1.
Series:
Fanonymous
Hardcover
M. C. Joudrey
9780991761050
$28.95
FICTION
Apr 16, 2019
Earth and sky are devoid of colour. There are no beginnings or endings.Then the snow melts.Maybe it's the dead cars. It could be the escaped bison roaming the downtown core. Mosquitoes? Sure. Dragonflies? Absolutely.And it's also entirely possible it's the pomegranate tree at the corner of Portage and Main. Or maybe, just maybe, it's the people, like Dickie Reimer. Any way you slice it, something's going on in Winnipeg.That's really true.At some point, every Peg will ask so why'd you move here? Jack hopes the city will be the one place no one w...
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2.
Series:
Mother Goose Letters, The
Paperback
Karen Clavelle
9781988168128
$28.95
FICTION
Mar 19, 2019
The Mother Goose Letters comprises the annotated correspondence between Mother Goose and her cohorts in Britain concerning migration to the Canadian Prairies. The letters reveal both her attempts to wheedle her fellow nursery rhyme characters to settle in the Prairies with her and their mixed responses to her plans. Responding to a cease and desist command from No. 10 Downing St., M. Goose categorically makes her case for the out-migration and re-migration of her stories. She supposes they will continue to live if she gives them leave to change...
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3.
Series: None
In the End They Told Them All to Get Lost
Paperback
Laurence Leduc-Primeau
9781771861748
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2019
We're never quite sure what made Chloé take a flight to an unnamed country in South America. There she lives in self-imposed exile following a suicide attempt. This series of short vignettes provides a glimpse of Chloé's scattered thoughts as she attempts to adjust to life in a new setting and recover from her depressive episode. Amidst the quirky observational humor of her internal monologue, a story of loneliness emerges as she tries (for the most part unsuccessfully) to form meaningful connections with the people she meets?and does her best ...
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4.
Series:
Prague
Paperback
Aleshia Jensen BA
9781771861786
$19.95
FICTION
Jun 01, 2019
Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator’s open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark, spare prose, Prague is an introspective and intimate account of the making of a novel from life.
5.
Series: None
Daughters' Story
Paperback
Murielle Cyr
9781771861823
$24.95
FICTION
Apr 15, 2019
It's October 1970 in Montreal, Quebec. Nadine is a trade unionist with the garment-workers union. Twenty years earlier in 1950, at the age of 15, she was banished to a home for unwed mothers. Her baby daughter, whose father is shrouded in secrecy, was given away for adoption without her permission. This prompts her to cut all ties with her mixed Irish and French-Canadian Catholic family whose past is cluttered with secrets, betrayals, incest and violence. She vows one day she will reunite with her daughter. Following the FLQ kidnapping of a Br...
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6.
Series: None
Fog
Paperback
Rana Bose
9781771861847
$24.95
FICTION
Jun 01, 2019
A small plane was blown up in an act of sabotage over Northern Quebec, Canada. The incident was quickly analyzed and termed a mechanical failure. The case was closed in a rush. A young actor from Montreal dies in Afghanistan, killed by a missile from a drone. His death opens up wounds and discussions that are not in the public domain. These two seemingly disparate events form the backbone of a compelling contemporary "ideas thriller," set in Montreal's Main district and in the blue-green mountains of Kandahar. Past values, local history, neighb...
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7.
Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series
Dishwasher, The
Paperback
Stéphane Larue
9781771962698
$22.95
FICTION
Aug 06, 2019
Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential meets Dostoyevsky The Gambler—with metalhead appeal.It’s winter in Montreal, 2002, when a graphic design student’s gambling addiction starts to drag him under. In debt to the metal band that’s commissioned him to draw their album cover and ensnared in lies to his friends and his cousin, he takes the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at La Trattoria, a high-end restaurant, where he finds himself thrust, on his first night, into roiling world of characters. A magnificent, hyperrealist debut, wi...
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8.
Series:
My Camino
Paperback
Patrick Warner
9781771962872
$21.95
FICTION
Jul 09, 2019
Three plucky misfits cycle the Camino de Santiago—backwards.Reeling from the Night of Nights, an unexpected blockbuster art show, Floss, a transgender New York gallery owner, invites subversive installation artist Budsy and their best friend the Apostle John to cycle the Camino de Santiago. When Floss tells her friends about her shocking experience at the hands of the King of the New York art scene, the journey becomes an anti-pilgrimage—from spiritual discovery to revenge fantasy. Moving from New York to Spain to Dublin, My Camino is a book a...
