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Series: The Encyclopedia of Lies Paperback Christopher Gudgeon 9781772140750 $20.00 FICTION Apr 18, 2017

In these sixteen stories, Christopher Gudgeon, bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Song of Kosovo, takes a heartbreaking and hilarious look into the lives, loves, sexual obsessions and delusions that inform a grand cast of off-kilter characters. Here is a gay couple who persevere with their marriage plans as the world, literally, crumbles around them, a woman who discovers the mysterious collection of letters that reveals a terrifying truth about her deceased fiancée, a dutiful son, locked in an life-or-death marathon race with hi... + Read More
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Series: Bad Endings Paperback Carleigh Baker 9781772140767 $18.00 FICTION Mar 15, 2017

Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award Finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. Whether plumbing family ties, the end of a marriage, or death itself, she never lets go of the witty, the ironic, and perhaps most notably, the awkward. Despite the title, the resolution in these stories isn't always tragic, but it's often uncomfortable, unexpected, or just plain strange. Character digressions, bad decisions, and misconceptions abound. While steadfastly local in her choice of setti... + Read More
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Series: Bad Engine New & Selected Poems Paperback Michael Dennis 9781772140774 $20.00 POETRY Apr 07, 2017

Selected and with an Introduction by Stuart Ross Michael Dennis has been hammering his love, his anger, his grief, and his awe into poems for over forty years. With seven books and nearly twenty chapbooks to his credit, Dennis isn't exactly a household name in Canadian poetry, but he is a natural heir to poets like Canadian icon Al Purdy and American legends Eileen Myles and Charles Bukowski. His poems are his life made into poems: direct, emphatic, honest. Bad Engine brings together mostly revised versions of about one hundred poems sele... + Read More
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Series: The Three Pleasures Paperback Terry Watada 9781772140958 $24.00 FICTION Oct 10, 2017

2017 Foreword INDIES Finalist (Historical, Adult Fiction). 1940s Vancouver. The Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbour and racial tension is building in Vancouver. The RCMP are rounding up "suspicious" young men, and fishing boats and property are soon seized from Steveston fishers; internment camps in BC's interior are only months away. Daniel Sugiura, a young reporter for the New Canadian, the only Japanese-Canadian newspaper allowed to keep publishing during the war, narrates The Three Pleasures. The story is told through three main chara... + Read More
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Series: Long Ride Yellow Paperback Martin West 9781772140941 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2017

Long Ride Yellow is the debut novel from two-time Journey Prize Finalist Martin West. The novel explores the limits of sexual desire and willfully prods the veil at the edge of reality. Nonni is a dominatrix who likes to push the boundaries; she is also easily bored. Her disdain for all that is conventional and "vanilla" launches her on a journey of personal discovery: first via the local swingers' scene, then through the world of clandestine S&M clubs, and on to more adventurous and dangerous "private" diversions. She eventually pushes the e... + Read More
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Series: You Are Not Needed Now Paperback Annette Lapointe 9781772140934 $20.00 FICTION Sep 18, 2017

You Are Not Needed Now is a brilliant new collection of stories from Annette Lapointe, author of the Giller-nominated novel Stolen. Often set within the small towns of the Canadian prairies, the stories in You Are Not Needed Now dissect and examine the illusion of appearances, the myth of normalcy, and the allure of artifice. Lapointe presents characters who are extraordinarily real. They are often strange, vulgar, or messy: collecting blood-stained cotton pads and hairs from shower drains, slicing through skin to get more urgent medical tre... + Read More
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Series: Leaving Mile End Paperback Jon Paul Fiorentino 9781772140972 $16.00 POETRY Mar 01, 2017

Leaving Mile End is Jon Paul Fiorentino's seventh collection of poetry and tenth book-a collection of poems that documents the daily din and clatter of cafés, galleries, and dive bars that make up Mile End in Montreal, perhaps the most artistically vibrant neighbourhood in the world. But this is no ordinary tour-we take a sharp turn and go online as Fiorentino mines the peculiar linguistic resources of a new world of doxxing, swatting, snarking, trolling, catfishing, and shaming. While addressing the disconnect between the way we treat each oth... + Read More
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Series: Escape from Wreck City Paperback John Creary 9781772140965 $18.00 POETRY May 15, 2017

da Vinci Eye Finalist, Eric Hoffer Awards. Escape from Wreck City is a debut collection of poetry from Calgary author John Creary. There are poems about nature, poems about love and relationships, poems about living in the city, and poems about traveling the world. And all at once they capture the thrill of being fully engaged with the world, keenly observing each moment and event that constitutes being human. Whether it's following the "wounded insomniac" through the "desert lushness of sage and creosote" or hot lovers who "flicker bare bac... + Read More
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Series: A Temporary Stranger Paperback Jamie Reid 9781772140989 $18.00 POETRY Jun 15, 2017

A Temporary Stranger is comprised of three sections: Homages, Fake Poems, and Recollections. In Homages we find poems of reverence and honour, tributes to writers who had opened up the world of poetry to Jamie. There are poems to Spicer, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Breton, Francis Ponge, Tristan Tzara and others. At the centre of A Temporary Stranger are the Fake Poems, so called because "There is no art on earth that can fully represent the exact and flowing experience of viewing stone within the flow of water and the waving light within the water an... + Read More
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Series: Home and Away Simple, Delicious Recipes Inspired by the World's Cafes, Bistros, and Diners Paperback Darcy Shore 9781551526737 $24.95 COOKING Apr 26, 2017

A cookbook inspired by how food from around the world not only connects us all, but also reminds us of home. Cooking outside one's comfort zone is now easier than ever: ingredients once considered exotic are available at supermarkets across the country, and we're more open to exploring the far reaches of the world through food. This tantalizing cookbook takes readers on a global tour through food, from the steamy noodle shops of Seoul to the wood-fired grills of Istanbul and funky dives of San Francisco. Randy and Darcy Shore explore how food... + Read More
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Series: Blood, Sweat, and Fear The Story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver's First Forensic Investigator Paperback Eve Lazarus 9781551526850 $21.95 HISTORY May 01, 2017

Finalist, Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award During his forty-two-year-career he helped detectives in Vancouver, Victoria, and throughout BC solve hit-and-runs, safe-crackings, and some of the most sensational murder cases of the 20th century. Vance was constantly called to crime scenes and to testify in court because of his skills in serology, toxicology, and autopsy. When Vance was first called to a crime scene in 1914, forensics was in its infancy. Vancouver was the first police department in Canada to have a scientist on staff and... + Read More
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Series: Rough Patch Paperback Nicole Markotić 9781551526812 $15.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Apr 01, 2017

In this compelling novel for young adults, Keira is a quirky but shy teen entering her first year of high school; she navigates her growing interest in kissing both girls and boys, while not alienating her BFF, boy-crazy Sita. As the two acclimate to their unfamiliar surroundings, they manage to find new lunchmates and make lists of the cutest boys in school. But Keira is caught "in between"?unable to fully participate in these kind of conversations, yet too scared to come clean. She’s also feeling the pressure of her family’s problems: parents... + Read More
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Series: Scarborough Paperback Catherine Hernandez 9781551526775 $19.95 FICTION May 01, 2017

SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2022 NOW A MOTION PICTURE directed by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson; screenplay by Catherine Hernandez Trillium Book Award and City of Toronto Book Award finalist; Edmund White Debut Fiction Award finalist; A Globe 100, National Post and Quill and Quire Best Book of the Year Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighbourhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner-city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough... + Read More
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Series: Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person Paperback Daniel Zomparelli 9781551526751 $15.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2017

, Winner, ReLit Award; Finalist, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes) A YouTube star becomes famous after he documents his breakup online. An anxious, lactose-intolerant office worker obsesses over a stranger who says "Nice shorts, bro" to him in passing. A couple wants to open up their relationship to a ghost. A monster just wants to find love in his human skin. In these unconventional, interconnected stories--the first work of fiction by acclaimed poet Daniel Zomparelli, editor-in-chief of Poetry Is Dead magazine--gay men look for lo... + Read More
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Series: a place called No Homeland Paperback Kai Cheng Thom 9781551526799 $14.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2017

Winner, Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers; American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book; Finalist, Lambda Literary Award and Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender Variant Literature This extraordinary poetry collection is a vivid, beautifully wrought journey to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monstrous women roam--and where the distinctions between body, land, and language are lost. In these fierce yet tender narrative poems, Kai Cheng Thom draws equally from memory and mythol... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film Classics Female Trouble A Queer Film Classic Paperback Chris Holmlund 9781551526836 $17.95 PERFORMING ARTS May 15, 2017

