Ashley Little

"In high school days are like light years. You have all the time in the world, and that world belongs to the young, and you are the young; you will never die, and you will always be beautiful. Then you get Hansen's disease and your life explodes. My name is Abby Furlowe and this is the story of how I became a teenage leper"--Dust jacket flap.

Confessions of a Teenage Leper

Eleven-year-old Tucker embarks on a cross-country odyssey to find whom he believes is his father: a barkeeper named Sam Malone.

Niagara Motel

The new normal

Recounts the experiences of the five members of the all-girl gang of Vacouver, the "Black Roses."

Anatomy of a Girl Gang

Tamar Robinson knows a lot about loss, more than any teenager should. Her younger sisters are dead, her parents are adrift in a sea of grief, and now Tamar is losing her hair. Nevertheless, she navigates her rocky life as best she can, not always with grace, but with her own brand of twisted humor. She joins the chess club with her friend Roy, earns a part in the school production of The Wizard of Oz, buys an awesome wig, lands a crappy job, gets invited to the prom (by three different guys!) and helps her parents re-enter the land of the living. What Tamar lacks in tact (and hair), she makes up for in sheer tenacity.

The New Normal

Stylish Stick Weaving is a 32-page craft project booklet containing step-by-step instruction for making 12 projects using weaving sticks. The booklet features a Basics section, plus 12 projects, each accompanied by detailed step-by-step instructions.

Scarves, Belts, and Other Fab Accessories

Stylish Stick Weaving

Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little’s follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to eleven-year-old Tucker Malone—the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper—who believes his father is Sam Malone, the Boston barkeep who regularly appears on Tucker’s TV screen. He and his mother move from motel to motel until, one night in Niagara Falls, his mother is hit by a car after falling asleep in the street. Tucker is sent to live in a youth group home where he meets Meredith, a pregnant sixteen-year-old with hopes of her own; he convinces her to join him on a road trip across the border to America in order to find his father, which takes them from Boston to the west coast. Along the way they encounter some of the most notorious criminals of the 1990s, and arrive in Los Angeles just as the Rodney King riots are unfolding. His cross-country search becomes an epic depiction of mid-90s America at a crossroads as seen through the eyes of a boy, for whom finding his father is the one thing that will make him whole. Told in spare, straightforward prose, Niagara Motel is a biting chronicle during the rise of mass-media in the decade that defined the MTV Generation, and the bittersweet story of a young boy who must learn hard lessons on his way to becoming a man. Ashley Little is the author of Anatomy of a Girl Gang, winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award.

In this crackling debut novel, Ashley Little follows in the footsteps of Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk to create a new anti-heroâ€”one whose audacity is matched by his vulnerability PRICK is narrated by twenty-one year old Anthony â€œAntâ€ Young: an artist, an asshole, an anti-hero. After fleeing a violent home life in Calgary, Ant moves to Victoria, BC, where he earns his tattooing apprenticeship under Hank the Tank, a founding member of the powerful Luciferâ€™s Choice motorcycle gang. Under Hankâ€™s guidance, Ant learns the craft and business of tattoo, but he is also exposed to a vicious and frightening criminal underworld. Written in intense, rapid-fire bursts, PRICK explores themes of addiction, desire, and remorse. As Antâ€™s life spirals out of control, he struggles to hold on to the one thing he really cares about in this unforgettable, disturbing, and darkly funny tale.

Confessions of a Tattoo Artist

Prick

More than 30 projects use one, two and three+ skeins of chic bulky and super-bulky yarn, in a book that features instructions for such creations as a Melegrana Capelet, a Cable-Knit Tech Case, a Melegrana Hat, Cozy Cable Mittens and much more. Original.

30 Projects for You and Your Home Knit with Bulky Yarn

Chunky Knits

Winner, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes) Longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award A sharp and gritty novel told in multiple voices, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is the powerful story of a gang of teenage girls in Vancouver called the Black Roses, a.k.a. "the city’s worst nightmare": Mac, the self-appointed leader and mastermind; Mercy, the Punjabi princess with a skill for theft; Kayos, a high-school dropout who gave birth to a daughter at age thirteen; Sly Girl, who fled her First Nations reserve for a better life, only to find depravity and addiction; and Z, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist. Cast out by mainstream society, the Black Roses rob ATMs, cook crack on stoves, and savagely beat down anyone who dares to harm them. Brutal and broken, they claw at the knot of darkness and violence that tightens around their lives. Told in stark, vivid, and fearless prose, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is an unflinching story about lost girls struggling for power, voice, and hope. Ashley Little is author of Prick: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist and the YA novel The New Normal. She lives in British Columbia.

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