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American Disease
By Jay Bajaj A series of short stories about Jag Mohan, an Indian immigrant in Canada, who leaves a large and domineering family in order to become a bush pilot. These interconnected stories are both illuminating and touching, as Jag struggles to belong, either to the culture he left behind, or the new culture he's embracing. Based loosely on the life of auther Jay Bajaj, this collection takes the reader through adventure, culture clash, family, and love as our unlikely hero, Jag Mohan, stumbles, flies, and travels through the vibrant tapestry of his life. |
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I Paint Gophers!
By Eve Crawford In her conversational, wholly irreverent voice, Eve Crawford’s creative memoir, ”I Paint Gophers!” traces her chaotic years growing up in a family of four unruly girls, with a mother who would rather be teaching birth control in India (if only she could mutter the word penis) and a father, the lone male of the pack, who yearns for World War 2 when, as a lieutenant in the navy, people followed his orders. It follows her life as an actor as she balances her career as the Where’s Waldo of film with the daunting challenge of raising two boys as a single mom. Her hilarious stories both amuse and cut to the heart with an approach to life that is robust and full of love. |
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Bullies Inc.
The Book Your Parents Don't Want You to Read By Steve DiMarco "I was surrounded by their hate, their brutalities against those different, those weaker. I bore witness to their daily PDAs - Public Displays of Affliction. And what were the adults, our supposed guardians doing about the situation? Zero, zilch, absolutely nothing. I could no longer stand by and watch these Bully terrorisms continue unpunished!" Thus begins this wicked, dark comedy; our teen protagonist setting out to rectify these wrongs by recruiting others to take part in retribution against the culprits. This is the story of BULLIES INC. |
The Carnivore Trilogy
by Alan Scarfe
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Book One: The Vampires of Juarez
The Vampires of Juarez is a political, vampire thriller, part detective, part social commentary. It has been called a masterpiece halfway between Scarface and a 1980's B-movie.
Winner of the Best Indie Book Award for Scene-Setting, 2018!
The Vampires of Juarez is a political, vampire thriller, part detective, part social commentary. It has been called a masterpiece halfway between Scarface and a 1980's B-movie.
Winner of the Best Indie Book Award for Scene-Setting, 2018!
Book Two: The Demons of 9/11
A few short weeks after the horror of 9/11, Michael Davenport, an English journalist employed by the occult magazine Enigma, returns to America for the first time since nearly losing his life in the seamy drug wars of Ciudad Juarez to investigate an obscure report. Since his boss had thrown that copy of Al Jazeera across his desk, Michael had become obsessed by a story about two salvage workers who had seen something decidedly unusual emerging from the rubble of Ground Zero twenty-six days after the towers fell. A mirage most probably. A figment of over-tired imaginations. A wisp of smoke or some kind of silly American gag. Very unlikely to be of any serious political consequence but there was just the slimmest possibility that it might be something, or someone, beyond our ordinary human world.
A few short weeks after the horror of 9/11, Michael Davenport, an English journalist employed by the occult magazine Enigma, returns to America for the first time since nearly losing his life in the seamy drug wars of Ciudad Juarez to investigate an obscure report. Since his boss had thrown that copy of Al Jazeera across his desk, Michael had become obsessed by a story about two salvage workers who had seen something decidedly unusual emerging from the rubble of Ground Zero twenty-six days after the towers fell. A mirage most probably. A figment of over-tired imaginations. A wisp of smoke or some kind of silly American gag. Very unlikely to be of any serious political consequence but there was just the slimmest possibility that it might be something, or someone, beyond our ordinary human world.
Book Three: The Mask of the Holy Spirit
The final book of The Carnivore Trilogy takes place in April 2005, the month Karol Wojtyła died and Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI. Michael and Lamy travel to Rome for the investiture and flush out Michael's mysterious doppelganger, Bartolomeo Vespucci.
Winner of the Best Indie Book Award for Satire, 2020!
The final book of The Carnivore Trilogy takes place in April 2005, the month Karol Wojtyła died and Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI. Michael and Lamy travel to Rome for the investiture and flush out Michael's mysterious doppelganger, Bartolomeo Vespucci.
