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Silent Inlet by Joanna Streetly Five years ago, Hannah escaped from Hansen Sound, a storm-wrapped, isolated sliver of village on Vancouver Island’s west coast. She fled north to train and work as a nurse, perhaps desperate for the reliable rays of a Yukon sun. more... Between Gardens
Observations on Gardening, Friendship and Disability Friends, gardeners and artists, Carol and Dorothy began a correspondence that became more than the sum of its letters. Occasionally there are books that stand out as those you want to read again and again, and Between Gardens is one of these. Not only because of the beautiful still life photographs taken by Dorothy, but because of the wisdom contained in these two artists' correspondence. more... Broken Windows
by Patricia Nolan I wish that the characters in this selection of short fiction, the author's first, could have found themselves in such gardens as Carol and Dorothy's. The author writes that "these stories explore the lives and situations of characters who are struggling with the ... destructive potential of their pasts...the stories are not about victims despite the fact that they depict brutality, abuse, violence....the stories celebrate the restorative...survivalist nature of the mind to transcend, transform and triumph through fantasizing and dreaming...." more... The Tree Tattoo
by Karen Rivers Inner voices shouldn't always be listened to! "I was always a writer, but I thought I had to do something other than writing. I had to have a profession. Whenever I wrote there would be this inner voice reminding me this isn't a real job." So says Karen Rivers about why she had taken an undergraduate degree in International Studies and two years of pre med school before she turned to writing as a career. more... |
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