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Series: 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada Paperback Aaron W. Hughes 9781772126327 $27.99 HISTORY Sep 01, 2022

Revisiting ten notable days from recent history, Aaron W. Hughes invites readers to think about the tensions, events, and personalities that make Canada distinct. These indelible dates interweave to offer an account of the political, social, cultural, and demographic forces that have shaped the modern nation. The diverse episodes include the enactment of the War Measures Act, hockey’s Summit Series, the patriation of the Constitution, the Multiculturalism Act, the École Polytechnique Massacre, victories for gay rights, Quebec’s second referendu... + Read More
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Series: 2023 Night Sky Almanac A Month-by-Month Guide to North America's Skies from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Paperback Nicole Mortillaro 9780228103738 $14.95 SCIENCE Sep 15, 2022

A portable guidebook for enjoying the night sky in 2023. 2023 Night Sky Almanac is the ideal resource for both novice and experienced sky watchers in the United States and Canada, with all the advice, information and data that enthusiasts need to understand and enjoy the wonders of the night sky. This in-depth guide first introduces readers to the objects in the sky -- from stars, to comets, to globular clusters -- and then takes them through the cosmic events to look out for each month in 2023, with sky maps, moon phase charts and in... + Read More
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Series: A Is for Acholi Paperback Otoniya J. Okot Bitek 9781989496558 $20.00 POETRY Sep 20, 2022

A is for Acholi is a sweeping collection exploring diaspora, the marginalization of the Acholi people, the dusty streets of Nairobi and the cold grey of Vancouver. Playfully upending English and scholarly notation Bitek rearranges the alphabet, hides poems in footnotes and slips stories into superscripts. With writing that is lyric, layered and deeply felt, the poems in A is for Acholi unfold maps of history, culture and identity, tracing a route to a present where the poet dreams of writing a world without empire.
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Series: A Journey of Love and Hope The Inspirational Words of a Mi'kmaw Elder Hardcover Elder Sister Dorothy Moore 9781774711187 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 20, 2022

The long-awaited collection of talks, presentations, prayers, and ceremonies of renowned Mi'kmaw Elder, human rights activist, and language and culture warrior, Sister Dorothy Moore. Mi'kmaw Elder Sister Dorothy Moore has spent a lifetime advocating for the rights of her people. As a well-known educator and a survivor of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, she has broken down systemic barriers, leading the Mi'kmaq to access all levels of education, and worked tirelessly to reclaim and promote Indigenous ways of knowing and being. In A J... + Read More
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Series: A Little Bit Broken A Memoir Hardcover Roz Weston 9780385658645 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 27, 2022

It never gets better, but it does get easier. That’s the first thing Roz says to anyone who asks him for advice. Anyone who’s fighting like hell, just hanging on or putting the pieces back together. When you’re broken, fixed becomes an obsession. Roz is a multi-platform entertainer and storyteller who hosts three shows a day and sleeps five hours a night. On The Roz & Mocha Show, ET Canada Live and Entertainment Tonight Canada Roz built an audience and turned them into family. But as with most families, there is just some shit we don’t talk abo... + Read More
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Series: A Sentimental Education Paperback Hannah McGregor 9781771125574 $24.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 20, 2022

How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life. Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the collective practices of feminist meaning-making in activities as varied as reading, critique, podcasting, and even mourning. In part this book is a memo... + Read More
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Series: Abandoned Alberta II Hardcover Joe Chowaniec 9781772761764 $34.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2022

In Abandoned Alberta II, Joe Chowaniec continues his travels in Wild Rose country, uncovering even more hidden gems along the way. These extraordinary images provide a window into times when life seemed simpler, stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived. Where others may see only decay and rot in these abandoned places, Chowaniec sees stunning beauty. From barns located in the rolling foothills of the Rocky Mountains to homesteads in the badlands around Drumheller, discover ... + Read More
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Series: Abandoned Kentucky Hardcover Sherman Cahal 9781772761719 $34.95 HISTORY Sep 01, 2022

