Fiction
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It's Funny until Someone Loses an Eye (Then Its Really Funny)
Sagging Meniscus Press£20.99| /This collection of stories by Kurt Luchs pursues its comedic quarry with the ruthlessness of a pussycat trying to get out of a cardboard box. Luchs...
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Jackmans Cliff
Manor House Publishing Inc£15.99| /A superb collection of a half-dozen intriguing short stories from one of Canada's best new writers, who has deservedly drawn favourable comparisons...
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Jacob's Prayer
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /In 1974 Lorne Dufour moved to Alkali Lake Reserve, a Shuswap community near Williams Lake in British Columbia, to help reopen the local elementary ...
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Jade Frog
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£15.99| /An artist-shaman, an English teacher, and a judge find their lives transformed by the beauty and spiritual influence of the Cariboo Chilcotin. Span...
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Janams - Rebirths
New Century Publications (IND)£30.99| /This is the fiction story where a tormented soul makes a deal with the young woman to get her rightful offering at Budh Gaya by her son to become a...
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Jane and the Whales
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /"In this playful yet poignant debut collection, Andrea Routley muddies the line between the physical and emotional worlds: reality becomes not simp...
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Jaysen's Story
Eschia Books Inc (CA)£7.99| /Fourteen-year-old Jaysen Flett-Paul's true story of how Elders guided him through his first Sundance ceremony to heal the anger and grief stemming ...
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Je t'aime Cowboy
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /In Montreal, sex and politics frequently mix, and T.F. Rigelhof's stories are sexy and political. His contemporary cowboys -- immature, vulnerable ...
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Jewish Life
Ariadne Press (US)£22.99| /This work, originally published in Mannheim in 1891, is a collection of twenty-six stories illustrating various aspect of Jewish life and culture i...
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Jonas in Frames
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursti...
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Joseph C. Lincoln's Essential Cape Cod Reader
Schiffer£13.99| /"The dear old Cape! I love it! I love its hills of sand," From "The Surf Along the Shore", Cape Cod Ballads (1902). From 1902 to a year before his ...
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Journey to the Black City
Primedia Elaunch LLC£25.99| /On an Earth that is very much like our own, the civilizations of ancient man have been crushed; the giant glaciers that cover the northern part of ...
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Journeys Through Shadows
Indra Publishing (AUS)£14.99| /When Maryati leaves her village in Central Java to live in Melbourne with her Australian husband Trevor, she suffers the intense pain of separation...
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JRZDVLZ
Sagging Meniscus Press£19.99| /JRZDVLZ, by Lee Klein, author of The Shimmering Go-Between, is the autobiography of a sympathetic monster on a centuries-spanning quest for redempt...
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Juggling Truths
Spinifex Press£14.95| /"My name in Monei Ntuka and this is the story of my childhood in the village of Mochudi, in the then British Bechuanaland Protectorate, in the mid ...
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Jumping Off
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This book chronicles women whose lives are on the brink of change, for better or worse. Though the characters are from all walks of life, they shar...
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Juno & Hannah
Spinifex Press£14.95| /1920, deep in the New Zealand bush, a settlement of Christian fundamentalists live a life of austerity and isolation. It is a place where there is ...
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Jurassic Ark
Avenue Books (UK)£9.95| /What if Noah, after completing the ark but still awaiting the arrival of the animals, took a time travelling holiday in modern Dorset? This creativ...
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Just Off Message
Interactive Press Australia£23.99| /From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices s...
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Kal Ma' lil-Shukulata
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£9.99| /Text in Arabic. A highly original novel by one of Mexicos most important storytellers, Kal Maa Lil-Shukulatas chapters each start with a traditi...
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Kalila
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, George Bugnet Award for FictionKalila chronicles the lives of Maggie and Brodie, whose joy collides with devastation when their daught...
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Kalyug
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£4.99| /Raghav and Mandira were enjoying their anniversary dinner at home with wine and good food. There was news of Indo-Pak tension on the television in ...
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Kate Wake
DC Books (CA)£16.99| /Its 2008. Blue Hills is a haunted place. Katie fights to reclaim her life from the grip of a profound psychological crisis, tracing back a materna...
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Keeps
Huntington Press Inc (US)£9.99| /Castle Frazer is a 27-year-old gambler and "steering man". Rich Stillman is an 11-year-old poolshark. The two meet in Kentucky in the early 1940s a...
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