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Series: Textures 2nd edition Paperback John Eppel 9780797494985 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2018

In Zimbabwe, John Eppel and Togara Muzanenhamo epitomise the ideal of the poet dedicated to excellence in form as well as content. There are as many definitions of poetry as there are poets but, as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary usefully explains, poetry is "Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through its meaning, sound, and rhythm...." In their arrangement of words and creation of sounds and rhythms, John Eppel and Togara Muzanenhamo ... + Read More
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Series: On the Count of None Paperback Allison Chisholm 9781772141252 $18.00 POETRY Nov 16, 2018

On the Count of None is the first full-length poetry collection by Kingston poet Allison Chisholm. The surprising poems in this audacious debut explore the relationship between the serious and the absurd, the formal and the illogical, whimsy and threat, and meaning and tone. Chisholms poems, whose content is often inspired by guidebooks, podcasts, birth notices, and other unlikely sources, are pretty sneaky: they seem to always be trying to get away with something. Sometimes they try to get away with sneaking in invented words and idioms and f... + Read More
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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: You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me The Lives of Dick Miller Hardcover Caelum Vatnsdal 9781927886144 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2018

You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me is a biography of beloved American movie actor Dick Miller. Miller's fantastically storied life, the legendary people with whom he has worked and played, the times in which he's lived and the fascinating environments of both Broadway and Hollywood over the past seventy years are all thoroughly and engagingly explored in this first and only biography of the cult legend. The result of both extensive interviews and exhaustive research, You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me is at once story of how an unassuming guy s... + Read More
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Series: Radical Medicine The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada Paperback Esyllt Jones 9781927886168 $28.00 MEDICAL Apr 01, 2019

Winner! Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize Finalist! CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize Alexander Kennedy?Isbister?Award for Non-Fiction McNally Robinson Book of the Year The origins of medicare have long been told as a simple and satisfying story: a good idea, born in Saskatchewan, was championed by our Greatest Canadian, Tommy Douglas, embraced by Canadians, now stands as a cherished example of our nation?s unique values. Radical Medicine is a visionary and politicized new history of medicare. It traces medicare?s roo... + Read More
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Series: Fate & Knives Paperback Maureen Evans 9781927886120 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2018

Evan's debut poetry collection skirts a diverse geography, threaded by a voice that is sensorially-awake, curious, and humane. Fate & Knives investigates food, writing, personal history and barely-known places with a disarming approach to language and subject. What surfaces is a collection full of unlikely observational detail and delicate ambiguity.
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Series: The Red Centre Paperback Paul Heather 9781927886199 $20.00 FICTION

Rapid-flowing and detailed, Heather Paul's debut novel follows Serena, a narrator who at the story's start, is back in the town she couldn't wait to leave. Dumped by her boyfriend and living in her parents' basement, she takes a job at her small town's main employer, an institution for people with developmental disabilities. When one of her residents dies in her arms, she flees the trauma, ultimately embarking on a journey that pushes and pulls her between constraint and freedom, despair and hope. Set in small-town Ontario, Australia, northern... + Read More
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Series: The Scent of Pomegranates and Rose Water Reviving the Beautiful Food Traditions of Syria Hardcover Habeeb Salloum 9781551527420 $32.95 COOKING Oct 01, 2018

The traditions of Syrian cooking, which go back hundreds of years, are notable for their sensory components, in which aroma and texture are as important as taste and nutrition. Over the centuries, the unique dishes of Greater Syria (bilaad al-shaam) were preserved by those who cooked them. For cooks in imperial households, family homes, or on simple peasant farms, recipes were handed down from generation to generation. Despite centuries of occupation, economic hardships, and political strife, the people of Greater Syria continued to cook their ... + Read More
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Series: The Antifa Comic Book 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements Paperback Gord Hill 9781551527338 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 01, 2018

The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 linger, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, Gord Hill looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the concurrent antifa movements that have worked fastidiously to topple it. Fascism is a relatively new political ideology, yet in its short history some of the greatest at... + Read More
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Series: The Woo-Woo How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family Paperback Lindsay Wong 9781551527369 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2018

2019 CANADA READS FINALIST Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Winner, Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize; Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family who blame their woes on ghosts and demons when they should really be on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo" -- Chinese ghosts who come to visi... + Read More
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Series: Care Work Dreaming Disability Justice Paperback Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 9781551527383 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2018

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with implications and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative "collective access" -- access not as a cho... + Read More
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Series: Murder by Milkshake An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer Paperback Eve Lazarus 9781551527468 $21.95 TRUE CRIME Oct 01, 2018

When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in Vancouver in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther’s funeral, her husband, Rene, packed up his girlfriend, Lolly; his daughter, Jeannine; and Lolly’s son, Don, in the company car and took off for Disneyland. If not for the doggedness of the doctor who treated Esther, Rene, then a charismatic and handsome CKNW radio personality, would have been free to marry Lolly, who was the station’s pretty twentysomething receptionist. Instead, Rene wa... + Read More
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Series: The Tiger Flu Paperback Larissa Lai 9781551527314 $21.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai -- her first in sixteen years -- a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease, technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When a denizen from Salt Water City suffering from a m... + Read More
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Series: Sketchtasy Paperback Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 9781551527291 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

Lambda Literary Award finalist Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart: it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-'90s. This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions, she negotiates past and present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy ... + Read More
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Series: Synchro Boy Paperback Shannon McFerran 9781551527444 $16.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Nov 01, 2018

Sixteen-year-old Bart Lively desperately wants to feel comfortable in his own skin. Being a jock doesn't mean he isn't the target of gay jokes, and the macho culture of his swim team is wearing him down. When he gives in to his curiosity and tries synchronized swimming, he discovers he has a natural talent -- not to mention a spark with one of the girls. So when Erika Tenaka asks him to swim the mixed duet with her, he commits to taking them all the way to the Olympics.But judges' scores and Erika's sudden decision to quit the duet threaten to ... + Read More
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Series: Chinatown Ghosts The Poems and Photographs of Jim Wong-Chu Paperback Jim Wong-Chu 9781551527482 $21.95 POETRY Aug 31, 2018

Jim Wong-Chu is a legend in the Asian Canadian writing community. As founder of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (and its magazine Ricepaper), he constantly encouraged and inspired writers across the country to get their work published and acknowledged, from Paul Yee and Evelyn Lau to Madeleine Thien and Catherine Hernandez. When Jim passed away in 2017, at the age of sixty-eight, he left not only a void in the Asian Canadian writing and publishing community but also a legacy of his own work that was never fully recognized. When it first a... + Read More
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Series: Gondolier Other Everest, The Navigating the Pathway to Successful Leadership Hardcover David Irvine 9781988440286 $29.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Aug 30, 2018

What David Irvine posits is that Everest is not unattainable. Integrity, sensitivity and discipline are some of the qualities that lead us to the peak.
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Series: Poems for Ingrid Paperback Don Brestler 9781988440347 $11.95 POETRY Sep 30, 2018

These are true love poems from the heart, simple, guileless, sorrowful.
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Series: Gruff A Musical for 2 Goats and a Troll Paperback Mercedes Batiz-Benet 9781988440262 $10.95 PERFORMING ARTS Mar 30, 2018

The grass really is greener on the other side. But a hideous troll has taken up residence under the bridge, and the promised land is forever unattainable - if you're a goat born on the wrong side of the craggy chasm. The troll is soon recruited to join the side of the underclass, but when the revolution is won, the victors become tyrants, and it's up to the troll to find a way to break the cycle of greed. Finally, everybody agrees that the green grass is for everybody to eat -- it's a timely parable about immigration, through the lens of the Th... + Read More
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Series: Rebelion en la granja 2017 Hardcover Ashis Gupta 9781988440255 $10.95 FICTION Feb 28, 2018

