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Series: Halbman Steals Home Electronic book text, EPUB B. Glen Rotchin 9781459701281 $9.99 FICTION Feb 18, 2012

Mort Halbman is the prime suspect in an arson investigation when his family home burns down, and he feels compelled to continually return to the ruins and to the memories the place still holds for him. Haunted by the memories of his former home and life, Mort Halbman risks everything in a daring attempt at a last shot at redemption. Halbman is a crotchety, divorced, 65-year-old garment manufacturer, who laments losing the one true love of his life, the Montreal Expos. Now the dream home he built in the late 1960s in the exclusive Montreal subur... + Read More
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Series: Li'l Bastard Electronic book text, EPUB David McGimpsey 9781770562974 $10.95 POETRY Nov 28, 2011

Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Poetry David McGimpsey's fifth collection of poems takes to new levels the melding of the deeply personal and the culturally popular that drove his acclaimed book Sitcom (nominated for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry) – this is confessional poetry as written by a chronic trickster and a committed liar. Written in part as an homage to the poetic idols of his youth, John Berryman and Robert Lowell, Li'l Bastard is a collection of 'chubby sonnets' – sixteen-line poems organized in eight twenty-... + Read More
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Series: Ballet School Confidential Love You, Hate You Ballet School Confidential Electronic book text, EPUB Charis Marsh 9781554889624 $8.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Oct 31, 2011

Follow four young dancers in their first semester at the Vancouver International Ballet Academy while they work toward careers as professional ballet dancers. Kaitlyn, Taylor, Alexandra, and Julian are all students at the Vancouver International Ballet Academy where ballet and drama dominate everyone’s lives.Kaitlyn was the star at her old school, but the competition at VIBA is fierce and her reputation as a prodigy is threatened. About to turn fifteen years old, Taylor is a bit of a scatterbrain. She’s got a lot of potential, but the teachers ... + Read More
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Series: All Good Children Electronic book text, EPUB Catherine Austen 9781554698264 $11.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Oct 01, 2011

It's the middle of the twenty-first century and the elite children of New Middletown are lined up to receive a treatment that turns them into obedient, well-mannered citizens. Maxwell Connors, a fifteen-year-old prankster, misfit and graffiti artist, observes the changes with growing concern, especially when his younger sister, Ally, is targeted. Max and his best friend, Dallas, escape the treatment, but must pretend to be "zombies" while they watch their freedoms and hopes decay. When Max's family decides to take Dallas with them into the unk... + Read More
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Series: A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People Electronic book text, EPUB Gabe Foreman 9781770562844 $10.95 POETRY Sep 22, 2011

People who rely on stereotypes are often vilified. But really, is there a better way to classify people? There are some taxonimical difficulties, though. Exactly how many types of people are there? What behaviours are characteristic of each particular group? How do you know if you’ve spotted an armchair psychologist or a kleptomaniac? Gabe Foreman's A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People is not your average reference book. It turns a series of sociological case studies into a functional encyclopedia that doubles as a unique, achi... + Read More
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Series: Yellow Mini Electronic book text, EPUB Lori Weber 9781554558384 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 17 Sep 07, 2011

A powerful free-verse novel that intertwines the coming-of-age stories of five teens and their relationships with each other, their parents, and themselves. Mark, Mr. Popularity, tools around town in the yellow mini left to him by his recently deceased father; his new girlfriend Stacey can't believe her luck, but doesn't understand Mark's odd need to disappear into the woods from time to time; her former friends Mary and Annabelle try to find their place in the world - shy Mary transforms into a concert pianist and Annabelle into an world-chang... + Read More
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Series: The Flower of Youth The Pier Paolo Pasolini Poems Electronic book text, EPUB Mary di Michele 9781770901063 $12.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2011

The poems in The Flower of Youth depict the coming of age and into sexual difference of the great writer and film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The time of this story is World War II; the place is German-occupied northern Italy. Unlike his younger brother, Guido, who took up arms to fight in the resistance, Pasolini chose to help his mother set up a school for the boys, mostly sons of farmers, too young to fight or be conscripted. The situation ignited an internal war that nearly eclipsed the historical moment for the young Pasolini, a bat... + Read More
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Series: The Sixth Extinction Electronic book text, EPUB d leonard freeston 9781459703346 $6.99 FICTION Aug 15, 2011

Jason Conrad, a man with the wealth of Bill Gates, decides to preserve for posterity the seeds of as many animal and plant species as possible in a vast and remote underground facility, taking the world’s legitimate seed banks and "frozen zoos" to a whole new level. Conrad’s secret doomsday complex, though, is staffed by a combination of environmental experts and mercenaries who will stop at nothing to achieve their once-noble ambitions.After a fellow police officer is murdered and his award-winning German shepherd disappears, Montreal Sergeant... + Read More
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Series: Hangman in the Mirror, The Electronic book text, EPUB Kate Cayley 9781554514649 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Aug 01, 2011

Françoise Laurent has never had an easy life. The only surviving child of a destitute washerwoman and wayward soldier, she must rely only on herself to get by. When her parents die suddenly from the smallpox ravishing New France (modern-day Montreal), Françoise sees it as a chance to escape the life she thought she was trapped in. Seizing her newfound opportunity, Françoise takes a job as an aide to the wife of a wealthy fur trader. The poverty-ridden world she knew transforms into a strange new world full of privilege and fine things — and of... + Read More
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Series: The Anatomy of Clay Electronic book text, EPUB Gillian Sze 9781554909841 $13.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2011

Taking off from the Promethean myth of human creation, Gillian Sze’s second poetry collection explores the “anatomy of clay” and the individual as a sentient mystery. At times reflective, instructional, playful, or strange, the first section, Quotidianus, offers observational poems, which recount intimate and ordinary moments often missed, overlooked, or forgotten. Sze tugs at the fabric of habit and amidst the urban mundane finds her subjects in a woman waiting for the bus, a neighbour who talks to his plants, a girl smoking after a storm.... + Read More
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Series: Miracleville Electronic book text, EPUB Monique Polak 9781459800274 $9.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 01, 2011

Sixteen-year-old Ani lives in the tiny Quebec town of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre, where her family runs Saintly Souvenirs, a tourist shop catering to the many pilgrims who come to the town seeking a miracle. The bane of Ani's existence is her hyperactive, over-sexed younger sister, Colette. Ani and her mother, Therese, are devout Catholics; Colette and her father are not. When Therese is paralyzed after a freak accident, Aniís faith is tested, but when she is confronted with something shocking in her mother's past, she has to rethink her whole existence.
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Series: Quest Biography Tom Thomson Artist of the North Electronic book text, EPUB Wayne Larsen 9781554888498 $7.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 18, 2011

Tom Thomson (1877-1917) occupies a prominent position in Canada’s national culture and has become a celebrated icon for his magnificent landscapes as well as for his brief life and mysterious death. The shy, enigmatic artist and woodsman’s innovative painting style produced such seminal Canadian images as The Jack Pine and The West Wind, while his untimely drowning nearly a century ago is still a popular subject of fierce debate. Originally a commercial artist, Thomson fell in love with the forests and lakes of Ontario’s Algonquin Park and devo... + Read More
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Series: National Performance Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion Electronic book text, EPUB Erin Hurley 9781442660175 $51.00 PERFORMING ARTS Jan 01, 2011

In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ness' for audiences both within and outside the province? In exploring Expo 67, the critical response to Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs, Carbone 14's image-theatre, Marco Micone's writing practices, Celine Dion's popular music, and feminist performance... + Read More
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Series: Into the Mist The Story of the Empress of Ireland Electronic book text, EPUB Anne Renaud 9781459721623 $8.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Oct 29, 2010

Short-listed for the 2011 Information Book Award and commended for the 2011 VOYA Non-Fiction Honour List From 1906 to 1914, the Empress of Ireland, one of the fastest and most elegant liners of the Edwardian era, graced the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Remembered primarily for sinking in only 14 minutes in the St. Lawrence River and for having a greater loss of passenger life than the Titanic, the Empress’s true legacy is the significant role it played in the building of Canada. During the ship’s many crossings between Canada and England, it ... + Read More
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Series: Indexical Elegies Electronic book text, EPUB Jon Paul Fiorentino 9781770562714 $10.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2010

Jon Paul Fiorentino's new collection is a whip-smart poetic investigation of anxiety in all its many manifestations. Anxiety caused by geography, anxieties of influence and looming worries about loss inform the poems as they weave narrative threads that highlight both the treachery of language and its necessity in shaping human experience. The poems here build on Derrida's ideas about the psychological implications of memory and the archival impulse and on philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics of 'the index.' Indexical Elegies is a ric... + Read More
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Series: The Middle of Everywhere Electronic book text, EPUB Monique Polak 9781554695096 $7.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Oct 01, 2009

