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Series: Tales From Phantom City Paperback Patrick Jenkins 9781988168968 $32.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 20, 2023

Welcome to Phantom City where a cat-shaped pendant with magical powers takes a detective on a precarious journey. Award-winning artist and animator Patrick Jenkins has devised a story as affecting as his complex line art. With a mixture of film noir and magic realism, Jenkins employs smoky halftones and sumptuous linework as a binding elements in a sequence of bizarre twists, offering a layered vortex of visual delights without linear paths or escape. Jenkin's debut is a stunning kaleidoscopic treasure.
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Series: Tulpa Mea Culpa Paperback Garry Morse 9781988168951 $24.95 FICTION Apr 27, 2023

stays at the illustrious Máximo College, he finds himself scandalized, and for little known reason. Scrutiny by his new academic neighbours is the least of his worries, as he learns of the existence of Aaron Schnell, his physical pseudo-twin, and an actor and film "double." The Chair shares fragments from the oeuvre of Thomas Claque, a recently deceased author who contrived the tale of the pseudo-twins. The Chair's scholarship leads him to the real Máximo College, where he revives those characters and scenarios, before travelling to a smaller p... + Read More
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Series: Back to the Garden Paperback Megan Wykes 9781988168975 $24.95 FICTION May 11, 2023

Set in Toronto in the blistering summer of 1971, Back to the Garden is about four strangers who take a chance on a new psychological treatment: group therapy. What seems, at first, like a good idea, quickly spirals out of control as the participants connect outside of the sessions in unforeseen and catastrophic ways, each character locked into an escalating crisis. Funny and heart-breaking, Back to the Garden is a love letter to Toronto at a pivotal point in the City's coming of age - when the folk scene was in full throttle, disenchantment ove... + Read More
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Series: Moving Upstream Paperback Mary Barnes 9781988168982 $24.95 POETRY May 18, 2023

Drawing on her Ojibwa roots and storytelling, Barnes shares stories that take the heart on the path to the past, nostalgic though it may be, wherein lies discovery, memories, and rhythms that ease the soul. Touching, tender but never overwrought, Barnes' poetry brings wonder to the spirit of nature and provides a sense of connection to the things most often overlooked.
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Series: Glint of Light, The Hardcover Clarence Major 9781988168999 $32.95 FICTION May 30, 2023

Mark Smith, is a sensitive thirty-seven-year-old environmental scientist of mixed race. He tries to come to terms with his mother's painful death as he goes through the stages of grief. Mark is also reassessing his relationship with his gay twin sister, Maria, a lawyer. After several failed relationships with women in college, Mark, while at his mother's funeral in Chicago, reconnects with his high school girlfriend, Christy, an artist who paints self-portraits. He now believes he has finally found true and lasting love, but the country's civil... + Read More
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Series: Le jardin reconnaissant de Morning Song Paperback Randy Morin 9781772312126 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Mar 15, 2023

Morning Song is a Cree girl who lives on a reserve. She does not like to eat vegetables because she thinks they are not important and do not taste good. One day, she goes on a walk and stumbles upon a magic garden where vegetables can talk. Morning Song meets carrots, cabbage, cucumbers, potatoes, pumpkins and other vegetables which explain her why each of them is an important part of a healthy diet. The book teaches children about importance of eating healthy, and living a happy and active lifestyle.
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Series: Modern Indigenous Voices Solus Urger Voyager Paperback David Groulx 9781772312089 $19.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2023

Solus Urger Voyager is a powerful and moving poetry collection which stretches across the boundaries of skin colour, language, and religion to give a voice to the lives and experiences of ordinary Indigenous people. The poems embrace anguish, pride, and hope. They come from the woodlands and the plains, they speak of love, of war, and of the known and the mysterious, they strike the reader with wisdom, joy, and sadness, bringing us closer than ever before to the heart of urban Indigenous life.
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Series: Modern Indigenous Voices AHSHIÁ:TON (YOU SHOULD WRITE IT) Paperback Jules Delorme 9781772312102 $19.95 POETRY Aug 15, 2023

