Any Other City is a fictional memoir of a trans indie rock musician in two parts. Focusing on unearthed military training footage of Army-built model towns called Riotsvilles, where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder in the aftermath of the Kerner Commission created by President Lyndon B. Johnson, director Sierra Pettengill's kaleidoscopic all-archival documentary reconstructs the formation of a national consciousness obsessed with maintaining law and order by any means necessary. When they meet by chance, the beauty of the natural world and the ugliness of racial discrimination they've both faced pull them together. Now, the American government, as well as a group called the Trackers, are hunting her.
Her works include the short story collection Every Second Weekend and the novel One Who Has Been Here Before. What Remains of Elsie Jane is available now. While hanging out after school, Charlie and his friends discover the headquarters of the world's most powerful superhero hidden beneath his home. All of that changes when he discovers Lyle – a singing crocodile (Shawn Mendes) who loves baths, caviar and great music-living in the attic of his new home. Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is the Toronto-based author of the novels All the Broken Things, Perfecting and The Nettle Spinner and the short story collection Way Up. When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn't prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus (David Harbour) is on the grounds, and he's about to show why this Nick is no saint. Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, but underneath it all they harbor a deep rage. In The Librarianist, retired librarian Bob Comet is content spending the rest of his days reading in his Portland, Oregon home, until a chance encounter with an older woman in the supermarket brings him to the senior centre, where he begins volunteering. Along the way, they encounter merciless bullies, brutal storms and magnificent sea creatures. But when those in power threaten to break up the band, Inu-oh and Tomona must dance and sing to uncover the truth behind their creative gifts.
Tauhou examines Indigenous families, womanhood and reimagines post-colonial histories and futures. Wakelyn is a writer and musician. Becca Babcock is a Halifax-based writer, writing instructor and an actor. There, through conversations, reflection and a few funny characters, Bob's life story is slowly revealed. Jane, a 13-year-old girl, entertains the idea of digging a tunnel to her dead father's coffin. If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory. " Do martial artists can control their hair? After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho (LEE Jung Jae) and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do (JUNG Woo Sung) are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. Kevin Chong is the author of seven books, including the 2020 book, The Plague, a retelling of Albert Camus' novel of the same name. The book's protagonist, Lucky St. James, finds herself down on her luck when she and her grandmother Stella are set to be evicted from their apartment.
Strange Loops is available now. Armageddon Time is a deeply personal story on the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream. He is currently completing his PhD at York University. Out-of-order chapters. Charlene Carr is a Toronto-raised writer and author based in Nova Scotia whose work explores truth in fiction. To solve the case, Hildie will have to come up against some powerful adversaries, including knights, runesmiths and a beast hunting people's dreams. These days, the knights of the round table live in Vancouver. He has written several novels, including The Sisters Brothers, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, the Leacock Medal for Humour, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He has lived in France and Quebec and is now based in British Columbia.
In response to a global rise in demonic possessions, Ann seeks out a place at an exorcism school reopened by the Catholic Church. Directed by Todd Haynes, "The Velvet Underground" shows just how the group became a cultural touchstone representing a range of contradictions: the band is both of their time, yet timeless; literary yet realistic; rooted in high art and street culture. He has won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Literary Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Liz Harmer's debut novel, The Amateurs, was a finalist for the 2019 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda. Moving away from her strict parents proves demanding between school, new friends and a relationship with a closeted woman, but Aki is a good girl, she will figure it out. Chong exposes themes of loneliness, loss and self-discovery through stories like that of a child fixating on the hair growing out of her mother's eyelid or a linguist's attempts to connect with a boy who cannot speak. We Meant Well is a novel that poses a difficult moral dilemma for its protagonist, Maya, an aid worker who must decide who to believe when her coworker at the orphanage, Marc, is accused of assaulting her former protégé, Lele. Birnam Wood is a thriller set in the middle of a landslide in New Zealand. A story about human connection and the magic of cinema set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s.
Finally, in "To Hell And Back, " two filmmakers asked to document a summoning ritual on the eve of Y2K are accidentally transported to a hellish dimension, where a tormented soul guides them in escaping its demonic inhabitants. Username: Password: HOT. It's the early 1990s and 12-year-old Pierce Jacobs is struggling to come to terms with his fisherman father's death at sea. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. When Piper asks her husband, a natural resources officer, to investigate who is cutting down old-growth trees in the rainforest, a storm blows in and he goes missing. Her novels include the novels Late Nights On Air, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2007, Alone in the Classroom, Garbo Laughs, His Whole Life, and the memoir All Things Consoled. In the end, they must deal with an unthinkable plot to assassinate the South Korean president. An adventure unfolds involving secret witches, witch hunters, magic spoons and an epic road trip from Toronto to Salem, through Appalachia and into New Orleans. Chrysalis is a short story collection examines the ways in which racialized women are undermined and exploited and the ways in which they reclaim their power. He's determined to save up enough to fix his dad's boat and take it out to sea himself.
He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood's go-to shoemaker during the silent era. The first part follows Tracy St. Cyr in 1993 as she's just starting out in music and finding a community of trans women. Despite the warning, Ess wants answers and sets off on a journey to understand her past and decide what to do with her future. Janie Chang is a B. C. -based historical fiction writer who draws inspiration from her family history, ancestral tales and the stories she was told as a child about life in a Chinese small town pre-First World War.
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