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Series: She Holds Up the Stars Hardcover Sandra Laronde 9781773210667 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Aug 16, 2022

A young Indigenous girl searching for a sense of home finds strength and courage in her gifts, her deepening connection to the land, and her own cultural awakening in this moving coming-of-age story.The last thing that twelve-year old Misko wants to do is to move away from the city to spend time on the rez with her grandmother. And yet she feels strangely compelled to go, drawn by a pull that she feels in her dreams. Maybe she can finally find out what happened to her mother, who mysteriously disappeared when Misko was four years old.Misko’s re... + Read More
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Series: I Have Lived Four Lives Paperback Wilfred Buck 9781927886496 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 12, 2021

Commencing by explaining how the word Ininew?refers to the phrase ?mixing of four,?Wilfred Buck embarks upon a series of dazzling stories: ?herein is the story of how I lived and how I died and how I lived again along with the dreams I have dreamed and the visions I have seen.? In this unique collection of writings Buck, an Ininew Dream Keeper (Pawami niki titi cikiw), illustrates, four separate stages of personal experience. The stories in I Have Lived Four Lives? are designed as aids to the discovery and healing for Indigenous youth, and enco... + Read More
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Series: Pistachios in My Pocket Paperback Sareh Farmand 9781988168692 $24.95 POETRY Oct 25, 2022

Poet Sareh Farmand was born in Tehran at the start of the Islamic Revolution. In this brave first collection of poems and prose a narrative arc details her family's escape from Iran, detailing their time as immigrants in limbo, and finally, as Landed Immigrants in Canada. Using family anecdotes, memory, public documents, and images to outline her family's story, Pistachios in my Pocket moves from the personal to the universal by exploring the influences of migration, political strife, and cultural identity on humanity. Here is a new voice to th... + Read More
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Series: The Loyal Daughter Paperback Nancy Lam 9781988168654 $24.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2022

The Loyal Daughter is a novel in stories, told from the perspective of mother, daughter, and granddaughter and spans the 1940s to modern day. A young woman in a village in Communist China finds herself scrapping her way through the crowded streets of Hong Kong. She immigrates to an isolated Northern Ontario city and finally settling in Toronto. When she finds herself stuck in a small apartment above a clothing store, with four kids, her mother, two siblings, and a husband who is never home, the promise of a new beginning fades. Filled with hear... + Read More
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Series: Almost Visible 1st edition Paperback Michelle Sinclair 9781771862943 $24.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2022

Tess has just moved to Montreal from Nova Scotia, and seeks to lose herself by involving herself in the lives of others. She befriends an older man while delivering meals to the elderly. Her interest in his past veers into obsession after furtively going through his photos and letters and "borrowing" his journal. Though fact and fiction are blurred, they reveal a man shaken by political polarization and repression in his Latin-American homeland. Tess learns about a young, passionate man in the 1970s forced to reconcile his love for a milita... + Read More
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Series: Disarm, Defund, Dismantle Police Abolition in Canada Paperback Shiri Pasternak 9781771135924 $23.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 04, 2022

Canadian laws are just, the police uphold the rule of law and treat everyone equally, and without the police, communities would descend into chaos and disorder. These entrenched myths, rooted in settler-colonial logic, work to obscure a hard truth: the police do not keep us safe. This edited collection brings together writing from a range of activists and scholars, whose words are rooted in experience and solidarity with those putting their lives on the line to fight for police abolition in Canada. Together, they imagine a different world—on... + Read More
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Series: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies Paperback Leslie Kern 9781771135849 $23.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 06, 2022

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, New York, London, and Paris to look beyond the familiar and false stories we tell ourselves about class, money, and taste. What she brings back i... + Read More
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Series: Burning in This Midnight Dream Paperback Louise B. Halfe 9781771315517 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2021

A deeply scouring poetic account of the residential school experience, and a deeply important indictment of colonialism in Canada. Many of the poems in Louise Halfe's Burning in This Midnight Dream were written in response to the grim tide of emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares that arose in her as the Truth and Reconciliation process unfolded. In heart-wrenching detail, Halfe recalls the damage done to her parents, her family, herself. With fearlessly wrought verse, Halfe describes how the experience of the residential schools continues ... + Read More
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Series: Why I Was Late Paperback Charlie Petch 9781771315579 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2021