A Queer Film Classic on John Waters' 1974 dark comedy. The first title in the Queer Film Classic series to focus on the work of legendary director and cinematic camp icon John Waters, best known for the underground classic Pink Flamingos and his later more commercial works such as Crybaby, starring Johnny Depp, and Hairspray, which was also made into a hit stage and film musical. His films are perhaps best exemplified by his partnerships with the late, legendary drag queen Divine, who starred in his most outrageous films, including 1972's Pink... + Read More
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Series: Listening for Jupiter Paperback Pierre-Luc Landry 9781771860987 $19.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2017

March soon, and it’s already 28°C in Montreal. Hollywood is living a dead-end life working at the local graveyard. Meanwhile, it’s snowing non-stop all over Europe and in Toronto, where Xavier works for a pharmaceutical company he couldn’t care less about. The two meet somewhere in between... only ever in their dreams. This fresh, international novel weaves the fates of two unlikely friends whose days and nights are filled with movies and music, sleeping pills and shooting stars. A beautiful piece of magical realism with a modern, existential t... + Read More
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Series: Rhapsody in Quebec On the Path of an Immigrant Child Paperback Akos Verboczy 9781771861021 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2017

Born in Hungary in 1975, Akos Verboczy moved to Montreal at the age of 11 with his sister and mother, an esthetician, who learned that in Canada women were willing to pay a fortune ($20) to have their leg hair brutally ripped out. His story begins in Hungary, where at the age of nine he learned that he was a Jew too—“half-Jew” to be more accurate. Unlike some who emigrated from Eastern Europe, Verboczy has no particularly beefs about life “behind the iron curtain.” He lands in Montreal as James Brown’s Living in America plays and Rocky knocks t... + Read More
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Series: The Nickel Range Trilogy Wintersong The Nickel Range Trilogy, Volume 3 Paperback Mick Lowe 9781771861069 $19.95 FICTION May 01, 2017

It’s September, 1978 and the 11,700 hard rock miners and smelter and refinery workers of Inco’s Sudbury operations face a stark choice: remain on the job without a contract or take seemingly suicidal strike action against a hard-nosed employer that’s accumulated a nickel stockpile vast enough to last a year without further production. A fateful choice is made, one that will change the lives of newlyweds Jake and Jo Ann McCool and the Canadian labor movement forever. Against a backdrop of unrelenting winter and swirling changes in social mores, ... + Read More
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Series: Washington's Long War on Syria Paperback Stephen Gowans 9781771861083 $24.95 HISTORY Apr 17, 2017

When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The United States had waged a long war against Syria from the very moment the country’s fiercely independent Arab nationalist movement—of which Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad were committed devotees—came to power in 1963. Washington sought to purge Arab nationalist influence from the Syrian state and the Arab world more broadly because it was a threat... + Read More
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Series: Fail Better Why Baseball Matters Paperback Mark Kingwell 9781771961530 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 11, 2017

Taking seriously the idea that baseball is a study in failure—a very successful batter manages a base hit in just three of every ten attempts—Mark Kingwell argues that there is no better tutor of human failure’s enduring significance than this strange, crooked game of base, where geometry becomes poetry. Weaving elements of memoir, philosophical reflection, sports writing, and humour, Fail Better is an intellectual love letter to baseball by one of North America’s most engaging philosophers. Kingwell illustrates complex concepts like theoretic... + Read More
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Series: The Handover How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational Hardcover Elaine Dewar 9781771961110 $29.95 HISTORY Jun 13, 2017

Until recently, McClelland and Stewart had been known as “The Canadian Publisher,” the country’s longest-lived and best independent press. Its dynamic leader Jack McClelland worked with successive provincial and federal governments to help draft policies in the 1960s and 70s which ensured that Canadian stories would, for the first time in the nation’s history, be told and published by Canadians. M&S introduced Canadians to themselves while championing the nation’s literature, bringing to the world Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Mavis Gallant, ... + Read More
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Series: Revolutions Essays on Contemporary Canadian Fiction Paperback Alex Good 9781771961196 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Mar 14, 2017

