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Island Falls Paperback Owen Toews 9781927886809 $18.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2023

In this nested novella, a student becomes intrigued by a mysterious friend whose intimate relationship with the history of the mill town where he grew up informs his politics and enigmatic writing. In Owen Toews? second book Island Falls, tender storytelling surrounds an austere allegorical tale embedded in the disastrous story arcs of capitalism and colonialism. With curiosity that often breaches the privacy boundaries of friendship, the narrator?s warm and comedic accounts repeatedly shift to a narrative space where the harsh conditions, oper... + Read More
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World's End Paperback rob mclennan 9781927886793 $18.00 POETRY Oct 15, 2023

Through eight extended poem-sections, World?s End, sits beyond the city?s gates, from relocating to an Ottawa suburb after a quarter century in Centretown, to the birth of the author?s third child. World?s End, examines the lyric across and beyond barriers, propelled by language and fueled by the pitter-patter of tiny feet. World?s End, is an opening.
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Blacklion Paperback Luke Francis Beirne 9781771863315 $24.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2023

Bloody Sunday (1972) catapulted the Irish "troubles" onto the world stage, exacerbating suspicion in US intelligence circles that the IRA might turn to the Soviets for guns. South Boston native Raymond Daly, just off a CIA stint in Laos, is sent to Ireland to re-establish a line running guns to the IRA. He deftly earns the trust of gunrunner Slowey, a tough money-making South Boston native, who introduces him to an IRA splinter group operating near Blacklion, a town bordering on Northern Ireland. Ray begins to manipulate Aoife, an Irish woman,... + Read More
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The Calf with Two Heads Transatlantic Natural History in the Canadas Paperback Louisa Blair 9781771863308 $27.95 SCIENCE Oct 01, 2023

These beautifully illustrated stories of natural history in nineteenth-century Canada are about the curious men and women who crossed the oceans from Europe to explore, map, draw, puzzle about, collect and exhibit nature in Canada. Informed by French, British and Indigenous naturalists, they tried to understand what they saw. What did it all mean about the origins of the world? Louisa Blair, an amateur naturalist in Quebec and a transatlantic species herself, tells tales on Darwin, Russell Wallace and James Cook, and lingers on the strange and... + Read More
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The Seven Nations of Canada 1660-1860 Solidarity, Vision, and Independence in the St. Lawrence Valley Paperback Jean-Pierre Sawaya 9781771863322 $27.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2023

Wendake, Odanak, Wôlinak, Pointe-du-Lac, Kahnawake, Kanesatake, and Akwesasne are communities located all along the St. Lawrence River valley and its tributaries. They have been home to descendants of the Huron-Wendat, Algonquin, Nipissing, and Iroquois nations. The one point these First Nations have in common is that their ancestors were allies of the French and had converted to Christianity. Historians have generally ignored these nations that the French administrators described as "domiciled Indians" ("sauvages domiciliés"). Jean-Pierre Sa... + Read More
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The Bund A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance Paperback Sharon Rudahl 9781771136365 $34.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 05, 2023

Told in an engaging graphic novel format, The Bund explains the oppressive origins of Jewish resistance in Ukraine, Poland, and the "Pale of Settlement" in Tsarist Russia. Jewish people adapted to industrialization and organized against exploitation. As they became more divided along the linguistic borders of Yiddish and Hebrew, Jewish people split between those who sought a distant ancestral homeland, others who emigrated and adapted to the "new world," and many more who fought against murderous Soviet and Nazi regimes. Charismatic resistance... + Read More
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Crisis and Contagion Conversations on Capitalism and COVID-19 Paperback Ian McKay 9781771136396 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 17, 2023

Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster University. Interviews with Nancy Fraser, Mike Davis, Mack Penner, Andreas Malm, and Merrill Singer explore capitalism’s organic crisis and the ways it has made this and future pandemics inevitable. Nora Loreto, Tithi Bhattacharya, Chandrima Chakraborty, and Sanjay Nepal discuss the experiences of ordinary people in the pandemic. J. Michael Ryan, Laura Spinney, Naomi Klein, and Noam Chomsky explore the long-term effects and lik... + Read More
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The Mantle of Struggle A Biography of Black Revolutionary Rosie Douglas Paperback Irving Andre 9781771136204 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 03, 2023

Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, under the Canadian prime minister’s guidance. However, after he moved to Montreal to study political science his politics started to shift. By the late sixties he was an active civil rights supporter and when Black students in Montreal began to protest racism in 1969, he helped lead the sit-in. He was identified as a protest ringleader after the peacef... + Read More
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Beryl The Making of a Disability Activist Paperback Dustin Galer 9781771136372 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 07, 2023

Beryl Potter was a reserved working-class mother of three living a decent life, or so it seemed, when a harmless slip and fall marked the unravelling of everything that she had known about herself and the world around her. Over the course of six years, she endured unimaginable pain. As doctors raced to save her life, her limbs and eyesight were taken from her one by one. In the span of a few years, she lost nearly half her body, her financial security, her home, her husband, and any semblance of a recognizable future. A survivor of more than... + Read More
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My Work Paperback Olga Ravn 9781771668644 $25.00 FICTION Sep 05, 2023

From the acclaimed author of the International Booker Prize–shortlisted literary sensation, The Employees, comes a radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood.Anna is utterly lost. Still in shock after the birth of her son, she moves to snowbound Stockholm with her newborn and boyfriend, where a chasm soon opens between the couple. Lonely and isolated, Anna reads too many internet articles and shops for clothes she cannot afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, she must read and write herself back into her proper ... + Read More
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Her Body Among Animals Paperback Paola Ferrante 9781771668385 $23.00 FICTION Sep 12, 2023

In this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture and sci-fi, women challenge the boundaries placed on their bodies while living in a world “among animals,” where violence is intertwined with bizarre ecological disruptions. A sentient sex robot goes against her programming; a grad student living with depression is weighed down by an ever-present albatross; an unhappy wife turns into a spider; a boy with a dark secret is haunted by dolls; a couple bound for a colony on Mars take a road trip through Texas; a girl fig... + Read More
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Anecdotes Paperback Kathryn Mockler 9781771668446 $23.00 FICTION Sep 19, 2023

With dreamlike stories and dark humour, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the pressing realities of sexual violence, abuse, and environmental collapse. Absurdist flash fictions in “The Boy is Dead” depict characters such as a park that hates hippies, squirrels, and unhappy parents; a woman lamenting a stolen laptop the day the world ends; and birds slamming into glass buildings. “This Isn’t a Conversation” shares one-liners from overheard conversations, found texts, diary entries and random thoughts: many are responses t... + Read More
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The Legend of Baraffo Paperback Moez Surani 9781771668415 $23.00 FICTION Sep 26, 2023

A mythic work of sweeping literary imagination, The Legend of Baraffo speaks to our current social climate and the ingredients for progress.In Baraffo, a town gripped by revolutionary fervour, a young boy is grappling with the motivations of an arsonist now imprisoned. Why, Mazzu asks, did Babello burn an empty building? Is the mayor, the chief aide, Giulietta—who the boy adores—the prisoner’s supporters, or Babello himself to be believed? When Mazzu decides for himself, and helps Babello to escape in a mesmerizing spectacle, it ignites in the ... + Read More
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Sadie X Paperback Clara Dupuis-Morency 9781771668477 $23.00 FICTION Oct 10, 2023

Having followed the brilliant virologist Régnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day, she pushes the limits of her understanding alongside Régnier, who taught her that to study viruses, she must think infectiously, allow herself to be contaminated by dangerous ideas. By night, Sadie loses herself in bars, music, drugs, sensuality. Until she gets a call from the past that lures her back across the ... + Read More
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People You Know, Places You've Been Paperback Hana Shafi 9781771668538 $20.00 POETRY Oct 12, 2023

The latest poetry and artwork collection from Hana Shafi examines the unlikely connections we make to the people and places we encounter. Despite the infinite variations of our lives, every urban dweller has sparred with a neighbour they disliked, seen beautiful strangers on public transit, told secrets to their hairdresser. We interact with these supporting characters on a daily basis—and often we are them for others. Shafi celebrates the Antiheroes of the world (the alcoholic at your local bar, teenage girls); examines those in Beautiful Lead... + Read More
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Queers Like Me Paperback Michael V. Smith 9781771668507 $20.00 POETRY Oct 12, 2023

Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life.In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares the awkward dinners, the funerals, and the uncertainty of navigating fraught dynamics, bringing us into these most intimate moments of family life while outrunning deep grief. Smith moves from first home to first queer experiences: teenage crushes, video cameras, post-club hookups, fears and terrors,... + Read More
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Vixen Paperback Sandra Ridley 9781771668569 $20.00 POETRY Oct 24, 2023

Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Sandra Ridley offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence. Sparked by a haunting chance encounter with a fox, and told in six chapters of varying form, Vixen is as visceral as it is mysterious, sensuous as it is terrifying. "Thicket" introduces us to stalking being akin to hunting; the similar threat of terror and—too often—a violent end. "Twitchcraft" locates the hunt in the home, the wild in the domestic, while... + Read More
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She Who Lies Above Paperback Beatriz Hausner 9781771668200 $20.00 POETRY Nov 07, 2023

In She Who Lies Above, Beatriz Hausner brings Hypatia of Alexandria, the fourth-century Byzantine mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, to life. She does so through layered ventriloquism: publishing amorous correspondence from the feminist icon’s friend and former student, Synesius the Cyrene, and scribing Hypatia’s replies in turn. These letters are “discovered” by Bettina Ungaro, a librarian and archivist by day, poet by night. She, in turn, collates the correspondence to build a vision of the couple’s relationship while writing a kind ... + Read More
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As the Andes Disappeared Paperback Caroline Dawson 9781771668613 $23.00 FICTION Nov 14, 2023

Caroline is seven when her family flees Pinochet’s regime, leaving Chile for Montreal on Christmas Eve, 1986. She fears Santa won’t find them on the plane but wakes to find a new Barbie doll, her mother preserving the holiday even amidst persecution and turmoil. Once in Canada, Caroline accompanies her parents as they clean banks at night; she experiences racist micro aggressions at school, discovers Québécois popular culture, and explores her love of reading and writing in French. Slowly, the Andean peaks disappear from her drawings. As her fa... + Read More
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Bottom Rail on Top Paperback D.M. Bradford 9781771316101 $22.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2023

A rolling call and response between antebellum Black history and the present that mediates it. Somewhere in the cut between Harriet Jacobs and surveillance, Southampton and sneaker game, Lake Providence and the supply chain, Bottom Rail on Top sets off a mediation between the complications of legacy and selfhood. In a kind of archives-powered unmooring of the linear progress story, award-winning poet D.M. Bradford fragments and recomposes American histories of antebellum Black life and emancipation, and stages the action in tandem with the matt... + Read More
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Sonnets from a Cell Paperback Bradley Peters 9781771316132 $22.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2023

Poems for and about the incarcerated. Moving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters' debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech, prison psychology, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way that is tough and tender, that is accountable both to Peters' own days "caught between the past and nothing" and to the structures that sentence so many "to lose." Written behind doors our culture too often keeps closed, this is poetry reaching out for moments of longing, wild joy and grace. Drawing on his own experienc... + Read More
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Peony Vertigo Paperback Jan Conn 9781771316163 $22.95 POETRY Oct 01, 2023

Poems emerging from deep memory and shifting landscapes to joyously engage flora, fauna, and self. In her latest collection, Peony Vertigo, Jan Conn's poetic sensibility disperses and gathers, careens and slides, in and out of relation with the endangered world. Through poems ranging from global to microscopic scales, Conn's beholden, fluid sense of self dissolves into fog and river, and reconstitutes as bright orange newt, prehistoric horse, painter, and mourning daughter. Her voice is vulnerable, ecstatic, and elliptical, a tender exploration... + Read More
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Elementary Particles Paperback Sneha Madhavan-Reese 9781771316194 $22.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2023

Part family history, part scientific exploration, Elementary Particles examines the world through the lens of a daughter grieving the loss of her beloved father. Through keen, quiet observation, Sneha Madhavan-Reese's evocative new collection takes us from the wide expanse of rural India to the minute map of Michigan we carry on the palms of our hands. These poems contemplate ancestral language, the wonder and uncertainty of scientific discovery, the resilience of a dung beetle, the fleeting existence of frost flowers on the Arctic Ocean. The c... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Unca Dave's Wilderness Paperback David Sapin 9781771838085 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2023

Adversity is a sweet gift wrapped in soiled newsprint. Pain is a reminder that we are still alive. Anxiety is fear of tomorrow, and guilt is fear of yesterday. At the bottom end, it’s about scrutinizing the tiny stuff that nobody cares about. Rocks, dead leaves, dirt, lint, dust, bugs, mice, and pocket change. At the top end, it’s about the miracle of life itself, of being alive and being surrounded by amazing, surprizing, astounding living things. Both ends get seriously taken for granted. We live our lives in the safe middle ground, midway be... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series You Break It You Buy It Paperback Lynn Tait 9781771838108 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2023

