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Series: Mysterious Dreams of the Dead Paperback Terry Watada 9781772141504 $20.00 FICTION Dec 10, 2020

At the heart of Mysterious Dreams of the Dead is the spiritual search for a father who died in a plane crash north of Lake Superior when his son was fifteen. Mike Shintani decides in his early thirties to address the curious circumstances surrounding his father's death; the senior Shintani's body was never found, and wolves circled the crash site as if guarding the area. The impetus for Mike's search for truth is a diary he found in the basement of his home. It was obviously his father's, but it was written in Japanese. Mike never knew his fat... + Read More
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Series: Hearts Amok A Memoir in Verse Paperback Kevin Spenst 9781772141498 $18.00 POETRY May 22, 2020

In language that twists together hobo slang and flights of troubadourish diction, Hearts Amok scrutinizes the history of the love sonnet in Surrey, England and simultaneously celebrates the tickings and tollings of one love-struck heart in Surrey, British Columbia. In the words of Chelene Knight: "Kevin Spenst's Hearts Amok will shake you to your core. Everyday questions of love are earned, won, lost and then ultimately answered through the whirlwind of constantly spinning verse." Examining the underpinnings of love, this book journeys from the... + Read More
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Series: Fontainebleau Paperback Madeline Sonik 9781772141481 $20.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2020

The city of Fontainebleau, situated on the banks of the Detroit River, is undergoing growing pains and strange things are happening. There's something poisonous in the water, something menacing in the sky, and the soil, laced with an ancient curse, is yielding up unidentified bones along with corn. In this collection of linked stories (part surreal picaresque, part dark comedy, and part murder mystery) magic meets the mundane as misfits and miscreants struggle to free themselves from untenable situations. A girl with mermaid syndrome d... + Read More
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Series: Pineapple Express Paperback Evelyn Lau 9781772141474 $18.00 POETRY May 22, 2020

Pineapple Express is Evelyn Lau's eighth collection of poetry. The collection is rooted in the mind and its disorders. Depression, anxiety, and obsessive thinking have been explored widely in fiction and non-fiction, much less so in poetry. "Pineapple Express" explores moods, medications and side effects, capturing the flatness of depression while making the language sing. It also explores the notion of mid-life, in all its manifestations: physical changes, psychological upheaval, the notion of becoming "invisible," and mortality.
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Series: Fool's Gold The Life and Legacy of Vancouver's Official Town Fool Paperback Jesse Donaldson 9781772141467 $20.00 HISTORY Dec 10, 2020

Fool's Gold: The Life and Legacy of Vancouver's Official Town Fool is the second release in Jesse Donaldson's 49.2: Tales from the Off Beat, an ongoing series dedicated to celebrating the eccentric and unusual aspects of Vancouver. In Fool's Gold, Donaldson explores the legacy of Joachim Foikis. On April 1, 1968, a tall, bespectacled, 35-year-old former social worker named Joachim Foikis received $3,500 from the Canada Council for the Arts in order to finance a unique, self-imposed mission unseen since Elizabethan England: reinvent the vanishe... + Read More
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Series: Bronx Heroes in Trumpland Paperback Ray Felix 9781551528052 $14.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Feb 24, 2020

The Bronx Heroes take on their biggest foe of all, President Donald Trump, in this hilarious and boldly subversive comic book. Astron Star Soldier is an astronaut/alien warrior who first appeared in Tom Sciacca's Astral Comics #1 in 1977. Black Power is an African American superhero, war veteran, and former boxer who first appeared in Ray Felix's comic A World Without Superheroes in 1993. As the Bronx Heroes dedicated to fighting criminals and eradicating injustice, they join forces to confront their greatest foe ever - an evil supervillain na... + Read More
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Series: The Home Stretch A Father, a Son, and All the Things They Never Talk About Paperback George K. Ilsley 9781551527956 $19.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 01, 2020

