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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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Series: Megantic Paperback Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny 9781772012590 $24.95 LAW Aug 26, 2020

Lac-Mégantic, Québec, Canada – July 6, 2013. On a hot summer night, a driverless, out-of-control train descends the slope that leads to the scenic town below and explodes, pulverizing the downtown area and killing forty-seven unsuspecting victims. The devastation, which leaves the people of Lac-Mégantic dazed and in mourning, is quickly the object of a tortuous cover-up. Who are the tragedy’s real culprits? In this fascinating piece of investigative journalism, which unfolds like a thriller, Saint-Cerny reveals the inner workings of the 2013 L... + Read More
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Series: The Diary of Dukesang Wong A Voice from Gold Mountain Paperback David McIlwraith 9781772012583 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 16, 2020

Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. The story of those Chinese workers has been told before, but never in a voice from among their number, never in a voice that lived through the experience. Here is that missing voice, a voice that changes our understanding of the history it tells and that so many believed was lost forever. Dukesang Wong’s written account of life working on the Canadia... + Read More
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Series: The Grand Melee Paperback Michel Tremblay 9781772012613 $16.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2021

The fifth novel in the Desrosiers Diaspora series from Québécois national treasure Michel Tremblay. It’s May 1922, and preparations are in full swing for the marriage of Nana and Gabriel, which will take place the following month. There’s just one problem: Nana’s wedding dress has yet to be bought. Nana’s mercurial mother, Maria, torn between her desire to measure up as a mother and the inescapable constraints of poverty, wonders how to pay for the wedding. And she’s not the only one battling demons – the thought of the upcoming reunion unsettl... + Read More
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Series: Music at the Heart of Thinking Improvisations 1–170 Paperback Fred Wah 9781772012620 $24.95 POETRY Aug 25, 2020

The music of thinking. The thinking of music. Music at the Heart of Thinking is a poetry that works through language as the true practice of thought and improvisation as the tool that listens to and notates thinking. From jazz, the unpredictable ad lib driving itself from itself. From a drunken Shaolin monk, the poem as imbalanced tai chi. From Keats’s negative capability, the half-closed eye, the estrangement of language. All intended to bump beyond the end of the word into focus. As a response to readings in contemporary texts, art, and ideas... + Read More
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Series: Desire Path Paperback Taryn Hubbard 9781772012637 $16.95 POETRY Aug 25, 2020

A debut poetry collection that grows from the impulse to explore home in the suburb – in the intersections, overlaps, and gaps between urban and rural. These are walking poems and driving poems. In growing suburbs across the country, there is a push to urbanize, to rethink this sprawling space; urban renewal is foreshadowed all over contemporary suburbs, where vacant single-family lots herald anticipation of redevelopment into something more, something better, something healthier. But before that happens, what do we make of the space as it sits... + Read More
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Series: Here Paperback Colin Browne 9781772012644 $19.95 POETRY Jun 13, 2020

Here is a book of luminous encounters, contradictions, collisions, interruptions, and meditations on art, nature, justice, historical memory, and territorial occupation. Browne’s texts mine the harrowing destinies, and densities, of place, in this case, of the Northwest Coast of North America. This new work – in seven movements – is tuned to the autobiographical, alert to rhythm and improvisation, and immersed in a torrent of memory and tenderness. Here is a book for the ear. At its heart is the enigma of family. A central premise is that event... + Read More
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Series: eat salt | gaze at the ocean Paperback Junie Désil 9781772012651 $17.95 POETRY Sep 16, 2020

eat salt | gaze at the ocean explores the themes of Black sovereignty, Haitian sovereignty, and Black lives, using the Haitian (original) zombie as a metaphor for the condition and treatment of Black bodies. Interspersed with information about zombies, Haiti, and policies is the author’s personal narrative of growing up Black and Haitian of immigrant parents on stolen land. The collection is divided into two sections: the first half focusses on zombies, while the second focusses on the ocean/water and the violent crossing experienced by enslave... + Read More
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Series: The In-Between Paperback Marcus Youssef 9781772012408 $16.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Oct 20, 2020

Adopted as a baby by white parents who found her in an orphanage in Vietnam, Lily has always considered herself Canadian. When Karim – a guy she’s liked for a long time – finally starts to show interest in her, Lily’s best friend Brit starts to hang out with some grade-twelves with radical opinions about immigrants. After a conflict between Brit and Karim breaks out when other students share racist, anti-immigrant memes, a misunderstanding leads to a lockdown in the school. Lily finds herself right in the middle, forced to make hard choices abo... + Read More
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Series: Asking For It and This Was the World Paperback Ellie Moon 9781772012668 $19.95 DRAMA Aug 24, 2020

Two plays from rising Canadian theatre star Ellie Moon. _Asking For It_ looks at gender roles and sexual consent in the wake of the Ghomeshi scandal, and considers the various ways in which sexual consent is understood personally, culturally, and legally. In this documentary play, Moon speaks with people of all ages and backgrounds about their assumptions and experiences around consent to sexual relations, and with legal experts about the current state of sexual assault law in Canada. _What I Call Her_ is a play about gaps in how people perceiv... + Read More
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Series: Kuroko Paperback Tetsuro Shigematsu 9781772012699 $18.95 DRAMA Nov 06, 2020

A father who feels his family is better off without him … a daughter who retreats completely into the virtual world … a family torn apart by the past with little hope for a future. But each discovers the desire to save each other, and perhaps themselves. From the acclaimed Canadian playwright, comedian, and radio broadcaster Tetsuro Shigematsu, author of the award-winning plays Empire of the Son and 1 Hour Photo, comes a powerful display of theatrical and literary emotion: Kuroko. Maya is a hikikomori (?????), an extreme recluse who hasn’t left... + Read More
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Series: Un/inhabited 2nd edition Paperback Jordan Abel 9781772012682 $24.95 POETRY Apr 06, 2020

This is the second edition of award-winning Nisga’a poet Jordan Abel’s second collection of poetry, Un/inhabited, which maps the terrain of the public domain to create a layered investigation of the interconnections between language and land. Abel constructed the book’s source text by compiling ninety-one complete western novels found on Project Gutenberg, an online archive of public domain works. Using his word processor’s Ctrl+F function, he searched the document in its totality for words that relate to the political and social aspects of la... + Read More
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Series: They Write Their Dream on the Rocks Forever Rock Writings in the Stein River Valley of British Columbia Paperback Annie York 9781772012200 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 30, 2020

In They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever, ‘Nlaka’pamux elder Annie York explains the red-ochre inscriptions written on the rocks and cliffs of the lower Stein Valley in British Columbia. This is perhaps the first time that a Native elder has presented a detailed and comprehensive explanation of rock-art images from her people’s culture. As Annie York’s narratives unfold, we are taken back to the fresh wonder of childhood, as well as to a time in human society when people and animals lived together in one psychic dimension.This book descri... + Read More