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Series: A Separate Star Paperback 9781927886540 $20.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

A Separate Star collects the decolonial socialist ambitions of Red Braid Alliance through reflections on struggle, popular-philosophical inquiries, and revolutionary strategy. The roots of the collectively-authored book are in Red Braid?s decade of efforts to foster the self-organization of what they referred to as subaltern social groups in tent cities, squats, and nameless low-rise apartment buildings facing demoviction in cities and towns throughout south-west British Columbia. Beyond a collection of reminiscences about such ?basebuilding? a... + Read More
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Series: Bebakhshid Paperback Nina Mosall 9781927886748 $18.00 POETRY Mar 01, 2023

Bebakhshid revolves around intimate identity intersections of being Iranian, an immigrant, and a woman. Mosall touches everyday banalities as well as challenges, exploring familial relationships, as well as chosen social environments. Her work is social commentary on the treatment and experience of Middle Easterners, as well as a focussed view of realities of its youth?not just challenges, but the romantic and mundane experiences of the everyday. Instead of being separated into parts, Bebakhshid transverses more intimate accounts, storylines, a... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Resistance and Development in Winnipeg: 1960-2000 Paperback Shauna MacKinnon 9781927886724 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

Tracing through Indigenous institutional development in Winnipeg, and providing a unique perspective on the history of Indigenous housing development, education, and economic development, Indigenous Resistance and Development in Winnipeg 1960-2000 explores Indigenous resistance in Winnipeg through the work of various Winnipeg institutions, including The Indian and Métis Friendship Centre, Children of the Earth and Niji Mahkwa schools, The Indigenous Women?s Collective of Manitoba: Dibenimisowin (We Own Ourselves), the Ma Maw Wi Chi Itata Centre... + Read More
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Series: Exovede in the Darkroom The Films of Rhayne Vermette Paperback Stephen Broomer 9781927886700 $26.00 ART Apr 15, 2023

The first collection celebrating the work of celebrated experimental filmmaker Rhayne Vermette, Exovede in the Darkroom is a series of responses, critical and poetic, to Vermette?s visually explosive, materially distinct, and conceptually singular practice. Exploring Vermette?s shorts that engage a number of 16mm collage practices, as well as her feature film Ste. Anne, a film that mesmerized festival circuit critics and audiences alike with a metered and visually resplendent story of a return to a Métis community, in which sequences of images ... + Read More
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Series: The Jewelle Joseph Series Blinded by the Brass Ring Paperback Patricia Scarlett 9781771863148 $24.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2023

Blinded by the Brass Ring, Patricia Scarlett's debut novel in the Jewelle Joseph Series, centres on the professional and personal life of stylish and ambitious Jewelle Joseph (JJ to her friends), an Afro-Canadian international television sales and distribution executive who works for TV3, a small TV channel with a big reputation.Layoff rumours cast a pall over TV3. If the drop in morale wasn?t enough, Jewelle is also dealing with the demands of her job and managing the unbridled antagonism of newcomer Chantal Mercier, a fellow international sal... + Read More
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Series: Full Fadom Five Paperback David Bourgeois 9781771863124 $29.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2023

It is 1997 and Noah Lamarc's life is a mess. Laid off work as a librarian, with his estranged wife and child in need of money, and the trauma of his father's mysterious suicide unresolved, he struggles to find a way forward. A persevering man, but running out of options, Noah is thrown an unexpected lifeline: when long lost evidence of Shakespeare's life is uncovered, an eccentric bibliophile hires Noah and his friend, graduate student Cecelia Lines, to investigate. But the more they delve into the playwright's life, the more they are drawn in... + Read More
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Series: After All Was Lost Resilience of a Rwandan Family Orphaned on 6/04/94 when the Rwandan President?s Plane was Shot Down Paperback Alice Nsabimana 9781771863131 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2023

Major-General (BEM) Déogratias Nsabimana, nicknamed "Castar," was the Rwandan Army Chief of Staff. He died when the Rwandan presidential plane was shot down on April 6, 1994. The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi as well as Rwandan and Burundian officials and the French crew perished. Rwanda became renowned because of one of the worst mass killings of the twentieth century combined with an unprecedented crisis in the African Great Lakes region. Thanks to his military training, Déogratias Nsabimana was a fine military strategist, respected by hi... + Read More
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Series: Keep My Memory Safe Fook Soo Am, The Pagoda Paperback Stephanie Chitpin 9781771863162 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2023

