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  • The Sunflower and the Sparrow

    by Fred Simpson ...
    How do we grow as adults? What comfort or grudge must be dispensed with, what risk embraced? This comic drama traces the lives of four stalled characters as they intersect and influence one another in odd and unexpected ways.Carol, a wife trapped, isolated and controlled by an awful man, seethes under a serene mask, but, when sickness tips the balance of power in her favour, she plots a path of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ted's Urn

    by Fred Simpson ...
    Eleanor Hutton is a young New Zealand General Practitioner – completely dedicated to her profession – whose ‘happiness’ is challenged by the deep and disturbing friendship that develops between her and her dying patient. The patient, Ted, in his middle sixties, is a widely travelled immigrant with an interest in ‘everything’, and his teasing and expansive vitality exposes Eleanor to the ... Read more

    $4.92 CAD

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  • Troubled Waters

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  • A Double Life

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  • The End of the Day

    by Claire North ...
    A novel about life and death and a quest for moral purpose, by the acclaimed author of word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August .Sooner or later, Death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie: the Harbinger.Sometimes he comes as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. Either way, this will be the most important meeting of your life.But who will come for Charlie?"... ... Read more

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  • The Carnivore

    A Novel

    by Mark Sinnett ...
    A wife harbors suspicions about her husband's image as a hero cop in this suspenseful novel, a winner of the Toronto Book Award.Back in 1954, Hurricane Hazel barreled through Toronto, killing eighty-one people. Ray and Mary Townes were a young married couple, and while Mary, a nurse, performed her own small miracles that night, her police officer husband was celebrated for his heroism as the ... Read more

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  • The Gravity of Birds

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    by Tracy Guzeman ...
    A debut novel already destined to be a book club favorite. “With its deft interweaving of psychological complexity and riveting narrative momentum, with its gorgeous prose and poetic justice, The Gravity of Birds is about sibling rivalry, tragedies, and resurrections. And it’s irresistibly exquisite” (San Francisco Chronicle).Forty-four years after the brilliant young painter, Thomas Bayber, first ... Read more

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  • The Best Australian Stories

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    Edited by Black Inc. ...
    The best of the best …This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian fiction ... Read more

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  • Shadowboxing

    by Tony Birch ...
    COMMENDED FOR THE 2011 KATE CHALLIS RAKA AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 QUEENSLAND PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARDS — AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION‘Change for us came so unexpectedly. One day my father was stalking the family as he had done for most of our lives, skulking from room to room, accompanied by a menacing silence that we had long ago accepted. And then he was gone.’Shadowboxing is a ... Read more

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  • Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Three

    5 Short Fictions and Wonders

    by Neil Gaiman ...
    “A prodigiously imaginative collection.”—New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice“Dazzling tales from a master of the fantastic.”—Washington Post Book WorldFragile Things is a sterling collection of exceptional tales from Neil Gaiman, multiple award-winning (the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Newberry, and Eisner Awards, to name just a few), #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Graveyard Book, ... Read more

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  • Something Special, Something Rare

    Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women

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    Something Special, Something Rare presents outstanding short fiction by Australia’s finest female writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary.A sleepy town is gripped by delusory grief after the movie being filmed there wraps and leaves. A lingering heartbreak is replayed on Facebook. An ordinary family walks a shaky line between hopelessness ... Read more

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