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Series: Robert Kroetsch Series 100 Days Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Juliane Okot Bitek 9781772121520 $15.99 POETRY Mar 15, 2016

100 days... 100 days that should not have been... 100 days the world could have stopped. But did not. For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem—each poem recalling the senseless loss of life and of innocence. Okot Bitek draws on her own family's experience of displacement under the regime of Idi Amin, pulling in fragments of the poetic traditions she encounters along the way: the Ugandan Acholi oral tradition of her father—the poet Okot p'Bitek; Anglican hymns; the rhythms and sounds of ... + Read More
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Series: 19 Knives New edition Electronic book text, EPUB Mark Jarman 9781770890862 $14.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2000

With characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about people, he puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short-story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in 19 Knives. With one of the stories shortlisted for the U.S.'s prestigious O. Henry Prize an... + Read More
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Series: 1953: Chronicle of a Birth Foretold Electronic book text, EPUB France Daigle 9781770891128 $16.95 FICTION Oct 01, 1997

France Daigle casts a droll eye on what it means to be born a writer in the middle of the twentieth century. 1953 crackles with wit, intelligence, and insight, and the year in question emerges as a turning point not only for the heroine, but for the entire world.
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Series: 1979 Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Healey 9781770917521 $12.99 DRAMA Apr 11, 2017

A fast-paced political comedy from Michael Healey, the critically acclaimed author of The Drawer Boy and Proud, that examines the space between ideals and political reality during a monumental moment in Prime Minister Joe Clark's career. It's December 1979 and Clark's minority Progressive Conservative government is under threat of dissolution before it has a chance to accomplish anything — even pass a budget. But Clark is young and idealistic, resolute on making his mark in office. When he steals a moment at his desk to make a crucial decision,... + Read More
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Series: 1996 Electronic book text, PDF Sara Peters 9781770892729 $16.95 POETRY Mar 29, 2013

Sara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting the raw reality of existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the harrowing and beautiful complexity of life itself. 1996 marks the undeniable arrival of an essential and brave new voice.
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Series: 2 Pianos 4 Hands EPUB Electronic book text, EPUB Ted Dykstra 9781770910959 $12.99 DRAMA Dec 15, 2012

Amidst pushy parents, eccentric teachers, hours of repetitive practice, stage fright, the agony of competitions and exams, and the dream of greatness, Ted and Richard grow up as "piano nerds." As they mature, they become more aware of the gap between the merely very good and the great, and come to the humbling realization that concert stardom may be out of reach, but they just might be two of the best piano players in the neighbourhood, and that in itself is worth celebrating.
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series 59 Glass Bridges Electronic book text, EPUB Steven Peters 9781926455792 $11.99 FICTION Mar 31, 2017

In 59 Glass Bridges, an unnamed narrator travels through a maze that is at once mutable and immutable: walls fall to vine-filled forests, hallways to rivers, bridges to lamp-lit boats. What remains is the desire to escape. He is led along his harrowing path by Willow, a mysterious figure who cajoles him and responds to questions in a winking sphinx-like manner, with answers that are often more baffling than clear. Interspersed are the memories of the narrator, of his childhood and adolescence, and of his grandmother, a wise artist who at once p... + Read More
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Series: 6 Essential Questions Electronic book text, EPUB Priscila Uppal 9781770914322 $12.99 DRAMA Oct 01, 2015

6 Essential Questions tells the story of Renata as she travels to Brazil to reunite with the mother who abandoned her when she was just five years old. In Rio, Renata discovers more than she bargained for in her quest to uncover the truth of who abandoned whom. She is continually tossed about by her undead grandmother and a semi-invisible uncle as they choreograph the ultimate dance of mother and daughter, both of whom must confront their dreams before they can ever attempt to confront each other. Imaginations run wild in this strangely beautif... + Read More
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Series: [boxhead] Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Darren O'Donnell 9781770560017 $10.95 DRAMA Oct 01, 2008