AHSHIÁ:TON is a collection of stories based on traditional Mohawk teachings and tales. This work explores the lives and deaths of people and animals on the reservation and how the two blend into one another yet remain distinct. The stories are humorous and intense. They explore the parables of life, reflecting not just what it is to be Mohawk, or what it is to be human, but what it is to be alive.
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Series: Heartless Paperback Nina Bunjevac 9781772620801 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 15, 2023

Nina Bunjevac's brilliant debut graphic novel returns in this expanded 10th Anniversary paperback edition.Featuring 30 pages of new material and powered by an expressive black and white drawing style, reminiscent of Robert Crumb and the meticulous pointillist technique of Drew Friedman, the dark undertone of Bunjevac's humour brings into light the range of socio-political issues her comics deal with, such as gender, nationalism or urban alienation, always from an ironic feminist perspective.In the decade since her ground-breaking first edition,... + Read More
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Series: Moon Boots The Chronicles of a Country Crooner Paperback Lorenz Peter 9781772620818 $17.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 20, 2023

Music and nostalgia take center stage in this gently humorous road trip storyFollowing a major life upheaval, Lester LaFleur decides to leave the city for good. With his guitar on his back and cowboy boots on his feet, Lester heads west across Canada, playing his hurtin' songs in empty taverns and to anyone who cares to listen. As Lester travels across the country, he meets others who appreciate his music and share his experiences--and develops a deep kinship with his fellow drifters. As they ride together toward their unknown fortunes, adventu... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum25 Partum Me Paperback Natalie Pendergast 9781772620856 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 11, 2023

Vignettes of pregnancy and motherhood in a world where women are expected to do it allNatalie has a few chronic illnesses during pregnancy and early motherhood, yes. But she also chronically wonders where the external factors that trigger her illnesses end and her genetic predisposition to them begins. She asks herself, am I crazy, or does motherhood in these conditions just plain suck?Begun as a Julie Doucet tribute comic, PARTUM ME soon took off in its own direction. In it, award-winning writer Natalie Pendergast reveals with candour some of ... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum25 Post-Modern Mini-Comics Paperback Colin Upton 9781772620849 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 11, 2023

A palm-sized collection by the King of Canadian Mini-ComicsJoin Canadian cartoonist Colin Upton as he delights in the minutiae of everyday life. Whether he's bussing across the border or trying to break in a stiff pair of Doc Martens, Upton examines seemingly insignificant experiences with a contagious fascination.Post-Modern Mini-Comics is a celebration of Upton's long history of ground-breaking work in alternative comics, and a cure for a celebrity culture that misleads people into believing that life has no meaning without fame. In this rare... + Read More
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Series: Adherent Paperback Chris W. Kim 9781772620825 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 25, 2023

A poignant fable about a young woman who is captivated by a set of recently discovered notebooks and leaves her isolated community to search for their author--a journey that ultimately makes her question what she wants and what she's willing to leave behind.The residents of an isolated village in a dreamlike world scavenge for supplies in the surrounding forest, collecting scattered items left over from a time long past. No one strays far from this community, fearing what may lie beyond it. When they find a stack of notebooks by an unknown auth... + Read More
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Series: Kettle Harbour Paperback Kyle Vingoe-Cram 9781772620832 $25.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 25, 2023

A young artist reunites with her beloved cousin and his husband in the small town where they spent formative summers, unearthing pieces of the past and upending their lives.In this debut graphic novel from Nova Scotian cartoonist Kyle Vingoe-Cram, a woman visits her estranged cousin in a town on the muddy banks of the Fundy coast, a magical place where they spent summers as children. Once tied at the hip, the two cousins, Andrea and Brendan, awkwardly reconnect over nostalgic hiking trips and retro video games. Meanwhile Brendan's husband Micha... + Read More
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Series: Bandung Afro-Asian Poetry that Changed the World Paperback Tariq Mehmood 9781990263453 $39.00 POETRY Mar 01, 2023

