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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 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Land Beyond the Sea Paperback Kevin Major 9781550817522 $19.95 FICTION May 10, 2019

**CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER** **NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS FINALIST, HISTORICAL FICTION** **BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD FINALIST** In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank the passenger ferry SS Caribou in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Of the 237 people on board, 136 perished, including 49 civilians. In Land Beyond the Sea, bestselling author Kevin Major reimagines the events of that fateful night from the perspectives of both those aboard the doomed vessel and the German U-boat commander who gave the order. With... + Read More
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Series: Dig Paperback Terry Doyle 9781550817591 $19.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2019

***DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD FINALIST*** ***ALISTAIR MACLEOD PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION FINALIST** ***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD - FICTION FINALIST*** ***NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR BOOK AWARDS FICTION AWARD FINALIST*** ***2020 RELIT AWARDS: LONG SHORTLIST*** In twelve dialed-in and exceptionally honed short stories, Terry Doyle presents an enduring assortment of characters channelled through the chain reactions of misfortune and redemption. A construction worker’s future is bound to a feckless and suspicious workmate. A young wom... + Read More
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Series: Splitsville Paperback Howard Akler 9781552453735 $19.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

A bookseller's love affair, start to finish, against the backdrop of a city in protest. It's 1971. Hal Sachs runs a used bookstore. Business isn't so great, and the store is in a part of Toronto that's about to be paved over with a behemoth expressway. And then Hal meets Lily Klein, an activist schoolteacher who'll do just about anything to stop the highway. It's love at first sight. Until it isn't. And then Hal vanishes. A half-century later, Hal's nephew, Aitch, waits for his baby to be born as he tries to piece together facts and fictions a... + Read More
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Series: Queen Solomon Paperback Tamara Faith Berger 9781552453728 $19.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

The erotic awakening and mental disintegration of an intense young man who leaves home and enters the phantasm of Israel. It's just another boring summer for our teenaged narrator - until Barbra arrives. An Ethiopian Jew, Barbra was brought to Israel at age five, a part of Operation Solomon, and now our narrator's well-intentioned father has brought her, as a teen, to their home for the summer. But Barbra isn't the docile and grateful orphan they expect, and soon our narrator, terrified of her and drawn to her in equal measure, finds himself ... + Read More
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Series: The Supreme Orchestra Paperback David Turgeon 9781552453759 $19.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2018

A motley crew of characters deftly woven into a brilliant mashup of the spy novel and the art-world parody. We know how Simone met the man who will become, for a time, her fourth husband. We know what she does (artist), her friends (a veritable menagerie), her habits (frustrated homebody). What remains to learn are the things she still doesn't fully understand herself, like her role in the affair of the Port Merveille diamond. The Supreme Orchestra is many things at once: a geopolitical thriller, an art-world exposé, a digressive social study... + Read More
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Series: The Embalmer Paperback Anne-Renée Caillé 9781552453780 $17.95 FICTION Nov 06, 2018

A small-town embalmer's daughter lifts the shroud on the fascinating minutiae of dealing with the dead. Imagine rubbing shoulders with the dead for most of your life. As she picks the brain of her father for the most gruesome and thought-provoking secrets of his embalming career - from the drowned boy whose organs were eaten by eels to how to inject just the right amount of colour into a corpse's skin for that blushing look - the narrator must look her parents' deaths, and her relationship with them, straight in the eye. Quietly poetic, The Emb... + Read More
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Series: Nights on Prose Mountain Paperback bp Nichol 9781552453742 $24.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2018

The long-lost fiction of avant-garde hero bpNichol collected into one groundbreaking volume. Nights on Prose Mountain gathers all of beloved writer bpNichol's published fiction. Originally appearing between 1968 and 1983, and representing almost the entire arc of Nichol's writing career, Nights on Prose Mountain is by turns heartbreaking, playful, and evocative. While Nichol's poetry is widely studied, researched and taught, his novels have remained out of print and are overdue for a new edition. Nichol's curiosity and craft, his exploration... + Read More
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Series: Wild Milk Paperback Sabrina Orah Mark 9780997366686 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

A genre-expanding collection of stories that Publishers Weekly calls “perplexingly captivating” and “astonishing.” Wild Milk is like Borscht Belt meets Leonora Carrington; it’s like Donald Barthelme meets Pony Head; it’s like the Brothers Grimm meet Beckett in his swim trunks at the beach. In other words, this remarkable collection of stories is unlike anything else you’ve read.
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Series: The Taiga Syndrome Paperback Cristina Rivera Garza 9780997366679 $22.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

Fairy tale meets detective drama in this David Lynch–like novel by a writer Jonathan Lethem calls “one of Mexico's greatest . . . we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer.” A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down—that she wants to be found. He hires the Ex-Detective, who sets out with a translator into a snowy... + Read More
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Series: Experts are Puzzled Paperback Laura Riding 9781937027865 $18.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

A nearly impossible text to categorize - is it a collection of short stories, prose poems, manifestos or something else entirely? - Experts Are Puzzled is one of Laura Riding's earliest and most intense examinations of poetry's and language's relationship to truth. In essayistic examinations such as the titular piece, "Introduction to a Book on Money," and "An Address to America," Riding seeks to articulate a higher, more poetic notion of truth and truth telling. As such, Experts Are Puzzled stands as an essential text for understanding why... + Read More
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Series: Convalescent Conversations Paperback Laura Riding 9781937027858 $18.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

Originally published under the pseudonym Madeleine Vara in 1936 by Laura Riding's and Robert Graves's Seizen Press, Convalescent Conversations is one of Riding's least known works, and one of her most idiosyncratic. A novel unfolding almost entirely in dialogue form, Convalescent Conversations tells the story of Adam and Eleanor, two patients recovering from unknown maladies in a nondescript sanitarium. Through a series of increasingly esoteric philosophical conversations regarding topics such as God, love, and the meaning of illness, Adam and ... + Read More
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Series: Murder at the St. Alice Paperback Becky Citra 9781550509625 $14.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Oct 01, 2018

Murder, mayhem, mystery: the St. Alice hotel is shaping up to be more than a summer job for Charlotte. It's 1908, and 16-year-old Charlotte O'Dell is forced to move away from her great Aunt Ginny in Victoria, and live and work at the St. Alice Hotel in order to make enough money to finish school. Her unruly red hair instantly makes her a new friend in Lizzie, though her equally fiery temperament doesn't go over quite as well with her boss, Mrs. Bannerman. It does, however, give her the opportunity to get to know the rest of the staff, and the g... + Read More
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Series: No Good Asking A Novel Paperback Fran Kimmel 9781770414389 $19.00 FICTION Oct 02, 2018

A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another. Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric’s childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there’s no denying it, their family is falling apart, each one of them isolated by private sorrows, stresses, and missed signals. With every passing day, Ellie’s hopes are buried deeper in the harsh winter snows. When Eric finds Hannah Finch, the girl across the road, wandering alone in the bitter cold, his rusty police instincts kick in, and he soon discov... + Read More
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Series: Refuge A Novel Paperback Merilyn Simonds 9781770414181 $21.00 FICTION Sep 04, 2018

To whom do we offer refuge — and why? After a life that rubbed up against the century’s great events in New York City, Mexico, and Montreal, 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum is surviving well enough, alone on her island, when a young Burmese woman contacts her, claiming to be kin. Curiosity, loneliness, and a slender filament of hope prompts the old woman to accept a visit. But Nang’s story of torture and flight provokes memories in Cass that peel back, layer by layer, the events that brought her to this moment — and forces her, against he... + Read More
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Series: The Tildon Chronicles No Quarter A Novel Paperback John Jantunen 9781770412057 $19.00 FICTION Nov 06, 2018

In this blistering new novel from visionary author John Jantunen, three young men with a history of violence are on a collision course set against the idyllic backdrop of northern Ontario’s cottage country. Rene Descartes, a recently released ex-con, is living in a ramshackle trailer only a short distance from Hidden Cove, a secluded paradise where the country’s rich and famous relax in opulent gated summer retreats. A savage attack against Rene by the son of the fourth richest man in the country spurns a brutal act of revenge that will ... + Read More
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Series: Moon of the Crusted Snow A Novel Paperback Waubgeshig Rice 9781770414006 $19.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2018

National Bestseller Winner of the 2019 OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Shortlisted for the 2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Shortlisted for the 2019/20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award 2020 Burlington Library Selection; 2020 Hamilton Reads One Book One Community Selection; 2020 Region of Waterloo One Book One Community Selection; 2019 Ontario Library Association Ontario Together We Read Program Selection; 2019 Women’s National Book Association’s Great Group Reads; 2019 Amnesty International Book Cl... + Read More
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Series: A Collins-Burke Mystery Though the Heavens Fall A Collins-Burke Mystery Hardcover Anne Emery 9781770413863 $29.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2018

Winner of the 2019 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel “Emery populates 1995 Belfast so conscientiously and evokes its atmosphere so faithfully …” — Kirkus Reviews As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and “peace walls” segregating one community from another. But the IRA has called a ceasefire. So, it’s as good a time as any for Monty Collins and Father Brennan Burke to visit the city: Monty to do a short gig in a law firm, and Brennan to reconnect with family. And it’s a goo... + Read More
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Series: A Frank Yakabuski Mystery Cape Diamond A Frank Yakabuski Mystery Paperback Ron Corbett 9781770413955 $18.00 FICTION Oct 23, 2018

Cape Diamond, the second book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series, is atmospheric and action-packed. Set near the Northern Divide — as was the first installment, Edgar Award nominee (Best Paperback Original), Ragged Lake — the book opens with Yakabuski called to investigate a gruesome crime scene. A body has been left hanging from a schoolyard fence. On closer inspection, Yak finds a large diamond in the murder victim’s mouth. Two criminal gangs — the Shiners and the Travellers — are fighting with each other, and Yakabuski turns to his... + Read More
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Series: Poughkeepsie Shuffle A Crime Novel Paperback Dietrich Kalteis 9781770414013 $17.95 FICTION Sep 11, 2018

Jeff Nichols — a man strong of conviction but weak of character — is fresh out of the Don Jail, looking for work — any kind of work — and a way back into Ann Ryan’s good graces. She waited for his return from prison but is quickly running short on patience. An ex-inmate and friend gets Jeff a job at Ted Bracey’s used car lot, selling cars for commission only. But it’s not enough to keep him and Ann afloat in mid-80s Toronto, and the lure of easy money soon gets Jeff involved in smuggling guns from upstate New York. With that sweet Poughkeep... + Read More
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Series: The Ambassador of What Stories Paperback Adrian Michael Kelly 9781770414174 $19.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2018

Slogging through the miles of a city marathon, an 11-year-old boy encounters small miracles; about to marry one of her patients in a home for the elderly, a nurse asks her estranged son to come to the wedding and give her away; home from university, a young man has Christmas dinner with his hard-up dad in a bistro behind a rural gas bar. Men and boys and maleness, money and its lack, the long haunt of childhood, marriage and divorce — these lie at the heart of The Ambassador of What. Driven by an ear for how we talk, how we feel, how we fai... + Read More
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Series: The Realms of Ancient Scion of the Fox The Realms of Ancient, Book 1 Paperback S. M. Beiko 9781770414310 $14.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Sep 25, 2018

As the winter ice begins to thaw, the fury of a demon builds — all because one girl couldn’t stay dead … Roan Harken considers herself a typical high school student — dead parents, an infected eyeball, and living in the house of her estranged, currently comatose grandmother (well, maybe not so typical) — but she’s uncovering the depth of the secrets her family left behind. Saved from the grasp of Death itself by a powerful fox spirit named Sil, Roan must harness mysterious ancient power . . . and quickly. A snake-monster called Zabor lies... + Read More
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Series: The Realms of Ancient Children of the Bloodlands The Realms of Ancient, Book 2 Hardcover S.M. Beiko 9781770413580 $22.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Sep 25, 2018

The dazzling second book in S.M. Beiko’s Realms of Ancient series Three months after the battle of Zabor, the five friends that came together to defeat her have been separated. Burdened with the Calamity Stone she acquired in Scion of the Fox, Roan has gone to Scotland to retrace her grandmother’s steps in an attempt to stop further evil from entering the world. Meanwhile, a wicked monster called Seela has risen from the ashy Bloodlands and is wreaking havoc on the world while children in Edinburgh are afflicted by a strange plague; Eli... + Read More
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Series: Twin Studies Paperback Keith Maillard 9781988298313 $24.95 FICTION Sep 11, 2018

An engrossing, timely, and contemporary novel about the bonds between twins, about sexuality and gender fluidity, and about the messy complexities of modern family life ? the much-anticipated new novel in more than a decade by acclaimed writer Keith Maillard. Dr. Erica Bauer ? an identical twin ? studies twins at the university in Vancouver. Through the course of her research, she meets a set of preteen twins who are evidently fraternal, but who insist emphatically that they are identical. Their mother, Karen Oxley, is a West Van single mum wh... + Read More
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Series: All of Us in Our Own Lives Paperback Manjushree Thapa 9781988298344 $21.95 FICTION Sep 11, 2018

