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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: 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
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Series: What the Mouth Wants A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging Paperback Monica Meneghetti 9781987915358 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 08, 2017

This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti’s unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love. As the youngest child of a traditional Italian-Catholic immigrant family, Monica learns the intimacy of the dinner table and the ritual of meals, along with the requirements of conformity both at the table and in life. Monica is thirteen when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoes a mastectomy. When her mother dies three years later, Monica considers the existence of her own breas... + Read More
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Series: Making Room Forty Years of Room Magazine Paperback Meghan Bell 9781987915402 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 22, 2017

Star-studded collection of CanLit's most notable and diverse women authors to be published in Canada's oldest literary journal by and about women. Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine celebrates the history and evolution of Canadian literature and feminism with some of the most exciting and thought-provoking fiction, poetry, and essays the magazine has published since it was founded in 1975 as Room of One's Own. This collection includes poems about men not to be fallen in love with, trans womanhood, the morning-after pill, the "mind fuck" ... + Read More
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Series: North of Familiar A Woman's Story of Homesteading and Adventure in the Canadian Wilderness Paperback Terry Milos 9781987915457 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 15, 2017

In 1974, Terry Milos moved to rural northern Canada, to pursue her dream of homesteading. Following the seventies trend of the back-to-landers, she and her partner left the city life for what they imagined would be a simpler existence. Sometimes humorous and often insightful, North of Familiar is the story of a woman who learned to hunt, fish, and live off the land in what most would consider an utterly hostile and unbelievably cold environment.After a few months of cobbling together a living, Terry reluctantly leaves the north to further her e... + Read More
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Series: Flightpaths The Lost Journals of Amelia Earhart Paperback Heidi Greco 9781987915471 $18.00 POETRY Jun 15, 2017

On the 120th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's birth and the 80th anniversary of her disappearance, award-winning poet, Heidi Greco revitalizes what we know about the iconic aviator through uplifting and historically mesmerizing verse. If most people were asked what they know about Amelia Earhart, they'd probably respond with something like "Wasn't she that pilot who went missing when she tried to fly around the world?"Although that much is true, Earhart was so much more. She was a feminist at a time when women were just beginning to make inroads... + Read More
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Series: Exploded Views The Last Word Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy Paperback Julia Cooper 9781552453414 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 15, 2017

A lively examination of why the modern eulogy should rest in peace. In the spirit of the reckoning Elaine Scarry, Susan Sontag, Jessica Mitford, and Maggie Nelson have done with death and grief, critic Julia Cooper contemplates the debased art of eulogy. While eulogizing has always been an amateur’s art, the continually mounting social pressure to repress any and all negative emotion has renderedthe act of saying goodbye essentially meaningless. Following after Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided, and with the rigorous acumen of Sara Ahmed’s The ... + Read More
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Series: The Gold Paperback David Carpenter 9781550509090 $21.95 FICTION May 15, 2017

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Series: Stay Paperback Katherine Lawrence 9781550506815 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Apr 15, 2017

Millie is eleven (going on twelve) and enjoys doing what kids usually like to do: riding her bike and dreaming of the day she can convince her family to get a dog. She also writes in her diary daily. But instead of writing to herself, she writes to her twin brother Billy, who died before he was born. Alright, so it’s not totally normal, but it’s manageable. Millie’s life as she knows it comes to a screeching halt, however, when her parents decide to separate. Her mother gets a new boyfriend, and her father moves into a new place - an apartment ... + Read More
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Series: Ghosts in the Garden Paperback Judith Silverthorne 9781550509052 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Apr 30, 2017

The sequel to Judith Silverthorne’sThe Ghosts of Government House, Ghosts in the Garden follows Sam and J.J as they are again swept up in the supernatural world of Saskatchewan’s Government House. Things aren’t as they appear at Government House, as Sam and J.J. soon discover on a field trip to the historic building, when they find themselves discussing mushroom growth with George Watt, the gardener of the property at the turn of the 20th century. Just as quickly as they landed in the past, they’re back in the present, mystified as to what hap... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Cadillac Road Paperback Kristin Andrychuk 9781771831505 $25.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2017