The struggle against direct colonialism by millions of people across Africa and Asia was fought with a view to the creation of a new world, one that would be free from the horrors of colonialism. Nowhere was a struggle waged on anything but hope and absolute faith in the eventual defeat of the colonial masters, some of who, like the British and French, connived and massacred in the vain hope of holding on to their possessions. The anti-colonial struggles not only laid bare the utter brutality of the colonizer, especially in their dying days, it... + Read More
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Series: Beyond the Internet Radical Voices of Dissent Paperback David Berry 9781990263590 $31.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2023

This book addresses threats to our current existence (global capitalism and the Internet) and explores and critiques the current nature and tools of radical political resistance around the world. This exploration of the usefulness and threat of the Internet is unique in academic research into political communication. Mainstream research has tended to address and capitalize on the political and economic power of mass media conglomerates rather than address the possibilities of political resistance and justice. This research is centred on politic... + Read More
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Series: Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition Moving Beyond Racial Capitalism Paperback Atticus Bagby-Williams 9781990263323 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition deals with three distinct radical orientations: the anarchist movement in Europe and the United States, the Black Radical Tradition, and Black anarchism. Importantly, Black anarchism owes more to the Black Radical Tradition than the European anarchist movement. Often, Black anarchists are not acknowledged within the Black Radical Tradition for their contributions to revolutionary theory as well as struggle. We seek to change that by discussing Black anarchist theorists and to shed light on the res... + Read More
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Series: Dark PR How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment Paperback Grant Ennis 9781990263484 $34.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

'Think global, act local!', 'Be the change you want to see in the world!', 'Every little bit counts!'. We can all get on board with such sentiments, right? That, of course, is exactly what corporate spin-masters across the world are banking on. By weaponizing such seemingly innocuous yet powerful narratives, change becomes a matter of personal choice, something each of us must slave away at day by day: switching off lightbulbs to save the environment or exercising to shed the weight we've gained from consuming junk food. All the while, the corp... + Read More
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Series: Hand on the Sun Paperback Tariq Mehmood 9781988832586 $26.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

This new and expanded edition of Tariq Mehmood's first novel, first published by Penguin Books in 1983, charting the experience of the second generation migrants to the UK. Set in the declining textile industry of the North of England, it is a raw story of pain and anger at the relentlessness of British racism, from the street to the state - a story of an unquenchable desire for justice, and reclaiming human dignity. A dignity that is wrapped around new questions of Identity, a crossroad between religion, language, history and resistance. It is... + Read More
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Series: Episodes From a Colonial Present Paperback Daniel Bendix 9781990263460 $53.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

Postcolonial critique deconstructs global inequality in its epistemic and material dimensions. This collective comic project illuminates everyday life's coloniality as well as the decolonising potential of everyday struggles in the spaces, discourses and practices of so-called 'global development'.
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Series: Singing to Liberation Songs of Freedom and Nights of Resistance in Indian Universities Paperback Suddhabrata Deb Roy 9781990263491 $25.00 HISTORY Mar 01, 2023

Cultural Resistance in India has a rich and long history - right from the days in which the British ruled over the country. Protest music occupies a central position in the organisational fabric of contemporary Indian progressive and revolutionary politics. Cultural organisations such as Indian People's Theatre Association and JANAM, have been crucial parts of the progressive movement in the country, along with martyrs such as Safdar Hashmi who was killed by the hooligans appointed by the then ruling party in 1989 while attempting to put up a t... + Read More
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Series: Slave King Rebels Against Empire - A Novel Paperback Basem L. Ra'ad 9781990263521 $34.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2023

Slave King recreates a major slave revolt in Sicily led by a Syrian magus turned leader, circa 140-132 BCE, decades before Spartacus. He forges a coalition of slaves, farmers and herders to defeat Roman armies and establish an egalitarian entity. The novel uses biased ancient sources but challenges them to speak for the oppressed and present alternative cultural-historical perspectives. Among its chapters are scenes of exorcism, ancient marriage customs and a play.
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Series: Some of Us Are Brave Interviews and Conversations with Sistas in Life and Struggle Paperback Thandisizwe Chimurenga 9781990263118 $14.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