A moving, honest memoir about a man who returns to his rural hometown to take care of his cranky elderly father. George K. Ilsley explores his complex relationship with his aging father in this candid memoir full of sharp emotion and disarming humor. George's father is ninety-one years old, a widower, and fiercely independent; an avid gardener, he's sweet and more than a little eccentric. But he's also a hoarder who makes embarrassing comments and invitations to women, and he has made no plans whatsoever for what is inevitably coming over the ... + Read More
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Series: The Rat People A Journey through Beijing's Forbidden Underground Paperback Patrick Saint-Paul 9781551528038 $19.95 HISTORY Apr 01, 2020

A shocking exploration of Beijing's notorious underground where over 1 million residents live: a sobering reminder of the human cost of capitalism. In a relatively short amount of time, China has become the second largest economy in the world and is soon poised to overtake the US. In 1978, when China introduced its economic reforms, its GDP was $214 billion USD; in 2019, it is estimated to increase to $14 trillion USD. But the country's rapid growth was achieved on the backs and shoulders of its workforce, many of whom were peasant farmers tur... + Read More
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Series: Robin's Egg Books You Suck, Sir Chronicles of a High School English Teacher and the Smartass Students Who Schooled Him Paperback Paul Bae 9781551528076 $19.95 HUMOR Apr 01, 2020

The latest Robin's Egg book: hilarious and touching conversations between a teacher and his students. What happens when a stand-up comedian teaches English in Vancouver's largest public school? During his student-teaching practicum, Paul Bae assigned weekend homework to an English class. A student muttered, "You suck." Mr. Bae turned on his heel, approached the student, and sternly asked, "What did you say?" The student replied, "Sorry. You suck, sir." Mr. Bae promptly returned to his desk, took out his teaching journal, and wrote down ... + Read More
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Series: Vanishing Monuments Paperback John Elizabeth Stintzi 9781551528014 $19.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2020

A brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia. Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn't seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were seventeen - almost thirty years ago. But when Alani gets a call from a doctor at the assisted living facility where their mother has been for the last five years, they learn that their mother's dementia has worsened and appears to have taken away her ability to speak. As a result, Alani suddenly ... + Read More
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Series: We Had No Rules Paperback Corinne Manning 9781551527994 $17.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2020

A defiant, beautifully realized story collection about the messy complications of contemporary queer life. A young teenager stays a step ahead of her parents' sexuality-based restrictions by running away and learns a very different set of rules. A woman grieves the loss of a sister, a "gay divorce," and the pain of unacknowledged abuse with the help of a lone wallaby on a farm in Washington State. A professor of women's and gender studies revels in academic and sexual power but risks losing custody of the family dog. In Corinne Manning's stun... + Read More
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Series: My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems Paperback Amber Dawn 9781551527932 $19.95 POETRY Feb 21, 2020

Finalist, Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes In her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawn from her own lived experience and revealed most notably in her award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life. In this, her second poetry collection, Amber Dawn takes stock of the costs of coming out on the page in a heartrendingly honest and intimate investigation of the toll that artmaking takes on artists. These long poems offer dif... + Read More
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Series: The Gospel of Breaking Paperback Jillian Christmas 9781551527970 $14.95 POETRY Feb 21, 2020

Winner, Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who "speaks things into being," Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems. Christmas draws ... + Read More
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Series: Being and Swine The End of Nature (As We Knew It) Paperback Fahim Amir 9781771134811 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2020

Forget everything you think you know about nature. Fahim Amir’s award-winning book takes pure delight in posing unexpected questions: Are animals victims of human domination, or heroes of resistance? Is nature pristine and defenceless, or sentient and devious? Is being human really a prerequisite for being political? In a world where birds on Viagra punch above their weight and termites hijack the heating systems of major cities, animals can be recast as vigilantes, agitators, and public enemies in their own right. Under Amir’s magic spell, ... + Read More
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Series: Resilience Is Futile The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde Paperback Julie S. Lalonde 9781771134699 $23.95 Feb 27, 2020

For over a decade, Julie Lalonde, an award-winning advocate for women’s rights, kept a secret. She crisscrossed the country, denouncing violence against women and giving hundreds of media interviews along the way. Her work made national headlines for challenging universities and taking on Canada’s top military brass. Appearing fearless on the surface, Julie met every interview and event with the same fear in her gut: was he there? Fleeing intimate partner violence at age 20, Julie was stalked by her ex-partner for over ten years, rarely me... + Read More
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Series: Enemy Alien A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire Paperback Kassandra Luciuk 9781771134729 $21.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 09, 2020

