New Releases by Lisa Moore

We''re cutting through the BS and sharing the unfiltered truths that make us human.Let''s face it-life is a wild ride, and we often find ourselves sugarcoating the truth. We craft elaborate stories in our heads, often bending reality to fit our comfort zones, all while burying our true selves beneath layers of BS. We''ve all been there, haven''t we? The little white lies we tell ourselves to dodge shame, the perfect façades we put on for others, and the countless times we''ve hidden behind a mask instead of embracing our realness.But what if we stopped the charade? What if we stripped away the fluff and got raw with our stories?In Let''s Not Sugarcoat It: Real, Raw, and Unfiltered Stories Without the BS, you''ll dive into a refreshing and honest compilation from 18 courageous authors who are here to bear it all-no shame, no blame, no lies. These brave souls are breaking free from the shackles of societal expectations and sharing their truths, reminding us that vulnerability is not weakness; it''s a powerful act of courage.Get ready to laugh, cry, and nod in recognition as these storytellers take you on a journey through the messy, beautiful chaos of life. This book isn''t just a collection of tales; it''s a celebration of authenticity and the freedom that comes when we stop sugarcoating our experiences.So, buckle up! Let''s embark on this wild ride together and uncover the unfiltered truths that make us human. It''s time to embrace our stories and drop the BS. Are you in?

Riveting nonfiction from multi-award-winning author Lisa Moore, based on the shocking true story of a teenaged boy who endured abuse and solitary confinement at a reform school in Newfoundland, but survived through grit and redemptive love. Invisible Prisons is an extraordinary, empathetic collaboration between the magnificent writer Lisa Moore, best-known for her award-winning fiction, and a man named Jack Whalen, who as a child was held for four years at a reform school for boys in St John’s, where he suffered jaw-dropping abuses and deprivations. Despite the odds stacked against him, he found love on the other side, and managed to turn his life around as a husband and father. His daughter, Brittany, vowed at a young age to become a lawyer so that she could seek justice for him. Today, that is exactly what she is doing—and Jack''s case is part of a lawsuit currently before the courts. The story has parallels with Unholy Orders by Michael Harris about the Mount Cashel orphanage, and with the many horrific stories about residential schools—all of which expose a paternalistic state causing harm and a larger society looking away. Yet two powerful qualities set this story apart. As much as it is about an abusive system preying on children, it is also a tender tale of love between Jack and his wife Glennis, who saw the good man inside a damaged person and believed in him. And it is written in a novelistic way by the great Lisa Moore, who makes vividly real every moment and character in these pages.

From the award-winning author of A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Moore Ramée, comes a hilarious and heartfelt young middle grade novel, in the vein of Judy Blume, about friendship, fitting in, and the ups and downs of middle school. Sure to resonate with fans of Rebecca Stead, Meg Medina, and Kelly Yang. Eleven-year-old Kylie’s friends seem so much more mature than she is. And with middle school just a summer away, she’s worried her friends might leave her behind, especially because she keeps embarrassing them. So Kylie applies her scientific brain to solve the problem and comes up with the Everybody Experiment: Hypothesis: Kylie Stanton will be mature if she does what everybody else does. Experiment: This summer, when all of Kylie’s friends do something, she will do it too. Suddenly it’s a whole new grown-up world for Kylie, with parties, unsupervised excursions, and boys. But the more research Kylie puts into the Everybody Experiment, the more she begins to wonder how she can do what everybody else does . . . without letting go of herself.

From Lisa Moore Ramée, author of the Walter Honor Award–winning A Good Kind of Trouble, comes her debut middle grade fantasy—an absorbing, imaginative adventure about a Black boy who has the magical ability to bring maps to life. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky and A Tale of Magic. When Walt and his family relocate to Blackbird Bay, Walt thinks it’s the most boring place on earth. While his twin sister, Van, likes to spend her time skateboarding, Walt prefers to hide out in his room and work on his beloved map world, Djaruba. But shortly after their arrival, Walt discovers something extraordinary: He has the ability to make maps come to life. Suddenly his new hometown doesn’t seem so boring after all. And when a magical heirloom leaves Walt, his new friend Dylan, and Van stranded in the fantastical world that Walt created, he’ll need to harness his new power to get them home. But things are changing. People have gone missing, and it’s clear that a malevolent rival to the kingdom—a fellow mapmaker—has nefarious plans for Walt. If he’s not stopped soon, Djaruba could become nothing but a shadow of itself or, worse, gone forever. And if a mapmaker can destroy one world, could Earth be next?