Noah Thorpe is spending the school term in Kangiqsualujjuaq, in Quebec's Far North, where his dad is an English teacher in the Inuit community. Noah's not too keen about living in the middle of nowhere, but getting away from Montréal has one big advantage: he gets a break from the bully at his old school. But Noah learns that problems have a way of following you—no matter how far you travel. To the Inuit kids, Noah is a qallunaaq—a southerner, someone ignorant of the customs of the North. Noah thinks the Inuit have a strange way of looking at t... + Read More
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Series: Hell in Flanders Fields Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres Electronic book text, EPUB George H. Cassar 9781770704718 $10.99 HISTORY Aug 30, 2010

On 22 April 1915, the men of the 1st Canadian Division faced chlorine gas, a new lethal weapon against which they had no defence. In defiance of a particularly horrible death, or, at the very least, severe lung injury, these untested Canadians fought almost continuously for four days, often hand-to-hand, as they clung stubbornly against overwhelming odds to a vital part of the Allied line after the French units on their left fled in panic. By doing so, they saved 50,000 troops in the Ypres salient from almost certain destruction, and, in additi... + Read More
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Series: Isobel and Emile Electronic book text, EPUB Alan Reed 9781770562639 $11.95 FICTION Apr 11, 2010

This is the story of Isobel and Emile. They wake up beside each other one morning, and they slowly get out of bed. It is the last time that they will sleep together. They know it. They do not want it to be the last time but they know that it is. They get out of bed and they go to a train station. Emile gets onto a train. Isobel does not. She stands on the platform and she watches him go. He is going to the city, where he will be an artist. He will make puppets, andfilms of puppets, that struggle to say something he does not have the words for. ... + Read More
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Series: Valley of Fire Electronic book text, EPUB Steven Manners 9781770700017 $9.99 FICTION Feb 22, 2010

John Munin is a rational man, a gifted Montreal psychiatrist who believes that the soul and psyche are interesting only in dissection. Even relationships are ripe for analysis, and Munin has identified "six elements that are necessary for love." His wife, Cynthia, an aspiring artist who paints only self-portraits, remains unconvinced taht love can be so quantified. More susceptible to Munin’s seraching analysis, though, is Penelope, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and is Munin’s star patient.Munin plans to present Penelope’s case... + Read More
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Series: A.Y. Jackson The Life of a Landscape Painter Electronic book text, EPUB Wayne Larsen 9781770704527 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 21, 2009

Alexander Young Jackson (1882-1974) is a name that instantly conjures up images of our rugged northern landscape and the controversial Group of Seven. This is the first-ever full-length biography of one of Canada’s most beloved characters, and the first to examine in one book the artist, outdoorsman, soldier, teacher, debater, writer, and outspoken defender of modern art. Jackson spent nearly seventy years travelling Canada on a lifelong quest to, rendering his impressions of its diverse character on canvas and promoting a vibrant, uniquely Ca... + Read More
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Series: A Granville Island Mystery Depth of Field A Granville Island Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Blair 9781554885213 $6.99 FICTION Feb 09, 2009

Photographer Tom McCall’s only regret about accepting an assignment from the beautiful Anna Waverley to photograph her boat for a potential buyer is that he has double-booked himself and needs to hand the assignment over to his partner, Bobbi.Little does he know how much of a regret it will become. En route to the assignment, Bobbi is brutally beaten and left for dead.As his partner lies in a coma, Tom searches for an explanation for the attack. Learning that Anna Waverley doesn’t actually own the boat she was supposedly interest in selling, an... + Read More
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Series: Expressway Electronic book text, EPUB Sina Queyras 9781770560550 $10.95 POETRY Jan 01, 2009

Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry This poem resembles urban sprawl. This poem resembles the freedom to charge a fee. The fee occurs in the gaps. It is an event. It is not without precedent. It is a moment in which you pay money. It is a tribute to freedom of choice. Reality is a parking lot in Qatar. Reality is an airstrip in Malawi. Meanwhile the expressway encloses, the expressway round and around the perimeters like wagon trains circling the bonfire, all of them, guns pointed, Busby Berkeley in the night sky. Echoing th... + Read More
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Series: Fences in Breathing Electronic book text, EPUB Nicole Brossard 9781770560611 $11.95 FICTION Jan 01, 2009

