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Series: Rock Recipes Cookies Paperback Barry Parsons 9781550817461 $22.95 COOKING Sep 07, 2018

In response to overwhelming requests from his fan base around the world, bestselling home cook and food blogger Barry Parsons has compiled his ultimate collection of cookie recipes. From mouthwatering no-bake cookies to drop cookies chalk full of warm comfort, Rock Recipes Cookies includes all you’ll ever need when seeking a delectable bite-sized delight. And your cookie jar will never be the same when you try Barry’s quintessential guide to afterschool cookie glee. There’s even a section dedicated to milk and cookies as Barry reveals all the t... + Read More
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Series: Land Beyond the Sea Paperback Kevin Major 9781550817522 $19.95 FICTION May 10, 2019

**CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER** **NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS FINALIST, HISTORICAL FICTION** **BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD FINALIST** In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank the passenger ferry SS Caribou in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Of the 237 people on board, 136 perished, including 49 civilians. In Land Beyond the Sea, bestselling author Kevin Major reimagines the events of that fateful night from the perspectives of both those aboard the doomed vessel and the German U-boat commander who gave the order. With... + Read More
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Series: Shiny and New Paperback Robert Chafe 9781550817492 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Nov 15, 2018

***Bruneau Family Award for Children’s/Young Adult Literature Longlist*** Abigail Maureen Margaret-Rose Davis was the very best singer to ever grace the stage in Belbin’s Bight, Newfoundland. But this year, young Abigail would have to perform in her Christmas concert without her beloved Nan in the audience. Then Amira, a child from a faraway land, is introduced to the community, and, together with Amira, Abigail will learn the true spirit of the holidays. In Shiny and New, acclaimed writer Robert Chafe crafts an instant modern-day classic f... + Read More
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Series: New and Collected Poems Paperback Tom Dawe 9781550817553 $24.95 POETRY Mar 22, 2019

***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***2020 RELIT AWARDS: LONG SHORTLIST*** For almost fifty years, Tom Dawe has stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive, necessary collection spans five decades of poetic achievement, reprinting each of Dawe’s published collections while gathering previously uncollected poems along with a stunning body of new work. This volume stands as a testament to a monumental achievement for readers both at home and abroad.
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Series: Dig Paperback Terry Doyle 9781550817591 $19.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2019

***DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD FINALIST*** ***ALISTAIR MACLEOD PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION FINALIST** ***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD - FICTION FINALIST*** ***NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR BOOK AWARDS FICTION AWARD FINALIST*** ***2020 RELIT AWARDS: LONG SHORTLIST*** In twelve dialed-in and exceptionally honed short stories, Terry Doyle presents an enduring assortment of characters channelled through the chain reactions of misfortune and redemption. A construction worker’s future is bound to a feckless and suspicious workmate. A young wom... + Read More
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Series: transVersing Stories by Today's Trans Youth Paperback For the Love of Learning 9781550817621 $19.95 DRAMA Oct 30, 2018

Originally produced for the stage by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and For the Love of Learning, transVersing features some of Newfoundland’s most vibrant and necessary trans-youth voices. Gathering the work of Violet Drake, Daze Jefferies, Fionn Shea, Perin Squires, Taylor Stocks, and Dane Woodland, and including the dramatic text by Berni Stapleton and Sharon King-Campbell, transVersing is where Shakespeare meets slam poetry and the fiddle meets soapbox rant. These are the creative and courageous voices charting our course to understanding ... + Read More
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Series: About Face Essays on Addiction, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies Paperback Douglas Gosse 9781550816884 $19.95 PSYCHOLOGY Jan 15, 2019

About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada. Featuring essays by a diverse group of writers, About Face delves into the major categories of addiction: drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, video games, gambling, body dysmorphia, and eating disorders. With stories by those suffering from addictions, experts in the field, and service providers, this anthology is a far-reaching intervention into one of our country’s most rapidly expanding social problems.
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Series: A Woman's Almanac: 2019 Paperback St. John's Status of Women Council 9781550817584 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 30, 2018

Beautifully and functionally designed—and complete with a calendar, important dates, and empowering art and narratives by women—the 2019 edition of Breakwater’s annual Women’s Almanac is a day planner, a celebration of feminism, and a guide to a year of productivity, inclusivity, and activism.
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Series: Hell's Flames to Heaven's Gate A History of the Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland Paperback Jack Fitzgerald 9781550817225 $19.95 HISTORY Dec 17, 2019

