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61.
Series: Blossoms in the Gold Mountains Chinese Settlements in the Fraser Canyon and the Okanagan Paperback Lily Chow 9781987915501 $24.95 HISTORY Feb 26, 2018

Third book by de facto expert on Chinese Immigration to BC reveals never-before-told stories relevant to food, politics and national heritage. In this long awaited third book, author Lily Chow further explores Chinese settlement in BC. In the nineteenth century, thousands of Chinese immigrants arrived in British Columbia to work as labourers. After the Fraser Gold Rush and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway ended, many Chinese could not afford to return to their home in China. Blossoms in the Gold Mountains is the story of those t... + Read More
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Series: Surveying the Great Divide The Alberta/BC Boundary Survey, 1913-1917 Paperback Jay Sherwood 9781987915525 $29.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Oct 30, 2017

First in new photobook series geared to surveying buffs from prolific author and historian, Jay Sherwood. In 1917 Canada commemorated its 50th anniversary against the backdrop of World War I. Although the war effort was the main focus of the federal and provincial governments, some important projects continued. The Alberta-BC boundary survey, which had started in 1913 during an economic boom in western Canada, continued to receive funding throughout the war. It was quintessentially a Canadian project - talented Canadian surveyors using the most... + Read More
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Series: On Mockingbird Hill Memories of Dharma Bums, Madcaps and Fire Lookouts Paperback Mary Theresa Kelly 9781987915518 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 07, 2017

In the same vein of tree planters and lighthouse keepers, Mary Kelly flips the over-romanticized lifestyle of fire observers made popular by Jack Kerouac and shows us how lonely freedom really is. When Mary meets Daniel, a handsome quirky potter, sarod-player, and fire lookout observer, she falls in with a tribe of young people who earn a living by watching for smoke and fire in the mountain foothills of Alberta. For several summers, Mary commutes each weekend from Calgary to Daniel's isolated post on Mockingbird Hill, where she gets a close-up... + Read More
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Series: Refugium Poems for the Pacific Paperback Yvonne Blomer 9781987915532 $22.95 POETRY Sep 30, 2017

New poetry written by prize-winning BC poets, musicians, and artists such as Bruce Cockburn, Brian Brett and Lorna Crozier, anthologized by Victoria's city poet-laureate. While in the world of politics there are still climate change deniers, the poets watch the warming seas, the dying birds slicked in oil, the whales, the jellies, the sea otters and the octopus. They stand, as close to the shore as possible, watch the slow turning tide. In this collection of poems from the coast of B.C., California, Washington State, to Alaska and as far away a... + Read More
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Series: Ghost Warning Paperback Kara Stanley 9781987915549 $22.95 FICTION Sep 19, 2017

On the day that Lou James finds her father dead on the garage floor, she leaves her small hometown and heads for Toronto on a Greyhound, initiating a series of events that will reshape her life. Lou moves in with her brother and begins a new existence all the while trying to make sense of her father's unexpected death and the sudden loss of her place in the world.Amidst the strangeness of life in Toronto, where vibrancy and violence mix, Lou builds a small community: Isabelle, the welcoming neighbour and new best friend; Sal, Lou's angry but bi... + Read More
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Series: All Violet Paperback Rani Rivera 9781987915556 $18.00 POETRY Sep 30, 2017

The posthumous poetry journal of Rani Rivera, Toronto's champion of mental health advocacy and harm reduction. In All Violet, a young woman chronicles the experience of living on the margins, in spaces and places where body and mind are flayed by guilt, disappointments and betrayals. Her poems record the shattering trauma of struggling to survive through periods of doubt, fear, rage and pain, creating a narrative of disconnection, indignation, alienation and emptiness, the extremes of suffering and desperation. Employing lyrical free verse, Ran... + Read More
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Series: If Clara Paperback Martha Baillie 9781552453568 $19.95 FICTION Aug 21, 2017

In If Clara, nobody stands on firm ground. Daisy, a writer confined to her home, her leg in a cast from hip to ankle, receives a parcel containing the manuscript of a novel about a Syrian refugee and is asked to pose as its writer. Julia, the curator at the Kleinzahler Gallery, has no idea that her sister, Clara, has written a novel. However, she does know that Clara suffers from a debilitating mental illness, is unpredictable, and lapses easily into hostility. Maurice's life is changed by an art installation involving a pair of binoculars weld... + Read More
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Series: The Doll's Alphabet Paperback Camilla Grudova 9781552453582 $19.95 FICTION Oct 17, 2017

Short stories from an unholy marriage of Angela Carter, Sheila Heti, and H. P. Lovecraft. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies - by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in The Doll's Alphabet are simultaneously childlike and naive, grotesque and very dark.
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Series: Exploded Views Curry Eating, Reading, and Race Paperback Naben Ruthnum 9781552453513 $14.95 COOKING Aug 14, 2017

No two curries are the same. This Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do. Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own upbringing, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. With the sardonic wit of Gita Mehta's Karma C... + Read More
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Series: Exploded Views Hard To Do The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up Paperback Kelli María Korducki 9781552453520 $14.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 22, 2018

From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution. Whatever the underlying motives – be they love, financial security, or mere masochism – the fact is that getting involved in a romantic partnership is emotionally, morally, and even politically fraught. In Hard To Do, Kelli María Korducki turns a Marxist lens on the relatively short history of romantic partnership, tracing how the socio-economic dynamics between men and women have transformed the ways women conceive of domestic partnership.... + Read More
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Series: My Ariel Paperback Sina Queyras 9781552453544 $19.95 POETRY Sep 18, 2017

A poem-by-poem engagement with Sylvia Plath's Ariel and the towering mythology surrounding it. When I am a bitch I feel in such good company. Nice girls never gave me anything but trouble, Eating the ground out from under me, then waving As I fall. Pity one has to die to see how liberating Bad can be. But what news had I of my own self? Words landed like razors, hours tinkled, suitors arrived. Listen, you'll think otherwise, but I tell you, betrayal Is your Get Out of Jail Free card. Take it, Don't look back. Of course you will. Look back. We a... + Read More
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Series: My Ariel Hardcover Sina Queyras 9781552453605 $29.95 POETRY Sep 18, 2017

A poem-by-poem engagement with Sylvia Plath's Ariel and the towering mythology surrounding it. When I am a bitch I feel in such good company. Nice girls never gave me anything but trouble, Eating the ground out from under me, then waving As I fall. Pity one has to die to see how liberating Bad can be. But what news had I of my own self? Words landed like razors, hours tinkled, suitors arrived. Listen, you'll think otherwise, but I tell you, betrayal Is your Get Out of Jail Free card. Take it, Don't look back. Of course you will. Look back. We a... + Read More
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Series: Drakkar Noir Paperback Jeramy Dodds 9781552453551 $19.95 POETRY Sep 18, 2017

This mirror's selfie-proof, a machine that dams back the gloom. After a brief period of mourning, it was the afternoon. This mirror is selfie-proof, a machine that dams back the gloom. When machines dream they dream of stopping. But this bulimic is all hangnails with a hankering to throatsing. Following the Fratellini Family of clowns, Jeramy Dodds astonishes readers and non-readers alike. Techniques such as his patented triumph, the Grand Mal Caesura, along with other favourites, are on display inside. Dodds is a warlock of words, only to ... + Read More
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Series: Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie Paperback Jay Ritchie 9781552453537 $19.95 POETRY Sep 18, 2017

Ritchie discovers and obstructs truths, like the difficulty of being at the bar and being a lilac bush simultaneously. I bought tear-resistant pants just in case I'm not a good guy underneath it all, being honest in discreet doses to underpaid retail employees. With an alternating sense of wonder and detachment, Jay Ritchie's first full-length collection of poetry grapples with death, disappointment, love, emails - the large and small subjects of daily life. His unflagging sense of humour and aphoristic delivery create a work that i... + Read More
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Series: Incarnations The Photographs of Janieta Eyre Hardcover Janieta Eyre 9781552453575 $39.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Dec 05, 2017

Incarnations showcases twenty years of Eyre's uniquely performative portraits deconstructing what it means to be a thinker, woman, and subject. Incarnations is the first collection to make accessible a representative body of work by one of Canada's most original, provocative, and internationally acclaimed photographers. Spanning the artist's seven major series dating from 1993 to 2013, Incarnations showcases and celebrates the theatricality and carnivalesque abandon that has become the hallmark of Eyre's portraits. With contributions from renow... + Read More
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Series: Declarations Paperback Jordan Tannahill 9781552453599 $18.95 DRAMA Jan 09, 2018