Born in Hong Kong to unwed parents, Stephanie Chitpin was transported illegally to the Island of Mauritius by Ah Pak, the head nun of a Buddhist temple with the help of Mr. Chui, a benevolent Chinese businessman. Ah Pak raised her as an orphan ward of the temple, Fook Soo Am, known as the Pagoda. Encouraged by Mr. Chui and in spite of Ah Pak's opposition, she did very well at school. The scars incurred by classmates' name calling?bastard, and more?the shame of being an orphan raised in a temple, tragic deaths, and other obstacles did not preven... + Read More
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Series: Everything is Ori 1st edition Paperback Paul Serge Forest 9781771863179 $29.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2023

The Lelarge family quietly runs its little seafood empire from Quebec's North Shore. But when an elegant visitor is dispatched by a mysterious Japanese conglomerate to their isolated fishing village, things will never be the same again. Because Mori Ishikawa has a secret invention: Ori. And it's destined to change the course of human history.
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Series: The Legacy of Louis Riel Leader of the Métis People Paperback John Andrew Morrow 9781771863155 $29.95 HISTORY Jun 01, 2023

The Legacy of Louis Riel provides an overview of the ideas that guided the leader of the Metis people. Louis Riel was a prolific writer. Based on a comprehensive review of Riel's writing, the author examines his views on a variety of vital subjects, including the definition of the term Metis; matters of Metis identity; the condition, characteristics, and future of the First Nations; Jewish people his belief in their need for statehood; Islam, as an ally of liberalism and a threat to Christianity and Western civilization; Quebec, as a nation st... + Read More
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Series: Harvesting Freedom The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada Paperback Gabriel Allahdua 9781771136181 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 07, 2023

In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour system. When Gabriel Allahdua applied to the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada, he thought he would be leaving his home in St. Lucia to work in a country with a sterling human rights reputation and commitment to multiculturalism. Instead, breakneck quotas and a culture of fear dominated his four years in a mega-greenhouse in Ontario. This deeply personal memoir takes readers behind the scen... + Read More
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Series: Decolonize Multiculturalism Paperback Anthony C. Alessandrini 9781771136303 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 28, 2023

For those interested in continuing the struggle for decolonization, the word “multiculturalism” can seem like a sad joke. After all, institutionalized multiculturalism today is a muck of buzzwords, branding strategies, and virtue signaling that has nothing to do with real struggles against racism and colonialism. But Decolonize Multiculturalism unearths a buried history. The book focuses on the student and youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s, inspired by global movements for decolonization and anti-racism, which aimed to fundamentally tra... + Read More
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Series: Mr. Block The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe Paperback Graphic History Collective 9781771136099 $23.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 21, 2023

Before the Golden Age of comic books, there was Mr. Block: a bumbling, boss-loving, anti-union blockhead, brought to life over a hundred years ago by subversive cartoonist Ernest Riebe. A dedicated labour activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Riebe dreamed up his iconic, union-hating anti-hero to satirize conservative workers’ faith in the capitalist system that exploits them. This wickedly funny anthology of Riebe’s writings and comics is a treasure trove of radical 20th-century art and an essential addition to the boo... + Read More
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Series: Cleaning Up Portuguese Women's Fight for Labour Rights in Toronto Paperback Susana P. Miranda 9781771136266 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 04, 2023

This fascinating book uncovers the little-known, surprisingly radical history of the Portuguese immigrant women who worked as night-time office cleaners and daytime “cleaning ladies” in postwar Toronto. Drawing on union records, newspapers, and interviews, feminist labour historians Susana P. Miranda and Franca Iacovetta piece together the lives of immigrant women who bucked convention by reshaping domestic labour and by leading union drives, striking for workers’ rights, and taking on corporate capital in the heart of Toronto’s financial di... + Read More
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Series: Fear of a Black Nation Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal 2nd edition Paperback David Austin 9781771136334 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 30, 2023

