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Series: Jettison Paperback Nathaniel G. Moore 9781772140477 $20.00 FICTION Oct 06, 2016

Nathaniel G. Moore follows up his 2014 ReLit Award win for Savage with a diverse collection of short fiction, his first, Jettison, featuring stories which dangle somewhere between horror and romance. "Jaws" explores a father's desire to over-share the erotic origins of his children's "Aunt" Louise; "Blade Runner" uncovers the darkest and most hilarious aspects of dating by delineating the psych ward politics surrounding a male mental patient with five girlfriends who takes apart his bed when they visit; in "A Higher Power," readers are introdu... + Read More
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Series: As if Paperback Alban Goulden 9781772140484 $18.00 FICTION May 28, 2016

As If is a collection of stories that, as its title suggests, points at an indubitable truth: all literature is speculative. Goulden's, however, extends past the boundaries of conventional fiction into areas traditionally occupied by fantasy and magic realism. These stories rail against the industrial and digital mechanisms of our age and, in the great fabulist tradition, call upon its characters to take action, to reach beyond the repetitive anxiety of being a cog in the wheel of mechanical environmental destruction. Sound too ethereal and a... + Read More
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Series: Cretacea & Other Stories from the Badlands Paperback Martin West 9781772140491 $20.00 FICTION Jul 28, 2016

Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A teenage boy spends a summer with his hard-livin', hard-drinkin', messed up uncle and has to fight for a position in his new, temporary "family." A recent widower gets swept up in the world of the local swingers' scene. A band of misfits struggles to survive at a makeshift commune. An eccentric woman with OCD has a strange fetish that involves the pres... + Read More
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Series: Garage Criticism Missives in the Age of Distraction Paperback Peter Babiak 9781772140507 $20.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 15, 2016

Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) In Garage Criticism Peter Babiak eviscerates and deflates some of the cultural sacred cows of our time. From Fifty Shades of Grey ("Hot for Teacher: What Fifty Shades of Grey Taught Me About Salacious Grammar, Sexy Women and the Scandalous Conflation of Cultural and Literary Culture") to the disintegration of the "deep read" ("F You Professor: Tumblr, Triggers and the Allergies of Reading") to the Hunger Games ("The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - But It Might Be Carnivalized 'N' Shit") and Twil... + Read More
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Series: Les Faux Bourgeois Paperback Andreas Seppelt 9781772140514 $26.95 COOKING Jan 15, 2021

Les Faux Bourgeois Bistro is an award-winning French bistro situated at the awkward intersection of Kingsway and Fraser Street in an equally disjointed neighbourhood in East Vancouver. Founded in 2007, Les Faux Bourgeois soon became a beacon of French bistro "amor" and garnered a loyal clientele and critical acclaim to match. Selected by the Georgia Straight as "Best French" in 2013, 2014, and 2015; Mia Stainsby of the Vancouver Sun proclaimed: "It either makes you pine for Paris, or transports you there!"; and, Vancouver Magaz... + Read More
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Series: Assdeep In Wonder Paperback Christopher Gudgeon 9781772140521 $18.00 POETRY May 28, 2016

Assdeep in Wonder is a collection of new poems that explore the idea of identity in a myriad of contexts: personal, sexual, cultural, national, literary, and poetic. The poems are raw and immediate, exploring themes of addiction, sexuality, loss, love, and wonder in equal measures. Selected Praise: "Gudgeon's first poetry collection is a quirky valentine to irreverent readers, full of stark and pretty imagery, wry quips, and glorious bursts of vulgarity. ..." (Foreword Reviews)
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Series: Serpentine Loop Paperback Elee Kraljii Gardiner 9781772140545 $18.00 POETRY Apr 20, 2016

"Writers, like skaters, score the blank sheet and test the edge of inclusion and exclusion. Most of these poems begin with a word from skating and push off to another topic. Others revisit ideas of femininity, control and language as pattern, or visit the past through movement, or enact principles from the rink such as symmetry, joy, endurance, crescendo and accent, revolution, response. The blade melts ice via friction and pressure. I drifted away from skating but the language is imprinted in me, too, a tracing, a line extending beyond... + Read More
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Series: Ignite Paperback Kevin Spenst 9781772140538 $18.00 POETRY Apr 20, 2016

