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Series: Exile Blues Paperback Douglas Gary Joseph Freeman 9781771862004 $24.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2019

When Preston Downs, Jr., alias Prez, slides down the emergency chute onto the frozen tarmac at the Montreal airport, little does he know that returning home to Washington D.C. or to his adopted city, Chicago, would now be impossible. Events had sped by after a dust-up with the Chicago police. With a new name and papers, he finds himself in a foreign city where people speak French and life is douce compared to the one he fled. Son of a World War II vet, Prez grows up in the 50s in D.C., a segregated Southern city, and learns early that black liv... + Read More
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Series: The Terrible Fours Paperback Ishmael Reed 9781771862431 $24.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2021
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Series: Bigotry on Broadway 1st edition Paperback Ishmael Reed 9781771862561 $24.95 PERFORMING ARTS Sep 01, 2021

How do intellectuals and scholars feel about how members of their ethnic groups are portrayed on Broadway? How would we know? Very few of them have the power to rate which plays and musicals are worthy and which ones are flops, and above all, be heard or read. The American critical fraternity is an exclusive club. Carla Blank and Ishmael Reed invited informed and accomplished writers, women and man, who are rarely heard from to comment about how ethnic groups are depicted on Broadway. The contributors are Lonely Christopher, Tommy Curry, Jack ... + Read More
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Series: Moving Against the System The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness Paperback David Austin 9781771133890 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 07, 2018

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era. Against a backdrop of widespread racism in the West, and colonialism and imperialism in the “Third World,” this group of activists, writers, and political figures gathered to discuss the h... + Read More
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Series: The Point Is to Change the World Selected Writings of Andaiye Paperback Alissa Trotz 9781771135078 $34.95 HISTORY May 31, 2020

Radical activist, thinker, and comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean’s most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. Through essays, letters, and journal entries, Andaiye’s thinking on the intersections of gender, race, class, and power are powerfully articulated, Caribbean histories emerge, and stories from a life lived at the barricades are revealed. We learn about the early years of the Working Peopl’s Alliance, the meaning asnd impact of the murder of Walter Rodney a... + Read More
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Series: Dream of No One but Myself Paperback David Bradford 9781771315609 $22.95 POETRY Oct 07, 2021

2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Finalist * 2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Shortlist An expansive, hybrid, debut collection of prose poems, self-erasures, verse, and family photo cut-ups about growing up in a racially trinary, diversely troubled family. Dream of No One but Myself is an interdisciplinary, lyrical unravelling of the trauma-memoir-as-proof-it's-now-handled motif, illuminating what an auto-archival alternative to it might look like in motion. Through a complex juxtaposition of lyric verse and self-erasure, family keepsake and transfo... + Read More
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Series: Autowar Paperback Assiyah Jamilla Touré 9781771315630 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2021

2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Longlist A visceral, vital, unblinking debut collection of poems exploring kinesthetic memory and longing, inherited violence, and the body as a geographical site. We're often told that we are given only what we can bear. For some of us our first lessons are in how much pain we're made to think we deserve—and the resulting scars are always meant to be kept secret. Assiyah Jamilla Touré's debut collection is a record of those scars—not those inflicted on us by the thousands of little wars we live in everyday, b... + Read More
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Series: Helem Paperback Stanley Wany 9781772620634 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 14, 2021

A surrealist journey through alienation, lost dreams, and self-redemptionA woman loses her sister to suicide and struggles with the overwhelming and confusing feelings that continue to plague her. A man reflects on a decade spent working in a call centre and the strange day-to-day momentum that caused him to unconsciously abandon his goals. Helem relies on a propulsive graphic narrative and evocative illustration to tell the intensely personal stories of two characters at a crossroads.The stories contained in Helem, originally published by TRIP... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Canticles II (MMXIX) Paperback George Elliott Clarke 9781771834094 $29.95 POETRY Oct 01, 2019

Canticles II continues George Elliott Clarke's epic exploration of the Black/African intellectual presence in the Occident. In Canticles I (MMXVI) and (MMXVII), Clarke presents dramatic monologues in which historical personages and invented characters address 2000 years of imperialism and 500 years of slavery, some in support and others in opposition. In Canticles II, Clarke revises influential scriptures, principally Judeo-Christian, to offer alternative takes and tangents on their narratives and aphorisms, their histories and prophecies, refl... + Read More
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Series: Essential Anthologies Series Changing the Face of Canadian Literature Paperback Dane Swan 9781771835237 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 01, 2020

