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Leonard Edison's wife has a dark and frightening premonition - that her husband will die...
Centered around a young high school teacher, The King of the Sea Monkeys is a...
This history of oppression and its effects, at the heart of a French-Canadian family in...
Johnny and Carla DiGiacomo are the hub of a big, extended conventional Italian American family....
Four strong women: Anjali, an Indo-Canadian single mother who eagerly accepts an African posting with...
In Fate's Instruments, picking up the story from where Paul's brother Jay left it in No Safeguards, Paul, an aspiring writer, marries Carlos, with whom he lived in Guatemala, and brings him to Montreal. Things go wrong from the beginning, and they break up. Then fate, in the form of a brain tumour, strikes Paul. He receives support from Jay, Lionel (himself a brain tumour survivor), friends, and the enigmatic Professor Bram. But it is Paul's exploration of his Vincentian childhood and new-found love that restores his equilibrium.
"“Vámonos,” the jailer said and got up. Three or so metres from his office, he stopped in front of a steel cage with bars from ceiling to floor on two sides, everything inside visible from the corridor. There was a solid wall on two sides. In the wall opposite the... "