Dr. Actions: What do you think it all means? Dr. Thinking: I think it means that our collaboration is destined for great heights and the basking glory of inter-planetary fame and fortune. Dr. Actions: But you said your dream was terrifying. Dr. Thinking: Well, I’ve always been afraid of success. Dr. Actions: Well, get over it, Blockbrain. Now that we’ve invented the echoless yell, nothing is going to getin our way. Lay it on me. Dr. Thoughtless Actions, a young geneticist, awakes one morning to find a cardboard box secured to his head. Unable t... + Read More
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Series: [Sharps] Ebook Electronic book text, PDF Stevie Howell 9780864927262 $18.95 POETRY Oct 07, 2014

Emergencies, faith, truancy, and poverty intersect in this wry debut that volunteers a transfusion of the unpredictable for those who yearn to transition beyond a muralized Olive Garden world. Stevie Howell's [Sharps] takes its cue from an Egyptian hieroglyph used interchangeably to represent "waters," the letter N, and all prepositions within a sentence. Similarly, [Sharps] alters its structure and functionality from page to page. The Queen launches an advertising campaign to procure our envy. The last unicorn crochets a sweater out of the sis... + Read More
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Series: A Electronic book text, EPUB André Alexis 9781771660716 $9.99 FICTION Oct 15, 2013

A is a work of fiction in which André Alexis presents the compelling narrative of Alexander Baddeley, a Toronto book reviewer obsessed with the work of the elusive and mythical poet Avery Andrews. Baddeley is in awe of Andrews's ability as a poet—more than anything he wants to understand the inspiration behind his work—so much so that, following in the footsteps of countless pilgrims throughout literary history, Baddeley tracks Andrews down thinking that meeting his literary hero will provide some answers. Their meeting results in a meditation ... + Read More
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Series: A Bedroom of Searchlights Electronic book text, EPUB Joanna M. Weston 9781771333061 $8.99 POETRY May 05, 2016

The poems in this collection explore the life of the poet’s mother who divorced in 1939, at a time when a woman divorcing was still frowned upon by society. This collection draws a picture of the artist and single mother who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art.
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Series: A Bird on Every Tree Stories Electronic book text, EPUB Carol Bruneau 9781771085861 $10.99 FICTION Aug 30, 2017

Carol Bruneau, author of six acclaimed works of fiction (most recently, These Good Hands), brings her finely honed voice to 12 new stories about shifting concepts of Nova Scotian identity. In "The Race," a war bride?s remarkable life trajectory unfolds as she competes in an international swim marathon in the Northwest Arm. Strain erupts between a Haligonian couple in "Burning Times," while they struggle to keep track of one another, both physically and emotionally, on an Italian vacation. In "Polio Beach," cousins gather oceanside over the wil... + Read More
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Series: A Bird's Eye Electronic book text, EPUB Cary Fagan 9781770893115 $16.95 FICTION Aug 27, 2013

Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book. With all the wonder of a small-scale The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay comes this moving and unforgettable novel about childhood, love, and magic. Growing up in a Jewish neighbourhood in the 1930s, young Benjamin Kleeman falls in love, first with Corrine Foster and then with magic. Hiding his new passions from his parents — the long-suffering Bella, an Italian immigrant, and Jacob, a talented but failed inventor of elaborate mechanical dev... + Read More
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Series: A Blessed Snarl Electronic book text, EPUB Samuel Martin 9781550813869 $17.99 FICTION Apr 25, 2012

Patrick Wiseman moved his wife and son back to Newfoundland to start a new Pentecostal church, but when his wife Anne leaves him for a man she meets on Facebook and his son Hab moves in with his girlfriend Natalie—a burgeoning alcoholic with a fiery past—Patrick takes a suicidal leap of faith that brings him face to face with his estranged father Des, a Catholic mystic who might be covering up an old crime. While Patrick wrestles to come to terms with his failed marriage, Hab struggles to hang on to his tenuous relationship with Natalie. But wh... + Read More
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Series: A Book of Great Worth 1st edition Electronic book text, EPUB Dave Margoshes 9781550507041 $9.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2012

