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Series: Poguemahone Paperback Patrick McCabe 9781771964739 $27.95 FICTION May 03, 2022

A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother’s trials as a call girl. Young Una’s search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing Scottish stoner poet she’ll never get over. Now she sits outside in the sun as her memories... + Read More
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Series: Try Not to Be Strange The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda Paperback Michael Hingston 9781771964159 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 13, 2022

On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redonda—where, with pomp and circumstance, he was declared the island’s king. A few years later, when Shiel set sail for a new life in London, his father gave him some advice: Try not to be strange. It was almost as if the elder Shiel knew what was coming. Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda tells, for the first time, t... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Querelle of Roberval Paperback Kevin Lambert 9781771963541 $22.95 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

Homage to Jean Genet’s antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge. As a millworkers’ strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workers—but when a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping and unabashed, likeable but callow, by day he ... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series The Hollow Beast Paperback Christophe Bernard 9781771964586 $24.95 FICTION Apr 04, 2023

Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about a slapshot. In 1911, in a hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Monti collapses with his head across the goal line, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts. Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls over three generations, one hundred years and dozens of alcohol-soaked tall tales, from treachery in northern gold-mining camps to the appearance of ... + Read More
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Series: Field Notes On Class Paperback Deborah Dundas 9781771964814 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 06, 2022

Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn’t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what happens when we don’t talk about poverty or class—and what will happen when we do. Stories about poor people are rarely written by the poor—and when they are written they tend to fit into a hero narrative. Through hard work, smarts, and temerity, the hero pulls themselves up by their bootstraps in a narrative that simply provides an easy exception: l... + Read More
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Series: ReSet This Time, That Place Selected Stories Paperback Clark Blaise 9781771964890 $24.95 FICTION Oct 18, 2022

“Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.” —Quill & Quire With a foreword by Margaret Atwood and an introduction by John Metcalf, This Time, That Place draws together twenty-four indelible works by Clark Blaise, a master of the short forms.
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Series: Shimmer Paperback Alex Pugsley 9781771964692 $22.95 FICTION May 17, 2022

In ten vividly told stories, Shimmer follows characters through relationships, within social norms, and across boundaries of all kinds as they shimmer into and out of each other’s lives. Outside a 7-Eleven, teen boys Veeper and Wendell try to decide what to do with their night, though the thought of the rest of their lives doesn’t seem to have occurred to them. In Laurel Canyon, two movie stars try to decide if the affair they’re having might mean they like each other. When Byron, trying to figure out the chords of a song he likes, posts a ques... + Read More
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Series: Body on Fire Anti-Inflammatory Cookbook Your Guide to Eating Plant Foods That Fight Disease Paperback Monica Aggarwal MD 9781570674075 $29.95 COOKING Mar 01, 2022

This companion volume to Body on Fire reiterates essential concepts about the nature of inflammation and its relationship to chronic illness, offers insights into why certain foods are health-supporting, and provides a how-to-start manual that features an abundance of easy-to-make recipes. The main goal is to calm inflammation and reduce the risk of illness. While there are multiple steps involved with healing, nutrition should be the first one to turn to. With a renewed focus on sleep, movement, and an unstressed mind, Drs. Aggarwal and Rao pr... + Read More
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Series: Unprocessed 10th Anniversary Edition Revitalize Your Health with Whole Foods Paperback Chef AJ 9781570674082 $29.95 COOKING May 01, 2022

This revision is a celebration of the amazing versatility and health benefits to be found in whole plant foods. Anyone looking to live an active, healthy lifestyle will find what they?re looking for with these recipes. Chef AJ shares her own inspiring journey to wellness where she learned about the healing power of whole plant foods. The authors clearly define the differences between processed and whole foods, explain why fiber- over calorie-dense is better, and offer numerous suggestions on how to replace the flavors of salt, oil, and sugar. ... + Read More
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Series: Planetary Solutions Defending Orcas No More Captivity Paperback Captain Paul Watson 9781939053367 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Grade (US) from 4 - 7 Mar 01, 2022