From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love? As the snowstorm of the century rages, twenty-one-year-old Xavier is beaten and stabbed in a vicious attack. His mother, Jules, must fight her way through the shuttered streets of St. John’s to reach the hospital where Xavier lies unconscious. When a video of the attack surfaces, Jules struggles to make sense of what she sees in the footage — and of what she can’t quite make out. While Xavier’s story unfolds, so, too, do the stories that brought him there. Here, across families and generations, are stories of mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers; of children cared for, neglected, lost, and re-found; of selfless generosity and reluctant debt. Above all, Moore, in the inimitable largesse of her art, paints a shimmering portrait of the sacrifice, pain, and wild joy of loving. A tour de force of storytelling and craft, This Is How We Love brings us a cast of characters so rich and true they could only have been written by Lisa Moore.

Lisa Moore''s debut book of lyrical prose is an evocative exploration of the cyclical rhythms of divorce- life''s universal journey of faith and longing in the pursuit of finding true love.

From the author of A Good Kind of Trouble, a Walter Dean Myers Honor Book, comes another unforgettable story about finding your voice—and finding your people. Perfect for fans of Sharon Draper, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds. Eleven-year-old Jenae doesn’t have any friends—and she’s just fine with that. She’s so good at being invisible in school, it’s almost like she has a superpower, like her idol, Astrid Dane. At home, Jenae has plenty of company, like her no-nonsense mama; her older brother, Malcolm, who is home from college after a basketball injury; and her beloved grandpa, Gee. Then a new student shows up at school—a boy named Aubrey with fiery red hair and a smile that won’t quit. Jenae can’t figure out why he keeps popping up everywhere she goes. The more she tries to push him away, the more he seems determined to be her friend. Despite herself, Jenae starts getting used to having him around. But when the two are paired up for a class debate about the proposed name change for their school, Jenae knows this new friendship has an expiration date. Aubrey is desperate to win and earn a coveted spot on the debate team. There’s just one problem: Jenae would do almost anything to avoid speaking up in front of an audience—including risking the first real friendship she’s ever had.

From debut author Lisa Moore Ramée comes this funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship, family, and standing up for what’s right, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give and the novels of Renée Watson and Jason Reynolds. Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she’d also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high, it’s like all the rules have changed. Now she’s suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she’s not black enough. Wait, what? Shay’s sister, Hana, is involved in Black Lives Matter, but Shay doesn''t think that''s for her. After experiencing a powerful protest, though, Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing), but if she doesn''t face her fear, she''ll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that’s trouble, for real. "Tensions are high over the trial of a police officer who shot an unarmed Black man. When the officer is set free, and Shay goes with her family to a silent protest, she starts to see that some trouble is worth making." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children''s and YA Reading List")

Winner, Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Winner, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize “Lisa Moore’s work is passionate, gritty, lucid, and beautiful. She has a great gift.” — Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Gathering Internationally celebrated as one of literature’s most gifted stylists, Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly of our everyday lives. Internationally celebrated as one of literature’s most gifted stylists, Lisa Moore returns with her second story collection, a soaring chorus of voices, dreams, loves, and lives. Taking us from the Fjord of Eternity to the streets of St. John’s and the swamps of Orlando, these stories show us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly of our everyday lives. A missing rock god may have jumped a cruise ship — in the Arctic. A grieving young woman may live next to a serial rapist. A man’s last day on Earth replays in the minds of others in a furiously sensual, heartrending fugue. Something for Everyone is Moore at the peak of her prowess — she seems bent on nothing less than rewiring the circuitry of the short story itself.

Upper motor neuron injury damages the descending circuits connecting the brain to sensory and motor neurons responsible for sensing and interacting with the world. While spinal cord stimulation is showing extraordinary promise as a novel therapeutic to restore lost motor function following spinal cord injury, we have yet to fully characterize the mechanisms of its action or identify the limits of its therapeutic potential. Towards these ends I conducted a series of three studies which utilized spinal stimulation in novel subject populations to map the cervical spinal cord, identify and modulate aberrant spinal physiology, and enhance upper limb function. In the first study a group of SCI subjects with motor complete lesions, half of which had no measurable hand strength, received transcutaneous stimulation to the cervical spinal cord alone and in combination with the partial serotonergic agonist buspirone. Stimulation but not buspirone significantly improved hand function in subjects with measurable strength prior to the study and maintained hand strength for up to five months following treatment in more functional subjects. In the second study, two subjects who demonstrated improvement with transcutaneous stimulation but failed to maintain it 5 months after treatment, received epidural stimulators. The different properties and performance outcomes of the two forms of stimulation were compared in these severely impaired subjects. Finally in a cohort of rats, epidural stimulation was used to map the cervical spinal cord, track physiological changes in the spinal cord following a severe stroke injury to the motor cortex, and treat observed deficits in reaching success and muscle activity. While 20 Hz stimulation enhanced afferent derived spinal activity, only 1 Hz stimulation resulted in improved reaching success and muscle activity. Together these studies further our understanding, by identifying patient pools most receptive to spinal cord stimulation, characterizing the different properties and functional outcomes of transcutaneous versus epidural stimulation, and illustrating the potential to utilize spinal cord stimulation for other forms of upper motor neuron injury.

