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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Bookshops A Reader's History Hardcover Jorge Carrión 9781771961745 $32.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 17, 2017

Jorge Carrión collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and entertaining essay, Carrión meditates on the importance of the bookshop as a cultural and intellectual space. Filled with anecdotes from the histories of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) shops he visits on his travels, thoughtful considerations of chall... + Read More
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Series: In the Cage Paperback Kevin Hardcastle 9781771961479 $19.95 FICTION Sep 12, 2017

Daniel is one of the most feared cage-fighters in Mixed Martial Arts until an injury ruins his career. Forced back to rural Ontario, his career derailed, Daniel slips into a criminal world. Written in spare, muscular prose, In the Cage penetrates the heart of what it means to endure life in the underclass, and to find small happiness there.
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Red, Yellow, Green Paperback Alejandro Saravia 9781771961417 $19.95 FICTION Sep 26, 2017

Traumatized by his past as a Bolivian soldier who, in a sudden coup d'etat, was forced to participate in atrocities, Alfredo flees to Montreal, haunted by the dead. He rides the Montreal metro and pours his guilt and shame into his writing, until he falls for a woman without a nation—a Kurdish freedom-fighter trying to blast an independent Kurdistan into existence. As the net of intrigue closes in on his lover, Alfredo is forced to face more fully his own violent past.In a world where the intimate collides with the official and the past is made... + Read More
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Series: What Can You Do Paperback Cynthia Flood 9781771961769 $18.95 FICTION Aug 22, 2017

In these twelve stories that unfold over a few hours or a weekend or five decades, adults deceive themselves about their motives—greed, desire for control, jealousy, fear, ambition. With unflinching realism reminiscent of William Trevor, Cynthia Flood exposes the failings of the human heart and, with a marvellous unsentimental brutality, leaves many a character unredeemed.
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Series: Peninsula Sinking Paperback David Huebert 9781771961929 $19.95 FICTION Oct 24, 2017

Winner of the 2018 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction Runner-Up for the 2017 Danuta Gleed Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Alastair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction In Peninsula Sinking, David Huebert brings readers an assortment of Maritimers caught between the places they love and the siren call of elsewhere. From submarine officers to prison guards, oil refinery workers to academics, each character in these stories struggles to find some balance of spiritual and emotional grace in the world increasingly on the precipice of r... + Read More
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Series: Best Canadian Stories Hardcover John Metcalf 9781771962063 $29.95 FICTION Nov 14, 2017

Now in its 47th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Lynn Coady, Mavis Gallant, Zsuzsi Gartner, Douglas Glover, Steven Heighton, Isabel Huggan, Mark Anthony Jarman, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Russell Smith, Linda Svendsen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its ... + Read More
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Series: Best Canadian Stories Paperback John Metcalf 9781771962049 $19.95 FICTION Nov 14, 2017

Now in its 47th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Lynn Coady, Mavis Gallant, Zsuzsi Gartner, Douglas Glover, Steven Heighton, Isabel Huggan, Mark Anthony Jarman, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Russell Smith, Linda Svendsen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its ... + Read More
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Series: reSet Series The Stand-In Paperback David Helwig 9781771962001 $16.95 FICTION Jan 02, 2018

A retired academic is called to a remote university to speak as the replacement for an old friend recently deceased in unusual circumstances. The Stand-In is a transcript of these lectures, revealing a sophisticated tale of art, fame, and adultery that unfolds through rambling anecdotes and flashes of scholarly grandstanding. Fiercely funny and bitterly ironic, The Stand-In has been called the best academic doppelgänger story since Nabokov’s Pale Fire.
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Series: reSet Books I Don't Want to Know Anyone Too Well Paperback Norman Levine 9781771960885 $24.95 FICTION Oct 17, 2017

Norman Levine's stories, so spare and compassionate and elegant and funny, so touching, sad, fantastic and unforgettable, rank alongside the best published in this country. Celebrated abroad, his work was largely unknown in Canada, except among the generations of writers he influenced, from André Alexis and Cynthia Flood to Lisa Moore and Michael Winter, who passed his work among themselves and learned much of their craft from studying Levine's own. His work long out of print, his entire output of short stories are collected here together for t... + Read More
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Series: Wherever We Mean To Be Selected Poems, 1975-2015 Paperback Robyn Sarah 9781771961806 $19.95 POETRY Nov 14, 2017

