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1.
19 Knives 2nd edition Paperback Mark Jarman 9780887848025 $16.95 FICTION Feb 01, 2008

With characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about people, he puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short-story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in 19 Knives. With one of the stories shortlisted for the U.S.'s prestigious O. Henry Prize and... + Read More
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1953: Chronicle of a Birth Foretold Paperback France Daigle 9780887846045 $18.95 FICTION Oct 01, 1997

France Daigle casts a droll eye on what it means to be born a writer in the middle of the twentieth century. 1953 crackles with wit, intelligence, and insight, and the year in question emerges as a turning point not only for the heroine, but for the entire world.
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1996 Paperback Sara Peters 9781770892712 $19.95 POETRY Mar 22, 2013

Sara Peters’ visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting the raw reality of existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the harrowing and beautiful complexity of life itself. 1996 marks the undeniable arrival of an essential and brave new voice.
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A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno Paperback Matt Rader 9780887842559 $22.95 POETRY Apr 30, 2011

A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno carries within it all the technique, vision, imaginative labour, and razor-sharp precision of Matt Rader’s first two collections, Living Things and Miraculous Hours. But it also ascends to a new and luminous, demanding, particularized realm of the human. Wildflowers and weeds, newspaper archives and illness, hostels and hostiles, parenting and the shadowy history of grandparents, war and Renaissance paintings: Matt Rader’s unassuming, deeply spirited, and expansive poems show us again how conte... + Read More
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A Fine Passage Paperback France Daigle 9780887846816 $18.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2002

In this extraordinary sequel to Just Fine, we follow many of the same characters who dreamt of escape from the insular, predictable cadences of life in Acadia -- from Baltimore to Israel, San Francisco to Denmark, Moncton to Paris -- in exploration of their newly gained freedom. Whereas Just Fine had as its central element water, rivers, deltas, springs, and movement from inner landscapes to the sea and open spaces, A Fine Passage has as its central element air, wind, planes, music, and voices from around the world, underscoring the ideas of l... + Read More
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A Frame of the Book Electronic book text, EPUB Erin Moure 9780887849206 $19.95 POETRY Aug 18, 2011

In this brilliant collection, Governor General`s Award-winning poet Erin Moure tests the boundaries of tenderness, grace, speech, sexual feeling, and a book`s ability to frame or hold the person. With her typical wit and textual play, Moure breaks the codes of language to reveal the carnality and torsional power of words. Her lines and frames uncover shadow meanings, highlight syllables as marks, and expose the abrasion, erasure, gaps, and cries that infuse a wordliness in all acts, all human bearing.
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A Frame of the Book Paperback Erin Moure 9780887846328 $19.95 POETRY Apr 01, 1999

In this brilliant collection, Governor General's Award-winning poet Erin Moure tests the boundaries of tenderness, grace, speech, sexual feeling, and a book's ability to frame or hold the person. With her typical wit and textual play, Moure breaks the codes of language to reveal the carnality and torsional power of words. Her lines and frames uncover shadow meanings, highlight syllables as marks, and expose the abrasion, erasure, gaps, and cries that infuse a wordliness in all acts, all human bearing.
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Pair of Scissors Paperback Sharon Thesen 9780887846472 $16.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2000

Whether riffing on rush-hour traffic, on walking the dog, or on watching TV, Sharon Thesen's incantatory poems capture elusive, overlooked moments, and together form an incisive and witty portrait collage of our daily lives.In spinning acts of violence into fairytales, mundane anxieties into catchy advertising jingles, and pedestrian scenes into surrealistic filmscapes, Thesen reveals to us a pair of scissors -- a double-edged sword where workaday events hold transcendent magic, and artful fantasies are born of inescapable banality. Sharon Thes... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures A Short History of Progress Electronic book text, EPUB Ronald Wright 9780887848438 $16.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 23, 2004

Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water -- the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future? In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our m... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures A Short History of Progress Paperback Ronald Wright 9780887847066 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 23, 2004

Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water -- the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future? In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our m... + Read More
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Ablutions Paperback Patrick deWitt 9781770892149 $18.95 FICTION Apr 21, 2012

Author of the bestseller and award-winning novel The Sisters Brothers.A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly oblivion, pitying them and their loneliness. In hopes of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with them. He also knocks back pills indiscriminately and treats himself to gallons of Jameson`s. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to los... + Read More
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After A Funeral Paperback Diana Athill 9781847086334 $15.99 Oct 04, 2012