Abandoned Kentucky began in 2014 as a Facebook group to share the rich history about the old, forgotten, and abandoned things and places in Kentucky. The Abandoned Kentucky group is now the largest Kentucky history group on Facebook with more than 385,000 members sharing pictures and information about Kentucky?s colorful past. The stunning images found in Abandoned Kentucky offer a window into our past, showing life as it was then, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they liv... + Read More
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Series: Global Suburbanisms After Suburbia Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century Paperback Roger Keil 9781487523534 $44.95 SCIENCE Sep 15, 2022

After Suburbia presents state-of-the-art suburban research to examine twenty-first-century cities from the point of view of their peripheries.After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet’s urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa... + Read More
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Series: Alasdair MacIntyre An Intellectual Biography Hardcover Émile Perreau-Saussine 9780268203252 $54.95 PHILOSOPHY Sep 01, 2022

This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinking in the intellectual milieu of twentieth-century philosophy.Winner of the prestigious 2005 Philippe Habert Prize, the late Émile Perreau-Saussine’s Alasdair MacIntyre: Une biographie intellectuelle stands as a definitive introduction to the life and work of one of today’s leading moral philosophers. With Nathan J. Pinkoski’s translation, this long-awaited, critical examination of MacIntyr... + Read More
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Series: Ancient Bones Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human Paperback Madelaine Böhme 9781778400315 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 30, 2022

“Splendid and important …. Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale … [Böhme’s] account of the history of Europe’s lost apes is imbued with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the fieldworker, and carries great authority.”—Tim Flannery, The New York Review of BooksIn this “fascinating forensic inquiry into human origins” (Kirkus STARRED Review), a renowned paleontologist takes readers behind-the-scenes of one of the most groundbreaking archaeological digs in recent history.Somewhere ... + Read More
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Series: Antigonish A History in Pictures Hardcover Peggy Thompson 9781772761771 $29.95 HISTORY Sep 01, 2022

With more than 130 photographs, many of them seen here for the first time, Antigonish: A History in Pictures offers a stunning portrait of this one-of-a kind place. Antigonish: A History in Pictures not only captures the beautiful landscape of this place, but also the lives lived, both humble and grand. We see St. Francis Xavier University in its early days, track and field events at Columbus Field and men leaving and coming home from one of the two great wars. There is the excitement of the Fall Fair, a bustling Main Street, outdoor skating, a... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies Atiqput Inuit Oral History and Project Naming Hardcover Carol Payne 9780228011057 $45.95 HISTORY Sep 16, 2022

"Our names – Atiqput – are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what’s in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inu... + Read More
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Series: Bature! West African Haikai Paperback Richard Stevenson 9781774150795 $20.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2022

The book is an utaniki, a poetic travel journal comprised of haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, zappai and various Japanese imagist sequences. It records a journey undertaken by the author and his family in a Volkswagen, c 1980, from northeastern Nigeria down to Lagos in the southwest and up the west coast of West Africa through Benin and Togo. With characteristic wit it exposes the neocolonial realities of so-called third world cultures: the ingenuity of their peoples, their wicked humour and resourcefulness. It's a celebration of life in West Afric... + Read More
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Series: Beneath the Coal Dust Historical Journeys through the Elk Valley and Crowsnest Pass Paperback Wayne Norton 9781773860923 $26.00 HISTORY Sep 02, 2022

Go “beneath the coal dust” to discover the unexpected stories surrounding the Elk Valley and Crowsnest Pass. In Beneath the Coal Dust, author Wayne Norton digs deep, exploring the fascinating and sometimes sobering stories of the mining communities in the Elk Valley and the Crowsnest Pass. In this new collection, Norton chooses mainly a micro view, focusing on the stories that are specific to this isolated and unique geographic region. These tales span from the notorious red-light district of Fernie to women’s ice hockey in the 1920s, to the ci... + Read More
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Series: Bent Back Tongue Paperback Garry Gottfriedson 9781773860961 $20.00 POETRY Sep 16, 2022