This book provides a behind-the-scenes look at how performing orcas are treated at marine parks worldwide. Orcas are part of the same biological family as dolphins and thrive in the open sea. Being captured or born into captivity interferes with and stunts their natural growth and development. Kids learn about the world of orcas, their unique characteristics, their place in the ocean?s ecosystem, and how they are hunted and captured. They are also shown how captivity causes mental and physical stress to orcas. Of special interest are the intro... + Read More
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Series: The Day the Earth Rose Up Paperback Alfreda Beartrack-Alego 9781939053398 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 6 - 8 Mar 01, 2022

When seven Lakota sisters venture deep into the forest to gather chokecherries, they are surprised and chased by Mato Sica, a giant bear known to eat people. The sisters run and climb up a short rock ledge and pray for help. The ground trembles and gives a sudden jolt, and they find themselves on top of a tall earth tower. A great giant eagle comes to their rescue and carries the seven sisters up to the Star Nation, where they are welcomed home and become the Wicincala Sakowin, also known as the Seven Sisters or Pleiades star formation.
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Series: Sydney's Journey Whisper to the Sky Paperback Kim Sigafus 9781939053381 $12.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) from 9 - 12 Mar 01, 2022

This book is part of the PathFinders Collection of Indigenous Hi-Lo- novels. Interest level is pre-teen on up. At her old school on the reservation, where almost all the kids were Native, Sydney was known as a tough bully. Now, at her new school in Minneapolis, which has only a few Native kids, she wonders if she will fit in. It doesn?t take Sydney long to realize she stands out like a sore thumb. After she accidentally... + Read More
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Series: The Legend of Big Heart The Land Grab Paperback Alfreda Beartrack-Alego 9781939053404 $12.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) from 9 - 12 May 01, 2022

"Jay, do you think Mr. O'Neil had something to do with this fire?" Uncle Jay stood up. "Yup, I do, Tom. I think Mr. O'Neil sent two of his guys here yesterday to stake out you and your land. They came back out here before dawn and started this fire. Yup, I have no doubt, but proving it will be a challenge because we are up against the big boys." The Land Grab is the story of Alfred Swallow and his family as they fend off attempts to take their land. Alfred is eleven years old and has many responsibilities not expected of a young boy. His ... + Read More
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Series: Forbidden Minds The Two Riders Paperback Armond Boudreaux 9781949671261 $16.95 FICTION Oct 19, 2021

After the rescue of her telepathic son from a government research facility, a U.S. Marine discovers there are far more people like her child than she ever imagined?and they?re done being victims. Former U.S. Marine Valarie Hara knows the secrets she holds are enough to send her country?and the world?over the edge into the abyss. Branded a terrorist for rescuing her telepathic son from a government research lab, she wants nothing more than to escape into hiding with her family. Investigative reporter Jessica Brantley demands they stand and fight... + Read More
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Series: The Art of Adam Young Hardcover Adam Young 9781550819397 $39.95 ART Jul 08, 2022

A colourful journey through Newfoundland and Labrador as seen through the distinctive, whimsical style of internationally renowned artist Adam Young. Highlighting the last ten years of Adam Young’s artistic work in Newfoundland and Labrador, this book features over 100 paintings and sketches based on the artist’s representation and vision of the Atlantic coast. Inspiration for Young’s work comes from the stark beauty of the landscape and architecture and the warmth of the people who live here. His mediums of choice are acrylics and inks, and th... + Read More
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Series: The Wards Paperback Terry Doyle 9781550819359 $22.95 FICTION Jun 10, 2022

The Wards are a working-class Newfoundland family on the cusp of upheaval. The children are becoming adults, the adults are growing old, and the new dog was probably stolen. When a sudden illness forces the Wards together, can they finally learn to be close-knit? This unsettling, at times hilarious novel explores the instability of nuclear families and the depths of dysfunction. Family is family—you don’t get to choose. So what, exactly, do you get to choose?
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Series: A Life Spent Listening Paperback Dr. Hassan Khalili Ph.D 9781550819373 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 17, 2022

A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed psychotherapist Dr. Hassan Khalili. In A Life Spent Listening, Dr. Hassan Khalili reflects on four decades of being a frontline community psychotherapist and shares the wisdom he has learned over the years. By inviting the reader into his own life and the lives of his patients, Dr. Khalili explores the human condition and explains his concept of the grid as a guiding principle in his psychological... + Read More
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Series: Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge Volume II Excerpts from Chapter III - Miawpukek Hardcover Pam Hall 9781550819335 $79.95 ART Aug 31, 2022

Presented in English and Mi’kmaq, the latest chapter in this ambitious series presents a remarkable and respectful collaboration between an Indigenous and non-Indigenous artist, deepening and diversifying our understanding of the intergenerational knowledge of a Mi’kmaw community in Newfoundland. Miawpukek—The Middle River is Chapter III of Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge, the art-and-knowledge project of artist-scholar Pam Hall. This volume presents local, place-based knowledge gathered by Hall and artist Jerry Evans. From canoe-bui... + Read More
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Series: Fearnoch Paperback Jim McEwen 9781550819410 $22.95 FICTION Jul 07, 2022

Steinbeck meets Miriam Toews in this insightful and illuminating debut about the decline of rural Canada and the meaning of community. Welcome to Fearnoch, an undistinguished Ottawa Valley farming hamlet in its twilight. The deterioration of the once fruitful way of life in this small town is explored through the lives and trajectories of its inhabitants. The narration winds into and over the characters to sow differing viewpoints on the death of the family farm, incarcerated youths, falling in love at the town dump, and the coming storm.... + Read More
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Series: Hard Ticket New Writing Made in Newfoundland Paperback Lisa Moore 9781550818277 $22.95 FICTION Aug 01, 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: Worth More Standing Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees Paperback Christine Lowther 9781773860824 $24.95 POETRY Apr 22, 2022

Poets, both settler and Indigenous, pay tribute to trees through reflections on the past, connections to the present, and calls for the protection of our future.In Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees, celebrated poets and activists pay homage to the ghosts of lost forests and issue a rallying cry to protect our remaining ancient giants and restore wild spaces. Themes of connection, ecology, grief, and protection are explored through poems about trees and forests written by an impressive number of influential poets,... + Read More
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Series: Larder Poems Paperback Rhona McAdam 9781773860831 $20.00 POETRY May 06, 2022

With enormous care and unquenchable daring, Rhona McAdam explores our relationship to the living world and challenges the constraints of contemporary poetry in her latest collection, Larder.Fully immersed in the organic world, Larder is at once an elegant transcription of the spiritual nourishment that comes from our embrace of the earth and of the inevitable loss in our unwillingness to embrace sustainability. In her latest collection, McAdam navigates the dark places of human movement through the earth and the exquisite intricacies lingering ... + Read More
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Series: The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening How to Grow an Abundance of Herbs, Vegetables and Fruit in Small Spaces Paperback Mark Ridsdill Smith 9781645021506 $44.95 GARDENING Mar 24, 2022

From the creator of the wildly popular website “Vertical Veg” and with over 200k people in his online community of growers, comes the complete guide to growing delicious fruit, vegetables, herbs, and salad in containers, pots, and more—in any space, from window boxes to garden yards, no matter how small! "[A] thorough and enthusiastic guide to vegetable gardening . . . both handy and hefty...Aspiring urban gardeners will want to give this a look."—Publishers Weekly If you long to grow your own tomatoes, zucchini, or strawberries, but thought ... + Read More
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Series: In Search of Mycotopia Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms Paperback Doug Bierend 9781645021490 $24.95 SCIENCE Oct 26, 2022

“Mushrooms are having a moment. [A] natural sequel for the many readers who enjoyed Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life.”—Library Journal “Bierend writes with sensual verve and specificity, enthusiasm, and humor. . . . [He] introduces us to the staggering variety of mushrooms, their mystery, their funk, and the way they captivate our imaginations.”—The Boston Globe “Nothing is impossible if you bring mushrooms into your life, and reading this book is a great way to begin your journey.”—Tradd Cotter, author of Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycore... + Read More
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Series: On Gallows Down Place, Protest and Belonging Hardcover Nicola Chester 9781645021162 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 19, 2024

