• Reading age: 15 to 18

P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">FONT face=Calibri>Blurbs:?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">FONT face=Calibri>  P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">FONT face=Calibri>46 words: P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">SPAN lang=EN-US style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Linder's 33 short stories in No Common Thread embrace a wide range of human experiences from loss of loved ones to relationship problems. Protagonists differ in age and outlook, but are related in going through highs and lows, since there can be no peaks without shadows.SPAN lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">FONT face=Calibri>133 words: P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">FONT face=Calibri>SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Over the past four decades, the short stories of Norma West Linder have appeared in leading magazines, such as Chatelaine and Horizon, at home and internationally. Her fiction has been anthologized numerous times. In No Common Thread, Ms. Linder has selected 33 of her personal favourites from well over 100 published pieces. While a couple of these stories are set in southeast Asia, many are based not far from Lake Huron, the environment in which she grew up during the Great Depression. They depict people living their fragile lives against a backdrop of human passions and failures. Throughout these stories, men and women struggle to understand the mystery inherent in human relationships: parent and child, husband and wife, friends and lovers. Readers who have enjoyed her novels will certainly like these luminous stories. P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">FONT face=Calibri> 

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P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">FONT face=Calibri>About the Author:?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">FONT face=Calibri>  P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">FONT face=Calibri>SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Norma West LinderSPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">was born in Toronto, spent her childhood on Manitoulin Island, and teenage years in Muskoka.  She is a member of The Writers'Union of Canada, The Ontario Poetry Society, WITS (Writers International Through Sarnia)and Past President of the Sarnia Branch of the Canadian Authors Assoc. Linder is the author of 5 novels, 12 collections of poetry, a memoir of Manitoulin Island, a children's book, and a biography of Pauline McGibbon. For 24 years she was on the faculty of Lambton College in Sarnia, teaching English and Creative Writing. For 7 years she wrote a monthly column for the Sarnia Observer. He short stories have been published internationally and broadcast on the CBC. Her poetry  has been published in Fiddlehead, White Wall Review, Room of One's Own, Quills, Toward the Light, Prairie Journal, FreeFall Magazine, Mobius, and other periodicals. In 2006 she compiled and edited Enchanted Crossroads for The Ontario Poetry Society. Her latest publications are collections of poems entitled  When Angels Weep, Lovely as a Tree, and Adder's Tongues. A collection of her short stories was released in August of 2013, entitled No Common Thread, published by Hidden Brook Press. In 2014, Two Paths Through the Seasons, a poetry book featuring Linder and James Deahl was published in Israel. Linder has two daughters and a son.

P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">FONT face=Calibri>Reviews:?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">FONT face=Calibri>  P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">FONT face=Calibri>“The accomplishments of this talented author are many, and the high standard which she has maintained throughout her writing career is a credit to contemporary Canadian literature.” P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: right; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal" align=right>SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt">FONT face=Calibri>The Observer, P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: right; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal" align=right>FONT face=Calibri>SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt">Sarnia, OntarioSPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">FONT face=Calibri>