61.
Series:
Public Enemy
Paperback
Olivier Choinière
9780369103574
$19.95
DRAMA
Aug 30, 2022
Three generations of a family argue over current events, finances, and culture, with everyone looking to blame someone else for society’s ills in this satirical examination of how judgment can both divide and unite people. Elizabeth, the matriarch, has invited her children and grandchildren over for dinner. Instead of a nice family meal, it quickly slides into the adults arguing in the dining room and the kids fighting in the living room. Rapid-fire dialogue fuses and overlaps, but no one listens to each other. A blistering take on the family d...
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Series:
Reasonable Doubt
Paperback
Joel Bernbaum
9780369103604
$18.95
DRAMA
Oct 11, 2022
A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with Saskatchewan residents and the court transcripts surrounding the killing of Colten Boushie and trial of Gerald Stanley, a kaleidoscopic picture is formed of the views of the incident, the province, and Indigenous people in Canada. Reasonable Doubt—with interviews by Joel Bernbaum, music by Lancelot Knight, and dramaturgy by Yvette Nolan—provides a...
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63.
Series:
Successions
Paperback
Michaela Di Cesare
9780369103444
$18.95
DRAMA
Mar 22, 2022
After the unexpected death of their parents, two second-generation Italian Canadian brothers must come together to decide whether to hold on to the family home, which is full of secrets and hoarded junk, or save what’s left of their strained relationship. When Anthony, an uptight lawyer running for office, arrives with his former actor-turned-campaign-manager wife Cristina, they’re set on signing away the house and everything that comes with it. But Enzo, a disorganized plumber, and his pregnant girlfriend Nat have other plans. The pleasantries...
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64.
Series:
Wasp
Paperback
Rhiannon Collett
9780369102997
$18.95
DRAMA
Nov 08, 2022
It’s Wasp’s destiny to be impregnated by a swarm of hornets called the Angels on their twenty-first birthday, but they aren’t going down without a fight. Their plan? A bottle of Coke, an abandoned church, and (regrettably) their ex-boyfriend Isaac. Across town the twin daughters of a prominent cult leader are also approaching their twenty-first birthdays. True-believer Caroline is excited for her fate, but Rachel isn’t so sure. When Rachel runs into Isaac, he offers Wasp’s help, a caustic solution that seems too good to be true. Meanwhile Jane...
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65.
Series:
Women of the Fur Trade
Paperback
Frances Koncan
9780369103505
$18.95
DRAMA
May 31, 2022
In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel. Marie-Angelique, a Metis Taurus, is determined to woo Louis (a Metis Libra)—who will be arriving soon—by sending him boldly flirtatious letters. Eugenia, an Ojibwe Sagittarius, brings news of rebellion back to the fort after trading, but isn’t impressed by Louis’s true mediocre nat...
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66.
Series:
Out of the Dark
Paperback
Wesley W Bates
9780889844445
$21.95
ART
Aug 30, 2022
In Out of the Dark, master engraver Wesley W. Bates presents a compilation of wood engravings that bring to life exquisite landscapes and arresting scenes, all rendered simply but powerfully in the deep back and stark white of the storied artistic technique.
67.
Series:
Rank Songbirds
Paperback
Leon Rooke
9780889844483
$16.95
POETRY
Mar 15, 2022
Leon Rooke's Rank Songbirds delves into dramatic and intense relationships, politics and the quirks of society, celebrating humanity's resilience in spite of-or perhaps because of-its flaws.
68.
Series:
The Razor's Edge
Paperback
Karl Jirgens
9780889844506
$18.95
FICTION
May 30, 2022
A collection of linked short stories that hopscotches between time and space to explore the haunting hunger that reaches beyond the physical and into the spiritual-for love, for understanding and for truth.
69.
Series:
Took You So Long
Paperback
C. I. Matthews
9780889844469
$18.95
FICTION
Aug 31, 2022
Took You So Long presents emotionally resonant stories about ultra-modern relationships and deeply flawed characters mired in the circumstances of their everyday lives.
70.
Series:
I Am William
Paperback
Rébecca Déraspe
9781927922958
$15.95
DRAMA
Apr 01, 2022
Margaret Shakespeare, age 13, must write her remarkable plays in secret: it is 1577, and a girl who can read and write is in danger from the witch-hunters. After all, as her father keeps reminding her, a woman's place is in the home...next to a big pile of laundry. Once the sweet but dim William discovers his sister's astonishing talent, a chain of events is set in motion that will change both their lives forever. What happens to women of genius in a world that wants only their silence? Can a sister's determination — and a brother's unfail...
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71.
Series:
Okinum
Paperback
Émilie Monnet
9781927922934
$15.95
DRAMA
Apr 01, 2022
In Anishnaabemowin, Okinum means dam. In deciphering a recurring dream about beavers, Émilie Monnet discovers how to break down interior barriers, to trust in the power of intuition, and to deconstruct cultural walls. A circular and immersive experience that interweaves three languages — English, French and Anishnaabemowin — Okinum is an ode to reclaiming language and reconnecting to one's ancestors.
72.
Series:
Out the Window
Paperback
Liza Balkan
9781927922927
$15.95
DRAMA
Apr 01, 2022
In August 2000, Liza Balkan witnessed the beating death of a man named Otto Vass during an altercation with the police in the west end of Toronto. Called to the witness stand on a number of occasions over several years, Balkan kept careful track of the aftermath, then turned verbatim court transcripts, audio, video and text derived from multiple interviews with lawyers from both sides of the bench, officers, family members of the deceased, activists and artists, into Out the Window. This is a documentary theatre project that interrogates the su...
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73.
Series:
Venus' Daughter
Paperback
Meghan Swaby
9781927922965
$15.95
DRAMA
Apr 01, 2022
Venus' Daughter is inspired by the life of Sara "Saartjie" Baartman, who was known as "The Hottentot Venus". Baartman was a Khoisan woman taken from South Africa to be displayed on London stages from 1810 to 1815, and was then posthumously displayed at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, France until 2002. The story follows Denise, a young Black woman guided by an ancestor to begin her journey into self-love. Exploring the intersection of myth, fable, and the reality of how women and their bodies are viewed, Venus' Daughter peels back the layers of...
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74.
Series:
Where You Are
Paperback
Kristen Da Silva
9781927922941
$15.95
DRAMA
Apr 01, 2022
The place is a porch in Little Current on Manitoulin Island, where city-transplants Glenda and Suzanne have lived together since Suzanne arrived single, penniless and pregnant thirty-three years previous, moving in with Glenda and her late husband, Mark. While one is warm and industrious and the other brash and prone to late mornings, the sisters are nevertheless devoted to one another and spend laughter-filled days swapping stories about the locals and roping their appealing veterinarian neighbour, Patrick into various chores. This summer, an ...
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