You Break It, You Buy It features poems about disconnection, misconnections: the loss of friendships and identity, our voice, our purpose. At its core, it is a collection of elegies railing against and dealing with toxic relationships, from fair-weather friends, controlling mothers to narcissists. These poems invite the reader into personal experiences, public observations and the price we pay, positive and negative for our interactions with the media, our global and local conflicts, environmental challenges, the pandemic, the Me Too and Black ... + Read More
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Series: MiroLand Fifteen Thousand Pieces Paperback Gina Leola Woolsey 9781771838115 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2023

On Wednesday, September 2nd, 1998, an international flight carrying 229 souls crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia. There were no survivors. By Friday, Sept 4th, thousands of dismembered body parts had come through Dr. John Butt's makeshift morgue in Hangar B at the Shearwater military base. The Chief Medical Examiner faced the most challenging and grisly task of his career. Five years prior to the plane crash, John had lost his prestigious job as Alberta’s Chief Medical Examiner. After 14 years of marriage, John began t... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Love and Rain Paperback Carmela Circelli 9781771838139 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2023

Love and Rain is a novel which explores the nature of love, its pain, and the near impossibility of its enduring happiness. Moving back in space and time from Rome to Montreal in the sixties and seventies, it also traces the individual rebellion and social revolution that marked the FLQ movement in Quebec and the Red Brigades in Italy in the late 1970s. The power of love, music and politics intertwine in a tale that the spells the mysterious alchemy of fate and chance.
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Series: World Poetry Il libro dei primati/The Book of Primates Paperback Mario Moroni 9781771838153 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2023

The bilingual Italian-English manuscript Il libro dei primati / The Book of Primates combines prose and poetry to revisit/reimagine the folkloric traditions of two American states where the author spent many years: the state of Maine and that on New York. In his reworking/recreating these traditions he looked at traditional poems, ballads, tales, legends, and revisited them through a contemporary experimental language and contents. The result is a series of new texts, each the result of a contamination between the original texts and the author’... + Read More
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Series: Guernica World Editions The Red Hairband Paperback Catherine Greene 9781771838160 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2023

The Red Hairband is a post-apocalyptic, literary science fiction novel. How does our upbringing influence our interpretation of the world? Evie, Laura, and Bertram, must confront this question in their three intertwined stories. Evie is indoctrinated by a repressive regime, and throws herself into conflict with a more liberal society. She tries to destroy them, but fails. Instead, a myth about her life is used to start a revolution against the regime. Laura’s new-born son, Edmond, is a time traveller from the future, but she isn't believed and ... + Read More
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Series: World Prose Believe America How I tried to end mass shootings and accidentally started a cult Paperback Samson Johnson 9781771838184 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2023

Samson Johnson has spent a life in politics. A self professed politics ‘bicycle seat’ finds himself run down and out of faith around 2014. Despite having worked many positions in numerous campaigns, for a litany of different causes all over the political spectrum, he is jaded, pained and full of doubt. In an effort to bring himself down from the non-stop, jet set campaigning lifestyle, Samson takes a quiet data entry job for a think tank in Washington DC, in an effort to reclaim stability in his life. Within weeks however, Samson’s attempt at f... + Read More
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Series: Essential Essays Series Faithfully Seeking Franz Paperback Elana Wolff 9781771838207 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 01, 2023

The itinerary of Faithfully Seeking Franz comprises an irregular quest for dead mentor, modernist author Franz Kafka—in places he lived, worked, vacationed and convalesced, and in the body of work he left: fiction, diaries, notebooks, and correspondence. The search for the man inside the writer is both a personal journey and a joint venture of two in the field: E. and M. in pursuit of K. The story might even be said to unfold as a love note to triangulation.
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Series: Essential Translations Series Ari and the Barley Queen Paperback Pan Bouyoucas 9781771838351 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2023

The title character Ari could have stepped out of a traditional folk tale straight into the day before yesterday. Son of a monstrous, unscrupulous mother and a faint-hearted father, he catches a glimpse of a life that would be to his liking when he encounters a young woman who …. but you have to read the novel to find out how the rest of Ari's life pans out.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Ukrainian Portraits Diaries from the Border Paperback Marina Sonkina 9781771838542 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2023