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9.
Series:
This Wicked Tongue
Paperback
Elise Levine
9781771962797
$19.95
FICTION
May 28, 2019
A vivid, assured collection rooted in psychological realism. In the dark and eerie style of Joy Williams or Karen Russell, this character-driven collection from Elise Levine is tough and tender, filled with complicated people longing for independence from the scripts of the past. From a sniping road-tripping couple in the desert to a cantankerous divinity-school candidate on the prairies to a frustrated cop in a cave in the south of France, This Wicked Tongue showcases the gritty and the sublime.
10.
Series:
Nosy White Woman
Paperback
Martha Wilson
9781771962896
$19.95
FICTION
Aug 20, 2019
This powerful debut collection chronicles the intersections of politics and daily lives. A woman tries to explain to her mother why calling the police isn't always a good idea. A caretaking group of sisters must rely on each other, but one has a fierce drinking problem. A mother confronts the frightening environmental damage of the world in which her child must grow old. In these sixteen stories, Martha Wilson provides a powerful look at the intersection of politics and daily life in our contemporary world, showing us the banal and gritty ...
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11.
Series: ReSet
Story of My Face, The
Paperback
Kathy Page
9781771962957
$21.95
FICTION
Aug 06, 2019
Natalie Baron is a neglected teenager adrift in the world when she attaches herself to Barbara Hern and her family, followers of Envallism, an extreme Protestant sect. Their new relationship fulfills unmet needs for both women—and leads to a devastating series of events that forever changes the course of their lives. Years later, Natalie, now a well-respected academic, travels to Finland in an attempt to understand the origins of Envallism as well as her own past. The Story of My Face is both a gripping psychological thriller and the archaeolog...
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12.
Series:
Coconut Dreams
Paperback
Derek Mascarenhas
9781771664813
$20.00
FICTION
Apr 15, 2019
Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950's, the collection shifts to the unique perspectives of two adolescents, Aiden and Ally Pinto. Both first generation Canadians, these siblings tackle their adventures in a predominantly white suburb with innocence, intelligence and a timid foot in two distinct cultures.Derek Mascarenhas takes a fresh look at the world of the new immigrant and the South Asian experience in Canada. In these stories...
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13.
Series: Mama's Boy Trilogy
Mama's Boy Behind Bars
Paperback
David Goudreault
9781771664851
$20.00
FICTION
Jun 18, 2019
Now I've killed another person. I'm a serial killer. Sure, two people is hardly serial, but it's a good start. I'm still young. Who knows where opportunities might lead me? Opportunity makes the thief, or the murderer, or even the pastry chef. It's well documented.Mama's Boy Behind Bars is the second book in David Goudreault's wildly successful and darkly funny Mama's Boy trilogy. Once again written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy Behind Bars, picks up where the first book in the series left off.Mama's Boy finds himse...
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14.
Series:
Worst Case, We Get Married
Paperback
Sophie Bienvenu
9781771664899
$20.00
FICTION
May 08, 2019
Aïcha lives with her mother in Montreal's Centre-Sud neighbourhood. She's only thirteen but claims to be older. She has never known her father, and resents her mother for leaving Hakim, her stepfather. Her only friends are Mel and Jo, two local prostitutes, and Baz, a musician in his twenties, who comes to her rescue one day and with whom she proceeds to fall in love. Her impossible love for Baz, her precociousness and her rebellious streak come together into an explosive cocktail. Raw and heartrending, Worst Case, We Get Married is the stateme...
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15.
Series:
Les Chroniques du Canal Lachine: La Loi de Murphy
Paperback
Frédéric Latreille
9781772310955
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 15, 2019
La Loi de Murphy, le deuxième épisode des Chroniques du Canal Lachine, suit Tom Murphy essayant de faire face aux évènements tragiques du précédent roman ainsi qu'à sa nouvelle renommée en tant qu'écrivain. Ce dernier tente de se débarrasser de ses tendances autodestructrices et est invité à faire un témoignage lors d'un de ses meatings chez les A.A. La trame du roman tourne autour de Tom racontant sa vie en détail : de ses débuts à Ville LaSalle, jusqu'à son amitié avec Eamon, son temps dans l'armée ainsi que sa vie sexuelle débridée; perdan...
