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Series: Mont Babel Paperback Keith Henderson 9781927599525 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2021

"Where is everybody?" That's the question physicist Enrico Fermi posed to his Manhattan Project colleagues now 70 years ago. They knew what he meant. Decades of reaching out to intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, and no response. Zero. Nothing. A fact which remains true today. Mont Babel sling-shots off the Fermi paradox using the opposing forces of father and son. Jim Benedict's a humanist, a man of the word, his son an engineer who's bored by Shakespeare and likes the NFL. "In the beginning was the word. In the beginning was the Big... + Read More
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Series: The Nerves Centre Paperback Angela Szczepaniak 9781927599532 $19.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2021

The Nerves Centre is a series of poems about performance (and other) anxiety, told through the jittery stop-and-start actions of a stagefright-afflicted Performer who can't speak while on stage. The Performer's linguistically vaudevillian performances are punctuated with sound poems that capture the moments of panic she experiences. Constructed from recordings of actual panic attacks that were poorly transcribed by increasingly confused transcription software, then reshaped into poems for the page, these sound and breath pieces create a palpabl... + Read More
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Series: Tulip and other Plays Paperback Don Druick 9781927599549 $21.95 Mar 15, 2021

These plays clustered about the themes of the fragility of love and the ephemerality of life. TULIP (2006). Commissioned and developed by Nightswimming Theatre. Set in the madness of 17th Century Holland during the spectacular and frighteningly strange Dutch obsession with tulip bulbs, TULIP is a wild play about greed, beauty, deceit and botany. The bubble bursts; within days, many are ruined. Starvation and poverty ensue. Adrift in a sea of menacing shadows, the characters of TULIP must now desperately try to reconstruct their shattered lives ... + Read More
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Series: Ghost Face <p>In his third DC Books title, Ghost Face, Greg Santos explores what it means to have been a Cambod Paperback Greg Santos 9781927599518 $19.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2020

'Greg is clearly a poet of great vision and clarity. His voice is extremely confident and strong, with each poem well-crafted and lean... If you enjoy the work of Sarah Howe or Ocean Vuong, I would recommend this book with no hesitation.' Stuart Buck, author of Become Something Frail
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Series: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus <p>The protagonist of this novel, Stephen, twice exiled, first from his birthplace, Hungary, and the Paperback Zsolt Alapi 9781927599501 $23.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2020

The protagonist of this novel, twice exiled, first from his birthplace, Budapest, Hungary, and then from the United States as a Vietnam draft resistor who settles in Montreal, becomes obsessed with a poem by W.H. Auden and a painting by the Dutch master, Pieter Bruegel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, an allegory about the nature of suffering that leads to his attempted suicide, the subsequent chaos of his life, and to his ultimate redemption. Set primarily in Montreal, the novel also travels to the places of the protagonist's past: the Eu... + Read More
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Series: Kate Wake 1st edition Paperback Mariianne Mays Wiebe 9781927599464 $21.95 FICTION May 19, 2012

An intriguing story of a woman and artist in the grip of a major personal crisis and whose life becomes intertwined with that of her extraordinary, great grandmother, also called Kate. Written with great delicacy and acute understanding of the complexities of mind and heart, and enriched by the importance of film and painting in the heroine's life, Kate Wake offers an original, multi-genre narrative of woman in search of historical and contemporary truths. A novel as contemporary as the present moment, it is also a book deepened by connections ... + Read More
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Series: Nearly Terminal 1st edition Paperback Helen Zisimatos 9781927599495 $19.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2019

Nearly Terminal resonates with a sense of foreboding at what may be seen as the social collapse of the individual self in a society that is being 'whitened out.' Incorporating and intertwining aspects of the personal love relationship with a sense of a self under scrutiny, by itself and an imagined Other, the focus becomes one of loss, solitude, and the existential sense of being in a vast universe that is defined by traces of life increasingly lived as forms of abstraction within a virtual, disembodied reality. With a younger audience in mind,... + Read More
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Series: Sasquatch and the Green Sash 1st edition Paperback Keith Henderson 9781927599402 $29.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2018

Sasquatch and the Green Sash is at once a translation and adaptation of the medieval English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, from a time when parts of English culture were closer to Old Norse roots. Novelist Keith Henderson has chosen to Canadianize the original and set it among the native Dene of the Northwest Territories' Nahanni National Park, a place with its own suggestive tradition of beheading stories. The rich alliterative language of the original has been retained and modernized. The setting has been edged further north, darker, ... + Read More
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Series: Net Worth Paperback Kenneth Radu 9781927599457 $21.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2018