This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and holidays, and a life of easy intimacy seemed to beckon. But Didi's sweetness and intelligence soon revealed a darker side - he was a gambler, a drinker and a womanizer, impossible to live with but impossible to ignore. With painful honesty, Athill explores the three years they spent together, a peri... + Read More
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Airstream Land Yacht Electronic book text, EPUB Ken Babstock 9780887849169 $16.95 POETRY Mar 21, 2006

From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly oblivion, pitying them and their loneliness. In hopes of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with them. He also knocks back pills indiscriminately and treats himself to gallons of Jameson's. But a... + Read More
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Airstream Land Yacht Paperback Ken Babstock 9780887847400 $18.95 POETRY Mar 21, 2006

In his brilliant third collection, award-winning and critically-acclaimed poet Ken Babstock finds momentary stays against our gathering darknesses in the irrepressible, acrobatic, free play of the mind. Poems of conscience collide with the problems of consciousness, the concrete and the conceptual find equal footing, and formal beauty mixes with imagistic brinksmanship as the speaker attempts to leave our "homes half-sheathed Tyvek" and "drift into the pain of our neighbours." Like Babstock's earlier work, Airstream Land Yacht testifies to the ... + Read More
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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems Electronic book text, EPUB Alden Nowlan 9780887849176 $16.95 POETRY Jan 26, 1996

From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld. A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly oblivion, pitying them and their loneliness. In hopes of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with them. He also knocks back pills indiscriminately and treats himself to gallons of Jameson's. But ... + Read More
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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems Paperback Alden Nowlan 9780887845734 $19.95 POETRY Jan 26, 1996

Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich legacy of poetry that is accessible yet profound, and that speaks to people's lives with wry observation and keen insight. For Nowlan fans and new readers alike, award-winning poets, editors, and critics Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane help to re-view and recontextualize Nowlan's place in twentieth-century Canadian poetry with Alden Nowlan: Selected Poems. Lane and Crozier's choices reflect the recurring themes that illuminate Nowlan's work. This new ... + Read More
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All Made Up Paperback Janice Galloway 9781847083272 $15.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 05, 2012

In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This is Not About Me evolved through her teenage years. When she started secondary school, Galloway was still sharing a bed with her mother and was more excited by Latin and school orchestra than by boys. But as she struggled with the physical and emotional changes of adolescence, almost everything she thought she knew began to change. Combining visceral descriptions of puberty, sex and school-room politics with the story of a fa... + Read More
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Alligator Electronic book text, EPUB Lisa Moore 9780887848445 $16.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2005

Lisa Moore's Alligator gives dramatic birth to a new kind of fiction: North Atlantic Gothic. The story moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland-- a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Its denizens jostle each other in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, lust, and ambition, juxtaposed with a yearning for purity, depth, and redemption. Meet Madeleine, the driven aging filmmaker whose ... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club Editions Alligator Anansi Book Club edition Paperback Lisa Moore 9780887847554 $19.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2006

Lisa Moore's Alligator gives dramatic birth to a new kind of fiction: North Atlantic Gothic. The story moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland-- a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Its denizens jostle each other in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, lust, and ambition, juxtaposed with a yearning for purity, depth, and redemption. Meet Madeleine, the driven aging filmmaker whose ... + Read More
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Am I Disturbing You /tpf Paperback Anne Hébert 9780887846403 $14.99 FICTION Oct 01, 1999

This is the story of Edouard, Stephane, and the spirited girl they find alone and apparently lost in Paris. When the two men offer the young Quebec girl shelter for the night, their lives are profoundly and irrevocably changed. Stephane falls quickly for Delphine, but Edouard, a man without expectations who hides from the world in a life of mediocrity and whose only desire is to live and die quietly, is slower to accept her. He is disturbed by Delphine's abrupt arrival in his life, her strange accent, her excessive passion. Then, just as he ope... + Read More
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Appropriate Place /tpf Paperback Lise Bissonnette 9780887846809 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2002

Full of the mordant wit and unflinching observations we've come to admire in Bissonette's earlier, award-winning novels and stories, An Appropriate Place is as much a commentary on the triumphs and self-deception of the political generation that refashioned Quebec as it is a dramatic story of one woman looking for her place within a disappointing world. In this final volume of the False Pretenses trilogy, Gabrielle Perron quits her job as minister of cultural affairs in a sovereigntist government and retreats to the suburbs of Montreal, where s... + Read More
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Series: CBC Massey Lectures An Illustrated Short History of Progress Hardcover Ronald Wright 9780887842061 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2006