Winner of the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places. Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, brings a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing—Petch works hard. And whether it's as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a p... + Read More
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Series: Bent Back Tongue Paperback Garry Gottfriedson 9781773860961 $20.00 POETRY Sep 16, 2022

Bent Back Tongue is a raw examination of love, identity, politics, masculinity, and vulnerability. Through sharp honesty and revealing satire, Gottfriedson delves into Canadian colonialism and the religious political paradigms shaping experiences of a Secwépemc First Nations man. This is a book that tears through deceptions that both Canada and the church impose on their citizens. Gottfriedson tackles the darkest layers of a shared colonial history; at the same time, the poems in Bent Back Tongue are a celebration of love, land, family, and the... + Read More
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Series: Worth More Standing Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees Paperback Christine Lowther 9781773860824 $24.95 POETRY Apr 22, 2022

In Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees, celebrated poets and activists pay homage to the ghosts of lost forests and issue a rallying cry to protect our remaining ancient giants and restore wild spaces. Themes of connection, ecology, grief, and protection are explored through poems about trees and forests written by an impressive number of influential poets, several of whom have attended the recent Fairy Creek blockades and still others who defended BC’s old growth trees in Clayoquot Sound nearly 30 years ago. ... + Read More
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Series: The Sleeping Car Porter Paperback Suzette Mayr 9781552454589 $23.95 FICTION Aug 29, 2022

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a gay Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affairThe Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a gay man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you’ll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment.Baxter’s name isn’t George. But it’s 1929, and Baxter is lucky eno... + Read More
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Series: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century Paperback Kim Fu 9781552454367 $21.95 FICTION Feb 01, 2022

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEKIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF 2022THE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022Featured on CBC's The Next Chapter with Shelagh RogersTIME MAGAZINE'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2022LITHUB BEST REVIEWED SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS 2022LITHUB BEST REVIEWED SCI-FI, FANTASY AND HORROR OF 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZEThe debut collection from PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and ‘propulsive storyteller’ (NYT Book Review), with stories that are by turns poig... + Read More
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Series: Kwändǖr Paperback Cole Pauls 9781772620771 $25.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 15, 2022

Indigenous Voices Award winner Cole Pauls returns with a robust collection of stories that celebrate the cultural practices and experiences of Dene and Arctic peoples.Gathering Pauls's comics from magazines, comic festivals and zine making workshops, these comics are his most personal work yet. You'll learn stories about the author's family, racism and identity, Yukon history, winter activities, Southern Tutchone language lessons and cultural practices.Have you ever wanted to learn how to Knuckle Hop? or to acknowledge and respect the Indigenou... + Read More
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Series: Post Capitalist Philanthropy Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse Paperback Alnoor Ladha 9798986531007 $55.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 17, 2022

"Post capitalist philanthropy is a paradox in terms. A paradox is the appropriate starting place for the complex, entangled, messy context we find ourselves in as a species." The authors take us on a journey from the history of wealth accumulation to the current logic of late-stage capitalism - and ultimately to the lived possibilities of other ways of knowing, sensing and being that can usher in life-centric models. This "ontological shift", as they call it, into new possibilities is at the heart of their work. Creating new-ancient-emerging re... + Read More
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Series: The Polished Hoe 20th Anniversary Edition 20th Anniversary Edition Paperback Austin Clarke 9781459750975 $25.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

A special 20th anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Rinaldo Walcott.When an elderly woman calls the police to confess to a murder, the result is a shattering all-night vigil bringing together elements of the African diaspora in one epic sweep. Set on the post-colonial West Indian island of Bimshire in 1952, the novel unravels over the course of twenty-four hours but spans the lifetime of one woman and the collective experience of a society informed by slavery.As the novel opens, Mary Mathilda is giving confession to Sargeant, a police of... + Read More
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Series: Jade Is a Twisted Green Paperback Tanya Turton 9781459748606 $22.99 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

For readers of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life’s pleasures after loss.Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman living in Toronto, must find a way to pick up the pieces and discover who she is following the mysterious death of her twin sister.Grappling with her grief, Jade seeks solace in lovers and friends during an array of hilarious and heartbreaking adventures. As she investigates some of life’s most frustrating paradoxes,... + Read More
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Series: My Road from Damascus A Memoir Paperback Jamal Saeed 9781770416215 $28.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 04, 2022