This is a paper cut. This is Greta Garbo. This is the smell of Windex. Declarations, by acclaimed playwright Jordan Tannahill, is an ode to mortality -- that of the playwright’s mother, his own, humankind’s -- a joyful and moving attempt to capture the objects, sensations, and experiences that make up a life. Through a lyrical and iterative text, five performers chronicle a life pulled through time, encountering meteorological phenomena, mythology, political calamity, pop culture, and everyday happenstance along the way. What accumulates is a s... + Read More
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Series: The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington Paperback Leonora Carrington 9780997366648 $22.00 FICTION Apr 28, 2017

“Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories—many newly translated from their original French and Spanish—is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds.” —Carmen Maria Machado, NPR Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote through... + Read More
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Series: The Babysitter at Rest Paperback Jen George 9780997366624 $22.00 FICTION Oct 17, 2016

“I'm so happy this collection exists. I feel drunk with love for these stories. They're so funny and weird and true.” —Sheila Heti Five stories―several as long as novellas―introduce the world to Jen George, a writer whose furiously imaginative new voice calls to mind Donald Barthelme and Leonora Carrington no less than Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. In “Guidance/The Party,” an ethereal alcoholic “Guide” in robes and flowing hair appears to help a thirty-three-year-old woman prepare a party for her belated adulthood; “Take Care of Me Forever” tra... + Read More
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Series: The Wallcreeper Paperback Nell Zink 9780989760713 $22.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

The incredible breakout novel by one of the sharpest, funniest, most inventive writers of our time. “Who is Nell Zink? She claims to be an expatriate living in northeast Germany. Maybe she is; maybe she isn’t. I don’t know. I do know that this first novel arrives with a voice that is fully formed: mature, hilarious, terrifyingly intelligent, and wicked. The novel is about a bird-loving American couple that moves to Europe and becomes, basically, eco-terrorists. This is strange, and interesting, but in between is some writing about marriage, lo... + Read More
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Series: Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead Paperback Barbara Comyns 9780984469314 $22.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2010

“Comyns’ novel is deranged in ways that shouldn’t be disclosed.” —Ben Marcus This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, “quacking their approval” as they sail around the room. “What about my rose beds?” demands Grandmother Willoweed. Her son shouts down her ear-trumpet that the garden is submerged, dead animals everywhere, she will be lucky to get a bunch. Then the miller drowns himself . . . then the butcher slits his throat . . . and a... + Read More
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Series: Lowly Paperback Alan Felsenthal 9781937027872 $15.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2017

Lowly is part invocation, part invitation. The poems in this debut collection consider death, rebirth, and love, while exploring the symbols that make life bearable. Here, ancient mythology and philosophy are examined through contemporary situations, brought forth by a voice that oscillates between humorous and plaintive tones-"I invent stories. Out of other stories. I can only repeat what I have heard. // A scruple is the enemy of a moment." Lowly is a restorative work with rhythmic lines that will resonate with the reader long after the book ... + Read More
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Series: Eastern European Poets Series What We Saw from this Mountain Paperback Vladimir Aristov 9781937027377 $18.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2017

This is the first English-language collection of poetry by contemporary Russian poet, essayist, and prose writer Vladimir Aristov, a satellite figure of the Metarealist (or Meta-metaphorist) literary movement of the 1980s?90s. While the late Alexei Parshchikov and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko are somewhat better known to US readers, Aristov, who was their close friend, exemplifies both poets' trajectories-his work explores metaphor-centered narrative poetry while assimilating American Language poetry and European postmodern theory. Aristov's poetics... + Read More
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Series: Lost Literature Series I Remember Nightfall Paperback Marosa di Giorgio 9781937027599 $22.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2017

Jeannine Pitas's new translation of Marosa di Giorgio, one of Uruguay's most famous poets, includes four book-length poems from the middle of her career: The History of Violets (1965); Magnolia (1968); The War of the Orchards (1971); and The Native Garden is in Flames (1975). Occupying the same childhood landscapes that may be familiar to English-language readers from the previously published volume The History of Violets (UDP, 2010), these serial prose poems explore memory, familial relationships, erotic desire, and war. Marosa di Giorgio uses... + Read More
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Series: Extended Families A Memoir of India Electronic book text, EPUB Ven Begamudre 9781550509298 $12.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2017