A finalist for the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, Ignite is a collection of elegiac and experimental poetry powder-kegged with questions about one man's lifelong struggle with schizophrenia. Born into a strict Mennonite family, Abe Spenst's mental illness spanned three decades in and out of mental institutions where he underwent electric shock treatment and coma-induced insulin therapy. Merging memory and medical records, Kevin Spenst recreates his father's life through a cuckoo's nest of styles that both stand as witness and waltz to the ... + Read More
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Series: Yves Saint Laurent Coloring Book Paperback Fondation Pierre Berge-Yves Saint Laurent 9781551526393 $12.95 ART Apr 01, 2016

Adult colouring books (such as Secret Garden) have exploded in popularity in recent years, embraced for their calming, therapeutic effect. This elegant, imaginative colouring book explores the dynamic, fanciful creations of iconic fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, who headed the House of Dior at the age of twenty-one before launching his own design house at age twenty-five. He became famous for the "beatnik" look in the '60s, as well as for creating the tuxedo suit for women, and his extraordinary life was the subject of a recent feature fil... + Read More
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Series: Jean Cocteau Coloring Book Paperback Jean Cocteau Committee 9781551526409 $12.95 ART Apr 01, 2016

In this lavish colouring book for adults, the fanciful, elegant world of artist, playwright, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau comes alive. As a playwright, he is best known for The Human Voice (1930); as a filmmaker, for directing Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1948). In the 1910s, he was a prominent member of the Paris avant-garde, forming friendships and professional relationships with Picasso, Stravinsky, Gide, Proust, and Apollinaire. His paintings and graphic art were playful, fantastical expressions, exploring mythological themes and ... + Read More
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Series: Straight to the Head Paperback Fraser Nixon 9781551526386 $17.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2016

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Series: The Mercy Journals Paperback Claudia Casper 9781551526331 $17.95 USD FICTION Mar 31, 2016

This unsettling dystopian novel is set thirty years in the future, in the wake of a third world war waged as a result of a water crisis that ends in catastrophic destruction. One of only a few survivors, a former soldier nicknamed Mercy suffers from PTSD and is haunted by lingering memories of his family; his pain is eased when he meets a singer named Ruby, only to lose her to grief over her own lost son. But when his long-lost brother Leo arrives with news that his children have been spotted, the two brothers travel into the wilderness to look... + Read More
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Series: Thicker than Blood Adoptive Parenting in the Modern World Paperback Marion Crook 9781551526317 $18.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 01, 2016

Adoptive parents need more than the usual parenting skills. Adoption has changed drastically in recent decades with more concern for the adoptees' point of view and more education required by adoptive parents. Adoptive parents can be bewildered or apprehensive and find themselves struggling in ways they hadn't anticipated. Thicker Than Blood is a comprehensive yet down-to-earth look at adoptive parenting in the twenty-first century. Author Marion Crook's family includes two adopted sons; in her experience, adoptive parents need to acquire skil... + Read More
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Series: Weekend Paperback Jane Eaton Hamilton 9781551526355 $17.95 FICTION May 01, 2016

Prize-winning writer Jane Eaton Hamilton's novel explores the complexities of contemporary queer love. On her fiftieth birthday, crazy-in-love Ajax visits her mercurial lover Logan, who trails their tarnished reputation like a lapsed halo. Logan has secrets, but so does Ajax, and during their weekend getaway to Ontario's cottage country, some of these secrets will prove explosive. In the next cottage, long-term couple Joe and Elliot are having their own challenges as the parents of a newborn baby girl. Joe isn't sure if Elliot loves her or e... + Read More
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Series: even this page is white Paperback Vivek Shraya 9781551526416 $12.95 POETRY Apr 30, 2016

The first poetry collection by the author of God Loves Hair and She of the Mountains. As a writer, musician, performance artist, and filmmaker, Vivek Shraya has, over the course of the last few years, established himself as a tour de force artist of the highest order. His body of work includes ten albums, four short films, and three books, including the YA book God Loves Hair (A Quill and Quire and Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book of the Year) and the adult novel She of the Mountains (a Lambda Literary Award finalist). Vivek’s debut ... + Read More
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Series: None Beckoning War Paperback Matthew Murphy 9781771860680 $24.95 FICTION May 01, 2016