Invited to a quiet Swiss chÃ¢teau by the enigmatic Tatiana Beaujeu Lehmann, Anne begins to slowly write a novel in a language that is not hers, a language that makes meaning foreign and keeps her alert to the world and its fiery horizon. Will the strange intoxication that takes hold of her and her characters – sculptor Charles; his sister Kim, about to leave for the Arctic; Kim’s love, June, owner of a video store; and Laure Ravin, a lawyer obsessed with the Patriot Act – allow her to break through the darkness of the world Fences in Breathing,... + Read More
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Series: The Certainty Dream Electronic book text, EPUB Kate Hall 9781770562578 $10.95 POETRY Jan 01, 2009

Winner of the 2010 A. M. Klein Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize Descartes asked, How can I know that I am not now dreaming? The Certainty Dream poses similar questions through poetry, but without the trappings of traditional philosophy. Kate Hall’s bracingly immediate, insistently idiosyncratic debut collection lays bare thetricks and tools of her trade: a mynah bird perches in poems but 'stands for nightingale'; the poet’s antelope turns transparent; she dresses up her orange trees with bark and leaves. As the dream w... + Read More
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Series: Mother Superior Electronic book text, EPUB Saleema Nawaz 9781460400098 $10.99 FICTION Sep 01, 2008

A prostitute takes shelter with a group of young anarchists. A sister goes missing, mailing a trail of encoded postcards from destinations across the globe. The daughters of a Montreal bagel-shop owner navigate the tricky terrain of being young, Sikh, and female, one growing larger while the other fades. A woman watches with lust and longing as the object of her affections, her pregnant roommate, is pursued by an unsavory suitor. And a precocious child spies on her adoptive mother, trying to grasp the secret of her mother’s hidden obsession and... + Read More
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Series: Lake of the Old Uncles Electronic book text, EPUB Gerard Kenney 9781459714465 $8.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 09, 2008

Lake of the Old Uncles recounts a trip that began three-quarters of a century ago in a small village inn nestled in the Laurentian hills of French-speaking Quebec. One day, the trip will end at the village cemetery, just one kilometre from the inn. The traveller is the author. The trip is not long, but is rich in rural and natural experiences along the way. Gerard Kenney takes us along the route that led him to build the lone log cabin on the small and inaccessible Lake of the Old Uncles. No roads reach the pond, only a footpath. The hours s... + Read More
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Series: Quest Biography James Wilson Morrice Painter of Light and Shadow Electronic book text, EPUB Wayne Larsen 9781459714922 $7.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 26, 2008

James Wilson Morrice (1865–1924) was a Canadian painter of extraordinary passion and simplicity whose canvases and oil sketches are valued throughout the world and cherished in Canada as our first real examples of modern art.Though cut short by chronic alcohol abuse, Morrice’s restless bohemian life was spent in constant motion. From the colourful canals of Venice to the sun-drenched markets of North Africa to the snowy streets of Quebec City, he was, as his friend Henri Matisse described him, "always over hill and dale, a little like a migrati... + Read More
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Series: The White Space Between Electronic book text, EPUB Ami Sands Brodoff 9781926739762 $9.99 FICTION Jan 01, 2008

A family’s story of the Holocaust lies buried in the soil of a graveyard in Prague, in the old neighborhoods of Montréal, in the serenity of a small New Jersey town, and in the memory of Jana – a woman finally asked to bear witness. Far from the landscapes of her earlier life, Jana raised her daughter, Willow, on the beautiful scrapbooks she kept of her own childhood in Prague before World War II. But her stories end with the beginning of the Holocaust, and Willow knows little of her mother’s life during the war and its immediate aftermath. Jan... + Read More
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Series: A Joe Shoe Mystery The Dells A Joe Shoe Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Blair 9781554886302 $8.99 FICTION Dec 03, 2007

For Joe Shoe, the return to his family home in north Toronto is more than just a trip down memory lane; it’s also a visit to a crime scene. No sooner has Shoe arrived in his old neighbourhood than he discovers that police are investigating a murder in the ravine near his home. And the murder victim is a man who lived in the neighbourhood 35 years earlier — and who moved away while still a suspect in a series of rapes that occurred in the very ravine in which he was ultimately murdered. The police investigation, and Shoe’s own inquiries, become... + Read More
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Series: Age of Arousal Electronic book text, EPUB Linda Griffiths 9781770560079 $10.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2007

It's a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It's 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man struggle to find their way. Miss Mary Barfoot runs a school for secretaries with her young lover, Miss Rhoda Nunn. But when the Misses Madden - spinsters Virginia and Alice and beautiful young Monica - arrive, along with the attractive Dr. Everard Barfo... + Read More
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Series: Robber Baron Lord Black of Crossharbour Electronic book text, EPUB George Tombs 9781554903122 $11.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 31, 2007

