Sammie Bell is sixteen years old and has just hustled her way into living in the basement of her friend Jill's house. Random House Canada, 2012 She has already been there for two weeks before Jill's mom even started asking questions, and, then, Sammie knows just what to
Ana is a research lawyer, and a wife: she has not had everything. McClelland & Stewart, 2012 (Emblem Editions) This is not all bad. Because she has not had a child, she has not had occasion to conceal the responsibilities of motherhood from her employers, she has enjoyed the
Lauren Davis' novel, Our Daily Bread, opens with an excerpt from a sermon, delivered in Gideon in 1794, which directs the righteous in attendance to cast out the wicked. Wordcraft of Oregon (US); HarperCollins (CAN) Send them to the mountains, "the wild places of their wickedness", the reverend
Laura remembers being impatient with her father, when he discovered symbols of the four elements in a shopping mall's design. Water, earth, air and fire: he had spotted representations of all of them. She was carrying too many parcels, frustrated by needing to ask him to help with her burden,
What happens inside, behind closed doors, in private moments, and in minds and hearts: that's the stuff of Alix Ohlin's novel. House of Anansi, 2012 "'He wouldn’t let me in,' she said, 'and I refused to stay out.'" Mitch's mother says that of his father. She is not