Set largely among the Jewish community of inter-war New York City, this is a beautifully-told collection of scenes from Morgenstern’s life. The tricky ground of writing the advice column for a provincial Yiddish daily; successes during, and hard times after, the Depression; a position at the top of his craft as a labour specialist in the New York City Yiddish press – these and many more form a portrait of “a fundamentally decent man in morally perplexing situations”. “I’ve been working on a series of stories about the character I call “my fa... + Read More
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Series: A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres Electronic book text, PDF T. Bose 9780774854825 $60.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 01, 2007

The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.
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Series: A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres Electronic book text, PDF T. Bose 9780774853699 $60.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 01, 2007

The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.
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Series: A Boy's Life of Napoleon Ebook Electronic book text, EPUB Alden Nowlan 9780864927323 $2.99 FICTION Oct 07, 2014

Alden Nowlan's "A Boy's Life of Napoleon" is a brilliant piece of short fiction adapted from Nowlan's first novel, The Wanton Troopers, written in 1960 but published posthumously in 1988. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also available as part of the [email protected] collection.
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Series: A Brimful of Asha EPUB edition Electronic book text, EPUB Asha Jain 9781770911093 $12.99 DRAMA Nov 15, 2012

In 2007 Ravi Jain had just completed school and was itching to get his feet wet in the theatre scene. With plans to begin his own company, Ravi has put off marriage for a few years, much to the disappointment of his mother, Asha, who was getting impatient with Ravi’s non-traditional approach to life. In this autobiographical story of the Jain family, Ravi recalls a trip to India with his parents in tow, where they ambushed him with a series of prospective wives at every turn. Conveyed through storytelling, A Brimful of Asha is a comedic and hea... + Read More
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Series: A Broken Bowl 1st edition Electronic book text, MobiPocket Patrick Friesen 9781771310789 $11.99 POETRY Mar 15, 1997

Shortlisted for the 1997 Governor General's Award for Poetry Set firmly at the end of the millennium, A Broken Bowl takes on the burden of history, with its heaped atrocities, its unimaginable sufferings. This long poem is an angry lament, a summoning of fragments, a meditation in the midst of an exhausted world. By turns lyric, satiric, elegiac and incantatory, A Broken Bowl is filled with passionate elemental writing in the tradition of Howl and Crow.
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Series: A Birder Murder Mystery A Cast of Falcons A Birder Murder Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Steve Burrows 9781459732162 $6.99 FICTION May 07, 2016

The threat from above casts a dark shadow.A man falls to his death from a cliff face in western Scotland. From a distance, another man watches. He approaches the body, tucks a book into the dead man’s pocket, and leaves. When the Scottish police show visiting Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune the book, he recognizes it as a call for help. But he also knows that answering that call could destroy the life he and his girlfriend Lindy have built for themselves in the village of Saltmarsh, on the north Norfolk coast. It could even end his po... + Read More
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Series: Novella A Certain Grace Stories Electronic book text, EPUB Binnie Brennan 9781926802855 $4.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2012

In the tradition of short story writers Alice Munro and Carol Shields, Binnie Brennan examines the minutiae of ordinary life. During a tipsy night out escaping the frustrations of daily routines, two middle-aged school teachers try their luck at scoring a joint. A long-haul trucker drives an injured butterfly to its breeding ground in Florida, giving them both a much-needed migration. And while struggling with the death of her ex-husband, a single mother questions her place in her family’s lives. A Certain Grace is richly told in spare prose an... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Treasures A Changed Heart Electronic book text, EPUB May Agnes Fleming 9781459503748 $14.95 FICTION May 01, 2016

Romance, suspense, and murder provide the backdrop for this Gothic novel set in mid-Victorian Saint John, New Brunswick, by 19th-century writer May Agnes Fleming. A dashing British military officer makes a splash in local society, but a clique of young socialites in the booming colonial town soon find out that there is more to Captain Cavendish than meets the eye.
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Series: A Clap for Cadence Electronic book text, EPUB R.W. Dunlop 9781926942391 $19.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2009

Whether it’s a middle-aged man travelling to Mexico in search of a troubled sister or a thirty-something restaurant manager trying desperately to hold her life together, this stunning debut collection of interconnected stories unerringly charts the emotional journeys of a wonderful cast of characters, none more charming, interesting or endearing than the woman who lends her name to its title. Filled with compassion, humour and eloquence, A Clap for Cadence signals the arrival of a talented young writer of uncommon dexterity and maturity of voic... + 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: A Crack in the Wall US Electronic book text, EPUB Betty Jane Hegerat 9780889825406 $9.99 FICTION Sep 01, 2008

The characters in A Crack in the Wall share a strong sense of home, whether it is a lifelong sanctuary, or a shell as fragile as the person who inhabits it. A young kleptomaniac ventures outside the shaky walls of her self-imposed confinement. A middle-aged woman pragmatically disposes of a houseful of pets in Calgary before returning to the Maritimes to embark on the next phase of her life.
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Series: a Criminal to Remember Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Van Rooy 9780888013828 $12.50 FICTION Jun 23, 2010

Monty Haaviko, Winnipeg’s favourite househusband, babysitter, and ex-con, is running for chief of Winnipeg’s new police commission. It’s almost honest work, except that he’s been bribed to throw the election to his opponent, an ex-cop stooge of wealthy businessman, Cornelius Devanter. At the same time, Devanter’s archenemy has paid Monty an even bigger bribe to ensure the ex-cop loses. Monty is happy to oblige both, but once on the campaign trail, he realizes the good he can do for the citizens of Winnipeg if he wins. Meanwhile, all is not quie... + Read More
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Series: A Jack Taggart Mystery A Delicate Matter A Jack Taggart Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Don Easton 9781459734296 $6.99 FICTION Oct 01, 2016

In the tenth Jack Taggart Mystery, Taggart goes head to head with a longtime enemy who’s been eluding him for years …Jack Taggart is once again going head to head with his nemesis, Damien Zabat, national president of the Satans Wrath Motorcycle Gang. Taggart and Zabat’s lives have long been intertwined by a violent history of retribution and murder, dependent on unwritten rules of conduct — rules far outside the parameters of the law, but that each man feels are just. To Taggart, Zabat represents an unspeakable evil. He has eluded justice and l... + Read More
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Series: A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno Electronic book text, PDF Matt Rader 9781770891227 $16.95 POETRY Oct 02, 2012

A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno carries within it all the technique, vision, imaginative labour, and razor-sharp precision of Matt Rader’s first two collections, Living Things and Miraculous Hours. But it also ascends to a new and luminous, demanding, particularized realm of the human. Wildflowers and weeds, newspaper archives and illness, hostels and hostiles, parenting and the shadowy history of grandparents, war and Renaissance paintings: Matt Rader’s unassuming, deeply spirited, and expansive poems show us again how conte... + Read More
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Series: A Fairy Tale Electronic book text, EPUB Jonas Bengtsson 9781770893078 $16.95 FICTION Jan 18, 2014

From one of Denmark’s rising stars, a powerful and profound novel about a young boy and his father who live at the margins of society, until one day their adventure takes an unpredictable turn.1986. Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme has been assassinated, and a young boy and his father are on the move again.Travelling from Sweden to the outskirts of Denmark and into the heart of Copenhagen, the two live an unconventional life, constantly on the move and living on the margins of society. The father, an eccentric, restless man, takes a series of ... + Read More
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Series: A Few Kinds of Wrong Electronic book text, EPUB Tina Chaulk 9781550813357 $17.99 FICTION Oct 05, 2009

Mechanic Jennifer Collins is a woman in a man's world but since her father's sudden death her world has been falling apart. Now she's in a losing battle risking everything to cling to the past while everyone else moves forward. In A Few Kinds of Wrong Tina Chaulk takes us into the garage and tells the poignant story of Jennifer her pain her loves and her coming to terms with reality. Above all this story reminds us that memories - those one cannot forget and others one battles to hold onto - can never be controlled.
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Series: A Fine Passage Electronic book text, EPUB France Daigle 9781770891302 $16.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2002