In Extended Families, award-winning author Ven Begamudré traces the history of both sides of his family, telling a story that is both timeless and universal."My grandmother's house has two gates. The iron from which they were wrought long ago turned to irony." So begins the story of a South Indian family of high-caste Brahmins, men and women, who guarded a treasury, became electrical engineers, and built dams and power stations. Their stories, told through journal entries, poetry, fiction, and photographs, are filtered through the lens of ... + Read More
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Series: Extended Families Paperback Ven Begamudre 9781550509274 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2017

In Extended Families: Journeys in Time and Place, award-winning author Ven Begamudré traces the history of both sides of his family, telling a story that is both timeless and universal. "My grandmother's house has two gates. The iron from which they were wrought long ago turned to irony." So begins the story of a South Indian family of high-caste Brahmins, men and women, who guarded a treasury, became electrical engineers, and built dams and power stations. Their stories, told through journal entries, poetry, fiction, and photographs, are filt... + Read More
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Series: A Place You'll Never Be Paperback Rick Hillis 9781550509199 $21.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

Six Days. Five Inmates. One Guard. Traversing the vast, serene wilderness in Northern Saskatchewan, a group of prisoners sets out on a six day canoe trip. Quinn, an inmate trustee, has been recruited for the pilot project meant to physically and emotionally challenge a small set of inmates about to be released after long terms inside for violent crimes. Their leader, Leggett, only thinks he's in charge. Inviting along a new parole officer, Martha, and her teenage son, Brian, is just the first of his mistakes. An insect plague of biblical propo... + Read More
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Series: A Place You'll Never Be Electronic book text, EPUB Rick Hillis 9781550509212 $10.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2017

Six Days. Five Inmates. One Guard.Traversing through the vast, serene wilderness in Northern Saskatchewan as part of a "pre-release canoe trip", run as a pilot project in hopes of preparing five future ex-convicts for life in the real world, no one knows quite what to expect. But what follows in this novel is anything but serene. The rules dictating prison life are a hard habit to break as each inmate struggles with his own place in the group, and each one tries to figure out his first real-world steps after being released. Some ideas are more ... + Read More
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Series: breathing at dusk Paperback Beth Goobie 9781550509151 $17.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2017

Gut-wrenching and awe-inspiring, breathing at dusk is the new collection of poetry from the award-winning Beth Goobie as she explores her past and revels in her future. Autobiographical in nature, breathing at dusks follow the journey of one girl as she escapes her childhood home and all of the painful memories that home elicits - her memories largely centered around the physical and sexual abuse she experienced as a child at the hands of her father and the untimely death of her brother. Years removed from these experiences now, Goobie is abl... + Read More
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Series: Growing Fruit in Northern Gardens Paperback Sara Williams 9781550509137 $39.95 GARDENING Dec 01, 2017

Growing Fruit in Northern Gardens is a comprehensive full-colour handbook for growing fruit in cold climates that is aimed at the home gardener. Includes a detailed map and reference guide to zones, hardiness, planting time, and best practices to ensure growth and survival. From pincherries to haskaps, tree fruits to vine fruits, and everything in between, renowned horticulturists Bob Bors and Sara Williams delve into the science of growing and maintaining fruit plants for northern gardeners.
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Series: Adele's Garden Paperback Linda Amyot 9781550509014 $12.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION May 01, 2018

The Governor General Award Winner for French-language Children's Literature. Translated from the French by Norman Cornett. A teenage girl befriends an elderly woman in this beautifully written tale of two women from different generations searching for love and truth. Wistful and profoundly intimate, Adele's Garden follows the friendship between a young woman, Elaine, and Adele, who is old enough to be Elaine's grandmother. Adele lives in an elegant old house with a beautiful garden. After a chance encounter when Adele's red hat blows in the wi... + Read More
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Series: Adele's Garden Electronic book text, EPUB Linda Amyot 9781550509038 $6.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (CAN) from 7 - 9 May 01, 2018

