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  • The Half-Known World

    On Writing Fiction

    by Robert Boswell ...
    A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, "one of America's finest writers" (Tom Perrotta)Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers. Examples from masters such as ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

    Stories

    by Robert Boswell ...
    Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards is an exhilarating collection, as brash as it is wise, by Robert Boswell one of our great storytellersSet mainly in small, gritty American cities, each of these stories is a world unto itself. A man's obsessive visits to a fortuneteller leave him nearly homeless. Time collapses as two marriages slowly dissolve. And in the searing title story, a young man recounts ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Tumbledown

    A Novel

    by Robert Boswell ...
    Robert Boswell's first novel since Century's Son showcases once again his "dazzling technical skill, intelligence and moral seriousness" (The New York Times Book Review)*A Library Journal "Best Indie Fiction of 2013" *At age thirty-three, James Candler seems to be well on the road to success. He's in line for a big promotion at Onyx Springs, the treatment facility where he's a therapist. He has a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Soul in Paraphrase

    by Robert Boswell ...
    Series series Ploughshares Solos
    There's a specter floating above the pews at afternoon mass. Father Montgovery has no idea why the ghostly presence has followed him around for years, but, when a longtime parishioner asks for help in getting his drug-addicted daughter clean, Father Montgovery must do his best to ignore the phantom and shift his focus to the physical, and sometimes harrowing, world. Written by esteemed author and ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • Ploughshares Solos Omnibus Volume 4

    by Joan Frank, Ted Kehoe, Alexandra Marshall, Bill Roorbach, Douglas Trevor, Andria Nacina Cole, Federico Falco, Sarah Viren, Robert Boswell, Patricia Buddenhagen, Ladette Randolph ...
    Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, create this fourth annual print collection.Visit a small island off the coast of Maine where the reappearance of an old friend might just push a painter suffering from artist’s block over the edge. Meet a newly divorced lecturer of critical theory who, in an effort to spice up his life, gets more ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Houston Noir

    by Anton DiSclafani, Adrienne Perry, Robert Boswell, Larry Watts, Reyes Ramirez, Sarah Cortez, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, Tom Abrahams, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Icess Fernandez Rojas0, Pia Pico1, Sehba Sarwar2, Stephanie Jane Evans3, Gwendolyn Zepeda4 ...
    Narrated by Gwendolyn Zepeda5, Mirron Willis6, Teri Schnaubelt7, Victoria Villareal8, Jamie K. Brown9, Diana Bustelo0, Reena Dutt1 ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    Publisher's summaryBrand-new stories by: Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton DiSclafani, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Adrienne Perry, Pia Pico, Reyes Ramirez, Icess Fernandez Rojas, Sehba Sarwar, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Larry Watts, and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton.Critic reviews"Brooklyn Noir came first in 2004, and now, 15 years later, Houston Noir--14 stories of intrigue, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    San Diego Noir

    by Maryelizabeth Hart ...
    Narrated by Paul Costanzo ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 25 min

    Brand-new stories by: T. Jefferson Parker, Don Winslow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Gar Anthony Haywood, Gabriel R. Barillas, Maria Lima, Debra Ginsberg, Diane Clark & Astrid Bear, Ken Kuhlken, Lisa Brackmann, Cameron Pierce Hughes, Morgan Hunt, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Martha C. Lawrence, and Taffy Cannon.From the introduction by Maryelizabeth Hart:“The southwesternmost metropolis in the contiguous United ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Dragon

    by Steven Brust ...
    Series Book 8 - Vlad Taltos
    In which Vlad Taltos finds himself, much to his surprise, at the fateful Battle of Baritt's TombMarching through mud just isn't as much fun as they say.After years of surviving in Adrilankha by practicing the trade he knows best—killing people for a living—suddenly Vlad Taltos finds himself in the last place any self-respecting assassin wants to be: the army. Worse, he's right in the middle of a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Gemini

    A Novel

    by Carol Cassella ...
    “Gemini is an unforgettable novel—a morality tale, a mystery, and a love story that will leave readers breathless” (Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette).As should be the case with any memorable love story, the first time Raney Remington saw Bo she hated him.When the skinny kid from the city first arrives in her Pacific Northwest hometown, Raney doesn’t ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Man Descending

    by Guy Vanderhaeghe ...
    These superbly crafted stories reveal an astonishing range, with settings that vary from a farm on the Canadian prairies to Bloomsbury in London, from a high-rise apartment to a mine-shaft. Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy as convincingly as he reveals it through the eyes of an old man approaching senility. Moving from the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Position

    A Novel

    by Meg Wolitzer ...
    From the bestselling author of The Wife—Meg Wolitzer’s “hilariously moving, sharply written novel” (USA TODAY), hailed by critics and loved by readers worldwide, with its “dead-on observations about sex, marriage, and the family ties that strangle and bind” (Cleveland Plain Dealer).Crackling with intelligence and humor, The Position is the masterful story of one extraordinary family at the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lauchlin Of The Bad Heart

    by D. R. Macdonald ...
    There was a time, at 22, when Lauchlin MacLean was a promising welterweight and the Cape Breton gyms were full of fighters; that was a time when his heart was strong and fit. Maybe if he'd become a ranked fighter, he might have moved on clearly and fluidly with his life. Maybe that might have swept him off this island of safety, sanctuary and family roots that run as deep as the surrounding waters ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus