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  • The stand-in
    Author:
    Helwig, David
    Summary:

    A retired academic is called to a remote university to speak as the replacement for an old friend recently deceased in unusual circumstances. The Stand-In is a transcript of these lectures, revealing a sophisticated tale of art, fame,...
  • The starting eleven (Book #3)
    Author:
    Skuy, David
    Summary:

    Cody is no longer the kid with cancer, or the soccer player always sitting on the bench as a substitute. But just when he is getting used to being the striker on the Lions soccer team, as well as being friends with his teammates and a...
  • The Steve machine
    Author:
    Hoolboom, Mike
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for a 2009 Lambda Award When Auden learns he’s HIV-positive, he decides to head for Toronto, leaving behind Sudbury and his old personality. Determined to construct a whole new Auden, he gets a new job, new clothes, new...
  • The Still Body Is the Perfect Body
    Author:
    Uppal, Priscila
    Summary:

    This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s...
  • The stone angel
    Author:
    Laurence, Margaret
    Summary:

    In The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride...
  • The stone collection
    Author:
    Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri
    Summary:

    Fourteen stories that illuminate the strange workings of the human heart.
  • The stone face
    Author:
    MacDonald, Sherry
    Summary:

    The year is 1964 and first-time film director Alan Schneider is about to embark on a project combining the talents of Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett. When Alan visits the home of Keaton to discuss the project, titled simply Film, he...
  • The stone rainbow
    Author:
    Shaw, Liane
    Summary:

    Jack Pedersen is finding life complicated ever since he came out to his mom. Even though she's been doing her best to be understanding, it's obvious to Jack that his mom still wants to cry every time she says the word gay. Complications...
  • The Stone Thrower A Daughter's Lessons, a Father's Life
    Author:
    Richardson, Jael Ealey
    Summary:

    A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father’s legendary past in football. At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson travelled with her father — former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey — for the first time to a small town in...
  • The storm murders
    Author:
    Farrow, John
    Summary:

    "City of Ice, John Farrow's first book in his acclaimed Emile Cinq-Mars series, which has been hailed by Booklist as "the best series in crime fiction today," has been published in over 17 countries. Now with The Storm Murders, the...
  • The story of my face
    Author:
    Baugh, Leanne
    Summary:

    After being attacked by a grizzly bear in the Rocky Mountains, seventeen-year-old Abby Hughes' facial scars are all she can think about, and all that she thinks anyone else can see when they look at her. After months of hiding out at...
  • The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden The Night Flyer's Handbook
    Author:
    Dowding, Philippa
    Summary:

    This morning, I woke up on the ceiling … So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brother’s Batman balloons....
  • The Strange September of Levi Pepperfield
    Author:
    Manera, Matthew
    Summary:

    This is the story of Levi Pepperfield, who tries to navigate his future while indulging in the sorrows of his past. With the intersection of parallel worlds-of age and youth, of teacher and student, of man and woman, of real and...
  • The strange truth about us
    Author:
    Farrant, M. A. C.
    Summary:

    Broken into three sections, Farrant's work is a fusion of fragmented prose, probing questions and caustic satire. The result is both a meditation on absence and a commentary on the human penchant for complacency.
  • The strangers
    Author:
    Vermette, Katherena
    Summary:

    From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores how connected we are, even when we're no longer together—even when we"re forced apart. Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks...
  • The strangers' gallery
    Author:
    Bowdring, Paul
    Summary:

    St. John's archivist Michael Lowe's life is turned on its head when a Dutch acquaintance, Anton Aalders, arrives on his doorstep. Anton is searching for a father he never met, a Newfoundland soldier who was part of the Allied forces...
  • The street of butterflies
    Author:
    Yalfani, Mehri
    Summary:

    Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges...
  • The strength of bone
    Author:
    Wilk, Lucie
    Summary:

    At the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: infection, probably malaria. He'll send Iris for saline. Shortness of breath? TB. Another patient rolled to the ward. And the round swellings,...
  • The subtweet : a novel
    Author:
    Shraya, Vivek
    Summary:

    Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki's song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But...
  • The sum of one man's pleasure : a novel
    Author:
    Neil, Danial
    Summary:

    1963 - Finn Kenny has fled life in Ottawa after being implicated in an RCMP purge of suspected Communist sympathisers and homosexuals. He ends up on Vancouver Island working as a groundskeeper. Theodore Spencer, owner of Spencerwood...

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