1.
Series:
The Dead of Winter
Paperback
Peter Kirby
9780987994622
$21.95
FICTION
Oct 13, 2012
Inspector Luc Vanier is drinking his way through Christmas Eve when he is called out to investigate the murder of five homeless people. His investigation takes him into the back rooms of the Catholic Church, the boardrooms of Montreal’s business elite and the soup kitchens and back-alleys of street life in winter.
2.
Series:
Was It Good for You?
…and other recent cartoons by Aislin
Paperback
Terry Mosher
9780987831767
$24.95
HUMOR
Jul 01, 2012
Was it good for you? It was really good for Aislin!Montreal’s infrastructure is crumbling at a faster rate than any city in North America – and there lurks Aislin amongst the thousands of orange construction cones, sketchbook in hand.Nationalism in Quebec would appear to be going through death throes while Aislin watches, just as he has since the beginning, pencil at the ready.And bully Stephen Harper finally has his majority, an event that Aislin will be caricaturing keenly, even after over forty years of watching Canadian Prime Ministers come...
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3.
Series:
Clerks of the Passage
Paperback
Abou Farman
9780987831743
$16.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 08, 2012
The roots of this book are real and full of characters and heroic stories of the sort one might expect from migration tales, , evoking border crossings past and present.In Abou Farman’s hands the stories turn into a larger meditation on movement, conveyed with humour and a subtle irony. Clerks of the Passage takes us on a journey in the company of some strange and great migrants, from the 3.5 million year-old bipedal hominids of Laetoli, Tanzania, to an Iranian refugee who spent seventeen years in the transit lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport...
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4.
Series:
The Darling of Kandahar
Paperback
Felicia Mihali
9780987831705
$16.95
FICTION
May 05, 2012
A young woman poses for the cover of a magazine. A Canadian soldier serving in Kandahar falls in love with her photograph and sends her an email. The Darling of Kandahar tells an astonishing story of love, loss, and displacement against the background of the war in Afghanistan, of the founding of the city of Montreal – and of a city now crowded with immigrants. When Felicia Mihali’s first novel appeared in French in 2002, it was compared to Marie-Claire Blais’s masterpiece, A Season in the Life of Emmanuel. Making her English-language début wit...
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5.
Series:
Are We On Yet?
Insider Secrets on How to be Interviewed (and other essential media skills)
Paperback
Tommy Schnurmacher
9780987831750
$14.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 25, 2012
Are We on Yet: Insider Tips on How to be Interviewed (and other essential media skills) teaches you how to be interviewed. Revealed by a veteran award-winning broadcaster, these tips will enhance your profits by giving you the ability to have radio and TV producers begging YOU to do an interview. You will be told exactly what to do and how to develop media savvy. Short, concise, funny and to the point, these practical, effective and easy-to-use insider techniques will enable you to enhance your product and do justice to your brand.The author is...
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6.
Series:
Keeping the Public in Public Education
Paperback
Rick Salutin
9780987831729
$14.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 05, 2012
Keeping the Public in Public Education is the first in Linda Leith Publishing’s pioneering Singles series of short essays published in print and electronic form.
7.
Series:
Caricature Cartoon Canada
Paperback
Terry Mosher
9780987831774
$19.95
HUMOR
Jul 01, 2012
The idea for this collection came from a conversation I had with the great Russian cartoonist Oleg Dergachov, who now lives in Montreal. Oleg told me of a Moscow cartoonist who, on his deathbed, asked that onea of his favourite cartoons be engraved on his headstone. rather than the usual text. Apparently a group of colleagues now gather annually and toast their former friend over his unique gravestone with a glass of vodka or two.The anecdote poses a question of any cartoonist: What cartoon have you drawn to date that you would most like to be ...
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