A society founded and steeped in both white supremacy and cis-heterosexual patriarchy (and by extension, misogyny) by definition belittles and ignores the voices of women of color in general and Black women in particular (misogynoir). Part of the corrective to that was the centering and airing of Black women's voices through Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women's Radio Program that aired on Pacifica-Los Angeles (KPFK 90.7 FM) from 2003 until 2011. The program covered a myriad of issues by amplifying the voices of a broad cross-section of Black w... + Read More
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Series: Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Valueform Paperback Shemon Salam 9781990263149 $41.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2023

Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-form develops an immanent critique of the Black Radical Tradition to show the boundaries of its own categories, history, and epistemologies. Limits argues that the Black Radical Tradition developed in the national context of completing Reconstruction and the international context of colonialism-decolonization resulting in a particular form and content of the tradition. This process constituted the tradition, and subsequently the tradition is still working with the older set of tools that strug... + Read More
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Series: Religion, Eugenics, Science and Mathematics A progressive primer Paperback Karim F. Hirji 9781990263217 $46.00 RELIGION Mar 23, 2023

This is the second volume on religion, this time addressing its relatinship with science and the spread of pandemics.
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Series: White Saviorism in International Development Theories, Practices and Lived Experiences Paperback Themrise Khan 9781990263187 $30.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

Given the growing interest in understanding the meaning, manifestations, analyses and implications of racism in North/South relations, White Saviorism in International Development seeks to remedy the shortcomings of the development studies literature on the prevalence of White Saviorism in Western development initiatives in the Global South. The volume comprises theoretical chapters, testimonies, stories and lived experiences from 19 contributors from across the Global South. With sensitivity and intelligence, these practitioners and academics ... + Read More
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Series: Homestead, Homeland, Home Paperback Ato Sekyi-Otu 9781990263545 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2023

This is a collection of observations and meditations by Professor Emeritus (York University, Toronto) and philosopher Ato Sekyi-Otu on events, issues, people and ideas culled from recent history and the world, from the US and Canada to Ghana. If there is a persistent thread in these entries, it is this: Virtually all of them testify to the ironic truth of the saying that there is no place like home, no place, that is to say, which looks like the lodestar called home or comes close to approximating its promise of being a just space of human flou... + Read More
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Series: Popular Resistance to Xenophobic Violence The Case of South Africa Paperback Jemima Parker 9781990263101 $27.00 HISTORY Aug 01, 2023

The book is concerned with popular responses to the crisis of xenophobic violence in South Africa. It argues, that xenophobia itself is not primarily a reaction to poverty, inequality, or any other set of social conditions. Rather, xenophobia must be considered to be a collective political discourse which has arisen in post-apartheid South Africa from an exclusionary conception of state nationalism. Where this work may be distinguished from the majority of research on xenophobia in South Africa is in the fact that its particular focus is on ins... + Read More
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Series: What is to be Thought? The Dialectics of Emancipation in Africa Political Theory and Political Practice Paperback Michael Neocosmos 9781990263095 $39.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2023

Beginning from the understanding that it is imperative today to develop new concepts for the thinking of an emancipatory politics on the African continent (Fanon), this book proposes to focus on dialectical thought as the core subjective feature of all emancipatory political experiments on the African continent in particular. It traces a dialectical thinking to its origins in Ancient Egypt that arguably influenced Plato, and notes its opposition to the idea of representation in state politics during various historical sequences right up to th... + Read More
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Series: leave some for the birds movements for justice Paperback Marjorie Beaucage 9781928120360 $20.00 POETRY May 27, 2023

From acclaimed filmmaker, artist and activist Marjorie Beaucage comes a poetic memoir that reflects on seven decades of living and seeking justice as a Two Spirit Michif woman. Poems, poetic observations and thoughtful meanderings comprise this inspirational journal-memoir-poetry collection from a woman who has dedicated her life and her talent to creating social change. Unfolding the wisdom gained from experience, leave some for the birds: movements for justice offers guidance for younger activists following the author's trailblazing footsteps.
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Series: The Sound of a Rainbow Paperback Sharon Frayne 9781988989594 $22.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Apr 22, 2023