A beautiful story of strangers who shape each other's lives in fateful ways, All of Us in Our Own Lives delves deeply into the lives of women and men in Nepal and into the world of international aid. Ava Berriden, a Canadian lawyer, quits her corporate job in Toronto to move to Nepal, from where she was adopted as a baby. There she struggles to adapt to her new career in international aid and forge a connection with the country of her birth. Ava's work brings her into contact with Indira Sharma, who has ambitions of becoming the first Nepal... + Read More
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Series: Hummingbird Paperback Devin Krukoff 9781988298375 $21.95 FICTION Sep 11, 2018

A compelling, haunting novel about a man experiencing gaps in time, and the pain of living inside an anxious mind. Winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award Felix wakes up one day to find he has a girlfriend he doesn't recognize. He finds a novel, with his name on the cover, that he doesn't remember writing. He's been losing time since university. Sometimes these gaps are minutes, sometimes months. But now he begins experiencing flashbacks and moments where he gets a glimpse of an unsettling future. He will do anything necessary to ke... + Read More
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Series: High-Rise in Fort Fierce Paperback Paul Carlucci 9781773100265 $19.95 FICTION Sep 11, 2018

A gritty, Canadian Cormac McCarthy. A rich interplay between the characters and their surroundings, an environment that swarms the characters, sometimes inflicting harm.Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in spades, and most of them fester in the high-rise by the lake.In this visceral, emotionally raw, and completely absorbing collection, Carlucci takes his readers through the ravaged history of Franklin Place, from its construction during the Cold War to its demolition decades later. We meet the ... + Read More
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Series: Death and Life of Strother Purcell Paperback Ian Weir 9781773100296 $22.95 FICTION Sep 04, 2018

The return of the western – with a definite Canadian twist. the man, the myth, the gun-toting legend.The man, the myth, the one-eyed legend: a frontier epic for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy.In 1876, the fabled lawman Strother Purcell disappears into a winter storm in the mountains of British Columbia, while hunting down his outlawed half-brother. Sixteen years later, the wreck of Purcell resurfaces – derelict, homeless and one-eyed – in a San Francisco jail cell. And a failed journalist named Barrington Weaver conceives a grand red... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Fate's Instruments No Safeguards II Paperback H. Nigel Thomas 9781771832601 $25.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

In Fate's Instruments, picking up the story from where Paul's brother Jay left it in No Safeguards, Paul, an aspiring writer, marries Carlos, with whom he lived in Guatemala, and brings him to Montreal. Things go wrong from the beginning, and they break up. Then fate, in the form of a brain tumour, strikes Paul. He receives support from Jay, Lionel (himself a brain tumour survivor), friends, and the enigmatic Professor Bram. But it is Paul's exploration of his Vincentian childhood and new-found love that restores his equilibrium.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Ramya's Treasure Paperback Pratap Reddy 9781771833288 $25.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

Ramya immigrated to Canada from India with her husband about fifteen years ago. She typifies the first generation immigrant - a person who straddles two cultures, two countries, two continents, even perhaps two different worlds altogether.The novel has two intertwined threads of narration simultaneously unspooling. The one set in the present is about Ramya's battle to rebuild her life. The other, a series of sorties into the past, examines Ramya's sundry relationships. One narrative skein is Canadian, modern and multicultural, while the other i... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Shining Fragments Paperback Robin Blackburn McBride 9781771832663 $25.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

A heartbreaking arrival in a new country. Thrust too early into adulthood. Will he survive Canada’s turbulent streets? Toronto, 1882. Joseph Conlon has never felt more alone. Parentless after his mother dies on the voyage from Ireland, the frightened eight-year-old witnesses his sister’s abduction and is abandoned at the train station. But once he’s placed in a Catholic orphanage, Joseph discovers a gift for drawing and friends that begin to fill the hole in his heart. Falling for a mercurial girl acrobat, his desire to win her affection drives... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Eye Paperback Marianne Micros 9781771832571 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

Finalist for the 2019 Governor General's Literary AwardMyth, folklore, and magic permeate the stories in Marianne Micros' collection Eye. Set in ancient and modern Greece, and in contemporary Europe and North America, these tales tell of evil-eye curses, women healers, ghosts, a changeling, and people struggling to retain or gain power in a world of changing beliefs. Here you will find stories of a nymph transformed into a heifer, a young soldier who returns home to discover that his brother is a changeling, an ancient temple uncovered during t... + Read More