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A Force Such as the World Has Never Known
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Edited by Sharon G. Mijares, Aliaa Rafea, and Nahid Angha. A unique collection of narratives from women from all around the globe. These are stories of compassion and bravery, empowered by the vision of a better world for all life. They emphasize the need to empower the feminine and assure gender balance and human rights for all. This accumulation of women's stories reveals the role of women in creating needed changes in areas of health and nutrition, supporting efforts toward sustainable environments, promoting political and social rights, protecting women from the travesties of war and rape and promoting religious diversity and better conditions for all beings.
Eruptions of Inanna
Path-breaking lesbian storyteller & scholar Judy Grahn explores poetry written over four thousand years ago on the life and loves of the great goddess Inanna
In the Name of Love
In the Name of Love is a thriller about the sex slave trade chock full of believable, well-developed compelling characters. Two women are the central focus of the novel - the one an unscrupulous criminal, the other her victim. Rimana, a young Indian woman, is thrilled to be headhunted by a company in Canada and pleased to escape her mother's expectations of marriage. On the flight to Canada she meets Jug, a young Canadian man whose mother was Indian, and by the time they arrive in Toronto they are well on their way to falling in love. When Rimana doesn't contact Jug after arrival he begins to worry that something bad has happened to her. Through a series of efforts to find her as well as one...
Peacock In the Snow
Born to privilege and wed to her high school sweetheart Veer, a free-spirited may a feels trapped in a conventional upper-class family in India, weighed down by suffocating patriarchal expectations. Claustrophobic within the dark walls of the mansion in which she lives with Veer, she starts living precariously through the threads of her curiosity. This curiosity leads Maya to unearth a dark family secret − a brutal ancestral murder − which begins to haunt her and also affect her marriage. To escape the malicious spirits lingering in the house, Maya and her family move to Canada and discover the hardship and bounty that the new land offers. As she tries to rebuild her life amidst the stru...
The Widow's Fire
A revisioning of Jane Austen's final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance.
The Wondrous Woo
Fiction. Asian American Studies. On the inside, Miramar Woo is a kick-ass kung fu heroine with rock star flash, sassy attitude, and an insatiable appetite for adventure, but she is forced to watch helplessly as her family unravels in the aftermath of her father's unexpected death. Her younger siblings suddenly and mysteriously become savants, in possession of uncanny talents nicknamed The Gifts. As her siblings are swept up into the fantastic world of fame and fortune and her mother fights off madness, Miramar is left behind, feeling talentless and abandoned with no idea who she really is or who she wants to become. She is utterly on her own.
Sensorial
Sensorial is a journey in sensory perception. The senses guide us through urban landscapes, animal connections and familial bonds as we consider who we are, where we are--both physically and metaphysically--and what truly matters. Sensorial proposes one set of responses to the never-ending data we process as we navigate through life. In particular, it considers aging and illness on the journey towards life's end--and examines gain and loss in the aggregate.
The Allspice Bath
Winner of the 2020 International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction; Winner of the 2020 Ippy Gold Medal for Multicultural Fiction. It is 1970. The evergreens are thick with snow despite it being the month of April. In an Ottawa hospital, another daughter is born to the Azar family. The parents are from Kfarmichki, a village in Lebanon but their daughters were born in Canada. Four daughters, to be precise. No sons. Youssef is the domineering father. Samira is the quiescent mother. Rima, Katrina and Mona are the traditional daughters. Then there is Adele, the newest member. "You should've been born a boy," Samira whispers to Adele shortly after her entrance into the world. As she grows, Adel...
A Diary in the Age of Water
Centuries from now, in a post-climate change dying boreal forest of what used to be northern Canada, Kyo, a young acolyte called to service in the Exodus, discovers a diary that may provide her with the answers to her yearning for Earth's past--to the Age of Water, when the "Water Twins" destroyed humanity in hatred--events that have plagued her nightly in dreams. Looking for answers to this holocaust--and disturbed by her macabre longing for connection to the Water Twins--Kyo is led to the diary of a limnologist from the time just prior to the destruction. This gritty memoir describes a near-future Toronto in the grips of severe water scarcity during a time when China owns the USA and the U...
Inanna
Stories about the goddess Inanna showing her growth from child to adult with great powers for good and ill.
