Quadra Books: 5 books

Dovetail Joint—the strongest of joints, it works best under tension.Front cover final 200 wideIn Dovetail Joint and other stories, Lenore Rowntree portrays the subtle deceits of intimacy that arise when an expectation is not met. We encounter Vanessa in six linked stories, at five distinct...

In Times and Places Gillian Bridge takes us on journeys to ancient and modern China, revolutionary Russia, 20th century England, Germany, Africa and southeast Asia. Along the way we discover the dangers of black mamba snakes snakes, we learn about dissecting a cadaver, about dentistry, pregnancy and...

The Best Soldier's Wife is the deeply personal story of one woman trying to cope with the shocks and aftershocks of Canada’s war in Afghanistan, told in a series of letters from a military wife in Victoria to the wife of a fictionalized Chief of Defense Staff. In her letters she uses a number of...

Pathways Not Posted is an insightful collection of dramatic memoir, humorous and tragic poetry, and laugh out loud short stories.Pathways Not Posted contains poems, short fiction, and a brief memoir. The editor is Joy Huebert, and the authors, Katrin Horowitz, Gisela Ruebsaat, and Joy Huebert are members of the #19 Writers Group.An excellent vacation companion.

Power Failures by Katrin Horowitz explores the always unequal power relationships between men and women, father and daughter, the first and third world. The setting is a coastal village in Sri Lanka, just weeks before the tsunami of 2004.