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  • Woman, Watching

    Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay

    par Merilyn Simonds ...
    From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman — a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds.2022 Foreword Indies Award Winner for the Editor’s Choice Prize, non fiction“[A] lyrical, passionate, and deeply researched portrait.” — ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Refuge

    A Novel

    par Merilyn Simonds ...
    To whom do we offer refuge — and why?After a life that rubbed up against the century’s great events in New York City, Mexico, and Montreal, 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum is surviving well enough, alone on her island, when a young Burmese woman contacts her, claiming to be kin. Curiosity, loneliness, and a slender filament of hope prompts the old woman to accept a visit. But Nang’s story of ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Walking with Beth

    Conversations with My Hundred-Year-Old Friend

    par Merilyn Simonds ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERMerilyn Simonds's Walking with Beth allows us to eavesdrop on two women, one already a centenarian, talking frankly about what scares us all: growing old. It's a book with a unique take on longevity, full of wisdom, tenderness, joy and the passions that sustain a very long life.**In the spring of 2021, Merilyn Simonds asked her friend Beth Robinson if she’d like to go for a ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Breakfast at the Exit Cafe

    Travels Through America

    What begins as a road trip through America soon becomes a journey of discovery into themselves and into the heart of the next-door neighbour they thought they knew. For Wayne Grady, the thrill of landscape and history is tempered by memories of racism and his own family roots. Merilyn Simonds, her ear tuned for the offbeat, finds curious echoes of the ex-pat promised land she grew up with. ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Gutenberg’s Fingerprint

    A Book Lover Bridges the Digital Divide

    par Merilyn Simonds ...
    An intimate narrative exploring the past, present, and future of booksFour seismic shifts have rocked human communication: the invention of writing, the alphabet, mechanical type and the printing press, and digitization. Poised over this fourth transition, e-reader in one hand, perfect-bound book in the other, Merilyn Simonds — author, literary maven, and early adopter — asks herself: what is lost ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Convict Lover

    A True Story

    par Merilyn Simonds ...
    In a dark and stifling Kingston attic overflowing with old letters, pamphlets and clippings, an incredible discovery was made: scores of flimsy sheets of paper, hastily scribbled upon—a clandestine correspondence between a schoolgirl living in the village of Portsmouth in 1919 and a convict imprisoned in Kingston Penitentiary.A dazzling blend of historical detective work and imaginative recreation ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • A New Leaf

    Growing with My Garden

    par Merilyn Simonds ...
    A graceful and sharply observed book of inspiration that uses the garden as its central museA New Leaf traces a year of growing seasons at The Leaf, Merilyn Simonds' acreage in eastern Ontario. A lifelong gardener, Simonds works the soil and the soul for wide-ranging revelations about everything from flowers that keep time, to the strange gift of compost, to great gardens of the world, to things ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Lion in the Room Next Door

    Short Stories

    par Merilyn Simonds ...

    $7.99 CAD

  • Twenty Questions (Eight, really. It's Never as Long as You Think)

    A Short Story

    par Merilyn Simonds ...
    A whimsical, provocative romp through a woman’s life with penises.Originally published in the anthology In the Flesh, edited by Lynne van Luven and Kathy Page, Brindle & Glass (2012).I didn’t know what to expect. Not a pale, soft snail curled on a taut peach (peach because of the cleft, though it looked more like a rubber ball, it was that exact dull pink, the texture rough).Want to see? he said ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Paradise Project

    Flash Fiction

    par Merilyn Simonds ...
    What is a garden? A yearning to bring nature close? Or a bid for total control?The Paradise Project explores in 17 short-short stories the human response to the planted world. Meet the minor diplomat who populates the earth with his lurid purple-fruited plant; the woman encased in a circling bower; the artist who paints a garden for love; the writer who adds a goldfish to a stranger's sidewalk ... En savoir plus

    $10.50 CAD

  • Breathing Space

    A Short Story

    par Merilyn Simonds ...
    Following the death of an uncle, a woman moves through a CT scanner to the brink of her own mortality.Originally published in Going Some Place: Creative Nonfiction Across Canada, edited by Lynne Van Luven, Coteau Books (2000).Beep. Take a breath and hold it.That is all.Beep. Take a breath and hold it.That is all.Beep. Take a breath and hold it.The machine gives the command and I obey, sucking in ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Miss You Already

    A Short Story

    par Merilyn Simonds ...
    On the sudden death of her husband, Mary Ann sells her worldly possessions and sets off to visit seven people she has never met.Originally published in the anthology Seventeen Women Undress a Man, published in Germany (2005) and in The Netherlands (2007), this story was published in Dutch in Vrij Nederland (2006) and in English in The Walrus (2005), where it won the Silver Award for Fiction at the ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD