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  • Break in Case of Emergency

    A Novel

    by Brian Francis ...
    Finalistfor the Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature–TextDads canbe such a dragLife has been a struggle for Toby Goodman. Her mother died by suicidefive years ago, and her father left their small town before Toby was born. Nowa teenager living on her grandparents’ dairy farm, Toby has trouble lettingpeople in. She keeps even her closest friend, the brash but endearing ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Fruit

    A novel about a boy and his nipples

    by Brian Francis ...
    CBC Canada Reads 2009 Runner-UpBarnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection"Hilarious and gentle.” — Booklist“Beguilingly alive.” — Seattle Times“Laugh-out-loud funny.” — NOW“Bracingly off-centre.” — Globe & Mail“Lovely and odd.” — Kirkus Review“Sweet, tart... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Natural Order

    by Brian Francis ...
    Joyce Sparks has lived the whole of her 86 years in the small community of Balsden, Ontario. As a girl, Joyce allowed herself to imagine a future of adventure in the arms of her friend Freddy Pender, whose chin bore a Kirk Douglas cleft and who danced the cha-cha divinely. Though troubled by the whispered assertions of her sister and friends that he wasn't 'normal,' Joyce adored Freddy for all ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Missed Connections

    A Memoir in Letters Never Sent

    by Brian Francis ...
    An entertaining and moving memoir about coming out, looking inwards, and the search for connection, inspired by the responses to a personal ad. A Loan Stars Top 10 Pick of the Month and one of Daily Hive's 10 Essential LGBTQ2+ Books to Celebrate Pride.In 1992, Brian Francis placed a personal ad in a local newspaper. He was a twenty-one-year-old university student, still very much in the closet, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unrelenting

    When Safe was the Exception

    by Brian Francis ...
    Man Shoots Wife, Kills Himself" the headline read. That man was my father. By the time I read this in the newspaper that evening, how I had felt earlier in the day made a lot more sense. It was a bright September morning in New England, and the first day of the 1976 - 77 school year. I should have felt great about the day ahead, but I left the family home for school that morning, with an uneasy ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Fruit

    A novel about a boy and his nipples

    by Brian Francis ...
    CBC Canada Reads 2009 Runner-Up. Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. 'Hilarious and gentle.' - Booklist. 'Beguilingly alive.' - Seattle Times. 'Laugh-out-loud funny.' - NOW. 'Bracingly off-centre.' - Globe & Mail. 'Lovely and odd.' - Kirkus Review. 'Sweet, tart and forbidden in all the right places' - Entertainment Weekly. When the world feels dark and hopeless, curl up with ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Lost Everything

    by Brian Francis Slattery ...
    From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of 1984 or The Road.In the not-distant-enough future, a man takes a boat trip up the Susquehanna River with his most trusted friend, intent on reuniting with his son. But the man is pursued by an army, and his own harrowing past; and the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Liberation

    Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America

    by Brian Francis Slattery ...
    From the author of the literary pulp phenomenon Spaceman Blues comes a future history cautionary tale, a heist movie in the style of a hippie novel .Liberation is a speculation on life in near-future America after the country suffers an economic cataclysm that leads to the resurgence of ghosts of its past such as the human slave trade. Our heroes are the Slick Six, a group of international ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Vine to Vine

    Twelve Tales of Wayward Travel

    by Brian Francis O'Dea ...
    "I’ll be unsure what my words will be until the breath reaches my lips, then, like everything else, they’ll find their way through the world."Recently unemployed, newly single, and dreading the big 3-0 around the corner, Brian O’Dea sells all he can, packs up the rest in his parents’ attic, then dives headfirst into the round-the-world journey he believes will be his once-in-a-lifetime, slightly ... Read more

    $8.23 CAD

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  • The Family Hightower

    A Novel

    by Brian Francis Slattery ...
    *** Named a Kirkus Reviews Starred Title in Their 10/01/14 Issue ***In 1968 two boys are born into a large family, both named for their grandfather, Peter Henry Hightower. One boy—Peter—grows up in Africa and ends up a journalist in Granada. The other—Petey—becomes a minor criminal, first in Cleveland and then in Kiev. In 1995, Petey runs afoul of his associates and disappears. But the criminals, ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Spaceman Blues

    A Love Song

    by Brian Francis Slattery ...
    Painted in browns and grays and sparked by sudden fires, Spaceman Blues is a literary retro-pulp science-fiction-mystery-superhero novel, the debut of a true voice of the future, and a cult classic in the making.When Manuel Rodrigo de Guzmán González disappears, Wendell Apogee decides to find out where he has gone and why. But in order to figure out what happened to Manuel, Wendell must contend ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Shadow Lab

    A Blackstone Publishing Anthology

    by Brendan Deneen, Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Rebecca Webb, Nick Herbert, Marie Hoy-Kenny, various authors, Ed Cho, Brian Francis Slattery, Tom Radford0 ...
    Narrated by various narrators, Natalie Naudus1, Kevin Kenerly2, Zura Johnson3, Soneela Nankani4, January LaVoy5, Tim Lounibos6, Gary Tiedemann7 ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Shadow Lab Anthologies

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    In Shadow Lab, a brilliant roster of speculative fiction writers pulls listeners into a diverse and genre-bending collection of stories, each as irresistible as the last.From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes Hell Divers: The Lost Years. In the radioactive wastes of what was once known as Earth, a man and his dog fight nightmarish creatures in order to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus