Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771836791
ISBN10: 1771836792
English
...And Along Came Alexis is a book about choices and consequences. The author's youngest daughter, Alexis, was born in 1978 with multiple disabilities, including blindness, an intractable seizure disorder and spastic quadriplegia. The choice to keep her at home despite medical advice resulted in a limiting of career opportunities for...
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771836807
ISBN10: 1771836806
English
...And Along Came Alexis is a book about choices and consequences. The author's youngest daughter, Alexis, was born in 1978 with multiple disabilities, including blindness, an intractable seizure disorder and spastic quadriplegia. The choice to keep her at home despite medical advice resulted in a limiting of career opportunities for...
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771836449
ISBN10: 177183644X
English
If small-town reporter Polly Stern has to cover one more manure runoff story, she's going to lose her already unmindful mind. Polly thought she'd end up as a serious photojournalist, traveling the world, meeting important people, and documenting significant environmental and social events. Life didn't turn out as expected. With...
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771836456
ISBN10: 1771836458
English
If small-town reporter Polly Stern has to cover one more manure runoff story, she's going to lose her already unmindful mind. Polly thought she'd end up as a serious photojournalist, traveling the world, meeting important people, and documenting significant environmental and social events. Life didn't turn out as expected. With...
Bernard Émond, John Gilmore
2014
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550718478
ISBN10: 1550718479
English
Gérard is an alcoholic and former crime reporter, gone back to live in the impoverished Montreal neighbourhood where he grew up. One night, his shoelace comes undone, delaying his return home and saving his life when his apartment building mysteriously blows up. Six of his neighbours are dead, others are...
Bernard Émond, John Gilmore
2014
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550718485
ISBN10: 1550718487
English
Gérard is an alcoholic and former crime reporter, gone back to live in the impoverished Montreal neighbourhood where he grew up. One night, his shoelace comes undone, delaying his return home and saving his life when his apartment building mysteriously blows up. Six of his neighbours are dead, others are...
Jerome R. Adams
2021
ePub
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771836821
ISBN10: 1771836822
English
This is an apprenticeship novel, the story of Isabel Cooper, 17, and her 15-year-old brother, Frederick. In early 1911, they leave their Georgetown home after the sudden death of their Mexican mother. They are determined to find their father, a college professor who -- like many American leftists -- had...
Jerome R. Adams
2021
Kindle
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771836838
ISBN10: 1771836830
English
This is an apprenticeship novel, the story of Isabel Cooper, 17, and her 15-year-old brother, Frederick. In early 1911, they leave their Georgetown home after the sudden death of their Mexican mother. They are determined to find their father, a college professor who -- like many American leftists -- had...
Africadian Atlantic
Essays on George Elliott Clarke
Joseph Pivato
2012
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716283
ISBN10: 155071628X
English
This collection features essays on Nova Scotia-born poet, playwright and literary critic George Elliott Clarke. Instrumental in promoting the writing of Canadian writers of African descent, Clarke's work has won awards including the Governor General's Award for poetry, a National Magazine Gold Medal Award for Poetry, the prestigious Trudeau Fellowship...
Africadian Atlantic
Essays on George Elliott Clarke
Joseph Pivato
2012
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716290
ISBN10: 1550716298
English
This collection features essays on Nova Scotia-born poet, playwright and literary critic George Elliott Clarke. Instrumental in promoting the writing of Canadian writers of African descent, Clarke's work has won awards including the Governor General's Award for poetry, a National Magazine Gold Medal Award for Poetry, the prestigious Trudeau Fellowship...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550718621
ISBN10: 1550718622
English
The idea for this collection was to offer a tip of the hat to people whose lives and/or works have influenced the author. Each piece is forwarded by a short background story as well as an epigram which provides some descriptive entry and flavour. The key was to construct these...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550718638
ISBN10: 1550718630
English
The idea for this collection was to offer a tip of the hat to people whose lives and/or works have influenced the author. Each piece is forwarded by a short background story as well as an epigram which provides some descriptive entry and flavour. The key was to construct these...
Tiziano Broggiato, Patricia Hanley, Maria Laura Mosco
2013
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716641
ISBN10: 1550716646
English, Italian
This collection presents a bilingual Italian-English selection of the poetry of Tiziano Broggiato, winner of the prestigious Premio Montale. The translations, by Canadians Patricia Hanley and Maria Laura Mosco, bring to North American audiences the poetry of an author who has already been translated into half a dozen languages.
Tiziano Broggiato, Patricia Hanley, Maria Laura Mosco
2013
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716658
ISBN10: 1550716654
English, Italian
This collection presents a bilingual Italian-English selection of the poetry of Tiziano Broggiato, winner of the prestigious Premio Montale. The translations, by Canadians Patricia Hanley and Maria Laura Mosco, bring to North American audiences the poetry of an author who has already been translated into half a dozen languages.