Sometimes the challenges we resist the most can give us the strength to transform into the person we want to be. Troubled, almost 16-year-old Raven Tantie just wants to be left alone, after her disastrous final performance in The Teen Talent show goes viral on social media. Worse, following a therapist's advice, her divorcing parents send her to Rainbow Wings, an inclusive summer camp for the performing arts in Northern Ontario. Initially, Raven is angry at the world, but inside she's desperate for acceptance and belonging. Campers with physica... + Read More
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Series: Enlightened by Defilement Paperback Vera Constantineau 9781988989617 $22.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2023

A reflective expression of a life pursuing enlightenment. A collection of haibun and their haiku poems that take a glimpse into topics such as teenage awakening and long standing grief; all with a deflecting wittiness and space for reflection.Inspired by the 108 Buddhist defilements, each piece represents a lesson learned, some based on personal recollections and experiences; others are gathered bits and pieces of confidences or snippets overheard while shamelessly eavesdropping.As soon as you read the first haibun, with its clear prose followe... + Read More
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Series: Jerry Lewis Told Me I Was Going To Die Paperback Matthew Del Papa 9781988989624 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 06, 2023

Disability may be his lot, but he decided long-ago not to let it control his fate. A collection of humorous essays centered on life with a disability. These essays give a wry look at the obstacles faced while growing up in a small town in Northern Ontario.
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Series: Come on Over! Northeastern Ontario from A to Z 2nd edition Paperback Dieter K. Buse 9781988989648 $29.95 TRAVEL May 25, 2023

A unique, single-volume historical and cultural compendium which will interest residents and visitors alike. Want to find out where the statues of North America's most significant explorers are? Where British soldiers won a decisive victory in the War of 1812? Where you can swim with a polar bear? Where the first Hardy Boys books were written? Where Winnie the Pooh, Grey Owl and Shania Twain lived? Come On Over! features 42 separate articles focusing on over 100 cities, towns, and villages, the Anishinabek and Mushkegowuk First Nations in the r... + Read More
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Series: Cracking Apricot Pits to Flavour the Heart Paperback Heather MacLoud 9781771262859 $18.00 POETRY May 01, 2023

Heather Simeney MacLeod's latest collection of poetry takes hold of memories, ancestors, family, and kin amid years spent in Canada's western provinces and northern territories, as well as Scotland's Shetland Isles and Highlands. Amidst the Michif Nation that is her heritage, MacLeod navigates the silt bluffs, watersheds, and archipelagos from Canada's north to Scotland's that inform a sinuous spill to her verse. MacLeod writes of the arctic, the interior of BC, the plains of the prairies, the inlets and deltas making of geography a rhythm and ... + Read More
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Series: Scream Therapy A Punk Journey through Mental Health Paperback Jason Schreurs 9781771262866 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2023

Picture this: Someone is screaming at you for 45 minutes straight as loud as they can. For most people, it would be the stuff of nightmares. For author Jason Schreurs and members of the punk rock community, it's therapy. Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health follows the transformational journeys of Schreurs and the other punks he learns from, revealing the healing power of a misunderstood and underestimated music community. In the book, Schreurs and other punks come to a life-changing realization--punk rock helped them at their l... + Read More
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Series: Rage Letters, The English translation Paperback Valérie Bah 9781777485276 $19.95 FICTION Aug 15, 2023

An exhausted security guard dreams of home. A sculptor and a pothead have great sex -- in the shadow of wax ex-lovers. A diversity workshop devolves into a familiar nightmare. Throughout this deadpan collection, determined, damned, and triumphant characters appear and reappear, and their links become clear over the course of the fragmented narrative. The author playfully traces the portrait of the intertwined lives of a group of Black queer and trans friends as they navigate the social violence, traumas, and contradictions of their circumstance... + Read More
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Series: Good Morning Poems a start to the day from famous English-language poets Paperback George Bowering 9781774390658 $20.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Apr 01, 2023

