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Series: The Archaeologists Paperback Hal Niedzviecki 9781894037792 $18.95 FICTION Sep 30, 2016

The Archaeologists follows six people from the fictional edge city Wississauga whose lives intersect when bones are discovered in a backyard overlooking the site of a proposed thoroughfare. As personal beliefs are challenged and lives are turned upside down, they each must grapple with the big questions--the environment, consumerism, ennui, repatriation.
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Series: Accordéon Paperback Kaie Kellough 9781894037839 $18.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2016

Finalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel AwardAccordéon is an experimental novel, a piercing deconstruction of Québécois culture, an ode to Montréal--a city where everything happens at once and all realities exist simultaneously. Against a satirical Ministry of Culture set on quotas, preservation and containment according to its own cultural code, Kaie Kellough weaves voices and images from the margins to probe collective fantasies of Québec old and new.
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Series: Violence No More The Rise of Indigenous Women Paperback Wanda Nanibush 9781894037853 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2018

In Violence No More, Wanda Nanibush offers a personal, political and historical account of violence against Indigenous women, children and two-spirited people. Nanibush connects the struggle for a national inquiry to the larger context of colonial violence from the state, from non-Indigenous men and within Indigenous communities where the trauma has turned inward. An informal and lively history of Indigenous women's activism, Violence No More maps the colonial routes and roots of this tragedy while also showing the massive, consistent and persi... + Read More
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Series: Chowgirls Killer Party Food Righteous Bites & Cocktails for Every Season Paperback Heidi Andermack 9781551526454 $22.95 COOKING Oct 01, 2016

With an eye for style and appreciation for seasonal ingredients, the proprietors of Chowgirls Killer Catering, one of the Midwest's leading catering companies, share their inspired ideas for delicious appetizers, small plates, and cocktails that are perfect for home entertaining. Amy and Heidi were early adopters of the local, organic, sustainable, and seasonal approach to cooking; their ethos is clearly reflected in this cookbook, which offers fun, elegant, and yet easy-to-prepare recipes arranged by season that will be the hit of your next so... + Read More
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Series: Such a Lovely Little War Saigon, 1961-63 Paperback Marcelino Truong 9781551526478 $28.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 01, 2016

This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese diplomat and his French wife. The book opens in America, where the boy's father works for the South Vietnamese embassy; there the boy is made to feel self-conscious about his otherness thanks to schoolmates who play war games against the so-called "Commies." The family is called back to Saigon in 1961, where the father becomes Presideent Ngo Dinh Diem's personal int... + Read More
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Series: The Case of Alan Turing The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker Board book Eric Liberge 9781551526508 $23.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 01, 2016

Lambda Literary Award finalist Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines during World War II. The work of Turing and his colleagues at Hut 8 saved countless lives and millions' worth of British goods and merchandise. At the same time, as a homosexual he was forced to lead a tortured, secret life. After a young man stole money from him, he went to the police, where he confessed his homose... + Read More
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Series: Becoming Unbecoming Paperback null Una 9781551526539 $23.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Aug 31, 2016

This extraordinary graphic novel is a powerful denunciation of sexual violence against women. As seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl named Una, it takes place in northern England in 1977, as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer of prostitutes, is on the loose and creating panic among the townspeople. As the police struggle in their clumsy attempts to find the killer, and the headlines in the local paper become more urgent, a once self-confident Una teaches herself to "lower her gaze" in order to deflect attention from boys. After ... + Read More
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Series: The Dad Dialogues A Correspondence on Fatherhood (and the Universe) Paperback George Bowering 9781551526621 $17.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Oct 01, 2016

Charles Demers is a thirtysomething comedian and the author of three books; George Bowering is eighty, Canada's first poet laureate, and the author of more than eighty books. Charlie and George are also the best of friends. And the fathers of daughters. In this unique book of correspondence, these two men from different generations write to each other about the burdens, anxieties, and singular joys of parenthood. The letters begin as Charlie and his wife discover they will become parents; he expresses his hopes and fears of impending fatherhoo... + Read More
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Series: Tomboy Survival Guide Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551526560 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2016

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Longlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction; Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner; Longlisted for Canada Reads Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, about how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who... + Read More
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Series: Conflict Is Not Abuse Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair Paperback Sarah Schulman 9781551526430 $21.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2016

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction winner From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negati... + Read More
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Series: The Last Gang in Town The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang Paperback Aaron Chapman 9781551526713 $24.95 HISTORY Sep 27, 2016

Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize finalist; Canadian Historical Association's Clio Prize for BC winner Decades before organized crime syndicates brought sensational drug wars to Vancouver, street gangs held sway over its unruly east side. None was considered tougher or more feared than the Clark Park gang, a wild, two-fisted crew of characters from Vancouver's post-1960s counterculture. In 1972, after a number of headline-making riots and clashes with police--including an infamous altercation outside a Rolling Stones concert--the Clark Pa... + Read More
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Series: The Remedy Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care Paperback Zena Sharman 9781551526584 $18.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Oct 01, 2016

Lambda Literary Award winner To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations. The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health-care experiences and challenges, from gay men living with HIV who remember the systemic resistance to their health-care needs, to a lesbian couple dealing with the experience of cancer, to young trans people who strug... + Read More
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Series: The Boy & the Bindi Hardcover Vivek Shraya 9781551526683 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2016

In this beautiful children's picture book by Vivek Shraya, author of the acclaimed God Loves Hair, a five-year-old boy becomes fascinated with his mother's bindi, the red dot commonly worn by South Asian women to indicate the point at which creation begins, and wishes to have one of his own. Rather than chastise her son, she agrees to it, and teaches him about its cultural significance, allowing the boy to discover the magic of the bindi, which in turn gives him permission to be more fully himself. Beautifully illustrated with hand paintings b... + Read More
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Series: Niagara Motel Paperback Ashley Little 9781551526607 $17.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little's follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to unforgettable eleven-year-old Tucker Malone--the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper--who believes his father is Sam Malone from Cheers. 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 ... + Read More
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Series: Candyass Paperback Nick Comilla 9781551526645 $15.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2016

Arthur is a young gay man in Montreal at a crossroads. He gets lost in a blizzard of boys and endless possibilities--looking to fall in love and to experience devotion--but finds himself increasingly immersed in a world of hedonism and deception, especially as he deals with the messy remains of his relationship with Jeremy, his chimerical ex-boyfriend and first love. He moves to New York in search of something more, but due to a lack of foresight and chaotic romantic entanglements, he finds he still yearns for authentic connections with others.... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film Classics Arabian Nights Paperback Michael Moon 9781551526669 $14.95 PERFORMING ARTS Nov 01, 2016

A Queer Film Classic on 1974's Arabian Nights by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the controversial Italian director who was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1975. Already internationally distinguished as a poet, novelist, and outspoken social critic of the postwar period, Pasolini turned to filmmaking around 1960. In little more than a decade, he produced one of the most remarkable bodies of work in cinema history, beginning with his early film-portraits of the struggles of underclass youths and extending through his adaptations of such sacred ... + Read More
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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
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Series: Notes from a Feminist Killjoy Essays on Everyday Life Hardcover Erin Wunker 9781771662567 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 03, 2016

Winner of the Atlantic Book Awards 2017 Margaret and John Savage First Book AwardWinner of the East Coast Literary Awards 2017 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction AwardFinalist for the 2017 Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too.Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a m... + Read More
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Series: Involuntary Bliss Paperback Devon Code 9781771662499 $20.00 FICTION Oct 18, 2016

Even in death, he said, the novella’s power would bind us together, all of us who had read it, appealing as it did equally to our emotions and our intellects.Intense and densely layered, Involuntary Bliss is the latest intriguing story from awardwinning young writer Devon Code. Situated in modern-day Montréal during a weekend in late August, two young men come together in an attempt to restore their friendship. From the streets of Montréal’s Plateau to the mountainous hillsides of Machu Picchu and beyond, this high-spirited picaresque inv... + Read More
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Series: Testament Paperback Vickie Gendreau 9781771662529 $20.00 FICTION Oct 12, 2016

On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her "room of her own," she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same time, bequeaths to her friends and family both the fragmented story of her last year and the stories of the loved ones who keep her memory alive, in language as raw and flamboyant as she was.In the teasing and passionate voice of a twenty-three-year-old writer, inspired as much by literature as by YouTube and underg... + Read More
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Series: RATS NEST Paperback Mat Laporte 9781771662444 $18.00 FICTION Oct 27, 2016

Mysterious and sometimes hallucinogenic, RATS NEST builds a narrative out of the complexity and dialectical uncertainty that many people feel about being alive in the 21st century. This first full-length book by Mat Laporte introduces readers to a protoplasmic, fantastical underworld, as navigated by a self-reproducing 3D Printed Kid made especially for this purpose. As the Kid descends the layers of a seemingly never-ending pit, its nightmares and hallucinations—recorded in stunning detail—unfold in twelve chilling chapters of unreality ... + Read More
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Series: Silvija Paperback Sandra Ridley 9781771662642 $18.00 POETRY Sep 28, 2016

Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption.In a sequence of five feverish elegies, Sandra Ridley's Silvija combines narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent and partner), terminal illness (brain tumour and heart attack), revelation, resolution, and healing... + Read More
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Series: How to Draw a Rhinoceros Paperback Kate Sutherland 9781771662604 $18.00 POETRY Sep 22, 2016

How to Draw a Rhinoceros, the first book of poems by Canadian writer, scholar, and lawyer Kate Sutherland, mines centuries of rhinoceros representations in art and literature to document the history of European and North American encounters with the animal--from the elephant-rhinoceros battles staged by monarchs in the Middle Ages; the rhinomania that took hold in response to the European travels of Clara the 'Dutch' Rhinoceros in the mid-1700s; the menageries and circuses of the Victorian era; the exploits of celebrated twentieth-century hunte... + Read More
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Series: ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行动 Oперация Paperback Moez Surani 9781771662680 $18.00 POETRY Oct 17, 2016

From poet-provocateur Moez Surani comes ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行动 Oперация--a book-length poetic inventory of contemporary rhetoric of violence and aggression, as depicted through the evolution of the language used to name the many military operations conducted by UN Member Nations since the organization’s inception in 1945.With Operation, Surani draws on contemporary poetic traditions, including conceptual and inventory poetics, to accomplish two important things: On the one hand, he shows that no word is free from connoting viol... + Read More
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Series: Lost Originals Paperback David Goldstein 9781771662727 $18.00 POETRY Oct 06, 2016

Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is no communication. Without metaphor, there is no art.Lost Originals, the latest collection of poetry from writer and scholar David Goldstein, explores the potential of metaphoric translation to contribute to a conversation about originality, the power of objects, and the boundaries of poetry and language.Taking as his foundation the notion that every act of speaking is a translation from one sort of experience to another, Goldstein's innovative poetic 'experiment... + Read More
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Series: Poets A Colouring Book Anthology Paperback Melanie Janisse-Barlow 9781771662734 $18.00 ART Jan 10, 2020

What could happen if you put yourself aside as a poet and became willing to funnel your creative talents into a wholly other art form that bends two practices into one?Poets: A Colouring Book by Melanie Janisse-Barlow attempts to answer this question. As a poet, painter, and proper 'Jacqueline of All Trades,' Janisse offers readers and art-enthusiasts a core sample of the larger archive of living poets that began with her Poets Series of paintings in 2015. In turn, those poets have been asked to contribute a 'self-portrait' text to accompany th... + Read More
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Series: Waiting for the Cyclone Stories Paperback Leesa Dean 9781927366509 $19.95 FICTION Oct 04, 2016

A Trillium Book Award FinalistWomen are too often cast in literature as inherently good and dependable—but this is not the case in the audacious stories of Waiting for the Cyclone.Mary, a closet drinker, leaves her children with Debbie, a seemingly perfect housewife who shoots pharmaceuticals at night. Alison vacations with her husband, but wakes up in the tattooed arms of another man. Donna lies to her family about volunteering in Afghanistan so she can parasail with a lover in Turkey.With authenticity and intensity, Dean challenges traditiona... + Read More
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Series: No Way to Run A Mother and Son Story of Surviving Abuse Paperback Holly Crichton 9781987915181 $24.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Sep 01, 2016

On September 3, 2010, the RCMP in Grande Prairie, Alberta, received a 911 call from Mat Crichton about a shooting on a local farm. Seconds later, miles from home, Holly Crichton got a shocking call from her son. "I just shot Dad," Mat told her. The violent end to a violent situation came as no surprise to the community; Holly and her sons had been living in terror from the abuse of her husband for many years. Surprisingly, when Holly and her youngest son were disabled in separate accidents, the abuse did not subside it only escalated. Fiercely ... + Read More
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Series: The Amazing Mazie Baker The Story of a Squamish Nation's Warrior Elder Paperback Kay Johnston 9781987915068 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2016

When author Kay Johnston first met Mazie Baker, she came to know her as the reigning queen of bannock, selling out batch after batch of fluffy, light frybread at local powwows. She soon learned that Mazie, a matriarch and an activist, had been nurturing and fiercely protecting her community for a lifetime.In 1931, Mazie Antone was born into the Squamish Nation, a community caught between its traditional values of respect-for the land, the family and the band-and the secular, capitalistic legislation imposed by European settlers. When she was si... + Read More
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Series: In Fine Form The Canadian Book of Form Poetry Paperback Sandy Shreve 9781987915020 $32.00 POETRY Aug 31, 2016

