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Learning to Look
In Learning to Look Lesley Clement traces the evolution of Mavis Gallant's visually evocative style through five decades of her short fictional works. Gallant explores the boundaries between visible and invisible worlds as the lines, shapes, and colours suggested by her allusions, analogies, and structures challenge us as readers.
School for Spirits: Pretty Dead Girl
Barbara is dead, VERY dead, but she just wants to check social media and spend time with her almost-boyfriend. She definitely doesn't want to attend spirit school and learn how to be a spirit guide. Talk about inconvenient! Barbara's instructor, Vineet, isn't making her afterlife any easier. Vineet is zany, nerdy, and a little bit weird. They're polar opposites, but somehow, some way, they have to work together to make humans' wishes come true. Pretty Dead Girl is part of the Spirit School series, but can be read as a standalone story.
A Fine Line
No one would understand that my submission empowered me, that I felt stronger kneeling at Gabriel's feet than I ever had standing at Paul's side. Faye Austin seems to have it all—a fulfilling career, a successful husband, a beautiful home. But appearances can be deceptive and sometimes Faye can't help thinking she's living the wrong life. A lifetime of being compared to her beautiful younger sister, Ginny, has left her feeling second best, and a chance discovery while looking at her husband's laptop has led her to realize that her marriage is not all it seems. Then she meets the handsome Gabriel Scott, a man who likes to play sexual games of power and control, and suddenly everything makes sense. Gabriel's natural dominance is so compelling that Faye feels her own submissiveness awakening in response, a reaction that both horrifies and excites her. She works with victims of domestic abuse and is adamant that no man will ever tell her what to do. But there's something about Gabriel that draws her in and gives her a glimpse of who she really wants to be. Can Gabriel give her what she needs? Or will Ginny get there first?
Frog in the Throat
The murder of a local author has an amateur sleuth and her con artist ex-husband on the case in this mystery by the author of Last Will and Testament. Virginia’s trouble is that whenever something awful happens, it is far too easy to imagine that her ex-husband, Felix—that lying, light-fingered charmer—is behind it somehow. So her suspicions are understandably raised when he unexpectedly shows up on her weekend getaway with the Boscotts, just as her friend’s engagement party is ruined by the murder of a local author. Luckily for Virginia—not to mention the Boscotts—Felix’s talent for lying makes him an expert in sniffing out other people’s deceit. Now they must investigate who would want to kill a kindly writer of historical fiction. But can they truly trust Felix, or will past prove to be prologue yet again?
Walking the Maze
A vivid description of the fierce and free Celtic spirit as it has been sustained through history, and a vision for living that spirit in the present. Loren Cruden, a midwife and herbal healer, equates Celtic customs with Native American traditions and rituals.
Gender and Narrativity
It is impossible to imagine a community that is not divided into at least two gender groups. It is equally impossible to imagine a community that does not tell or enact stories. The relationship between these universal aspects of human culture is the mainspring of Gender and Narrativity. From Genesis to Freud, the Western narrative tradition tells the same old story of masculine dominance/feminine subservience as a matter of divine will or natural truth. Here, nine Canadian scholars challenge and interpret this tradition, in effect "re-telling" the story of gender, and themselves intervening in the narrative process. Critical readings from a wide range of literary texts - medieval and modern, European and Canadian - replace abstract theory in these studies, while sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and new history are the axes of discussion. This book exemplifies the current range and diversity of Canadian critical writing.
Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy
A provocative, multifaceted look at a rock icon.
Isak Dinesen and Narrativity
Responding to recent Dinesen scholarship and public exposure in such films as Out of Africa and Babette's Feast, these fourteen original essays discuss and reveal the aesthetic subtlety and philosophical complexity of Dinesen's art.
Science and the Skeptic
Fake news, pseudoscience, and quackery have become scourges, spreading through society from social media all the way to Congress. The line between entertainment and reality, between fact and fiction, has become blurred. Some of the most crucial issues of our time—climate change, vaccines, and genetically modified organisms—have become prime targets for nefarious disinformation campaigns. Far too many people have become distrustful of real science. Even those who still trust science no longer know what to believe or how to identify the truth. Not only does this result in the devaluation and distrust of real science, but it is also dangerous: people acting based on false information can hu...
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