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Publisher: Insomniac Press
Keywords: reader, lounge
Published: 2001-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1894663039
ISBN-13: 9781894663038

Since May 1998 book lovers have gathered in a small, inconspicuous cafe across from the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto to hear some of Canada’s best writers read from their latest works. From national award-winning poets such as Dennis Lee and David Donnell, to the leading writers of new fiction such as Lynn Crosbie and Derek McCormack, to first-time authors and local favourites, the I V Lounge Reading Series has provided an intimate space for members of the literary community to share their craft with the public. This anthology offers samples of the best and most memorable readings o

Author: Nigel Cox
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Keywords: lounge, skylark
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0864733925
ISBN-13: 9780864733924

In the middle of his life, Jack Grout found himself abducted by aliens. There were other things. His wife left him. His son came one night to the Skylark Lounge - the pool hall Jack bought after throwing in his job in newspaper advertising - and punched him. And there was the mistreatment for melanoma. But what Jack really needed to know was why the aliens, who had first taken him when he was nine years old and shown him his life in unbearably vivid close-up, had returned.

Author: Michael Wiley
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: lounge, kitty
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-03-02
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0312593007
ISBN-13: 9780312593001

Michael Wiley’s first novel, The Last Striptease, was nominated for a Shamus Award and hailed as “riveting” (The Chicago Tribune), “delightful” (Toronto Globe and Mail), and “hard-boiled fiction with tenderness and compassion” (New York Newsday). Now he offers another exciting, fast-paced page-turner with The Bad Kitty Lounge.Greg Samuelson, an unassuming bookkeeper, has hired Joe Kozmarski to dig up dirt on his wife and her lover Eric Stone. But now Samuelson has taken matters into his own hands. It looks like he’s torched Stone’s Mercedes, killed his boss, and then shot

Author: Meg Federico
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: mothering, mother, adventures, lounge, departure, welcome
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1400067952
ISBN-13: 9781400067954

The adventure begins when Meg’s mother, Addie, vacationing in Florida, takes a spill. At the hospital, Addie bolts upright on her gurney and yells “I demand an autopsy!” before passing out cold.“One minute, she is unconscious, the next, she’s nuts,” observes Meg Federico in this hilarious and poignant memoir of taking care of eighty-year-old Addie and her relatively new (and equally old) husband, Walter, in their not-so-golden years. Addie’s accident is a portent of things to come over the next two years as Meg oversees her mother’s home care in the Departure Lounge, the nickna

Author: Wallace Stroby
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: novels, rane, harry, lounge, heartbreak
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-11-09
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 031265118X
ISBN-13: 9780312651183

Ex-state trooper Harry Rane, who first appeared in Wallace Stroby’s brilliant debut novel, The Barbed-Wire Kiss, is at loose ends. Doing some investigative work for a friend’s firm just to keep himself busy, Harry meets Nikki Ellis, a woman desperate for help. Her ex, Johnny Harrow, was just released from prison after a seven-year stretch for attempted murder. Nikki hasn’t spoken to him since he went down, but she knows what he’s capable of, and that he’ll be looking for her-and for the baby she put up for adoption after Johnny went away. She knows it’s up t

Author: Saje Williams
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Keywords: empire, infinity, lounge, magitech, tales
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $14.50
ISBN-10: 159998749X
ISBN-13: 9781599987491

Where can a perpetual outsider find a home when he doesnt belong anywhere? Welcome to the Magitech Lounge. Theres no place like it on Earth. Or anywhere in the Confederacy of Human Worlds, for that matter. Its a place where the terminally weird gather to find companionship, friendship, and redemption. Here, magic meets high technology and humanity looks at itself in the mirror of infinite possibilities. Located on a side-street not far from the legendary Haight Street in San Francisco, the Magitech Lounge is a place of wonder for normals and preternaturals alike. Jacks an ordinary enough fello