“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus Reviews An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the Bones Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his writing pushed both social and political norms. For this reason, as well as his opposition to the reg... + Read More
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Series: The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour Paperback Dawn Dumont 9781988298870 $24.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2021

Shortlisted for the Leacock Medal for HumourThe hilarious story of an unlikely group of Indigenous dancers who find themselves thrown together on a performance tour of Europe The Tour is all prepared. The Prairie Chicken dance troupe is all set for a fifteen-day trek through Europe, performing at festivals and cultural events. But then the performers all come down with the flu. And John Greyeyes, a retired cowboy who hasn't danced in fifteen years, finds himself abruptly thrust into the position of leading a hastily-assembled group of replacem... + Read More
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Series: Modern Fables Paperback Mikka Jacobsen 9781990601217 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 01, 2022

Modern Fables is a darkly funny, feminist collection of essays about love and place. In this darkly funny book about love in the digital age, Mikka Jacobsen challenges the notion that a single woman in her thirties writing about love is simply desperate. Instead, in an unflinching collage of coming-of-age narratives, she both elevates singledom and upholds the value of finding profound love. A work of feminist thinking, these interlinked essays blend memoir with cultural and literary criticism, exploring first loves and teenage drug-slingers, s... + Read More
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Series: WJD Paperback Khashayar Mohammadi 9781774220702 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2022

WJD is an irreverent phenomenology of West-Asia, where Islamicate consciousness is driven in and out of a plethora of conflicting ideologies and has left an impression deep enough to be read across the centuries. It also includes The OceanDweller, a translation of Saeed Tavanaee Marvi's experimental tale of the power of poetry dipped in marine biology and shades of astronomy. The two volumes are printed together, one beginning from each side, with its own cover, making a unique and beautiful book.
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Series: Brat Paperback Sophie Crocker 9781774220641 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2022

brat is an anthology of forest creatures, lost girls and tiny precious moments. In this collection of poetry, smallness begets uprising, rats signify life rather than death and bunnies are slutty woodland sprites. brat makes smallness into power, resilience and survival. In these poems, to be a brat is to be a scamp, an upstart, an agent of mischief: to cause trouble; to riot; to right wrongs; to enact change because it is right, regardless of a corrupt legal system. If brathood is the irreverent claiming of ownership over all good things, then... + Read More
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Series: My Left Skate The Extraordinary Story of Eliezer Sherbatov Paperback Anna Rosner 9781773370873 $15.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Oct 01, 2022

Based on extensive interviews, My Left Skate: The Extraordinary Story of Eliezer Sherbatov is a first-person biography of a teenager who had it all on the hockey rink: guts, drive, and exceptional talent. When a freak accident leaves him with a permanent disability and no feeling below his left knee, everyone believes Eliezer's career is over - everyone except his mother, a professional power skating coach. She teaches Eliezer to skate using the muscles in his upper leg, and after two and half years of operations and rehabilitation, he returns ... + Read More
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Series: Chasing Baby An Infertility Adventure Paperback Morwenna Trevenen 9781773370750 $24.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 15, 2022

Grow up, get a job, find a partner, have a family, live the dream. This was always the plan...with some deviations along the way. Using sarcasm and vulnerability, Morwenna speaks about growing up, finding love, and then struggling when the rest of the plan isnt meant to be. This is the raw & real story of one couples rollercoaster ride as they discover infertility, try various treatments, suffer an adoption reversal, and learn to make new plans and find the funny moments. A raw, sarcastic, and sometimes funny account of the struggles of g... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Memoir Series Horses in the Sand A Memoir Paperback Lorrie Potvin 9781771338493 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 31, 2022

A sequel to First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, Horses in the Sand is a collection of stories that document a queer Métis woman?s journey from her sparse beginnings as a child to becoming a tradeswoman, teacher, and artist. With courage, humour, and frank honesty, the stories describe what it was like to grow up as a girl who was starkly different from "normal" and how "coming out" became a lifelong process of self-acceptance and changing identities. Potvin?s tales also speak to the difficulties in participating in and maintaining healthy adult re... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Everything You Dream is Real Paperback Lisa de Nikolits 9781771339308 $22.95 FICTION Oct 18, 2022

Eleven years after a world war destroyed the consumer-driven, plastic-based existence of 2055, a new order of players jostles for power. Streaky electricity, ravaging drought, a scarcity of food, and deadly Monarch butterflies make for an increasingly desperate situation.Worlds collide when both Mother and Sharps?s children are kidnapped by the unstable plastic surgeon Alpha Plus and taken to The Fountain of Youth compound. There?s flowing water and beautiful people and beautiful clothes and an incongruous convent where children wear smart unif... + Read More
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Series: Five Minutes to Curtain A Step-By-Step Guide for Creating and Staging Original Plays Paperback Linda Burgess 9781990737190 $19.95 PERFORMING ARTS Oct 15, 2022

Five Minutes to Curtain is a practical toolkit for teachers and/or community leaders who want to create original productions in collaboration with their students or group members. Providing multiple examples and anecdotes drawn from the author's twenty years of experience, Five Minutes to Curtain is a guide for providing more meaningful and engaging theatrical experiences for participants and audiences alike.
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Series: Amik Hardcover Sharon King 9781928120285 $15.00 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Dec 31, 2021

The beaver is busy... This delightful children's picture book tells the story of amik, the beaver, who works on his dam throughout the day while nature and the activities of other animals carry on around him. At the end of a long day, amik returns to his den to be with his family. Along with its beautiful cut-paper illustrations, Amik offers the chance for children to learn words and phrases in the Ojibwe language, as the text appears in both English and Anishinaabemowin. A fun, colourful and engaging book for children ages three through six.
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Series: Silence to Strength Writings and Reflections on the 60s Scoop Paperback Christine Smith 9781928120339 $18.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 19, 2022

From the 1960s through the 1980s the Canadian Children's Aid Society engaged in a large-scale program of removing First Nations children from their families and communities and adopting them out to non-Indigenous families. This systemic abduction of untold thousands of children came to be known as the Sixties Scoop. The lasting disruption from the loss of family and culture is only now starting to be spoken of publicly, as are stories of strength and survivance.In Silence to Strength: Writings and Reflections on the 60s Scoop, editor Christine ... + Read More
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Series: We, the Others Allophones, Immigrants, and Belonging in Canada Paperback Toula Drimonis 9781773901213 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 30, 2022

Ungrateful, opportunistic, moochers, dangerous, incompatible with our values and our way of life? Every immigrant demographic has heard these descriptors at some point in their migration history. We, the Others takes a contemporary look at the xenophobia, ethno-nationalism, and fear of the other that leads to discrimination and the belief that immigration is a polluting force. Rooted in the author?s personal family history as the second-generation daughter of Greek immigrants, and from her research as a journalist and columnist covering identi... + Read More
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Series: Dear Black Girls Hardcover Shanice Nicole 9781999058838 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 10 Feb 08, 2021

Dear Black girls all around the world, this one is for you -- for us.Dear Black Girls is a letter to all Black girls. Every single day poet and educator Shanice Nicole is reminded of how special Black girls are and of how lucky she is to be one. Illustrations by Kezna Dalz support the book's message that no two Black girls are the same but they are all special--that to be a Black girl is a true gift. In this celebratory poem, Kezna and Shanice remind young readers that despite differences, they all deserve to be loved just the way they are.
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Series: Ghosts in a Photograph A Chronical Paperback Myrna Kostash 9781774390573 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2022

In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn of the twentieth century. Discovering a packet of family mementos, Kostash begins questioning what she knows about her extended families' pasts and whose narrative is allowed to prevail in Canada.This memoir, however, is not just a personal story, but a public one of immigration, partisan allegiance, and the stark differences in how two sets of familie... + Read More
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Series: Duecentomila Paperback kai fig taddei 9780369103826 $18.95 DRAMA Nov 01, 2022

Estranged teenage cousins Eli and Kat have recently met online and bonded over their queer identities, but they have a limited understanding of each other’s very different realities. In Italy, soft-spoken Eli is trying to find a way to come out as trans to his conservative Roman Catholic family. In Canada, strong-headed Kat is desperate for connection to a culture and place she’s never known. Kat and her friend Hannah are the only ones who know that Eli is trans—not even his brother Matteo knows. And while her intentions are good, Kat’s decisi... + Read More
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Series: Sangeet and the Missing Beat Paperback Kiranjot Kaur 9781989996058 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 10 Mar 15, 2022