In his latest collection, Secwépemc rancher and renowned poet Garry Gottfriedson explores the fraught mechanics of contemporary masculinity, politics and love.Bent Back Tongue is a raw examination of love, identity, politics, masculinity, and vulnerability. Through sharp honesty and revealing satire, Gottfriedson delves into Canadian colonialism and the religious political paradigms shaping experiences of a Secwépemc First Nations man. This is a book that tears through deceptions that both Canada and the church impose on their citizens. G... + Read More
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Series: Black & Blue Jazz Stories Paperback Stanley Péan 9781550656114 $21.95 MUSIC Sep 23, 2022

Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the misunderstandings that have surrounded the music. How could French existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre have mixed up Afro-Canadian songwriter Shelton Brooks with the Jewish-American belter Sophie Tucker? What is the real story behind the searing classic "Strange Fruit" made immortal by Billie ... + Read More
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Series: Black Hammer Omnibus Volume 1 Paperback Jeff Lemire 9781506731469 $39.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 04, 2022

The first chapter of the highly acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning superhero saga by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston, now in an affordable omnibus format.Mysteriously banished from existence by a multiversal event, the old superheroes of Spiral City now lead simple lives on a bizarre farm from which there is no escape!But as they employ all of their super abilities to free themselves from this strange purgatory, a mysterious stranger works to bring them back into action for one last adventure! Collects Black Hammer #1-13, and Black Hammer: Giant Size... + Read More
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Series: Blood Paperback Tyler Pennock 9781771315814 $21.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2022

Blood follows a Two-Spirit Indigenous person as they navigate urbanity, queerness, and a kaleidoscope of dreams, memory, and kinship. Conceived in the same world as their acclaimed debut, Bones, Tyler Pennock's Blood centres around a protagonist who at first has difficulty knowing the difference between connection and pain, and we move with them as they explore what it means to want. Pennock weaves longing, intimacy, and Anishinaabe relationalities to recentre and rethink their speaker's relationship to the living—never forgetting non-human kin... + Read More
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Series: Blood Legacy Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery Main Paperback Alex Renton 9781786898890 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 13, 2022

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam SangheraThrough the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are amo... + Read More
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Series: Book of Places 10th Anniversary Edition Paperback Yvonne Blomer 9781990293337 $19.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2022

In Book of Places, Yvonne Blomer draws us along for a cycling journey spanning decades and countries. From a solitary traffic controller on a lonely Nevada highway, to the quizzical regulars of a dodgy pub in the UK, we follow Blomer?s meandering path through snapshots of the figures and sights that populate the world she moves through. This updated edition also features an expanded collection of poems, integrating a ghazal suite of meditations on childhood, place, and the concept of home, poems set on bicycles in Southeast Asia, and more recen... + Read More
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Series: Business the NHL Way Lessons from the Fastest Game on Ice Hardcover Norm O'Reilly 9781487508760 $32.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 04, 2022

Taking you from the ice to the office and back, this ultimate business playbook provides valuable leadership insight and career-enhancing tactics inspired by stories from the National Hockey League.The National Hockey League is at its apex in terms of its business success. Even a global pandemic could not slow it down. The league generates more than $5 billion annually, its revenues and media deals continue to grow, and its properties are increasing in value, innovation, and quantity. More clubs are profitable than are not, and the game of hock... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum25 CONDOLADY Paperback Elisabeth Belliveau 9781772620764 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 13, 2022

Everything changes, even when time stands stillElisabeth Belliveau spent two years in Amiskwaciwâskahikan / Edmonton social distancing in a 680-square foot condo. Fueled by increased espresso consumption, food delivery, and twenty-year-old Cindy Crawford workout videos, Belliveau attends endless online meetings and teaches so many virtual art classes that they all start to blend together. But even in pandemic times, life goes on, and Belliveau soon finds herself navigating much bigger challenges--like pregnancy and tenure.In CONDOLADY, award-wi... + Read More
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Series: Cafe Conversations Democracy and Dialogue in Public Spaces Paperback Michael Picard 9781772141689 $20.00 PHILOSOPHY Oct 07, 2022