How did a Catholic bishop stop the riot of 1861? Which British monarch physically assaulted a priest in St. John’s? What ancient relics are kept at the Basilica? Did a British princess help build Newfoundland’s greatest Catholic church? By mining Newfoundland’s history and folklore, Jack Fitzgerald answers these questions, and many more, in Hell’s Flames to Heaven’s Gate. From Newfoundland’s role as a sanctuary for the displaced immigrants of the Irish-Catholic diaspora to a Catholic Bishop’s plea to an English monarch, and from the stories... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Fate's Instruments No Safeguards 2 - Paul's Story Paperback H. Nigel Thomas 9781771832601 $25.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

Paul, an aspiring writer in his mid-twenties, marries Carlos, a boyfriend he lived with in Guatemala; brings him to Montreal, and looks forward to a life of bliss. Things go wrong from the beginning. The trouble Carlos causes leaves Paul little time for much else, and they break up. Bill, whom Paul sees as the father he always wanted, helps him overcome his guilt about his sexuality. At the peak of Paul's troubles Bill dies. Then fate, in the form of a brain tumour, strikes Paul. He receives support from his brother Jay, Lionel (himself a brain... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Ramya's Treasure Paperback Pratap Reddy 9781771833288 $25.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

Ramya immigrated to Canada from India with her husband about fifteen years ago. She typifies the first generation immigrant - a person who straddles two cultures, two countries, two continents, even perhaps two different worlds altogether.The novel has two intertwined threads of narration simultaneously unspooling. The one set in the present is about Ramya's battle to rebuild her life. The other, a series of sorties into the past, examines Ramya's sundry relationships. One narrative skein is Canadian, modern and multicultural, while the other i... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Shining Fragments Paperback Robin Blackburn McBride 9781771832663 $25.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

A heartbreaking arrival in a new country. Thrust too early into adulthood. Will he survive Canada’s turbulent streets? Toronto, 1882. Joseph Conlon has never felt more alone. Parentless after his mother dies on the voyage from Ireland, the frightened eight-year-old witnesses his sister’s abduction and is abandoned at the train station. But once he’s placed in a Catholic orphanage, Joseph discovers a gift for drawing and friends that begin to fill the hole in his heart. Falling for a mercurial girl acrobat, his desire to win her affection drives... + Read More
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Series: Colouring Books A Schizo-Philosopher's Colouring Book Paperback Douglas Ord 9781771832960 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 01, 2018

A Schizo-Philosopher's Colouring Book is a playful experiment in what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze might call ?crowned anarchy.? The crown of authority is worn by the format ?colouring book,? in a style that repeats with difference. Anarchy enters via a swarm of figures from philosophical, literary, theological, and art history, each with a quotation. These distribute themselves over fifty-two drawings, producing little machines that are desirous of colour and driven by paradox, whose ?organization of surface ... assures the resonance between... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Eye Paperback Marianne Micros 9781771832571 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

Finalist for the 2019 Governor General's Literary AwardMyth, folklore, and magic permeate the stories in Marianne Micros' collection Eye. Set in ancient and modern Greece, and in contemporary Europe and North America, these tales tell of evil-eye curses, women healers, ghosts, a changeling, and people struggling to retain or gain power in a world of changing beliefs. Here you will find stories of a nymph transformed into a heifer, a young soldier who returns home to discover that his brother is a changeling, an ancient temple uncovered during t... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series A Rogue's Decameron Paperback Stan Rogal 9781771831055 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

A Rogue's Decameron consists of ten stories - tales - that loosely follow the fabliaux style and are based within the spirit of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's The Decameron: extravagance, joy and ribald humour around sex, lust, vice, death and other ?hungers' of human beings. Using similar framing technique as these works - a prologue, a short description of each story and an epilogue, the stories explore themes such as social commentary and satire aimed at personal politics, societal mores and customs, hierarchies, and religiou... + Read More
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Series: Essential Translations Series Portrait of a Husband with the Ashes of His Wife Paperback Pan Bouyoucas 9781771832632 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