In these acclaimed CBC Massey Lectures, Ronald Wright argues that the twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems. But our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of human triumph and disaster can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome. In this edition, illuminating illustrations an... + Read More
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Series: CBC Massey Lectures An Illustrated Short History of Progress Paperback Ronald Wright 9780887848063 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 07, 2008

In these acclaimed CBC Massey Lectures, Ronald Wright argues that the twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems. But our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of human triumph and disaster can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome. In this edition, illuminating illustrations an... + Read More
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Ana Historic Paperback Daphne Marlatt 9780887845901 $18.95 FICTION Jan 01, 1997

Ana Historic is the story of Mrs. Richards, a woman of no history, who appears briefly in 1873 in the civic archives of Vancouver. It is also the story of Annie, a contemporary, who becomes obsessed with the possibilities of Mrs. Richards's life. Ana Historic is Daphne Marlatt's first novel, and was originally published by Coach House Press in Canada and The Women's Press in the U.K. The French translation was published by Les editions du remue-menage.
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Anchoress /tpf Paperback Esta Spalding 9780887845918 $16.95 POETRY May 01, 1997

Awake before dawn a year after his lover Helen's death, Peter begins to assemble his memories of her. How to conjure the dead? How to put a lover's body together again? Working through the winter, spring, and into the late summer in a basement laboratory at the Vancouver Aquarium, Peter scrawls into his notebook pieces of her story and of their story together. Slowly, he begins to see the secret tunnels between Helen's death and the death of her parents, between her loyalty to her sister, France, and her passion for right action. A sensual, hau... + Read More
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Andes Paperback Michael Jacobs 9781847081766 $22.99 HISTORY May 05, 2011

Stretching for over 5500 miles, and containing the highest active volcanoes in the world, the largest salt flat, the highest lake, and peaks rivalled in size only by the Himalayas, the Andes impress by statistics alone. But beyond the range's sheer immensity is its concentration of radically contrasting scenery and climates. In this remarkable book, Michael Jacobs journeys from the balmy Caribbean to the inhospitable islands of the Tierra del Fuego, through the relics of ancient civilizations, to retrace the footsteps of previous travellers. Hi... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club Editions Annabel Anansi Book Club edition Paperback Kathleen Winter 9781770893344 $14.95 FICTION Apr 06, 2013

A finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and a #1 national bestseller, Kathleen Winter's spectacular debut novel is now available in a new edition. In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults mak... + Read More
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Annabel Electronic book text, EPUB Kathleen Winter 9780887842764 $16.95 FICTION Jun 26, 2010

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood wit... + Read More
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Annabel Hardcover Kathleen Winter 9780887842368 $32.95 FICTION Jun 26, 2010

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction PrizeIn 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby’s parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood withi... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club Editions Annabel Anansi Book Club edition Paperback Kathleen Winter 9780887842900 $19.95 FICTION Feb 26, 2011

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood wit... + Read More
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Are We Related? The New Granta Book Of The Family Paperback Liz Jobey 9781847081452 $15.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jan 11, 2011

Granta magazine has published some of the best writing about family relationships in the English language. Over the years its writers have dealt with the most difficult, the most important and the most personal relationships of their lives. Granta Books' publication, in 1993, of Blake Morrison's And When Did You Last See Your Father? heralded the huge rise in popularity of the literary memoir, and since then Granta has carried pieces of non-fiction and fiction about the family from writers including Doris Lessing, Jane Anne Phillips, Hanif Kure... + Read More
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Atonement 2nd edition Paperback Gaetan Soucy 9780887847806 $18.95 FICTION Aug 01, 2007

Atonement is Sheila Fischman's translation of Gaetan Soucy's brilliant novel, originally published in French as L'Acquittement. Twenty years after leaving the tiny village of Saint Aldor, Louis Bapaume has come home to make amends. During that one blustery winter solstice day, between the railway station and the church where a funeral mass is underway, he meets old villagers, forgotten neighbours, and characters who are either imagined or real. But there's only one person he seeks: the von Croft twin he taught to read music and to whom he want... + Read More
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Augustino and the Choir of Destruction Paperback Marie-Claire Blais 9780887847523 $21.95 FICTION May 01, 2007

In Augustino and the Choir of Destruction literary legend and three-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the third volume in the prize-winning series (These Festive Nights, Thunder and Light, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction, and Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom) acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction. Augustino and the Choir of Destruction is set on an island in the Gulf of Mexico that is home to the full spectrum of humanity: the rich, the poor, the powerful, the... + Read More
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Aurelien, Clara, Mademoiselle and the English Lieutenant Paperback Anne Hébert 9780887845826 $14.95 FICTION Nov 01, 1996