This collection of essays is the first to look closely at the phenomena of philosophy in a cafe. Since the tradition of philosophical dialogue in coffee-houses was revived in Paris in the 1990s, public venues for participatory philosophy have sprung up in numerous countries, taking many forms, all seeking to stimulate intellectual interest as well as meaningful democratic community engagement. Some of the earliest discussion series continue to this day. The simple activity of reasoning together in a cafe is of interest to democratic theory, epi... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Cage of Light Paperback Ned Baeck 9781771836999 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2022

Cage of Light holds together many narrative strands. It traces an environment of familial violence into adulthood. It witnesses the filter of addiction in life and love; it considers what sustains and protects, what constricts and harms, and the fluidity of these things. It addresses the practice of Zen and time spent in a Rinzai Monastery in Japan. It uses a language of struggle and seeks through the ‘food chains’ of human animal life, including episodes from literature and dream, for ways to see clearly what we foment as we go, and for what ... + Read More
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Series: Canada Must Think for Itself 10 theses for our country's survival & success in the 21st century Print edition Paperback Irvin Studin 9781778167102 $27.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 19, 2022

Analyzing the momentous shifts in international relations and domestic politics during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading policy expert and strategist Irvin Studin offers a road map for Canada’s survival and success in a post-pandemic world. Studin underscores the impact of Canada’s failure to think for itself as a nation prior to and throughout the pandemic. He also argues that Canadians have been all too willing to operate in the world as prescribed by first British, and now American, thinkers. To emerge as a fully independent and sovereign nati... + Read More
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Series: Canada's Food Island A Collection of Stories and Recipes from Prince Edward Island Hardcover Farmers and Fishers of Prince Edward Island 9781773271965 $38.95 COOKING Sep 06, 2022

Prince Edward Islanders are famous for hosting family and friends in the kitchen. Canada's Food Island invites you to celebrate the Island's farm-to-table cooking and meet the farmers, fishers and artisans who make those delicious dishes possible. From preparing the perfect lobster roll in spring and galettes filled with sweet fresh-picked strawberries in summer to making savory potato pizza in fall and roast turkey with an oyster, bacon and wild mushroom stuffing in mid-winter, you're sure to find a favourite recipe to delight guests and s... + Read More
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Series: Business Series Canadian Business Owner’s Guide to Reconciliation Best Practices for Indigenous Inclusion 1st Edition Paperback Alison Tedford 9781770403475 $26.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 28, 2022

Reconciliation is for businesses, too. From colonization through the Indian Act and residential schools, there is a lot of complicated history in the country we now call Canada. Between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people there is a disconnect, a fractured relationship we now need to make right. But what does Reconciliation mean, and specifically what does it mean for businesses? 'The Canadian Business Owner’s Guide to Reconciliation' is about how our history affects the present, and how we need to deal with the past so we can move into the ... + Read More
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Series: Caribou Wind Walkers of the Northern Wilderness Paperback Mark Raycroft 9780228103974 $24.95 NATURE Sep 15, 2022

Featuring more than 140 spectacular photographs of this magnificent animal. The story of the contemporary caribou begins during the last Ice Age, over two million years ago. This origin is appropriate; the caribou are rugged survivors, forged by icy terrain and windswept snow, enduring some of the coldest and harshest environments on the planet. Illustrated with exquisite photographs by famed wilderness photographer and writer Mark Raycroft, Caribou: Wind Walkers of the Northern Wilderness celebrates this fascinating and breathtaking ani... + Read More
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Series: Chokepoint Capitalism How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back Hardcover Rebecca Giblin 9780807007068 $35.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 27, 2022

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big MediaCorporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)—or both.In Chokepoint Capitalism, scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we’re in a new era of “chokepoint capitalism,” with exploitative businesses crea... + Read More
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Series: Cold War, 50th Anniversary Edition Paperback Roy MacSkimming 9781778400261 $24.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 02, 2022