This graphic history tells the story of Canada’s first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, an internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuk’s actual memoir, which is the only comprehensive internee testimony in existence. The novel follows Boychuk from his arrest in Toronto to Kapuskasing, where he spends just over three years. It details the everyday struggle of the internees in the camp, including forced labour and exploitation, abuse from guards, malnutrition, and homesickness. ... + Read More
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Series: Paperback 9781771962773 $0.00 FICTION May 19, 2020
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series On Time and Water Paperback Andri Snaer Magnason 9781771963589 $24.95 SCIENCE Mar 30, 2021

“Eco-lit needs more attention, and devotees will be pleased to discover a new addition from the Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason, who writes with a Seussian mix of wonder, wit and gravitas ... immensely satisfying.”—New York Times A few years ago, Andri Snaer Magnason, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals, was asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn’t writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced. Magnason demurred: he wasn’t a specialist, he said; it wasn’t his field. But the scientist persisted: “... + Read More
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Series: Last Goldfish, The A True Tale of Friendship Paperback Anita Lahey 9781771963435 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 09, 2020

Twenty-five years ago and counting, Louisa, my true, essential, always-there-for-everything friend, died. We were 22. When Anita Lahey opens her binder in grade nine French and gasps over an unsigned form, the girl with the burst of red hair in front of her whispers, Forge it! Thus begins an intense, joyful friendship, one of those powerful bonds forged in youth that shapes a person’s identity and changes the course of a life. Anita and Louisa navigate the wilds of 1980s suburban adolescence against the backdrop of dramatic world events such a... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series You Will Love What You Have Killed Paperback Kevin Lambert 9781771963527 $19.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

Faldistoire’s grandfather thinks he’s a ghost. Sylvie’s mother reads tarot and summons stormclouds to mete her witch’s justice. Behind his Dad of the Year demeanour, Sébastien’s father hides dark designs. It’s Croustine’s grandfather who makes the boy a pair of slippers from the dead family dog, but it’s his father, the cannily-named Kevin Lambert, who always seems to be nearby when tragedy strikes, and in the cemetery, under the baleful eyes of toads, small graves are dug one after the other: Chicoutimi, Quebec, is a dangerous place for childr... + Read More
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Series: Lucia Paperback Alex Pheby 9781771963459 $22.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

She is about thirty-three, speaks French fluently. . .[she ] is gay, sweet and ironic, but she has bursts of anger over nothing when she is confined to a straightjacket, writes James Joyce in one of the few surviving documents concerning his daughter. A gifted dancer, Beckett’s lover, an aspiring writer—what little we know about Lucia Joyce effectively ends with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and subsequent hospitalization: after her death, her nephew Stephen, executor of the Joyce estate, burned her letters and medical records, erasing her not o... + Read More
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Series: A Bite of the Apple A Life with Books, Writers and Virago Paperback Lennie Goodings 9781771963602 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2020

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book for 2020 Carmen is vigorously polishing one of our three telephones. I am just twenty-five, Canadian, new to Britain and in awe of this formidable woman but as there are only two of us in the office I feel emboldened to ask: “Why did you start Virago?” She looks up and without missing a beat, replies “To change the world, darling. That’s why.” I know I am in the right place. Following the chronology of the press where she has worked nearly since its founding, Lennie Goodings tells the story of the group of visio... + Read More
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Series: Music, Late and Soon Paperback Robyn Sarah 9781771963565 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 24, 2021

Shortlisted for the J.I. Segal Awards Best Quebec Book on a Jewish Theme • Shortlisted for the The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction A poet rediscovers the artistic passion of her youth—and pays tribute to the teacher she thought she’d lost. After thirty-five years as an “on-again, off-again, uncoached closet pianist,” poet and writer Robyn Sarah picked up the phone one day and called her old piano teacher, whom she had last seen in her early twenties. Music, Late and Soon is the story of her return to studying piano with the mentor of her yo... + Read More
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Series: You Are Here Selected Stories Paperback Cynthia Flood 9781771963411 $26.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2022