"It’s ever so good. Political, passionate & personal."—Robert Macfarlane (via Twitter), author of UnderlandPart nature writing, part memoir, On Gallows Down is an essential, unforgettable read for fans of Helen Macdonald, Terry Tempest Williams, and Robin Wall Kimmerer."I couldn’t put it down! A must read!"—Dara McAnulty (via Twitter), author of Diary of a Young NaturalistOn Gallows Down is a powerful, personal story shaped by a landscape; one that ripples and undulates with protest, change, hope – and the search for home.Fr... + Read More
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Series: Understanding the Heart Surprising Insights into the Evolutionary Origins of Heart Disease—and Why It Matters Paperback Doctor Stephen Hussey 9781645021308 $34.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Apr 07, 2022

“The most mind-blowing information on heart disease. . . . I consider this to be one of the best books I’ve ever read on cardiovascular health.”—Ben Greenfield, New York Times bestselling author Heart disease is the number-one killer in the world. Despite ever-advancing medical procedures and more and more powerful pharmaceutical drugs, the rate of heart disease continues to rise. According to Dr. Stephen Hussey, this is due in part to misunderstandings about how the heart really functions and how to keep it healthy. These misunderstandings r... + Read More
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Series: The Home-Scale Forest Garden How to Plan, Plant, and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape Paperback Dani Baker 9781645020981 $44.95 GARDENING May 20, 2022

Learn how to create an edible forest garden—perfect for gardeners and growers at any scale! Includes over 100 cold-hardy berry bushes, fruit and nut trees, perennial vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, mushrooms, and more. When market gardener Dani Baker attended a permaculture workshop at her local Cooperative Extension office in upstate New York, she was inspired by its message of working with nature to create a thriving edible garden ecosystem. She immediately launched a new experiment she dubbed the “Enchanted Edible Forest.” In The Home-S... + Read More
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Series: Going to Seed A Counterculture Memoir Paperback Simon Fairlie 9781645020615 $27.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 22, 2022

"Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential—and unusual—eco-activist you might not have heard of."—The Observer An unforgettable firsthand account of how the hippie movement flowered in the late 1960s, appeared spent by the Thatcher-consumed 1980s, yet became the seedbed for progressive reform we now take for granted—and continues to inspire generations of rebels and visionaries. "Fairlie has a refreshingly declarative style: he’s analytical, funny and self-aware. . . His memoir has much to offer anyone interested in movement history or i... + Read More
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Series: Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape Paperback Allyson Levy 9781645020455 $44.95 GARDENING Mar 04, 2022

The easy-to-use resource for growing healthy, resilient, low-maintenance trees, shrubs, vines, and other fruiting plants from around the world—perfect for farmers, gardeners, and landscapers at every scale. Illustrated with more than 200 color photographs and covering 50 productive edible crops—from Arctic kiwi to jujube, medlar to heartnut—this is the go-to guide for growers interested in creating diversity in their growing spaces. "[Levy and Serrano] go way beyond the standard fare. . . . With their help, you’ll be growing persimmons, curra... + Read More
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Series: Follow the Pipelines Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil Paperback Charlotte Dennett 9781645021476 $27.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 11, 2022

“Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Students, foreign affairs ‘experts’ and officials should have this work as required reading.”—Jim Miles, Palestine Chronicle "[Dennett is] an expert in resource-based politics.”—Time Unraveling the mystery of a master spy’s death by following pipelines and mapping wars in the Middle East. In 1947, Daniel Dennett, America’s sole master spy in the Mid... + Read More
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Series: Barn Club A Tale of Forgotten Elm Trees, Traditional Craft and Community Spirit Paperback Robert Somerville 9781645021483 $24.95 CRAFTS & HOBBIES Mar 30, 2022