Winner: 2016 Foreword Reviews INDIES, Silver, War & Military (Adult Fiction) Captain Jim McFarlane, a Canadian infantry officer, is coming apart at the seams. It's September 1944, in Italy, and the allied armies are closing in on the retreating Axis powers. Exhausted and lost, Jim tries to command his combat company under fire, while waiting desperately for letters from his wife Marianne. Joining the army not out of some admirable patriotic sentiments but rather because of his own failings and restlessness, he finds himself fighting in a war th... + Read More
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Series: None Hunting for the Mississippi Paperback Camille Bouchard 9781771860727 $19.95 FICTION May 01, 2016

The year is 1684. Twelve-year-old Eustache Bréman leaves behind a life of misery begging on the streets of France for a second chance in the New World with his mom, his sweetheart Marie-Élisabeth, and Marie-Élisabeth's family. But life is tough, with plenty more tragedy and disappointment to come on De La Salle's ill-fated expedition to the Mississippi. Join Eustache as he comes of age in Louisiana, all in a sparkling English translation that's every bit as modern and playful as Camille Bouchard's original French. Squabbling leaders, bloodthirs... + Read More
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Series: Mary the Life Saver Paperback Louis-Philippe Hébert 9781772310207 $16.95 POETRY Dec 15, 2015

"Mary the Life Saver" is a poetry book that examines the nature of human being, parting the veil of the mundane to reveal passion, beauty, myth, and mystery of human existence. This poetry book echoes a desire to forge a voice that is as curious as it is distinctive. It portrays intricate feelings of life and death in a wide array of emotions expressed in a thoughtfully imaginative way with vibrant interpretations stemming from the complexity and simplicity of a human soul.
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Series: Crac Winner of the Trillium Award for French-Language Poetry Paperback Paul Savoie 9781772310238 $17.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2016

In this poetry collection written by an award-winning author and translated from French by an award-winning translator, the relentless force of water waves rambles the streets of a small village with fear. The streets become empty and the people vanish without a trace. With his intricate and distinctive poetic style, Paul Savoie successfully portrays his creative talent and explores a wide range of human feelings, fears, and perceptions inviting us to the world of mystery, fantasy, and suspense.
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Series: Portals of Memory Winner of the Trillium Award for French-Language Poetry Paperback Michèle Matteau 9781772310269 $16.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2016

Describing the unfolding of a single day in parallel with the seasons of the year, this poetry collection explores the human journey. From the dawn of the day to the last light of dusk, the author recalls voices that have fallen silent and uses lines full of imagery to evoke the stages of their lives, their secret songs and calls for help, torn between joy and pain, certainty and doubt, revolt and acceptance. With lucid understanding, the author uses the stories of her characters' lives to define her own more clearly. The French edition of this... + Read More
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Series: Rich and Poor Paperback Jacob Wren 9781771662383 $20.00 FICTION Apr 13, 2016

Who hasn't, at one time or another, considered killing a billionaire?Following on the critical success of his novel Polyamorous Love Song (BookThug, 2014; finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and one of The Globe and Mail's 100 best books of 2014), Canadian writer and performer Jacob Wren picks up the mantle of the politically and economically disenfranchised in Rich and Poor--the story of a middle-class, immigrant pianist who has fallen on hard times, and now finds himself washing dishes to make ends meet.Wren capably balances personal... + Read More
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Series: Job Shadowing Paperback Malcolm Sutton 9781771662024 $20.00 FICTION May 03, 2016

BookThug is excited to publish Job Shadowing, the first full-length fiction work by Malcolm Sutton, the widely published interdisciplinary artist and writer (and BookThug's own Fiction Editor). As well as being thematically driven by the increasingly precarious employment situation of the present and the inescapable legacies of the Baby Boom generation, Job Shadowing interrogates ways in which two people can exist together in tight proximity: as a woman married to a man; as an ambitious employee joined to a problematic shadow; as an idealistic ... + Read More
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Series: Double Teenage Paperback Joni Murphy 9781771662109 $20.00 FICTION Mar 24, 2016

