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Three Days
A new short story from 2012 Scotiabank-Giller Prize finalist Russell Wangersky.
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Samuel's New Voyage
Rabindranth Maharaj's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments.
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Queen Rat
In this collection Lynn Crosbie strips life bare, then rebuilds it from the pieces of a visceral, urban language.
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Orphan Love
A beautiful, dark, and wholly original love story about two subterranean souls, searching for redemption.
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Northwords
A cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world's most extreme environments, to join the conversation about the north.
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The Ninth Grave
Fabian Risk is on the hunt for a serial killer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events of Victim Without a Face.
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La Guerre, Yes Sir!
This first novel in Roch Carrier's La Guerre trilogy contains a wedding, a funeral, and a full company of Carrier's joyful, blaspheming characters.
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{"id":6582740254779,"title":"In the Orchard, the Swallows","handle":"in-the-orchard-the-swallows","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year and Chapters\/Indigo Best Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the foothills of a mountain range in northern Pakistan is a beautiful orchard. Swallows wheel and dive silently over the branches, and the scent of jasmine threads through the air. Pomegranates hang heavy, their skins darkening to a deep crimson. Neglected now, the trees are beginning to grow wild, their fruit left to spoil on the branches. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMany miles away, a frail young man is flung out of prison gates. Looking up, scanning the horizon for swallows in flight, he stumbles and collapses in the roadside dust. 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In the Orchard, the Swallows
Named a Book of the Year by both the Guardian and Chapters/Indigo, In the Orchard, the Swallows is a moving story of lost love in war-torn Pakistan.
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A House Divided
In this Anansi Digital work, James Laxer analyzes the descent of the United States into civil conflict.
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Homeland
Alissa York's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments.
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The Heaviest Dress
“[Silcoff is] like a latter-day Fran Lebowitz, or a less acidic David Rakoff." — Globe and Mail
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Far to Go
This epic novel takes you inside an affluent Jewish family in the lead-up to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia.