Seit sie denken kann, ist die sechzehnjährige Flannery in Tyrone verliebt. Aber wann genau ist aus ihrem Sandkastenfreund ein Rebell und der coolste Junge der Schule geworden? Flannery, die sich oft in den Erinnerungen daran verliert, wie einfach früher alles war, beobachtet mit Erstaunen, wie die Welt um sie herum immer schneller kreist. Doch dann kommt ihr für ein Schulprojekt eine folgenreiche Geschäftsidee: Sie fertigt Liebestränke für die Mitschüler an – und ein regelrechter Hype wird ausgelöst. Plötzlich geht das Gerücht um, dass die bunten Mixturen tatsächlich wirken ... Das erste Jugendbuch der Booker-Prize-Kandidatin Lisa Moore: Ein ebenso kluger wie komischer Roman über die Suche nach dem Glück, der voller kleiner und großer Weisheiten steckt. Presse über Lisa Moores ›Im Rachen des Aligators‹ und ›Der leichteste Fehler‹: »Lisa Moore erzählt in einer eindringlichen, sanft schwingenden, kühl reduzierten Sprache ... Ein klug arrangierte(s) Spiel mit wechselnden Perspektiven.« Kulturspiegel »Lisa Moore arbeitet impressionistisch.« FAZ »Lisa Moores Sprache hält mit fotografisch anmutender Präzision Wahrnehmungssplitter fest.« Süddeutsche Zeitung

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A spellbinding story about chasing love, fighting family, losing friends and starting all over again, from the internationally acclaimed Lisa Moore. Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She’s been in love with Tyrone O’Rourke since the days she still believed in Santa Claus. But Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid into an outlaw graffiti artist, the rebel-with-a-cause of Flannery’s dreams, literally too cool for school. Which is a problem, since he and Flannery are partners for the entrepreneurship class that she needs to graduate. And Tyrone’s vanishing act may have darker causes than she realizes. Tyrone isn’t Flannery’s only problem. Her mother, Miranda, can’t pay the heating bills, let alone buy Flannery’s biology book. Her little brother, Felix, is careening out of control. And her best-friend-since-forever, Amber, has fallen for a guy who is making her forget all about the things she’s always cared most about — Flannery included — leading Amber down a dark and dangerous path of her own. When Flannery decides to make a love potion for her entrepreneurship project, rumors that it actually works go viral, and she suddenly has a hot commodity on her hands. But a series of shattering events makes her realize that real-life love is far more potent — and potentially damaging — than any fairy-tale prescription. Written in Lisa Moore’s exuberant and inimitable style, Flannery is by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, empowering and harrowing — often all on the same page. It is a novel whose spell no reader will be able to resist.

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Historians have often characterized Catholic private schools for girls exclusively as privileged, homogenous, and strictly regulated institutions that provide little insight into the lived experiences of female adolescents. The following study aims to challenge this perception by providing a microhistorical analysis of the youth culture that thrived at Villa Maria, an all-girls private school in Montreal, from 1916 to 1980. While the private school is acknowledged as a socializing force that influenced students’ development, this examination demonstrates that teenage girls actively produced meaningful adolescent experiences within institutional settings. Far from assuming positions of passivity, students at Villa Maria played an important role in shaping and transforming their school. More specifically, this study illustrates the ways in which students borrowed from the normative messages of their superiors, from popular culture, and even from broader social changes occurring within Quebec society to produce a youth culture that reflected their age-based needs and desires and that often challenged institutional values. By foregrounding Villa girls’ daily rituals and activities as the foundational basis of this youth culture, this study also tests conventional notions of historical agency, which have largely excluded young women as historical actors. Through its investigation of the student experience at Villa Maria during the twentieth century, this analysis questions established understandings of private schools and calls for the reconsideration of educational institutions as spaces for observing female adolescent agency.

