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Mathematician Emily Kogan's family is good at keeping their secrets. But when she uses her visit to the vacation lodge they own to conduct research for a graduate thesis on measuring the influence of interpersonal relationships, she learns far more than she bargained for.
"The Woods is the cure-all to Perfect Island Getaway nostalgia. It's a story of everyday domestic survival, peopled by both loveable eccentrics and possibly murdersome cranks, foregrounding the little-known history of violence on Protection Island. Amber McMillan's writing balances an eye for the unusual and resiliently beautiful with a sympathy for the frailties common to all her islanders." —Kevin Chong, author of Baroque-a-Nova, Neil Young Nation and Beauty Plus Pity * The Woods: A Year on Protection Island is a book of non-fiction stories that probes and witnesses the unique and sometimes unsettling atmosphere of small town-island life in the Georgia Strait. The measure of one’s succ...
"Hurrah for the pandemonium, the witty details, the classic pacing, and the satisfying ending..". -- Quill & Quire "Frogs is whimsy at its most gentle and fanciful". -- Kids Toronto "Michael Martchenko's colorful illustration add to the humor of this delightfully funny book". -- Books in Canada Refreshingly funny, charmingly silly, Frogs is a wild and wonderful modern day frog-into-prince tale that has hopped into the hearts of kids, parents and critics everywhere.
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"Star-studded collection of CanLit's most notable and diverse women authors to be published in Canada's oldest literary journal by and about women."--
Love can take you to the darkest places ... Leela is a gifted mathematician who has escaped her small Southern town to study in Boston. From the first moment she hears Mishka, a young Australian musician, playing his violin in a subway, his music grips her, and they quickly become lovers.But Mishka is not all he seems -- and the world around them is nothing like Leela thought it was.In this compelling re-imagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels to an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of the truth -- and the man she loves. Love can take you to the darkest places ... Leela is a gifted mathematician who has escaped her small Southern town to study in Boston. From the first moment she hears Mishka, a young Australian musician, playing his violin in a subway, his music grips her, and they quickly become lovers.But Mishka is not all he seems - and the world around them is nothing like Leela thought it was.In this compelling re-imagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels to an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of the truth - and the man she loves.
A jaded professor dreams endlessly of his two obsessions: a beautiful former colleague and the theorem that made her famous."--BOOK JACKET.