A teenage girl befriends an elderly woman in this beautifully written tale of two women from different generations searching for love and truth.Wistful and profoundly intimate, Adele’s Garden follows the friendship between a young woman, Elaine, and Adele, who is old enough to be Elaine’s grandmother. Adele lives in an elegant old house with a beautiful garden. After a chance encounter when Adele’s red hat blows in the wind and lands at Elaine’s feet, the two women form an immediate affinity for one another.During a series of regular visits, El... + Read More
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Series: Bon: The Last Highway The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC’s Back In Black Paperback Jesse Fink 9781770414099 $22.95 MUSIC Nov 07, 2017

The death of Bon Scott is the Da Vinci Code of rock In death, AC/DC’s trailblazing frontman has become a rock icon, and the legend of the man known around the world simply as “Bon” grows with each passing year. But how much of it is myth? At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway is a special — and unlikely — friendship between an Australian rock star and an alcoholic Texan troublemaker. Jesse Fink, author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, reveals its importance for the first time... + Read More
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Series: Head of Drama The Memoir of Sydney Newman Paperback Sydney Newman 9781770413047 $29.95 PERFORMING ARTS Sep 05, 2017

The memoir of the creator of Doctor Who and a legend in British and Canadian TV and film A major influence on the BBC and independent television in Britain in the 1960s, as well as on CBC and the National Film Board in Canada, Sydney Newman acted as head of drama at a key period in the history of television. For the first time, his comprehensive memoirs — written in the years before his death in 1997 — are being made public. Born to a poor Jewish family in the tenements of Queen Street in Toronto, Newman’s artistic talent got him a job ... + Read More
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Series: A Dream Given Form The Unofficial Guide to the Universe of Babylon 5 1st edition Paperback Ensley F. Guffey 9781770412651 $22.95 PERFORMING ARTS Sep 19, 2017

The only comprehensive critical guide to the beloved sci-fi phenomenon A Dream Given Form provides an accessible, comprehensive, and critical look at Babylon 5, one of the most groundbreaking series of all time. Nearly 20 years after the show ended, this indispensable companion not only covers all five seasons of Babylon 5, but also the feature-length TV movies, the spinoff series Crusade (including three non-produced episodes), The Legend of the Rangers, The Lost Tales, the canonical novels, the DC comic book series, and the short stories set ... + Read More
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Series: Pop Classics Ain’t No Place for a Hero Borderlands Paperback Kaitlin Tremblay 9781770413641 $12.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 17, 2017

A deep dive into the groundbreaking and bestselling video game series The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it’s ridiculous. It’s a badge of pride. After all, Borderlands 2 was promoted with the tagline “87 bazillion guns just got bazillionder.” These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain’t No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series sati... + Read More
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Series: A Brief History of Oversharing One Ginger’s Anthology of Humiliation Paperback Shawn Hitchins 9781770413269 $19.95 HUMOR Sep 05, 2017

Musings from a “one-man flash mob” (Toronto Star) Comedian Shawn Hitchins explores his irreverent nature in this debut collection of essays. Hitchins doesn’t shy away from his failures or celebrate his mild successes — he sacrifices them for an audience’s amusement. He roasts his younger self, the effeminate ginger-haired kid with a competitive streak. The ups and downs of being a sperm donor to a lesbian couple. Then the fiery redhead professes his love for actress Shelley Long, declares his hatred of musical theatre, and recounts a summ... + Read More
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Series: The Rights of Nature A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World Paperback David R. Boyd 9781770412392 $19.95 NATURE Sep 05, 2017

Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature A growing body of law around the world supports the idea that humans are not the only species with rights; and if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities. “Expertly written case studies in which legalese is accessibly distilled … empowering reminders that the seemingly inevitable slide toward planetary destruction can be halted.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like... + Read More
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Series: Resilience Navigating Life, Loss and the Road to Success Hardcover Lisa Lisson 9781770413986 $29.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 17, 2017

An inspiring book for readers of Sheryl Sandberg and Arlene Dickinson Lisa Lisson’s life seemed perfect: she had married her high school sweetheart, applied her marketing degree to a position at FedEx Express Canada, and risen to become a vice president (and would ultimately become president) of the company. One night, after putting their four children to bed, her husband, Patrick, marvelled that their lives seemed perfectly happy. Just a few hours later, everything changed. One moment Lisa was sleeping beside Patrick, and the next, she was kne... + Read More
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Series: Best Canadian Sports Writing Paperback Stacey May Fowles 9781770413726 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 19, 2017

