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Shrinks
Tales of Transition
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Psychologists are trained to help others survive grief, trauma, and despair. But what happens when the healers find themselves lost in their own lives? Spanning three decades in Vancouver—from 1981 to 2010—this collection of stories follows three...
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Collected Short Stories
2nd Edition
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No doubt the verdant mountain ranges, the mist and the cold are majestic backdrop providing much of the mystic for Hamada’s Collected Short Stories. But it is the hardy women and men, their refusal to be mere victims of nature or supposed...
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Premonitions of the Ghost
A Collection of Offbeat Fiction
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A jigsaw puzzle in a cryptic antique shop reveals an uncanny power. A patrol officer chases a phantom pickup truck to a tragic end along a bustling Ontario highway. An out-of-left-field baseball card influences a charitable sense of honour. An...
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Drama Bonds
A Collection of Short Stories
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Ordinary life in turn-of-the-millennium Toronto—it’s got way too much drama going on. Though, really, with all those duties to follow and desires to chase, pulling a woman in far too many directions at once, what else could she expect? These...
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Facts and Fabrications (A Mongrel Mixture of Stories)
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Ancient giants in a desolate land; a mysterious death in Academe; an ambush in a spooky glade; and surprising moral conundrums: facts and fabrications weave together unforgettably in this charming “mongrel mixture” of tales.
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Laika's Ghost
Stories by Karl Schroeder
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Ukrainian nuclear engineer Gennady Malianov would rather camp in the ruins of Chornobyl or explore abandoned anthrax factories than talk to another human being. Painfully shy as he is, he finds it soothing dismantling the abandoned...
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Unfettered
A Collection of Quirky Short Stories
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Unfettered is a story collection brimming with unfettered imagination. A captain of a ship ferries dead souls from a natural disaster to the Afterlife, but a living passenger throws a wrinkle into his job. A faerie travels to the human realm...
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Impossible to Figure
Stories to Challenge a Mind, Amuse a Few, and Send a Shiver Down the Spine of Others
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Sick of the lies? Why not laugh at the truth. ANNIE M delivers four fictional stories wrapped in a raw reality, sewn together with threads of humour. This is a dark comedy—more the antithesis of misogyny... and then some [insert sinister snicker...
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Finding Your Way . . . In the Fog of Life
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You think that you’ve made some questionable life decisions? You’re in good company. In Finding Your Way . . . in the Fog of Life, William M. Scovell presents a lively collection of short, fictional tales that shine a light on the humor, mystery,...
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The Berrylove Chronicles
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I don’t think a person can live in any given locality for a prolonged period of time without noticing its peculiarities… So begins The Berrylove Chronicles, a collection of ten interconnected stories set in the fictional town of Berrylove,...