Broadly adapted from George Orwell's classic Animal Farm, this book narrates the transformation of fairly happy, functional farm, taken over by a bunch of farm animals led by some pigs, who succeed in driving away the 'human' masters who once ran the place. The rebellion, generally successful at the start, degenerated into a system dominated by the pigs, led by a pig named Napoleon and some of his loyal pig supporters who usurped all power even as they propagated their hatred of the "humans'.Rebelion en la granja 2017 is a Spanish-language edit... + Read More
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Series: Be With Letters to a Caregiver Paperback Mike Barnes 9781771962438 $17.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Sep 18, 2018

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD AS SEEN ON GLOBAL NEWS TV'S THE MORNING SHOW A CBC CANADIAN BOOK TO READ FOR MENTAL HEALTH WEEK Drawing on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer’s, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four dispatches to an anonymous long-term caregiver. In brief passages that cast fresh light on what it means to live with dementia, Barnes shares trials, insights, solace—and, ultimately, inspiration. Meant to be a companion in waiting rooms, on bus routes, or while a... + Read More
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Series: Man with a Seagull on His Head Paperback Harriet Paige 9781771962391 $19.95 FICTION Oct 09, 2018

Linked by an unlikely accident, four strangers characters grapple with loneliness, memory, and the mysteries of art. Ray Eccles is a man who dislikes unpredictability and the messiness of social interaction, to such extent that his co-workers’ habit of gathering around the Xerox machine it’s his job to run makes even that regular task unbearable. When a misunderstanding leads to unexpected time off from work, Ray takes a day trip to nearby East Beach on what happens to be his fortieth birthday. As he gazes at the sea, a distant woman turns to f... + Read More
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Series: Dear Evelyn Paperback Kathy Page 9781771962094 $19.95 FICTION Sep 04, 2018

WINNER OF THE 2018 ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE • WINNER OF THE 2019 CITY OF VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE • A 2018 KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 • A TORONTO STAR TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOK OF 2018 Inspired by the author’s family history, this forthright love story unflinchingly portrays the trials and tensions of a lifelong marriage. Born between the wars on a working-class street in London, Harry Miles wins a scholarship to an ... + Read More
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Series: Late Breaking Paperback K.D. Miller 9781771962476 $19.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2018

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD NOMINATED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD AS HEARD ON CBC'S THE NEXT CHAPTER WITH SHELAGH ROGERS A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOK OF 2018 A 49TH SHELF EDITOR'S PICK Inspired by the work of Alex Colville, the linked stories in K.D. Miller’s Late Breaking form a suite of portraits that evoke the paintings’ looming atmospheres and uncanny stillness while traveling deeply into... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Bookshops A Reader's History Paperback Jorge Carrión 9781771962650 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 23, 2018

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: Biblioasis International Translation Series Rain And Other Stories Paperback Mia Couto 9781771962667 $18.95 FICTION Feb 19, 2019

A new translation of brilliant stories by Man Booker-finalist and author of Confession of the Lioness.Written in the aftermath of civil war, these early stories are among Mia Couto’s freshest, most original fiction. In tales that mingle playful comedy with surprising plot twists and magical events, fishermen, fortune-tellers, widows, small-town drinkers and even an errant hippopotamus rediscover life's possibilities and the ability to dream. A new translation of brilliant stories by Man Booker-finalist and author of Confession of the Lioness.
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Series: Best Canadian Stories 2018 Hardcover Russell Smith 9781771962513 $29.95 FICTION Oct 23, 2018

Now in its 48th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, 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 Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. Sel... + Read More
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Series: Best Canadian Stories 2018 Paperback Russell Smith 9781771962490 $19.95 FICTION Oct 23, 2018

Now in its 48th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, 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 Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. Sel... + Read More
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Series: Original Prin Paperback Randy Boyagoda 9781771962452 $19.95 FICTION Sep 25, 2018

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Eight months before he became a suicide bomber, Prin went to the zoo with his family. Following a cancer diagnosis, forty-year old Prin vows to become a better man and a better Catholic. He’s going to spend more time with his kids and better time with his wife, care for his recently divorced and aging parents, and also expand his cutting-edge research into the symbolism of the seahorse in Canadian literature. But when his historic college in downtown Toronto fac... + Read More
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Series: reSet Series Finding Again the World Selected Stories Paperback John Metcalf 9781771962520 $24.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2018