In the 1960s, Montreal was a hotbed of radical politics that attracted Black and Caribbean figures such as C.L.R. James, Walter Rodney, Mariam Makeba, Stokely Carmichael, Rocky Jones, and Édouard Glissant. It was also a place where the ideas of Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Malcolm X circulated alongside those of Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. During this period of global upheaval and heightened Canadian and Quebec nationalism, Montreal became a central site of Black and Caribbean radical politics. Situating Canada w... + Read More
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Series: The Tenant Class Paperback Ricardo Tranjan 9781771136228 $22.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 02, 2023

In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits North American society. What if there is no housing crisis, but instead a housing market working exactly as intended? What if rent hikes and eviction notices aren’t the work of the invisible hand of the market, but of a parasitic elite systematically funneling wealth away from working-class families? With clarity and precision, Tranjan breaks down pervasive myths about renters, mom-and-pop landlords... + Read More
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Series: Heating the Outdoors Paperback Marie-Andrée Gill 9781771668149 $20.00 POETRY Mar 07, 2023

You're the clump of blackened sprucethat lights my gasoline-soaked heartIt's just impossible you won't be backto quench yourself in my crème-sodaancestral spiritIrreverent and transcendent, lyrical and slang, Heating the Outdoors is an endlessly surprising new work from award-winning poet Marie-Andrée Gill.In these micropoems, writing and love are acts of decolonial resilience. Rooted in Nitassinan, the territory and ancestral home of the Ilnu Nation, they echo the Ilnu oral tradition in Gill's interrogation and reclamation of the language, lan... + Read More
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Series: Crying Wolf A Memoir Paperback Eden Boudreau 9781771668088 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 22, 2023

It's a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says no. Boy takes what he wants anyway. After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain that a man who wasn't her husband, who she had agreed to go on a date with, had just raped her. Or go home and pray that, in the morning, it would be only a nightmare.In the years that followed, Eden was met with disbelief by strangers, friends, and the authorities, often as a result of stigma towards her non-monogamy, sex positivity, and bise... + Read More
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Series: Lent Paperback Kate Cayley 9781771668118 $20.00 POETRY Apr 04, 2023

In these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread.Lent from award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary—large and small—converges in the home, in small objects, conversations, and moments. The grotesque and the tedious, the baroque and the banal, intertwine... + Read More
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Series: archipelago Paperback Laila Malik 9781771668170 $20.00 POETRY Apr 06, 2023

The islands of an archipelago are isolated above sea level but attached underwater; connected yet separate. archipelago, the debut poetry collection from Laila Malik, traces fragments of family, becoming and unbecoming against the shifting shorelines of loss, multigenerational migration, and (un)belonging. Malik's lyrical poems intertwine histories of exile and ecological devastation. Beginning with a coming of age in the 80s and 90s between Canada, the Arabian Gulf, East Africa and Kashmir, they subvert conventions of lineage, instead drawing ... + Read More
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Series: Places Like These Paperback Lauren Carter 9781771668057 $23.00 FICTION Apr 18, 2023

A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assault survivor navigates her boyfriend's tricky family and her own confusing desires. A mother examines unresolved guilt while seeking her missing daughter in a city slum. A lover exploits his girlfriend's secrets for his own purposes. Whether in Ecuador or San Francisco, rural Ontario or northern Manitoba, the landscape in each of Carter's poignant ... + Read More
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Series: Big Shadow Paperback Marta Balcewicz 9781771668316 $23.00 FICTION May 16, 2023

In an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Judy is an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cusp of adulthood struggling to craft an identity for herself—especially as the artist she wants to be. There is little help around her. Her only friends are increasingly obsessed with a cultish belief in a coming "Big Shadow." Her mother is afraid of life and finds solace in TV shows. At her lowest point, Judy meets Maurice Blunt, a visiting summer poetry class professor who is a "has-been" fixture of the 1970s NYC punk music scene. Judy believes Ma... + Read More
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Series: The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life Paperback Rune Christiansen 9781771668347 $23.00 FICTION Jun 06, 2023