What are the rules for how to react to acts of war and violence depicted in the media-things that seem so big and distant from our day-to-day lives? Is there anything stable that we can believe in as real or true? These are just two of more than a handful of conundrums that guide the story in Double Teenage, the debut novel from writer and artist Joni Murphy. Double Teenage tells the story of two young teenagers who are coming of age in the 1990s in a little desert town along the US–Mexico border. Through their love of theatre, they find th... + Read More
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Series: The Jokes Paperback Stephen Thomas 9781771662062 $18.00 FICTION Mar 15, 2016

We sit, hunched over the words that appear on our smartphone screens, altogether unaware of the story of our lives that is going on around us, even as we focus on the minutiae of our social media "friends'" daily activities. These are the stories that draw our undivided attention, and these are the types of deftly observed, wholly engrossing narratives that make up Stephen Thomas's debut flash-fiction collection, The Jokes.Presented in the form of a most common present-tense--as a series of moments in a social-media-like 'feed'--this collection... + Read More
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Series: Her Paraphernalia On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss & Selfies Paperback Margaret Christakos 9781771662345 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 03, 2016

Her Paraphernalia, the new book of creative non-fiction from noted Canadian poet Margaret Christakos, presents an intimate and original collection of midlife writings that seeks to make readers think in a very personalized way about family geneology, private sexuality and life changes, including those experiences that exist at the intersections of contemporary digital culture.Through a sequence of ten ï??tudes (consisting of entre-genre pieces, including prose and lyric poetry, experimental writing that integrates elements of social media posts... + Read More
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Series: Conjugation Paperback Phil Hall 9781771662185 $20.00 POETRY Mar 02, 2016

I am sitting outside at dawn on Otty Lake, where I live, in the woods. The light is coming over the trees, and each morning the poem is written as if right while it is being read.A rough immediacy. Gap & Hum. Caesura. Syllables as musical notes.The lyric weaving of honesty about the self--toward revelation & transformation.My poetics has widened, here, to include more space, more primitive sounds and glyphs, less metaphor, less anecdote, more tangential conjugating...My poetics, in its growing inclusiveness, is not sad but hopeful.The term "con... + Read More
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Series: Buoyancy Control Paperback Adrienne Gruber 9781771662222 $18.00 POETRY Apr 05, 2016

Buoyancy Control, the latest collection of poems from Vancouverite Adrienne Gruber, explores themes of sexuality, sexual identity, and queerness, while confronting the feelings of loss and longing found in relationships, and the chance glimpse into a new life, while still recovering from a painfully failed connection.Metaphors of oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water, as well as the creatures that inhabit those spaces, swim and swirl their way through Gruber's languid poems, which are divided into two evocative sections. Though distinguished... + Read More
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Series: Waiting Room Paperback Jennifer Zilm 9781771662147 $18.00 POETRY Apr 05, 2016

You're welcome to take a seat in (the) Waiting Room, the first full-length collection of poetry from award-winning writer Jennifer Zilm. Featuring a mï??lange of styles and forms (sonnets, erasures, unsent emails, footnotes, session notes, CVs, tweets, and other disparate source materials--including, the Gospels and the Dead Sea Scrolls), Waiting Room subverts, shares, and repurposes the vocabularies of psychiatry, dentistry, the Bible, and academia in a humorous investigation of the contained intimacy of appointments and therapeutic relationsh... + Read More
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Series: My Dinosaur Paperback Turcot François 9781771662307 $18.00 POETRY Mar 02, 2016

The figure of the father occupies a particularly significant place in Quï??bï??coise literature--there's a real fascination with fathers, and this recurring persona populates fiction, films, and the stories people tell of their families and themselves. Thus, it's not surprising that, as he witnessed his own father's frailty, Franï??ois Turcot--one of Quebec's most celebrated young literary voices--would write his own dedication to his vanished father, entitled My Dinosaur. In this, his first collection of poems to be published in English (and t... + Read More
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Series: Poems by Gerard Legro Paperback Alessandro Porco 9781771662000 $22.00 POETRY Mar 01, 2016

