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2017., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic She Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential prose series Volume: 135.Summary Note: "The Alcoholic's Daughter, a story of a man's quandary living with a celebrated woman who in the privacy of their life manifests dozens of personality disorders brought on by growing up with a hard drinking, abusive father. The well known woman appears normal to everyone, except her husband who endures all manner of abuse and frustrations due to her plethora of hidden phobias and neuroses. It is a tale of an alcoholic's legacy but also what price someone is willing to pay for love and how he finds himself in jail once he decides to leave her."--
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2018., Guernica Call No: QWF Fic Tho Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: No safeguards Volume: 2Summary Note: "In Fate's Instruments Paul, a naïve 20-something Montreal man, marries the boyfriend he met in a small Guatemalan town and brings him to Montreal where their drama, complicated by fate and their radically different psychology, plays out. Fate's Instruments picks up the story from where Paul's brother Jay left it off in No Safeguards."--
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2018., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic Gok Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential prose series Volume: 152.Summary Note: Four strong women: Anjali, an Indo-Canadian single mother who eagerly accepts an African posting with her non-profit organization; Grace, her dedicated but dominating colleague, who opposes her; Fatimah, a farmer ousted from her home and fertile farmland, whom Anjali befriends; and Mary, Anjali's kindly maid, who must secure the future of her son, Gabriel. In Land for Fatimah, Anjali involved herself in Fatimah's quest to find new land for her scattered community, and is thrown into a web of intrigue that upturns her safe, orderly world. Capturing the warmth and vitality of Africa, illuminating everyday heroism, the novel explores expat life, the forced displacement of the poor and the complexities of development--back cover.
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2016., Guernica Editions Call No: Fic Fis Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential prose series Volume: 129.Summary Note: The Magic Dogs of San Vicenteis set in the aftermath of the war in El Salvador (1980-1992), a war in which the two Flores brothers were arrested and savagely tortured, but a war that they ultimately survived. On a heat-soaked morning in El Salvador's wild countryside, the Flores brothers encounter something -- part vision, part phantasm, part shuddering echo of their past -- that almost frightens them out of their wits. What follows is a magical, dream-like and picaresque journey, as the Flores brothers try to find what will set them free from the thing that they have witnessed and from the tragedies of their past.
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[2016], Guernice Editions Call No: QWF Fic Ack Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential prose series Volume: 139Summary Note: "Marianne Ackerman's second collection of stories for Guernica, Mankind, puts the focus on women, their ascent to selfhood, the beauty and carnage en route. Picking up from the Gothic shadows of Albert Fine in Holy Fools (2014), she follows the lives of an Ontario farm family marked by a bloody incident they struggle to understand. Literary Montreal is the setting of two stories spun around an alpha poseur, George. Four interlocking stories unpeel the secrets of one man's sister, ex-wife, friend and mother. Sardonic and often funny, these tales follow the byways of aspiration and self-deception, casting a warm light on all."--Provided by publisher.
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2018., Guernica Call No: Fic Sam Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential prose series Volume: 148Summary Note: "Joseph, the tactician behind the Piccadilly Circus bombing, finds himself in a nursing home in Pierrefonds, Quebec. A visit from a long-lost former fellow cell member interrupts his dalliance with the night nurse, provoking both a crisis and a period of reflection. Did he lose his mind back then as a young man? Or is he losing it now? Why did a systems analyst living on the Kandahar Road in London, with a PhD from the London School of Economics and an enthusiasm for Bobby Darin's hit "Dream Lover" (the Farsi version), bring home fertilizer? Will his former associates give him up with deathbed confessions?"--.
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2018., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic McB Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential prose series Volume: 151Summary Note: "The Shining Fragments is a family saga about the Irish in Canada that explores the ramifications of abandonment, obsession, love, memory, and visionary power. Spanning the years 1882-1904, it follows Joseph Conlon from his early childhood in Ulster to his experiences of youth and adulthood as an immigrant. Left behind as a small boy on a Toronto train-station platform like so much forgotten luggage, Joseph grows up in a city bleak with bigotry. He discovers that he has artistic talent and becomes a designer of stained-glass windows. He is haunted by the spirit of his unborn sister, Annie, and the powerful and often conflicting influences of the women in his life. In the end Joseph is given the gift of hope on the same station platform where he was abandoned as a child."--