At the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, Canadian author Marina Sonkina flew to the Ukrainian-Polish border to volunteer in a refugee camp using her knowledge of Russian and some Ukrainian. The suffering on a massive scale was beyond what she could possibly expect. "Putin's destruction of Ukraine left me with dismay and utter helplessness. The world order as we knew it, after WWII, was unraveling in Europe in front of my eyes, and I could do nothing about it. Evil always shouts loud; goodness is quiet. But when I came as a v... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The B-Side of Daniel Garneau Paperback David Kingston Yeh 9781771838221 $25.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2023

The B-Side of Daniel Garneau concludes a rollicking three-book series set in Toronto featuring the misadventures of boyfriends Daniel and David, their eccentric family and friends. As Daniel prepares to graduate from med school and propose marriage, David sets out to donate his sperm so his brother can have a baby. But as his celebrity ex Marcus launches his boldest exhibit yet, an unexpected crisis forces Daniel to re-evaluate his priorities in life. The B-Side of Daniel Garneau is the inspirational follow-up to A Boy at the Edge of the World ... + Read More
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Series: First Poets Series Drank, Recruited Paperback Ami Xherro 9781771838245 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2023

Ami Xherro’s work stems from a fascination with the disembodied voice and how it dispels through space, vibrating off bodies and objects. In this way, any object can speak and insist on being spoken about. In this way, languages emerge.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Catinat Boulevard Paperback Caroline Vu 9781771838276 $25.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2023

Beginning in Saigon during the Vietnam War and ending in present day New York, Catinat Boulevard tells the story of two friends Mai and Mai Ly. While Mai flirts with American GIs in rowdy bars along Catinat Boulevard, Mai Ly joins the communist resistance in the jungle. The story also follows Nat, Mai’s half Vietnamese-half African-American son abandoned in a Saigon orphanage.
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Series: Essential Poets Series One Sweet Moment Paperback Bruce Meyer 9781771838290 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2023

There are moments in life that a poignant and memorable. Such brief glimpses of understanding are what make life worth living. In One Sweet Moment, Bruce Meyer recalls his childhood, honors poets who have made those instances of insight meaning, recalls the artists who have attempted to capture them in their work, and recalls the grief and joy of living. Life, Meyer tells us, is the sum of many moments from the bittersweet to the joyful, and in poems that are memorable moments in their own right, continues to explore the experience of being alive.
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Series: MiroLand Jeremiad Paperback Istvan Kantor 9781771838306 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2023

Istvan Kantor’s Jeremiad is an autobiographic assemblage of text and images, composed from short segments of semi-fictional episodes from the author’s life, from rhapsodic curtain-raisers to revolutionary manifestos via machine-beat poetry, Neoist propaganda flyers, film scripts, essays, protest songs, performance documents, and sketches.
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Series: World Prose Your Changing Face Paperback Rupert Smith 9781771838313 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2023

Al is in his early sixties, retired from business, happily married. He meets a much younger woman, Courtney, whom he befriends. His immediate difficulty is to define the friendship: His wife, Kimberly, regards the friendship with Courtney as inimical to their marriage. Kimberly insists that Al chooses between her and Courtney. He must confront the issue of what constitutes love; and whether and how much he loves the two women, and in what different ways. Al ends his friendship with Courtney but feels badly about it – he thinks that he is behave... + Read More
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Series: World Prose Julebord The Holiday Party Paperback David Øybo 9781771838337 $17.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2023

Should chief investigator James Wiley Redding of the Norwegian Police suspect that any of the doctors working in the small rural hospital of Godshus, located where a fjord meets the North Sea, might be linked to the gruesome discovery made on a December morning after their annual Julebord (holiday party)? Much more whodunit than a diversified nordic noir novel, JULEBORD is laced with what life is like to work in a small rural hospital, where things and humans occasionally get dirty. Not merely a piece of - at times - a bit upmarket crime fictio... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Allegiance Paperback Michael Springate 9781771838429 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2023

Victor makes an ethical commitment. The reverberations of that choice surface in Canada, Egypt and Greece. Moving from a lecture hall in Montreal to a detention centre in Alexandria, from a descent into the catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa to a vista high over the ports of Piraeus, from tequila blurred moments of ecstatic dance to the rigours of contemporary musical composition, an overlapping narrative emerges to question current allegiances and the history of rational law.
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Series: Guernica World Editions The Seizure of the Beast A Post-research Paperback Iulia Militaru 9781771838481 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2023

