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Colours in Her Hands
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781990601774
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Freehand Books
A witty, layered and compelling novel about a woman with Down Syndrome, exploring textile art, sibling relationships, good intentions gone awry, and friendships.Colours in Her Hands introduces us to...
(In)visible
Price:
CA$17.00
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771838528
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome as a teenager, Adam, now a 26-year-old freelance designer, attends his first meeting at a social support group. Here he meets Anna, a charity worker with a face...
Cut Road
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771837255
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Guernica Editions
A rich mix of acclaimed and award-winning stories. Containing a rich mix of acclaimed and award-winning stories, Cut Road is a masterful exploration of...
Dancing with Chairs in the Music House
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771338059
Pub Date: November 2020
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Winner, 2021 IPPY Bronze Medal for Canada-East Best Regional Fiction.
Precocious ten-year-old Vanessa Dudley-Morris knows lots of secrets. In 1949 when she and her family are forced to move into two rooms on the second floor of 519 Jarvis Street in Toronto, a genteel but somewhat rundown rooming house owned by a reclusive pianist, she learns a lot more.
Despite the family's drastically reduced circumstances, her parents struggle to keep up their old standards. Threatened by blindness due to an eye condition, Vanessa is kept at home, tutored by an erratic succession of eccentrics, some with questionable credentials. Consequently, she spends a lot of time alone, wandering the dim corridors of the old house, silently listening at doors and watching the odd characters who live there. She becomes fascinated by a mother and son who move into a room on the third floor. Eventually she agrees to take secret notes from the...
In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781928088578
Pub Date: May 2018
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo is a charming, tender and often funny story of a father struggling to let his daughters grow up and of a family struggling against hard odds, taking care of each other when the world lets them down.
A Handbook for Beautiful People
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771334419
Pub Date: October 2017
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Winner, 2017 IPPY Bronze Medal for Popular Fiction
When twenty-two-year-old Marla finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she wishes for a family, but faces precariousness: an uncertain future with her talented, exacting boyfriend, Liam; constant danger from her roommate, Dani, a sometime prostitute and entrenched drug addict; and the unannounced but overwhelming needs of her younger brother, Gavin, whom she has brought home for the first time from deaf school. Forcing her hand is Marla's fetal alcohol syndrome, which sets her apart but also carries her through. When Marla loses her job and breaks her arm in a car accident, Liam asks her to marry him. It's what she's been waiting for: a chance to leave Dani, but Dani doesn't take no for an answer. Marla stays strong when her mother shows up drunk, creates her own terms when Dani publicly shames her, and then falls apart when Gavin attempts suicide. It rains,...
Colours in Her Hands
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781990601774
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Freehand Books
(In)visible
CA$17.00 CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771838528
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Cut Road
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771837255
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Dancing with Chairs in the Music House
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771338059
Pub Date: November 2020
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Winner, 2021 IPPY Bronze Medal for Canada-East Best Regional Fiction.
Precocious ten-year-old Vanessa Dudley-Morris knows lots of secrets. In 1949 when she and her family are forced to move into two rooms on the second floor of 519 Jarvis Street in Toronto, a genteel but somewhat rundown rooming house owned by a reclusive pianist, she learns a lot more.
Despite the family's drastically reduced circumstances, her parents struggle to keep up their old standards. Threatened by blindness due to an eye condition, Vanessa is kept at home, tutored by an erratic succession of eccentrics, some with questionable credentials. Consequently, she spends a lot of time alone, wandering the dim corridors of the old house, silently listening at doors and watching the odd characters who live there. She becomes fascinated by a mother and son who move into a room on the third floor. Eventually she agrees to take secret notes from the...
In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781928088578
Pub Date: May 2018
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo is a charming, tender and often funny story of a father struggling to let his daughters grow up and of a family struggling against hard odds, taking care of each other when the world lets them down.
A Handbook for Beautiful People
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771334419
Pub Date: October 2017
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Winner, 2017 IPPY Bronze Medal for Popular Fiction
When twenty-two-year-old Marla finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she wishes for a family, but faces precariousness: an uncertain future with her talented, exacting boyfriend, Liam; constant danger from her roommate, Dani, a sometime prostitute and entrenched drug addict; and the unannounced but overwhelming needs of her younger brother, Gavin, whom she has brought home for the first time from deaf school. Forcing her hand is Marla's fetal alcohol syndrome, which sets her apart but also carries her through. When Marla loses her job and breaks her arm in a car accident, Liam asks her to marry him. It's what she's been waiting for: a chance to leave Dani, but Dani doesn't take no for an answer. Marla stays strong when her mother shows up drunk, creates her own terms when Dani publicly shames her, and then falls apart when Gavin attempts suicide. It rains,...