In this extraordinary sequel to Just Fine, we follow many of the same characters who dreamt of escape from the insular, predictable cadences of life in Acadia -- from Baltimore to Israel, San Francisco to Denmark, Moncton to Paris -- in exploration of their newly gained freedom. Whereas Just Fine had as its central element water, rivers, deltas, springs, and movement from inner landscapes to the sea and open spaces, A Fine Passage has as its central element air, wind, planes, music, and voices from around the world, underscoring the ideas of l... + Read More
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Series: A Fit Month for Dying Ebook Electronic book text, EPUB M.T. Dohaney 9780864928238 $19.95 FICTION Sep 02, 2014

A Fit Month for Dying is the third book in M.T. Dohaney's highly praised trilogy about the women of Newfoundland's outports. Fans of The Corrigan Women and To Scatter Stones will embrace this book, while those reading the author for the first time will discover her characteristic bittersweet humour. Tess Corrigan seems to be living the good life. She is a popular politician, the first woman to serve as a Member of the House of Assembly. Her husband Greg is a successful lawyer and son Brendan is a seemingly happy hockey-mad twelve-year-old. Orig... + Read More
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Series: A Forest for Calum A Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Frank Macdonald 9781897009819 $9.99 FICTION Reading age from 16 Nov 20, 2012

A coming of age story about Roddie Gillies and his guardian and grandfather Calum, who is one of the last remaining Gaelic speakers in the once-proud mining town of Shean. A quiet and stoic man, Calum Gillies and his aging friends illuminate for us the changing world around them: the loss of the coal mines, the labour strife and lean years endured, the religious parochialism that divides families and communities and, most important, a disappearing language. The setting is Cape Breton; the themes of cultural and rural change and decline are univ... + Read More
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Series: A Frame of the Book Electronic book text, PDF Erin Moure 9781770892859 $16.95 POETRY Apr 01, 1999

In this brilliant collection, Governor General's Award-winning poet Erin Moure tests the boundaries of tenderness, grace, speech, sexual feeling, and a book's ability to frame or hold the person. With her typical wit and textual play, Moure breaks the codes of language to reveal the carnality and torsional power of words. Her lines and frames uncover shadow meanings, highlight syllables as marks, and expose the abrasion, erasure, gaps, and cries that infuse a wordliness in all acts, all human bearing.
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Series: A Glittering Chaos Electronic book text, EPUB Lisa de Nikolits 9781926708935 $9.99 FICTION Apr 01, 2013

The adage about “what happens in Vegas” is funny precisely because we know it’s wishful thinking. A Glittering Chaos is about what happens when “what happens in Vegas” comes home to haunt you. Melusine is a German librarian whose ho-hum world wobbles after she tags along when her husband Hans attends a Las Vegas optometry conference. A newly empty nester who speaks no English, Melusine’s voyage of self-discovery is punctuated by the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann, nude photos in the desert, a black dildo named Kurt, autoerotic asphyxia, and the un... + Read More
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Series: A God in Need of Help Electronic book text, EPUB Sean Dixon 9781770563810 $10.95 DRAMA Apr 16, 2014

Nominated for the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama It's 1606 and Europe is at war over God. At the behest of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, Venice's four strongest men are charged with transporting a holy painting - Albrecht DÃ¼rer's The Brotherhood of the Rosary - across the Alps to Prague. In the small Alpine village of Pusterwald, they are set upon by Protestant zealots; their escape is attributed to a miracle. The strongmen and their captain are summoned to an inquiry, led by the magistrate of Venice and the ... + Read More
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Series: A Grain of Rice Electronic book text, EPUB Evelyn Lau 9780889825864 $12.99 POETRY Sep 01, 2012

Evelyn Lau’s new book of poems, A Grain of Rice, picks up on some of the themes she covered in her last wonderful book, Living Under Plastic. Once again she honours people, in particular family, and the past; the presence and importance of nature in urban spaces; the influence of other writers on her life and in her career as a writer.
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Series: A Guide to Animal Behaviour Ebook Electronic book text, EPUB Douglas Glover 9780864927873 $14.95 FICTION Nov 26, 2013