“A thorough, evocative, exciting account of what happened that September … MacSkimming’s control of the story and his feel for character … give it a new electricity.”—The Globe and MailRelive the excitement of the greatest hockey series ever played, now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.When the hockey teams of Canada and the Soviet Union faced off against each other in 1972, they would change the game forever. Weaving together rich period detail, illuminating anecdotes, and thrilling hockey action with eyewitness accounts from Paul Henderso... + Read More
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Series: Campaigns and Commanders Series Congress's Own A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union Paperback Holly A. Mayer 9780806191058 $33.95 HISTORY Sep 20, 2022

Colonel Moses Hazen’s 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first “national” regiments in the American army. Created by the Continental Congress, it drew members from Canada, eleven states, and foreign forces. “Congress’s Own” was among the most culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse of the Continental Army’s regiments—a distinction that makes it an apt reflection of the union that was struggling to create a nation. The 2nd Canadian, like the larger army, represented and pushed the transition from a colonial, continental alliance to a na... + Read More
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Series: Cooperation and Social Justice Paperback Joseph Heath 9781487525958 $34.95 PHILOSOPHY Sep 11, 2022

This book analyses tensions that arise between the principles of social justice and the need for cooperation to advance collective goals. It is a common approach in contemporary political philosophy to view society as a system of mutually beneficial cooperation. This cooperation is difficult to achieve, often requiring a great deal of bargaining and compromise. Agreement is facilitated by principles of social justice, which determine the terms of reasonable compromise. And yet the application of these principles is also constrained by the ... + Read More
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Series: Disability Culture and Politics Cripping Intersex Hardcover Celeste E. Orr 9780774865531 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 15, 2022

Intersex and/as/is/with disability. The connections between intersex and disability deserve nuanced attention if we are to strengthen intersex human rights claims and understand the experiences of intersex people living with the disabling consequences of medical intervention. Cripping Intersex explores three key themes: the medical management of people with intersex characteristics; the mainstream fascination with sport sex-testing policies; and the eugenic implications of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. This necessary work offers radical ne... + Read More
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Series: Daisy Hardcover Colin Lorimer 9781506730011 $33.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 27, 2022

A graphic novel masterpiece of modern horror, Colin Lorimer’s Daisy springs from the apocalyptic Book of Enoch, excluded from biblical canon and disclosing the war of angels and Man’s introduction to violence, corruption, and evil.A desperate mother’s search for her missing son leads to the mysterious family of Daisy Phillips. Like many teens, Daisy has a hard time fitting in, but for atypical reasons: Daisy stands over eight feet tall and believes herself descended from cannibalistic giants spawned from the outcasts of Heaven. This frail, disf... + Read More
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Series: Dancing on Mountains Women of the Kootenays Paperback Luanne Armstrong 9781773860893 $26.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 02, 2022

In the style of Gumboot Girls and Dancing in Gumboots, Dancing on Mountains is an inspiring collection of first-hand stories from women of the Kootenays and Sinixt and Ktunaxa Nations.Nestled among pristine lakes, powerful rivers and awe-inducing mountain ranges, the Kootenay region of British Columbia has always drawn a distinctly adventurous crowd. The dramatic and somewhat isolated landscape has long been a fertile ground for artists, musicians, back-to-the-landers, hippies, environmentalists, free thinkers, and those seeking to escape the c... + Read More
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Series: Dead in Halifax: Stories of Adventure, Scandal, Heartbreak and Heroism Paperback Craig Ferguson 9781459507005 $24.95 HISTORY Sep 02, 2022

An amazing array of people have lived – and died – in Halifax since the arrival of English settlers in 1749. In this book author Craig Ferguson recounts the life stories of fascinating characters as well as ordinary people with extraordinary experiences who are buried in downtown Halifax’s historic cemeteries. The book features more than 50 individuals and their adventures — from scoundrels to heroes, children to generals, fire chiefs to pilots, and everything in between. There’s new light cast on the lives of better known Nova Scotians too, i... + Read More
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Series: Death Interrupted How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die Paperback Blair Bigham MD 9781487008543 $22.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 20, 2022

In Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era. Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive. In this new era, most organs can be kept from dying almost indefinitely by machines. But this unprecedented shift in end-of-life care has created a major crisis. In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to make tough... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion Disciples of Antigonish Catholics in Nova Scotia, 1880-1960 Paperback Peter Ludlow 9780228010883 $39.95 HISTORY Sep 15, 2022

For generations eastern Nova Scotia was one of the most celebrated Roman Catholic constituencies in Canada. Occupying a corner of a small province in a politically marginalized region of the country, the Diocese of Antigonish nevertheless had tremendous influence over the development of Canadian Catholicism. It produced the first Roman Catholic prime minister of Canada, supplied the nation with clergy and women- religious, and organized one of North America’s most successful social movements.Disciples of Antigonish recounts the history of this ... + Read More
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Series: Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias Paperback Beatriz Pizano 9780369103796 $19.95 DRAMA Sep 27, 2022

The one thing everyone knows is that we’re all going to die. Which means our loved ones are going to die. So how can we prepare for, experience, and honour their deaths? And does that look different if we have to make the decision to end their lives for them if they’re suffering? Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias is one woman’s story that offers a space for communal grieving through a celebration of life. Traced by the historic world events that coincide with her memories of independence and immigration, Beatriz reflects on how she spent over... + Read More
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Series: Don't Worry, Just Cook Delicious, Timeless Recipes for Comfort and Connection Hardcover Bonnie Stern 9780525611585 $35.00 COOKING Sep 20, 2022

“I tell you not to worry because I’ve done all the worrying for you!”Bonnie Stern, beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author, wants nothing more than for you to feel like she’s in the kitchen cooking beside you.In her latest cookbook, Don’t Worry, Just Cook, written with her daughter Anna Rupert (who has, in fact, been in the kitchen cooking beside Bonnie her whole life!), Bonnie and Anna are here to help cooks of all experience foster comfort and connection through food.With her trademark encouraging style and attention to detail, Bonnie... + Read More
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Series: Dream of Me as Water Paperback David Ly 9781990293184 $19.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2022

Moving beyond the themes of race, identity, and personhood navigated in Mythical Man, David Ly?s second book of poetry, Dream of Me as Water, explores ways of being that are not beholden to the expectations of others. Using water as his central metaphor, Ly meditates on how identity is never a stagnant concept, but instead something that is intangible, fluid, and ever-evolving. Dream of Me as Water revels in the nuances of the self, flouting outside perceptions for deeper, more personal realities. .
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Series: Ducks Two Years in the Oil Sands Hardcover Kate Beaton 9781770462892 $39.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 16 Sep 13, 2022

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of CanadaBefore there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles and gaelic folk songs. After university, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush, part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the hom... + Read More
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Series: Duecentomila Paperback kai fig taddei 9780369103826 $18.95 DRAMA Sep 27, 2022

Estranged teenage cousins Eli and Kat have recently met online and bonded over their queer identities, but they have a limited understanding of each other’s very different realities. In Italy, soft-spoken Eli is trying to find a way to come out as trans to his conservative Roman Catholic family. In Canada, strong-headed Kat is desperate for connection to a culture and place she’s never known. Kat and her friend Hannah are the only ones who know that Eli is trans—not even his brother Matteo knows. And while her intentions are good, Kat’s decisi... + Read More
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Series: Dulse to Donairs An Irreverent History of Food in Nova Scotia Paperback Steven Laffoley 9781989725931 $19.95 COOKING Jul 29, 2022

When Steven Laffoley first arrived on the rocky shores of Nova Scotia, he discovered some rather exotic food fare: deep-fried seafoods, oiled crustaceans, and an otherworldly, post-beer, Middle Eastern fusion food called The Donair. They all stimulated the appetite and captured his attention. He was transfixed. Far from the canned ravioli and Jell-O salads of his youth, Laffoley discovered that Nova Scotian food could be fresh and fascinating, frivolous and fun. As a result, he was determined to change his wayward ways about food and learn more... + Read More
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Series: Durable Goods Paperback James Pollock 9781550656107 $19.95 POETRY Sep 14, 2022