Starting in the 1950s, Cadillac Road is the story of Sharon Desjardins: from her earliest childhood memories leaving Northern Quebec and a violent father to adventures in Buffalo and Crystal Beach with her mother and younger sister, Gloria, to dreams of escaping claustrophobic poverty in shabby Grenville by going to Toronto and marrying a wealthy lawyer whom she doesn't love, having turned down local boy Clinton McClary because she doesn't think he'll amount to much. In the end, depressed and on pills, Sharon realizes she needs to be true to he... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The House on Selkirk Avenue Paperback Irena Karafilly 9781771832304 $20.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2017

It is autumn, 1997 and Kate Thuringer is back in her hometown to help her college-age daughter settle into her new life. A professional photographer, Kate has lived in Western Canada for nearly three decades. Before her marriage, however, she survived a turbulent year in which Québécois terrorists kidnapped a British diplomat and murdered an innocent politician. The middle-aged Kate is obsessed with the past, particularly with the memory of a poor francophone student with whom she had been involved during the historic October Crisis. Back in Mo... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Notes of a Mediocre Man Stories of India and America 1st edition Paperback Bipin Aurora 9781771831413 $20.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2017

Two brothers come to school and do nothing but tell stories. A man goes to a singles dance. A retired man in India tries to collect his pension. A woman tells the story of her husband's death in partition India. An unnamed narrator offers his "notes" on modern-day America, the culture of success. Some of the stories are set in India, some in America. Some stories are fable-like, others more realistic. Some deal with sex, some are "intellectual" stories. But all stories deal, in one way or another, with small, "mediocre" people, people trying t... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories Paperback paulo da costa 9781771831628 $20.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2017

The Midwife of Torment and Other Stories is a collection of sudden fiction that compresses its narrative to deliver a variety of stories that alternate the flavour of a philosophical reflection with the whimsical enchantment of a fable with a twist. These stories also often dwell on the strange--and the horror--found in our mundane lives. Stories that, on occasion, also leap as far as speculative fiction or swirl in a lyrical exploration of prose narratives. Divided into six sections, Midwife explores human and non-human voices through narrativ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Everything Reminds You of Something Else Paperback Elana Wolff 9781771831895 $20.00 POETRY Mar 01, 2017

Thin is the line between dreaming and wakefulness, wellness and disorder, here and there, this and that. Elana Wolff's poems illuminate the porousness of states and relations, the connective compulsion of poetic perception, in language that blends the oracular and the everyday, the elliptical and the lucent, the playful and the heart-raking. The de- and re-constructive workings of the poems in Everything Reminds You of Something Else argue for empathy and attentiveness. At the core of this work is the belief that art is the sanest rage.
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Series: Essential Writers Series Robert Kroetsch Essays on His Works Paperback Nicole Markotić 9781771831710 $20.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Mar 01, 2017

These essays span the period of Kroetsch's writing. Included are previously published and new essays that cover (some of) his novels, (some of) his poetry, and even (some of) his critical writing. The contributors include writers who knew Kroetsch well and those who only met him on the page; critics at the beginning of their careers and those well established in the Canadian literary field; men and women, writers and poets and critics and damn fine thinkers. The contributors featured are: Robert Archambeau, Catherine Bates, George Bowering, Jen... + Read More
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Series: Food and Cooking Food Fight Inc. Napkin Sketches to Retail Shelves: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey of Triumphs and Lemons Paperback Bruno Codispoti 9781771832243 $25.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 01, 2017

What do Jamie Oliver, Pope Saint John Paul II, Sammy Hagar, and *NSYNC have in common? They all play a role in Food Fight Inc., a colourful collection of Bruno Codispoti's sweet successes and sour lemons in his two-decade-long efforts to bring unique retail food products to the marketplace. Bruno's advice, laced with humour and down-to-earth honesty, can be applied to any aspiring entrepreneur's crusade-- particularly those with modest means--looking to share a product idea with the world.
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series All That Is Solid Melts Into Air Paperback Carole Giangrande 9781771333610 $22.95 FICTION Apr 10, 2017