Brian Van Norman
2020
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834803
ISBN10: 1771834803
English
At war against Napoleon near bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker leads the Luddites attacking mills and smashing machines. With increased assaults and even murder North England feels the grip of terrorism. Government agents attempt to suppress the rebellion....
Brian Van Norman
2020
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834810
ISBN10: 1771834811
English
At war against Napoleon near bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker leads the Luddites attacking mills and smashing machines. With increased assaults and even murder North England feels the grip of terrorism. Government agents attempt to suppress the rebellion....
Brian Van Norman
2021
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771836968
ISBN10: 1771836962
English
Mel Buckworth, dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills so apparent in his children's generation. He is galled by his daughter Dani's university friend, Stanley Best, who is about...
Brian Van Norman
2021
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771836876
ISBN10: 1771836873
English
Mel Buckworth, dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills so apparent in his children's generation. He is galled by his daughter Dani's university friend, Stanley Best, who is about...
Alice Munro Country
Essays on Her Works I
J.R. (Tim) Struthers
2020
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834360
ISBN10: 1771834366
English
This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir, “Alice Munro: Not Bad Short Story Writer,” by Munro's renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction writer Jack Hodgins, playwright Judith Thompson, poet John B. Lee, poet-playwright-teacher James Reaney, and local historian Reg Thompson. Overall, the...
Alice Munro Country
Essays on Her Works I
J.R. (Tim) Struthers
2020
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834377
ISBN10: 1771834374
English
This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir, “Alice Munro: Not Bad Short Story Writer,” by Munro's renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction writer Jack Hodgins, playwright Judith Thompson, poet John B. Lee, poet-playwright-teacher James Reaney, and local historian Reg Thompson. Overall, the...
Alice Munro Everlasting
Essays on Her Works II
J.R. (Tim) Struthers
2020
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834391
ISBN10: 1771834390
English
This rich volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, “Returning to the Source: Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty,” followed by a major new essay by one of Munro's most long-standing and most perceptive readers, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, identifying...
Alice Munro Everlasting
Essays on Her Works II
J.R. (Tim) Struthers
2020
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834407
ISBN10: 1771834404
English
This rich volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, “Returning to the Source: Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty,” followed by a major new essay by one of Munro's most long-standing and most perceptive readers, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, identifying...
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771837095
ISBN10: 1771837098
English
All Creatures Weird and Dangerous describes the author's experiences as a veterinarian drawn by chance to care for a variety of cryptozoological creatures. As a practicing veterinarian, the author is called upon, as if by strange forces, to care for a Chupacabra, Sasquatch, Lake Erie's monster Bessie, mermaids and fairies...
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
2011
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714708
ISBN10: 1550714708
English
Constructed in the form of a memoir, these poems take on an emotional tone as the author details the story of her life. The collection is populated by her memories of childhood, courtships and marriage, family illness, children, and grandchildren. At its core is a woman struggling to deal with...
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
2011
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714715
ISBN10: 1550714716
English
Constructed in the form of a memoir, these poems take on an emotional tone as the author details the story of her life. The collection is populated by her memories of childhood, courtships and marriage, family illness, children, and grandchildren. At its core is a woman struggling to deal with...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715804
ISBN10: 1550715801
English
Filtered through insomnia and distress signals, Amphetamine Heart pumps out an atonal pulse over flashes of lowered inhibitions. Channelling punk and heavy metal influences, this poetry collection's soundtrack is set to a backdrop of boozecans and broken glass. Written over a three-year period, these poems are linked by discomfort and...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715811
ISBN10: 155071581X
English
Filtered through insomnia and distress signals, Amphetamine Heart pumps out an atonal pulse over flashes of lowered inhibitions. Channelling punk and heavy metal influences, this poetry collection's soundtrack is set to a backdrop of boozecans and broken glass. Written over a three-year period, these poems are linked by discomfort and...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834520
ISBN10: 1771834528
English
A young, mixed-race composer, raised without meaningful connections to his Chinese heritage and struggling with identity issues, travels to China in search of his long-missing uncle, an uncle who vanished in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square. An Idea About My Dead Uncle--winner of the inaugural Guernica Prize for the best...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834537
ISBN10: 1771834536
English
A young, mixed-race composer, raised without meaningful connections to his Chinese heritage and struggling with identity issues, travels to China in search of his long-missing uncle, an uncle who vanished in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square. An Idea About My Dead Uncle--winner of the inaugural Guernica Prize for the best...
Giuseppe Conte, Robert Buranello
2011
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715705
ISBN10: 1550715704
English, Italian
To be Hitchcockian about it, the story deals with the relationship between [Umberto] Umber, a professor of comparative literature, and a Dr. Jamshid Kloster, an experimental physicist whom Umber meets on a Laguna Beach bench as Diane Keaton, a long-time Laguna Beach resident, strolls by. Umber’s other obsession or, perhaps,...