Nunatak First Fiction – serie
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28 produkter
Why I'm Here
Av Jill Frayne
Häftad, 2022
208 kr
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Fifteen-year-old Gale is desperate to get out of Whitehorse, a fact that is immediately clear to counsellor Helen Cotillard when Gale walks into her office with her reluctant stepmother. It’s 1995, and one counselling agency for kids and families serves all of the Yukon. Gale has been having …
I (Athena)
Häftad, 2023
234 kr
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When Athena was a young girl in the 60s, she lost her hearing to a childhood fever but was misdiagnosed as "profoundly retarded" and institutionalized for thirty years. Now she's out of the institution, awkward and bookish, and learning to integrate with mainstream society where nothing works quite …
A Story Can Be Told About Pain
Av Lisa Martin
Häftad, 2025
296 kr
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When an accident upends their lives, fourteen-year-old Shiloh and her mother Ruth must leave their idyllic home to make a new life in the city. They find housing — through an evangelical church operating out of a strip mall — that backs onto the grounds of the abandoned Pacific Hospital for the …
Revolution Songs
Häftad, 2025
292 kr
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Annie Jalmer stands uneasily between opposing Communists and Fascist forces in her 1930s Rocky Mountain town. As the radical politics of her family inflame tensions throughout the town, Annie becomes an unwilling double agent until a violent strike forces her to take a stand. Revolution Songs is …
The Two Faces of Paradise
Av Ted Smith
Häftad, 2025
296 kr
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Set in the mid-1980s between Canada and Thailand, The Two Faces of Paradise rockets Ted Smith onto into the scene with this skillful debut. After being conscripted into service by his older brother, Robert Percy reluctantly agrees to return to South-East Asia to find his missing niece-by-marriage, …
Talon
Häftad, 2002
190 kr
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Before her death, Rubis Caillou Morin sends her son west to help her brothers settle new land. Raoul carries with him a shadowy understanding of why his mother died, and a red book filled with her wisdom and love. The book sees Raoul through life, and helps his great-granddaughter …
Whipstock
Av Barb Howard
Häftad, 2001
175 kr
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Whipstock is a humorous tall tale exploring the literal, metaphorical and narrative links between pregnancy and Alberta’s petroleum industry.
Touch
Häftad, 2005
227 kr
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Anna Gareau arrives in Victoria, BC, with two things to hide—an illegal pistol, and the ability to read people’s pasts by touching certain objects. After a woman is drowned in the pool at her hotel,Anna must lie to protect her secrets and is dragged into a terrifying murder …
Paper Trail
Av Arleen Paré
Häftad, 2007
203 kr
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Frances, a manager for a large corporation, appears to be very successful. But Frances finds her piece of mind unravelling as she becomes overwhelmed by the destructive bureaucratic nature of the work world she lives in. Frances starts to lose small body parts, hears mysterious Leider music booming …
Cleavage
Häftad, 2008
178 kr
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Cleavage tracks the patchwork musings of Leah, who, at twenty-four years old and two years into a relationship, discovers she has breast cancer. Told in fragments reminiscent of A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews, Cleavage details Leah’s struggles with her illness and treatments, the conflict …
Seal Intestine Raincoat
Av Rosie Chard
Häftad, 2009
196 kr
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After a severe winter storm and extended power failure, thousands become trapped in their homes during one of the coldest weeks of the year. For one small group of people, thrown together by catastrophe, a state of anxiety and claustrophobia follows as they discover no precautions have been made …
Crisp
Av R.W. Gray
Häftad, 2010
175 kr
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Crisp confronts the unspeakable parts of memory, meditating on characters caught in isolation and struggling to make sense of grief, disappointment, and the occasional dinner party gone wrong. The characters in Crisp’s stories don’t always make sound decisions: a grieving widow pursues a priest, an …
Extensions
Av Myrna Dey
Häftad, 2010
227 kr
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When she makes the chance discovery of a framed sepia photograph of her grandmother and her twin sister, RCMP Constable Arabella Dryvynsydes decides to investigate how a picture taken in 1914 in the mining town of Extension, B.C. wound up at a garage sale in small-town Saskatchewan almost one …
Dance, Gladys, Dance
Häftad, 2012
198 kr
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27-year-old Frieda Zweig is at an impasse. Behind her is a string of failed relationships and half-forgotten ambitions of being a painter; in front of her lies the dreary task of finding a real job and figuring out what “normal” people do with their lives. Then, a classified ad in the local paper …
Friendly Fire
Häftad, 2015