Portrait of a Husband with the Ashes of His Wife addresses themes of destiny and the repercussions of our choices. Before she dies, actress Alma Joncas instructs her husband to bury her ashes where she was happiest. He decides that was their garden. But relatives, friends and Alma's colleagues disagree. After they tell him where they think she was happiest, not only is he no longer sure about the garden, he wonders if he truly knew the woman he was married to for twenty-four years.
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Series: Essential Prose Series A Voluntary Crucifixion Paperback David MacKinnon 9781771832724 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2019

A Voluntary Crucifixion traces the story of 20th century Canada through the MacKinnon clan and David J MacKinnon?s life. Disillusioned with the slow death of the soul promised by life at a major Montreal law firm, MacKinnon ripped himself untimely from the profession, making a personal vow to discover society "from the bottom up". A Voluntary Crucifixion recounts the tale of MacKinnon?s adventures and misadventures from post-Tiananmen Hong Kong to various ports of call in the Indian Ocean, offering MacKinnon?s views on everything from censorshi... + Read More
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Series: Essential Essays Series small things (a random selection of anti-essays) Paperback Sky Gilbert 9781771832939 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 01, 2018

Small things is a book of mini-anti-essays, part of Sky Gilbert's project to dismantle and challenge the rigid classifications of genre, thus challenging 21st century notions of truth. Inspired by Oscar Wilde, Foucault, and the post-structuralist project, the small writings in small things are story, essay, and memoir combined. They question the notion that an essay is necessarily fact, or fair opinion, or even informed opinion, while at the same time challenging the dictum that fiction might necessarily be free of didacticism, or at least, ideas.
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Series: GWE Creative Non-Fiction A Life Out of Whack Confessions and Reflexions of an Un-American All-American Paperback Les Essif 9781771833158 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2018

A Life Out of Whack has two parts. The first part is autobiographical and sketches the atypical early life of a future academic scholar from family poverty to marriage and divorce at nineteen, from eight years in big-city and federal law enforcement to starting college at the age of twenty-six, culminating with a doctoral fellowship in French Studies at Brown U. The second part presents an alternative critical look at contemporary life and ethos: aging, nature, corporate capitalism, and American, French, and global cultures.
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Series: Essential Writers Series David Helwig Essays on His Works Paperback Ingrid Ruthig 9781771832908 $20.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 01, 2018

To date, Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist David Helwig has published close to fifty books and edited numerous others. He has also written for television and radio, worked at the CBC, taught at Queen's University, been Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island, and was named to the Order of Canada. Yet, he remains little known. This volume is the first to gather new essays, an interview, and earlier material - by George Fetherling, Douglas Glover, D.G. Jones, Simon Lloyd, Tom Marshall, rob mclennan, Shane Neilson, Ingrid Ruthig, Mark Sampson, a... + Read More
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Series: Memoir and Biography In the Backyard Relearning the Art of Aging, Dying and Making Love Paperback Mary Melfi 9781771832366 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2018

Attempting to make sense of her life, and change her sad disposition to a happy one, the author of In the Backyard: Relearning the Art of Aging, Dying and Making Love seeks out the help of her in-house therapist/husband, Dr. George Nemeth. The accredited psychologist's answers to the big questions provide a compassionate and humorous backdrop on to how to seize the day and not give up hope when faced with the nasty realities of poor health and unrealized aspirations.
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Series: Essential Poets Series The Missing Field Paperback Jennifer Zilm 9781771832779 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2018

Jennifer Zilm's poetry collection, The Missing Field, concerns themes of translation, preservation and the engagement with the transitory documents of everyday life, whether a snapshot of a Vancouver bus, postcards from the Middle East, lecture notes on Euripides, a van Gogh museum catalogue or marginalia in a water-damaged collection of Rilke poems.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Infrangible Paperback Carol Barbour 9781771832786 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2018

Carol Barbour's new book of poetry, Infrangible, is a heady concoction of sumptuous beauty and dangerous relations - by turns playful, refined, and ferocious. Nudging at the edge of being, the poems evoke the cadence and tremour of a beating heart. The idea of breakage resonates throughout, alluding to the necessity of dismantling patterns, and acknowledging vulnerability.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Flesh Paperback Sonia Di Placido 9781771832762 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2018

Flesh - a composite of poems perceived, evoked, discovered, moving between and among sensory boundaries as they eschew forward, backward or around exterior life to interior. Here Flesh of person, nature, language, spaces meet separate and become one. Flesh as surfaces, layers, textures, beings with sense memory perceptions of an unforgiving Flesh that scars and the forgiving Flesh that rebuilds itself.
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Series: Essential Poets Series I Sleep in the Arms of Your Eyes Paperback Beverly Ellenbogen 9781771832465 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2018