Having grown up as an only child in Northern Sweden, Lydia is used to isolation and being on her own. She fills her days with her love of animals, nature, and hard work. She eventually settles into a career as a vet in rural Norway and embraces the rhythms of country life. In a series of poetic sketches, Lydia tends to the animals in her community, spends time with her aging parents, and falls in love. Despite an increasing need for closer human contact that begins to encroach on her contented solitude, ultimately it is Lydia's satisfaction wit... + Read More
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Series: Baby Book Paperback Amy Ching-Yan Lam 9781771315968 $22.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2023

"God is personal," the astrologer said. Terrifying and also personal, like a baby. Direct and humorous, Baby Book stacks story upon story to explore how beliefs are first formed. From a family vacation on a discount bus tour to a cosmogony based on cheese, these poems accumulate around principles of contingency and revelation. Amy Ching-Yan Lam describes the vivid tactility of growth and death — how everything is constantly, painfully remade — offering a vision against the stuck narratives of property and inheritance. Power is located in the se... + Read More
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Series: Optic Nerve Paperback Matthew Hollett 9781771315999 $22.95 POETRY Apr 03, 2023

Poems using fervent whimsy and wordplay to examine photography and seeing. Peering inside eyeballs, pondering the paradox of absent stars, and meditating on street scenes by André Kertész, these poems squint sidelong at our ways of seeing the world. Through playful poems about photography and visual perception, Hollett dissects auroras and quarks, atmospheric phenomena, potatoes, bomb craters and peat bog cadavers. This darkly comic collection is shadowed by entoptic paparazzi, haunted by peripheral visions. Born of attentive walking and lookin... + Read More
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Series: House Within a House Paperback Nicholas Dawson 9781771316071 $22.95 POETRY May 01, 2023

A meditation on the wiles of depression, illuminated by queer and diasporic experience. "We, nosotros, nosotras: somos sobrevivientes." Weaving prose poetry, essay, autobiography and photography in mutual contamination, Nicholas Dawson relates his own deep depression, a state never fully gone, always cohabitant. Amidst this persistence, "the body and the pen bring a plural syntax of alternative knowledges into being, one which allows us to know the world better, to know ourselves better, to better love daybreak and this sun obstinately piercing... + Read More
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Series: A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen Paperback Erin Noteboom 9781771316026 $22.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2023

A radiant collection that employs the lyric poem as a tool for scientific and emotional exploration. Erin Noteboom's A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen takes exact and exquisite measurement of what carries a voice through illness, grief, loss, and through the failures and triumphs of work and love. Various theories and hypotheses are tested in these poems: sadness is knowledge and science "is only half a turn from love." Whether Noteboom is examining the life and work of physicist Marie Curie or compressing imagistic gems from plaintive, ... + Read More
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Series: World Essays Canada: A Taste of Home/Les saveurs de chez soi Paperback Oriana Palusci 9781771838252 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 01, 2023

Canada: A Taste of Home/ Les saveurs de chez soi is a collection of papers, written either in French or in English, that investigate the different cuisines of immigrants in a literary, linguistic and cultural perspective. Far from home, food expresses a sense of nostalgia, belonging and identity, as the authors suggest in dealing with the many implications and attitudes to food. On a literary and cultural table sumptuously prepared with recipes dearly carried from native homes near and far, full of strange ingredients, tastes, smells, colours, ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Casting Out Paperback Rocco De Giacomo 9781771837699 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2023

Casting Out chronicles the author’s entry as boy, progression through and eventual exit, as an adult, from the Pentecostal world. It’s an attempt to reconcile the evidence-based reasoning of the speaker’s present with the angels and demons of his past. This collection confronts what it means to be loved in a system that the speaker now finds not only irrational but hateful. The poems address the struggle to raise children in the absence of spiritual beliefs and contemplate the questions of whether imparting secular values is enough of a foundat... + Read More
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Series: Getting Huge Paperback John Young 9781771837798 $20.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2023

Beaten down by his affluent and perpetually disappointed deacons, six-foot-eleven Reverend John Crackstone finally cracks. What begins as backyard diversion swells into an absurd obsession: to grow the world’s largest pumpkin and, with the help of an entrepreneur friend, build a pumpkin empire to make everything from snacks to toilet paper—and win him fame and fortune. Crackstone sees his pumpkins, especially the giant named Schwartz, as his shot at greatness. While often comic, Getting Huge is also a cautionary tale for our times. The pursuit ... + Read More
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Series: World Prose In Bruno's Shadow Paperback Tony Ardizzone 9781771837774 $25.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2023