Revolutions is the first book-length critical survey of twenty-first-century Canadian fiction, with in-depth essays examining subjects such as the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the effects of the digital revolution, and the dark legacy of what has come to be known as the Canadian literary establishment. Throughout, close reading is given to many contemporary authors, with particular attention paid to such central figures as Douglas Coupland and David Adams Richards. Alex Good explains and contextualizes this period in Canadian fiction for the genera... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Rain And Other Stories Paperback Mia Couto 9781771961219 $17.95 FICTION Feb 19, 2018

Mia Couto, winner of the Neustadt International Prize, and a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, first became famous as a writer of enchanting short stories. In Rain And Other Stories, one of his most appealing collections, here available in English for the first time, the borders that separate people melt as a poor African country emerges from sixteen years of civil war and assumes its identity as an independent nation.In these playful, poignant stories of ordinary people, the African oral tale merges into the contemporary short s... + Read More
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Series: The Redemption of Galen Pike Paperback Carys Davies 9781771961394 $17.95 FICTION Apr 11, 2017

From remote Australian settlements to the snows of Siberia, from Colorado to Cumbria, restless teenagers, middle-aged civil servants, and Quaker spinsters traverse expanses of solitude to reveal the secrets of the human heart.Encountering domestic abuse, marital strife, murder, and a myriad of other challenges, Carys Davies' characters are set on journeys that surprise at every turn. Written with raw and rigorous prose, charged throughout by a prickly wit, the stories in The Redemption of Galen Pike remind us how little we know of the lives of ... + Read More
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Series: Blue Field Paperback Elise Levine 9781771961516 $19.95 FICTION Apr 11, 2017

When her friend Jane dies while exploring an underwater cave with her husband Rand, Marilyn takes up diving again, to honour—and outdo—her late friend. Marilyn drags Rand with her as she increasingly pushes herself far past her limits and skill level, endangering them both in their private underwater version of hell.After more than two decades since the release of her sensational, critically acclaimed collection Driving Men Mad, Blue Field marks Elise Levine's much anticipated return to form.
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Series: The Analyst Paperback Molly Peacock 9781771961639 $18.95 POETRY Mar 14, 2017

In her latest collection, Molly Peacock, one of Canada's most beloved poets, tells the story of the decades-long relationship she's had with her psychoanalyst, who returned to painting after surviving a stroke. By translating techniques of visual art into language, The Analyst guides us through galleries of breathtaking settings and portraiture, leading us on a search for authenticity behind the illusions of pose.
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Series: Real is the Word They Use to Contain Us Paperback Noah Wareness 9781771961592 $18.95 POETRY Apr 11, 2017

As the sickly boy dreams in bed, the shadows beneath his parlour curtain are stirring, taking shapes inexpressible even in a child's dreams. "Real keeps us silent," argues the taxidermied rabbit to the young air-rifle that shot it dead. "Real keeps us still. You must never ask anyone if they are Real." For exactly as long as history, a secret peace has bound the human and inanimate worlds. But the stories of the other world are pushing into our own, and that peace will be tested tonight... In this collection of twenty-six poems and the unbeli... + Read More
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Series: Class Clown Paperback Pino Coluccio 9781771961554 $18.95 POETRY Aug 15, 2017

More punk than prog, neither light nor overweight, the verse in Pino Coluccio's second book hews to the classic themes of love, death and the passage of time, while presenting a cast of longers and losers whose admirable stubborn pluck is also at times tragic. A collection that above all champions that highest of human art forms: clowning around.
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Boundary Paperback Andrée Michaud 9781771961097 $19.95 FICTION Jun 20, 2017

Longlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller PrizeIn the deep woods of the Maine borderlands, the legend of huntsman Pete Landry is still told around cottage campfires to scare children, a tragic story of love, lust, and madness. During the early summer of 1967, inseparable teenage beauties Sissy Morgan and Zaza Mulligan wander among the vacation cottages in the community of Boundary, drinking and smoking and swearing, attracting the attention of boys and men. First one, and then the other, goes missing, and both are eventually found dead in the f... + Read More
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Series: The Discovery of Honey Paperback Terry Griggs 9781771961493 $19.95 FICTION May 16, 2017