Robber Baronr is an unauthorized biography of Conrad Black, who built the world’s third-largest media empire and is now facing criminal charges in Chicago for alleged fraud, money laundering, and racketeering.Robber Baron is based on rigorous research, hard-hitting interviews, original documents, and exclusive access to Black and his close family and friends, key associates, critics, and staunch enemies. Written by George Tombs, an award-winning journalist and historian, this book gives a fascinating insider’s look at a complex, driven man ... + Read More
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Series: Isolated Two Plays Electronic book text, EPUB Greg MacArthur 9781770561182 $10.95 DRAMA Oct 01, 2007

Isolated brings together two inventive, disturbing plays by one of Canada’s most intriguing dramatic voices. In Recovery, people around the world are addicted to a mysterious substance. Large recovery centres are set up, promising refuge, treatment and healing to millions of addicts. But all is not what it seems. Following three residents of a facility in Antarctica, McArthur delivers a quirky and unsettling play that reveals the fear and isolation of the oppressed individual, and the consequences of a medicalized society. In Get Away, David fi... + Read More
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Series: Sitcom Electronic book text, EPUB David McGimpsey 9781770562059 $10.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2007

Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, David McGimpsey’s Sitcom is both serious poetry and a work of comedy. Mischievous, generous and side-splittingly funny, this collection of wry soliloquies and sonnets begins with a milestone birthday and finds itself in demi-mondes as varied as the offices of university regents and the basic plot arc of Hawaii Five-O – offering, along the way, a sincere contemplationof mortality and the fashion sense of Mary Tyler Moore. Unembarrassed by its literary allusions or its hi-lo hybridity, Sitc... + Read More
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Series: Rise of the Golden Cobra Electronic book text, EPUB Henry Aubin 9781554513246 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 11 - 13 Apr 13, 2007

During a picnic overlooking the Nile, 14-year-old scribe Nebi spots the riders first. Led by the treacherous Count Nimlot, the raiding party slaughters Nebi’s master, the region’s head of police. Although wounded, Nebi escapes, the only living witness that the pharaoh’s northern territory is no longer secure. Nebi is quickly catapulted into events that will change history. Set in 728 B.C., RISE OF THE GOLDEN COBRA surrounds the actual reign of Pharaoh Piankhy, the brilliant and compassionate leader whose astonishing campaign united Ancient Egy... + Read More
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Series: Notebook of Roses and Civilization Electronic book text, EPUB Nicole Brossard 9781770561663 $10.95 POETRY Apr 08, 2007

Shortlisted for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2007 Governor General's Award for Translation The heat of summer on an earlobe, a parking meter, the shadow of crabs and pigeons under a cherry tree, an olive, a shoulder blade in the poems of Nicole Brossard these concrete, quotidian things move languorously through the senses to find a place beyond language. Taken together, they create an audacious new architecture of meaning. Nicole Brossard, one of the world’s foremost literary innovators, is known for her experiments with la... + Read More
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Series: The Girls Who Saw Everything Electronic book text, EPUB Sean Dixon 9781770560796 $14.95 FICTION Mar 23, 2007

The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club is not content simply to read and discuss books. Their process is a little more involved. They once kidnapped Irving Layton and took him for an excursion up a mountain. They attempted to recreate a scene of a nun swinging from a bridge-builder's broken arm in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion. But when they begin to re-enact the Epic of Gilgamesh, in the early days of the Iraq War, the book begins to enact them instead, sending the Cabalists across the globe and driving the narrators out ... + Read More
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Series: Quest Biography Gabrielle Roy Electronic book text, EPUB André Vanasse 9781770706439 $7.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 01, 2007

In 1945, Gabrielle Roy skyrocketed to fame and fortune when her first novel, The Tin Flute, was an instant hit. Over 700,000 copies sold in the United States, and the book was awarded the prestigious Prix Fna in France. In Canada, The Tin Flute received a Governor Generals Award. Gabrielle Roy dedicated herself to her vocation as a writer.
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Series: Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates A Woman's Trek Through Turkey Electronic book text, EPUB Üstün Bilgen-Reinart 9781459717916 $8.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 01, 2007

For millennia, the land now called Turkey has been at the crossroads of history. A bridge between Europe and Asia, between West and East, between Christianity and Islam, the peninsula also known as Anatolia, the place where the sun rises, is one of the oldest continually inhabited regions on the planet. In this unique blend of memoir and travel literature, Üstün Bilgen-Reinart explores the people, politics, and passions of her native country, whisking the reader on a journey through time, memory, and space. She searches deep into the roots of h... + Read More
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Series: Touch to Affliction Electronic book text, EPUB Nathalie Stephens 9781770562264 $10.95 POETRY Sep 04, 2006