Durable Goods is a book of a sharply imagined poems about everyday technology. Writing in the Dinggedicht or thing-poem tradition of poets like Rilke, Ponge, and Marianne Moore, James Pollock calls to surprising life everything from microwaves to kettles, sprinklers to umbrellas, with a precision both unerring and effortless. By conjuring the essential spirit of each object, the poet reveals the tools and appliances that surround us as both sympathetic reflections of ourselves--our fear, love, rage, hope and grief--and strange beings with inner... + Read More
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Series: Empire and Communications Paperback Harold A. Innis 9781487520694 $44.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 08, 2022

This edition of Empire and Communications enriches Harold A. Innis’s examination of the relationship between communications and power structures.Originally published in 1950, Harold A. Innis’s Empire and Communications is considered to be one of the classic works in media studies, yet its origins have received little attention. Ambitious in its scope, the book spans five millennia, tracing a path of development around the globe from 2900 BCE to the twentieth century and revealing the cyclical interplay between communications and power structure... + Read More
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Series: Exculpatory Lilies Poems Paperback Susan Musgrave 9780771099007 $22.95 POETRY Sep 06, 2022

From the award-winning poet known for her bracing honesty and sharp yet compassionate gaze, here is a new collection of poems that explore life, marriage, addiction, death, and heart-wrenching grief.If grief is the willingness to be claimed by a story bigger than ourselves, Susan Musgrave writes, “in that / tender wavering, I let grief in.” “Writing about grief or tragedy is tricky. Hard to meet it at a heart-level without being effusive; hard to meet it at a brain-level without being cold. Hard not to make it about ourselves. Hard to meet it a... + Read More
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Series: Exit Wounds Poems Paperback Tariq Malik 9781773861005 $20.00 POETRY Sep 16, 2022

What does it mean to feel at home? In his groundbreaking collection, Exit Wounds, Indo-Canadian poet Tariq Malik weaves together history and myth with his own family’s experiences of immigration to uncover what it truly means to belong. Whether he is recalling his childhood memories of the death of his father, imaging himself as a dead soldier lost in the sands of the Kuwaiti desert, or drawing upon his family’s experience of ‘three wars and migrations,’ Malik’s moving search for home will resonate with anyone who has ever felt at odds with a d... + Read More
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Series: Eye of the Ocean Stories of Love, Hope and Empathy Paperback Janice Landry 9781989725917 $21.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Sep 15, 2022

Eye of the Ocean contains a wealth of poignant stories featuring the universal themes of love, hope, and empathy. The book showcases Canadians who inspire us to help and lift up others. Landry is donating her proceeds from all book sales to the non-profit Hants East Assisting Refugees Team (HEART) Society of Nova Scotia, which assists at-risk refugee families escaping the dangers of war, global strife, and oppression. HEART helped to bring the Barho family from Syria to Nova Scotia. Eye of the Ocean includes the tragic story of their seven chil... + Read More
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Series: Fire Cider Rain Paperback Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin 9781552454510 $22.95 POETRY Sep 20, 2022

Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties Fire Cider Rain is about the limits to which shared cultural and geographic histories can hold a family together. It follows the lives of three Chinese-Mauritian women on the course of dispersing, settling, and rooting over northern landscapes, and the brittle family bonds that tie them to one another and to their home country. Told from the perspective of the youngest of the three women, Fire Cider Rain follows the events lead... + Read More
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Series: Firebrand A Tobacco Lawyer's Journey Hardcover Joshua Knelman 9780735243811 $34.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 06, 2022