In the decade since the publication of the first edition of In Fine Form, there has been a resurgence of Canadian poets writing in "form" - in sonnets and ghazals, triolets and ballads, villanelles and palindromes - and formal poetry has become more visible in books, literary journals and classrooms. The first edition of this anthology was called "groundbreaking," "a paradigm shift" and "a landmark text." Since then, it has gone through several printings and been widely used in classrooms at all levels from elementary school to university, by w... + Read More
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Series: The Day of the Dead Sliver Fiction, Short Stories & an Homage Paperback Catherine Owen 9781987915204 $20.00 FICTION Oct 05, 2016

The Day of the Dead: Sliver Fictions, Short Stories & An Homage is a series of collisions between genders in the realms of sexuality, relationships, art and grief in three sections: Men & Women, Muses and The Dead. Owen explores secrecies, abject pasts, misunderstood desires, the urgency to create and the horrors of loss. The Day of the Dead takes the reader into discomforting worlds, thorned with fantasy and dark humour but rooted in the harsh and sometimes beautiful realities a woman and artist can face in 21st century society. Like the subti... + Read More
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Series: Eating Matters Paperback Kara-Lee MacDonald 9781987915136 $18.00 POETRY Oct 05, 2016

Kara-lee MacDonald is a survivor. The poems in Eating Matters are sophisticated explorations of anorexia and bulimia, from within and in retrospect, as the semiautobiographical narrator faces and overcomes her complex drives and compulsions. Through a variety of poetic forms, she explores the deep structures of body images and societal pressures that create and promulgate eating disorders and the culture of shame surrounding them. The poems will strike a chord in those who have experience with the illnesses and subtly educate those who have not... + Read More
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Series: Gently to Nagasaki Paperback Joy Kogawa 9781987915150 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 19, 2016

Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it is also an account of a remarkable life. As a child during WWII, Joy Kogawa was interned with her family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians by the Canadian government. Her acclaimed novel Obasan, based on that experience, brought her literary recognition and played a critical role in the movement for redres... + Read More
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Series: The Hidden Keys Paperback Andre Alexis 9781552453254 $19.95 FICTION Sep 19, 2016

Giller Prize winner André Alexis’s contemporary take on the quest narrative is an instant classic. Parkdale’s Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, and it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and help... + Read More
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Series: Night & Ox Paperback Jordan Scott 9781552453292 $18.95 POETRY Oct 11, 2016

bronchia think form a bombsight think periosteum singing particle falconry workpiece two lowcut hills seeking what stone is for body is herd alliterations Night & Ox is a long poem working its interruptions to a degree where it’s broken by the will to live. A poem that invokes expansive loneliness, where the poet’s emotional response is to endure. A crushed line of astral forms and anatomy in perpetual remove; it is a poem that nurtures vulnerability: some soft-footed embryo sounds against language’s viscera. Night & Ox po... + Read More
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Series: 3 Summers Paperback Lisa Robertson 9781552453308 $18.95 POETRY Oct 11, 2016

Inspired by Flaubert’s Three Tales and Stein’s Three Lives, a grappling with time, form and embodiment. Recite your poem to your aunt.I threw myself to the ground.Where were you in the night?In a school among the pines.What was the meaning of the dream? Organs, hormones, toxins, lesions:what is a body? In 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson takes up her earlier concerns with form and literary precedent, and turns toward the timeliness of embodiment. What is form’s time? Here the form of life called a poem speaks with the body’s mortality, its thickness,... + Read More
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Series: In on the Great Joke Paperback Laura Broadbent 9781552453360 $18.95 POETRY Oct 11, 2016

In a blend of essayistic poetics, Broadbent wields alchemy, translation and necromancy to bring readers In on the Great Joke. What do you get when you cross Lao Tzu and an application for a university teaching application? What do you get when you give W. G. Sebald and Clarice Lispector the ability to speak from the afterlife? What happens if a girl is stopped at a red light for an entire year? In on the Great Joke is a palace of hybridity, where film structure informs poetry, poetry alters the essay, and the essay recalibrates the joke. Broadb... + Read More
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Series: Exploded Views Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract Paperback Darren O'Donnell 9781552453377 $21.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 16, 2018

A cultural planner’s immodest proposal: change how we think about children and we just might change the world. We live in an ‘adultitarian’ state, where the rules are based on very adult priori- ties and understandings of reality. Young people are disenfranchised and power- less; they understand they’re subject to an authoritarian regime, whether they buy into it or not. But their unique perspectives also offerincredible potential for social, cultural and economic innovation. Cultural planner and performance director Darren O’Donnell has been c... + Read More
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Series: The Island of Books Paperback Dominique Fortier 9781552453384 $19.95 FICTION Nov 08, 2016

