his parents, then by his wife and even by the students he teaches at university, learns to stand up for himself and take control of his own destiny. “Marvin’s...