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16.
Series:
Even Weirder Than Before
Paperback
Susie Taylor
9781550817713
$22.95
FICTION
May 30, 2019
***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***IPPY AWARDS BRONZE MEDAL, LGBT+ FICTION CATEGORY*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE MIRAMICHI READER'S 'THE VERY BEST!' FIRST BOOK AWARD*** ***AMERICAN BOOK FEST, LGBTQ FICTION AWARD WINNER*** Daisy’s job is to be as unobtrusive as possible. But when her father suddenly leaves and her mother breaks down, Daisy’s old life disappears, and she is set free in the rift created between her parents. Susie Taylor’s sharp, quick-witted prose carries Daisy through a family cataclysm, relationships with boys, and her increasing...
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17.
Series:
Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious
Paperback
Tracey Waddleton
9781550817805
$19.95
FICTION
Jul 08, 2019
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE MIRAMICHI READER'S 'THE VERY BEST!' SHORT FICTION AWARD*** ***2020 RELIT AWARDS: SHORT FICTION WINNER*** With birth, death, contemplation, and close calls, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious explores how we respond to the weight of social expectations. From the hidden pressures of wall paint and tarot card predictions, to the burden of phone numbers and the dismembering of saints, Waddleton takes us on a surrealist road trip through the missteps of her vivid characters with honesty and compassion. These ar...
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18.
Series:
Days by Moonlight
Paperback
Andre Alexis
9781552453797
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 19, 2019
Gulliver’s Travels meets The Underground Railroad: a road trip through the countryside – and the psyche – by the author of Fifteen Dogs. Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip by his parents’ friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. Alfred and the Professor encounter towns where Black residents speak only in sign language and towns that hold Indigenous Parades; it is a land of house ...
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19.
Series:
Permission
Paperback
Saskia Vogel
9781552453803
$20.95
FICTION
Apr 10, 2019
A grieving young woman learns something new about love from a dominatrix in this haunting and erotic debut. Echo is a failing actress who prefers to lose herself in the lives of others rather than examine her own. When her father disappears in a seaside misstep, she and her mother are left grief-stricken, unsure of how to piece back together their family that, it turns out, had never been whole. But then Orly -- a dominatrix -- moves in across the street. And through her, Echo begins to find the pieces that will allow her to carry on. Set among...
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20.
Series:
The Laws of the Skies
Paperback
Gregoire Courtois
9781552453872
$19.95
FICTION
May 07, 2019
Winnie-the-Pooh meets The Blair Witch Project in this very grown-up tale of a camping trip gone horribly awry. Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive. The Laws of the Skies tells the harrowing story of those days in the woods, of illness and accidents, and a murderous child. Part fairy tale, part horror film, this macabre fable takes us through the minds of all the members of this doomed party, murderers and murdered alike. “Excellent...crystalline." —New York ...
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21.
Series:
Mahoney’s Camaro
A Crime Novel
Paperback
Michael Clark
9781770414037
$18.95
FICTION
May 28, 2019
Racing to find a killer before he strikes again, an unlikely investigator is haunted by an even more unlikely source in this gripping crime novel “Clark writes well and has created some amusingly zany characters.” — Publishers Weekly on Clean Sweep It’s the summer of 1985 and mechanic Steve Mahoney is dreaming big about owning his own shop. He’s getting there as slowly as possible, working one night shift at a time for a local towing company. One night, called to retrieve a car from the murky Red River, Mahoney finds the replacement bod...
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22.
Series: The Offshore Novels
Arrow’s Fall
Paperback
Joel Scott
9781770414273
$18.95
FICTION
May 14, 2019
There’s nowhere to hide in the Great Sea Reef in this heart-stopping thriller of a yarn In this follow-up to 2018’s Arrow’s Flight, a tale of an 18th-century sunken ship and a fortune in gold sends Arrow and her crew on a venture that seems harmless enough. That is, until it attracts the attention of the flamboyant owner of the Golden Dragon, a 240-foot sailing machine crewed by cashiered ex-marine Lord Barclay Summers and his band of mercenaries. When Arrow and her crew are viciously attacked, they seek shelter in the treacherous Great S...