From the ruins of poetry, fiction and philosophy comes Touch To Affliction, a meditation on the notion of homeland, on patrie and the inhumanity that arises from it. This is a text obsessed with ruins: the ruins of genre, of language, of the city, of the body. The history of the twentieth century is a history of barbarism, and Stephens walks, like a flÃ¢neur, through its midst, experiencing through her own body the crumbled buildings, the dessicated cities, the eviscerated language and humanity of our time, calling out in passing to those befor... + Read More
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Series: Dangerous Passage Issues in the Arctic Electronic book text, EPUB Gerard Kenney 9781459711204 $8.99 HISTORY May 29, 2006

Over the five hundred or so years that man searched for an elusive sea passage from Europe to Asia through the North American land mass, dozens of ships were lost and hundreds of mariners died. Eventually, a sea route stretching through the waters of the archipelago and along Canada’s mainland Arctic coast was pieced together. But could ships navigate the Northwest Passage to the extent that it could be used as an international shipping route? Two seagoing captains and their ships – a Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, and a Canadian of Norwegian birth... + Read More
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Series: Lemon Hound Electronic book text, EPUB Sina Queyras 9781770561274 $10.95 POETRY Mar 23, 2006

2007 Winner of the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award If you open your mouth, ache. If you don’t open your mouth, swelter. If you open your mouth but hold your breath, ether. If you look for colour, coral and tea leaves. If you follow the moon, wet and concrete. If you cling to the earth, pistol and candy apple. If you give up your garden, maze and globe, hydrangeas and moon vines. If you lose your shoes, pumice and strain. If you have no money, tin and clang. As meditative practices focus on the axis of breath, these poems focus on ... + Read More
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Series: Mauve Desert 1st edition Electronic book text, EPUB Nicole Brossard 9781770561489 $12.95 FICTION Mar 08, 2006

First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writers alike. This is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Desert, fifteen-year-old MÃ©lanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother's lover, Lorna, in their roadside Mauve Motel. In the second book, Maudes Laures reads Mauve Desert, bec... + Read More
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Series: A Granville Island Mystery Overexposed A Granville Island Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Blair 9781554885893 $6.99 FICTION Jan 28, 2006

Just when Vancouver commercial photographer Tom McCall thought he’d got his life back on track, a complete stranger shows up dead on the roof deck of his floating home. No one seems to know who he is, he has no ID, and there’s not a mark on him. If that isn’t bad enough, a prospective new client seems to have had one Botox injection too many, his ex-wife wants to take his daughter off to Australia for a year; and someone’s leaving mutilated dolls on his front step. And, of course, he’s in lust again. No wonder he’s feeling a little overexposed.
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Series: Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon 1st edition Electronic book text, EPUB Nicole Brossard 9781770562417 $12.95 FICTION Jan 01, 2006

Nominated for a Governor General's Award for Translation Yesterday, on my way back from the museum: my head is full of images of storms. A boundless sea of paintings and photographs. Other storms I build like a backdrop, with sombre and anonymous characters, impossible to identify. I remain thus all evening, pressed up against the existence of a storm without feeling threatened. Waiting. After a few moments I become, I am, the storm, the disruption, the precipitation, the agitation that puts reality in peril. Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clare... + Read More
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Series: Oliver Jones Electronic book text, EPUB Marthe Sansregret 9781770706668 $9.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 01, 2006

Born in Montreal, Oliver Jones performed his first piano concert at five years old. He has become one of the most celebrated representatives of the Montreal Jazz Festival and a worldwide musical ambassador for Canada on many international tours. This exclusive authorized biography begins with his roots the enslavement of his African ancestors and immigration of his parents to Canada from Barbados and takes us to the present. Oliver Jones has received many awards to recognize his achievements, both as a musician and as a human being: the Marti... + Read More
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Series: Quest Biography Susanna Moodie Electronic book text, EPUB Anne Cimon 9781770706804 $7.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 01, 2006

Susanna Moodie was already a published author when she emigrated from England to Upper Canada with her husband and baby in 1832. The Moodies were seeking financial security and a better life in the colony, but they found themselves struggling to make a living on a bush farm. Despite her primitive life in the backwoods and the demands of caring for her children, Susanna continued to write and publish. In 1852 her best-known book, Roughing It in the Bush, was published in England. A Canadian edition appeared in 1871. Roughing It in the Bush has e... + Read More
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Series: The Biker Trials Bringing Down the Hells Angels Electronic book text, EPUB Paul Cherry 9781554902507 $13.95 TRUE CRIME Jan 05, 2006