A four-decade retrospective from the winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. Spanning forty years and ten previously published collections, Wherever We Mean to Be is the first substantial selection of Robyn Sarah’s poems since 1992. Chosen by the author, the 97 poems in this new volume highlight the versatility of a poet who moves easily between free verse, traditional forms, and prose poems. Familiar favourites are here, along with lesser-known poems that collectively round out a retrospective of the themes and concer... + Read More
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories How Fear Departed the Long Gallery A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback E.F. Benson 9781771961943 $8.95 FICTION Oct 10, 2017

Biblioasis is thrilled to continue this series of beautifully illustrated, collectible, classic Christmas ghost stories designed and illustrated by world-famous cartoonist Seth. In How Fear Departed the Long Gallery, for the Peverils, the appearance of a ghost is no more upsetting than the appearance of the mailman at an ordinary house. Except for the twin toddlers in the Long Gallery. No one would dare be caught in the Long Gallery after dark. But upon this quiet and cloudy afternoon, Madge Peveril is feeling rather drowsy ...
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Toll House, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback W.W. Jacobs 9781771961967 $8.95 FICTION Oct 10, 2017

Biblioasis is thrilled to continue this series of beautifully illustrated, collectible, classic Christmas ghost stories designed and illustrated by world-famous cartoonist Seth. The Toll-House has a long and terrible history as a place of death. But Jack Barnes doesn't believe in spirits. His travelling companions, Messrs. Meagle, Lester, and White, wager that he might be convinced otherwise if they all spend a night together in the house. Four men go in, but will four come out?
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Empty House, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback Algernon Blackwood 9781771961981 $8.95 FICTION Oct 10, 2017

Biblioasis is thrilled to continue this series of beautifully illustrated, collectible, classic Christmas ghost stories designed and illustrated by world-famous cartoonist Seth. Aunt Julia, an elderly spinster with a mania for psychical research, has the keys to the haunted house on the square. She invites her nephew to accompany her on a midnight investigation into what really happened a hundred years ago when a servant girl fell to her death. But the house may not be as empty as it seems ...
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Series: The First Season 1917-18 and the Birth of the NHL Paperback Bob Duff 9781771961844 $19.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 24, 2017

2017-18 marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the National Hockey League. But the league almost didn’t survive its first year. Bob Duff chronicles the trials and tribulations of that first season, and tells the story of that first generation of hockey heroes who lent their names to the game they loved, and helped to make it great.
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Series: Five Days Walking Five Towns Touring Windsor's Past Paperback Marty Gervais 9781771961783 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 03, 2017

The Canadian border city facing Detroit was not always simply “Windsor, Ontario”—it was a patchwork of multiple communities that amalgamated into Windsor throughout the 20th Century. In Five Days Walking Five Towns, fabled local raconteur Marty Gervais puts on his boots and takes the reader on a street-by-street walking tour through Riverside, Ford City, Walkerville, Windsor, and Sandwich—weaving together his own memories with the booms and busts of his eclectic, storied city. Along the way, tales of Indigenous curses, rum-running, union-bustin... + Read More
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Series: London Free Press: From the Vault Hardcover Jennifer Grainger 9781771961820 $39.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 17, 2017

Spanning the first one hundred years of the newspaper (1849–1950), London Free Press: From the Vault is chock full of photographs from the London Free Press archives, with fascinating and fun chapter introductions by local historian Jennifer Grainger.
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Series: Early London 1826-1914 A Photographic History from the Orr Collection Paperback Jennifer Grainger 9781771961653 $22.95 HISTORY Dec 22, 2016

When founded in 1826, London was a frontier outpost surrounded by dense forest. Nearly 100 years later, that once-humble village had transformed into a burgeoning metropolis—a national leader in industry, culture, and education. Featuring never-before-seen photographs from Museum London's Orr Collection, Early London 1826-1914 tells the story of the city's dramatic, remarkable rise. With chapters on architecture, industry, sports, and daily life, this stunning visual history captures London's rapid development into the unofficial capital of Wes... + Read More
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Series: 250 Years of Assumption Parish Paperback Sharon Hanna 9781771962315 $22.95 HISTORY Oct 03, 2017

The oldest continuously operating Catholic parish in Ontario, Our Lady of Assumption, was formally established in 1767 by French Jesuit missionaries, when modern-day Windsor was rural and unsettled. Assumption Church, a beautiful Gothic-Revival structure opened in 1845, is considered one of Windsor’s most significant historic sites, where the city grew and developed around its walls. The church’s doors were closed to the public in 2014, but the parish continues on, and in 2017 celebrated its 250th anniversary. A pictorial history that sweeps th... + Read More