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23.
Series:
Fatboy Fall Down
A Novel
Paperback
Rabindranath Maharaj
9781770414525
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 09, 2019
Winner of the 2019 Foreword Indies Silver Medal for Literary Fiction “Heavy yet rewarding, Maharaj's novel is a reminder that resilience takes many forms — and that most exceed our naming.” — Kirkus Reviews A heartrending novel about one man’s search for meaning in a difficult life A child ridiculed for his weight, a son overshadowed by a favored brother, a husband who falls short of his wife’s ambitions, an old man with a broken heart… As Orbits’s life passes, he doggedly pursues a simple dream — a little place in the country where a...
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24.
Series:
Bad Ideas
A Novel
Paperback
Missy Marston
9781770414617
$18.95
FICTION
Apr 23, 2019
Wildly funny and wonderfully moving, Bad Ideas is about just that — a string of bad ideas — and the absurdity of love Trudy works nights in a linen factory, avoiding romance and sharing the care of her four-year-old niece with Trudy’s mother, Claire. Claire still pines for Trudy’s father, a St. Lawrence Seaway construction worker who left her twenty years ago. Claire believes in true love. Trudy does not. She’s keeping herself to herself. But when Jules Tremblay, aspiring daredevil, walks into the Jubilee restaurant, Trudy’s a goner. L...
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25.
Series:
Elizabeth of Bohemia
A Novel about Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen
Paperback
David Elias
9781770414631
$19.95
FICTION
Jun 04, 2019
A sweeping, cinematic novel about the life of the Winter Queen, Elizabeth Stuart October 1612. King James I is looking to expand England’s influence in Europe, especially among the Protestants. He invites Prince Frederic of the Palatinate to London and offers him his sixteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth’s hand in marriage. The fierce and intelligent Elizabeth moves to Heidelberg Castle, Frederic’s ancestral home, where she is favored with whatever she desires, and the couple begins their family. Amid much turmoil, the Hapsburg emperor is w...
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26.
Series:
The Student
Paperback
Cary Fagan
9781988298443
$21.95
FICTION
May 04, 2019
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary AwardThe Student is a portrait of a life in two snapshots. It's 1957 and Miriam Moscowitz is starting her final year of university with unwavering ambition. She is a serious and passionate student of literature who studies hard, dates a young Jewish man with a good job, and is the apple of her father's eye and the worry of her mother's. But then, in a single moment, her dreams crumble around her. Unsure of how to break a path for herself, she begins a reckless affair with an American student obsesse...
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27.
Series:
The Forbidden Purple City
Paperback
Philip Huynh
9781773100784
$22.95
FICTION
Mar 12, 2019
Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond. A son discovers the truth about his father's business ventures and his dreams of success. A young bride, isolated on a remote island with her new husband, finds community in a group of abalone divers.Taking the title for his debut collection of short fiction from the walled palace of Vietnam's Nguyen dynasty, Philip Huynh dives headfirst into the Vie...
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28.
Series:
Crow
Paperback
Amy Spurway
9781773100234
$22.95
FICTION
Apr 02, 2019
Winner, IPPY Award for Best First Book - Fiction and Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for FictionRunner-up, Leacock Medal for HumourShortlisted, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award and Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary FictionLong-Shortlisted, 2020 Relit Award (Novel Category)When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three highly unpredictable — and inoperable — brain tumours, she abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother Effie's scruffy trailer in rural Cape Breton. Back home, she's known as Crow, and everybo...
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29.
Series:
The Rest is Silence
Paperback
Paperback
Scott Fotheringham
9781773101217
$22.95
FICTION
Feb 26, 2019
Winner, H.R. (Bill) Percy Novel PrizeFinalist, Amazon.ca First Novel AwardFinalist, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book AwardFinalist, Ottawa Book AwardIn the backwoods of Nova Scotia, a man has decided to withdraw from the world and live off the land. Meanwhile, news reports begin to trickle in of a global catastrophe. Someone has released a genetically modified strain of bacteria that devours plastic. The world will never again be the same.In this masterfully atmospheric novel, both apocalyptic in scope and intimate in setting, Scott Fotheringham crac...
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30.
