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Series: Best Canadian Fifty Years of Best Canadian Stories Paperback John Metcalf 9781771963749 $26.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 02, 2023

A celebration of fifty years of Best Canadian Stories Now in its fiftieth year, the Best Canadian Stories series has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Cana... + Read More
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Series: Who Has Seen the Wind 75th anniversary illustrated edition Hardcover W.O. Mitchell 9781990601125 $44.95 FICTION Nov 08, 2022

A luxurious illustrated edition to commemorate the 75th anniversary of this seminal Canadian classic.W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind, read and loved by millions, is the classic Canadian prairie novel and is considered one of the finest novels about boyhood ever written. This special edition celebrates the 75th anniversary of the book's first publication in 1947, bringing together the complete version of the text with full-colour paintings and illustrations by renowned artist William Kurelek. This edition also features a foreword by acclai... + Read More
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Series: Lives Lived, Lives Imagined Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews Paperback Sabrina Reed 9781772840094 $27.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 04, 2022

Perceptive, controversial, topical, and achingly funny, Miriam Toews’s books have earned her a place at the forefront of Canadian literature. In this first monograph on Toews’s work, Sabrina Reed examines the interplay of trauma and resilience in the author’s fiction. Reed skillfully demonstrates how Toews situates resilience across key themes, including: the home as both a source of trauma and an inspiration for resilient action; the road trip as a search for resolution and redemption; and the reframing of the Mennonite diaspora as an escape ... + Read More
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Series: ReSet This Time, That Place Selected Stories Paperback Clark Blaise 9781771964890 $24.95 FICTION Oct 18, 2022

“Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.” —Quill & Quire “If you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden, shimmer cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries," writes Margaret Atwood, "read the stories of Clark Blaise." This Time, That Place draws together twenty-four stories that span the entirety of Blaise's career, including one never previously published. Moving swiftly across place and time, throu... + Read More
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Series: Beautiful You, Beautiful Me Hardcover Tasha Spillett-Sumner 9781771474528 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 15, 2022

A child who looks different from her mother finds beauty and belonging in this new book from the creator of the New York Times bestseller I Sang You Down from the Stars Izzy’s favorite place to be is in Mama’s arms—skin to skin, safe and warm. One night, cuddled up on Mama’s lap, Izzy notices something she’s never noticed before: her skin is the color of chocolate, but Mama’s skin is the color of sand. When Izzy realizes she’s different from Mama in other ways, too, she feels sad and confused. She wants to be beautiful like Mama! But Mama addre... + Read More
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Series: The Line in the Sand Hardcover Thao Lam 9781771475709 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 15, 2022

Critically acclaimed creator Thao Lam, author of The Paper Boat and THAO, is back with a wordless story about conflict resolution A monster meanders down a beach, dragging a stick behind them and leaving a line in the sand. Meanwhile, a group of friends is at play—flying kites, building sandcastles, tossing a ball—until two of them become curious about the line that now seemingly divides them. What does the line mean? Tensions mount as the two ponder the situation. Should the line be crossed? Can it be crossed? Eyes narrow, feathers get ruff... + Read More
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Series: Ducks Two Years in the Oil Sands Hardcover Kate Beaton 9781770462892 $39.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 16 Sep 13, 2022

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of CanadaBefore there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles and gaelic folk songs. After university, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush, part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the hom... + Read More
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Series: Taste of Hunger, The Paperback Barbara Joan Scott 9781990601187 $24.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2022

A family saga about Ukrainian immigrants in the early 20th century, the power of desire, Baba Yaga fairytales, and a moment that changes everything. In Saskatchewan in the late 1920s, a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant named Olena is forced into marriage with Taras, a man twice her age, who wants her even though she has refused him. Stuck in a hardscrabble life and with a husband she despises, starved for a life of her own choosing, at every turn Olena rebels against her husband and her fate. As Olena and Taras drag everyone around them int... + Read More
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Series: The Elephant on Karluv Bridge Paperback Thomas Trofimuk 9781771872256 $24.95 FICTION Aug 15, 2022