“In today’s ego-techno-centred world, Robert Somerville’s . . . Barn Club approach is a way forward that utilizes local traditions, local materials, and local hands to create a built environment that is more harmonious with the natural world and of course more beautiful.”—Jack A. Sobon, architect, timber framer, and author of Hand Hewn “Somerville knows more about wooden barn construction than almost anyone alive.”—The Telegraph Natural history meets traditional hand craft in this celebration of the elm tree and community spirit. When renown... + Read More
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Series: Navigating Historical Crosscurrents in the Irish Atlantic Essays for Catherine B. Shannon Hardcover Mary Kelly 9781782054993 $60.95 HISTORY Jun 01, 2022

This volume takes inspiration from Professor Catherine Shannon?s scholarship on Modern Irish and Irish American history and her advocacy for peace in Northern Ireland and features original research by distinguished scholars and social-justice activists on both sides of the Atlantic. The essays illuminate the historical relationship between Ireland and North America over past centuries. They offer new readings of the transatlantic crosscurrents that shape our understanding of Irish emigration and North American settlement, and constructions of e... + Read More
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Series: Neil Jordan Works for the page Hardcover Val Nolan 9781782054955 $60.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 03, 2022

Hailed in the Irish Times as a ?great Irish novelist?, Neil Jordan is, in the words of Fintan O?Toole, ?a peculiarly emblematic figure of cultural change?. Yet, extraordinarily, such critical acclaim has come about without detailed scholarly engagement with Jordan?s most sustained interrogation of Ireland and notions of Irishness: his fiction. Neil Jordan: Works for the Page fills this gap in contemporary Irish literary criticism, and, while Jordan?s filmmaking is often discussed, the focus here is on his published work: his early volume of sho... + Read More
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Series: Ireland and Argentina in the twentieth century Diaspora, diplomacy, dictatorship, catholic mission and the Falklands crisis Hardcover Dermot Keogh 9781782055112 $60.95 HISTORY Jun 24, 2022

This is a ground-breaking book on Irish diplomatic relations with Argentina/Latin America from the nineteenth to the twenty first century. Written in an accessible style, the contents will appeal to both a specialist academic and general readership. The volume enhances our understanding of the contribution Irish immigrants like the journalist and author William Bulfin made to their new home in Argentina. The role of Irish Catholic missionaries, which the author refers to as ?Irish soft power,? is also a major theme in the book. Based on origin... + Read More
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Series: Eoin MacNeill The Pen and the Sword Hardcover Conor Mulvagh 9781782054603 $60.95 HISTORY May 27, 2022

Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945) was a founding figure in the Gaelic League, the Irish Volunteers, and the government of Ireland. As Professor of Early (including Mediaeval) History at University College Dublin was also one of the foremost Irish historians of his generation. As a professor, a politician, and the leader of a paramilitary organisation, MacNeill fused scholarship and activism into a complex life that both followed and led the course of Irish independence from gestation to maturation. MacNeill is arguably best known as the man who tried t... + Read More
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Series: Walter Macken Critical perspectives Hardcover Sandra Heinen 9781782054917 $60.95 DRAMA Jun 24, 2022

Situating Walter Macken in the literary and cultural contexts of his time, this collection of essays provides introductions to the different aspects of the author's multifaceted oeuvre, sets out to explain his enormous success on the stage and as a writer of fiction, and comments on how Macken contributed to shaping an image of the young Republic of Ireland for his national and international audience. Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches from historical criticism, to narrative theory and gender studies, the overview articles as well ... + Read More
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Series: Wan Paperback Dawn Promislow 9781988298993 $24.95 FICTION May 01, 2022

"Wan is a masterpiece. This beautiful, painterly, sublime, and sonically exquisite novel by Dawn Promislow is a work of utter genius." - Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of All the Broken ThingsNarrated in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, Wan is the story of Jacqueline, a privileged artist in 1970s South Africa. After an anti-apartheid activist comes to hide in her garden house, Jacqueline's carefully constructed life begins to unravel. Written in gorgeous and spare prose, this exquisite debut novel grapples with questions of compli... + Read More
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Series: You Still Look the Same Paperback Farzana Doctor 9781990601057 $16.95 POETRY May 01, 2022

