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Series: Cold Case North The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett Paperback Michael Nest 9780889777491 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 07, 2020

For fans of true crime, an unsolved mystery of missing persons, police conspiracies, and private investigations in an Indigenous community in northern Canada. Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Métis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady’s success made politicians and clergy fear him, and he had enemies everywhere. In 1967, while prospecting in Saskatchewan with Cree Band Councillor and fellow activist Absol... + Read More
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Series: Watching the Devil Dance How a Spree Killer Slipped Through the Cracks of the Criminal Justice System Paperback William Toffan 9781771963251 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 10, 2020

The unbelievable true story of North America’s first known spree killer, written by a veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.In June 1966, Matthew Charles Lamb took his uncle’s shotgun and wandered down Ford Blvd in Windsor, Ontario. At the end of the bloody night, two teenagers lay dead, with multiple others injured after an unprovoked shooting spree. In his investigation into Lamb’s story, William Toffan pieces together the troubled childhood and the history of violence that culminated in the young man’s dubious distinction as Canada’s ... + Read More
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Series: Field Notes On Decline Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever Paperback Andrew Potter 9781771963947 $14.95 PHILOSOPHY Aug 17, 2021

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit vote—and the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year wraps declared 2016 “the worst … ever.” Four even more troubling years later, the question of our apocalypse had devolved into a tired social media cliché. But when COVID-19 hit, journalist and professor of pub... + Read More
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Series: The Fall 2020 Munk Debate The Munk Debates Paperback Rudyard Griffiths 9781487008390 $14.95

The twenty-sixth semi-annual Munk Debate, North America’s premier public-policy event.Held semi-annually, the Munk Debates provide leading thinkers with a global forum to discuss the major public-policy issues facing the world. Participants in the Munk Debates have included Tony Blair, Stephen Fry, Newt Gingrich, Malcolm Gladwell, Christopher Hitchens, Garry Kasparov, Henry Kissinger, Paul Krugman, Steven Pinker, Samantha Power, and Fareed Zakaria.The Munk Debate series features the full text of the debates, along with interviews with the debat... + Read More
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Series: I Am Ariel Sharon Paperback Yara El-Ghadban 9781487007973 $22.95 FICTION Nov 17, 2020

A bold and innovative novel, I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.Award-winning Palestinian Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban imagines the confrontation at death’s door between Ariel Sharon, the “King of Israel,” and the women closest to him — his mother, his wives, and the mysterious nurse Rita. Like latter-day Greek furies, they lament the brutality of his life and maltreatment of the Palestinian people and demand he face up to his part i... + Read More
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Series: Fixation How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet Hardcover Sandra Goldmark 9781642830453 $33.95 HOUSE & HOME Sep 22, 2020

Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And this strain of consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. It’s time to move past “peak stuff” and to a new system where design, reuse, and repair are the norm. This is the ambitious undertaking of Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet. Sandra Goldmark, who started humbly by founding a pop-up repair shop, is now a leader in the movement to demand better “stuff.” Af... + Read More
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Series: In Their Shoes Navigating Non-Binary Life Paperback Jamie Windust 9781787752429 $25.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Nov 21, 2020

Frank, funny and feisty, this must-read book is packed full of inspiring ways to live and thrive in your best non-binary life. Readers will come away empowered and armed with practical advice on how to navigate everything from relationships to fashion to work.
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Series: The Trans Self-Care Workbook A Coloring Book and Journal for Trans and Non-Binary People Paperback Theo Lorenz 9781787753433 $26.95 SELF-HELP Nov 21, 2020

A creative workbook for the trans and non-binary community, including colouring pages, journaling prompts and reflective exercises. Drawing on CBT and mindfulness techniques, topics include euphoria and dysphoria, coming out and building relationships, promoting the message that although no experience is identical to another, nobody is alone.
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Series: Who Was Doris Hedges? The Search for Canada's First Literary Agent Hardcover Robert Lecker 9780228003694 $37.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 18, 2020

