Blind Crescent

Literature & Fiction

Berry, Michelle

World Literature

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

This book is a pacy and innovative twist on a classic murder mystery. Bruce waits seven years for a big story, and then Emma Fine, an ex-actress with an unsolved murder behind her, blows into his life. Bruce starts to investigate what led to her lover's body being pulled out of her pool one hot summer morning. The lover's wife Bridget had been having surgery, becoming a sinister body double. Is this woman who returns Emma after all? Or Bridget? One is still missing and Bruce wants to know which.

Blur

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Orion Publishing

Inspired by history, Story of a Nation is a beautifully illustrated collection of original stories from some of Canada's most celebrated and best-loved authors. Twelve of the country's finest writers, including Margaret Atwood, Roch Carrier, Timothy Findley, Antonine Maillet, Alberto Manguel and Michael Turner, when presented with the question, What are the great events in Canadian history responded by travelling into the past to discover the moments, both familiar and unexpected, that shaped our nation.Drawing on their skills as master storytellers, the contributors to this collection offer wonderfully imaginative accounts of what it's like to make history. Margaret Atwood casts her eye back to 1759 and brilliantly captures the journal entries of a frightened French woman, trapped in Québec City as the English forces attack. In "The First of July," David Macfarlane's youthful narrator loses himself in the papers of an elderly neighbour, and through the records of her past, experiences the heartbreaking, stunting loss of war. In Thomas King's hilarious story, "Where the Borg Are," a young boy named Milton Friendlybear offers a Star Trekkian reinterpretation of the Indian Act, linking its significance to the fate of the universe. And revisiting an occasion of huge national pride, Michelle Berry tells the story of a four-year-old girl caught up in the excitement of the 1972 Summit Series, hopeful that the passion of hockey will hold her crumbling family together.

Story Of A Nation - Defining Moments In Our History

History

SAUL, John Ralston

BRAND, Dionne

MACFARLANE, David

Niedzviecki, Hal

Carrier, Roch

Maillet, Antonine

ATWOOD,MARGARET

FINDLEY, Timothy

MANGUEL, Alberto

King,Thomas

and Turne

Americas

Doubleday, Canada

What We All Want

Random House Canada

Vintage Canada

Malls and Velcro, television and art galleries, restaurants and bars, drugs and alcohol are the backdrops and props of modern life in the city, but even the disenchanted and confused benefit from the ever-changing constellations and confrontations with other people and other dreams.

How to Get There from Here

Literary

Turnstone Pr

You could be married for over 10 years and still not know your spouse. You could think you knew everything about your dad but still he surprises you at your mothers death bed. You think you know everyone in your small town but youll never know the dark secret your drinking buddy hides in his heart.With control, wit, and brilliance, Michelle Berry explores the hidden depths between individuals, families, and communities. Dysfunctional characters create tension in situations where they teeter on the edge of life. Psychological or situational twists pop readers eyes wide open and force them to pay attention. Berry uses rapid-fire dialogue to build tension and emotion. Despite the underlying dark tones, the stories carry life and hope, human kindnessand strangeness.Each story is a vivid snapshot of a raw moment in the lives of people at a crossroads. A married couple in the title story, I Still Dont Even Know You, question the foundation of their relationship during a winter getaway. In The Cat, a life of endless purgatory stretches before a newly-wed husband. The wives in Five Old Crows, contemplate ways to pass the time ranging from murder to writing. And the title character in Martin drives around a boring country town with a shotgun in his car, his dissatisfaction with his empty life mounting as townspeople talk about recent mysterious murders.

I Still Don't Even Know You

Turnstone Press

Michelle Berrys brilliant first novel, What We All Want, is as touching as it is mirthful. Siblings Hilary, Thomas and Billy have been thrown together after a long estrangement to plan their mothers funeral. For Thomas and Billy, the prospect of being back in their childhood home is far from ideal. Even more unsettling is their sister, who has developed a few disturbing attachments to dolls, preserves, and pebbles underfoot. For Hilary, the sight of her brothers is a sign of hope and a new life. As they argue over the funeral arrangements, Hilary, Billy, and Thomas struggle to contain their secret hopes, desires, fears, and shame. Witty and insightful, What We All Want shows just how beautiful and tragic family can be.

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