Canadian literary legend George Bowering lays bare his process as reader and lover of poetry in this curated collection of poems to be read in the morning.In a series of deeply astute and conversational essays, two-time Governor General's Award winner and inaugural Parlimentary Poet Laureate of Canada George Bowering travels through five hundred years, give or take, of English-language literature, adding historical, political, feminist, socio-economic, anecdotal, and literary context to each poem and poet. His selection of poems ranges from the... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series I (Athena) Paperback Ruth DyckFehderau 9781774390672 $23.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2023

When Athena was a young girl in the 60s, she lost her hearing to a childhood fever but was misdiagnosed as "profoundly retarded" and institutionalized for thirty years. Now she's out of the institution, awkward and bookish, and learning to integrate with mainstream society where nothing works quite like she thinks it should. Athena researches her past, trying to understand why she was institutionalized in the first place and why the people looking after her made such a huge mistake. At the same time, she tries to find a way to live with the man... + Read More
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Series: Rose Addams Paperback Margie Taylor 9781774390696 $24.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2023

Rose Addams is hitting her sixties, but these days it feels like they're starting to hit back... Her daughter, Morgan, has ditched her thesis program and moved back home to Vancouver, while her son Jason's partner has never seen eye to eye with his mother. Her husband Charles has decided to take early retirement from the university to work on his long-gestating book, and his rakish best friend Garnet has a new mistress who is way too young for their social circle. When Rose encounters a young man panhandling outside of her library office though... + Read More
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Series: Nuatak First Fiction Series Hold Your Tongue Paperback Matthew Tétreault 9781774390719 $22.95 FICTION May 01, 2023

Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run-ins with local Mennonites, his job working a honey wagon, and struck by visions of Métis history and secrets of his family's past, Richard confronts his desires to leave town, even as he learns to embrace his heritage.Evoking an oral storytelling epic that weaves together one family's complex history, Hold Your Tongueasks what it m... + Read More
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Series: Oldman's River Paperback Sid Marty 9781774390733 $44.95 POETRY May 15, 2023

Sid Mary is a voice to be reckoned with.Beloved for his intimate, lyrical poetry, Marty's depiction of selfhood, connection to place and to landscape have proven him a unique and dissenting voice in Canadian literature as well as a consistent presence in the Canadian environmental movement. These are poems, often strongly resonant of western speech, that celebrate all the vicissitudes of rural life, the loves and losses, the valleys and peaks of life on the prairies, foothills and in the mountains of Alberta and British Columbia.This first-ever... + Read More
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Series: it is what it is, what is it Paperback Spencer Butt 9781989689493 $14.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2023

Here's some poems for when you're confused or pretending you're not. Poems for when you want to laugh or cry or laugh until you cry or cry until you laugh. Poems for when you're fine or "fine" or when you yell FINE and walk away. Here's some poems for you to come back to and some poems you can take with you. Poems about life and ghouls and parenting and love and regret and freaking out. Here's some poems with question marks and exclamation points. Poems about a long time ago and tomorrow and the sci-fi future. Poems to turn shrugs into hugs and... + Read More
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Series: Nothing Comes Back Paperback Susan Lloy 9781989689486 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2023

Age is the great divider. One side fused of fire and lust, the other undetected like fallout. The characters in this collection have been plucked and blown through time like pollen on the wind, often rooting themselves in foreign landscapes both beautiful and adverse, sometimes altered, yet always unyielding, ripe for transformation. Nothing Comes Back is a deeply captivating collection by a major literary talent working at the top of her craft.
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Series: Sleepers and Ties Paperback Gail Kirkpatrick 9781989689462 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2023

Grieving Museum curator Margaret returns to her childhood home to leave behind her sister Shirley's ashes and attend the final reading of her will. Unbeknownst to Margaret, Shirley has left her eight million dollars and a letter asking Margaret to return to its former glory an abandoned railway line--a fanciful notion, everyone tells her, with no real legal binding. Embarking on an adventure that will test more than just an executor's duty and loyalty to her sister's legacy, Margaret is forced to make decisions now and for the future that will ... + Read More
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Series: Troll Paperback Logan Macnair 9781989689479 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2023