In the spring and summer of 1949, Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro--two teenage pranksters with the right mix of bad attitude and artistic ingenuity--composed, circulated, and performed a collection of poems on the campus of Black Mountain College, an experimental school located just outside Asheville, North Carolina.Now, BookThug is bringing this previously unpublished work to light for the first time in Poems by Gerard Legro, edited with annotations by noted Canadian poet and scholar Alessandro Porco.Porco's insightful work (including a critica... + Read More
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Series: One Man Grand Band The Lyric Life of Ron Hynes Paperback Harvey Sawler 9781550816310 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 13, 2016

In this long-awaited biography, author Harvey Sawler traces the life of Ron Hynes, one of the most respected singer-songwriters in Canadian history. Through personal conversations and interviews, Sawler captures the spirit of an artist whose stock-in-trade has always been authenticity over mere commercial acceptability, providing rare insight into the life of the man who penned some of the country’s best-loved music. Sawler guides us through the dark times of addiction to the triumphs of songs such as “Sonny’s Dream” and “Atlantic Blue” while c... + Read More
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Series: Night Ambulance Paperback Nicholas Ruddock 9781550816358 $19.95 FICTION May 17, 2016

Following an awkward sexual encounter under a wharf in outport Newfoundland, sixteen-year-old Rowena Savoury travels to St. John’s for a secret abortion. But in the early 1970s, the procedure is illegal, and after complications, Rowena finds herself in a hospital being questioned by a young constable who is uncertain of how to proceed. Though she doesn’t know it, Rowena’s decision will ripple through the lives of an entire cast of characters. Patient and luminous, Night Ambulance is the story of a place on the cusp of change, where characters s... + Read More
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Series: Labrador The Big Land Book Dennis Minty 9781550816341 $18.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Apr 29, 2015

After his wildly successful photographic tour of the island in Newfoundland: An Island Apart, Dennis Minty returns with a stunning portrait of the big land to the north, Labrador. From quiet coves and inlets to sweeping vistas of haunting landscapes, and from living communities to forgotten settlements seemingly lost in time, Minty presents Labrador in all its vivid colour and grandeur. If you’ve never been to Labrador, Minty’s photographic guide will call you forth to one of the most magisterial and unique places on the planet.
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Series: Four-Letter Words Paperback Chad Pelley 9781550816334 $19.95 FICTION May 01, 2016

Chad Pelley’s Four-Letter Words, his collection of award-winning short stories, presents us with characters haunted by one four-letter word or another: love, hate, lust, or loss. A father drives across the island hoping to find his missing son, a hitman considers the life of his female victim while watching her through his scope, a lonely man frequents hospital emergency rooms to diagnose the pain of others, and another clings to a buoy at sea. Whether documenting the ways in which we become obsessed with our current situation or our fascinatio... + Read More
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Series: Found Far and Wide Paperback Kevin Major 9781550816327 $19.95 FICTION May 31, 2016

A novel of remarkable historical breadth, Found Far and Wide follows Sam Kennedy through the tragedy of the Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914, the horrors of The First World War, and the dangers of rum-running in Prohibition-era New York. And as Sam journeys through the turbulent first half of the twentieth century, carrying the ghosts of those he’s lost, he clings to his love for a woman he’s only ever seen in a photograph. Here, one of Newfoundland’s most celebrated authors offers a story of the irresistible historical forces that d... + Read More
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Series: Dancing In a Jar Paperback Adele Poynter 9781550816303 $19.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2016

Based on a true story, Dancing in a Jar elaborates on the real-life love affair of a young couple who leave New York City to live in the outport community of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, during the Great Depression when the husband, Don Poynter, accepts a management position in the town’s fluorspar mine. In a series of letters, some fictional and some real, Adele Poynter weaves a remarkable romantic tale through the life of a small mining town—capturing the sorrow and joyousness, the hardship and perseverance—to ultimately reveal how the loves o... + Read More
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Series: The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays: Volume Three Paperback Denyse Lynde 9781550816365 $19.95 DRAMA May 15, 2016

The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays: Volume 3 gathers an impressive range of work by some of the province’s most renowned authors. The third and final volume in the series includes plays by Robert Chafe, Aiden Flynn, Andy Jones, Lisa Moore, Berni Stapleton, and Ed Riche. Edited and introduced by Denyse Lynde, this anthology celebrates the island’s rich dramatic tradition and finally makes groundbreaking work by Newfoundland playwrights available to audiences everywhere.
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Series: In This Together Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation Paperback Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail 9781927366448 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 12, 2016