Gathering the best twenty stories from Cynthia Flood’s career, these spare, stylistically inventive stories explore subjects ranging from the domestic to the political. In this collection, Flood navigates a wide range of subject matter with a writing style which gradually becomes more intense, tighter, and sometimes experimental with each story. Most themes are familiar—love, hate, children, the natural world, parents, failure, despair, anger, regret. Other stories are more unusual, dealing with topics such as far-left political activity. Conta... + Read More
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Series: Here the Dark Paperback David Bergen 9781771963213 $22.95 FICTION Mar 10, 2020

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK • A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK FOR 2020 • A CBC BEST FICTION BOOK FOR 2020 • "His third appearance on the Giller shortlist ... affirms Bergen among Canada's most powerful writers. His pages light up; all around falls into darkness."—2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury • “David Bergen’s command is breathtaking … His work belongs to the world, and to all time. He is one of our living greats.”—Matthew Thomas, New York Times-bestselling author of We Are Not O... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Against Amazon and Other Essays Paperback Jorge Carrión 9781771963039 $22.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 17, 2020

A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter—and, most urgently, a manifesto.Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader’s History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting the author’s essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, as well as his interviews with the writers who love them—including Alberto Manguel, Iain Sinclair, Luigi Amara and Han Kang, among others—Against Amazon is e... + Read More
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Series: The Barrøy Chronicles Unseen Paperback Roy Jacobsen 9781771963190 $22.95 FICTION Apr 21, 2020

Shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize • Shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award • "Even by his high standards, his magnificent new novel The Unseen is Jacobsen's finest to date, as blunt as it is subtle and is easily among the best books I have ever read."―Eileen Battersby, Irish Times Born on the Norwegian island that bears her name, Ingrid Barrøy’s world is circumscribed by storm-scoured rocks and the moods of the sea by which her family lives and dies. But her father dreams of building a quay that will... + Read More
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Series: Aubrey McKee Paperback Alex Pugsley 9781771963114 $22.95 FICTION Jun 23, 2020

First in a series of five autobiographical novels, Aubrey McKee is a coming-of-age story for the ‘80s generation.A novel comprised of connected short stories about a boy coming of age in 1970-80s Halifax, Aubrey McKee is the first in a five-part series of autobiographical novels. The second novel, The Education of Aubrey McKee, concerning the narrator’s arrival in Toronto as a young man, is forthcoming from Biblioasis.
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Series: Menno Moto A Journey Across the Americas in Search of My Mennonite Identity Paperback Cameron Dueck 9781771963473 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 14, 2020

Cameron Dueck takes a motorcycle trip through Manitoba and Latin America in search of isolated enclaves of extreme Mennonites—and himself.In the 1920s, the most radical Mennonites—fearing a loss of autonomy—moved from Canada to Latin America, where they built colonies, keeping their doors and minds closed for nearly a century against the rest of the sinful world. They live as if time has stood still, with their clothes, farms and their outlook unchanged for centuries, and this isolation bears dark social consequences. Seeking answers in an eigh... + Read More
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Series: How to Die A Book About Being Alive Paperback Ray Robertson 9781771960946 $21.95 PSYCHOLOGY Jan 28, 2020

A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy.“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book on Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, Robertson argues that the active and intentional consideration of death is neither morbid nor frivolous, but instead essential to our ability to fully value... + Read More
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Series: Gardens of the Interregnum Paperback Norm Sibum 9781771963398 $19.95 POETRY Apr 07, 2020

Norm Sibum’s poems are field notes from the end of empire, a satirist’s barbs, verse letters from a poet to his enemies and friends. He proceeds with reverent disillusionment (no one and nothing let off the hook), not so much along the streets of Montreal or Washington or Rome as along an irregular tetrameter line, and then another, and then another: waves breaking on a beach; or a poet, in spite of or because of all odds, again embarking. This is not a world in which there is comfort—and yet there is comfort in the rhythms. One must learn to r... + Read More
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Series: The Little Red Shed Paperback Adam Young 9781550818338 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 May 15, 2020

