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Nunatak first fiction volume no. 48
Publisher
NeWest Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen-a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who must keep the city's spirits up over the following winter. But this year, something goes wrong. A genderfluid university dropout called River Runson is Named as Melting Queen, and the city tears itself in two as River's reign starts to expose the dark underbelly of the...
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Nunatak first fiction volume no. 55
Publisher
NeWest Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Philippine-born Vancouverite Sophia is most grateful for two things: her modest hair salon and Adrian, her mild-mannered fiancé. She is eager to get married, move away from her highly educated but career-frustrated parents, who believe that their daughter can be so much more than a beautician. Then Sophia's estranged friend reaches out from Manila, desperate for help. After a dubious accident, her fiery Auntie Rosy is on the verge of losing the...
3) The inquirer
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Nunatak first fiction volume no. 51
Publisher
NeWest Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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 tabloid that is airing her hometown's dirty laundry. Alongside stories of high school rivalries and truck-bed love affairs, disturbing revelations about Amiah's past and present are selling papers and fuelling small-town gossip. As...
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Nunatak first fiction volume no. 60
Publisher
NeWest Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"After learning that his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out to tell his father. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, stories of run-ins with Mennonites, floods, working a honey wagon, struck by visions of Métis history, and embracing his heritage, Richard confronts his desire to leave town as he searches through Ste. Anne and Southeastern Manitoba. Evoking an oral storytelling epic that weaves together one family's...
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