Here All Night
Here All Night

Author: Jill McDonough

Publisher: Alice James Books

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 1948579588

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Jill McDonough’s latest collection is fiercely unapologetic, transforming mundane moments into witty and provocative insights that closely examine the flaws in our quick-moving society. Using dark humor, the poems address the impermanence of life and how we should always find reasons to re-evaluate ourselves as empathetic beings over our selfish tendencies. ”Here’s Jill McDonough, Here All Night, belting out an endearing song of herself that is, as Whitman’s is, tuned in to some thrumming undercurrent of joy in all the mess that is America. The poems’ catalogue of the unwieldy stuff of domestic life ultimately insists that things are pretty good—love endures, friends come through, there’s plenty of gin. Unabashed and boisterous, McDonough’s voice also coos with gratitude and aching tenderness. A vital book in multiple senses: read it and feel more alive.” —Maggie Dietz

We Could Stay Here All Night
We Could Stay Here All Night

Author: Debbie Howlett

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 1999-04-16

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1554886864

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These twelve linked stories confirm what we’ve suspsected all along: eventually we all outsmrat our parents. In this brilliant debut collection by Debbie Howlett we return to the turbulent 70s revisiting the bittersweet wonder years of Diane Wilkinson, a precocious teen living in suburban Montreal amidst the Catholic/Protestant, Federalist/Separatist split that foreshadowed the October Crisis. Against this backdrop of upheaval, Diane quietly chooses sides in her own domestic battles and armed with deadpan humour she protests her drunken father’s hapless philandering, her uncle’s half-cocked scams, her brother’s dimwitted nosiness and her mother’s silent acquiescence. We Could Stay Here All Night captures the coming of age of a country as much as of a characterand hboth badly need to grow up. Diane soon comes to recognize, as we all must, that the line between adolescence and adulthood is one of convenience, and that the frantic search for love is no less desperate at 12 than it is at 40. Readers will want to curl up with these stories and stay all night.

Novels
Novels

Author: Samuel Beckett

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780802118172

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Volume one of a four volume collection of the works of Samuel Beckett.

Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma

Author: Kerry Hudson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1101634820

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“A witty and lively novel set somewhere between the worlds of Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh.” —William Dalyrymple, The Guardian Reminiscent of early Roddy Doyle, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma begins with our singular heroine’s less than idyllic birth and quickly moves to a spectacular fight that lands Janie and her mother in a local women’s shelter. From there it’s on to a dodgy council flat and a succession of unsuitable men, including the hard-drinking, drug-dealing, ice-cream-buying Tony Hogan. Kerry Hudson’s arrestingly original debut will enthrall readers with Janie’s tragicomic and moving story about coming of age in a non-traditional family amid the absurdities of the 1980s and Thatcherite Britain.

Party Europe
Party Europe

Author: Partyearth

Publisher: Party Earth, LLC

Published: 2006-06

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780976112013

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The perfect supplement to traditional guidebooks, PartyEuropes 429 pages are packed with over 600 reviews of fun and social, day and night activities in the 14 hottest European destinations. The unique manner in which it is written enables young travelers to customize reviews to match their own definition of fun in order to maximize every moment of their time abroad.

In for a Pound
In for a Pound

Author: J.R. Roberts

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

Published:

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1628159960

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A RUN FOR THE MONEY When Clint Adams visits his old buddy Jack Bates in Driver's Town, Nevada, he’s shocked to learn that his friend has gone and invested in a racetrack. Unfortunately, it looks like his thoroughbred dreams are going to die before they get out of the gate. It seems a very powerful money man has already staked a claim on building a local racetrack—and when it comes to getting rid of the competition, all bets are off. Now, the Gunsmith finds himself in a race against a whole stable of galloping gunmen. But in this race, the prize for second place is a pine box—and six feet of dirt...