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FALL 2008

Good to a Fault                                  read reviews

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Good to a Fault
A Novel
Marina Endicott

6 x 9, paperback, 376 pages
ISBN: 978-1-55111-929-8 / 1-55111-929-3
Publication: September 2008
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In a novel reminiscent of the work of Penelope Lively, Anne Tyler, and Alice Munro, acclaimed author Marina Endicott gives us one of the most most profound, most memorable reads of the year. Absorbed in her own failings, Clara Purdy crashes her life into a sharp left turn, taking the young family in the other car along with her. More

 

Pathologies                                         read reviews

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Pathologies
Essays
Susan Olding

5.5 x 8.5, paperback, 272 pages
ISBN: 978-1-55111-930-4 / 1-55111930-7
Publication: September 2008
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“In simple terms, pathology is the scientific study of the way things go wrong.”

In these fifteen searingly honest personal essays, debut author Susan Olding takes us on an unforgettable journey into the complex heart of being human. More

Mother Superior                                read reviews

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Mother Superior
Stories
Saleema Nawaz

5.5 x 8.5, paperback, 296 pages
ISBN: 978-1-55111-927-4 / 1-55111-927-7
Publication: September 2008
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Mother Superior introduces Saleema Nawaz as a truly bold new voice in fiction. Gorgeous, sensuous prose and edgy, taboo-breaking subject matter combine to create a collection quite unlike anything else being published today. These seven stories and two novellas are a heady blend of misfits and mothers, of sisters and mysterious others. More

 

It's Hard Being Queen                                     read reviews

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It’s Hard Being Queen:
The Dusty Springfield Poems

Jeanette Lynes

6 x 8.5, paperback, 96 pages
ISBN: 978-1-55111-926-7 / 1-55111-926-9
Publication: September 2008
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In this, her fourth book of poetry, one of Canada’s best-loved poets takes on one of the most compelling divas of our time. In sixty-one audacious poems, Jeanette Lynes re-imagines and reanimates the peripatetic art, life, and times of Dusty Springfield. More

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