“You’ll inhale this tell-all book about the tobacco industry and never look at a No Smoking sign the same way again!”—Margaret Atwood, via TwitterMad Men meets Bad Blood in this addictive, behind-the-scenes globe-trotting narrative of moral ambiguity, law, public policy, and big tobacco.“Given everything the lawyer knew up to that point about smoking, as far as he could tell, cigarettes shouldn’t even have been available as a mass market product…”It’s the start of the new millennium and a young lawyer is recruited to work for an unnamed m... + Read More
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Series: For a Better World The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt Paperback James Naylor 9780887552991 $31.95 HISTORY Sep 26, 2022

Canada’s largest and most famous example of class conflict, the Winnipeg General Strike, redefined local, national, and international conversations around class, politics, region, ethnicity, and gender. The Strike’s centenary occasioned a re-examination of this critical moment in working-class history, when 300 social justice activists, organizers, scholars, trade unionists, artists, and labour rights advocates gathered in Winnipeg in 2019. Probing the meaning of the General Strike in new and innovative ways, For a Better World includes a selec... + Read More
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Series: Fractured A Memoir Paperback Susan Mockler 9781772602708 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 27, 2022

A collision with a moose on a dark highway left Susan Mockler with an incomplete spinal injury, suddenly compromising her ability to walk and to care for herself. She spent months in a rehabilitation facility learning how to adjust to her new reality, and though her body partially recovered, every aspect of her life changed. Fractured is a compelling illumination of the challenges of acquired disability and the ways in which people with disabilities are sidelined and infantilised. Mockler, a psychotherapist, speaks with frank honesty about her ... + Read More
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Series: Fresh, Local and Delicious Dishes from Mi’kma’ki and around the world from Kiju’s Restaurant in Membertou Paperback Shaun Zwarun 9781459507029 $29.95 COOKING Sep 02, 2022

Kiju’s Restaurant in Membertou, Cape Breton, has been recognized as a dining destination for many years. In this collection of more than 50 recipes, traditional Indigenous ingredients and local artisanal products and suppliers are given pride of place. The result is delicious recipes for the home cook that focus on fresh, local ingredients. Among the recipes which spotlight local fare are Aspy Bay Mussels, Sweetgrass Lacquered Rainbow Trout, Pan-Seared Halibut with Clam Paella and Three Sisters Succotash, Roast Rack of Venison, Spiced Rum Lac... + Read More
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Series: From Layton to Singh The 20-year conflict behind the NDP's deal with the Trudeau Liberals Paperback Matt Fodor 9781459416970 $24.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 02, 2022

On the surface the story of the federal NDP in the 21st century can be told as a story of its leaders — the optimism of the Jack Layton era; the disappointment of Tom Mulcair, the energizing popularity of Jagmeet Singh with young voters. But the real story is the ongoing internal power and ideological conflict between social democrats and Orange liberals. Author Matt Fodor describes how, over 20 years, centrists gradually consolidated their power, turning the party to the right. He highlights how the tensions have played out as activists draw... + Read More
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Series: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies Paperback Leslie Kern 9781771135849 $23.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 06, 2022

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, New York, London, and Paris to look beyond the familiar and false stories we tell ourselves about class, money, and taste. What she brings back i... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Immigration and Culture Gifts from Amin Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada Paperback Shezan Muhammedi 9780887552830 $27.95 HISTORY Sep 02, 2022

In August 1972, military leader and despot Idi Amin expelled Asian Ugandans from the country, professing to return control of the economy to “Ugandan citizens.” Within ninety days, 50,000 Ugandans of South Asian descent were forced to leave and seek asylum elsewhere; nearly 8,000 resettled in Canada. This major migration event marked the first time Canada accepted a large group of predominantly Muslim, non-European, non-white refugees. Shezan Muhammedi’s Gifts from Amin documents how these women, children, and men—including doctors, engineers,... + Read More
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Series: Granted Poems of Metaphor Paperback Jeffery Donaldson 9780889844544 $16.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2022

In Granted, Jeffery Donaldson explores `a universe of potential relation', providing a master class in the art of metaphor by exploring in verse the complexities of identity, perception, and meaning.