A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana DoctorThis debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor is both an intimate deep dive and a humorous glance at the tumultuous decade of her forties. Through crisp and vivid language, Doctor explores mid-life breakups and dating, female genital cutting, imprints of racism and misogyny, and the oddness of sex and love, and urges us to take a second look at the ways in which human relationships are never what we expect... + Read More
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Series: Night in the World Paperback Sharon English 9781990601026 $24.95 FICTION May 01, 2022

A tender ensemble novel about coming home to oneself and one's family through the beauty and soulfulness of Earth, even in an age of unravelling. Brothers Justin and Oliver have never been close. Justin owns an iconic Toronto restaurant and lives with his wife and daughter in Baby Point. Oliver, a former environmental reporter, does admin for a local gym and rents an attic apartment. Yet both men know their worlds stand on the brink. With their mother's abrupt death, each sets out to set things right: Oliver to reclaim a beloved home, Justin to... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Studies in Leadership, Public Policy, and Governance Government Have Presidents and Prime Ministers Misdiagnosed the Patient? Hardcover Donald J. Savoie 9780228011095 $37.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 22, 2022

Citizens have lost trust in their institutions of public governance. In trying to fix the problem, presidents and prime ministers have misdiagnosed the patient, failing to recognize that government bureaucracies are inseparable from political institutions. As a result, career officials have become adroit at managing the blame game but much less so at embracing change.Donald Savoie looks to the United States, Great Britain, France, and Canada to assess two of the most important challenges confronting governments throughout the Western world: the... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Spy Story Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police Hardcover David A. Wilson 9780228011170 $39.95 HISTORY May 30, 2022

In the mid-nineteenth century a group of Irish revolutionaries, known as the Fenians, set out to destroy Britain’s North American empire. Between 1866 and 1871 they launched a series of armed raids into Canadian territory.In Canadian Spy Story David Wilson takes readers into a dark and dangerous world of betrayal and deception, spies and informers, invasion and assassination, spanning Canada, the United States, Ireland, and Britain. In Canada there were Fenian secret societies in urban areas, including Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto... + Read More
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Series: Through Their Eyes A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada's First World War Hardcover Matthew Barrett 9780228010579 $34.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 29, 2022

By the summer of 1917, Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge, but Allied offensives had stalled across many fronts of the Great War. To help break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Canadian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie, was tasked with capturing Hill 70, a German stronghold near the French town of Lens.After securing the hill on 15 August, Canadian soldiers endured days of shelling, machine-gun fire, and poison gas as they repelled relentless enemy counterattacks. Through Their Eyes depicts this remarkable but costly v... + Read More
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Series: Search for the Unknown Canada's UFO Files and the Rise of Conspiracy Theory Hardcover Matthew Hayes 9780228010746 $34.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Apr 15, 2022

Beginning in the 1950s, alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects in Canadian skies bred tension between the state and its citizens. While the public demanded to know more about the phenomenon, government officials appeared unconcerned and unresponsive. Suspicion of government deepened among certain sectors of Canadian society in the decades that followed, leading to demands for greater public transparency and a new kind of citizen activism.In Search for the Unknown Matthew Hayes uncovers the history of the Canadian government’s investig... + Read More
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Series: Animal as Machine The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt Hardcover Michel Anctil 9780228010531 $49.95 SCIENCE Apr 05, 2022

Through the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts are seen as pieces of organic machinery.Animal as Machine explores the life, work, and ideas of scientists who, branding themselves as physiologists, subscribed to mechanistic concepts to explain how animals acquire and process food, breathe, circulate their blood, and sense their environment. As medical physiology thrived in the nineteenth century, z... + Read More
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Series: La collection Louis J. Robichaud/The Louis J. Robichaud Series The Summer Trade A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island Hardcover Alan MacEachern 9780228010890 $49.95 HISTORY Apr 15, 2022