When aspiring actor Peter Riley is given the assignment in his drama class to perform in a YouTube-style video, he creates the character of 'Petrol Riley,' a satire of a politically extreme right-wing conspiracy theorist. Peter is soon surprised to learn that the video he has uploaded has gone unexpectedly viral, with thousands of viewers misinterpreting his satirical performance as genuine. Seeing this as his path toward fame, Peter commits to portraying the hatemongering character of Petrol full-time, building a devout and rabid fanbase of on... + Read More
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Series: translanguagings Rumi Roaming Paperback Gita Hashemi 9781988254944 $60.00 POETRY Mar 03, 2023

rumi roaming is a volume unfolding in print, virtual and real spaces. It starts from Rumi's poetics to generate new responses to contemporary issues. rumi roaming showcases performance, poetry, scholarly prose, creative writing, fiction, photo-text compositions, and video that are occasioned by the circulation of Rumi's poetry in different contexts and languages as well as by his life and work.rumi roaming is inspired by Rumi's own itinerant life trajectory across Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey and the spiritual exhortations of his ghazals. Inter... + Read More
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Series: Rebellion Box Paperback Hollay Ghadery 9781989274910 $20.00 POETRY Apr 14, 2023

This explosive debut collection pushes against the limitations of gender roles, race, bodies andminds, and explores our insignificance and impotence in the universe. The concept of otherness afforded by a marginalized and neurodivergent perspective is brilliantly represented in this book.
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Series: Remedies For Chiron Paperback m. patchwork monoceros 9781989274880 $20.00 POETRY Apr 14, 2023

In the astrological tradition, Chiron represents our deepest wound, and our lifelong efforts to heal it. Remedies for Chiron is a collection of poems that journey through the days of a young, queer, Black, and newly disabled poet trying to find a place to root and exist in the entirety of those intersections. Moving between cycles of grief and self-discovery, Remedies tells the story of a prismatic existence while also offering a balm for the hurts we all experience and the humility that comes with healing.
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Series: Survivors of the Hive Paperback Jason Heroux 9781989274866 $22.00 FICTION May 12, 2023

Loss. Grief. Centipedes. Silence. The word "no." The word "yes." A high school poetry contest that may or may not be linked to the end of the world. The characters in this collection are under attack. A grief-baffled son hopes to save an innocent insect from a toxic genocide, a daughter struggles to accept loss while visiting a community overwhelmed by denial, a sorrow-stricken father recalls his bizarre final conversation with his only child; the individuals in these stories discover how difficult it can be to let go of what's gone in order to... + Read More
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Series: All the World's a Wonder Paperback Melia McClure 9781989274798 $25.00 FICTION Mar 15, 2023

A playwright possessed by her muses, an actress desperate to succeed, and a doctor hauntedby a lost love. Three people cross time and space to meet through the playwright's bizarrecreative process: to create, the playwright must become her characters; to tell her tragic story,the actress must speak from the grave; to heal his harrowing past, the doctor must surrender tohis patient - the playwright.
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Series: Take Off! Paperback Lea Beddia 9781989996133 $13.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Mar 15, 2023

High-interest accessible novel for teen readers. ~The only thing worse than crash landing a plane is spending a weekend hiking with your bully. Marisa's only hope for a second chance at her test flight is extra credit from a survival camp weekend. As an aviation cadet, hiking in the wilderness should be a breeze. But Marisa, who is gay and out, needs the courage to deal with Aimee, a toxic basketball star and long-time bully. When Aimee is injured on the hike, Marisa will have to decide how to help her. Getting them to safety may cost Marisa h... + Read More
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Series: Stonehouse Originals Echo Lane Paperback Sandra Kelly 9781988754451 $22.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2023

Patsy Keane survived her childhood, and some days that's all that matters. As the child of an alcoholic mother, Patsy is not prone to nostalgia. She lives in a world of her own creation, where Beverly Keane's maternal shortcomings are just a bad memory. It would be a perfect world if Patsy wasn't eternally haunted by the memory of what really happened on the day her sister Kathleen went missing-and by the foolish lie she told that day. She's lived with it for forty-two years.Since that terrible time, Patsy has distanced herself from everyone an... + Read More
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Series: Stonehouse Originals Inescapable: A Ghost Story Paperback D.K. Stone 9781988754468 $22.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2023