***BEST BOOKS FOR KIDS AND TEENS 2021 CATALOGUE*** Once upon a fine morning, a little shed awakens to discover she isn’t quite the same as she used to be. Uncertain and feeling as if she no longer fits in, she decides to leave home and sets out to sea. All alone on the wide, wide ocean, she meets an extraordinary new friend who sees how special she really is, and with newfound confidence, the little red shed returns home and inspires everyone to cherish their differences.
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Series: Dirty Birds Paperback Morgan Murray 9781550818079 $22.95 FICTION Jul 31, 2020

***IPPY: INDEPENDENT VOICE AWARD – WINNER*** ***LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2021*** ***APMA BEST ATLANTIC PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD: WINNER*** ***STEPHEN LEACOCK MEADAL FOR HUMOUR: SHORTLIST*** ***THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD: SHORTLIST*** ***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: SHORTLIST*** ***FOREWORD INDIES HUMOUR AWARD: SILVER*** ***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMMER'S HOTTEST READS*** ***2021 RELIT AWARD: LONG SHORTLIST*** In late 2008, as the world’s economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably... + Read More
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Series: No Place for a Woman The Life and Newfoundland Stories of Ella Manuel Paperback Antony Berger 9781550818369 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 29, 2020

***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S VERY BEST BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION: LONGLIST*** As a young woman, the late Ella Manuel left the busy shipping community of Lewisporte, Newfoundland, for the wider world in the 1920s, but eventually returned to the island, as a single mother, to settle in Bonne Bay. An accomplished writer, broadcaster, journalist, advocate for peace, and staunch feminist, Manuel would leave an indelible mark on the culture she documented and celebrated in her work. Here, biographer Antony Berger expertly chronicles the life of Ella ... + Read More
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Series: Hard Ticket New Writing Made in Newfoundland Paperback Lisa Moore 9781550818277 $22.95 FICTION Aug 31, 2022

hard ticket noun (Nfld) a lively character, a tough or headstrong person, someone not easily controlled. Hard Ticket showcases some of the most exciting writers in Newfoundland. Selected by critically acclaimed author Lisa Moore, these previously unpublished stories highlight the charged and magnetic work of Newfoundland’s next generation of literary trailblazers. Contributors to the anthology include Bridget Canning, Matthew Hollett, Jim McEwen, Michelle Porter, Olivia Robinson, Heidi Wicks, and others.
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Series: Some Good Sweet Treats Paperback Jessica Mitton 9781550818307 $21.95 COOKING Sep 18, 2020

***READER VIEWS COOKING AWARD - GOLD*** ***ERIC HOFFER AWARDS, HOME: 1ST RUNNER-UP*** In Some Good: Sweet Treats, Jessica Mitton follows the success of her first cookbook, Some Good, with the course that everyone’s been waiting for—dessert! With decadent chocolate delights, oat-based goodies, muffins, cakes, squares, and cookies, these recipes will satisfy your sweet tooth without the guilt. Because these sweet confections, baked wonders, and delicious desserts are made in ways that are healthier and more nutritious. Now you can make truly t... + Read More
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Series: Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador Paperback Michael Collins 9781550813562 $34.95 NATURE Jan 31, 2023

A rich and informative guide to the common—and uncommon—beauty of the province. The most comprehensive guide of its kind on the market today, the Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador features more than 900 photographs and illustrations: from flora and fauna to icebergs and weather, no stone is left unturned in this perfect introduction to the province’s life and landscape. Compiled and edited by Memorial University biologist Michael Collins, with contributions from over twenty renowned experts, the guide is accessible, durable, perfectl... + Read More
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Series: The Trials of Albert Stroebel Love, Murder and Justice at the End of the Frontier Paperback Chad Reimer 9781773860206 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2020

One murder. Nine months. Two trials. Chad Reimer weaves a captivating tale of murder in early British Columbia as a young man tries desperately to dodge the hangman’s noose. On a dreary morning in April, 1893, John Marshall, a Portuguese immigrant and successful farmer on Sumas Prairie in British Columbia, was found lying sprawled across the veranda of his farmhouse, his body cold and lifeless. The farmer’s face was a mess, his nose smashed in and cracked blood covering his forehead around a jagged black hole. The shocked and unfortunate n... + Read More
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Series: Big Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies Paperback Christina Myers 9781773860213 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jan 30, 2020

