Mishka.
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An odyssey of family, heartbreak, violence, punk rock, brokenness, brokenness, sex, love, loss, drinking, drinking, drinking, and an unlikely savior: distance running.
A misfit kid at the best of times, Mishka Shubaly had his world shattered when, in a twenty-four-hour span in 1992, he survived a mass shooting on his school's campus, then learned that his parents were getting divorced. His father, a prominent rocket scientist, abandoned the family...
5) Haven
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• Havre won the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama (French).
• The play has also been translated into German and Spanish.
• First produced in French by La Troupe du Jour, Saskatoon, in 2018
• First produced in English by United Players of Vancouver in January 2022
6) Shorelines
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A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline. Seventeen-year-old twins Alix and Evan pass the time in an empty, abandoned pool with what they are able to scavenge from the abandoned houses, while government official Portia returns to familiar places, her past colliding with the present. The planned evacuation notice that eventually reaches all cities has finally come,...
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I was grateful for the death sentence the doctors gave me. It meant no more words, no more summons ringing out in hallucinations and fevers, an end neat as the edge of the world, where the sun drops into the sea. I walked through the world-saying goodbye with a clean heart. They hollowed my bones for flight. My life moves in me there, urgent as air. There is language that comes up spare and bright as bone from a break. It stands beneath us like rock...
8) Havre
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Elsie vient de perdre sa mère. Matt cherche des traces de son passé. Quel lien avec l'énorme trou dans la chaussée et avec ce qui traînait dans la voiture abîmée tout au fond?
9) Murs
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Au lendemain d'une épidémie qui décime presque toute la population, des survivants errent à la recherche d'un monde meilleur. Éric et Zoé, frère et sœur, ont quitté leur ville pour se rendre, lentement et dangereusement, jusqu'à Portland dans le Maine, voulant savoir si leur père a aussi survécu. À leurs trousses, Sara, imprévisible, armée de sa carabine. Et plus loin, un homme mystérieux et visionnaire qui tente de trouver sa place...
10) Copeaux
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ELLE
je suis devenue l'ombre de moi
l'ombre qui s'efface
ses contours qui disparaissent dans la noirceur qui monte
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For over a decade, Mishka Ben-David was a professional spy, taking part in secret operations on behalf of the Mossad, Israel's legendary intelligence agency. But after twelve years of service, Ben-David quit the Mossad and became an acclaimed novelist, describing life as a spy from within. A major bestseller in Israel, Duet in Beirut is Ben-David's first book to appear in English. Ronen, an expelled Mossad agent, has disappeared following a failed...
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Yogev Ben-Ari has been sent to St. Petersburg by the Mossad, ostensibly to network and set up business connections. His life is solitary, ordered, and lonely-until he meets Anna. Neither is quite what they seem to be, but while her identity may be mysterious, there is no doubt about the love they feel for each other.The affair, impassioned as it is, is not part of the Mossad plan. The agency must hatch a dark scheme to drive the lovers...
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By the author of Duet in Beirut and Forbidden Love in St. Petersburg, Final Stop, Algiers is former Israeli intelligence agent Mishka Ben-David's most exhilarating novel yet. When a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv violently disrupts his life, Mickey Simhoni abandons his plans to become an artist and instead allows himself to be recruited into the Mossad. Slowly, he learns the art of spy craft and the painstaking process of building a cover, becoming...
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"A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Soulsavers), chronicling his years as a singer and drug addict in Seattle in the '80s and '90s"--
Lanegan arrived in Seattle in the mid-1980s, and within a decade rose from frontman of the Screaming Trees, only to fall from grace as a low-level crack dealer and a homeless heroin addict. Here he takes readers back to the alternative music scene that was...