Sangeet loves music, and she's good at composing it, too. Her favourite instrument is the tabla. One day, Sangeet hears all kinds of noises everywhere and together, they have the most incredible beat. But when she tries to play it on her tabla--something is missing! Will Sangeet be able to find her Missing Beat? Teacher resources available on publisher website: rebelmountainpress.com/sangeet-and-the-missing-beat-teacher-resources
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Series: I am Everything In Between Paperback Sydney Sunderland 9781989996065 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Mar 15, 2022

Sometimes it's not as simple as being a boy or a girl. I Am Everything In Between highlights kids who may not fit into stereotypical gender ideals, and celebrates how they do identify by sending positive messages about gender identity. This book teaches children that regardless of biological gender, it's OK to feel like a boy, or a girl, or even both! The illustrations include bright and bold examples of boys that like to play dress up and wear makeup, girls that like to play sports and get dirty, and kids that want to grow up to be astronauts!... + Read More
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Series: AfriCANthology AfriCANthology Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets Paperback A. Gregory Frankson 9781990086090 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 01, 2022

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by Greg Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspects of navigating their unique personal, professional, and artistic path... + Read More
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Series: Nothing Without Us Nothing Without Us Too Paperback Cait Gordon 9781990086304 $25.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2022

Nothing Without Us Too follows the theme of Nothing Without Us (a 2020 Prix Aurora Award finalist), featuring more stories by authors who are disabled, d/Deaf or hard-of-hearing, Blind or visually impaired, neurodivergent, Spoonie, and/or who manage mental illness. The lived experiences of their protagonists are found across many demographics--such as race, culture, financial status, religion, gender, age, and/or sexual orientation. We want to present these stories because diversity is reality, and it belongs in literary and genre fiction.So, w... + Read More
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Series: Crow Stone Paperback Gabriele Goldstone 9781553806653 $18.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2022

The evocative story of Katya's epic winter journey through Prussia and her eventual imprisonment by the Red Army. It is January 1945, the last winter of the Second World War, and East Prussian civilians flee as the feared Red Army invades Germany in the wake of the impending Nazi defeat. Katya and her two sisters join thousands of others trudging to the Baltic Sea in the hope of escaping imprisonment. But in a raid on a night-time hiding place, Katya is separated from her sisters and forced to take a long and shameful journey back into the So... + Read More
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Series: Ruby Red Skies Paperback Taslim Burkowicz 9781773635606 $24.00 FICTION Oct 13, 2022

Ruby used to be a fiery, sexy, musical genius. But when she got pregnant as a teenager in the 90s, her life took a turn into banality. Now a middle-aged Indo-Canadian woman, she feels unseen and unheard by her white husband and struggles to communicate with her mixed-race daughter. When she discovers her husband cheating, she embarks on a quest to unearth exciting secrets from her past. To find what she needs, she drives straight into B.C.’s raging wildfires, accompanied only by the fantastical stories her mother used to tell about their an... + Read More
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Series: Daphne's Bees Paperback Catherine Dempsey 9781927917503 $14.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Mar 10, 2022

Ten-year-old Daphne is abuzz with excitement! She?s learning the ins and outs of beekeeping from her grandmother. Together they assemble hive boxes, set up a colony, tend the colony, and gather honey. Told in a simple, straightforward manner, this beautifully illustrated informational storybook is an excellent introduction to the many aspects of beekeeping. It includes lots of useful information, bee facts, and more, all wrapped up in a story that celebrates the connection between grandparent and grandchild.
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Series: Lola Flies Alone Hardcover Bill Richardson 9781927917831 $22.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 04 - 08 Aug 01, 2022

Awarding-winning author Bill Richardson and illustrator Bill Pechet team up again with Lola Flies Alone, a delightful story about a young airline passenger who has even more imagination than she has style – and she has plenty of that. Lola's first unaccompanied flight is beset by problems; whether it be mermaids in a wading pool blocking the runway or a ballerina doing plies in the aisle, Lola has the solution for every setback. A delightful tale about being "good and kind and generous and brave", Lola Flies Alone is a reminder that brave and s... + Read More
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Series: A Roxanne Calloway Mystery Down Came the Rain Paperback Raye Anderson 9781773240992 $17.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Apr 15, 2022

After a dangerous incident, Sergeant Roxanne Calloway has left the RCMP?s Major Crimes Unit and is now working as the Team Commander of the Fiskar Bay detachment. Roxanne is adjusting to her new job when the body of retired Sergeant Bill Gilchrist, her predecessor, is discovered in a ditch at the side of the road. Spring in Fiskar Bay often means flooding as the normally peaceful stream?home to ducks and teals and the occasional blue heron during the warmer months?fills to the top of its banks with fast-moving, murky brown water, sweeping chuc... + Read More
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Series: Shop Class Hall Pass Facing the Buried Trauma of Sexual Assault Paperback Karin Martel 9781773241180 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 15, 2022

