The Royal Woods

All it takes is one look. One look for twelve-year-old Sydney and her nine-year-old brother Turk to know that everything has changed. The farm where their Uncle Frank and Aunt Lily used to live is gone, and along with it, their dreams of a "happily ever after." No safe place to hide from all that had gone wrong in their world; no one to tell them that everything would be alright. No one, even, to say that hopping a freight train and heading West probably wasn't the greatest idea they'd ever had. The farm had been their destination, but in its place was a strange new subdivision: The Royal Woods. Rather than return home and admit defeat, Sydney and Turk embark on the adventure of a lifetime in a world where fantasy and reality collide-where chickens ride ponies, where golf putters are magic, and where children survive on the strength of their own wits. In The Royal Woods, you never know what will happen next.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Duggan, Matt

Fantasy

Starburst Digital Rights International inc.

Acompelling and subversive, sly and sexy novel about an addictive love affair, a destructive friendship, a cherry 1976 Buick Electra, and a ceremonial gun once owned by Adolf Hitler. Cherry Electra was listed in the Globe and Mail's top 100 picks of 2010.

Cherry Electra

Literature & Fiction

Literary

All it takes is one look — one look for 12-year-old Sydney and her nine-year-old brother Turk to know that everything had changed. The farm where their Uncle Frank and Aunt Lily used to live was gone, and along with it, their dreams of a happy ever-after. Now what? With their mother dead and their father buried under his grief, Sydney and Turk decided to hop a freight train and go west. The farm was their destination, but in its place is a strange new subdivision: The Royal Woods. Rather than return home and admit defeat, Sydney and Turk embark on the adventure of a lifetime. With a homeless eccentric and an illegal immigrant as their only friends — and some neighborhood bullies making things a little difficult — the pair struggle to make a life for themselves in their odd new surroundings. The Royal Woods is an often fantastical, always engaging yarn that turns more than a few fairy tale conventions on their heads. Writing with a wink and a nod to Frank L. Baum's The Wizard of Oz and movies like Big Fish, Matt Duggan offers a smart, page-turning tale for young adult readers.

Children's Books

Key Porter Books

Locked in jail, a nameless narrator who sign himself as E” writes a series of letters to his girlfriend, identified only as T.” Awaiting trial for the murder of his best friend’s father, E writes to T to explain what happened and to convince her of his innocence. This unusual collection of letters that cannot be mailed for fear of corrupting a trial witness tells the story of one summer weekend on Red Snake Lake when E takes T to his wealthy high school friend's family cottage. Ted, his friend and host, is self-destructive and criminally-inclined. He convinces E to get his dad to front them some cash to finance a film. But by Sunday afternoon, Harry is dead, and both Ted and E are facing trials for first degree murder, where T will be the star witness for the Crown. Duggan's captivating, electric prose simultaneously shocks you and sucks you into E's world.

All it takes is one look — one look for 12-year-old Sydney and her nine-year-old brother Turk to know that everything has changed. The farm where their Uncle Frank and Aunt Lily used to live is gone, and along with it, their dreams of a happy ever-after. Now what? With their mother dead and their father buried under his grief, Sydney and Turk decide to hop a freight train and go west. The farm was their destination, but in its place is a strange new subdivision: The Royal Woods. Rather than return home and admit defeat, Sydney and Turk embark on the adventure of a lifetime. With a homeless eccentric and an illegal immigrant as their only friends — and some neighborhood bullies making things a little difficult — the pair struggle to make a life for themselves in their odd new surroundings.

Action & Adventure

Ostraca is a nineties "On The Road." A searing work of literary fiction that tackles tragedy and triumph; love and loss; joy and suffering. The story takes place in the 1990's, when America's Generation X was living in a blissful bubble, unaware of the outside world and its seething anger. It was a pre-internet age that will never exist again. It's against this backdrop that we're introduced to Gen Xer Jack Darmody. Jack was seven years old when his parents died in a horrific car crash. He was thrown from the backseat and later found in a patch of roadside grass, unharmed. When Jack embarks on a road trip in 1996 from New York to Los Angeles, his past confronts him. As he zooms alone down the highways, the solitude forces him to wrestle with his trauma and the very meaning of existence. All of Jack's misadventures, heartache, and discoveries lead him to his big epiphany at the end of the first novel: Love. Love will see us through. Love's the trick. It's all we have in this mad world.Ostraca is the first novel in Duggan's Odyssey USA series.

Ostraca: East-West

Dramas & Plays

Man Vs. Films

A collection of poetry from one of the UK's more important new voices. 'Woodworm' showcases the talent that Matt Duggan has already hinted at with a selection of chapbooks, in an expansive and vital collection of bleeding edge poetry. This is one you genuinely can't afford to miss.

Woodworm

Poetry

Hedgehog Poetry Press

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The Royal Woods

Cherry Electra

The Royal Woods

Cherry Electra

The Royal Woods

Ostraca: East-West

Woodworm