Winner of the 2018 IPPY Gold Medal for Literary Fiction; Shortlisted for the 2017 Mary Sarton Award for Contemporary FictionIn the morning fog of the North Atlantic, Valerie hears the frenetic ticking of clocks. She's come from Toronto to hike on the French island of St. Pierre and to ponder her marriage to Gerard Lefèvre, a Montrealer and a broadcast journalist whose passion for justice was ignited in his youth by the death of his lover in an airline bombing. He's a restless traveller (who she suspects is unfaithful) and she's the opposite: qu... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series In Many Waters Paperback Ami Brodoff 9781771333658 $22.95 FICTION Apr 09, 2017

In Many Waters is the gripping story of three orphans whose lives intersect on the island of Malta during our current, urgent refugee crisis. Zoe, a budding historian, comes to Malta with her younger brother Cal to learn more about their Maltese mother, as well as the mysterious circumstances surrounding their parents' untimely deaths. The siblings' well-mapped plans are derailed when Cal, who is a daily swimmer in the Mediterranean, discovers a girl floating in the sea, barely alive. The small, battered fishing boat on which she has journeyed ... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Women of Saturn, The Paperback Connie Guzzo-McParland 9781771333573 $22.95 FICTION Apr 09, 2017

"Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels meet Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women" in award-winning author Connie Guzzo-McParland's highly anticipated sophomore novel, The Women of SaturnThe Women of Saturn chronicles the lives of three women of different generations, all living in Montreal in the 1980s, connected and haunted by the same Italian village of their pasts. When high school teacher Cathy's estranged childhood friend, Lucia is found beaten and abandoned in an apparent act of domestic violence, she takes Lucia's teenage daughter, Angie,... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Young Feminist Series Mountain Paperback Ursula Pflug 9781771333498 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 20 May 24, 2017

Seventeen-year-old Camden splits her time between her father, a minor rock star, and her mom, a scruffy "hardware geek" who designs and implements temporary and sustainable power systems and satellite linkups for off-grid music and art festivals, tree-sits, and attends gatherings of alternative healers. Lark, Camden's father, provides her with brand-name jeans, running shoes, and makeup, while her mother's world is populated by anarchists, freaks, geeks, and hippies. Naturally, Camden prefers staying with her dad and going to the mall with his ... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Young Feminist Series Under the Zaboca Tree Paperback Glynis Guevara 9781771333290 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 20 Jun 14, 2017

At ten, Melody Sparks, better known as Baby Girl, is excited to move to the tropical island of Trinidad with her single-parent dad, but she silently longs for her mother, a woman she can't recall ever meeting and doesn't have a photo of. She fits in to her new life in Paradise Lane quite well: she loves her school and makes new friends. However, her longing for blood family remains strong. But Baby Girl is suddenly and unexpectedly uprooted from her comfortable life in Paradise Lane by and forced to reside in Flat Hill Village, a depressed, cri... + Read More
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Series: Death and the Intern Paperback Jeremy Hanson-Finger 9781926743912 $19.95 FICTION Apr 14, 2017

Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Scrubs meets The Maltese Falcon and The Crying of Lot 49 Janwar Gupta, a brilliant but neurotic medical student intern, has a patient die under suspicious circumstances during his placement at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. Certain of his innocence, Janwar bumbles his way through an amateur investigation of two feuding groups of anaesthesiologists and navigates a romance with journalism student and barista Susan Jonestown, who is investigating a drug trafficking conspiracy involving the Hells Angels an... + Read More
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Series: Small Claims Paperback Andrew Kaufman 9781926743905 $19.95 FICTION May 15, 2017