A Guide to Animal Behaviour is a stunning collection of stories by an author who is fast becoming one of the great, innovative story writers of his generation. Following on the heels of his widely acclaimed comic novel, The South Will Rise at Noon, Douglas Glover’s new collection smashes all the fictional moulds. Urbane, stylish, and off-beat, the stories in this collection touch the lives of an astonishing array of characters whose common experience is of a world that is wayward yet full of marvels: a born-again Christian from Kentucky who los... + Read More
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Series: A Hard Old Love Amongst Scavengers Electronic book text, EPUB David Doucette 9781771871211 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2016

At 46, Miles Hann gives it all up for the little cottage he has built on the slopes of his native Ingonish, Cape Breton. Miles has five times circumnavigated the globe and in his years of wandering has grown weary of man’s work of mendacity and pursuit of pleasure. Mostly though, Miles is tired; even a trip around the harbour is a weighty prospect. He writes himself a letter to express better his commitment to stay away from all, to contemplate the animals of the slope and to try for even one day with no ill thought of others. He does not manag... + Read More
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Series: A Heart Enslaved Electronic book text, EPUB A.M. Westerling 9781771457828 $4.99 Oct 06, 2015

Banished from his homeland for a crime he didn’t commit, Thorvald Stronghawk knows selling the Frisian beauty he’s captured will bring him the blood money needed to regain his good name. When the man who accused Thorvald of the crime is the one buying Gisela, Thorvald must decide what he wants more: To recover his reputation among his fellow countrymen, or tame the woman who has vowed to hate him forever for destroying her home and family. Gisela of Falkenstead realizes the handsome, self assured Viking views her as nothing more than chattel to... + Read More
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Series: A Hero Electronic book text, EPUB Charlotte Mendel 9781771331944 $9.99 FICTION Jun 15, 2015

Mohammed is an aggressive, dominant character who bullies his wife and four children and wages paranoiac diatribes against his sister and her family. It is only when Mohammed leaves for work every morning that the house relaxes into the rich interconnectivity of familial relationships: between Mohammed’s gentle wife Fatima and his sister Rana, who yearns desperately to contribute to this historic fight for freedom; between the twelve-year old twins and Rana’s gentle son Mazin, whose effeminacy is a source of great anxiety to her. This formidabl... + Read More
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Series: A History of Breathing EPUB Electronic book text, EPUB Daniel Macdonald 9781770911765 $12.99 DRAMA Sep 19, 2013

Two boats float aimlessly on an ocean that conceals the remains of civilization and history. One boat carries a father and daughter, the last survivors of an unspeakable catastrophe; the other carries the only hope for a new beginning. Daniel Macdonald crafts a stunning tale of myth and reality at the end of the world and at its creation.
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Series: Detective Lane Mystery A Hummingbird Dance Electronic book text, EPUB Garry Ryan 9781927063606 $11.99 FICTION Sep 01, 2008

Detectives Lane and Harper are back for the third Detective Lane Mystery in this gripping twister of a novel that baffles with its ever-increasing body count and suspect list.When Ryan Dudley ventures out on horseback and his horse returns without him, Lane and Harper are summoned to unravel the mystery. Dudley's disappearance marks the first anniversary of a young boy's murder in the same neighbourhood, and mounting evidence ties the two incidents together. When Dudley's roommate also goes missing and mysterious shootings shake the area, Harpe... + Read More
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Series: A Large Harmonium Electronic book text, EPUB Sue Sorensen 9781550504743 $4.95 FICTION Aug 01, 2011

English Lit professor Janey Erlicksen wonders if she's coming unravelled, as her daily life progresses through the onslaught from work, friends and family, and her despotic toddler Little Max.Janey knows she should be trying to put her academic career on the map, but how? She'll more readily poke fun at than engage in yet another overly dry and theoretical conference. And her husband and their friends simply encourage her off the serious academic path, providing anarchic ideas from Foucault-in-snowsuits to erotic poetry addressed to the harmoni... + Read More
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Series: A Man A Fish Electronic book text, EPUB Donna-Michelle St. Bernard 9781770914360 $12.99 DRAMA Oct 01, 2015

