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Series: Christmas Ghost Stories Christmas Ghost Stories (Prepack-Counter Display) Counterpack (filled) 9781771961301 $223.75 FICTION Oct 18, 2016

Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. After last holiday season's wildly successful debut, we're thrilled to announce that Seth is back with three new spooky, Yuletide stories.To make joining the tradition easy, we've developed an attractively priced prepack. It comes with a narrow, full-colour, easy-to-assemble loader, as well as twenty-five copies of the various Christmas Ghost Story titles. Trimmed to fit the coziest stocking, these little book... + Read More
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Afterward A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback Edith Wharton 9781771961332 $8.95 FICTION Oct 18, 2016

A newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious stranger. When her husband disappears shortly after this eerie encounter, the wife learns the truth about the legend that haunts the ancient estate.
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Diary of Mr. Poynter, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback M.R. James 9781771961257 $8.95 FICTION Oct 18, 2016

While engrossed in an account of the death of a student obsessed with his own hair, a man leans down to absently pet his dog—oblivious of the true nature of the creature crouching beside him. This classic ghost story by M.R. James is a spooky holiday delight.
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Crown Derby Plate, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback Marjorie Bowen 9781771961233 $8.95 FICTION Oct 18, 2016

An antique collector hears of an ancient woman with a large collection of china. Hoping to complete a particular set, the collector pays a visit to the woman's ramshackle house, where she makes a terrifying discovery. This 1933 story confirmed Marjorie Bowen as one of our best ghost story writers.
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Series: The Museum at the End of the World Paperback John Metcalf 9781771961073 $19.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

In this, his first book of fiction since Adult Entertainment, a New York Times Notable Book of 1990, legendary Canadian writer and editor John Metcalf is back—in full comic force—with a linked collection of stories and novellas. Set in Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Ottawa, these tales span the life of writer Robert Forde and his wife Sheila. Playing with various forms of comedy throughout, Metcalf paints a portrait of 20th century literary life with levity, satire, and unsuspecting moments of emotional depth. Destined to be heralded as o... + Read More
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Series: The Two of Us Paperback Kathy Page 9781771960991 $19.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

Longlisted for the 2016 Giller PrizeThe stories in The Two of Us focus on pairs, couples, dyads: intense one-on-one relationships. Lovers, spouses, siblings, hairdresser and client, mother and baby, teacher and pupil, girl and fox—these are the characters who animate Kathy Page's stunning new collection. While undergoing medical tests, tending the garden, starving themselves, touring museums, travelling, considering suicide, and falling pregnant, they drive each other towards moments where the true shapes of their lives are glimpsed. With humou... + Read More
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Series: The Life-Writer Paperback David Constantine 9781771961011 $19.95 FICTION Oct 11, 2016

A New York Times Notable Book 2016An October Indie Next List “Great Reads” PickFollowing the final illness and death of her husband Eric, Katrin—a writer of brief lives of minor figures of European Romanticism—decides to fight against his absence by writing the story of his life. Desperate to know Eric as he had been before she loved him, to fetch his early years into those that she must now face without him—Think of me then, Katrin, Eric told her on his deathbed, never forget me then, that lad gaily assuming the land and its roads and traffic ... + Read More
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Series: In Another Country Paperback David Constantine 9781771961295 $19.95 FICTION Oct 11, 2016

This selection of David Constantine'?s best short fiction, named among Kirkus Reviews? Best Story Collections of 2015, spans the author's remarkable 30-year career. Known for their pristine emotional clarity, their spare but intensely evocative dialogue, and their fearless exposures of the heart in moments of defiance, change, resistance, flight, isolation, and redemption, these stories demonstrate Constantine's timeless appeal. Now completely sold out of its hardcover run, this attractively priced paperback edition will appeal to every lover o... + Read More
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Series: Swinging Through Dixie Paperback Leon Rooke 9781771961035 $19.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

The two novellas and three short stories in this new collection by Governor General's Award winner Leon Rooke are united by place and mood. The title novella, set in a southern post-WWII American town—a kind of "comic Winesburg, Ohio, " as the author describes it—sports a Watermelon Queen, a ten-year-old businessman, and other colourful eccentrics, all of whom are puzzled by the familiar lead in a new sexy movie that?s come to town. The second novella takes place further south, in a small village perched in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Tol... + Read More
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Series: ReSet A Good Baby Paperback Leon Rooke 9781771961059 $19.95 FICTION Jan 31, 2017

During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. The next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child's father, Truman, with "teeth as rotten as his soul, " drives his battered car along the same paths. Though critically acclaimed when first published by Knopf in 1990, and widely considered among Rooke's best novels, A Good Baby has been unjustly forgotten. This beautiful new ReSet reissue brings attention to ... + Read More
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Series: Higher Ground Paperback Ian McGillis 9781771960489 $19.95 MUSIC Oct 11, 2016

Ian McGillis may well have grown up in the whitest place in North America: Edmonton, Alberta in the 1970s and '80s. Yet, through a series of fortuitous accidents, he became exposed to the world of black music—first soul and Motown, then reggae, then hip-hop—and it became a lifelong passion. In three parts—built around Stevie Wonder's Innervisions, The Congos' Heart of The Congos, and Nas' Illmatic—Higher Ground recounts his love affair with each form. McGillis does not shy away from the tough questions: What is the line between sincere apprecia... + Read More
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Series: Octopus Paperback Patrick Warner 9781771961318 $18.95 POETRY Oct 18, 2016

Like its eponymous totem creature, the poems in Octopus are canny, slippery, and metamorphic. As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Warner's voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque. Over the past fifteen years, by harbouring and honouring such fraught tensions, Warner has been building one of the most taut and original bodies of work in Canadian literature. In Octopus we have him at his best.
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Series: Short Takes on the Apocalypse Paperback Patricia Young 9781771961356 $18.95 POETRY Oct 18, 2016

Shortlisted for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize 2017In her new collection, two-time Governor General's Award nominee Patricia Young decodes the fragile narratives that hold together our collective sense of self. Her poems leave no aspect of human nature untouched: passions, shames, and even our most blasé conditions are transformed through bold and unconventional metaphors. Young will comfort you and scare you with the same question, revelation, turn of phrase, yet she accomplishes all this amid an unquenchable joy, an abandon only barel... + Read More
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Series: Maple Leaf Moments Paperback Bob Duff 9781771961158 $19.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Nov 30, 2016

A fun collection of the one hundred most memorable, unlikely, unheard-of, and scandalous stories in the first century of the Toronto Maple Leafs' history. Written by one of hockey's greatest encyclopedic anecodotalists, Bob Duff 's new book is essential reading for every Maple Leaf fan, and hockey fans in general.
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Series: The Best of Windsor Cookbook Paperback Jonathan Pinto 9781771961370 $24.95 COOKING Nov 15, 2016

The Best of Windsor Cookbook takes us on a journey through one of Canada's hidden culinary regions—home to bountiful farms, flowering wineries, and an ethnically diverse spread of global cuisine.Since his column launched in 2013, Jonathan Pinto's coverage of the Windsor-Essex food scene has introduced CBC Radio's Windsor Morning audience to the area's most exciting gastronomic hot spots. He had peeked inside the original oven of Blak's, one of Canada's oldest bakeries; toured Hiram Walker, the largest beverage alcohol distillery in North Americ... + Read More