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A single mother's daughter is kidnapped and days pass with no clues, only a phone call she receives from a woman whose voice she cannot place.
"Thunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one breaks, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and has vivid dreams about being in another woman's body. Disturbed yet entranced, she sets out to discover what is happening to her, leaving the cocoon of her family's small r...
Whenever it storms, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and dreams of being in another woman's body. These episodes provide her an escape from her own life, and Rose decides to discover if the woman really exists. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2017.
Relates the story of Mud, an elephant blessed with visionary powers, and her herd as they search for their injured and scattered members after a poacher attacks.
"The distinction of the Canadian short story - genre that boasts two of the leading short-story writers in English, Alice Munro and Mavis Gallant - has been recognized internationally, and was celebrated in 1986 by the publication of the acclaimed first edition of this book, of w...
The farthest place you can go is closer than you can imagine. Rose is a sensible woman, thirty-four years old. Together with her widowed mother, Fiona, she runs a small repertory cinema in a big city. Fiona is in the early stages of dementia and is beginning to make painful re...
After Marion' s mother is murdered, she feels doomed in life and in love. And just when happiness seems within reach, her new husband, Sam, reveals a secret that leaves her feeling limp, betrayed . . . but still in love. Hailed as " remarkable and uplifting" by The Globe...
The lives of the Field sisters are forever changed the day their mother drops their infant brother over Niagara Falls, driving each of the girls to find different ways to cope with the war zone that their home becomes amid the changing world of the sanitized suburbs of the fiftie...
When the nine-year-old daughter of a hard-working single mother, a child whose luminous beauty has drawn both benign and sinister attention, is stolen from her home during a summer blackout, a full-scale search is launched, but the child's only hope lies in someone torn between l...
Longlisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award and the 2014 Giller Prize “Moody, shape-shifting, provocative and always as compelling as a strong light at the end of a road you hesitate to walk down...but will."- Amy Bloom "Tight, strange, nifty stories."- Margaret Atwood ...