A g call to action and accountability. – Shelagh RogersNeedless to say, moments like now, when the hurdles to becoming a respected author are at their lowest. When the only hurdles to being published are the quality of your writing and your patience to deal with certain less and less important gatekeepers. Moments in history like this, must be acknowledged and celebrated. That's what this anthology is: It's a celebration. A moment to cry out, “Look how many of us have a voice! There are stories, and poetry in this country that are about people ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Canticles II MMXX Paperback George Elliott Clarke 9781771835480 $29.95 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Clarke's visions of canonical and apocryphal scriptures are black in ink, but lightning in illumination. Testament II issues re-readings, revisions, rewrites of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African Diaspora in the Americas. Canticles II (MMXIX) and Canticles II (MMXX) follow Testament I (also issued in two parts) whose subject is History, principally, of slavery and imperialism and liberation and independence. Canticles II is properly irreverent where necessary, but never blasphemous. It is s... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Easily Fooled Paperback H. Nigel Thomas 9781771835817 $25.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2021

Less than an hour after Millington receives his permanent resident visa, he wonders if his husband Jay would now end their marriage. And Jay has multiple reasons to. Millington is an ex-Methodist minister, who once believed he could be celibate. When he fled Caribbean Methodism and came to Montreal, he thought he’d resolved the issues that made him leave, but he comes to understand that psychological trauma, childhood conditioning, parental and community expectations and his own need for community and family valorization are not easily exorcise... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series A Good Name Paperback Yejide Kilanko 9781771836012 $25.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2021

Twelve years in America and Eziafa Okereke has nothing to show for it. Desperate to re-write his story, Eziafa returns to Nigeria to find a woman he can mold to his taste. Eighteen-year-old Zina has big dreams. An arranged marriage to a much older man isn't one of them. Trapped by family expectations, Zina marries Eziafa, moves to Houston, and trains as a nurse. Buffeted by a series of disillusions, the couple stagger through a turbulent marriage until Zina decides to change the rules of engagement.
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Series: Guernica Prize The Shade Tree Paperback Theresa Shea 9781771836296 $25.00 FICTION Dec 01, 2021

Winner of the 2020 Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction When the lies of thirteen-year-old Ellie Turner cause a black man’s lynching in 1930s Florida, her younger sister Mavis begins to question the family's long-held beliefs about race. At the same time, the novel focuses on the courageous story of Sliver, a black midwife whose love for her grandson forces her to flee to Washington DC with the child, and Mavis, in tow. As the novel progresses through the decades, the lives of the three women merge and troubling family secrets are revealed. The ... + Read More
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Series: Working in the Bathtub Conversations with the Immortal Dany Laferrière Paperback Adam Leith Gollner 9781773900735 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 09, 2020

Montreal writer Dany Laferrière became "Immortal" in 2015, when he was inducted into the Académie française, the highest honour in all French literature - and the first Quebecer and only second Black writer to receive such an honour. In these wide-ranging interviews with Adam Leith Gollner, portions of which were originally published in The Paris Review, Laferrière reveals how his life and his writing are inseparable, discussing everything from his breakout debut, How To Make Love To a Negro Without Getting Tired, to the extraordinary success o... + Read More
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Series: Little Girl Gazelle Paperback Stéphane Martelly 9781773900711 $14.95 Grade (US) from 4 - 8 Aug 07, 2020

A little girl gazelle leaps from page to page, asking hard questions about what is fair and right. She's sleek and fleet, and the poetic language lifts her up, up, higher and faster as she whirls through the bold eloquence of the book's illustrations, making colourful tracks, leaving her mark, finding her way, skimming and dancing through an unjust world. Part fable, part metaphor, Little Girl Gazelle is an extraordinarily beautiful picture book focused on discrimination and equality, presenting parents' subtle efforts to prepare their black g... + Read More
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Series: No Crystal Stair Paperback Mairuth Sarsfield 9781773900919 $21.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2021

First published in 1993, No Crystal Stair is an absorbing story of urban struggle in the 1940s. Raising her three daughters alone, Marion discovers she can only find gainful employment if she passes as white. Set in the Montreal working class neighbourhood of Little Burgundy against the backdrop of an exciting cosmopolitan jazz scene?home of Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones, and Rockhead's Paradise?and the tense years of World War II, No Crystal Stair is both a tender story of friendship and community as well as an indictment of Canada's "soft" rac... + Read More
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Series: Youth of God, The Paperback Hassan Ghedi Santur 9781988449739 $22.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2019