38 pieces that will be remembered for seasons to come For 25 years, sports journalists south of the border have been collected in best-of anthologies. With Best Canadian Sports Writing, editors Stacey May Fowles and Pasha Malla offer a long overdue rejoinder from the North, showcasing top literary sports writing from diverse homegrown talent. This extraordinary anthology of recent writing mixes columns and long-form journalism, profiles and reportage, new voices and well-known favourites such as Stephen Brunt, Rachel Giese, Eric Koreen,... + Read More
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Series: Dennis Maruk The Unforgettable Story of Hockey’s Forgotten 60-Goal Man Hardcover Dennis Maruk 9781770413313 $29.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 17, 2017

From feared NHL sniper to ship captain and bellhop — with hockey’s greatest ‘stache Only 20 men in NHL history have scored 60 or more goals in a single season: Gretzky, Lemieux, and Hull all hit the magical mark. And so did an undersized, take-no-prisoners centre named Dennis Maruk. When Maruk found the back of the net 60 times in 1981–82, he was the toast of Washington — he even dined with the president. A few short years later, he was out of the game. Maruk not only left the rink, his life did a complete 180. Instead of flying up the ice and ... + Read More
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Series: Fast Ice Superstars of the New NHL Paperback Andrew Podnieks 9781770414297 $24.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 17, 2017

The speed and skill of a new hockey generation — in photos and stories From the incredible debut of Auston Matthews to the unparalleled speed of Connor McDavid, the NHL is experiencing a rebirth that is based on speed and skill, not size, fighting, or intimidation. Fast Ice: Superstars of the New NHL features profiles of more than 50 of today’s greatest stars. Included are veterans like Sidney Crosby and arch-rival Alexander Ovechkin, but the heart of the book is the youth movement that has given fans new optimism for an exciting future. ... + Read More
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Series: Gratoony the Loony The Wild, Unpredictable Life of Gilles Gratton Paperback Gilles Gratton 9781770413375 $19.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 03, 2017

One of hockey’s most colourful characters, from hockey’s most colourful era, tells all Gilles Gratton was not a typical pro hockey player. He refused to don his equipment and man his net if the planets were not properly aligned. He skated naked at practice. He created one of hockey’s most famous goalie masks based on his astrological sign. He fought with coaches and management, speaking his mind to his detriment. Sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll ruled his life, not stopping pucks. Truthfully? He never really wanted to be an NHL goaltender; h... + Read More
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Series: Toronto and the Maple Leafs A City and Its Team Paperback Lance Hornby 9781770413627 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 03, 2017

100 years of love, celebration, heartbreak, and even parades On December 19, 2017, the Toronto Maple Leafs officially turn 100. In the spirit of the centenary celebrations, Toronto and the Maple Leafs explores the city’s relationship with its most beloved sports team. No matter how many times the Jays and Raptors make the playoffs, it’s a Leafs game that still brings the city together on a cold Saturday night and fuels the talk shows all summer. But why are fans so absorbed by a team that has not won a Cup in 50 years? Veteran Leafs and NHL col... + Read More
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Series: Mad Dog The Maurice Vachon Story Paperback Bertrand Hébert 9781770413320 $19.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 05, 2017

The true story of one of pro wrestling’s most charismatic, feared, and beloved icons Who was Maurice the man, and who was Mad Dog the character? Maurice “Mad Dog” Vachon was a gold medalist, a pro-wrestling legend, and a pop culture icon — but he was also a son, husband, and father. Mad Dog explores Vachon’s career and personal struggles with painstakingly detailed historical research and through both Maurice’s own recollections and those of the people who knew him best. As a young man, Maurice could have chosen a dark criminal path, bu... + Read More
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Series: The Beforelife Stories Beforelife Paperback Randal N. M. Graham 9781770413177 $19.95 FICTION Sep 05, 2017

It’s okay if you don’t believe in the afterlife. The people who live there don’t believe in you, either. What if you went to heaven and no one there believed in Earth? This is the question at the heart of Beforelife, a satirical novel that follows the post-mortem adventures of widower Ian Brown, a man who dies on the book’s first page and finds himself in an afterlife where no one else believes in “pre-incarnation.” The other residents of the afterlife have mysteriously forgotten their pre-mortem lives and think that anyone who remembers ... + Read More
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Series: The Realms of Ancient Scion of the Fox The Realms of Ancient, Book 1 Hardcover S. M. Beiko 9781770413573 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Oct 17, 2017