Hero, the hyper-precocious and nosily omniscient narrator of Terry Griggs's riotous new book, The Discovery of Honey, is not one to hide her light under a bushel, nor to conceal significant, usually scandalous, happenings in her rural hometown, including her own conception, birth, and various other unruly incidents that occur throughout her young life.Running wild even before she can walk, Hero goes on a dangerous road trip with an aunt, later takes up with her feral, bad-boy cousin, investigates a crime, kills a best friendship with a few aggr... + Read More
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Series: The Dusty Bookcase A Journey Through Canada's Forgotten, Neglected, and Suppressed Writing Paperback Brian Busby 9781771961684 $22.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Aug 15, 2017

Brian Busby’s The Dusty Bookcase explores the fascinating world of Canada’s lesser-known literary history: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety. These rare and quirky totems of Canadiana, collected over the last three decades, form a travel diary of sorts—through books instead of maps. Covering over one hundred books, and peppered with observations on the Canadian writing and publishing scenes, Busby’s work explores our cultural past from a unique slant, questioning why certain works, rightfully ... + Read More
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Series: Border Cities Powerhouse The Rise of Windsor: 1901-1945 Hardcover Patrick Brode 9781771961578 $32.95 HISTORY Jun 06, 2017

Border Cities Powerhouse chronicles one of the most dramatic urban transformations in Canadian history, documenting the shift from modest industry to manufacturing dynamo. The coming of the automobile in 1904 put the Border Cities on the map, sparking a period of explosive growth. From the bright lights of hydro-electric power and the construction of the Ambassador Bridge to the Battle of Ford City, communist agitation, and the Border Cities’ forced amalgamation during the Great Depression, this was a period of unprecedented progress and open ... + Read More
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Series: London: 150 Cultural Moments Paperback Jason Dickson 9781771961707 $22.95 HISTORY Aug 01, 2017

London has long been a centre of government, law, and industry for South-western Ontario, but the Forest City has also been centre-stage to many other national and international cultural happenings. Music fans might have heard about Johnny Cash's famous proposal to June Carter at a local performance, but how many people know that it was local DJ Dick Williams who debuted The Beatles to North American audiences, kickstarting Beatlemania? Or that The Rolling Stones started a riot at the arena Treasure Island Gardens? Literature lovers might know ... + Read More
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Series: Ford City Paperback Herb Colling 9781771960625 $24.95 HISTORY Nov 07, 2017

Ford City was a town steeped in the history of the auto industry. Companies including Ford, E.M.F., Studebaker, Chalmers and Chrysler all called Ford City their home of Canadian operations. But it was more than just an industrial town. It was a rumrunning hub, a communist hotbed, and a thriving cultural centre for the people of the Border Cities. From the town's inception, through amalgamation, to the revitalization of the Ford plant in the 1990s, Ford City is the story of the industrial heart of Windsor.
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Series: A Tea in the Tundra / Nipishapui Nete Mushuat Paperback Joséphine Bacon 9781772310351 $16.95 POETRY Jan 15, 2017

In this poetry collection, Joséphine Bacon challenges our traditional notions of culture and perception, landscape and wilderness, the limits of experience, and the nature of human being. With a surreal blend of emotions and memories, "A Tea in the Tundra / Nipishapui Nete Mushuat" portrays a complex and ever-shifting landscape of possibilities. The author passionately reveals a finely wrought sensibility, which elevates the subtle scenery of life's everyday events. The French-language edition of this book was shortlisted for the 2014 Governor ... + Read More
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Series: pihta ēkwa wihta (Cree Edition) Paperback Joseph Dandurand 9781772310474 $16.95 POETRY May 15, 2017

The poems in "pihta ēkwa wihta"reveal strong links to land, to family, and to the wisdom of elders. The author exposes the struggles that many Aboriginal people encounter while getting an education, dealing with family issues and abuse, learning to respect themselves and demanding respect from others, finding their place in the world, and recovering their rich history and culture. This book illustrates the resilience and strength of the Aboriginal people and the determination that they bring to their local communities across Canada.
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Series: î-nitotamahk kîsik (Cree Edition) Paperback Rosanna Deerchild 9781772310504 $16.95 POETRY Jul 15, 2017

