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Series: Untold Lives Possess the Air Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome Paperback Taras Grescoe 9781771963237 $22.95 HISTORY Oct 15, 2019

A Globe and Mail Fall 2019 Book to Watch Whoever you are, you are sure to be a severe critic of Fascism, and you must feel the servile shame. But even you are responsible for your inaction. Do not seek to justify yourself with the illusion that there is nothing to be done. That is not true. Every person of courage and honour is quietly working for a free Italy. Even if you do not want to join us, there are still TEN THINGS which you can do. You can, and therefore you must. These unsayable words, printed on leaflets that rained down on Mussolin... + Read More
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Series: Ducks, Newburyport Paperback Lucy Ellmann 9781771963077 $28.95 FICTION Sep 10, 2019

WINNER OF THE 2019 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2019 • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2019 "This book has its face pressed up against the pane of the present; its form mimics the way our minds move now toggling between tabs, between the needs of small children and aging parents, between news of ecological collapse and school shootings while somehow remembering to pay taxes and fold the laundry."—Parul Sehgal, New York Times Baking a multitude of tartes ta... + Read More
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Series: Here I Am! Paperback Pauline Holdstock 9781771963091 $21.95 FICTION Sep 24, 2019

A 49th Shelf Editors’ Pick MyMum said sometimes refugees don’t eat anything for days and days. Sometimes weeks and months so I am really lucky. I think she exaggerates. But I think she is right about the lucky bit. Or maybe not. Sometimes I forget that MyMum is dead. But that is probably better than remembering. When Frankie’s mother dies, he tells his teacher, of course. But he can't seem to get anyone at his school in southern England to listen to him. So the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station, and ask the... + Read More
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Series: Death and the Seaside Paperback Alison Moore 9781771962759 $19.95 FICTION Oct 08, 2019

A Guardian Book of the DayNearing thirty, with an abandoned degree and half-hearted dreams of becoming a writer, Bonnie Falls finally moves out of her parents’ home and into a shabby flat. When her enigmatic landlady takes an interest in her—and one of her unfinished stories—Bonnie’s aspirations are rekindled, and she’s quickly persuaded by the older woman’s suggestion that they go on holiday to a seaside town like the one in the story. A tense exploration of power and vulnerability, obsession and manipulation, Death and the Seaside is ... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Dead Heat Paperback Benedek Totth 9781771963015 $21.95 FICTION Nov 05, 2019

Winner of Hungary’s 2015 Margó Award for Best First Book of ProseIn a nameless Hungarian town, teenagers on a competitive swim team occupy their after-training hours with hard drinking and fast cars, hash cigarettes and marathons of Grand Theft Auto, the meaningless sex and late-night exploits of a world defined by self-gratification and all its attendant recklessness. Invisible to their parents and subject to the whims of an abusive coach, the crucible of competition pushes them again and again into dangerous choices. When a deadly accident le... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series If You Hear Me Paperback Pascale Quiviger 9781771962711 $22.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

Sliding doors open and close automatically, exit to the left, entrance to the right. Beyond it, cars go by, and pedestrians and cyclists. A large park behaves as if nothing has happened. The mirage of a world intact. In an instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son Bertrand—but despite their devoted efforts, there’s no crossing the ineffable divide between consciousness and the mysterious world Dav... + Read More
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Apple Tree, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback Daphne du Maurier 9781771963176 $8.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2019

A widower has a secret he’ll admit only to himself: Midge’s death from pneumonia comes as a relief. Yet now that he’s free of her hectoring demeanor, somehow he still feels her presence. Does he feel guilty? Or does that weather-beaten apple tree in the orchard bear an uncanny resemblance to her hunched and beaten posture?About the Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories SeriesHalloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but H.R. Wakefield, Walter de la Mare, and Daphne du Maurier felt otherwise. They were among the many authors who set their s... + Read More
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Old Nurse's Story, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback Elizabeth Gaskell 9781771963152 $8.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2019

After her parents pass away, young Rosamond is raised by her nurse in the ancestral home of her aunt, Miss Furnivall. One day the two uncover an exceptionally beautiful old portrait. A relative, distant or close? And is that the strange sound of a distant organ, or simply the wind?About the Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories SeriesHalloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but H.R. Wakefield, Walter de la Mare, and Daphne du Maurier felt otherwise. They were among the many authors who set their scariest stories during the dark and shiver... + Read More
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Sundial, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback R.H. Malden 9781771963138 $8.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2019

When he returns to England from the Civil Service, a man takes up residence in an old country home. Enchanted by midsummer days in the garden, he decides to install a sundial. As he waits for it to be delivered, the days grow shorter and his dreams grow dark—and when the sundial finally arrives, it isn’t alone.About the Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories SeriesHalloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but H.R. Wakefield, Walter de la Mare, and Daphne du Maurier felt otherwise. They were among the many authors who set their scariest stor... + Read More
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Series: Best Canadian Best Canadian Essays 2019 Paperback Emily Donaldson 9781771963329 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 19, 2019

The eleventh installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. Culled from leading Canadian magazines and journals, Best Canadian Essays 2019 contains award-winning and award-nominated nonfiction articles that are topical and engaging and have their finger on the pulse of our contemporary psyches.
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Series: Best Canadian Best Canadian Poetry 2019 Paperback Rob Taylor 9781771963305 $22.95 POETRY Oct 22, 2019

Guest editor Rob Taylor, author of the widely acclaimed collection The News, brings a passionate ear for rhythm, an eye for narrative compression, an appetite for vital subject matter, and an affinity for warmth and wit to his selections for Best Canadian Poetry 2019. The fifty ruggedly independent poems gathered here tackle themes of emergence, defiance, ferocious anger, gratitude, and survival. They are alive with acoustic energy, precise in their language, and moving in their use of the personal to explore fraught political realities. They e... + Read More
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Series: Best Canadian Best Canadian Stories 2019 Paperback Caroline Adderson 9781771963275 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 19, 2019

Now in its 49th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. Selected by guest edit... + Read More