Longlisted for Canada Reads, 2020 Finalist for the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing, 2019 The Youth of God tells the story of Nuur, a sensitive and academically gifted seventeen-year-old boy growing up in Toronto's Somali neighbourhood, as he negotiates perilously between the calling of his faith and his intellectual ambitions. Trying to influence him are a radical Muslim imam and a book-loving, dedicated teacher who shares his background. In its telling, this novel reveals the alienated lives of Somali youth in ... + Read More
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Series: Somali Camel Boy, The Paperback Nur Abdi 9781988449876 $22.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2019

Where simply yawning can be a crime... Ali belongs to a camel-herding family of the Sudi clan, in a Somali society riven by ancient clan rivalries. When members of the rival Duki clan kill his father and steal his herd, Ali walks all the way to the capital town to start a new life. The ruling government, however, is dominated by the Duki; its actions are murderous, its rulings arbitrary, and its target the Sudi clan. For the crime of yawning--thus acting out the Great Leader's nickname, "Big Mouth"--Ali is arrested, imprisoned, brutally beaten... + Read More
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Series: Mina Among the Shadows Paperback Edem Awumey 9781774150238 $22.95 FICTION Oct 21, 2020

Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. Kerim Neto returns to his hometown, a city on Africa's Atlantic coast, to search for Mina, his former model, lover, and muse. But Mina has disappeared. He combs the streets and byways he has known, hoping to find her. He questions his old friends from the theatre, with whom he and Mina had performed and mocked the country's army and dictators. But these friends have now joined the establishment, they are now imams, preachers, and police informers. Which Mina will Kerim find? Does she... + Read More
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Series: Maame (Mother) Paperback Elizabeth Allua Vaah 9781774150290 $22.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2020

In Aakonu, a small village on the coast of Ghana, life is a constant tussle between the reality of the mundane and the superstitions presided over by the local priestess. In this setup, girls in their puberty can only look forward to marriage--often to men old enough to be their fathers and already with other wives. Ahu, a young widow of eighteen, has no choice but to marry an older relative. But she refuses to have more children and returns to Aakonu. Overcoming all odds, she sets up a village eatery and raises her children, educating them al... + Read More
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Series: Finish this Sentence Paperback Leslie Roach 9781774150269 $20.95 POETRY Oct 20, 2020

Finish this Sentence is about a personal experience in dealing with racism and healing from its effects. As this book weaves through the anger and anxiety provoked by racism, it points to the ultimate realization: one is neither the conditioning nor the incessant chatter that racism can provoke. Rather, one is powerful and able to arrest those harmful thoughts. Awakening to these truths have helped Leslie to heal. She hopes that her work will be beneficial to others as well.
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Series: Where the Baedeker Leads Paperback James Yeku 9781774150504 $20.95 POETRY Sep 17, 2021

Where the Baedeker Leads uncovers the many delicate layers that lie in the spaces between departures and arrivals, offering memories and stories. Whether it's about journeys, personal transition, or changes in the seasons, the aim in these poems is to draw attention to the personal experiences and social conditions that push people away from home to the new landscapes, sights, and encounters that remind them of the times and place they have so painfully left behind.
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Series: searching for eastman Paperback Charles C Smith 9781774150535 $20.95 POETRY Sep 22, 2021

Shortlisted for the ReLit Award, Poetry, 2022 searching for eastman is a multidisciplinary performance--a choreopoem--in four acts, based on the interpretation of four of Julius Eastman's compositions--evil nigger; prelude to st joan; stay on it; and gay guerrilla. Making use of different artistic forms--poetry, theatre, music, dance, video, and digital--it is inspired by the African griot tradition, the Harlem Renaissance (eg the work of Langston Hughes with jazz and Kurt Weil), and the Black Arts movement (eg Amiri Baraka's work with Sun Ra).
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Series: Voyage, The Paperback H Nigel Thomas 9781774150566 $20.95 POETRY Nov 04, 2021

The Voyage is a collection of poems culled from a lifetime of meditations on self, family, time, and ageing; it also reflects on political and social aspects of human lives, such as hubris, abuse of power, racism and oppression.
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Series: Dear Black Girls Hardcover Shanice Nicole 9781999058838 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 10 Feb 08, 2021