As a tsunami in South-East Asia kills three hundred thousand and Pope John Paul II lies dying, the lives of eight people in Rome are transformed by a Croatian housekeeper named Dubravka, who was betrayed in love and later witness to a miracle at the site of apparitions of the Virgin Mary. The stories of the North Americans and Italians she encounters interconnect and alternate with key episodes from Dubravka's life, as she struggles to resolve her personal concerns as well as the contradictions in her Catholic faith while working at a pensione ... + Read More
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Series: First Poets Series Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There Paperback Jade Wallace 9781771837743 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2023

Each section of Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There is a psychogeographic investigation. Two casual ghost hunters on a road trip hear the death rattle of their relationship. Residents of a city’s fringe measure their physical and social isolation. A mother and her adult child have diametrically opposed reactions to their vacation spot. Lovers on a romantic coastal getaway discover how estranged they are from one another. Curious figures begin to embody their environments. Forthright and anecdotal, these poems recount the signals people tr... + Read More
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Series: Memoir and Biography My Theatre of Memory A Life in Words Paperback Adriana A. Davies 9781771837705 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2023

The memoir My Theatre of Memory: A Life in Words traces Adriana Davies’s life in Canada from her arrival in Edmonton as a a child immigrant with her mother, older sister and younger brother in the early 1950s, to the present as she deals with the challenges of Covid. Successive chapters tell not only the family’s immigration story including accounts of her school days, university in Canada and then the UK, but also the beginning of her life as a young married woman and mother in London, England. Destined for a job in academe, cutbacks in the un... + Read More
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Series: Personal Development Secure Parent, Secure Child How a Parent's Adult Attachment Shapes the Security of the Child Paperback Annette Kussin M.S.W., RSW 9781771837750 $25.00 PSYCHOLOGY Apr 01, 2023

This book continues the ideas set forth in It’s Attachment, A New Way of Understanding Yourself and Your Relationships published by Guernica Editions. The last chapter in the book focused on how one’s adult attachment influences his/her parenting of children. This book will expand on the topic, exploring the 4 categories of adult attachment and how each category influences one’s parenting. The book will help a parent determine his or her Adult Attachment, understand the challenges for parenting based on their particular attachment and then offe... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Donkey Cutter Paperback Gregory Koop 9781771837729 $25.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2023

Years after the death of her mother, Mareika Doerksen moves through her adolescence with feelings of loss, confusion, and isolation as she seems somewhere between not being a child and not being a complete woman. Her father, a Mennonite only ethnically and socially, and a long-time atheist, has always been distant but pragmatic as he prepared her for the day he expects her to abandon their homestead on the Canadian Prairies for an education once impossible for women of their time. They move day to day avoiding the tragedies, traumas, and social... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Winners and Losers Tales of Life, Law, Love and Loss Paperback Darlene Madott 9781771837675 $25.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2023

Winners And Losers: Tales of Life, Law, Love and Loss is a collection of linked short stories that turns a dazzling searchlight on the inner workings of the legal profession, told from the viewpoint of a feisty narrator finding her way through a hostile and competitive law environment. By the end, the reader will have undergone a sprawling journey through a lifetime in practice, where the pit-bull litigator is tenderized through the clients, the work, the failure of her own marriage, by single mothering. Because the protagonist doesn’t judge, b... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Bernini's Elephant Paperback Jane Callen 9781771837842 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2023

Albert Einstein noted that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another. Kat, a middle-aged marketing executive from Vancouver, ponders the truth behind Einstein’s law as she tours the antiquities of Italy. In Pompeii, volcanic ash remains in the shape of a woman bear witness to her futile escape of the rage of Mount Vesuvius. Kat, a widow with blood on her hands, contemplates the ancient woman’s destiny and her own. To escape the consequences of past choices, Kat abandons her travel companion and sometime accomp... + Read More
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Series: World Prose Coal Boy Paperback Alban Kojima 9781771837910 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2023