Finding Again the World brings together a dozen of the best stories by John Metcalf, a modern master of the form. Spanning more than fifty years and ranging from some of his earliest published stories, such as “Dandelions” and “The Eastmill Reception Centre,” to his latest, with “Ceazer Salad” and “The Museum at the End of the World,” this current gathering shows a writer whose voice, at every stage of his career, is unmistakeable. These are elegant and brilliantly charged fictions, entertaining and moving and mischievous: taking the dross and ... + Read More
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Series: reSet Series Bad Imaginings Paperback Caroline Adderson 9781771961868 $19.95 FICTION Oct 30, 2018

Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award for fiction and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Caroline Adderson's short fiction collection travels far and wide. From adolescent brothers marooned at an indifferent relatives cottage, to a Depression-era Ukrainian immigrant reading the drought-parched skies above Palliser's Triangle, to two friends trying to make sense of feminism in the eighties, Adderson captures her characters' cadences, conflicts, and consolations, their individual burdens and the m... + Read More
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Series: Untold Lives Series Bush Runner The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson Paperback Mark Bourrie 9781771962377 $22.95 HISTORY Apr 02, 2019

NOMINATED FOR THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE AS SEEN ON GLOBAL NEWS-TV'S THE MORNING SHOW Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson is perhaps best described, writes Mark Bourrie, as “an eager hustler with no known scruples.” Kidnapped by Mohawk warriors at the age of fifteen, Radisson assimilated and was adopted by a powerful family, only to esc... + Read More
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Series: Untold Lives Series They Call Me George The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada Paperback Cecil Foster 9781771962612 $22.95 HISTORY Feb 05, 2019

A historical work that chronicles the true stories of black railway porters – the so-called “Pullmen” of the Canadian rail lines.A historical work of non-fiction that chronicles the little-known stories of black railway porters – the so-called “Pullmen” of the Canadian rail lines. The actions and spirit of these men helped define Canada as a nation in surprising ways; effecting race relations, human rights, North American multiculturalism, community building, the shape and structure of unions, and the nature of travel and business across the US... + Read More
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Series: Dying for a Drink How a Prohibition Preacher Got Away with Murder Paperback Patrick Brode 9781771962681 $19.95 HISTORY Nov 06, 2018

AS SEEN ON TV ONTARIO'S THE AGENDA WITH STEVE PAIKIN FINALIST FOR THE 2019 ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK Known to history as “The Fighting Parson,” Reverend J.O.L. Spracklin broke into a notorious Windsor roadhouse one chilly November night in 1920 and shot and killed barkeep Beverly “Babe” Trumble. Easily acquitted by reason of self-defense, he never served a day of time. A provincial liquor license inspector already known for his brash tactics, Spracklin’s audacious tactics solidified across North America the Detroit-Wind... + Read More
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Red Lodge, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback H.R. Wakefield 9781771962551 $8.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2018

Reading a ghost story on Christmas eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. The Red Lodge is a magnificent Queen Anne house, the ideal rental for a young family on a much-needed holiday. But something is wrong at the Red Lodge. What caused the drownings of so many previous occupants? What dark presence lurks in the river? Why has the son grown sullen and afraid?
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Green Room, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback Walter De La Mare 9781771962575 $8.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2018

Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. Behind the run-down bookstore is a private room for favoured customers, a strange little annex with a stranger atmosphere. The young man feels a wistful presence vying got his attention as he browses, and when he leaves, he knows he will return. Something has been asked of him, and he will answer.
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback Frank Cowper 9781771962599 $8.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2018

Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. When he finds an abandoned duck punt on Christmas Eve, a hunter rows out into the marsh and comes across a shipwreck. He climbs aboard to explore—and finds himself trapped when a surge snaps the mooring line and his punt floats away. Sleep eludes him, and soon he discovers that he's not the only one trapped on the derelict ship.
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Madame Victoria Paperback Catherine Leroux 9781771962070 $19.95 FICTION Sep 18, 2018