Tourism has been a central part of Prince Edward Island’s identity for more than a century. What began as a seasonal sideline in the nineteenth century evolved into an economic powerhouse that now attracts over 1.5 million visitors each year, employs one in ten Islanders, and is the province’s second leading industry.Spanning from the Victorian era to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Summer Trade presents the first comprehensive history of tourism in any Canadian province. Over time the Island has marketed a remarkably durable set of tourism tropes –... + Read More
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Series: May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition Hardcover Russell A. Potter 9780228011392 $44.95 HISTORY Sep 05, 2022

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged glimpse into the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin’s fateful expedition to the Arctic.The letters of the crew and their correspondents begin with the journey’s inception and early planning, going on to recount the ships’ departure from the river Thames, their progress up the eastern coast of Great Britain to Stromness in Orkney, and the crew’s exploits as far as the Whalefish Islands off the western coast of ... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies Odagahodhes Reflecting on Our Journeys Hardcover Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs 9780228011972 $37.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 17, 2022

In the words of Cayuga Elder Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs: “We have forgotten about that sacred meeting space between the Settler ship and the Indigenous canoe, odagahodhes, where we originally agreed on the Two Row, and where today we need to return to talk about the impacts of its violation.”Odagahodhes highlights the Indigenous values that brought us to the sacred meeting place in the original treaties of Turtle Island, particularly the Two Row Wampum, and the sharing process that was meant to foster good relations from the beginning of the col... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Wendat Women's Arts Hardcover Annette W. de Stecher 9780228010678 $49.95 ART May 15, 2022

For centuries, women artists of the Wendat First Nation of Wendake in Quebec have created artworks of intricate design and complex meaning in moosehair and quill embroidery. Their work records and transmits ancestral knowledge across generations of artists and remains a vibrant and important practice today.Breaking new ground in Indigenous art histories, Wendat Women’s Arts is the first book to bring together a full history of the Wendat embroidery art form. Annette de Stecher challenges the historical anonymity of Indigenous women artists by a... + Read More
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Series: Across Greenland's Ice Cap The Remarkable Swiss Scientific Expedition of 1912 Hardcover Alfred de Quervain 9780228010661 $37.95 HISTORY May 15, 2022

As polar exploration reached its zenith, and in the same month that Captain Robert Falcon Scott perished in Antarctica, four young scientists from Zurich took ship for Greenland. Though they had little previous experience of arctic travel, their ambition was to achieve the first west-to-east crossing of the northern hemisphere’s largest ice cap, making scientific observations along the way.Few outside Switzerland have heard of this expedition or its leader, the meteorologist Alfred de Quervain, in spite of its success. In thirty-one days in the... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Jackson's Wars A.Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War Hardcover Douglas Hunter 9780228010760 $65.00 ART May 15, 2022

A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada’s best-known artists, Jackson’s Wars follows A.Y. Jackson’s education and progress as a painter before he was a well-known artist and his time on the battlefield in Europe, before he cast his lot in with a group of like-minded Toronto artists.Jackson fought many battles: he was a feisty and opinionated combatant when he crossed swords with critics, collectors, museums, galleries, and fellow painters as an emerging artist. Moving from Montreal to Toronto in 1913, he became a key figur... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Essentials Canada and Climate Change Hardcover William Leiss 9780228009160 $24.95 SCIENCE Aug 15, 2022

Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experience.The federal government recently announced aggressive climate targets for Canada. We have committed to producing net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, which will require major changes for our economy and way of life. Canadian citizens need to unde... + Read More
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Series: Dark Days at Noon The Future of Fire Hardcover Edward Struzik 9780228012092 $39.95 NATURE Aug 26, 2022

The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent’s forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate.Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from before European contact to the present, in the hopes that we may learn from how we managed fire in the ... + Read More
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Series: Tigers and the Internet Story, Shamans, History Hardcover Kira Van Deusen 9780228011149 $37.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 15, 2022

