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Fling!

by Karen Ackland

A spirited mother-daughter road trip to Mexico takes a turn for the humorous when long-dead relatives start showing up. "Fling!", Lily Iona Mackenzie’s debut novel, is a romp from Canada to Mexico that includes long-lost relatives,... Read More

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Animals as Food

by Barry Silverstein

An informed perspective and an objective voice contribute authority to this critique of animal farming and consumption. In identifying the primary reasons why she wrote "Animals as Food", Amy Fitzgerald points out several factors that... Read More

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The Lost Concerto

by Allyce Amidon

With a musician’s attention to the emotions that help us create a picture of our world, Helaine Mario weaves imagery with a thrilling plot. A grieving musician must come to grips with the guilt she feels about the deaths of her husband... Read More

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Tiger

by Michelle Anne Schingler

Raw prose evokes the animal nature of these inquisitive characters who fight for redemption across the globe. Ashley Mayne’s newest novel reads like a fevered dream as it trades between the accounts of a priest and a young man for whom... Read More

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Adobe Flats

by Amanda McCorquodale

The stories in this collection revere the land surrounding the drama, a mysticism that seems to guide characters in and out of trouble. “At an empty table I sat and listened to the tired voices of forsaken souls seemingly trapped in a... Read More

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Edmond

by Aimee Jodoin

A painfully shy squirrel named Edmond makes pom-pom hats, an owl dresses up in animal disguises to trick his friends (or does he secretly enjoy empathizing in someone else’s shoes?), an outgoing bear loves to throw wild parties—who... Read More

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