In 2001, a woman’s skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital’s patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman’s face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived, but how she ate, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and, eventually, forgotten. But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria twelve different historie... + Read More
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Series: Legend of Rhyme Series, The Stir of Shadows Paperback Jaime Lee Mann 9781988279725 $16.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 18, 2018

Marigold has never felt like she truly belonged with her family. And neither has Frederick. When a phoenix feather brings the young teens together for the first time, they finally understand why: they are twins, separated as children.The two soon learn they have other siblings, and that if they successfully reunite with their brother and sister before the feather bursts into flame, they will all fulfill otherworldly destinies. What they don't know is that their mysterious sister is a villainous witch who has been trapped in the cover of a grim... + Read More
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Series: Battledoors Series, The Battledoors The Golden Slate Paperback Brian Wilkinson 9781988279572 $16.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Sep 18, 2018

Life constantly seems to be wavering between really good and really bad for Owen, a lonely sixteen-year-old still reeling from the unexpected death of his mother and a fresh move to Toronto. After ducking into an old bookstore to escape high school bullies, Owen discovers that he can travel to a parallel, twisted version of the city using a magical tablet called a Battledoor. He encounters new allies, bizarre creatures, and the ultimate antagonist who will stop at nothing to procure the magical Golden Slate for himself. Forced to work closely w... + Read More
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Series: Deadish Chronicles, The Paramnesia Paperback Brian Wilkinson 9781988279596 $16.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Sep 18, 2018

Nora Edwards finally has everything she wants out of life, including the boy of her dreams, until one night that dream turns into a nightmare. On their way home from prom, Nora and Andrew are attacked by a supernatural creature called the Revenant that sucks the souls out of the living in order to feed itself. Nora manages to escape from the creature, but Andrew is not as fortunate.Although Nora suffers loss that night, she gains something as well: the ability to see the dead, including her recently deceased boyfriend. Whether the skill is a gi... + Read More
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Series: Beneath the Alders Innocent, The Paperback Lynne Golding 9781988279671 $19.99 FICTION Oct 30, 2018

In the year 1907, all of Brampton is present at the sod-turning ceremony for the Carnegie Library. At the end of the event, the crowd rises as one to walk to the Presbyterian Church for a consecration service... Everyone except Jessie Stephens and her family. Her father will not allow them to enter the Presbyterian Church. No one will tell young Jessie the reason, but she learns that it has something to do with her grandfather Jesse Brady, who built it. As she seeks to solve that mystery over many years, Jessie slowly begins to learn the histor... + Read More
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Series: Primrose Street Paperback Marina L Reed 9781988279695 $19.99 FICTION Oct 30, 2018

Welcome to Primrose Street, where neighbours share close interactions but know very little of each other. Only the maple trees that have lined the road for decades know their decisions, indiscretions, secrets, joys, and pains. From fifty-year residents Charlie and Cora and their grandson Ronald, to newcomer Sofia and her son Nicolas, to best friends Tabitha and Dayna, the residents of Primrose Street go about their daily lives--shopping, attending school, meeting at cafés, smiling as they pass on the sidewalk--all the while remaining invisible ... + Read More
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Series: The Immortal Writers Series Immortal Creators Electronic book text, EPUB Jill Bowers 9781988279565 $7.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Sep 18, 2018

Sixteen-year-old author Scott Beck never wanted to be an Immortal Writer--not after his father was killed on a mission attempting to dispatch his own villain. Scott blames Shakespeare and the Writers for his father's untimely demise, but no amount of hatred will prevent the oncoming alien attack, which has come over to reality straight from Scott's book.Scott is forced to collect his characters--an Air Force colonel, two of the best pilots on Earth, and an alien enthusiast from the year 2134--and defeat the alien king before Earth is obliterate... + Read More
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Series: The Hit the Ground Running Series Flow Like Water Paperback Mark Burley 9781988279480 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Sep 18, 2018