Dear Black girls all around the world, this one is for you -- for us.Dear Black Girls is a letter to all Black girls. Every single day poet and educator Shanice Nicole is reminded of how special Black girls are and of how lucky she is to be one. Illustrations by Kezna Dalz support the book's message that no two Black girls are the same but they are all special--that to be a Black girl is a true gift. In this celebratory poem, Kezna and Shanice remind young readers that despite differences, they all deserve to be loved just the way they are.
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Series: ZOM-FAM Paperback Kama La Mackerel 9781999058845 $16.00 POETRY Sep 10, 2020

In their debut poetry collection, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island, Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems, ZOM-FAM (meaning "man-woman" or "transgender" in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a gender-creative child growing up in the 80s and 90s on the plantation island, as they seek vocabularies for loving and honouring their queer/trans self amidst the legacy of colonial silences. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrativ... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry Response of Weeds, The A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies Paperback Bertrand Bickersteth 9781988732794 $18.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

Winner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award!Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for PoetryWinner of a 2021 High Plains Book Award for First Book!Finalist for the 2020 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!A 2020 CBC Poetry Book of the Year!Finalist for a 2021 High Plains Book Award for PoetryBertrand Bickersteth's debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. The Response of Weeds offers a much-needed window on often ov... + Read More
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Series: Other Side of the Game Paperback Amanda Parris 9781770919914 $17.95 DRAMA May 21, 2019

I don’t think you can expect society to change if you’re not ready to take the first step. In the 1970s Beverly walks into an office of Black activists, wanting to join the Movement, and has to prove she’s committed enough to fight. Some forty years later, in the Hip Hop Generation, Nicole reunites with her ex-boyfriend on a basketball court, wondering where he’s been, when a police officer stops them. In this striking debut, Amanda Parris turns the spotlight on the Black women who organize communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, an... + Read More
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Series: Sound of the Beast Paperback Donna-Michelle St. Bernard 9780369100764 $17.95 DRAMA Sep 21, 2020

"Compassion is good, but it’s just motivation. Cars need engines. Movements need mobilization." Through spoken word, storytelling and hip hop, acclaimed wordsmith Donna-Michelle St. Bernard illuminates racial discrimination, the suppression of expression and the trials of activism. Her experience as a Canadian emcee is woven through with allusion to Tunisian emcee Weld El 15’s unjust imprisonment for rhymes against a regime. This story creates a space to reflect on how we are connected to the systems that oppress us, and how we can empower each... + Read More
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Series: The Bridge Paperback Shauntay Grant 9780369102263 $18.95 DRAMA Apr 26, 2021

Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridge explores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed one by one from the brothers themselves, as well as a trio of community gossips who provide the musical backdrop for this gospel-infused tale. A story of a family torn apart by betrayal, The Bridge invites us to consider the roads we choose in life, and to wonder whether we can ever cross back over the bridges we burn along the way.
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Series: Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers Paperback Makambe K Simamba 9780369102423 $18.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 15 - 18 Sep 07, 2021

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through the unknown, as Slimm grapples with the truth of the life he lived and the death he didn’t choose. Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers is a protest for all Black life beyond headlines and hashtags, a prayer for all families left behind, and a promise to the community that all Black lives matter.
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Series: AfriCANthology AfriCANthology Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets Paperback A. Gregory Frankson 9781990086090 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 01, 2022

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by Greg Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspects of navigating their unique personal, professional, and artistic path... + Read More
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Series: Dominoes at the Crossroads Short Stories Paperback Kaie Kellough 9781550655315 $19.95 FICTION Jan 20, 2020

In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation--one populated by Caribbean Canadians who hopscotch across the country. The characters navigate race, class, and coming-of-age. Seeking opportunity, some fade into the world around them, even as their minds hitchhike, dream, and soar. Some appear in different times and hemispheres, whether as student radicals, secret agents, historians, fugitive slaves, or jazz musicians. From the cobblestones of Montreal's Old Port through the foliage of a South American rainforest; from a ba... + Read More
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Series: Book of Wings Paperback Tawhida Tanya Evanson 9781550655643 $19.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2021

In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one's own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist traces a global journey from Vancouver to the United States, Caribbean, Paris, and Morocco as a relationship with her lover and travel partner disintegrates and she finds herself on a path toward personal discovery and spiritual fulfillment that leads her deep into the North African landscape.