203 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 O'REILLY INSURANCE AND THE CO-OPERATORS FIRST BOOK AWARD AT THE SASKATCHEWAN BOOK AWARDS As a long, hot Saskatchewan summer dawns, Darby Swank’s life is forever changed when she finds her beloved aunt floating dead in a lake. All at once, her blinders are lifted and she …
Paper Teeth
Häftad, 2016
203 kr
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Winner of the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize! Shortlisted for the 2017 Alberta Readers' Choice Award! Finalist for the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction at the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards! Shortlisted for Trade Fiction Book of the Year at the 2017 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! …
Border Markers
Häftad, 2016
163 kr
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Shortlisted for the Cover Design Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! After the accidental death of a teenaged friend, the Lansing family has split along fault lines previously hidden under a patina of suburban banality. Every family has secrets, but for the Lansings those secrets end …
59 Glass Bridges
Häftad, 2017
203 kr
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In 59 Glass Bridges , an unnamed narrator travels through a maze that is at once mutable and immutable: walls fall to vine-filled forests, hallways to rivers, bridges to lamp-lit boats. What remains is the desire to escape. He is led along his harrowing path by Willow, a mysterious figure who …
Shore Girl, The
Av Fran Kimmel
Häftad, 2012
198 kr
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Rebee Shore’s life is fragmented. She’s forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Elizabeth. The Shore Girl follows Rebee from her toddler to her teen years as she grapples with her mother’s fears and addictions, and her own desire for a …
Belinda's Rings
Häftad, 2013
196 kr
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Half-Asian teenager Grace (but she’d prefer it if you called her “Gray” instead) is not a perfect little supermom-in-the-making like her older sister Jessica, and would rather become a marine biologist than a mother—although she does understand how to take care of her special-needs kid brother …
Love at Last Sight
Häftad, 2013
178 kr
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“So I have always walked alleys alone, with my monster face, listening through a wall for the words that might cultivate me, that are contained within the homes of ex-lovers, the ones who caught a glimpse and ran away.” In the neon-slick streets of Thea Bowering’s imagination, monster girls and …
Shallow Enough to Walk Through
Häftad, 2013
173 kr
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“Three weeks it’s been raining, but no puddles…” Author Sara Pierce is slowly drowning in Windsor, a city where rain will seemingly not stay put long enough to form puddles. While living with her germophobic best friend Angie and dealing with her online gaming-addicted boyfriend Dan, Sara finds …
Things You've Inherited From Your Mother
Av Hollie Adams
Häftad, 2015
203 kr
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Shortlisted for the Cover Design Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. Take Carrie, for example. To get over her mother’s death from ovarian cancer, she launches a passive-aggressive war with her fellow office workers, embarks on a …
To Me You Seem Giant
Av Greg Rhyno
Häftad, 2017
196 kr
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It’s 1994 and Pete Curtis is pretty much done with Thunder Bay, Ontario. He’s graduating high school and playing drums in a band that’s ready to hit the road. Even though his parents, teachers, and new girlfriend seem a little underwhelmed, Pete knows he’s on the verge of indie rock greatness. …
Melting Queen, The
Häftad, 2019
215 kr
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Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize—Literary Fiction Category! Shortlisted for Best Speculative Fiction at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! Shortlisted for Best Book Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! Second Place in the Prose Category at the …
Molly of the Mall
Literary Lass & Purveyor of Fine Footwear
Häftad, 2019
198 kr
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Winner of the 2020 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour! Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor’s life is strikingly different from a literary heroine's. Named for one of literature’s least romantic protagonists, Moll Flanders, Molly lives in Edmonton, a city she finds irredeemably unromantic, …
Inquirer, The
Av Jaclyn Dawn
Häftad, 2019
203 kr
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Shortlisted for Best Trade Fiction at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! When an accident jeopardizing the family farm draws Amiah Williams back to Kingsley, Alberta, population 1431, she doesn’t expect her homecoming to make front-page news. But there she is in The Inquirer , the mysterious …
Meadowlark
Häftad, 2015
208 kr
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Winner of the Cover Design Award and Shortlisted for the Fiction Trade Book of the Year Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! Shortlisted for the Second Annual Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Literary Fiction! When her family’s car goes through the ice on Rainy Lake one cold March day in …