Finally a book about the diverse and intimate experience of being large in a culture obsessed with thinness. Pop culture stereotypes, shopping frustrations, fat jokes, and misconceptions about health are all ways society systemically rejects large bodies. BIG is a collection of personal and intimate experiences of plus size women, non-binary and trans people in a society obsessed with thinness.Revealing insights that are both funny and traumatic, surprising and challenging, familiar and unexpected, 26 writers explore themes as diverse as s... + Read More
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Series: Cataline The Life of BC's Legendary Packer Paperback Irene Bjerky 9781773860244 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 09, 2020

Gold rushes, telegraph lines and railroads, Smith-Josephy reaches into BC’s pioneering past to share intriguing stories featuring famous mule train packer, Jean “Cataline” Caux. In the early days of British Columbia, pack trains of horses or mules were a lifeline for the early pioneer population. Explorers, trappers, traders, miners, merchants, workers and settlers and relied on them for the materials needed to live and work. Packers were also vital to the building of railways, roads, and telegraph lines. Pack mule train drivers followed t... + Read More
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Series: The Kissing Fence Paperback B. A. Thomas-Peter 9781773860237 $24.95 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

Two generations grapple with identity, oppression, and redemption rooted in the chilling history of the 1950s and 60s conflict between the BC government and the Doukhobor community. 1950s, New Denver: Pavel and Nina are among 200 Russian Doukhobor children separated from their families and community, and placed in a residential facility in the Kootenay region of BC. Forcibly removed from their homes by the RCMP, the children attend mandatory school. They must speak in English and observe Canadian customs and religious practi... + Read More
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Series: Sweet Water Poems for the Watersheds Paperback Yvonne Blomer 9781773860220 $22.95 POETRY Mar 07, 2020

Following on the success of Refugium, emerging and established poets illuminate the impact of humans on the world’s waterways. Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds gathers the voices of poets from across Canada, the US and the UK who write of water. Bottled, clouded, held in rain, in river, estuary and lake, sweet water is the planet’s life force and the poets here examine it from every angle – the pitcher plant, the beaver and the American Bull Frog, rain, clouds, smog, the many ducks and the salmon and ... + Read More
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Series: Lost Lagoon / Lost in Thought Paperback Betsy Warland 9781773860251 $20.00 POETRY Feb 28, 2020

In trademark lyric prose, Warland’s roving observations in and around Vancouver’s Lost Lagoon offer insights into nature, narratives, and the urban environment. After moving to Vancouver’s West End in 2014, The Human is drawn to a small body of water called Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park. Daytime visits, with a surprising array of wildlife, are quietly revelatory; but so is suddenly waking in the night when owl hoots, or geese startle in alarm at otter on the prowl. The Human savours this up-close relationship bet... + Read More
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Series: Devolution Paperback Kim Goldberg 9781773860268 $18.00 POETRY Feb 28, 2020

Devolution’s quirky, reality-bending poems and fables of extinction and ecological unravelling are haunting and unforgettable. Devolution is Kim Goldberg’s eighth book and her personal act of extinction rebellion. The poems and fables span the Anthropocene, speaking to ecological unraveling, social confusion, private pilgrimage, urbanization and wildness. Using absurdism, surrealism and satire, Goldberg offers up businessmen who loft away as crows, a town that reshapes itself each night, a journey through caves... + Read More
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Series: On Nostalgia Paperback David Berry 9781552454060 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 07, 2020

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it. From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially modern condition. Drawing on everything from the modern science of memory to the romantic ideals of advertising, and traversing cultural m... + Read More
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Series: The Imago Stage Paperback Karoline Georges 9781552454022 $22.95 FICTION Jul 14, 2020