Series: Thrillers
Quill of the Dove
Paperback
Ian Thomas Shaw
9781771833783
$24.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2019
French journalist Marc Taragon is at the apex of his career in 2007. A tenacious idealist, Taragon has spent the last thirty years attempting to bring to readers the truths about the wars and political intrigues of the region. He is unsparing in his criticism of extremists and has earned many enemies. He agrees to be interviewed in Cyprus, by a young Canadian journalist, Marie Boivin, not knowing that Marie has a hidden agenda: to discover through Taragon the truth about her childhood. Before Marie finds the answers she seeks, she is enmeshed i...
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31.
Series: Essential Prose Series
The Afrikaner
Paperback
Arianna Dagnino
9781771833578
$20.00
FICTION
Apr 01, 2019
Zoe Du Plessis's story unfolds against the backdrop of 1996 South Africa, caught in the turmoil of the transition from the Apartheid regime to the first democratically elected black government. A paleoanthropologist at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, her world collapses when her lover and colleague, Dario Oldani, is killed during a fatal carjacking. Clinging to her late companion's memory, Zoe sets off to the merciless Kalahari Desert to continue his fieldwork. It's the beginning of an inner journey during which Zoe comes to terms wit...
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32.
Series: Essential Prose Series
Falconi's Tractor
Paperback
Dave LeBlanc
9781771833356
$25.00
FICTION
May 01, 2019
Like his three siblings, 32-year-old Alfredo Freddy Flowers Falconi has led two lives: the idyllic one before The Incident -- his mother's 1984 death -- and the complicated one afterward. He was just eight-years-old when his father abandoned the family, and nine when his oldest brother, Small Carm, covered up the circumstances of Rosa Falconi's demise to keep the family's honour intact. Twenty-three years later, that lie has become a black hole: hidden at the centre of all of their lives, it's supremely powerful force that, when uncovered by Fr...
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33.
Series: Essential Prose Series
Bonavere Howl
Paperback
Caitlin Galway
9781771833547
$25.00
FICTION
May 01, 2019
It is 1955, and the three Fayette sisters have lived their whole lives in the enchanting French Quarter of New Orleans. Though neglected by their parents, they share a close bond with one another--from afternoons in their small, shared bedroom, to trying to speak with ghosts beneath the sweeping trees in their garden. When the middle sister Constance disappears, the family believes she has run away, as she has done before; it is only the youngest--thirteen-year-old Bonavere (known as Bonnie)--who suspects there is more to it. Met only with grie...
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34.
Series: Memoir and Biography
Philipovna
Daughter of Sorrow
Paperback
Valentina Gal
9781771833691
$25.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2019
Philipovna: The Daughter of Sorrow is a creative non-fiction based on my mother's surviving the holodomor [the Ukrainian starvation] in the early 1930's. It is the story of an orphan who goes to live with her aunt in a rural village in the Ukrainian countryside. The aunt swears on her dead sister's Bible that Vera Philipovna, the daughter of a cobbler and seamstress from a small village in Chercassy, Ukraine will survive no matter what might befall the family. No one foresees the horrors that they will have to face between the fall of 1930 an...
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35.
Series: Essential Prose Series
Dead Voices
Paperback
F.G. Paci
9781771833189
$25.00
FICTION
May 01, 2019
Dead Voices is a collection of stories that are both seriously realistic and comically whimsical. They have everything from superheroes who get sick on words, to the appearance of dead playwrights, to the visit of saints and sinners from the past, to a hot stove discussion on hockey and love. They?re about the modern mind-set and its technological marvels and the older attention to character and virtue.
36.
Series: World Prose
A Day in June
Paperback
Marisa Labozzetta
9781771833820
$20.00
FICTION
May 01, 2019
When thirty-two-year-old Eric Boulanger returns to his Vermont hometown to care for his mother, he attempts to revive the town's failing economy by drumming up a contest that will offer a free wedding. The winner is Bostonian Ryan Toscano whose fiancé has left to become a Jesuit, but whose beloved, outspoken, Jewish grandmother insists she find a substitute in time for the gala affair. Eric's well-intentioned brainstorm sets three millennials on an –at times hilarious at times painful– odyssey of self-discovery, one, full of surprises amid dece...