In this enchanting novel, Anne Hebert creates a shimmering fable that captivates and dazzles with its simple beauty. While growing up, Clara is surrounded by her father Aurelien's unrelenting silence and the sounds of the lonely countryside. Then Mademoiselle, the village teacher, arrives to take her to school and the world seems to open up before her eyes -- only to close in again later. When Clara is fifteen the English lieutenant suddenly appears, having escaped the hell of the London blitz, and Clara's peaceful countryside is never the sam... + Read More
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Awake When All the World Is Asleep Paperback Shree Ghatage 9780887846021 $18.95 FICTION Sep 01, 1997

It is the mid-seventies, and Shaila has returned to Bombay for her father's sixtieth birthday party. In the linked stories that follow, Shree Gatage renders an India that can only be revealed by first leaving, and then returning again -- in the end, for Shaila, for good. In this highly accomplished first collection, Ghatage reveals a true gift for bringing sparkling characters to life: A young woman who was orphaned in adolescence finally comes to recognize and accept what it is to be loved; a mother in search of an acceptable husband for her ... + Read More
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Baby Of Belleville Paperback Anne Marsella 9781846272233 $24.95 FICTION Jul 20, 2010
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Be Sure to Close Your Eyes Hardcover Hugh Hood 9780887841651 $24.95 FICTION Sep 01, 1993

The year is 1908, and Mary-Beth Sleaford is a five-year-old girl living in the countryside just north of Toronto. She etches an angel into a tower. Eventually Mary-Beth and her family move west to Saskatchewan, but one day, as an adult, she returns to the tower ruin and discovers that her angel is almost as bright as the day she carved it with a piece of brick. Hood's heroine, the artist Mary-Beth Sleaford, is a true representative of her age. She embodies the English-Canadian character -- reticent and caught between American exuberance and Br... + Read More
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Beauty and Sadness Electronic book text, EPUB Andre Alexis 9780887842825 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 04, 2010

Embark on an ecstatic journey through literary space with acclaimed author Andre Alexis.
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Beauty and Sadness Paperback Andre Alexis 9780887847509 $24.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 04, 2010

Award-winning novelist and critic Andre Alexis explores worlds with names such as Henry James, Maupassant, and Kawabata, trying, like any traveller, to faithfully convey what he sees and feels in those places while giving a convincing portrait of himself. At the same time, Beauty and Sadness is an autobiography. Alexis's intent is to give a sense of what it is like to live ecstatically through literature -- what it is like to read Tolstoy and feel that The Death of Ivan Ilych, for instance, is connected to the land of his birth, Trinidad, as in... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures Becoming Human Electronic book text, EPUB Jean Vanier 9780887848452 $16.95 RELIGION Nov 01, 1998

Acclaimed as a man "who inspires the world" (Maclean's) and a "nation builder" (Globe and Mail), Jean Vanier has made a difference in the lives of countless people -- including those with disabilities and the many young people who have been moved by his life's work. Becoming Human is a modern classic that continues to resonate among the generations. In a world of competition, where the strong dominate the weak, Vanier calls on each one of us to open ourselves to those we perceive as different or inferior. This, he says, is the key to true pers... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures Becoming Human 2nd edition Paperback Jean Vanier 9780887848094 $19.95 RELIGION Jul 01, 2008

Acclaimed as a man "who inspires the world" (Maclean's) and a "nation builder" (Globe and Mail), Jean Vanier has made a difference in the lives of countless people -- including those with disabilities and the many young people who have been moved by his life's work. Becoming Human is a modern classic that continues to resonate among the generations. In a world of competition, where the strong dominate the weak, Vanier calls on each one of us to open ourselves to those we perceive as different or inferior. This, he says, is the key to true pers... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures Beyond Fate Electronic book text, EPUB Margaret Visser 9780887848469 $16.95 PHILOSOPHY Oct 23, 2002

In spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, people today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught -- in a word, fatalistic. Beyond Fate, Margaret Visser's 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, examines why. This timely and important book investigates what fate means, and where the propensity to believe in it and accept it comes from. Visser takes an ancient metaphor -- ubiquitous, influential, perhaps unavoidable -- where time is "seen" and spo... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures Beyond Fate Paperback Margaret Visser 9780887846793 $19.95 PHILOSOPHY Oct 23, 2002

In spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, people today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught -- in a word, fatalistic. Beyond Fate, Margaret Visser's 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, examines why. This timely and important book investigates what fate means, and where the propensity to believe in it and accept it comes from. Visser takes an ancient metaphor -- ubiquitous, influential, perhaps unavoidable -- where time is "seen" and spo... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures Biology As Ideology Electronic book text, EPUB Richard Lewontin 9780887848476 $14.95 SCIENCE Oct 23, 1996

R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist -- a geneticist who teaches at Harvard -- yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all other endeavours.Lewontin writes in this collection of essays, which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: "Scientists do not begin life as scientists, after all, but as social beings immersed in a family, a state, a productive structure, and they view nature through a lens that has be... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures Biology As Ideology Paperback Richard Lewontin 9780887845185 $16.95 SCIENCE Oct 23, 1996

R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist -- a geneticist who teaches at Harvard -- yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all other endeavours. Lewontin writes in this collection of essays, which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: "Scientists do not begin life as scientists, after all, but as social beings immersed in a family, a state, a productive structure, and they view nature through a lens that has b... + Read More
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Bite: A Vampire Handbook Paperback Kevin Jackson 9781846272127 $16.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 07, 2010

Arm yourself with garlic, stake and crucifix, for the vampires are back in force - at the top of the best-seller lists, on your TV, on the web and lurking in darkened cinemas. But where did they come from?Why have they come back now? And how can you tell if you are one? Beginning with the first sightings of bats and blood-sucking in the Romantic period, Bite follows the undead's progress through the ages, right up to the present. Alongside mini-essays, anecdotes, facts and figures, each section will be punctuated with lists, such as the best pl... + Read More
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Bloom Paperback Michael Lista 9780887849510 $22.95 POETRY Apr 03, 2010

Bloom is the electrifying debut collection from one of our best emerging poets. If a studio technician could "remix" poems by modern and contemporary poets so they retold the story of the Manhattan Project from the viewpoint of Louis Slotin, simultaneously putting Robert Lowell in whispered conversation with Ted Hughes, as vocalized by a Canadian physicist from Winnipeg, over the current state of literary utopian projects, we'd hear something nearly as captivating as Michael Lista's Bloom. As it is, we also get "Lista" swimming ghostlike throug... + Read More
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Body Music Paperback Dennis Lee 9780887846274 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 01, 1998

Body Music reveals the remarkable depth and range of Dennis Lee as a poet and thinker. In eleven ground-breaking essays, Lee explores the experience of body music: the dance of energy from which poems arise. Whether he is discussing rhythm as a form of cosmology, examining children's verse, or probing what it means to worship without belief, his explorations constantly fascinate and entertain. At a time when literary theory can be highly abstract, Body Music is anchored in a writer's working experience. It opens up dramatic new ways to think ... + Read More
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Bone and Bread Paperback Saleema Nawaz 9781770890091 $22.95 FICTION Mar 30, 2013

A heady, powerfully emotional novel that is part family saga, part love story, and part mystery.Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods ? and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Montreal’s Hasidic community of Mile End. Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow towards adulthood,... + Read More
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Born Liars Electronic book text, EPUB Ian Leslie 9781770890282 $16.95 PHILOSOPHY May 21, 2011

Lying is an intrinsic part of our social fabric, but it is also a deeply problematic and misunderstood aspect of what makes us human. Ian Leslie takes us on a fascinating journey that makes us question not only our own relationship to the truth, but also virtually every daily encounter we have. On the way he dissects the history of the lie detector, how parents affect their children’s attitude to lying (and vice versa), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, the philosophical ambiguity of telling the truth, Bill Clinton’s presentational prowess, Wonde... + Read More
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Born Liars Paperback Ian Leslie 9780887843341 $21.95 PHILOSOPHY May 21, 2011

Lying is an intrinsic part of our social fabric, but it is also a deeply problematic and misunderstood aspect of what makes us human. Ian Leslie takes us on a fascinating journey that makes us question not only our own relationship to the truth, but also virtually every daily encounter we have. On the way he dissects the history of the lie detector, how parents affect their children’s attitude to lying (and vice versa), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, the philosophical ambiguity of telling the truth, Bill Clinton’s presentational prowess, Wonde... + Read More
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Bride Flight Paperback Marieke Van Der Pol 9781846271731 $15.99 FICTION Jul 15, 2011