The Quebec-chartered “Nomad” chapter of the Hells Angels had two specific goals: to monopolize the Quebec drug trade; and to expand that trade across other parts of Canada. Their war against rival dealer gangs escalated to a boiling point, taking the lives of dozens of gangsters and innocent people as it played itself out openly on Montreal’s streets. Little did the Nomads know that at the height of achieving their goals, they would also be months away from a lengthy police investigation to shut them down. The trials that followed reveale... + Read More
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Series: Let Them Eat Flax! 70 All-New Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Food & Life Electronic book text, EPUB Dr. Joe Schwarcz 9781554902583 $9.95 SCIENCE Nov 23, 2005

Award-winning author Joe Schwarcz continues his crusade against purveyors of poppycock as he investigates the surprising and sometimes sinister science of everyday food and life Do you know if your waiter sings in the bathroom? Or if the lady who whipped up the icing on your cake wore false fingernails? When was the last time you microwaved your dishcloth? Is your orange juice pasteurized? The bestselling popular science author of A Grain of Salt serves up “interesting factoids about the way that science has helped shape our every... + Read More
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Series: Ships of Wood and Men of Iron A Norewegian-Canadian Saga of Exploration in the High Arctic Electronic book text, EPUB Gerard Kenney 9781554882922 $8.99 HISTORY Sep 12, 2005

In the barren lands of Canada far north of the Arctic circle, summers are quick and cool, mere short interruptions in the true business of the polar regions, winter. Winters there can be dangerous with temperatures that plunge to awesome depths during the long, lonely hours of Arctic darkness. Powerful blizzards shriek across the land for days at a time, causing all animal life to seek shelter from the cutting blast, essentially putting a temporary end to normal activities of life, such as travelling and eating. It is an unforgiving land that d... + Read More
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Series: Jean Beliveau My Life in Hockey 2nd edition Electronic book text, EPUB Jean Beliveau 9781771641838 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2005

The classic hockey biography, fully updated: all new material on a decade of personal challenge and a troubled game, with a new introduction by Wayne Gretzky.For close to twenty seasons, Jean Beliveau was le Gros Bill, "the gentle giant" centreman and captain of the fabled Montreal Canadiens during the team's glory years in the 1950s and 1960s. Retiring from active play in 1971, he went on to a successful twenty-two-year career as the Canadien's senior vice-president of corporate affairs and to life-long service as a goodwill ambassador for the... + Read More
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Series: Nellcott Is My Darling Electronic book text, EPUB Golda Fried 9781770561632 $10.95 FICTION Apr 11, 2005

Nominated for a 2005 Governor General's Award Alice Charles has just moved to Montreal to go to McGill University. She’s never had a boyfriend and doesn’t know how to do laundry. She joins the Film Society and hangs out in the library. She drifts away from boring Bethany, her best friend from high school, and starts to trail after Allegra, the caffeine-addicted, dish-throwing artist in the dorm room next to hers.And, most of all, she thinks about how she’s still a virgin and how she’ll never figure it all out. And then she meets Nellcott Raglan... + Read More
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Series: Exposure Two Plays Electronic book text, EPUB Greg MacArthur 9781770560529 $11.95 DRAMA Mar 11, 2005

Expose yourself to one of the most original new voices in theatre with this collection of two uncompromising plays by Greg MacArthur. Snowman: After years of wandering, Denver and Marjorie find themselves in a remote northern community at the edge of a glacier, chopping wood, renting out stolen videos and doing cocaine with Jude, a young gay man whose parents have abandoned him. When Jude discovers the body of a prehistoric boyfrozen in the glacier, everyone finds their lives beginning to shift and thaw in unexpected ways. girls! girls! girls!:... + Read More
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Series: Quest Biography John Grierson Electronic book text, EPUB Gary Evans 9781770706507 $7.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 01, 2005

John Grierson, founder of both the British documentary film movement and the National Film Board of Canada, was one of the twentieth centurys most influential personalities in film culture. He gave the word "documentary" to the English language.
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Series: A Joe Shoe Mystery A Hard Winter Rain A Joe Shoe Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Blair 9781554884797 $8.99 FICTION Oct 01, 2004