"Run, Eric--go as far as you can as fast as you can. I will find you."Eric Bakker's search isn't over. The conspiracy revealed by his parents' research goes deeper than he could have imagined, into a place and an organisation with as much history--and secrecy--as any in the world. Getting in won't be easy, and he'll need help from his friends more than ever. But when one of them commits a personal sacrifice so Eric can escape from the killers known as the Vidi, the fallout threatens to split the group apart.Tess has been there from the beginnin... + Read More
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Series: The Nefertari Hughes Mystery Series Medallion of Murder Paperback BR Myers 9781988279633 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Sep 18, 2018

Still struggling with nightmares from the past summer, Terry tries to bury her secret guilt and enjoy her family's first Christmas in Devonshire. But when a murdered man is found with a postcard addressed to her, Terry fears the repercussions from that fateful night in Egypt are becoming a reality.After she receives a coded message from Awad, Terry and her best friend Maude are thrown into the hunt for a lost medallion, an artifact that possesses a great power--and a gruesome destiny. As each clue leads to more disturbing truths (and bodies), T... + Read More
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Series: We All Need To Eat Paperback Alex Leslie 9781771664196 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

Finalist for the 2020 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards, The Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction Finalist for the 2020 Kobzar Book Award Finalist for the 2019 Ethel Wilson Fiction Award We All Need to Eat is a new collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolve around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver, chronicling her attempts to come to grips with herself, her family and her sexuality.Set in different moments falling between Soma's childhood and her late thirties, each story--bold and varying in its ap... + Read More
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Series: Smells Like Stars Paperback D. Nandi Ohdiambo 9781771664233 $20.00 FICTION Oct 08, 2018

Kerstin Ostheim, a journalist, and P. J. Banner, a freelance photographer, have been together six months after meeting on a dating website. They are getting married in two weeks and as the wedding fast approaches, they question their compatibility while investigating mysterious horse killings that are taking place in Ogweyo's Cove, the Pacific tourist haven where they live.In the meantime, Schuld Ostheim, Kerstin's transgender daughter from her first marriage, is preparing for an art exhibit after being hospitalized for a physical assault while... + Read More
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Series: Literature in Translation Series The Faerie Devouring Paperback Catherine Lalonde 9781771664271 $20.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2018

Winner of the 2019 Cole Foundation Prize for TranslationA modern-day fable and mythic bildungsroman, The Faerie Devouring tells the story of a young girl raised by her grandmother (a stalwart matriarch and wicked fairy godmother) following her mother's death during childbirth. The absent mother haunts the story of this girl whose greatest misfortune is to have been born female.In this critically-acclaimed coming-of-age story by Quebecois author Catherine Lalonde, and translated by Oana Avasilichioaei, questions of what it means to be born femal... + Read More
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Series: Refuse CanLit in Ruins Paperback Erin Wunker 9781771664318 $25.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 15, 2018

CanLit--the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry--has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful and thorough discussion and critique. provides a critical and historical context to help readers understand conversations happening about CanLit presently. One of its goals is to foreground th... + Read More
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Series: Holy Wild Paperback Gwen Benaway 9781771664394 $18.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2018

Winner of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award for PoetryFinalist for the 2019 Trillium Book Award for PoetryFinalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards – Transgender Poetry CategoryFinalist for the 2019 Publishing Triangle Awards – Trans and Gender-Variant Literature CategoryLonglisted for the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial AwardIn her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberati... + Read More
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Series: It Begins With The Body Paperback Hana Shafi 9781771664431 $18.00 POETRY Sep 10, 2018

It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Shafi's poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, unemployment, heartbreak, relationships, identity, and faith.Accompanied by Shafi's candid illustrations that share the same delightful mixture of grotesque and humour found in her poems, It Begins With The Body navigates the highs and lows of youth. It is about feeling like an outsider, and reconciling with pain and awkwardness. It's about arguing with your mum about ... + Read More
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Series: Ledi Paperback Kim Trainor 9781771664479 $18.00 POETRY Oct 10, 2018

