1.
Series:
Dream Sequence
Paperback
Adam Foulds
9781771962810
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 30, 2019
An American super-fan and an A-list British actor struggle with the consequences of obsession and celebrity.Newly divorced, Kristin chafes against her sister’s concerns about how she’s faring. After all, she’s redecorated her ex-husband out of her home, taken up yoga, and has a new love interest: a man she met by chance in the airport, to whom she felt an instant connection, a fated love she describes to him in letter after letter--but except for the single envelope his agent’s new assistant mistakenly passes along to him, Henry Banks, star of ...
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2.
Series:
Provisionally Yours
Paperback
Antanas Sileika
9781771962858
$21.95
FICTION
Mar 19, 2019
Political corruption forces a former White Army counterintelligence officer to choose between love and the emerging Lithuanian state.After the collapse of Czarist Russia, former White counterintelligence office Justas Adamonis returns to his hometown in a fragment of the shattered Empire, not entirely sure what he’ll find. His parents are dead, he hasn’t seen his sister since she was a teenager, and Kaunas has become the political center of the emerging state of Lithuania. He’s barely off the train when he’s recruited back into service, this ti...
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3.
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...
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4.
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.
5.
Series:
Braille Rainbow
Paperback
Mike Barnes
9781771962216
$19.95
POETRY
Apr 23, 2019
Poems about perception across the sensory spectrum and the arc of learning about the outer world and the inner self.Mike Barnes' Braille Rainbow is about perception across the sensory spectrum and the arc of learning about the world and about oneself. These poems, organized in four sections, engage first with infant appetites, others, and social justice, before turning inward to traverse the perilous heights and depths of the mind, drawing on Barnes' own experience of mental illness and his years of caring for his mother in her dementia. The la...
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6.
Series: reSet Series
Damages
Selected Stories 1982-2012
Paperback
Keath Fraser
9781771962933
$26.95
FICTION
Aug 03, 2021
“If you really want to journey into the heart of darkness, you'd be advised to travel with Vancouver writer Keath Fraser, a man of extraordinary talents.” —Bronwyn Drainie An icon of Canadian short fiction, Keath Fraser has exerted a wide and trenchant influence since the publication of his first collection Taking Cover in 1982. Damages: Selected Stories 1982–2012 gathers the finest of his work across decades. Combining the craftsmanship of the form’s greatest masters with the idiosyncratic voices and music of our contemporary moment, the stori...
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