As the winter ice begins to thaw, the fury of a demon builds — all because one girl couldn’t stay dead . . . Roan Harken considers herself a typical high school student — dead parents, an infected eyeball, and living in the house of her estranged, currently comatose grandmother (well, maybe not so typical) — but she’s uncovering the depth of the secrets her family left behind. Saved from the grasp of Death itself by a powerful fox spirit named Sil, Roan must harness mysterious ancient power . . . and quickly. A snake-monster called Zabor ... + Read More
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Series: Malagash Paperback Joey Comeau 9781770414075 $15.95 FICTION Oct 03, 2017

Winner of the 2018 Alex Award (ALA Youth Media Award) Longlisted for the 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic Adult Fiction Honorable Mention at the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Awards “[A] sly and affecting novella.”— Wall Street Journal, Best New Fiction “An immensely touching tribute to a very human struggle with mortality.” — Publishers Weekly A precisely crafted, darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning Sunday’s father is dying of cancer. They’ve come home to Malagash, on the north sho... + Read More
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Series: Rose & Poe Paperback Jack Todd 9781770413993 $18.95 FICTION Oct 17, 2017

“Todd takes Shakespeare’s most enigmatic, magic-infused work and fashions it into a morality tale with an uncannily of-the-moment resonance” — The Gazette Set in mythical Belle Coeur County in a time not too far from our own, Rose & Poe gloriously re-imagines Shakespeare’s The Tempest from the point of view of Caliban and his mother. Rose and her giant, simple son, Poe, live quietly on the fringes of their town — tending their goats and working at odd jobs. Prosper Thorne, banished from his big-city law practice and worrying about his f... + Read More
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Series: Pockets A Novel Paperback Stuart Ross 9781770413832 $14.95 FICTION Oct 03, 2017

Brilliant experimental, surrealist fiction from the award-winning author of Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew A wonderful dream and a horrific nightmare, a fuzzy consciousness of pain and family, Pockets is a novel of fragments — both literally and figuratively. In a series of prose-poem chapters, the nameless narrator, in a largely Jewish 1960s suburb in the northern reaches of Toronto, repeatedly enters the world, as if for the first time. His landscape is one of trilobite fossils, bicycles with banana seats, Red Skelton, and overwhelming loss. ... + Read More
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Series: A Helena Marsh Novel The Appraisal Paperback Anna Porter 9781770414105 $19.95 FICTION Oct 17, 2017

In the vein of Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie novels comes a smart thriller with literary chops. Art appraiser Helena Marsh explores shady deals and complicated history as she navigates post-WWII corruption in the art world. “This peppy thriller from Porter bursts with banter and tantalizes the reader with half-revelations and game-changing twists.” — Kirkus Reviews “[A]n intelligent and exhilarating thriller.” — Publishers Weekly “A gripping thriller set against the rich post-war history of middle-Europe.” — Staunch Book Prize Commit... + Read More
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Series: A Frank Yakabuski Mystery Ragged Lake A Frank Yakabuski Mystery Paperback Ron Corbett 9781770413948 $17.95 FICTION Oct 03, 2017

Gruesome murders, a northern secret, and a buried past While working one afternoon on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery: in a squatter’s cabin near an old mill town, a family has been murdered. An army vet coming off a successful turn leading a task force that took down infamous biker criminals, Detective Frank Yakabuski arrives in Ragged Lake, a nearly abandoned village, to solve the family’s murder. But no one is willing to talk. With a winter storm coming, Yakabuski sequesters the locals in a fishing l... + Read More
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Series: Zero Avenue A Crime Novel Paperback Dietrich Kalteis 9781770413658 $17.95 FICTION Oct 03, 2017

“If you like your crime hard and fast, Kalteis is for you.” — The Globe and Mail Set to the cranking beat and amphetamine buzz of Vancouver’s early punk scene, Zero Avenue follows Frankie Del Rey, a talented and rising punk star who runs just enough dope on the side to pay the bills and keep her band, Waves of Nausea, together. The trouble is she’s running it for Marty Sayles, a powerful drug dealer who controls the Eastside with a fist. When Frankie strikes up a relationship with Johnny Falco, the owner of one of the only Vancouver clu... + Read More
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Series: An Arthur Beauchamp Novel Whipped An Arthur Beauchamp Novel Hardcover William Deverell 9781770413900 $28.95 FICTION Sep 19, 2017

