Literary

The Douglas Notebooks: A Fable

by Christine Eddie

Roman was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land rather than his family's wealth. Éléna flees a house of blood and mayhem,...

The Kelly affair

by Paul D. Brazill

The third chapter of Luke’s wondering around Europe reveals part of his secrets. What is he hiding behind drinks and cigarettes, pubs and women?

Come From Nowhere

by Ellen Greenfield & Keana Texeira

In the early hours of July 13, 1977, seven female characters – ranging from a nine-year-old girl and her Greek immigrant mother, to a young chef who is losing her vision, to a brown rat – share the same...

Dangerous Liaisons in The Kitchen, Charmel Roses's menu

by Charmel Roses

6 courses, 6 recipes developed through 6 short stories. (from: THE MAN I LOVE, First Course) Summer was over; it had run away on tiptoe. Autumn’s fresh and sometimes chilly breeze swept the lonely roads at...

Dangerous Liaisons in the Kitchen, Nora Noir's menu

by Nora Noir

6 courses, 6 recipes developed through 6 chapters of a medieval story marked by the perversions of an insane aristocrat, Lord Irwin Blaxtone, who will vent his impulses and his harassment on the new, young and...

Washika

by Robert Poirier

It’s summer in the ’60s. Twenty-one testosterone-drenched high school graduates are bussed to a summer job at the Company bush camp Washika. Idealistic, confident, sometimes troubled, they meet their match...

Stump Louie

by Lisa Halliday

“Name a song, New York! Name a song! If little Louie Palmer here can’t play it, we’ll pack up and go home! You’ve got thirty minutes to pick up the phone and Stump Louie!” That's the challenge that...

Close is Fine

by Eliot Treichel

Like an album of Polaroid snapshots, Close Is Fine is a finely wrought collection of stories that gives us a brief glimpse into the quirky and complex lives of the inhabitants of a rural Wisconsin town. At times...

The Book of Breathing

by Luigi Ferdinando Dagnese

Luigi Ferdinando Dagnese lacks no talent essential to novel-writing, whether erotic, psychological, sentimental, fantastic. His "Book of Breathing" evokes the worst nightmares of a technology run wild beyond...

Out of Time in Wan Chai

by Fan Tong

From a not too distant past in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong, take: 1° An idealistic revolutionary: a dreamer but nevertheless a bright young lady;  2° A heavy set French man: a quiet, aging arms dealer; ...

The apartment

by Batsceba Hardy

Maria manages her bar in Berlin. Here she meets Sebastian, a real estate agent, and Emma, a foreign girl who arrived in Berlin almost by chance. Maria firstly is a spectator, then advisor and finally a participant...

Greetings from the Vodka Sea

by Chris Gudgeon

Greetings from the off-kilter world of Chris Gudgeon. In his first-ever book of fiction, the bestselling author of The Naked Truth: The Untold History of Sex in Canada offers postcard glimpses into the quirky...

An Echo Through the Snow

by Andrea Thalasinos

Andrea Thalasinos's debut novel is an inspiring story of how a single act of kindness can transform your life. Rosalie MacKenzie is headed nowhere until she sees Smokey, a Siberian husky suffering from neglect....

Fata Morgana

by William Kotzwinkle

"Pure magic. The mystery turns on the convoluted history of an old master toy maker will makes his toys with such skill that they have lives of their own. It would be advisable to sit down while reading what...

The Exile

by William Kotzwinkle

"THE EXILE is a psychological mind bender. Kotzwinkle allows the novel to build slowly until, in the last hundred pages, the book becomes glued to the reader's hands as the devastating climactic scenes pile...

Lord of the Dance

by Andrew M. Greeley

A classic tale by one of America’s most beloved storytellers.

            High in the cold skies above China, Daniel Farrell flew alone, a spy pilot on secret surveillance. It was to be his last...

A Dog's Journey

A Dog's Purpose #2

by W. Bruce Cameron

Direct sequel to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron Buddy is a good dog.  After searching for his purpose through several eventful lives, Buddy is sure that he...

Dump and Chase

by Elizabeth Young

Poor Ken. One snide comment about hockey and Kendra, his girlfriend-or "girlfriend coach"-asks him not to call her anymore. How can he win her back? By using his rent money to buy a fortune in hockey equipment...

The Chronicles of Parmia

by Adamo Lanna

What is Parmia? Take a temporary teacher, a Neapolitan. Send him to Parmia (partly a suburban area of Parma, the town of prosciutto, and partly a magical place out of this world), leave him without work  (Italian...

A Work in Progress

by Brad Cotton

Has hitting rock bottom ever felt so damned good?