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Paulo
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ISBN 1-894800-07-9 The Scent of a Lie
(fiction) 18.95
published 2002 132 pages
Out of print.
Set in two charismatic towns in Portugal, The Scent of a Lie is
a magic realist book of fourteen intertwined stories. Characters weave
in and out of their connected lives in a setting that encourages metaphysical
longing. This is a remarkable debut collection of tales told by a true
storyteller. |
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James
Eke |
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ISBN 1-896860-98-2 Falling Backwards (fiction)
19.95
published 2002 210 pages
A man out for a jog one day decides to keep on running. He leaves his
old meaningless life behind but what else is there? There are signs all
around him but only when he seems to hit bottom on Vancouvers Lower
East Side does he know that he hasnt yet run far enough. |
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Christopher
McPherson |
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ISBN 1-894800-13-3 Bone Island (fiction) 19.95
published 2002 240 pages
When the reclusive novelist Homer Knee turns up dead on the shores of
his Bone Island home, it turns out his latest manuscript is also missing.
When his son Larry finds the manuscript it sets him off on a journey that
will test his loyalties and threaten the very fabric of his life. |
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ISBN 1-896860-35-4 Dragons (fiction) 14.95
published 1998 140 pages
In Dragons a kidnapped woman wakes up chained in a dark cave and
begins to record her thoughts. Locked in a dance of intimacy with her
captor, the darkness and the isolation begin to consume her and the barrier
between reality and dream blurs. |
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Peter
Such |
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ISBN 1-894800-57-5 Earthbaby (fiction) 21.95
published 2004 350 pages
It's 2039, some years after the great die-off, and the American Protectorates
are in turmoil. Andrew Tremaine, last civilian head of NASA, struggles
to prevent Earthbaby, the first deep-space habitat in solar orbit between
Earth and Mars, from becoming a missile launching pad in what is quickly
turning into a civil war. |
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