The acclaimed author of February “combin[es] the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller” (National Post). Lisa Moore, a “Canada Reads” winner and a New Yorker Best Book of the Year author, introduces a dangerously appealing new protagonist unlike any she’s imagined before: a modern Billy the Kid . . . Caught begins with a prison break. Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked up on charges of marijuana possession, escapes his cell and sprints to the highway. There, he is picked up by a friend of his sister’s and transported to a strip bar where he survives his first night on the run. But evading the cops isn’t his only objective; Slaney intends to track down his old partner, Hearn, and get back into the drug business. Along the way, Slaney’s fugitive journey across Canada rushes vibrantly to life as he visits an old flame and adopts numerous guises to outpace authorities: hitchhiker, houseguest, student, lover. When he finally reunites with Hearn just steps ahead of a detective hell-bent on making a high-profile arrest, their scheme sends Slaney to Mexico, Colombia, and back again on an epic quest fueled by luck, charm, and unbending conviction. In Caught, “Moore combines the propulsive storytelling of a beach-book thriller with the skilled use of language and penetrating insights of literary fiction. She pulls it off seamlessly, creating a vivid, compulsively readable tale” (Penthouse). “Propulsive, adrenalin-drenched.”—The Globe and Mail “Exhilarating . . . a memorably oddball and alluring novel that’s simultaneously breezy, taut, funny, and insightful.”—The Vancouver Sun

This study first examines the marginal repertoire in two well-known manuscripts, the Psalter of Guy de Dampierre and an Arthurian Romance, within their material and codicological contexts. This repertoire then provides a template for an extended study of the marginal motifs that appear in eighteen related manuscripts, which range from a Bible to illustrated versions of the encyclopedias of Vincent de Beauvais and Brunetto Latini. Considering the manuscript as a whole work of art, the marginalia’s physical relationship to nearby texts and images can shed light on the reception of these illuminated books by their medieval viewers.

Follows Princess Bubblegum and Marceline''s paranormal rock band''s tour of Ooo as they confront scenesters, beasts born of self-doubt, and other challenges, in a tale with other stories about the same characters interspersed among the episodes.

Evilution is a story that looks into man''s inherent struggle to control his dark, primal nature in order to fit into society. Maximillian VanderCreek is a mysterious and handsome new graduate student with a dark hidden past. A genetic mutation has changed him. We follow his evilution from birth to the present day. Recent events have inexplicably brought him back to his childhood farm in Franklin New York and to attend classes at Hills College. He finds himself drawn to his Professor, Lillian Bean. As their two lives become entwined they will find they have a connection deeper then the love that grows between them. A primal force has united them together; something in their very biology connects them. Fate will play a hand when Max gives Lily a special gift, one that harnesses the power of a goddess. As the story unfolds the reader learns of a sinister presence that is a link to both of their pasts, one that holds the key to understanding their deep connection. In the end, Max''s dark history catches up to his present and threatens his future with Lily. Will the darkness consume them both? Could their love be enough to overcome the evil nature that hides just below the surface? Step into the world of Max and Lily as their story of love and lies, truths revealed, and powerful forces at work, weave a tale with a surprise ending that will leave you yearning for the next installment.

Collects short stories from the author''s first two books, "Open" and "Degrees of Nakedness," as well as previously unpublished works.

Helen OMara lijkt een normaal leven te leiden: ze houdt haar huis schoon, ze oefent yoga en ze past op haar kleinkinderen. Maar in gedachten keert ze voortdurend terug naar haar overleden man Cal. Op Valentijnsdag in 1982 zonk tijdens een storm het booreiland waarop Cal werkte. Alle vierentachtig mannen aan boord kwamen om. Als Helen jaren later op een winteravond wordt gewekt door een telefoontje van haar zoon John gaan de sluizen van haar geheugen helemaal open. John heeft een meisje zwanger gemaakt en wil dat Helen hem vertelt wat hij moet doen, maar zij kan alleen aan haar eigen relatie met Cal denken. Terwijl haar zoon worstelt met het vooruitzicht vader te worden, beseft Helen dat ze haar verdriet een plek moet geven in haar leven. Februari is een roman over liefde en verlies, over een nieuwe start maken zonder het verleden te vergeten. Het is een sprankelend en ontroerend boek.

Bei einem Unfall auf einer Bohrplattform vor Neufundland verliert Helen ihren Mann Cal. Die vierfache Mutter muss nun ihre Kinder alleine großziehen. Lange Zeit demonstriert sie nach außen hin Stärke: sie sucht sich Arbeit, erledigt den Haushalt und unternimmt Reisen. Doch innerlich bleibt sie von der Trauer um ihren Mann gebrochen. Als nach Jahren der Isolierung ein neuer Mann in ihr Leben tritt und die Kinder aus dem Haus sind, steht ihr Leben vor einer bedeutenden Wende. Lisa Moores Roman ist von erstaunlicher Intensität. Mit einer Sprache von ungewöhnlicher Sinnlichkeit erkundet sie die Gefühlswelt ihrer Protagonisten und erzählt eine Geschichte von der Möglichkeit des Glücks.

The stories and poems collected in this anthology are an offering oftwo Creative Writing classes. This anthology is unique and it is alsovery much a beginning. The selections can give only a glimpse of therichness, diversity and strength in today''s talented young minds.