What is real reconciliation? This collection of essays from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada welcomes readers into a timely, healing conversation—one we've longed for but, before now, have had a hard time approaching.These reflective and personal pieces come from journalists, writers, academics, visual artists, filmmakers, city planners, and lawyers, all of whom share their personal light-bulb moments regarding when and how they grappled with the harsh reality of colonization in Canada, and its harmful legacy. ... + Read More
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Series: It's Only the Himalayas And Other Tales of Miscalculation from an Overconfident Backpacker Paperback S. Bedford 9781927366479 $19.95 TRAVEL Apr 05, 2016

A laugh-out-loud travel memoir that reveals backpacking’s awkward side.Sue, a disenchanted waitress, embarks upon a year-long quest around the world with her friend, Sara—who’s exasperatingly perfect. Expecting a whimsical jaunt of self-discovery, Sue instead encounters an absurd series of misadventures that render her embarrassed, terrified, and queasy (and in a lot of trouble with Philippine Airlines).Whether she’s fleeing from ravenous lions, dancing amid smoking skulls, trekking Annapurna underprepared, or (accidentally) drugging an English... + Read More
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Series: White Elephant Paperback Catherine Cooper 9781554813032 $21.95 FICTION May 14, 2016

Physician Richard Berringer, his wife, Ann, and their thirteen-year-old son, Torquil, have abandoned their home in Nova Scotia and moved to Sierra Leone, despite warnings that the West African country is in a civil war. Two months on, things are not going well. Tensions are rising between Richard and his boss; Torquil—who hates Sierra Leone almost as much as he hates his father—has launched a hunger strike; and Ann is bedridden with illnesses that Richard believes are all in her head. While the Berringers battle with themselves, each other and... + Read More
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Series: Perfect World Paperback Ian Colford 9781554812868 $19.95 FICTION May 07, 2016

Tom Brackett has created the perfect world for himself: he has a good job, a perpetually supportive wife, two kids, a mini-van, and even a golden retriever. But then, his mental instability causes him to commit a terrifying act of violence. Tom's story, which is at once tragic and hopeful, shows how quickly familiar structures can crumble and raises the question of how we can possibly prepare ourselves for the loss of everything we hold dear. It dramatizes a man's struggle to maintain control over his own life under horrific circumstances. Thou... + Read More
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Series: Middenrammers Paperback John Bart 9781554813186 $21.95 FICTION May 07, 2016

Middenrammers is a brave and provocative novel about one doctor's battle for social justice in a small-town hospital. Set in the UK in the 1970s, the story follows young Dr. Brian Davis' efforts to adjust to his new job in a Yorkshire fishing town. The town's only hospital permits no contraceptive advice, or abortions. Dr. Davis and Woodie ? the midwife he falls in love with ? regularly come face to face with the terrible repercussions of these policies. Because they refuse to accept the attitude of the hospital administrators? who believe that... + Read More
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Series: Boobs Women Explore What It Means to Have Breasts Paperback Ruth Daniell 9781987915051 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 15, 2016

At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, boobs is a diverse collection of stories about the burdens, expectations and pleasures of having breasts. From the agony of puberty and angst of adolescence to the anxiety of aging, these stories and poems go beyond the usual images of breasts found in fashion magazines and movie posters, instead offering dynamic and honest portraits of desire, acceptance and the desire for acceptance. Surrounded by flat-chested co-workers in a male-dominated construction crew, a woman finds pleasure in admiring her body wi... + Read More
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Series: The Native Voice The Story of How Maisie Hurley and Canada's First Aboriginal Newspaper Changed a Nation Paperback Eric Jamieson 9781987915174 $24.95 HISTORY May 25, 2016

In 1945, Alfred Adams, a respected Haida elder and founding president of the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia (NBBC), was dying of cancer. After decades of fighting to increase the rights and recognition of First Nations people, he implored Maisie Hurley to help his people by telling others about their struggle. Hurley took his request to both heart and mind, and with $150 of her own money, started a small newspaper that would become a powerful catalyst for change: The Native Voice.At that time, the Welsh-born Hurley had been an advocate ... + Read More
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Series: The Miracle Mile Stories of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Paperback Jason Beck 9781987915006 $29.95 HISTORY Mar 15, 2016