Karin Martel had never considered what happened to her in ninth grade shop class as sexual abuse. So when she is in a regularly scheduled, routine session with the department therapist to talk through the stress of her job as a 911 operator, she surprises herself by suddenly bringing up the memory of the groping she endured in high school. In her job Karin deals with victims of abuse on a regular basis, but has never identified herself as one of them. Shop Class Hall Pass delves into the difficult eighteen months of therapy as she unravels the ... + Read More
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Series: Dear Peter, Dear Ulla Paperback Barbara Nickel 9781771872171 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 30, 2021

Dear Peter, Dear Ulla is an imaginative and beautifully crafted historical middle-grade novel about two cousins who have never met but have become fast friends through an exchange of letters—until the outbreak of World War Two interrupts their conversation. Ulla lives in Danzig, a city that has just been occupied by the Nazis, and Peter lives on a farm in a Mennonite community in Saskatchewan. What had been an easy and entertaining connection between Peter, a talented pianist, and Ulla, who is gifted at drawing, becomes fraught with unthin... + Read More
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Series: Silencing Rebecca Paperback Nikki Vogel 9781771872263 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Aug 31, 2022

In this genre-bending debut YA novel combining elements of horror, magic realism, and realistic fiction, Rebecca Waldmann’s sheltered life as an Orthodox Jewish teen in Toronto is shattered when her father moves them to Edmonton, where she is plunged into the worldly life of a public high school. Ordinary teenage angst is complicated by Rebecca’s lack of experience with a culture of wearing cool clothes, swearing, talking back to teachers, and other aspects of secular teen life. Things take a darker turn when Rebecca encounters antisemitism and... + Read More
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Series: All the Quiet Places A Novel Paperback Brian Thomas Isaac 9781990071027 $22.00 FICTION Oct 12, 2021

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for FictionLonglisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller PrizeWinner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads 2022An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Book of 2021****"What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Toma's passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or perhaps a c... + Read More
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Series: In This Together Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation Paperback Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail 9781927366448 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 12, 2016

What is real reconciliation? This collection of essays from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada welcomes readers into a timely, healing conversation—one we've longed for but, before now, have had a hard time approaching.These reflective and personal pieces come from journalists, writers, academics, visual artists, filmmakers, city planners, and lawyers, all of whom share their personal light-bulb moments regarding when and how they grappled with the harsh reality of colonization in Canada, and its harmful legacy. ... + Read More
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Series: Stealing John Hancock Paperback H & A Christensen 9780888017628 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2022

John "JP" Hancock's day just got a whole lot worse. After a nasty breakup and being scammed into an acting job that doesn't exist, JP suddenly finds himself the unwitting victim of an identity theft that has police detective Nya Grey hot on his heels for multimillion-dollar real estate fraud he didn't commit. With the police closing in, JP finds an unlikely ally in the Vindicator, a secretive and brilliant hacker who agrees to help clear his name by whatever means necessary. But there's more to the story than meets the eye, and they soon find t... + Read More
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Series: Hotline Paperback Dimitri Nasrallah 9781550655940 $21.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2022

A 2023 Canada Reads FinalistLonglisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller PrizeA vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman's struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration.It's 1986, and Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal, leaving behind a civil war filled with bad memories in Lebanon. She had plans to find work as a French teacher, but no one in Quebec trusts her to teach the language. She needs to start making money, and fast. The only work Muna can find is at a weight-loss center as a hotline operator.All day... + Read More
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Series: Prophetess Paperback Baharan Baniahmadi 9781550655957 $19.95 FICTION May 13, 2022

An unflinching allegorical novel that explores trauma, women's rights, and religious tradition.In the slums of Tehran, seven-year-old Sara witnesses the horrific murder of her sister Setayesh, an event leaves her in shock and unable to speak. As the neighbourhood frantically searches for the missing girl, Sara is locked inside herself, unable to tell her parents or police all she knows. Over time, the mute Sara develops a strange allergic reaction, in which hair covers her face every time a man approaches her. One day in school, when an imam ge... + Read More