The Udege, a small Indigenous group in the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai regions of Russia, have a rich oral storytelling tradition. They speak the Udege language, and their religious beliefs include animism and shamanism. Over two decades, Kira Van Deusen travelled across Russia interviewing Udege storytellers in order to record their folktales.Tigers and the Internet recounts individual storytellers’ lives and the stories that they related to Van Deusen. Combining the translated stories with detailed commentary, background information on... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies Atiqput Inuit Oral History and Project Naming Hardcover Carol Payne 9780228011057 $45.95 HISTORY Aug 19, 2022

"Our names – Atiqput – are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what’s in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inu... + Read More
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Series: Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec Deindustrializing Montreal Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class Hardcover Steven High 9780228010753 $49.95 HISTORY Jun 13, 2022

Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighbourhood with a strong Irish and French presence, and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neighbourhood that is home to the city’s English-speaking Black community, face each other across Montreal’s Lachine Canal, once an artery around which work and industry in Montreal were clustered and by which these two communities were formed and divided.Deindustrializing Montreal challenges the deepening divergence of class and race analysis by recognizing the intimate relationship between capitalis... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Studies in Leadership, Public Policy, and Governance The Age of Consequence The Ordeals of Public Policy in Canada Hardcover Charles J. McMillan 9780228010937 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 07, 2022

Since the election of Pierre Trudeau in 1968, Canada has had nine prime ministers, a series of minority governments, as many as sixteen leaders of the opposition, and a turnover of party leaders in provincial governments. This rotation shows the vibrant nature of the Canadian political system, which combines a measure of continuity and stability with change and policy innovation.The Age of Consequence provides an insider’s account of Canada’s political environment over the last fifty years. Focusing on the key personalities, leaders, and politi... + Read More
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Series: Jean de Grandpré Legacy of a Giant Hardcover Danielle Stanton 9780228012085 $37.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 17, 2022

Visionary leader and businessman Jean de Grandpré has earned many nicknames: he is known variously as the Simplifier, the Architect, and the Strategist. A lawyer when he joined Bell Canada in 1966, he went on to build a telecommunications empire that spanned the continent, crossing paths with politicians, moguls, and philanthropists along the way.Beginning as Bell’s general counsel, de Grandpré quickly rose through the corporate ranks and became president in 1973. A few years later he created Bell Canada Enterprises, one of America’s largest te... + Read More
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Series: Carleton Library Series Harriet's Legacies Race, Historical Memory, and Futures in Canada Hardcover Ronald Cummings 9780228010654 $37.95 LITERARY CRITICISM May 15, 2022

Historic freedom fighter and conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman risked her life to ferry enslaved people from America to freedom in Canada. Her legacy instigates and orients this exploration of the history of Black lives and the future of collective struggle in Canada.Harriet’s Legacies recuperates the significance of Tubman’s time in Canada as more than just an interlude in her American narrative: it is a new point from which to think about Black diasporic mobilities, possibilities, and histories. Through essays and creative ... + Read More
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Series: Autobiography of a Garden Hardcover Patterson Webster 9780228011569 $49.95 GARDENING Jul 04, 2022

Autobiography of a Garden follows Patterson Webster’s twenty-five-year journey as she transforms a beautiful but conventional country property into a 750-acre landscape that challenges what a garden is, or can be.A unique, personal memoir, this book details how a neophyte gardener moved from copying the ideas of other people to learning from them, and finally to striking out on her own. Combining traditions from French and English eighteenth-century gardens with contemporary perspectives, Webster communicates concepts and ideas that underpin th... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Out of the Studio The Photographic Innovations of Charles and John Smeaton at Home and Abroad Hardcover John Osborne 9780228012054 $49.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Aug 26, 2022

Photography, one of the most influential inventions of the nineteenth century, has been shaped by Canadian innovators. Among them are two Quebec men who have flown beneath the radar in studies of the history of photography: the Smeaton brothers.Out of the Studio documents the life, oeuvre, and achievement of Charles Smeaton and his younger brother, John. Launched by the opening of their “photographic gallery” in 1861, they developed a reputation in Quebec for images of contemporaneous people, places, and events taken in challenging outdoor sett... + Read More