The 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver changed both the city and world sport forever. The Games will always be remembered for the "Miracle Mile," the much-anticipated showdown between the first two men to break the four-minute barrier, England's Roger Bannister and Australia's John Landy. But as the press focused the world's attention on Vancouver, and Bannister outpaced Landy in the stretch, fate found an even more dramatic story that seared itself into the memories of all who saw it. England's Jim Peters, the world-record... + Read More
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Series: The Landscape of Ernest Lamarque Artist, Surveyor and Renaissance Man, 1879-1970 Paperback Jay Sherwood 9781987915013 $24.95 HISTORY Mar 15, 2016

At the age of sixteen, Ernest Lamarque travelled from England to North America, to begin a life as a Victorian adventurer. Born in 1879 and orphaned at age twelve, he would go on to become an artist, a writer and a surveyor, creating some of the earliest visual records of the people of remote regions of Canada. At seventeen, Lamarque started working as a clerk at Hudson's Bay Company posts in Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. He recorded his adventuresthrough paintings, sketches and photographs, which would ... + Read More
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Series: Great Fortune Dream The Struggles and Triumphs of Chinese Settlers in Canada, 1858-1966 Paperback David Chuenyan Lai 9781987915037 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2015
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Series: Becoming Lin Paperback Tricia Dower 9781987915075 $22.95 FICTION Mar 10, 2016

It's 1965. Twenty-two-year-old Linda Wise despairs of escaping her overprotective parents and her hometown, where far too many know she was sexually assaulted as a teenager. Deliverance arrives in the form of marriage to the charismatic, twenty-six-year-old Ronald Brunson, a newly ordained Methodist minister who ignites her passion for social justice. Ron tells her war and racial discrimination are symptoms of the "moral rot" destroying the country, conjuring up something dark and rancid in her mind, thrilling in its wickedness. He sweeps her a... + Read More
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Series: The Dirty Knees of Prayer Paperback Timothy Shay 9781987915082 $18.00 POETRY Mar 15, 2016

The poems in The Dirty Knees of Prayer are hot and dark as night rain. The new Honeywell fan blows whips of simmered air against Shay's glistening back. He suspects a dystopian future and apparently it has arrived. These poems shrug at death. A tide of smoke rises and hovers over the city. Shay's picture is taken for his collection of grief and apocalyptic love. These poems speak of sadness and self-fated things, how the heat blurs everything, the clouds send shrouds of water down. Here a thin gruel of hope is celebrated and dark elegies are sh... + Read More
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Series: Oscar of Between A Memoir of Identity and Ideas Paperback Betsy Warland 9781987915167 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 01, 2016

In 2007, at the age of sixty, Betsy Warland finds herself single and without a sense of family. On an impulse, she decides to travel to London to celebrate her birthday, where she experiences an odd compulsion to see an exhibit on the invention of military camouflage. Within the first five minutes of her visit, her lifelong feeling of being aberrant reveals its source: she had never learned the art of camouflage.This marked the beginning of Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas. Taking the name Oscar, she embarks on an intimate, nine... + Read More
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Series: Flight Instructions for the Commitment Impaired Paperback Nicola Harwood 9781987915143 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 31, 2016

"Wanted: lesbian couple to foster wonderful eleven-year-old African American boy with gender identity issues."Meet Antwan. Not only has he got gender issues, he's severely emotionally disturbed, severely demanding and, as he puts it, "born to argue."In the late nineties, Nicola Harwood and her girlfriend moved to San Francisco in order to be at the epicentre of queer culture. Shortly after arriving, they encountered an ad posted in the SF Bay Times looking for lesbian foster parents. Impulsively, they decided to answer the ad and offer to foste... + Read More
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Series: Subdivided City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity Paperback Jay Pitter 9781552453322 $20.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2016

How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together? Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss an opportunity to tout the region’s ethno-cultural neighbourhoods. Yet there’s strong evidence that the GTA is experiencing widening socio-economic disparities that have produced worrisome divisions. We say that ‘diversity is our strength,’ but has a feel-good catchphrase prevented us ... + Read More
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Series: Exploded Views You Only Live Twice Sex, Death and Transition Paperback Chase Joynt 9781552453315 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 05, 2016

YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive. The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolve. Man and woman. Queer and straight. What if it’s not true that you only live once? In this genre-transcending book, trans writer and media artist Chase Joynt and HIV-positive movie artist Mike Hoolboom come together over the films of Chris Marker to exchange transition tales, confessional m... + Read More
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Series: Exploded Views Closer Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality Paperback Sarah Barmak 9781552453230 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 22, 2016

We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated – if anything, we’re told we’re oversexed. Yet a striking number of women are dissatisfied with their sex lives. Over half of women report having a sexual complaint, whether that’s lack of desire or difficulty reaching orgasm. But this issue doesn’t get much press; the urge is to ignore or medicalize it (witness the quest for ‘pink Viagra’). If so many ordinary women suffer from sexual frustration, then perhaps the problem isn’t one that can be addressed by a pharmaceutical fix &n... + Read More
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Series: It Is an Honest Ghost Paperback John Goldbach 9781552453339 $18.95 FICTION May 03, 2016

From Kenya to Quebec, these wry and unconventional stories explore the different ways we’re haunted … Teenagers philosophize on the nature of ontology while fearing there's a ghost in the old mill they're stuck in; a man encounters an old friend in the unlikeliest of places; nineteenth-century inventor Sigismund Mohr is vividly brought back from obscurity; and two journalists travel to Kenya for a conference, where one of them has a paranoid breakdown. It Is an Honest Ghost is a funny and often eerie collection that explores what lies beyond ... + Read More
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Series: This Poem Is a House Paperback Ken Sparling 9781552453346 $17.95 FICTION Apr 28, 2016

If love is a house, how do we arrange the furniture? Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem Is a House is, in the end, about a girl’s story sheltering a boy’s poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it. ‘Discovering Ken Sparling's work changed everything I knew about writing. It made me realize that a novel could and should be just that – novel, that that was the point of writing, of life. Reading his work felt like permission to be myself the way that he was his self. Readi... + Read More
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Series: Throaty Wipes Paperback Susan Holbrook 9781552453285 $18.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2016

In 1934, Gertrude Stein asked 'What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose.' Throaty Wipes answers this question and many more! How does broadband work? Does 'chuffed' mean pleased or displeased? What if the generations of Adam had mothers? Through her signature fusion of formal innovation and lyricism, Holbrook delivers what we've been waiting for. 'Here is language that has a joyous physicality, reminding usthat language and, therefore, poetry is first and foremost a physical act involving the muscles of the lips, tongue an... + Read More
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Series: Whelmed Paperback Nicole Markotic 9781552453261 $18.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2016

What might a word lose – or gain – without its prefix? Each prose poem in Whelmed features a word that has been unhinged from its prefix, allowing new meanings – radically unfamiliar, yet uncannily intimate – to emerge from these prefixless word deposits. Part prose-poem sequence and part encyclopedia of unpredictably irregular terms, Whelmed is at times deranging,almost disturbing, sometimes detached, and always joyfully rupting. 'Addictionary of words lopped off from their prefixial syllables, this lightful pendium mises hours of giggle... + Read More
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Series: Magyarazni Paperback Helen Hajnoczky 9781552453278 $18.95 POETRY May 01, 2016

The word "magyarázni" (pronounced MUG-yar-az-knee) means "to explain" in Hungarian, but translates literally as "make it Hungarian." This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it's like to be "made Hungarian" by growing up with a parent who immigrated to North America as a refugee. In forty-five folk-art visual poems each paired with a written poem, Hajnoczky reveals the beauty and tension of first-generation cultural identity. ‘Because translation between cultures is always fraught – and ... + Read More
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Series: Scattered Bones Paperback Maggie Siggins 9781550506693 $21.95 FICTION Apr 06, 2016

Award-winning author Maggie Siggins returns with her first work of fiction. Scattered Bones is a story of the complicated, fragile and sometimes fatal relations between Indigenous people and settlers in Northern Saskatchewan in the 1920s. Aboriginal spiritual traditions are beginning to cross paths with the construction of a residential school, and ancient acts of violent vengeance are shaping the trajectory of events in the town 200 years later. Based on historical events, Siggins creates a fictional version of the real-life Pelican Narrows, ... + Read More