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Series: Jeannie’s Demise Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto Paperback Ian Radforth 9781771135139 $29.95 HISTORY Oct 18, 2020

August 1, 1875, Toronto: The naked body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie’s Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that played out in the bustling streets and courtrooms of “Toronto the Good,” cast with all the lurid stock characters of the genre. Historian Ian Radforth brings to life an era in which abortion was illegal, criminal proceedings were a spectator sport, and coded advertisements for back-alley procedures ran in the margins of newspapers. At the centre of th... + Read More
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Series: Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women Paperback Silvia Federici 9781771133746 $16.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 14, 2018

We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts, which have occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new work Federici revisits some of the main themes of Caliban and the Witch, examining the root causes of these developments and outlining the consequences for the women affected and their communities. No less than the witch hunts in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Europe and the “New World,” this new war on women is a structural element of the n... + Read More
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Series: From the Heart Signal Decay Paperback Keith Cadieux 9781988168487 $6.95 FICTION Jun 08, 2021

Tim has recently passed away and left Lori with piles of expensive recording equipment and mountains of debt. Tim's family wants to move on from the loss but Lori can't let go, not while she can still hear Tim's laugh as though he's still there beside her. That is, until she begins to hear his laugh in odd places, like old recordings Tim never worked on.Can love transcend to keep us connected through death? Or do we just create our own reality when we're not ready to let go?
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Series: The Seventh Devil Paperback Suzanne Craig-Whytock 9781772311433 $22.95 FICTION Jul 15, 2021

When nineteen-year-old runaway Verity Darkwood, flat broke and devastated by guilt, takes refuge in a bar to escape the unwanted attention of a stranger, she doesn't expect to meet Gareth Winter, let alone become business partners with him. They discover that they each possess the ability to interact with the world "beyond the veil" and, with the help of Horace Greeley III, editor of the fantastical online journal The Echo, Verity and Gareth spend the next two years on the road, helping the earthbound spirits who haunt their clients to cross ov... + Read More
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Series: Crimson Quays Paperback Igor Hofbauer 9788894582901 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 15, 2021

We're all just animals after all. Before the beekeeper arrived, the Crimson Quays was just a well-appointed tourist trap: a luxury travel resort replete with swimming pools, musical performances, and amusement park rides. However, the resort's crowning glory--the very feature that drew the beekeeper to the island in the first place--was the zoo. Although the beekeeper, a biologist by trade, was tasked with the construction of the zoo, he was rarely spotted at resort events. Instead, he spent his evenings chasing other zoological pursuits--speci... + Read More
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Series: Gift, The Paperback Zoe Maeve 9781772620559 $18.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 13 - 17 May 01, 2021

The Shining meets Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette in this gripping debut from an award-winning talent.The Gift opens on the snow-blanketed grounds of the Alexander Palace in Western Russia where a moth has come to attend the birth of the fourth Romanov princess, Anastasia. She and her siblings grow up in a gilded world, isolated from the society beyond the palace walls despite their dominion over it. After mysteriously receiving a camera on her fifteenth birthday, she begins to document her world, but the gift carries with it a weight she can... + Read More
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Series: To Know You're Alive Paperback Dakota McFadzean 9781772620498 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 01, 2020

Graphic shorts filled with horror, humour, and the absurd Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Dakota McFadzean returns with a brilliantly dark collection that offers a glimpse into the cracks between childhood imagination and the disappointing harshness of adulthood. Populated by cruel bullies, exhausted parents, and relentless cartoon mascots, the world of To Know You're Alive renders the familiar into something that is alien and absurd. The characters in these stories long to uncover something uncanny in shadowy attics and beneath masks, only t... + Read More
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Series: Ghost Lake Paperback Nathan Adler 9781928120247 $19.95 FICTION Dec 31, 2020

In Ojibwe cosmology there are thirteen moons, and in these pages are thirteen offerings from Ghost Lake, an interrelated cast of characters and their brushes with the mysterious. Issa lives in fear of having her secret discovered, Aanzheyaawin haunts the roads seeking vengeance, Zaude searches for clues to her brother's death, Fanon struggles against an unexpected winter storm, Eadie and Mushkeg share a magical night, Tyner faces brutal violence, and Tyler, Clay, and Dare must make amends to the spirits before it's too late. Here the precolonia... + Read More
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Series: Vetala, The A novel of undying love Paperback Phillip Ernest 9781988130668 $18.95 FICTION

Nada Marjanovic, professor of Sanskrit at the University of Zagreb, has spent more than twenty years translating an obscure text on the vetala, a parasitic, vampire-like being that possesses the bodies of his victims. When her mentor and collaborator in the Indian city of Pune dies, she finds herself face-to-face with the undead that the text describes, an evil which long ago killed her lover ? and set her on the path of an obsessive scholarly revenge. She must rely on her intellect, mythic lore, and even dreams to piece together the mystery of... + Read More
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Series: Natural History of Transition, A Paperback Callum Angus 9781999058876 $18.95 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow as tall as buildings, turn into mountains, unravel hometown mysteries, and give birth to cocoons. Portland-based author Callum Angus infuses his work with a mix of alternative history, horror, and a reality heavily dosed with magic.
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Series: Personal Attention Roleplay Paperback Helen Chau Bradley 9781777485214 $18.95 FICTION Nov 23, 2021

A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother. A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships--with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals-on-wheels recipient. A queer metal band's summer tour unravels amid the sticky heat of the Northeastern US. A codependent listicle writer becomes obsessed with a Japanese ASMR channel.The stories in Personal Attention Roleplay are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and th... + Read More
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Series: Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning, The Paperback Audrey Whitson 9781988732473 $19.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2019