Shortlisted for the 2018 ReLit Award In this new novel by ReLit award–winning, Leacock-nominated writer Andrew Kaufman, the narrator eschews the usual avenues of mid-life crisis-sportscars, mistresses-and instead seeks meaning in the least likely of places: small claims court. There, he struggles to understand what’s gone wrong in his marriage, his career as a writer, and his relationship with his two young children. With small observations, subtle investigations, and the pursuit of small-scale justice, he attempts to rebuild his faith in human... + Read More
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Series: Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe Paperback Marcus McCann 9781926743936 $16.95 POETRY May 15, 2017

Half wisecracking tour guide and half flirtatious trick, the poems in Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe examine how we respond to overwork and overstimulation. McCann’s third collection speaks to a world that is too busy and too anxious, delivering the material with zero reverence and with loads of self-deprecating, disarming, observational - and sometimes catty - humour. Inviting readers to be his “bandmates / on life’s slutty bus tour,” Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe marks a fresh new direction in Marcus McCann’s poetics. “McCann’s work is a... + Read More
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Series: Eaten Back to Life Paperback Jonah Campbell 9781926743929 $16.95 COOKING Jun 01, 2017

A new essay collection by the Philip K. Dick of chips In this series of thoughtful essays and stink-eyed observations, Jonah Campbell explores food and drink in the modern world, from pig heads and whisky to fine wine and French gastronomy, Nigella Lawson to David Cronenberg, with a trail of potato chips and stale chocolate bars along the way. In the tradition of writers like M. F. K. Fisher and David Foster Wallace, Eaten Back to Life renders in delirious prose the ecstasies and absurdities that lie beneath the daily business of feeding oursel... + Read More
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Series: Arabic for Beginners Paperback Ariela Freedman 9781988130330 $18.95 FICTION Mar 25, 2017

When Hannah accompanies her husband and small children to Jerusalem for the year, she becomes fascinated with a group of expat women at her son?s daycare, as well as a young Palestinian woman named Jenna. As she grows close to Jenna she starts to question her own marriage and her relationship to Israel. A novel of domestic and political ambivalence, Arabic for Beginners is about marriage, motherhood, friendship, nation, and the complicated ways we think of home. It is the winner of the J. I. Segal 2018 Mona Elaine Adilman English Fiction and Po... + Read More
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Series: Evil That Men Do, The Paperback Michael Blair 9781988130378 $18.95 FICTION Mar 25, 2017

On his return to Montreal, Riley becomes entangled in the wreckage left behind by Brandt, a con man who ran a Ponzi scheme. When the fifty-million-dollar scam falls apart and dozens of people are left destitute, some of them figure that Brandt?s wife Terry must know where he?s hiding out. Riley?s not convinced, but then Terry?s the woman Riley was living with when he left Montreal twenty years before.
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Series: Mr. Singh Among the Fugitives Paperback Stephen Henighan 9781988130293 $18.95 FICTION Mar 25, 2017

R.U. Singh has always known he is destined to live the life of an English country squire. After a few false starts, in Bombay, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, he settles into a comfortable existence as a small-town Ontario lawyer, much solicited for the diversity he lends committees and conclaves. But?lest he forget?he is accepted only at the whim of his woman in white, a commanding university administrator, and by her whim can also fall. Mr. Singh Among the Fugitives sends up the multicultural aspirations of Canadian identity, pokes fun at our glitt... + Read More
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Series: Sun of a Distant Land Paperback Bouchet David 9781550654639 $19.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2017

Twelve-year-old Souleye has just immigrated to Montreal from Senegal with his family. He wants to become "from here" as quickly as possible, but Canada and Senegal prove to be two completely different worlds, and their new lives don't unfold as planned. Beyond the daily grind of finding an apartment, schools, and jobs, young Souleye (whose only friend renames him "Soleil" - Sun) has to contend with what it means to be black in a predominantly white society, a foreigner among the locals. And that's all before his father's mind begins to fall ap... + Read More
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Series: A Three-Tiered Pastel Dream Stories Paperback Lesley Trites 9781550654646 $19.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2017