î-nitotamahk kîsik is a poetry collection in Cree that describes deep personal experiences and post-generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal residential school confinements in the 1960's when thousands of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were placed in these schools against their parents' wishes. Many were forbidden to speak their language and practice their own culture. Rosanna Deerchild exposes how the residential schools systematically undermined Aboriginal culture across Canada and disrupted families for generations, severin... + Read More
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Series: Blood Fable Paperback Oisín Curran 9781771662949 $20.00 FICTION Oct 03, 2017

Blood Fable--the new work of fiction from Oisín Curran--is a Jules Verne-esque fantastical tale filled with Back-to-the-Land ideology and American Zen Buddhism.In 1980, New Pond, a utopian Buddhist community on the coast of Maine is on the verge of collapse. New Pond's charismatic leader demands complete adherence to his authority, and slowly, his followers come to the realization that they've been exploited for too long. The eleven-year-old son of one of those adherents is dimly aware of the concerns of the adult world. Yet his imagination pro... + Read More
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Series: Deep Salt Water Paperback Marianne Apostolides 9781771662789 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 08, 2017

Deep Salt Water is a stirring memoir about loss and abortion, expressed through the layering of imagery from the ocean. In detail at once sensual and sophisticated, Apostolides unfurls the emotional experience of a love affair and unwanted pregnancy, the abortion itself, and her reconnection with the man seventeen years later—a rekindling of love which stimulates this gentle attempt to come to terms with the abortion and its consequences. Moving from a place of intense intimacy to an outward focus that engages with the broader worl... + Read More
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Series: Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes Paperback Jennifer LoveGrove 9781771662864 $18.00 POETRY Mar 15, 2017

Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes, the new collection of poetry from Giller Prize-longlisted writer Jennifer LoveGrove, attempts to make sense of a difficult and unsettling world, where one need not look much further than their own communities to witness acts of trauma and absurdity.Here, we're haunted by the ghosts of alienation, trauma, delusion, and fear that the past decade has instilled in us, and bear witness to moments of extreme crisis--in emotional breakdowns, the failures of the mental health system, the lack of support for the most v... + Read More
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Series: Blank Interviews and Essays Paperback M. NourbeSe Philip 9781771663069 $20.00 LITERARY CRITICISM May 31, 2017

Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important writers and thinkers.Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the return of something that, while still present, has become unembedded from the world, disappeared. Her imperative becomes to make us see what has gone unseen by writing memory upon the margin of history, in the shadow of empire and at the frontier of silence.In heretical writings that work to mak... + Read More
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Series: Readopolis Paperback Bertrand Laverdure 9781771662987 $20.00 FICTION Apr 13, 2017

From award-winning writer Bertrand Laverdure comes Readopolis, a novel translated by Oana Avasilichioaei.It's 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He's bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at literary arts. Obsessed by literature and its future (or lack thereof), he reads everything he can in order to translate reality into the literary delirium that is Readopolis--a world imagined out of Chicago and... + Read More
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Series: Bridge Retakes Paperback Angela Lopes 9781771663021 $18.00 FICTION May 18, 2017

Bridge Retakes, the debut novel by Angela Lopes, is a whirlwind tale of love and family and the distances that people will (or won't) go to secure what they want.A Bahian man and a Brazilian-Canadian woman meet on an online dating site. They come from very different worlds--geographically, economically, religiously--and yet, their connection is undeniable. When these long-distance lovers run up against their own belief systems and those of their families and communities, it's their desire to build a life anew that keeps them moving forward. But... + Read More
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Series: False Friends Paperback Stephen Cain 9781771662901 $18.00 POETRY Mar 01, 2017

False Friends is the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In it, he takes inspiration from the linguistic term "false friends"--two words from different languages that appear to be related, but have fundamentally different meanings. In this book are poems both humourous and unforgiving that Cain uses to explore errors, misapprehensions, and mistranslations and offer insights into the "secret operations" hiding within everyday language.These poems spin punk with pastoral, comic book with lyric, the misund... + Read More
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Series: Charm Paperback Christine McNair 9781771663182 $18.00 POETRY Apr 27, 2017

A charm can protect, inflict or influence. Charm, the second collection by poet Christine McNair, considers the craftwork of conception from a variety of viewpoints--from pregnancy and motherhood, to how an orchid is pollinated, to overcoming abusive family relationships, to the manual artistry of carving a violin bow or marbling endpapers.Through these poems, McNair's poetic line evolves as if moving in a spellbound kaleidoscope, etched with omens, fairytales, intimacy's stickiness, and the mothering body.Praise for Charm:“McNair’s Charm is un... + Read More
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Series: Comma Paperback Jennifer Still 9781771663106 $20.00 POETRY May 09, 2017

