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Zolitude
WINNER OF THE 2018 QUEBEC WRITERS' FEDERATION CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FIRST BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD FINALIST FOR THE 2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR Fantastical, magnetic, and harsh—these are the women in Paige Cooper’s debut short story collection Zolitude. They are women who built time machines when they were nine, who buy plane tickets for lovers who won’t arrive. They are sisters writhing with dreams, blasé about sex but beggared by love—while the police horses have talons and vengeance is wrought by eagles the size of airplanes. Broken-down motorbikes and housebroken tyrannosaurs, cheap cigarettes and mail bombs—Cooper finds the beautiful and the disturbing in both the surreal and the everyday. Troubling, carnal, and haunting, these stories are otherworldly travelogues through banal, eco-fabulist dystopias. Zolitude is a gorgeous, sad, and sexy work of slipstream and an atlas of fantastic isolation. The monstrous is human here, and tender.
Best Canadian Stories 2020
“The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back.” “Like meeting a stranger, much of the pleasure of a story is its unknown power,” writes Best Canadian Stories 2020 guest editor Paige Cooper. “The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back.” From Festival du Voyageur to the shores of Lake Erie, Tbilisi to Toronto, the Amisk River to a hotel-turned-hospital in the midst of a mysterious pandemic, this wide-ranging anthology brings together the real and the speculati...
Remembering You
Remembering You By: Barbara Luker When successful architect Paige Cooper is invited to Chicago to be the keynote speaker for a convention, she expects nerves and hopes for success. Never in her wildest dreams did she imagine she would be captivated by Jake Baxter from across the room. With one smile, her world is changed forever. But when tragedy suddenly strikes, life as Paige knows it is turned upside down in an instant. Will she uncover the truth before it’s too late?
The Pregnancy Plot
Asking for no romantic entanglements, AJ Reynolds gets in touch with her ex-lover and asks him to sire her child.
We Have Never Lived On Earth
Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother and daughter wait out the end of a bad year in a Mexican hotel; a friendship is tested as forest fires demolish Charlotte’s town; a childhood friend disappears while travelling through Europe; and a girl on the beach examines the memories of dying jellyfish. The stories traverse the most intimate and transforming moments of female experience in a world threatened by ecological crisis. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2023.
A WILD NIGHT & A MARRIAGE ULTIMATUM
Sophie had only recently been dumped by her boyfriend?who said she was too plain and compliant?when she was asked to dance at her friend’s wedding by Cooper, a tall and perfect-looking guy. She is quickly entranced by him; however, as they talk more, she finds out that he is a divorce lawyer who doesn’t believe in love. He’s looking for an obedient woman to be his wife. When Sophie goes to leave, Cooper lifts her into his arms and seduces her softly. A one-night love affair is not Sophie’s style. But maybe this is earnest, boring Sophie’s chance to change?
A Gentle Strength
Michael Jansen grew up in a strong, Christian home. He was a happy, well-adjusted teen-until a dark secret from the past shattered his world. In one instant, everything that the boy thought he knew and could count on wavered and vanished. The world had shifted on its axis, and nothing fit anymore. This teen's journey of discovery reveals the power of Christ-as our personal Savior, who wants to be involved in our daily choices. Michael has a lot to learn-about himself, about the nature of truth, about the importance of titles, and about the power of love. Michael learns that, sometimes, what we view as weakness is actually a gift from God-a gentle strength. Janella Henry lives in Sadler Texas, where she is relishing the recently rediscovered freedom that comes with having new wheels. She enjoys teaching and reading, and she has also had a hand in writing a book of Christian poetry entitled Walking in The Shadow of the Cross.
The American Way
After four years of Trump, America seems set to return to political normality. But for much of the rest of the world, that normality is a horror story: 75 years of US-led invasions, CIA-sponsored coups, election interference, stay-behind networks, rendition, and weapons testing... all in the name of Pax America, the world’s police. If you are not an ally of the US, in this ‘normality’, your country can find its democratic processes undermined and its economic wellbeing conditioned upon returning to the fold. If you’re not strategically important to the US, you can find yourself its dumping ground. This new anthology re-examines this history with stories that explore the human cost of...
Tidal
Hollywood starlet Willow Avery is out of rehab, with only one chance left to redeem herself before she's officially on every director's crap list. At least, that's what her parents and her agent are claiming. She doesn't really give a damn if she ever makes another movie-she just wants to get on with her life, get back to her friends, and find her next escape. But Willow is broke, and whether she likes it or not, acting is the only job she knows how to do. When she accepts the lead in a new beach drama, Willow finds herself in Hawaii. And in Hawaii, she finds Cooper, the gorgeous Australian surfer who's been hired to train her for her new role. With the bluest eyes she's ever seen and the sexiest accent she's ever heard, Cooper's different from the men she's used to. He doesn't want to use her. And he refuses to let her fail. But when an old friend re-enters Willow's life-a friend whose toxic presence reminds her of the painful memories and deadly habits she's tried so hard to suppress-Willow will have to choose between the girl she was and the person she's becoming or she may lose the man she's falling hard for.
The Heart's Flames
The Fresh Voices series was inspired by a contest of the same name that identified high school writers interested in composing book-length works for young adults. Working with a professional editor, the young authors spent the summer learning about the book industry and meeting journalists while writing their individual books, both fiction and nonfiction. The four titles in this series represent the first four winners of the contest. Cole Hunter, professional smoke jumper, is changed forever when a wildfire takes the life of his best friend and leaves Cole without hearing. This, however, is just the start of his problems: medical complications lead to marital problems, and soon adultery, self-doubt, and the dissolution of love come to dominate this dramatic novel by a 17-year-old author. Ultimately it is the will of God that retrieves Cole and his wife from their fallen state, revealing the justice of His plan and demonstrating that under God, no sin is too big and no bridge too broken to restore.
