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On a day in the spring of 1956, my parents dressed my brother and me in brand new outfits, my mother put on makeup and her best, camel-hair coat, and we all went for a drive in the countryside near Montreal. We took along our puppy, Smokey, wrapped in a blanket in case he peed on the seats of our new car. Not long before, my father had agreed to enrol me in a special program, whose directors were very interested in bright little girls like me....

EVEN IN THE AGE OF TERROR, LOVE CAN STRIKE ANYWHERE. In this post-modern odyssey, a young woman wanders the Mediterranean in search of her famous father and the secret of her mother's death.

Mary Katherine Kennedy led a very conservative childhood. She started to sprout wings going off the college, and her life took off from there. Kate felt in a rut and sought a goal of greater happiness, moving to New York City to join her boyfriend, Ari Goldman. When she encountered the "The Pink Pearl, " what she thought was an otherwise mundane life turned into a whirlwind of adventures. Her journey seeking that goal took many twists and turn...

After the Second World War, Nazi scientists came to America under the auspices of a secret program, to work on classified projects for the military. Some of their work drew on expertise gained during the war in concentration camps, hospitals, orphanages, using innocent people -- including children - as guinea pigs. in America, these scientists received special clearance to experiment on vulnerable groups such as native people, orphans, mental ...

In those days, it was easy to join the revolution. You could sign up on any street corner where you could also find like-minded children with similar weird hair and clothes. I had been in the streets a lot that year, marching for this and shouting slogans against that. The future would sort itself out, as simple as breathing. In 1966, when I was fifteen years old, I saw Leonard Cohen sing The Stranger Song on Canadian television. Not long afte...

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Winner of the 1994 QSPELL Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, these stories are poignant and absurd. Erogenous danger zones. Ordinariness gone berserk. This is Ann Diamond territory, explored with a stunning lightness of touch. Moving from existentialism in the Ottawa Valley, to the Messiah at a falafel stand in Cairo, these wry and intelligent stories are bulletins from the front lines.

Judy Diamond is a professor and curator of informal science education at the University of Nebraska State Museum and the coauthor of Kea, Bird of Paradox: The Evolution and Behavior of a New Zealand Parrot. Tom Floyd is a multimedia graphics designer at Nebraska Educational Telecommunications and the author and illustrator of Captain Spectre. Martin Powell is the author of many graphic novels, including Rumpelstiltskin and The Avenger Chronicl...

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Never complacent, and with a good measure of black humour, Ann Diamond takes chances and provokes thought -- about the state of Canadian's relationships with each other and to their country.

This is an outlandish, quirky exposure of one woman's fix on God--his surrealistic depravities, her own lusts and horrors, their vital marriage. A Nun's Diary expresses a poetic theology that has as much to do with contemporary morality and love as it does with the institutions and traditions of Christianity. It is very funny--the humor both bawdy and black--and brilliant in its perceptions of what women, if they departed from conventional ass...