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37.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
The Envy of Paradise
Paperback
Jocelyn Cullity
9781771335898
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 15, 2019
Finalist for the 2020 International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction.In 1858, the British took over the city of Lucknow, paving the way for Queen Victoria's reign over India. But what happened to Begam Hazrat Mahal, the woman of African-Indian descent who had valiantly organized a final key resistance to British rule, and to her ex-husband, Wajid 'Ali Shah, the last King in India, who remained imprisoned by the British? The Envy of Paradise tells their stories.Jocelyn Cullity's English family lived in India for five generations. A sequel to...
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38.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
The Allspice Bath
Paperback
Sonia Saikaley
9781771336178
$22.95
FICTION
May 15, 2019
Winner of the 2020 International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction; Winner of the 2020 Ippy Gold Medal for Multicultural Fiction.It is 1970. The evergreens are thick with snow despite it being the month of April. In an Ottawa hospital, another daughter is born to the Azar family. The parents are from Kfarmichki, a village in Lebanon but their daughters were born in Canada. Four daughters, to be precise. No sons. Youssef is the domineering father. Samira is the quiescent mother. Rima, Katrina and Mona are the traditional daughters. Then there...
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39.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Fishing for Birds
Paperback
Linda Quennec
9781771336130
$22.95
FICTION
May 24, 2019
Winner of the 2019 American Book Fest Best Book Award for Women's Fiction; Finalist for Literary FictionKate, a somewhat clumsy widow of thirty-two, flees her stifling hometown on Vancouver Island to live alone on an even smaller island in the Salish Sea. In so doing, she has vague expectations of solace and sanctuary, despite past experience. Instead she meets Ivy, a woman who through their conversations transports her to the intoxicating world of 1926 Cuba. Within the context of their friendship, Ivy's past begins to unravel from a long-held ...
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40.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Spinster Kang
Paperback
Zoë S. Roy
9781771336055
$22.95
FICTION
May 24, 2019
Thirty-two-year-old Kang is a new immigrant in Toronto. Having an older sister who was raped and suffers from the ensuing stigma in China, Kang is determined to remain a spinster, which has its own stigma in China, and she struggles with her fear and distrust of men. But Kang's story is not a hard luck story. She is an intelligent woman and a successful immigrant. Kang deals with the perplexities of a different culture by maintaining a sense of curiosity, an enjoyment of learning about the new culture, and by finding humour rather than the humi...
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41.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
A Palace in Paradise
Paperback
Mehri Yalfani
9781771336215
$22.95
FICTION
May 24, 2019
A Palace in Paradise is a novel about the complex Iranian refugee and immigrant community in Toronto and the way in which one woman's death changes the lives of many others. The people in this community are connected by family ties, cultural ties, romance, and the fact that, as immigrants, they not only share a culture, but they also share a past of political violence. Several were at one time imprisoned in Evin, a notorious jail in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Some were unable to withstand the daily torture and constant physical pain they wer...
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42.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Road Warrior
Paperback
Vivian Meyer
9781771336093
$22.95
FICTION
May 15, 2019
Abby Faria returns from an extended vacation/work holiday in BC to discover that her friend, Maria is having marital problems, problems that are affecting her children as well. As Abby resumes her job as a bike courier, it becomes clear that Maria's troubles are bigger than she first presented and they are soon compounded with the disappearance of her son. She turns to Abby for help. As usual, as Abby tries to piece together the clues, and to help keep Maria's fish shop running, she makes new friends who help out. Alex, the woman who took over ...
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43.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Where I Fall, Where She Rises
Paperback
Dean Serravalle
9781771336253
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 10, 2019
Where I Fall, Where She Rises is a novel that follows two women on opposite ends of a terrorist kidnapping. While one woman suffers and falls at the hands of her captors, the other exploits the fame of such a publicized event to secure a future for her unborn child. Lea Ironstone is a Canadian freelance journalist who recalls her time spent in the very dangerous red zone of Baghdad, after the 2003 U.S. invasion. A self-destructive addict, she refuses to relegate herself to the safer green zone, where most mainstream news journalists like Paul S...
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44.
Series:
Investigation Into the Death of Roberto Bolaño
Paperback
Stan Rogal
9781554832347
$19.95
FICTION
Jun 01, 2019
This film noir novel begins with the Chilean government wants to celebrate the life and work of the supposedly deceased Roberto Bolaño until they get an anonymous tip that he may still be alive and lurking. Afraid that he'll show up and ruin their celebration -- he never agreed with the politics and frowned on the literature being lauded in Chile, in fact, he found acceptance and fame after he moved to Spain -- they ask the local police authorities to make sure he's actually dead.