Set in Prague and narrated by the 600-year-old Charles Bridge, this novel begins with an lephant named Sál escaping the Prague Zoo. As the elephant moves through the beautiful Czech city, the lives of the men and women she meets are altered by the encounter. Each character is at a crossroads, and desperately seeking the wisdom they need to wrestle with profound questions—how to live, how to love, who to love, how to heal. And the elephant herself is haunted, as memories of her long-ago capture in Africa resurface. Sál carries the narrative fro... + Read More
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Series: HARROWINGS 1st edition Paperback Cecily Nicholson 9781772014051 $19.95 POETRY Jul 29, 2022

HARROWINGS takes place mainly in the rural and reconnects with a history of Black intellectual and artistic history in relation to agriculture. The poems include pulses of memoir from the poet’s childhood growing up in the country on a farm. These experiences connect to her volunteer work during the recent pandemic, on a local “prison farm” – an agricultural enterprise whose leadership includes people who were formerly incarcerated. Considering movements organizing for food security, and related, resurgent practices, HARROWINGS addresses the wo... + Read More
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Series: Things We Do in the Dark A Novel Hardcover Jennifer Hillier 9781250763167 $36.99 FICTION Jul 19, 2022

*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*"Propulsive and chilling." --People Magazine"An intoxicating thrill ride. Hillier jams her foot on the accelerator and never lets up." --New York Times Book ReviewThings We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future.When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom?covered in blood, holding a st... + Read More
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Series: The L.M. Montgomery Library Twice upon a Time Selected Stories, 1898-1939 Paperback L.M. Montgomery 9781487544126 $29.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 02, 2022

This collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery reveals the early workings of parts of Anne of Green Gables, its sequels, and her other ever-popular novels.Although L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) is best remembered for the twenty-two book-length works of fiction that she published in her lifetime, from Anne of Green Gables (1908) to Anne of Ingleside (1939), she also contributed some five hundred short stories and serials to a wide range of North American and British periodicals from 1895 to 1940. While most of these stories demonstrate her ab... + Read More
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Series: The River Twice Paperback John Bemrose 9781771872201 $24.95 FICTION May 30, 2022

The River Twice, by the Giller-nominated author of the bestselling The Island Walkers, is a gripping new World War I novel set in the same factory town familiar to his many readers, where residents are reeling as the wounded return and the list of local young men who have been killed continues to grow. Wounded in body and spirit, Ted Whitfield returns home from the trenches to his wife, Miriam, who finds him deeply altered and virtually unreachable. Her sister, Grace, afflicted by her own secret trauma, falls into an immediate and electric... + Read More
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Series: Bloomsbury Girls A Novel Hardcover Natalie Jenner 9781250276698 $36.99 FICTION May 17, 2022

The internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world.Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls i... + Read More
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Series: Bloomsbury Girls A Novel Paperback Natalie Jenner 9781250283221 $23.99 FICTION May 17, 2022

The internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world.Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls i... + Read More
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Series: The Boy from Buzwah A Life in Indian Education Paperback Cecil King 9780889778504 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 26, 2022

Cecil King’s remarkable memoir, from humble beginnings on a reservation to his unparalleled legacy to ensure Indian Control of Indian Education in Canada.“Through my eyes, my community was creative, innovative and self-sufficient. In this remote northern traditional First Nation society, the skills, knowledge and abilities that the community needed to survive were all there. . . . The stories are not just of survival and hardship but of the power of the human spirit and the sheer natural genius of individuals.” —Cecil KingCecil King grew up in... + Read More
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Series: Best Canadian Best Canadian Stories 2021 Paperback Diane Schoemperlen 9781771964357 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 19, 2021

Selected by guest editor Diane Schoemperlen, the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Stories continues not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters. “The best short stories,” writes editor Diane Schoemperlen, “are disruptive in all the best ways, diverse in all senses of the word, always looking back and leading forward at the same time … they must be written in the world, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of more horrifying news every day.” Submitted and published by Canadian writers in 2020, Schoemperlen’s selections for Best Canadian... + Read More
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