Category: General Fiction/Classics

Shedding a Skin by Amanda Wilkin
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Overview: Sometimes you crack.
Sometimes you didn’t mean to yell that.
Sometimes you have to lay low until you’ve figured it out
And sometimes, sometimes you have to hibernate until you’ve healed.
This is a new day.


Shedding a Skin is a story for our times. It’s a play about finding kindness in unexpected places; about understanding what our elders can teach us; it’s new skin honouring old. It’s a play about joy, healing and protest.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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Spin: A Novel Based on a (Mostly) True Story by Peter Zheutlin
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Overview: Who was Annie Londonderry? She captured the popular imagination with her daring ‘round the world trip on two wheels. It was, declared The New York World in October of 1895, “the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman.”

But beyond the headlines, Londonderry was really Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, a young, Jewish mother of three small children, who climbed onto a 42-pound Columbia bicycle and pedaled away into history.

Reportedly set in motion by a wager between two wealthy Boston merchants, the bet required Annie not only to circle the earth by bicycle in 15 months, but to earn $5,000 en route, as well. This was no mere test of a woman’s physical endurance and mental fortitude; it was a test of a woman’s ability to fend for herself in the world.

Often attired in a man’s riding suit, Annie turned every Victorian notion of female propriety on its head. Not only did she abandon, temporarily, her role of wife and mother (scandalous in the 1890s), she earned her way selling photographs of herself, appearing as an attraction in stores, and by turning herself into a mobile billboard.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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Later Emperors by Evan Jones
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 0.6mb
Overview: Later Emperors is four poems, each of which approaches Roman history from a very different perspective. It is also four voices, each one concerned with the living and the dead: voices of historians and moralists, voices of great (and not so great) emperors. Jones has written a book which is all the more for our time because it looks so clearly at other times and identifies in them familiar patterns, difficulties, ambitions and desires. History becomes a crystal ball in which the past chides the future, the same mistakes predicted and made again, the same injustices repeated. The Byzantine historians Michael Psellos and Anna Komnene reveal themselves as the significant chroniclers they always were. The book concludes with a retelling of Plutarch’s ‘Consolatio Ad Uxorem’, in which Jones considers what we might hold on to in a world of suffering.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics | Poetry

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The Eclipses by David Woo
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 93kb
Overview: The Eclipses was selected by Michael S. Harper as winner of BOA’s third A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Woo’s artful remembrances weave together memory, mourning and transcendence. Ancestors, both literary and blood, are called forth as Woo struggles beyond his mother’s death toward heart-intelligent truths.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 by Molly Peacock
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 232kb
Overview: A selection of works culled from the author’s first four books is complemented by a new sequence of poems that seeks to expand the boundaries of sensual and psychological realities.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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