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ETCH is a collection of stories written for the Guelph Public Library's 2015 Teen Writing Contest. There's a story about a robot who does not want to be retired, about a detective tracking a wereshrew, about a girl surviving an earthquake, about a boy exploring a mysterious well, about all kinds of things. There 's a story here for everyone, so have a look and discover the one that's waiting for you.

John Galt twice wrote the story of Herman, first as a play and then as a fairytale, first as poetry and then as prose, telling of a scholar who sold his soul in exchange for love. Both versions are available here together for the first time, a unique opportunity to explore a story so captivating that its author couldn't tell it just the once. The edition is edited by David J. Knight, the General Editor of Vocamus Editions, with a foreword by Ian McGhee, Secretary of the John Galt Society, and with John Galt's own preface to "The German's Tale".

EVERY WAY I KNOW HOW is a collection of erotica that is as much about telling stories as it is about being erotic. There's no shortage of sex in it, so don't worry about that, but it always tells a human story too.There's a bridesmaid who helps the mother-of-the-bride find a fashion that suits her. There's a guest speaker at a college whose night is disrupted by a young woman's poetry. There's a landlady who is irresistibly drawn to her guest's bedroom. And many others too, female and male, queer and straight, old and young, all discovering that their sex stories are also life stories.Together they show that sex is never meaningless, that part of being human is finding out exactly what sex means for us.Together they show that sex is never meaningless, that part of beimg human is finding out exactly what sex means for us.

The child of teenage parents, Michelle spent her formative years amid parties, sex and drugs. When her father died and her mother's mental instability made her fear for her life, she spent several years in and out of foster care. She grew up determined to escape her past and created a full life as she began her own family and built a business. Then, at forty, everything began to unravel, forcing her to confront the depths of dysfunction in her past.

Barney and Me is a collection of remembrances from a boyhood spent in the village of Mount Stewart, PEI during the 1940s and 1950s, a time when modern amenities like electricity and indoor plumbing were only beginning to find their way into rural communities.

ETCH is a collection of stories written for the Guelph Public Library's 2014 Teen Writing Contest. They are stories about dandelions and avalanches, journeys and photographs, angels and bookstores. Their heros are bearers of worlds, climbers of mountains, and rescuers of waitresses. There is something in them for everyone, so have a look and find what there is for you.

This is the story of a man who grew up in the 50's and 60's, got married, fathered five children, knowing all the while that he was really a woman. It recounts the physical, emotional, and social struggles that she endured to remain true to herself, to her family, and to her faith as she became the woman she had always known herself to be.

Guelph Versifiers of the 19th Century is a comprehensive introduction to the poets and poetry of the City of Guelph, Ontario before the year 1900. It includes some writers as famous as John Galt and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, some so obscure that even their names have not survived, and some who are no longer commonly known but who played an important part in the literary and cultural life of the city during their time. Together they comprise an interesting and significant insight into the history and culture of Guelph during its early years, a book that will both entertain the general reader and engage the serious scholar.

THE RHAPSODY ANTHOLOGY is an annual collection of poetry and very short prose by Guelph and area writers.The 2014 edition of the anthology includes a variety of local writers, from established authors to emerging talents, on subjects that run from first-time parenthood to ominous snowplows, from dead insects to polio outbreaks, from skating in Guelph's market square to the taxonomy of birds. They come together to reveal an intriguing part of what literary Guelph was in the year 2013 / 2014.

I WANT A POEM is a collection of lyric poems that explores the relationship between poetry and desire, reflecting on what we need poetry to say and to be. This reflection is what unifies the collection as it moves between the many forms that desire takes in us. Its verse is both vigorous and delicate, rash and reflective, poignant and humorous, as it evokes the many faces of our human needs.

ABANDONED BY THE MUSE is the second bundle of poetry by Bieke Stengos. Its poems draw their imagery from her emerging identification with the landscape between Guelph and Kitchener in Ontario, Canada. Bieke's writing attempts to internalize the landscape in order to make it home. Anyone who has had to leave a home and rediscover another elsewhere will recognize their experience in her verses, as she writes through loss and exile into the hope of homecoming.