Prosper is a fisherman trying to get by in the face of everyday problems: there’s the spectre of the baby his wife desires, the ghost of his dead mistress, his wife’s secret admirer, and the overwhelming lure of the village bar. When a slippery eel salesman arrives in town peddling progress to the rural community, Prosper’s list of problems only increases. Faced with an invasive new species in his lake, his fortunes decline along with the fish population, and Prosper gets a lesson in gift horses and generosity. A Man A Fish is a part of the 54o... + Read More
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Series: A Man Called Moses Electronic book text, MobiPocket Bill Gallaher 9781926971476 $4.99 FICTION Feb 01, 2011

“The Black Barber of Barkerville,” as Wellington Delaney Moses was known, came to British Columbia from San Francisco, looking for a new home and a place of peace. He was among the first black people to arrive in B.C., hoping that the colony, with its Creole governor, James Douglas, would offer a more tolerant and welcoming frontier than had California; he was not disappointed. Moses was a remarkable figure in Victoria in its first years, opening a prosperous barbershop and becoming a popular man about town. But adventure still called. He heade... + Read More
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Series: A Message for the Emperor Electronic book text, EPUB Mark Frutkin 9781550653458 $11.95 FICTION Jan 01, 2013

Plots, intrigue and love against the backdrop of imperial China. This is a unique novel of old China, the traditional landscape of mountains and rivers without end, and life in an imperial city rife with plots, intrigues, culture, sensuality and wealth. Li Wen, a landscape painter of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), is on a journey to deliver a message to the Chinese Emperor. His teacher has instructed him to paint four landscapes, one for each season, during the year it will take him to travel across China to the Emperor’s Court where he is t... + Read More
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Series: cuRRents A Minor Planet for You and Other Stories Electronic book text, PDF Leslie Greentree 9780888648549 $19.99 FICTION Apr 19, 2006

Told with arresting candor, Leslie Greentree’s short fiction creates the satisfying sense of discovering someone’s long-kept secret, or the guilty pleasure of overhearing a scathing conversation. A housewife indulges in monthly purchases of specialty vinegar and savours her romantic fantasies about the local grocery store manager; a daughter catches glimpses of herself in the face of her mother’s suffocating attentions; a minor astronomer accumulates star charts and wasted nights rather than tender moments with his wife. A Minor Planet for You ... + Read More
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Series: A More Perfect [ Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Jimmy McInnes 9781771661164 $14.99 POETRY Apr 01, 2015

Iconic political speeches are some of the best remembered and most repeated passages in contemporary English language. Especially in the United States of America, what child doesn’t know Abraham Lincoln's “Fourscore and seven years ago..." or Roosevelt's "The only thing we have to fear..."?Taking as its source text Barack Obama's campaign speech from March 18, 2008, A More Perfect [ by Jimmy McInnes acts as a poetic translation of the rhetorical devices often used in political speeches. Like poetry, the campaign speech depends heavily upon the ... + Read More
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Series: A Rudley Mystery A Most Unpleasant Wedding Electronic book text, EPUB Judith Alguire 9781927426074 $9.99 FICTION Oct 15, 2012

Another summer, and The Pleasant Inn is filled to capacity. This season is especially exciting, as perennial guests Miss Miller and her long-time admirer Mr. Simpson have chosen to marry at the Inn. The guests and staff are clamouring to be involved, particularly Bonnie Lawrence, a young wife adrift while her husband is off fishing. Margaret and Trevor Rudley are delighted to host the wedding, and barring Mrs. Lawrence's obsessive interfering, everything is set to go off without a hitch.But when a neighbour is found dead in the woods behind the... + Read More
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Series: Maxine Benson Mystery A Murder for Max A Maxine Benson Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB John Lawrence Reynolds 9781459810617 $7.99 FICTION Oct 04, 2016

Escaping the pressures of big-city policing, Maxine Benson is happy to be appointed police chief in the resort town of Port Ainslie. Max's biggest challenge is to overcome skepticism at her ability to deal with major crimes—like the murder of Billy Ray Edwards. Few people mourn Billy Ray's passing. He was a bully and was also intent on derailing the biggest development project in the town's history. But murder's murder, and Max is ready to solve it on her own and prove her worth to the townspeople. And maybe even to herself.
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Series: A Nanking Winter epub edition Electronic book text, EPUB Marjorie Chan 9781770912250 $10.99 DRAMA Feb 01, 2009