Coal Boy, is a human fiction that builds on the premise: love is universal; so is racism—the same mold as Colson Whitehead, James Hannaham, and Robert Dugoni. Geocultural attributes set my story apart from their works. The United States of America stages their stories, where Black Americans and slavery have long been one of the major human rights issues intensely debated in sociopolitical arenas. My story focuses on people of mixed racial heritage: namely, Black-Japanese—the children of Black Americans and Japanese women born in Japan during th... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series duck eats yeast, quacks, explodes; man loses eye Paperback Gary Barwin 9781771837811 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2023

Written as a vibrant discussion between Barwin and Necakov, this book-length poem takes us on a hypnagogic journey that examines many ways of seeing and experiencing the world. Although the work considers many themes, such as trauma, grief, anxiety, climate change, impending doom, war, illness, and cultural fragmentation, at its core, it argues for an unbridled creativity and beauty.
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Series: Essential Prose Series I'll Be Paperback Claudio Gaudio 9781771833028 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2023

At the heart of I’ll Be resides a highly unreliable narrator. As he fumbles through his days, he breaks boundaries that are larger than the seemingly insignificant tasks at hand: the concept of space is uncertain, language is broken, history is rewritten, identity itself remains a question. The futility of language is a theme that surfaces continually. In a commentary on the nature of political systems, for example, the narrator points out its inadequacy in facilitating truthful communication: “To be fair, this country is safe, no one I know ha... + Read More
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Series: Memoir and Biography No Letter in Your Pocket Paperback Heather Conn 9781771837873 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2023

Incest denial and sexual assaults disrupt a young woman’s solo spiritual quest and her two romantic adventures in India in 1990-91. Two decades later, after profound healing, she’s resilient at mid-life. Finding the love and intimacy she craves, she can, at last, forgive her dying father—and her mom, for her decades of silence. Unlike many stories of healing and spiritual discovery, No Letter in Your Pocket avoids predictable recovery rhetoric and insular victimhood. Instead, it is a testament to thriving empowerment.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Raccoon A Wondertale Paperback Sean Kane 9781771837828 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2023

The dream of an urban paradise comes true for the Raccoons of a small suburban city when they rise up, throw out their government, and create an ecological commonwealth. Touchwit, Clutch and Bandit are prepared to die for a free, healthy, and diverse city. But to earn their self-respect as citizens they must overcome their father Meatbreath, an autocrat obsessed with multiplying himself in a host of weaponised children. And to join a community of kinship they must find their future mates. Will the three cubs use the powers they have inherited f... + Read More
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Series: World Prose The Starlight Hotel-Casino Paperback William A. Douglass 9781771837897 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2023

The Starlight Hotel-Casino is the story of a troubled family business doomed to fail and the stressful dynamics among its members and key employees during the collapse. It describes the inner workings of the casino business and the demise of Reno as a major player in the industry; unable, as it was, to meet the triple threat of Las Vegas, Indian gaming, and the legalization of gambling throughout the United States and abroad. The novel is both a roman à clef and bildungsroman.
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Series: Essential Essays Series Her Own Thinker Canadian Women Writers as Essayists Paperback Christl Verduyn 9781771838023 $25.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 01, 2023

Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists explores the thinking, ideas, and insights that Canadian women fiction writers have chosen to express in essay form rather than in fiction form. It looks at this substantial body of writing with a primary focus on collections of essays, and on those published since the 1960s. In all, it considers over 40 collections, offering an overview and appreciation of this generally overlooked work and its contributions to cultural and intellectual thinking in Canada.
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Series: World Prose I Know You Paperback Russell Govan 9781771838047 $20.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2023

Eilidh, bright, headstrong and feisty, gets sparkling exam results that confirm her university place. Her boyfriend reveals he has deceived her. In the ensuing argument she is knocked unconscious. She arrives in 1984, in an Ethiopian refugee camp, where she nurses a dying child, then a wounded aid worker before wakening back home in present-day Scotland. Three days later, at an isolated beauty spot trying to come to terms with her ex boyfriend’s betrayal and her experience in Ethiopia, she encounters Walter, who is in the early stages of dement... + Read More
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Series: World Prose Ivory Black Paperback Brian Duren 9781771838061 $25.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2023