A career-focused woman finds her life taken off course by an unexpected pregnancy and its challenging aftermath; a troubled doctor abandons her family on her daughter's birthday, the three-tiered pastel layer cake in the passenger seat beside her; a young mother must contend with how to explain her husband's suicide to their child. In her first story collection, Lesley Trites digs bravely into the dilemmas faced by contemporary women who must be everything to everyone, as they navigate the triangle of responsibilities between motherhood, work, ... + Read More
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Series: Pyx, The Paperback John Buell 9781550654653 $14.95 FICTION May 15, 2017

When heroin-addicted call girl Elizabeth Lucy dies in a fall from a swanky penthouse terrace, homicide detective Henderson is assigned to the case. Was it murder? Suicide? Through his investigation, Henderson uncovers a frightening underworld that is far more dark and dangerous than those of prostitution and the drug trade. But more than anything, this is Elizabeth's story. Told through flashbacks and those who knew her, revelations unfold, revealing a life that ends with a struggle unlike any other. A masterful debut, The Pyx has earned con... + Read More
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Series: Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids Quebec Inuit Fight for their Homeland Paperback Zebedee Nungak 9781550654684 $15.95 HISTORY May 15, 2017

For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace. In this concise, lively account, Zebedee Nungak relates the inside story of how the young Inuit and Cree "Davids" took action when Québec began construction on the giant James Bay hydro project. They fought in court and at the negotiation table for an accord that effectively became Canada's first land-claims agreement. Nungak's account is ... + Read More
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Series: Siren Paperback Kateri Lanthier 9781550654660 $17.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2017

Siren, Kateri Lanthier's astonishing second book, calls us to attention. In her search for what she calls "compelling melancholy," Lanthier's new poems not only draw on the ghazal's history as love poetry but remind readers of the dangerous and alluring quality of the ancient form itself. The siren was a lethal yet seductive figure, and that sense of power--and as well as her fast-taking bemusement at her own reputation--is present in lines that marry unnerving dream logic to emotional fearlessness. Siren is an uncompromising achievement: an or... + Read More
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Series: Table Manners Paperback Catriona Wright 9781550654677 $17.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2017

Carnal, flamboyant, visceral and bold, Table Manners is a rich meal. Catriona Wright's debut introduces us to the image of the poet as "gastronaut," a figure who seems to live entirely between table and a stove and who steeps her surroundings and relationships in complex emotional flavours. "My life," she writes, "is now tuned to bone marrow donuts and chef gossip. I'm useless at any other frequency." Wright's wild narratives are sometimes funny, sometimes frightening and always ravishingly observed. Table Manners is what might have emerged had... + Read More
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Series: Rock 'n' Radio When DJs and Rock Music Ruled the Airwaves Paperback Ian Howarth 9781550654691 $19.95 PERFORMING ARTS May 15, 2017

Rock 'n' Radio illustrates that Montreal was at the epicentre of the rock radio revolution in Canada, eventually attracting talented DJs from the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Their personal stories and the inevitable collision with the power of alternative FM rock radio in the late 60s take the reader through some of the best rock music recorded and the social changes that percolated in the background.The period 1926 to 1949 can be considered the Golden Age of radio when it was the hearth of the North American family. Much to everyone's surprise, ... + Read More
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Series: Heavy Bear, The Paperback Tim Bowling 9781928088325 $20.00 FICTION May 16, 2017

What happens when a respectable middle-aged father, teacher and writer decides one day to abandon his ordinary routine and embark on an unexpected journey toward an unknowable fate, following the ghost of Buster Keaton and a vision of a bear? In Tim Bowling's fifth novel, The Heavy Bear, the main character?a sort of contemporary version of Joyce's Leopold Bloom who just happens to be named Tim Bowling?spends an intense late-summer day in downtown Edmonton. Haunted by "the slender sadness" of the world, and unable to face his afternoon class, Ti... + Read More