Longlisted for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award A woman must emerge from the virtual world she’s created to confront her flesh-and-blood past and family. Growing up with a menacing drunk for a father and a grief-stricken mother, a girl spends her 1980s childhood staring at the television to escape the tension, depression, and looming violence that fill her suburban home. After winning a modelling competition, she dedicates herself to becoming a placid image onto which anything can be projected, a blank slate with a blank stare. Earning enough in ... + Read More
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Series: The Crash Palace Paperback Andrew Wedderburn 9781552454053 $22.95 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RELIT 2022 NOVEL AWARD A joy ride set on a crash course with the past. Audrey Cole has always loved to drive. Anytime, anywhere, any car: a questionable rustbucket, a family sedan, the SUV she was paid to drive around the oil fields. From the second she learned to drive, she’s always found a way to hit the road. Years ago, when she abandoned her oil field job, she found herself chauffeuring around the Lever Men, a B-list band relegated to playing empty dive bars in far-flung towns. That’s how she found herself at the Crash P... + Read More
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Series: Now You See Her Paperback Amy Nostbakken 9781552454046 $21.95 DRAMA Jul 21, 2020

Now You See Her nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards; Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Costume Design & Outstanding Sound Design/Composition. Now You See Her named one of Toronto’s Top Ten Plays of 2018 by the Toronto Star. Six diverse women’s voices merge into one devastating (and funny) portrait of modern feminism. They are the invisible, the vanishing, and the disappeared. In an insurrectionary outburst of original music, words, and movement, the six characters in Now You See Her explore some of the diverse ways women fade from sight... + Read More
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Series: Avant Desire A Nicole Brossard Reader Paperback Nicole Brossard 9781552454039 $26.95 POETRY Aug 18, 2020

The definitive survey of an essential feminist poet. In June 2019, Nicole Brossard was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Trust. Rarely has a prize been so richly deserved. For five decades she has been writing ground-breaking poetry, fiction, and criticism in French that has always been steadfastly and unashamedly feminist and lesbian. Avant Desire moves through Brossard’s body of work with a playful attentiveness to its ongoing lines of inquiry. Like her work, this reader moves beyond conventional textual material ... + Read More
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Series: The Pine Islands Paperback Marion Poschmann 9781552454015 $22.95 FICTION Apr 14, 2020

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019 AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Readers who like quiet, meditative works will enjoy this strangely affecting buddy story." —Publishers Weekly "Rather than tying up the loose ends, she leaves them beautifully fluttering in the wind, and you do not feel lost in that experience. The writing is poetic and it’s worth savouring." —Angela Caravan, Shrapnel A bad dream leads to a strange poetic pilgrimage through Japan in this playful and profound Booker International-shortlisted novel. Gilbert Sil... + Read More
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Series: The Eyelid Paperback S.D. Chrostowska 9781552454084 $21.95 FICTION Apr 14, 2020

In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and prophetic novel of ideas depicts the end of human reverie. An unnamed, unemployed, dream-prone narrator finds himself following Chevauchet, diplomat of Onirica, a foreign republic of dreams, to resist a prohibition on sleep in near-future Greater America. On a mission to combat the state-sponsored drugging of citizens with uppers for greater productivity, they traverse an eerie landscape in an everlasting autumn, able to see inside other people’s nightmares and dreams. As Comprehensive ... + Read More
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Series: POP Paperback Simina Banu 9781552454091 $21.95 POETRY Apr 14, 2020

Softening concrete poetry with humour and tenderness, POP takes an uncommon perspective on modern poetic traditions, combining deft lyricism with visual poems for a playful romp. POP rummages through the stale Cheetos after the love poem: what remains? What never existed to begin with? The book invites the reader to journey both forward and backward in time, to retrace steps, solve word searches, hold pages to the light. POP delineates the intensities of a volatile relationship through a variety of lenses. As the speaker tries to anchor her exp... + Read More
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Series: Uncle Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty Paperback Cheryl Thompson 9781552454107 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 16, 2021

From martyr to insult, how “Uncle Tom” has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what consequences for our society did Uncle Tom morph first into a servile old man and then to a racial epithet hurled at African American men deemed, by other Black people, to have betrayed their race? Uncle Tom, the eponymous figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s... + Read More
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Series: The Tower Paperback Paul Legault 9781552454114 $21.95 POETRY Apr 14, 2020