It is 1953, and the last great transcontinental air race from London to Christchurch is about to begin, but even before the KLM plane has left the runway, it has already become famous as the 'bride flight'. Of its sixty emigrating passengers, many are brides-to-be flying out to join their fiancés on the other side of the world. Among them are Ada, Marjorie and Esther, each of them with their own reasons for wanting to leave behind the hardships of post-war life at home, and their own pasts. During the trip they meet Frank, a charismatic bachelo... + Read More
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Butterfly Mind Revolution, Recovery, and One Reporter's Road to Understanding China Electronic book text, EPUB Patrick Brown 9780887848483 $16.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 01, 2008

Fascinating, revelatory, and powerful, Butterfly MindM is a memorable work from a renowned reporter on the front line of history. In this memoir, award-winning journalist Patrick Brown weaves together three stories: the first is Brown's own education as a journalist over the past twenty-five years, and his parallel struggle with alcoholism. The second is the major political events of the past quarter century that Brown witnessed and covered -- including the shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, where the Solidarity movement began; Cambodia, where Brown ... + Read More
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Butterfly Mind /hc Revolution, Recovery, and One Reporter's Road to Understanding China Hardcover Patrick Brown 9780887842146 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 01, 2008

Fascinating, revelatory, and powerful, Butterfly Mind is a memorable work from a renowned reporter on the front line of history. In this memoir, award-winning journalist Patrick Brown weaves together three stories: the first is Brown's own education as a journalist over the past twenty-five years, and his parallel struggle with alcoholism. The second is the major political events of the past quarter century that Brown witnessed and covered -- including the shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, where the Solidarity movement began; Cambodia, where Brown r... + Read More
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Butterfly Mind Paperback Patrick Brown 9780887848308 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 01, 2009

Fascinating, revelatory, and powerful, Butterfly Mind is a memorable work from a renowned reporter on the front line of history. In this memoir, award-winning journalist Patrick Brown weaves together three stories: the first is Brown's own education as a journalist over the past twenty-five years, and his parallel struggle with alcoholism. The second is the major political events of the past quarter century that Brown witnessed and covered -- including the shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, where the Solidarity movement began; Cambodia, where Brown r... + Read More
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Caesarion Paperback Tommy Wieringa 9781846272530 $19.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2011

Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award In the port of Alexandria, a very long time ago, Julius Caesar impregnated and then abandoned Cleopatra. The child of their union - groomed for greatness by his devoted mother but destined for tragedy - was called Caesarion. Little Caesar. History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce. In our time, another boy, Ludwig, is born in Alexandria and again the father flees the scene of the birth. The boy and his mother are soon obliged to move on. She, Marthe, is stormy, impetuous and vain. S... + Read More
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Series: The Munk Debates Can the World Tolerate an Iran with Nuclear Weapons? Paperback Amos Yadlin 9781770892361 $14.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 23, 2013

With tensions between Iran, Israel, and Western powers reaching new highs over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment program, the tenth edition of the Munk Debates investigates how the world should respond to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. For some, the case for a pre-emptive strike on Iran is ironclad. An Iranian bomb would flood the volatile Middle East with nuclear weapons and trap Israel in a state of perilous insecurity — along with much of the world’s oil supply. Others argue that a nuclear Iran could be the very stabilizing force that th... + Read More
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Carnival Hardcover Rawi Hage 9780887842351 $29.95 FICTION Sep 29, 2012

Winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeIn the Carnival city there are two types of taxi drivers -- the spiders and the flies. The spiders patiently sit in their cars and wait for the calls to come. But the flies are wanderers - they roam the streets, looking for the raised hands of passengers among life's perpetual flux. Fly is a wanderer and a knower. Raised in the circus, the son of a golden-haired trapeze artist and a flying carpet pilot from the Ea... + Read More
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Carrying Place /tpf Paperback Esta Spalding 9780887845680 $12.95 POETRY May 09, 1995

Esta Spalding's first poetry collection explores the human body as a meeting ground for genealogy, geography, and history. The poems address the question of how human beings connect themselves to places and form identities within those places. Carrying Place begins with poems involving the family recalled; the second section opens out to include a wider circle of voices; and in the third section the poems chart an emotional geographical migration. This is a remarkable first collection from a young poet whose writing possesses a clean and easy b... + Read More
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Caught Hardcover Lisa Moore 9780887842450 $29.95 FICTION May 24, 2013

Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. "In the creation of David Slaney, Lisa Moore brings us an unforgettable character, embodying the exuberance and energy of misspent youth. Caught is a propulsive and harrowing read."—Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers Internationally acclaimed author Lisa Moore offers us a remarkable new novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-sm... + Read More