The toughest case of Beauchamp’s brilliant career features sex, slander, and dirty politics Montreal journalist Lou Sabatino, under witness protection after nearly being gunned down by the Mafia, is sucked into the quirky world of a conniving Russian dominatrix who has secretly recorded herself putting the whip to the bare bottom of a high-ranking federal cabinet minister. It’s the scoop of the century, but too hot a potato — if Lou breaks the story, he risks exposing himself to the mercies of the Mafia. Instead, he shows the video to G... + Read More
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Series: April Fool An Arthur Beauchamp Novel Paperback William Deverell 9781770414082 $17.95 FICTION Sep 19, 2017

A new edition of the Arthur Ellis Award winning crime novel Arthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar, is enjoying his retirement on B.C.’s Garibaldi Island when he is dragged back to court to defend an old client. Nick “The Owl” Faloon, one of the world’s top jewel thieves, has been accused of raping and murdering a psychologist. Beauchamp has scarcely registered how unlikely it is that the rascally Faloon could commit a savage murder when his own personal life takes an abrupt turn. His new wife, Margaret B... + Read More
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Series: Panicle Paperback Gillian Sze 9781770414051 $18.95 POETRY Sep 19, 2017

“Succulent in its excellence, Sze’s poetry insists that cultural ‘difference’ is what can make a beautiful difference in our apprehension of the ‘beautiful.’” — George Elliott Clarke on Peeling Rambutan In Panicle, Gillian Sze makes her readers look and, more importantly, look again. It’s a collection that challenges our notion of seeing as a passive or automatic activity by asking us to question the process of looking. The book’s first section, “Underway,” deals with the moving image and includes both poetic responses to film theory and ... + Read More
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Series: The Cloud Versus Grand Unification Theory Poems Paperback Chris Banks 9781770413689 $18.95 POETRY Sep 05, 2017

Consciousness and nostalgia in the Swipe Right age This collection attempts to find poetry, or what Gwendolyn MacEwen once called “a single symmetry,” amid the chaos of 21st-century life. A powerful catalogue of loss and human connection, it considers not only how our identities are formed by places and experiences rooted in childhood, but also by digital newsfeeds, YouTube, and the “gospel of Spotify.” These poems intimately confront topics as diverse as quantum physics, video arcades, mental illness, climate change, road rage, alcoholism, end... + Read More
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Series: So Long, Marianne (tp) A Love Story — includes rare material by Leonard Cohen Paperback Kari Hesthamar 9781770414204 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 11, 2017

The story of the enigmatic woman who captured the hearts of two extraordinary artists — now in trade paper At 22, Marianne Ihlen travelled to the Greek island of Hydra with writer Axel Jensen. While Axel wrote, Marianne kept house, until Axel abandoned her and their newborn son for another woman. One day while Marianne was shopping in a little grocery store, in walked a man who asked her to join him and some friends outside at their table. He introduced himself as Leonard Cohen, then a little-known Canadian poet. Complemented by previou... + Read More
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Series: Chief Lightning Bolt Paperback Daniel N. Paul 9781552669693 $21.00 FICTION Oct 02, 2017

Here is a contemporary Mi’kmaq legend of the life of a great man, who becomes chief, the embodiment of Mi’kmaq values of humility, courage, honour, service and sacrifice of personal gain for the sake of others. He lived a long and storied life, hundreds of years ago, before the arrival of the European scouts and, later, their warships. He was a renowned warrior but, more so, a peacemaker. His people followed him to the point of devotion, yet he was uncannily modest, even embarrassed by his own achievements. He suffered great loss, yet his u... + Read More
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Series: Under Her Skin Paperback Stephen Law 9781552668474 $21.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2017

Tucked away in her tattoo studio in the port city of Halifax, Shaz draws meaning and symbolism onto the bodies of her clients. After the ransacking of her home, the brutal attack on her friend and the sudden appearance of her white father, Shaz is compelled to explore the racial divides in her life and in the city around her. A chance encounter with Rashid, a parkour-performing refugee from Sri Lanka, provides a stabilizing counterpoint to the tumultuous relationships in her life. Ultimately, Shaz discovers the complexities of truth, the... + Read More