Ledi, the second book by Vancouver-based poet Kim Trainor, describes the excavation of an Iron Age Pazyryk woman from her ice-bound grave in the steppes of Siberia. Along with the woman's carefully preserved body, with its blue tattoos of leopards and griffins, grave goods were also discovered--rosehips and wild garlic, translucent vessels carved from horn, snow-white felt stockings and coriander seeds for burning at death. The archaeologist who discovered her, Natalya Polosmak, called her 'Ledi'--'the Lady'--and it was speculated that she may ... + Read More
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Series: Branches Paperback Mark Truscott 9781771664516 $18.00 POETRY Sep 21, 2018

Winner of the 2020 Nelson Ball Prize Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes that the car that appears to be moving between leaves is actually behind them and much larger. The sound of the vacuum cleaner in the next room is noise to be ignored. The phrase that arises in mind belongs to a conversation earlier in the day. Clear thinking demands that these navigations remain unconscious. But what ... + Read More
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Series: The Ritualites Paperback Michael Nardone 9781771664554 $20.00 POETRY Oct 26, 2018

The Ritualites is Michael Nardone's book-length poem on the sonic topography of North America.Composed over ten years at sites all across the continent--from Far Rockaway to the Olympic Peninsula, Great Bear Lake to the Gulf of California--the book documents the poet's listening amid our public exchanges, mediated ambiances, and itinerant intimacies. The Ritualites is a series of linguistic rituals that shift, page to page, through a range of forms and genres--a rhapsodic text for occasional singing and a best-selling thriller, a self-help guid... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Cosmonauts Paperback Ken Hunt 9781771664592 $18.00 POETRY Nov 02, 2018

Fraught with fatal mishaps and disastrous near misses, the missions of the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States defined an era and exemplified the global socio-political conflict of the Cold War. The Lost Cosmonauts by Ken Hunt is an elegy to humanity's fledgling efforts to explore outer space, and to those who lost their lives in pursuit of this goal.This wide-ranging collection of poems looks deep into the largely unexplored cosmos for experiences of the sublime, not only in celestial bodies and mythical figures among the... + Read More
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Series: Modern Indigenous Voices As Long As the Sun Shines Paperback Janet Rogers 9781772310832 $16.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2018

This poetry collection creatively reveals the beautiful and bitter essences of the world from a distinctive Indigenous female voice. Speaking from her unique Mohawk perspective, the poet unapologetically sings words of wisdom and cultural confidence. By using this creative foundation to unite distinctive communities, she expresses raw emotion throughout her journey toward inner peace from a uniquely Indigenous point of view. It is this strong expression that the poet hopes will become a global guide for her communities to follow and interpret w... + Read More
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Series: Modern Indigenous Voices Going Back Home Paperback Marie Hess 9781772310894 $19.95 FICTION May 01, 2019

Written by a Mohawk Institute Residential School survivor, this is a fierce and candid story that reveals the heartbreaking trauma of that tragic time in our history. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools confinements has affected Indigenous communities over several generations and has contributed to many social problems that continue to exist today. By exploring that devastating history, the author finds and celebrates the resilient and hopeful spirit that many residential school survivors, like herself, have ma... + Read More
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Series: Sandscapes Paperback Eric Charlebois 9781772310863 $16.95 POETRY Dec 01, 2019

This debut English-language collection written by a Trillium Award-winning Francophone poet strikes with endless patterns and infinite grains. Through expert wordplay, technically sound poetry, and bold imagery, Charlebois offers a wistful approach to the moments we encounter most often in life. Each poem pulses with creativity as the poet breathes life into each of the thought-provoking pieces of his puzzle. It is this welcome interference with expectations and strong command of language that returns us to the overlooked, constantly changing w... + Read More
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Series: The Year of My Disappearance Paperback Carole David 9781771664158 $18.00 POETRY Feb 15, 2018

Carole David's The Year of My Disappearance is a searing, surreal, darkly comic descent into a woman's psyche: as pitiless an assault on her own torments and pretences as it is on those figures lodged in her memory: lovers, strangers, her own mother, Bosch-like apparitions out of her dreams and imaginings. Through it all, a fierce combat is being waged between immolation and survival, wherein, as she has written, "I gave free range to the lives that dwelt within me." Nothing and no one is spared in this book, and yet it is wonderfully invigorating.