Patricia Young
1) Incubus
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Melissa's marriage into a traditional farming family was a mistake. Mathew came from a line of men who had thrown physical fury at the land, until it was, tamed. His aggressive conservatism and the Deeps Farm culture are ubiquitous. Nobody meant to drive Melissa mad, but a bigoted husband and a mother-in-law with an incestuous agenda create the perfect conditions for the disease to take root.
Melissa decides to recreate herself, like a butterfly emerging...
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It's summer, and France opens her shutters on a seaside town in Normandy. Two women meet on the beach, one a talented street performer who can take any role she chooses and remain hidden behind her lifestyle. Seeming at ease with a rucksack on her back, she carries a disturbing past and an ugly scar across her shoulder. Hannah is an art teacher who has fled from a horrendous confrontation with the death of a colleague. She flees from Houndstooth Academy,...
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The Properties of Things continues David Solway's explorations in the realm of fictive translation, this time that of the obscure thirteenth century scholar Bartolomaeus Anglicus. The result is a poetic alphabetary, ranging from the bawdy to the sublime. David Solway has been called "an internationalist of the imagination." He remains one of the country's most brilliant and inventive poets.
4) Airstream
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A woman who cannot leave her house loses everything, her only companion a garrulous radio talk show host; a house fire sets into motion the end of a marriage; a teenage girl cannot extract herself from a doomed relationship with a heroin addict. Innocence, and the loss thereof, are handled with humour, compassion, and heartbreaking honesty.
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Presented in an atypical way, this is an uncomplicated philosophy fable, written by a dog with a gentle heart and a human voice. As this puppy develops into an older and well-adjusted dog, we find this is remarkably similar to the way in which we too need to grow into confident and effective adults. Our dog tells his story from before his birth and throughout his life until after he dies. While he grows from a puppy to an adult dog, he is helped in...