Marjorie Chan's gripping narrative intertwines the past and the present, transporting the reader between Irene and a small group of unlikely heroes caught in the invasion. Scrambling to create a refuge from the horror, the band's struggle to survive binds them in a promise that will span the ages of time, while Irene struggles to reveal the truth despite her publisher's conservative worries. a nanking winter brings the horror and endurance of a nation's history into stark focus with breathtaking clarity and brutal honesty.
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Series: A Nose for Death Electronic book text, EPUB Glynis Whiting 9781927068571 $11.95 FICTION Apr 04, 2013

Chemist Dr. Joan Parker has the ability to name more scents that just about any other person on the planet. She can distinguish cane sugar from beet sugar, burning pine from spruce, and a man on the make from a man on the take. Combining scents to create food flavors is her occupation and her passion. Her understanding of the effects of all of the senses on human emotion and behavior is her pass key. This ability also leads Joan "Nosey" Parker to the killer in A Nose for Death At fifty, Joan is at a transitional time of life. She's outspoken, s... + Read More
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Series: A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth 1st edition Electronic book text, MobiPocket Stephanie Bolster 9781771310819 $11.99 POETRY Sep 15, 2011

Shortlisted for the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award An ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things. A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a coherent vision of nature -- constructed or framed, both in the present and in the recent past -- through zoos, aviaries, formal gardens, menageries, and books like the Time-Life one named in the title. Informed by the author’s grand tour of these zoos and gardens, these poems provide a strong lens for considering the many paradoxes of int... + Read More
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Series: A Place Called Sorry Electronic book text, EPUB Donna Milner 9781987915099 $12.99 FICTION Nov 15, 2015

Growing up in the 1930s, Adeline Beale knows little of the outside world or the looming shadows of a second world war. Addie—as her grandfather Chauncey Beynon Beale affectionately calls her—believes that everything she could ever want or need is to be found on Chauncey’s cattle ranch, the place her family calls home, or in the little town twelve bush miles away, a place called Sorry. After tragedy strikes her family, Addie holds her sorrows close to her heart. Only later will she learn that her grandfather too has lived with his own secret to... + Read More
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Series: A Place You'll Never Be Electronic book text, EPUB Rick Hillis 9781550509212 $10.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2017

Six Days. Five Inmates. One Guard.Traversing through the vast, serene wilderness in Northern Saskatchewan as part of a "pre-release canoe trip", run as a pilot project in hopes of preparing five future ex-convicts for life in the real world, no one knows quite what to expect. But what follows in this novel is anything but serene. The rules dictating prison life are a hard habit to break as each inmate struggles with his own place in the group, and each one tries to figure out his first real-world steps after being released. Some ideas are more ... + Read More
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Series: A Possible Landscape 1st edition Electronic book text, EPUB Maureen Harris 9781926829579 $11.99 POETRY Sep 15, 1993

Maureen Harris’s first volume of poetry evokes “a possible landscape,” where the stories that subtly shape us blend with the moments that we are. Here is an Eden where Eve longs for the serpent’s “green quiver,” his “sibilant caress,” where a snake tires of his lover “wearing/the same skin day-out, day-in.” The poems in the first section of this book are sharp new takes on old stories, at once angry, witty and thoughtful. With grace, compassion and sparkle, the rest of the book explores the self in the world of the late twentieth century, the s... + Read More
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Series: A Possible Madness A Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Frank Macdonald 9781897009833 $9.99 FICTION Reading age from 16 Nov 03, 2012

Like many smallish and inelegant towns that dot the coastlines and crossroads of this country, Shean’s postwar, post-industrial economy is in desperate disrepair, and the lengths that some civic leaders will go to in order to do “what’s best” for a town like Shean sometimes requires a leap of faith that has unintended consequences. When a global corporation plans a daring scheme to exploit the remaining coal from an improbable source – and thus to secure Shean’s economic future – politicians try to marginalize the few voices of dissent. Some vo... + Read More