A rich portrait of the beauty of words – painted by a 15th-century illiterate scribe. A 15th-century portrait painter, grieving the sudden death of his lover, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, an island off the coast of France. He haunts the halls until a monk assigns him the task of copying a manuscript – though he is illiterate. His work slowly heals him and continues the tradition that had, centuries earlier, grown the monastery’s library into a beautiful city of books, all under the shadow of the invention of the printing... + Read More
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Series: New Albion Paperback Dwayne Brenna 9781550506778 $19.95 FICTION Aug 15, 2016

New Albion follows the lives of the employees of the New Albion theatre in London, England, in 1850, through the journal entries of the stage manager, Emlyn Phillips. Fighting it’s own reputation - hindered by it’s location and "sketchy" (at best) audience, a police commissioner who demands "morally upstanding" plays, and a playwright so decrepit and addicted to laudanum that the actors of the New Albion are never sure what to expect, the troupe attempts to put on the best show possible, each and every night. The reader is introduced to the ent... + Read More
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Series: New Albion Electronic book text, EPUB Dr. Dwayne Brenna 9781550506792 $9.95 FICTION Jul 22, 2016

New Albion follows the lives of the employees of the New Albion theatre in London, England, in 1850, through the journal entries of the stage manager, Emlyn Phillips. Fighting it’s own reputation - hindered by it’s location and "sketchy" (at best) audience, a police commissioner who demands "morally upstanding" plays, and a playwright so decrepit and addicted to laudanum that the actors of the New Albion are never sure what to expect, the troupe attempts to put on the best show possible, each and every night. The reader is introduced to the ent... + Read More
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Series: Been in the Storm So Long Paperback Terry Jordan 9781550506877 $21.95 FICTION Aug 15, 2016

Death and despair follow John Healy around like the sad and sombre notes the fiddle plays in the backroom of the local store in the small Nova Scotia village he calls home. Been in the Storm So Long is a story of one man’s journey from the East Coast of Canada to New Orleans and back, from whaler to thief, murder accomplice to father and husband, alive to dead and back (more than once). The intimate story of Healy’s life as he navigates an emotional journey fraught with unbearable death and loss, keeps unspoken secrets from those who matter mos... + Read More
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Series: Been in the Storm So Long Electronic book text, EPUB Terry Jordan 9781550506891 $10.95 FICTION Jul 22, 2016

Been in the Storm So Long is a story of one man’s journey from the East Coast of Canada to New Orleans and back, from whaler to thief, murder accomplice to father and husband, alive to dead and back (more than once). The intimate story of Healy’s life as he navigates an emotional journey fraught with unbearable death and loss, keeps unspoken truths from those who matter most, and finds redemption when all seems lost, is a story that transcends time. Can John Healy leave what happened in the past where it belongs, or will it shape his future in ... + Read More
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Series: Nineteen Fifty-Seven Paperback Jim McLean 9781550506754 $16.95 POETRY Aug 15, 2016

Jim McLean’s new poetry collection, Nineteen Fifty-Seven, is much more than a look at Prairie life after World War II - with sections on Women, Family, Memories, Work, Writing and Music - these poems are an exploration on what makes life worth living. In plain language, McLean weaves fascinating, sentimental images of Moose Jaw and the Prairie landscape, as well as stories of workers and the railroads. At the same time, McLean creates a separate persona to move in an out of darker poems on death, suicide, alcoholism and voyeurism. Through poems... + Read More
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Series: The Griffin of Darkwood Paperback Becky Citra 9781550506914 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Aug 15, 2016

Will Poppy wanted to spend his time writing novels with his mother, but when she becomes ill and passes away, he finds himself moving to a run-down castle with an aunt he loathes and servants who are up to no good - with no desire to carry on writing, a curse on his new home, and a town that would rather see him move back to where he came from. Will has always been fascinated with the power of writing - he thinks there’s something almost... magical about it. So did his mother - who wrote her future bestseller with magical pencils. But when his ... + Read More
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Series: The Griffin of Darkwood Electronic book text, EPUB Becky Citra 9781550506938 $5.95 Age (years) from 8 - 12 Jul 22, 2016

Will Poppy has always been fascinated with writing - he thinks there’s something almost... magical about it. But when his mother passes away, Will finds himself stuck living with his awful aunt, unable to write a single word (despite the fact that two Muses will not leave him alone), and handed a mysterious package which includes an old picture of his grandparents and a piece of cloth with the words "The Griffin of Darkwood" on it.When his aunt decides to move both of them to a small village, Will is excited for a new adventure, and in a castle... + Read More