W. B. Yeats meets Gregg Araki at a gay bar. The Tower is a "translation" of W. B. Yeats's The Tower—an homage and reinvention of the poet’s greatest work. Whereas Yeats’s book contended with his mortality as an aging spiritualist Irish Senator, this version contends with a new mortality: ours. The poems in this collection crystallize the transition from Legault’s late twenties to his early thirties, situated in North America during a time of political upheaval. It takes each of Yeats’s poems as a starting point and queers them. It translates Ye... + Read More
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Series: Rag & Bone Man A Novel Paperback Don Dickinson 9781550502749 $24.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2019

A coming-of-age story about a Canadian hockey player set adrift in 1970s London who finds himself in the middle of one of the UK's most turbulent eras. Set in London in the 1970s, Rag & Bone Man is a picaresque chronicle of a man trying to put his life back together. Rob Hendershot is a Canadian who went to England to play professional hockey. Now that career is on hold. His battered body is recovering from hockey games, and street fights in the downtrodden back alleys of London. His roommate is an 83-year-old pensioner whose hobby is shadowing... + Read More
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Series: Kaidenberg's Best Sons A Novel in Stories Paperback Jason Heit 9781550502312 $24.95 FICTION Oct 12, 2019

Kaidenberg’s Best Sons is an unvarnished view of the lives of settlers in the early days of immigration to the Canadian priaries. Set in the early years of the 20th century, this book is the story of German-speaking Catholics who have emigrated from Russia to North Dakota. They learn of an opportunity to settle plots of land in Saskatchewan. As some members start packing and heading north for the promise of new land, others resent the idea of relocating.Author Jason Heit describes his work as a “novel in stories.” Some characters dovetail throu... + Read More
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Series: Phases New Poetry by Belinda Betker Paperback Belinda Betker 9781550505221 $17.95 POETRY Oct 03, 2019

A collection of poetry from newcomer Belinda Betker, on breaking the bonds of stifling gender roles - and the joyous reclaiming of one's power and truth. In Phases, Belinda Betker deftly captures what it is like for those who don't fit within rigid notions of what it means to be a "boy" or a "girl". Capturing different phases in a life, with power and nuance she takes readers on a luminous journey of a young girl's coming-of-age, her burgeoning sexuality (and the confusion and disorientation therein), the pitfalls of an unhappy marriage, the ... + Read More
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Series: Finding My Way A Memoir Paperback Lois Simmie 9781550507935 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2019

An autobiography from a Saskatchewan writer whose writing transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Lois Simmie was born in Mervin, Saskatchewan in 1932. Filled with awe and wonder at the bountiful and remarkable world unfolding around her Simmie takes us on the journey of her life and the events that shaped her into a writer. She describes her whimsical youth in Saskatchewan in a bygone era of Frank Sinatra on the radio, Amos 'n' Andy, the jitterbug, jazz, square dances, and Hollywood movies every Friday night in the town hall. Simmie's ... + Read More
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Series: Watershed Paperback Doreen Vanderstoop 9781988298597 $22.95 FICTION May 02, 2020

It is 2058, and the glaciers are gone. A catastrophic drought has hit the prairies. Willa Van Bruggen is desperately trying to keep her family goat farm afloat, hoping against hope that the new water pipeline arrives before the bill collectors do. Willa's son, Daniel, goes to work for the pipeline corporation instead of returning to help the family business. When Daniel reveals long-concealed secrets about his grandfather's death, Willa's world truly shatters. She's losing everything she values most: her farm, her son, her understanding of the ... + Read More
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Series: Speechless Paperback Anne Simpson 9781988298627 $22.95 FICTION May 02, 2020

Winner of the 2021 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award A'isha Nasir is a Nigerian teenager who has been charged with adultery and sentenced to death. Sophie MacNeil is an ambitious young Canadian journalist who meets A'isha and writes an impassioned article about her plight. But when the article sets off waves of outrage and violence, Sophie is forced to come to terms with the naivete with which she approached the story. Who can -- and should -- tell a story? Speechless is a stunning novel of justice, witness, and courage. In luminous prose,... + Read More