It was a long silence that brought me to the erasure poem. Not mine, but my brother's, during his many months in a coma. I came across a notebook of his--a pocket-sized, handwritten field guide of prairie grasses. I read it for companionship, signs of consciousness, attention. I read it for the rhythms of his still and distant hand.... I was reading a taxonomy of grief: silique drifted into soliloquy.Comma is a poetry infused with pause and quaver, inspired by Jennifer Still's collaboration with her ailing brother's hand-written field guide to ... + Read More
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Series: Rag Cosmology Paperback Erin Robinsong 9781771663144 $18.00 POETRY Apr 06, 2017

BookThug is proud to introduce a groundbreaking debut collection of poems by Erin Robinsong. In this time of ecological precarity, Rag Cosmology is an urgent invitation to reinvent our modes engagement with the environment we not only inhabit, but are. Refusing the lamentation that leaves us as resigned witnesses to devastation, Rag Cosmology counters fatalist narratives with the pleasures of ecological entanglement and engagement. Tracing relationships between seemingly irreconcilable things--economy and ecology, weather and lust, bills and in... + Read More
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Series: To Love the Coming End Paperback Leanne Dunic 9781771662826 $18.00 POETRY Mar 02, 2017

An unnamed narrator--a disillusioned author obsessed with natural disasters and 'the curse of 11'--reflects on their own personal earthquake: the loss of a loved one. In To Love the Coming End, a lyric travelogue/story with a Lost in Translation vibe, Vancouver-based writer and artist Leanne Dunic presents an exploration of loss, identity, and environment, where landscapes and emotion are linked through the narrator's wry observations and experiences.In inventive prose that travels between Singapore, Canada, and Japan, To Love the Coming End of... + Read More
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Series: Kith Paperback Divya Victor 9781771663229 $20.00 POETRY Jun 13, 2017

kith [noun] one's friends, acquaintances, neighbours, or relations.In Kith, award-winning writer Divya Victor engages Indian-American diasporic culture in the twentieth century, via an autobiographical account that explores what 'kith' might mean outside of the national boundaries of those people belonging to the Indian and South East Asian diasporas.Through an engagement with the effects of globalization on identity formation, cultural and linguistic exchange, and demographic difference, Kith explores questions about race and ethnic difference... + Read More
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Series: Hidden Lives True Stories from People Who Live with Mental Illness Paperback Lenore Rowntree 9781927366530 $19.95 MEDICAL Jun 08, 2017

A revised and updated edition of a collection of personal essays that illuminate what life is like for those who live with mental illness, and how it impacts their family members.More than 4 million Canadians and 57 million Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental illness, and yet there are still considerable stigmas and a great deal of misunderstanding surrounding even the most common diagnoses—schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, clinical depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and dissociative identit... + Read More
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Series: Sonja & Carl A Novel Paperback Suzanne Hillier 9781927366561 $19.95 FICTION May 16, 2017

Sonja Danychuk, a serious and introverted student with dirt-poor immigrant parents, takes pride in her intellectual and academic achievements—essential skills to help her survive and eventually leave small-town Davenport in Northern Ontario. When her father is cut down by a fatal heart attack, Sonja must find a way to pay for university, so she agrees to tutor Carl Helbig, her high school's hockey star and NHL hopeful, despite her strong aversion to his jock-like persona. Carl graduates and heads toward becoming Rookie of the Year for the Bosto... + Read More
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Series: An Extraordinary Destiny A Novel Paperback Shekhar Paleja 9781927366592 $19.95 FICTION Apr 11, 2017

It’s 1947 in Lahore, and the Sharma family is forced to flee their home during the violence of the Partition of India. As the train tracks measure the ever-growing distance between Varoon and his mother, who vanished during the panic to escape, the boy is thrust towards an uncertain future. Forty years later, Varoon’s grown son, Anush, desperately tries to disentangle himself from his father’s demands, which are mired in grief and whiskey. Compounding the pressure is an unusually auspicious kundali—a Vedic birth chart—which threatens to suffoca... + Read More
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Series: Alison's Fishing Birds Hardcover Roderick Haig-Brown 9781987915198 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 22, 2017