Despite her trailblazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from Canadian literary histories. In Who Was Doris Hedges? Robert Lecker provides a detailed account of her remarkable career. Hedges published several novels, short stories, and books of poetry, moved in Montreal literary circles, did a stint as a radio broadcaster, and provided reports to the Wartime Informat... + Read More
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Series: Hunter with Harpoon Paperback Markoosie Patsauq 9780228004028 $19.95 FICTION Nov 18, 2020

Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance.In collaboration with the author, Valerie Henitiuk and Marc-Antoine Mah... + Read More
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Series: Indigenomics Taking a Seat at the Economic Table Paperback Carol Anne Hilton 9780865719408 $21.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

It is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Indigenous economy and the people involved. This is the foundation for economic reconciliation. This is Indigenomics.Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship of resources, and care for all. Highlights include: The ongoing power shift and rise of the modern Indigenous economy Voices of leading Indigenous business leaders The unfolding story in the la... + Read More
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Series: Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series The Chinese Greenhouse Design and Build a Low-Cost, Passive Solar Greenhouse Paperback Dan Chiras 9780865719293 $34.99 GARDENING Nov 03, 2020

Originally developed in China to feed millions, Chinese greenhouses are earth-sheltered, solar-heated, east-west oriented, intelligently glazed, and well-insulated. They have proven highly effective in growing warm-weather vegetables and fruits like green peppers and tomatoes in cold climates through fall, winter, and early spring using passive solar energy as the sole heat source.The Chinese Greenhouse is a full-color comprehensive guide to these passive solar greenhouses for self-sufficiency and growing year-round in soil or aquaponic grow be... + Read More
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Series: A Feminist History Society Book Because They Were Women The Montreal Massacre Paperback Josée Boileau 9781772601428 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 10, 2020

Fourteen young women, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of the tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture. The victims of what became known as the “Montreal Massacre” are remembered, their lives cut short on December 6, 1989 when a man entered École Polytechnique and systematically shot every young woman he encountered. The killer was motivated by a misogyny whose roots go far beyond one man and one day. This book examines how December 6 precipitated an entire cultur... + Read More
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Series: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Paperback Katherine Graham 9780887558689 $31.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 11, 2021

"Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future" looks to both the past and the future as it examines the foundational work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the legacy of its 1996 report. It assesses the Commission’s influence on subsequent milestones in Indigenous-Canada relations and considers our prospects for a constructive future. RCAP’s five-year examination of the relationships of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples to Canada and to non-Indigenous Canadians resulted in a new vision for Canada and provided 440 specific re... + Read More
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Series: Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest Paperback Rachelle Hope Saltzman 9781496831576 $30.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 16, 2020

The 2016 US presidential campaign and its aftermath provoked an array of protests notable for their use of humour, puns, memes, and graphic language. During the 2016 campaign, a video surfaced of then-candidate Donald Trump’s lewd use of the word “pussy”; in response, many women have made the issue and the term central to the public debate about women’s bodies and their political, social, and economic rights. Focusing on the women-centered aspects of the protests that started with the 2017 Women’s March, Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest... + Read More
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Series: Catastrophe Stories and Lessons from the Halifax Explosion Paperback T. Joseph Scanlon 9781771123716 $39.99 HISTORY Nov 27, 2020

Catastrophe weaves together compelling stories and potent lessons learned from the calamitous Halifax explosion—the worst non-natural disaster in North America before 9/11. On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered when volatile cargo on the SS Mont-Blanc freighter exploded in the bustling wartime harbour. More than nineteen hundred people were killed and nine thousand injured. Across more than two square kilometres some 1200 homes, factories, schools and churches were obliterated or heavily damaged. Writt... + Read More
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Series: 'Membering Austin Clarke Paperback Paul Barrett 9781771124775 $39.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 24, 2020

'Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like. Despite being one of Canada's most widely published, and most richly awarded writers, Austin Clarke (1934–2016) is not a household name. This collection addresses Clarke's marginalization in Canadian literature by demonstrating that his writing on Black diasporic life and the immigrant experience is a foundational, if untold, part of the story of CanLit. Noveli... + Read More