In 2005, after four months in hospitals, Dick Rayburn returns home with a limp, a disfigured face, and pain. Around tense conversations between him and his wife, Valerie, concerning their absent son, Jamie, the narrative weaves memories triggered by objects in the house. An old self-portrait draws him back to his childhood and the studio of his father, who trained Dick to be an artist, while an article critical of the Iraq War, by the journalist to whom he was engaged when they were graduate students, resurrects the person he was and the woman ... + Read More
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Series: GWE Creative Non-Fiction Once Our Lives Paperback Qin Sun Stubis 9781771837965 $25.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2023

Once Our Lives is the true story of four generations of Chinese women and how their lives were threatened by powerful and cruel ancient traditions, historic upheavals, and a man whose fate – cursed by an ancient superstition – dramatically altered their destinies. The book takes the reader on an exotic journey filled with luxurious banquets, lost jewels, babies sold in opium dens, kidnappings by pirates, and a desperate flight from death in the desert – seen through the eyes of a man for whom the truth would spell disaster and a lonely, beautif... + Read More
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Series: Memoir and Biography Pieces of My Self Fragments for an Autobiography Paperback Keith Garebian 9781771838009 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2023

Surveying his own conflicted, multi-cultural life from a Bombay boyhood, immigration to Canada, and his re-invention as a literary and theatre critic, poet, and editor who has learned to understand life’s blessings and wounds, Keith Garebian’s autobiography is an act of memory at the service of a changing self. Using vignettes, letters, historical surveys, meditations, and existential summations, Pieces of My Self shows Garebian’s trauma, fury, condemnation, ardour, melancholy, satire, and self-understanding. Figures of Laurence Olivier, Vaness... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Statue Paperback Marianne Micros 9781771837989 $20.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2023

The devil, a ghost, a doppelganger, a selkie, a hobgoblin – these creatures appear in Marianne Micros’s Statue, a collection of tales which combine traditional and ancient elements with contemporary issues and experiences. These fifteen stories show that the boundaries between fantasy and reality, art and life, life and death are fragile and inconstant. Micros seamlessly combines magic with the realities of daily life, showing the interrelationship of the natural and the supernatural and the significance of those interactions
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Family Code Paperback Wayne Ng 9781771837934 $25.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2023

Every family has rituals and routines holding them together. But sometimes they are the very things that tear them apart. The Family Code is a gritty family drama featuring the troubled life of Hannah Belenko, a young single mother dogged by the brutality of past traumas and a code of silence that she must crack in order to be free—or else lose everything. Hannah was raised by this code and rules her own family by it. When she loses her daughter to the state and her boyfriend threatens her, she flees from Ottawa to Halifax with her remaining ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After) Paperback Mirabel 9781771837958 $20.00 POETRY Jun 01, 2023

The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After) is an existential meditation on grief—the kind of grief which pins you down and minimizes you. The first half of the collection, The Vanishing Act, captures the ruminations of a mind which feels trapped physically and spiritually. The imagery in this section blends magic and violence as the speaker confronts systemic issues as a middle-class woman, a person of colour, and a survivor of abuse. The second section, (& The Miracle After), offers a fresh perspective on recovery. As the speaker revisits images ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series When Africa Calls Uhuru Paperback Henry Beissel 9781771837866 $20.00 POETRY Jun 01, 2023

When Africa Calls Uhuru is a dramatic poem in search of what it means to be human. Henry Beissel takes the reader to the Rift Valley in Kenya where it is believed the evolution of Homo sapiens largely took place. The narrative unfolds in a dialogue between nature, science and history, three voices that evoke the fauna and flora of Africa and conjure up the history of its colonization. Ultimately, the poem celebrates today’s liberation of the ‘dark’ continent, arguing that since all humanity was born there, all people are brothers and sisters, w... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Circle Tour Paperback Eva Tihanyi 9781771338936 $18.95 POETRY May 02, 2023