I Sleep in the Arms of Your Eyes is a reflection on love, freely given and loss fully lived. These poems are a contemplation on family life, and on the navigation through attachment, devotion and attempts at connection. They convey in brave simplicity of grounded language a sense of self where it belongs: "nose-touching-close," "sustained and articulate."
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Series: Such a Lonely, Lovely Road Paperback Kagiso Lesego Molope 9781988449449 $22.95 FICTION Aug 24, 2018

Winner of the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing, 2019 Coming out in South Africa ... At what cost? All his life Kabelo Mosala has been the perfect child to his doting absent parents, who show him off every chance they get. Both his parents and his small community look forward to him coming back after medical school and joining his father's practice. They also plan to give him the perfect township wedding. But Kabelo's one wish has always been to get as far away from the township as he possibly can and never come b... + Read More
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Series: New Land Same Sky Paperback C Fong Hsiung 9781988449463 $22.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2018

The Sino-Indian war has ended. The Chinese community in Calcutta (Kolkata), feeling threatened and facing discrimination, begins to look for ways to emigrate. By the seventies they are flocking to Canada legally or otherwise. Wen-Lung, a young man in his twenties, goes away on a tourist visa to Toronto where he marries Megan, a white Canadian woman, in order to obtain his legal papers. He leaves behind his pregnant wife, Maylei and a two-year old son. When Maylei arrives in Toronto a few years later, the union is far from ideal because Wen-Lung... + Read More
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Series: Thin Line, The Paperback Perparim Kapllani 9781988449500 $22.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2018

You remember the tragedy. But how do you begin to live again? One morning in the 1990s in Kosovo, the Albanian population of Gjakova find their front doors marked with a white cross. Fearful for their lives, the Albanians in one neighbourhood hide their women and children inside a basement. In a few days, however, Serbian forces wearing wolf masks arrive accompanied by tanks, demolishing houses and killing people. The occupants of the basement are found and shot down in cold blood. Ten-year-old Ermal, shielded by his dead mother, remains alive... + Read More
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Series: Rouge Paperback Adrian De Leon 9781988449487 $20.95 POETRY Oct 26, 2018

To commemorate a tragedy. This series of poems is a response to the 2012 mass shooting at a block party on Danzig Street, Scarborough (Toronto). The city's east end becomes a source of poetic inspiration, and the two intersecting subway lines provide the organizing structure. From west to east, and north to south--Kipling to McCowan, Finch to Downsview--the stations on the way inspiring form, voice, and content, meditation, commentary, and geometry. The City is the Poem. The Discovery Walk, inviting my well-worked Clarks to pry my feet from t... + Read More
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Series: Looking Back, Moving Forward Paperback Julie C Robinson 9781988449524 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 15, 2018

Home and away-the lives and thoughts of immigrants. These creative works and brief essays by accomplished immigrant writers offer fresh perspectives, images, and insights that richly enhance our cultural imagination. Short creative works in a variety of genres-poetry, fiction, drama, and screenplay-address issues of truth, secrecy, love, loss, connections, and community. The essays in this volume grapple with the impact of immigration on art. Several of the contributors are well known in their counties of origin but endure obscurity here in Ca... + Read More
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Series: Nehanda Paperback Yvonne Vera 9781988449548 $22.95 FICTION Nov 30, 2018

Introduction by M G Vassanji In the late nineteenth century white settlers and administrators arrive to occupy the African country of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Nehanda, a village girl, is recognized through omens and portents as a saviour. The resulting uprising by the Africans is brutally crushed but looks forward to the war of independence that succeeded a century later. Told in lucid, poetic prose, this is a gripping story about the first meeting of a people with their colonizer.
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Series: Why Don't You Carve Other Animals Paperback Yvonne Vera 9781988449555 $22.95 FICTION Nov 30, 2018

The place is white-ruled Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) of the 1970s, the exile the African in his or her own land. Young men and women flee from their towns and villages to join the freedom fighters in the forests. These stories, set during the years of the armed struggle, tell of the other struggle, that of the survival and anxiety of those who stayed behind. Told essentially from the women's point of view, in lyrical but unaffected prose, the stories recreate the dark atmosphere of those months full of fear and hope. This new edition is introduced by... + Read More