Winner of the Best Indie Book Award for Satire, 2020!
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The Revelation of Jack the Ripper
By Alan Scarfe The archetype of all serial killers tells his life story. Why the murders happened, exactly how they happened in every detail and why they stopped. The events described in the book are one hundred percent accurate in regard to all the known facts of the case. A case that for over a century has been meticulously researched, but during which surprisingly little attention has been paid to the intricate involvement of Forbes Winslow. But what is the book about? Well, it's an examination of how a "perfectly normal upper-middle-class family man" can become a serial killer and, beyond that, it explores why so many mass murders, exterminations and genocidal atrocities have occurred throughout the blood-soaked history of humankind. Winner of the Best Indie Book Award 2019! |
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The Copper People
By Barbara March A suspense horror memoir, The Copper People is a classic story of a woman in a strange land. A perfect novella that conjures up a secret buried for centuries in a tiny hilltop town in Italy. Rich, seductive and sensory! “The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.” Finalist of the Independent Book Awards, 2018! |
They Don't Run Red Trains Anymore
By Heidi von Palleske
Set in the 1980's, They Don't Run Red Trains Anymore explores the nature of love, sexuality and the importance of art in our day to day life. Alex Hoff is a young artist who witnesses a suicide at a subway station. That same day an exotic young woman comes to pose in her life drawing class at art college. An obsession takes over Alex's art and mind. Her teacher, Boris misconstrues her intentions and offers to give her extra tutoring. Alex soon finds out that the model, Premika, is his lover as well. The triangle becomes a competition, both in the art world and in the realm of each of their hearts. Alex’s obsession with Premika drives her to create. Too intimidated to carve in stone, she sets out to sculpt a life-sized terracotta replica of Premika, but in order to succeed she needs to know this beautiful but enigmatic woman thoroughly. She slowly peels away Premika’s carefully constructed, yet superficial, layers to get to the essential core of her being only to expose a well hidden, rooted sorrow. They Don’t Run Red Trains Anymore is a love story that breaks the rules and labels of society. This is a love that does not limit itself to age, race or gender. It is the love of the idealist. The love of beauty, the love of art and the love of desire. They Don’t Run Red Trains Anymore is thought-provoking, philosophical and heartfelt. It is a cry in the dark in defense of art, love and obsession.
They Don’t Run Red Trains Anymore is a winner of the HR PERCY AWARD for best novel manuscript in Eastern Canada.
Recipient of Toronto Arts Council Award.
Recipient of the Ontario Arts council Award.
Toronto Star Critics' choice.
By Heidi von Palleske
Set in the 1980's, They Don't Run Red Trains Anymore explores the nature of love, sexuality and the importance of art in our day to day life. Alex Hoff is a young artist who witnesses a suicide at a subway station. That same day an exotic young woman comes to pose in her life drawing class at art college. An obsession takes over Alex's art and mind. Her teacher, Boris misconstrues her intentions and offers to give her extra tutoring. Alex soon finds out that the model, Premika, is his lover as well. The triangle becomes a competition, both in the art world and in the realm of each of their hearts. Alex’s obsession with Premika drives her to create. Too intimidated to carve in stone, she sets out to sculpt a life-sized terracotta replica of Premika, but in order to succeed she needs to know this beautiful but enigmatic woman thoroughly. She slowly peels away Premika’s carefully constructed, yet superficial, layers to get to the essential core of her being only to expose a well hidden, rooted sorrow. They Don’t Run Red Trains Anymore is a love story that breaks the rules and labels of society. This is a love that does not limit itself to age, race or gender. It is the love of the idealist. The love of beauty, the love of art and the love of desire. They Don’t Run Red Trains Anymore is thought-provoking, philosophical and heartfelt. It is a cry in the dark in defense of art, love and obsession.
They Don’t Run Red Trains Anymore is a winner of the HR PERCY AWARD for best novel manuscript in Eastern Canada.
Recipient of Toronto Arts Council Award.
Recipient of the Ontario Arts council Award.
Toronto Star Critics' choice.