45.
Series:
26 Knots
Paperback
Bindu Suresh
9781988784243
$19.95
FICTION
May 01, 2019
A crackling debut novel that starts with a fire and never stops smouldering.Grand in scope, spare in execution, and lush in language, 26 Knots is a fable-like tale of love,obsession, and everything in between.Araceli and Adrien are two journalists who meet while covering a fire. From that moment, she is unable to forget him. Adrien then falls in love with Pénélope, who, in turn, is torn between him and Gabriel. Gabriel reciprocates her love, but is too tormented by his past, and by the search for his lost father, to be much of a husband or fath...
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46.
Series:
Lands and Forests
Paperback
Andrew Forbes
9781988784250
$19.95
FICTION
May 01, 2019
A second collection by award-nominated writer Andrew Forbes that rifles through the domestic and wild moments that make us human. Inundation took three days. Three days to wash away better than a hundred years of enterprise. At the end of those three days there was an enormous lake, and a new waterway. In the new towns the sawdust still hung in the air. It was no biblical deluge, no great, sudden wave, but a slow and deliberate editing of landscape. You could check it in the morning and go away for a while and when you looked again you might no...
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47.
Series: Little Bird Stories
Little Bird Stories, Volume 9
Paperback
Sarah Selecky
9781988784298
$8.00
FICTION
Jul 02, 2019
In a new partnership, Invisible Publishing and Sarah Selecky Writing school have joined forces to produce print editions of the wildly popular Little Bird Stories anthologies. The Little Bird Writing Contest is an international contest for innovative, emerging short fiction writers. The contest opens each spring when the birds come back and showcases the excellent stories that come from Sarah Selecky Writing School. Each winning story is chosen by a celebrated author and published in a beautiful anthology. The winners Little Bird Stories, Volu...
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48.
Series:
Notes Towards Recovery
Paperback
Louise Ells
9781988989082
$20.00
FICTION
Mar 25, 2019
Notes Towards Recovery, is a short story collection that explores loss and the spaces around loss. At the centre of these stories are everyday women who must navigate these spaces and their shifting boundaries, often redefining themselves in the process.
49.
Series:
A Joy To Be Hidden
Paperback
Ariela Freedman
9781773900087
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 16, 2019
Alice Stein, a young graduate student living in a vivid and chaotic late-90s East Village, loses her father and grandmother in a single year. In the process of cleaning out her grandmother's Brooklyn apartment, she begins to unlock a family secret. Accompanied by her precocious downstairs neighbour, a twelve-year-old girl named Persephone, she sets out on a quest to understand her family and herself. In the process, she will discover lost children and buried love affairs, histories she wants to believe and people she can't trust, a village in H...
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50.
Series:
Butterfly
Paperback
John Delacourt
9781773900124
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 16, 2019
Lucien and Nata?a might have slipped toward love, if her past in Sarajevo hadn?t caught up with her. Nata?a finds work modeling for a painter in Toronto, but he is murdered. Nata?a disappears that night, running for her life. Her vanishing is connected to the discovery of a video, secretly filmed in a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war. Butterfly is a novel that charts a controlled descent through the dark legacy of war and the underbelly of the global art scene ? into a world ruled by a desperate hope for impossible redemption.
51.
Series:
Blindshot
Paperback
Denis Coupal
9781773900162
$19.95
FICTION
Mar 16, 2019
When financier Paul Carignan is hit by a stray bullet and killed in Beaufort, Quebec, the town leaders seem reluctant to investigate. Running out of patience, his teenage sons, Jack and Noah, take justice into their own hands and kidnap the locals they suspect are responsible. Things soon erupt and the boys find themselves besieged in their house with their captives. In the middle is their mother, Catherine, not sure which side to take. For Tom Doran, Beaufort's Deputy Chief of Police, the investigation has just gotten very complicated. One thi...
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52.