Three years into the second millennium, Majestic, Alberta is a farm town dealing with depressed crop prices, international borders closing to Canadian beef, and a severe drought. Older farmers worry about their way of life changing while young people concoct ways to escape: drugs, partying, moving away. Even the church is on the brink of closing.When local woman Annie Gallagher is struck by lightning while divining water for a well, stories of the town's past, including that of Annie and the grandmother who taught her water witching, slowly pou... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series In Veritas Paperback C.J. Lavigne 9781988732831 $21.95 FICTION May 01, 2020

Finalist for the 2021 Crawford Award!Winner of Speculative Book of the Year at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Best of List for Tor.com and Every Book a DoorwayAirdrie Reads WINNING book!"Things that are and are not, she thinks, and the dog is a snake."In this fantastic and fantastical debut, C.J. Lavigne concocts a wondrous realm overlaying a city that brims with civic workers and pigeons. Led by her synesthesia, Verity Richards discovers a hidden world inside an old Ottawa theatre. Within the timeworn walls live people who should not ... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series Only Pretty Damned Paperback Niall Howell 9781988732534 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2019

Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Literary Fiction Category!Niall Howell's Only Pretty Damned is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep Rowland's World Class Circus afloat for another season. When Toby, former trapeze artist turned disgruntled clown, begins seeing Gloria, a young and beautiful dancer longing for a bigger role under the spotlight, his hardboiled past resurfaces. Can he live without Genevieve, h... + Read More
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Series: The Singing Bones Distant Early Warning Paperback Elizabeth Hirst 9781987963939 $20.00 FICTION Apr 15, 2021

Canada is in crisis. Climate change has taken hold, and amid the flooding and the super storms, the dead begin crawling out of the ground at night, screaming out strange gibberish songs that entrance anyone who hears them. The north quickly becomes a wild west, without the west. Denny's life changes forever one day when she sees her dad on TV, dead and screaming. Denny gives up her job, buys supplies, and heads out with her dad's dog, Geoff, to discover the truth behind his death, but truth always comes with a cost. What Denny discovers in the ... + Read More
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Series: Face in the Marsh, The Paperback Elizabeth Hirst 9781987963502 $20.00 FICTION Jun 15, 2019

Kenzie is twenty-five, with two degrees and no job prospects. When her parents offer her a job curating their museum, Ettenby's Log Palace, she accepts out of desperation, despite their history of family conflict. She arrives in the small Ontario town praying that her secrets will stay buried, and her hard-won mental health won't relapse. Once at the Log Palace, Kenzie is fascinated by an unsettling collection of junk dolls found on the property. As she follows the thread left by the collection, she discovers a history of poltergeist activity, ... + Read More
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Series: Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers Paperback Erin Vance 9781988754185 $16.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2019

The sudden death of Margot Morris and her two young daughters in a house fire sends shock-waves through a small rural community. The Morris' are a close-knit family, long associated with the mysterious arts of taxidermy and bee-keeping. Margot's three surviving siblings, Teddy, Agatha and Sylvia are left to wonder if Margot's death was an accident or murder, while the town is enveloped by speculation about this eccentric family whose close bonds are now being tested by tragedy.
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Series: Suture Paperback Nic Brewer 9781771667029 $20.00 FICTION Sep 21, 2021

To make her films, Eva must take out her eyes and use them as batteries. To make her art, Finn must cut open her chest and remove her lungs and heart. To write her novels, Grace must use her blood to power the word processor. Suture shares three interweaving stories of artists tearing themselves open to make art. Each artist baffles their family, or harms their loved ones, with their necessary sacrifices. Eva's wife worries about her mental health; Finn's teenager follows in her footsteps, using forearms bones for drumsticks; Grace's network co... + Read More
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Series: Rudley Mysteries, The Pumpkin Murders, The Rudley Mystery, A 1st edition Paperback Judith Alguire 9781897109458 $16.95 FICTION Sep 30, 2010

Trevor and Margaret Rudley, proprietors of the Pleasant Inn, are looking forward to autumn at their bucolic Ontario cottage-country hotel, expecting only a little Halloween high-jinks to punctuate the mellow ambiance. However, the first maple leaf has barely turned red when Gerald, an old female-impersonator friend of the Pleasant's esteemed cook Gregoire, turns ups dragging his very frightened friend Adolph behind. On the lam from Montreal after witnessing a drug deal in progress, the two effect to blend into the Pleasant's pleasant rhythms, h... + Read More
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Series: A Maples Mystery Cat Possessed, The Paperback Louise Carson 9781773240749 $16.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 01, 2020

It's April 1st and young artist Gerry Coneybear, inheritor of her Aunt Maggie's big old house The Maples (and her aunt's twenty cats!), wishes her mountain of bills was a joke. She's just self-published her children's book The Cake-Jumping Cats of Dibble, and that cost money. Plus the valuable painting she was hoping to sell is missing from the auctioneers'. And on top of everything else, her kitten Jay is acting weird, keeping her up at night. It's almost as if the cat's possessed.At least Gerry's personal relationships are going well: with he... + Read More
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Series: Rerouted 1st edition Paperback Daniel Bryant 9780889844216 $19.95 FICTION Jul 18, 2019

Expect the unexpected in Daniel Bryant's Rerouted, a collection of linked short stories in which myth, mirth and mayhem are never far away.