Beautifully illustrated children's story about Canadian wildlife by famed Canadian conservationist and Governor General Award-winning author, Roderick Haig-Brown. First published as a limited edition in 1980 by Colophon Books, Alison's Fishing Birds by BC's acclaimed author and conservationist Roderick Haig-Brown is the story of a young girl's encounter with some of BC's most intriguing river birds. Alison's favourite bird, the Dipper, lives along the river by her house. She spends many hours watching the "fierce and splendid" bird as it fishes... + Read More
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Series: What We Once Believed Paperback Andrea MacPherson 9781987915327 $22.95 FICTION Mar 29, 2017

A coming-of-age novel contrasting a daughter's disappointment in her mother's abandonment with the generational differences around feminist values. Summer 1971. While women demand equality, protests erupt over the Vietnam War, and peace activists march, adolescent Maybe Collins' life in quiet Oak Bay is upended by the appearance of her mother, who disappeared nine years earlier.And with her return comes another surprise: she's written a best-selling memoir called The Other Mother, about motherhood and Women's Liberation, which gives only passin... + Read More
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Series: Chilcotin Chronicles Stories of Adventure and Intrigue from British Columbia's Central Interior Paperback Sage Birchwater 9781987915334 $26.95 HISTORY Mar 29, 2017

A collection of historical stories about the early indigenous people, settlers, trappers, and adventurers of BC's Cariboo Chilcotin. A compilation of stories that meld both culture and bloodlines, Chilcotin Chronicles by Sage Birchwater is set in the wild and untamed country of central British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau. West of the Fraser River, this high country is contained by an arc of impenetrable mountain ranges that separates it from the Pacific Coast. The first inhabitants of this region were fiercely independent, molded by the land i... + Read More
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Series: The Land on Which We Live Life on the Cariboo Plateau: 70 Mile House to Bridge Lake Paperback Barbara MacPherson 9781987915365 $24.95 HISTORY Jun 15, 2017

Legendary tales of pioneers and adventurers cultivating BC's Cariboo Plateau in between the 19th and 20th century. The romantic backwoods landscape known as the North Bonaparte, stretches east from 70 Mile House to Bridge Lake and is full of small remote ranches, hidden abandoned homesteads, and rutted roads leading to graves in forgotten meadows. High on the Cariboo Plateau, the land was once the domain of the Secwepemc people who hunted and fished throughout the region. White settlers began to arrive in 1891 and discovered the land they chose... + Read More
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Series: How Deep is the Lake A Century at Chilliwack Lake Paperback Shelley O'Callaghan 9781987915396 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 22, 2017

Curious about the previous inhabitants of the lake where her family has spent the summer for over one hundred years, author Shelley O'Callaghan starts researching and writing about the area. But what begins as a personal journey of one woman's relationship to the land and her desire to uncover the history of her family's remote cabin turns into an exploration and questioning of our rights as settlers upon a land that was inhabited long before we came. In her research, O'Callaghan uncovers a history that runs as deep as the three hundred metre l... + Read More
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Series: A Quiet Roar Living with Multiple Sclerosis Paperback Heidi Redl 9781987915372 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 12, 2017

Compelling and honest life of a stubborn BC rancher living tenaciously in the face of her Multiple Sclerosis condition. The devastating diagnosis of an incurable, debilitating disease does not ordinarily form the starting point of a triumphant story. This, however, is a triumphant story. Heidi Redl was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2004 and immediately chose to fight the disease with the only tools available to her: sheer stubbornness and courage.Growing up on a pioneer ranch in the rough and dusty days of the late 1960s and the 1970s, R... + Read More
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Series: Wherever I Find Myself Stories by Canadian Immigrant Women Paperback Miriam Matejova 9781987915341 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 29, 2017

An anthology of Canadian immigrant women and their experiences of being caught between the world of their past and the world of their future. In this third anthology in the Canadian women series by Caitlin Press, Canadian immigrant women from a variety of ethnicities and intersecting identities share their diverse and personal stories.A woman takes on the complex and often baffling nuances of the English language, a Ugandan refugee and her family settle in Canada only to find their father is forever changed, a Portuguese woman recalls her fear ... + Read More