Circle Tour, Eva Tihanyi?s ninth poetry collection, seeks and celebrates beauty in the face of despondency. Its three sectionsOuter Circle, Inner Circle, Centredraw us in as we move from the "outside" world of politics, culture, and art to the "inside" world of relationships with family, friends, and lovers, to the "core" world of the self.The book begins with a stark announcement of hope: "If you?re reading this, / you?re still here." It then moves to engagement with (among other things) the pandemic, feminism, and artists such as Marina Abr... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Young Feminist Series The Meadowlands Paperback Kate Kelly 9781771339360 $24.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 9 - 12 May 10, 2023

The Meadowlands is a young adult dystopian fantasy following the adventures of four children who come from a near future dominated by institutions, technology, and state control. Children are raised in state homes and have no concept of family, with the exception of Terran and his younger sister Brooke.While stealing supplies at the market to supplement their needs, Terran and Brooke, along with two other children, Tyson and Simon, are chased by the authorities. Searching a dark alleyway for cover, Terran is drawn to a vibrant glow, a mystical ... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Broken Fiction Paperback Marlene Kadar 9781771339452 $22.95 FICTION May 16, 2023

Broken Fiction is a collection of short auto/fictional pieces that move in between the force of memory and the force of loss. The collision of memory or storying, and loss or grief is where the author finds both solace and anguish and tries to negotiate a recognition or a moment without resorting to easy resolution. In each recognition there is an acceptance of the details of life gone off the rails in some worlds, but a life that is normal in other worldsand not necessarily tragic but often heartbreaking, sometimes funny and always in an in-b... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Publications Fat Studies in Canada (Re)Mapping the Field Paperback Allison Taylor 9781771339483 $59.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 23, 2023

Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field is an edited collection focusing on the growing field of fat studies, specifically the unique ways that fat studies theorists, academics, artists, and activists in the colonial project known as Canada are troubling and thickening existing fat studies literature. Resisting the ways that Fat Studies is all too often United States-centric, this collection weaves together academic articles and alternative forms of narration, including visual art and poetry, that capture multidimensional experiences of be... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series A Hostage Paperback Charlotte R. Mendel 9781771339247 $22.95 FICTION May 31, 2023

When Charlotte is kidnapped panic is only held at bay by a sardonic Inner Voice, which alternately consoles and condemns. When the Middle Eastern dictator Kassem questions the writer about why she had killed him off in her last book A Hero, he triggers a surreal month of captivity. While Kassem appears determined to explain every warlike action, Charlotte attempts to instil humanity in the dictator. Inner Voice?s incredulity at such hubris provides much-needed comic relief in an increasingly tense situation, as the unbearable loneliness unleash... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series A Fall Afternoon in the Park Stories Paperback Mehri Yalfani 9781771339339 $22.95 FICTION Jun 27, 2023

Mehri Yalfani's new collection consists of nineteen short stories, primarily from Iranian women?s perspectives set in Iran and Canada.In the story "Rainy Day," a little girl longs for a doll with golden hair; in ?Adopted Child,? a successful business professional delays having a baby but then discovers a secret; in ?Armchair Émigré,? siblings struggle to settle their parents? estate; an educated woman finds herself cleaning the home of a wealthy, illiterate woman to pay the bills in the story ?Adam,? and, in the title story, a family is divide... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Tucked Away Paperback Phyllis Rudin 9781771339278 $22.95 FICTION Jun 27, 2023

It seems like a dream gig when Daphne gets the job offerlive in Montreal's Underground City for a full year and blog about the experience. The flip side of the city has all the creature comforts. The year will fly by. Except there?s a catch. To collect her whopping bonus for sticking it out till day 365, Daphne must agree never to set so much as a toe outside the territory of the Underground City, submitting to an ankle-monitor to keep her honest. Even if the conditions are hardcore, she doesn?t have much choice. Out of work, and sole provider... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Memoir Series Lawrencia's Last Parang A Memoir of Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada Paperback Anita Jack-Davies 9781771338097 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 20, 2023

Lawrencia?s Last Parang: A Memoir on Loss and Belonging as Black in Canada is a snapshot of the author's life immediately after the passing of her grandmother Lawrencia, the woman who raised her. Written in the style of patchwork quilt that takes the reader back and forth between the present and the past, she examines her grief from the perspective of a Canadian-born Black woman of Caribbean descent, and she begins to question her identity and what it means to be a Black Canadian in new ways. This means exploring her childhood in Trinidad and h... + Read More