Trying to come to terms with the passing of her husband, an acclaimed and controversial Canadian artist, Aimee Westerberg is spiralling into depression instead. Her identity as George Westerberg's younger second wife has thrown her into a fight with his family over the estate, Troubled and grieving, Aimee escapes into her work as an art-restorer at Calgary's Glenbow museum, only to find herself pursued by Bear Cardinal, a journalist writing an exposé on the infamous artist's entangled life. But dealing with Bear is far from her only worry... As... + Read More
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Series: Stonehouse Originals Livingsky Paperback Anthony Bidulka 9781988754475 $22.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2023

Going home is not always the best answer. Forced to leave behind her big city dreams, Merry Bell returns to Livingsky Saskatchewan to start over. Living with plenty of secrets, but no money, friends, or place to live during a prairie winter-all while trying to start her own PI business-proves to be more challenging than she imagined. With a first case that quickly turns more dangerous than it first appeared, Merry must deal with a dodgy client, the murder of the surgeon who performed her gender affirming surgery, and more than one mysterious st... + Read More
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Series: Stonehouse Originals Urbane Paperback Anna Marie Sewell 9781988754444 $22.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2023

"I should have punched her in the face." With these words, Hazel's back. Having survived a stint as a werewolf's accomplice on a mission of vengeance and redemption, Amiskwaciy's notoriously unknown detective and self-professed asshole Hazel LeSage returns. The aftermath of violence has left Hazel with questions, wounds and unexpected friends including Shanaya Bhattacharya, a most unusual lawyer whose thirst for wrongs to right leads her and Hazel into the claws of a conspiracy. Hazel and Shanaya set out to find Hazel's ex-husband and renegot... + Read More
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Series: Knife on Snow Paperback Alice Major 9780888017680 $18.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2023

What portents must you divine when a knife falls from the sjy into your snow covered yard? With Knife on Snow, Alice Major employs history, myth, and science to understand a world ablaze.From the bitumen hills of Fort McMurray to the barren reaches of Iceland, Knife on Snow shows us an earth bathed in dragon's breath, and like the Norse gods bound to their fate, we stand transfixed by the reaping of our actions, both driver /and passenger-- part-cause / part-witness of earth's unwinding.As you would expect in Alice Major's expert hands ... + Read More
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Series: Turnstone Selects Marshburning Paperback David Arnason 9780888017437 $17.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2023

Reissued in a magnificent new edition, Marshburning is David Aranson's masterful long poem binding his Icelandic roots to the shore of Lake Winnipeg. First published in 1980, this classic is the latest edition in the Turnstone Selects series, highlighting important works that hold both mass and academic interest.
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Series: Monumental Manitoba Roadside Attractions and More! Paperback Meghan Kjartanson 9780888016652 $27.50 TRAVEL Apr 15, 2023

From Flintabbaty Flonatin to Gimli's mighty Viking, the Glenboro camel to Morden's monstrous mosasaur, Meghan Kjartanson sets out to follow the stories of Manitoba's statues. Featuring over 60 sites of interest, Kjartanson charts an all-ages adventure tracking prairie giants, roadside attractions, and important landmarks, including fire hydrants and golf balls, sturgeons and sunflowers, and, of course, Manitoba's provincial "bird"--the mosquito. Explore the diverse characters and communities at the centre of Canada with this info-packed guide o... + Read More
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Series: Postmodern Weather Report Paperback Kristian Enright 9780888016973 $21.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2023

In today's world, space is at a premium to accommodate humans, nature, and ideas, but what, exactly, occupies the vast psychic space of the Prairie landscape? In Postmodern Weather Report, Kristian Enright expertly weaves critical theory with playful poetics to suffuse this space with reflections on science, semantics, pop culture, philosophy, and a blossoming emergence into new cultural awareness for a contemporary age.