A woman wins a fabulous lottery; a frustrated middle-age man waits for his wealthy father to die; an unemployed father and widower struggles to earn a living wage; an older man of means has an affair with a much younger woman; a privileged but harassed suburban woman and a homeless man meet in a subway station: each story, built upon familiar motifs, leads into the core of the characters' sense of who they are. The narrative drama arises from what they face and how they live during their present circumstances. For the readers, the stories trans... + Read More
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Series: Excitement Tax 1st edition Paperback John Emil Vincent 9781927599440 $18.95 POETRY Nov 15, 2017

Excitement Tax uses a series of tonally various prose sonnets to trace the deeply uneasy relationship of a grown-up person and his imaginary friend, Walter Weaselbird. The pair crash through thickets of erudition in search of candy. Often they find candy.
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Series: Where I Wanted To Be Paperback Tom Abray 9781927599204 $18.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2017

Dispirited by his performance review, Will Gough sets out to redeem himself by updating his company's quality control procedures, while casting a hopeful eye toward other career opportunities. Despite his best intentions, his work troubles follow him home--to his wife and two sons, where empty yogurt containers are half-sacred, technology a source of childhood wonder, and the business of the world bumps against the quiet walls that protect the rhythms of family life. It's difficult to pull off a portrait of a nice guy in ordinary circumstances,... + Read More
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Series: Acqua Sacra Paperback Keith Henderson 9781927599372 $21.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2016

Everything seems broken in Suzanna Ricci's life. Only 42, her marriage to Len has disintegrated. Her relationship to their teenage boys, Robin and Logan, is in need of repair. Now her mother, 'that martial soul,' wants her to restore the family home in Acqua Sacra, damaged by earthquake. And she doesn't care how many trips from Montreal to their vivid Italian patria of Abruzzo her daughter has to make. At least when Len, a dodgy accountant, encourages her to take a job with a Montreal law firm headed by a man named Robert Bliss, Suzanna feels h... + Read More
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Series: Fairfield the last sad stories of G. Brandon Sisnett Paperback Robert Edison Sandiford 9781927599358 $18.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2015

When G. Brandon Sisnett dies at his computer 'a mild spring day in March,' he leaves behind two unfinished works in his Montreal home. One, a political tract typical of the kind of rant the reclusive writer was famous for, the other an unexpected box of short fiction none of his publishers was aware existed. At first read a seemingly 'random collection of . . . fragments and miscellanea,' it soon becomes clear the stories contain a mystery surrounding the sad death of the Barbadian-born author's four-year-old daughter, his retreat from society,... + Read More
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Series: A Hamburger in a Gallery Paperback Stuart Ross 9781927599334 $19.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2015

Stuart Ross's eighth collection of poems delivers a gallery of emotionally charged poetry experiments along with a series of philosophical meditations on the aesthetically contrived and sometimes downright quirky poetic processes that were followed to generate the poems in this book. A Hamburger in a Gallery is deeply engaged in demonstrating how art happens, especially through a poet's immediate aesthetic engagement with other works of art. Comprised of poems written 'after' the lines and language of other artists' works, 'during' sessions of... + Read More
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Series: Proof Paperback Larissa Andrusyshyn 9781927599303 $17.95 POETRY Nov 15, 2014

Proof explores the worlds of entomology, memory and mathematics. What can be proven with empirical evidence and what demands reason. The poems examine the means of observation from the entomologist to the grief stricken mathematician. From break-ups to Dung Beetles, these poems move from microscope to recollection and from the abstract math proof to the visceral sting of the wasp's barbed quill.
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Series: Butterfly in Amber Paperback Kenneth Radu 9781927599242 $21.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2014

Delia, an independent-minded Montreal woman of sixty and sexually experienced, leaves her married lover to go on a cruise along the Volga and enters into a forbidden but lustful and satisfying liaison with Kostya, a young member of the ship's crew. Kostya, looking out for the best opportunity to leave his country, is in it for more than erotic pleasures, something Delia understands and acts accordingly. Inappropriate dalliance, however, on board and ports of call in a Russia at war with Chechnya is not the sole narrative engine of this acutely... + Read More
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Series: And Sometimes They Fly Paperback Robert Edison Sandiford 9781897190944 $19.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2013

The disasters of 9/11 trigger a Cataclysm that is unleashed every so many cycles. It can only be averted by the selfless act of the Elect, a trio of exceptional humans who are guided by Milton, a being known as an Elder. The three, all Barbadians, are David Rayside, Marsha Durant and Franck Hurley. And it is their time: to save the world before the deadliest characters of their legends and myths-the baccou, the steel donkey, la djables, and the heart man-destroy it.... All their lives, the Elect have had their abilities: David, the power of fli... + Read More