Love Novel by Ivana Sajko, Translated by Mima Simić
Love Novel is not an easy read, but it is a necessary read.
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Smoked Frames by S. Rupsha Mitra: Ecstatic Reflections
At 40 pages, Smoked Frames is a slim debut book of poetry written over the coarse of 4 years.
Lásko by Catherine Cooper
A writer who is not afraid to explore the darker recesses of the human heart.
The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard
Ian Colford puts his unique and stellar writing skills into this dark tale of death, love, and mystery.
Enough Light for the Next Step: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Spirit by Annie Wenger-Nabigon
Enough Light for the Next Step tells the story of Annie Wenger-Nabigon and her husband Herb Nabigon, an Oji-Cree Anishinaabe elder. In this powerful and moving tribute to her late husband and the beliefs and teachings he shared with her,
29 Leads to Love by Salimah Valiani
Salimah Valiani’s 29 Leads to Love expands on and extends the focus of her 2009 collection, Letter Out: Letter In, with the Sufi notion of love as a kind of attention which unifies.
The Crooked Thing: Stories by Mary MacDonald
The Crooked Thing is a collection of intense and emotional stories, there are traumas and betrayals, loves and losses, missed opportunities and discoveries, and above all, hope.
You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. by Sheung-King
Love can be beautiful and disastrous at the same time. In Sheung-King’s debut novel You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked., he brilliantly evokes the complexities of an intense romantic relationship with the use of lyrical language and folk tales that draw the reader in.
Boy With a Problem by Chris Benjamin
How does a teenager deal with grief? Where do you turn in the aftermath of tragedy? What can ease the shame of a dark secret? Who can help when things feel helpless? In sparse but emotive prose, Chris Benjamin’s collection of short stories, Boy With a Problem, explores these different kinds of difficult. In a …
Hearts Amok by Kevin Spenst
In language that twists together hobo slang and flights of troubadourish diction, Hearts Amok scrutinizes the history of the love sonnet in Surrey, England and simultaneously celebrates the tickings and tollings of one love-struck heart in Surrey, British Columbia. Examining the underpinnings of love, this book journeys from the Middle Ages to the present where …
Crocuses Hatch From Snow by Jaime Burnet
Jaime Burnet’s novel tells an urgent, socially relevant story firmly rooted in time and place. Crocuses Hatch From Snow is first and foremost a novel of Halifax, Nova Scotia, one that addresses the good, the bad and the ugly from the city’s, and the province’s, long history and recent past. The novel opens in October …
The Place of Us by Karen Draper
Karen Draper and her husband are ecstatic to welcome Preston, their first child, into their lives. Joyful anticipation turns to fear when they are told they must prepare to lose him. We’ve all lost someone. It hurts. Horribly. Most often we scar, heal, and persevere. It’s hardwired, more or less, into the species. But the …
Reproduction by Ian Williams
Novels, like love and family, take many forms. On every page of Reproduction, his debut novel, Ian Williams finds ways to resist and defy conventional narrative practice while constructing an audacious and uniquely challenging story that crosses generational lines. In the process, he has written a poignant, resonant tale about intersecting lives and the ways that seemingly trivial decisions can have unexpected and far-reaching consequences.