Series:
Walking the Dog and other stories
Paperback
Irena Karafilly
9781771261883
$20.00
FICTION
May 15, 2019
Walking the dog may be one of life's more mundane activities, but in Irena Karafilly's fictional world, the ordinary only serves to illuminate large universal concerns. Set in various parts of the world, the stories in this compelling collection vividly dissect the intricate relations between characters of all ages as they grapple for answers to life's cruelties and the shifting dynamics of family life. There are stories about childhood, adolescence, old age; about marriage, parenthood, sibling rivalry, and more. It is Karafilly's gift to conte...
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53.
Series:
Paper Lions
Paperback
Sohan S Koonar
9781988449777
$23.95
FICTION
Jul 01, 2019
Told from three distinct points of view, Paper Lions is an epic multi-generational novel about India, set in the years from the advent of the Second World War to the beginning of modern times in the 1960s. War brings opportunities and wealth to some; Independence ushers in great hope for the future; and the nation's Partition brings along horrors, during which fortunes are made and lost, homes destroyed and abandoned, people slaughtered. The years roll on, a new generation arrives. In the locality of Raikot, Punjab, the three main characters--B...
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54.
Series:
Youth of God, The
Paperback
Hassan Ghedi Santur
9781988449739
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 01, 2019
Longlisted for Canada Reads, 2020 Finalist for the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing, 2019 The Youth of God tells the story of Nuur, a sensitive and academically gifted seventeen-year-old boy growing up in Toronto's Somali neighbourhood, as he negotiates perilously between the calling of his faith and his intellectual ambitions. Trying to influence him are a radical Muslim imam and a book-loving, dedicated teacher who shares his background. In its telling, this novel reveals the alienated lives of Somali youth in ...
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55.
Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series
Melting Queen, The
Paperback
Bruce Cinnamon
9781988732503
$20.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2019
Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize--Literary Fiction Category!Shortlisted for Best Speculative Fiction at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Shortlisted for Best Book Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Second Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen--a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who mus...
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56.
Series:
Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning, The
Paperback
Audrey Whitson
9781988732473
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2019
Three years into the second millennium, Majestic, Alberta is a farm town dealing with depressed crop prices, international borders closing to Canadian beef, and a severe drought. Older farmers worry about their way of life changing while young people concoct ways to escape: drugs, partying, moving away. Even the church is on the brink of closing.When local woman Annie Gallagher is struck by lightning while divining water for a well, stories of the town's past, including that of Annie and the grandmother who taught her water witching, slowly pou...
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57.
Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series
Only Pretty Damned
Paperback
Niall Howell
9781988732534
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 15, 2019
Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Literary Fiction Category!Niall Howell's Only Pretty Damned is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep Rowland's World Class Circus afloat for another season. When Toby, former trapeze artist turned disgruntled clown, begins seeing Gloria, a young and beautiful dancer longing for a bigger role under the spotlight, his hardboiled past resurfaces. Can he live without Genevieve, h...
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58.
Series:
Echolocation
Paperback
Karen Hofmann
9781988732565
$19.95
FICTION
May 01, 2019
Winner of Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Third Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada! All Lit Up Book Club SelectionIn this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuous imagery, Hofmann considers a range of human foibles: a newlywed couple who transform into feral beasts during the hardships of a remote research exp...
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59.
Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series
Molly of the Mall
Literary Lass & Purveyor of Fine Footwear
Paperback
Heidi Jacobs
9781988732596
$19.95
FICTION
May 15, 2019
Winner of the 2020 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour!Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor's life is strikingly different from a literary heroine's. Named for one of literature's least romantic protagonists, Moll Flanders, Molly lives in Edmonton, a city she finds irredeemably unromantic, where she writes university term papers instead of novels, and sells shoes in the Largest Mall on Earth. There she seeks the other half of her young life's own matched pair. Delightfully whimsical, Heidi L.M. Jacobs' Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Pu...
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60.
Series:
Dead Flowers
Paperback
Alex Laidlaw
9780889713550
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 27, 2019
An anonymous writer stays up late into the night penning personal and inappropriate letters to a local public official. A new father and cook at a Montreal café chronicles the tyrannical rise of a new manager. An eccentric young student, in trying to carve out a space for herself, deals an existential blow to her roommate. Dead Flowers is a collection of stories featuring characters who have become estranged from the trajectory of their lives, yet must grapple with youth, love, isolation, drugs, friendship and the changing of seasons. These are...
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