Someone walked up to Joe "Shoe" Schumacher’s best friend, Patrick O’Neill, in a Vancouver restaurant and shot him dead. It looks like a professional hit, but who wanted O’Neill dead? Was it, as police believe, a "settling of accounts"? Was it Victoria, O’Neill’s beautiful but damaged wife? Or was it O’Neill’s boss, industrialist William Hammond, with whom O’Neill had a falling-out and with whom Victoria had once had a short-lived affair? Former cop, chauffeur, and bodyguard Joe Shoe sets out to find Patrick’s killer, and along the way he uncove... + Read More
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Series: The Fly in the Ointment 70 Fascinating Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Life Electronic book text, EPUB Dr. Joe Schwarcz 9781554903993 $9.95 SCIENCE Aug 12, 2004

Dr. Joe Schwarcz breaks down the fascinating chemistry all around us in this intriguing look at everyday science From pesticides and environmental estrogens to lipsticks and garlic, the science that surrounds us can be mystifying. Why do some people drill holes in their heads for “enlightenment”? How did a small chemical error nearly convict the unfortunate Patricia Stallings for murdering her son? Where does the expression “take a bromide” come from? Dr. Joe Schwarcz investigates aphrodisiacs, DDT, bottled water, vitamins, barbiturates, ... + Read More
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Series: After Surfing Ocean Beach Electronic book text, EPUB Mary Soderstrom 9781554884902 $9.99 FICTION Apr 27, 2004

In a brief, panicked moment, Rick mistakes the kindness of an apparent stranger for a threatening act, and inadvertently commits murder. He flees the scene, and tries to keep secret from his family the unfortunate event that has occurred. Little does he know that not only has he killed an innocent man, but the man is the son of Annie, with whom Rick had an intense relationship in his youth. As Rick and Annie struggle to come to terms with the tragedy, each recalls the life they once led, and pines for a life that never was. This haunting and en... + Read More
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Series: Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know 177 Fascinating Questions about the Chemistry of Everyday Life Electronic book text, EPUB Dr. Joe Schwarcz 9781554905386 $10.95 SCIENCE Oct 31, 2003

With creativity and verve, Dr. Joe Schwarcz answers your burning questions about science and life in these digestible and accessible short essays Dr. Joe and What You Didn’t Know acts as both the source and satiation of scientific curiosity through a series of 177 chemistry-related questions and answers designed to both inform and entertain. From the esoteric to the everyday, the topics Dr. Joe Schwarcz tackles range from Beethoven’s connection to plumbing to why rotten eggs smell like rotten eggs. How did a sheep, a duck, and a rooste... + Read More
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Series: The Blue Books 1st edition Electronic book text, EPUB Nicole Brossard 9781770560192 $17.95 FICTION Apr 30, 2003

Nicole Brossard's lucid, subversive and innovative work on language has influenced an entire generation of readers and writers. But three of her seminal works of postmodernism and feminism have been lost to us for years. The Blue Books brings them back. A Book: A novel about a novel; five characters in 'search of a narrative, a narrative in search of an author.' Brossard's first novel, and a key work in Canadian postmodernism. Turn of a Pang (Sold-out in French): Quebec's 1943 Conscription Crisis and the 1970 War Measures Act weave together to ... + Read More
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Series: That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles 62 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life Electronic book text, EPUB Dr. Joe Schwarcz 9781554905362 $10.95 SCIENCE Oct 01, 2002

Dr. Joe Schwarcz breaks down the fascinating chemistry that’s all around us in this intriguing look at everyday science Interesting anecdotes and engaging tales make science fun, meaningful, and accessible. Separating sense from nonsense and fact from myth, these essays cover everything from the ups of helium to the downs of drain cleaners and provide answers to numerous mysteries, such as why bug juice is used to color ice cream and how spies used secret inks. Mercury in teeth, arsenic in water, lead in the environment, and aspartame in ... + Read More
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Series: My Turn At Bat The Sad Saga of the Montreal Expos Electronic book text, EPUB Claude Brochu 9781770900295 $9.95 SPORTS & RECREATION May 01, 2002

The decline and fall of the Montreal Expos. In 1969, the Montreal Expos played their first game. Thirty-two years later, the team that once boasted baseball’s best farm system is nearly dead. In this book, former Expos president Claude Brochu gets to the bottom of the Expos’ story. From his successful marketing career at Seagram’s, Claude Brochu was thrust into the role of Expos president in 1986. Back then, the Expos were a team with terrific potential. But as the years went by, attendance began to slide. Whenever owner Charles Bronfman at... + Read More