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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...
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24.
Series:
Even Though I Knew the End
Hardcover
C. L. Polk
9781250849458
$26.99
FICTION
Nov 08, 2022
A New York Times Best Romance of 2022!C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.“Eerie, sharp and fiercely bittersweet.” —The New York TimesA magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When...
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25.
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...
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27.
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 ...
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29.
Series:
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
A Memoir
Hardcover
Matthew Perry
9781250866448
$39.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 01, 2022
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistenceIn an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark humor, Perry vividly details his lifelong battle with the disease and what fueled it despite ...
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31.
Series: ReSet
This Time, That Place
Selected Stories
Paperback
Clark Blaise
9781771964890
$26.95
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...
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35.
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...
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37.
Series:
HARROWINGS
1st edition
Paperback
Cecily Nicholson
9781772014051
$19.95
POETRY
Sep 30, 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...
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42.
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...
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44.
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...
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47.
Series:
Taste of Hunger, The
Paperback
Barbara Joan Scott
9781990601187
$24.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2022
A Quill and Quire 2022 Book of the Year 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 Olen...
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49.
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...
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52.
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...
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55.
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...
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58.
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...
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