Iulia Militaru's poems combine different types of speech, from medical and philosophy textbook to "newspeak," witness accounts, police reports, obituaries, and other written forms. Militaru turns on their head concepts about what we know and accept as poetry, truth, historical facts, philosophy, and language. A fierce feminist who explores the degrees by which speech and the performative act affect our relationship with the Other, Militaru creates unsettling idea collages that force us to examine the discourses throughout history and look at th... + Read More
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Series: World Prose Blow Up the Ashes American Mayhem Vol. 2 Paperback Perry Glasser 9781771838580 $25.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2023

Blow Up the Ashes, Vol 2 of American Mayhem, reveals the story of Pierre Doucet, a gambler and then a killer for the New Orleans mob during World War 2 who at one time admires from afar a yellow-haired girl. When decades later he travels to New York, he meets KJ again. They discover she was his “yellow-haired girl. “ KJ learns Pierre is a killer, but instead of drawing back in horror joins him. KJ and Buckles come together at the novels’ end when Buckles wreaks revenge on Big Bill.
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Series: Guernica Prize The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard Paperback Ian Colford 9781771838375 $25.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2023

The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard is a contemporary story of obsessive love, sexual transgression and tragic loss. Bachelor and professional accountant Joseph Blanchard has led a socially active though emotionally cautious life into his late thirties. When he discovers that his beautiful nineteen-year-old cousin Sophie, a talented concert pianist, is in love with him, he finds he is helpless to resist her youthful charms, and against his better judgment embarks upon a passionate affair. As a safeguard against causing pain to her parents, the ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Canticles III MMXXIII Paperback George Elliott Clarke 9781771838399 $29.95 POETRY Nov 01, 2023

In Zanzibar, in 2008, George Elliott Clarke began to write his "Canticles," an epic poem treating the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Imperial and colonial conquest, and the resistance to all these evils. That is the subject of Canticles I (MMXVI) and (MMXVII). In Canticles II (MMXIX) and (MMXX), Clarke rewrites significant scriptures from an oral and "African" or "Africadian" perspective. Now, in Canticles III (MMXXII) and (MMXXIII), Clarke shifts focus—from world history and theology — to the specific history and bios associated with the creation ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Essays Series The Walled Garden Paperback Mark Frutkin 9781771838405 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 01, 2023

The Walled Garden is a unique collection of short essays addressing a wide variety of subjects. From an exploration of the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Federico Fellini to an update on the linguistic theories of Ernest Fenollosa, from a look into the true nature of time and the present moment to a discussion of ‘psychic birthplaces’, from reflections on Paleolithic caves, poetry and art, The Walled Garden includes the wild, the tamed and the stunningly unusual.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Against the Machine Evolution Paperback Brian Van Norman 9781771838443 $25.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2023

Earth, 2212: The novel, third in the Against The Machine trilogy, yet free standing on its own, tells of a dystopian society in the midst of catastrophic climate change. Billions have died. The minority of people remaining inhabit the MEGs, former cities transformed by technology into huge protective domes; outside is the MASS living by subsistence. All seems well for those in the CORPORATE. It is not. With worsening climate, the MASS increasingly restive and their AI Silicons becoming sentient, those at the top have concocted a final solution:... + Read More
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Series: Essential Writers Series Rudy Wiebe Essays On His Works Paperback Bianca Lakoseljac 9781771838467 $25.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 01, 2023

The anthology, Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works, compiled and edited by Bianca Lakoseljac, examines Wiebe’s works and his achievements as an author, editor, professor and mentor who helped shape successful authors and encouraged a passion for Canadian literature. Intriguingly, while Wiebe’s writing has been labeled as “brilliant” and “magnificent,” it has also been seen as “challenging” due in part to his propensity for a rather Faulknerian turn of phrase and his use of multifaceted storymaking approaches, such as intertextual and intratextual d... + Read More
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Series: Guernica World Editions The Physics of Relationships Paperback Chas Halpern 9781771838498 $20.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2023

Lexi, sixty-three and recently widowed, is facing the inevitable vicissitudes of life. After passing through a phase of numb immobility, Lexi makes a half-hearted attempt to meet some older men, but the experiences are disappointing. Undaunted, Lexi begins to accept the idea of being alone. Then circumstances disrupt her quiet routine – in the form of two house guests. In the physics of relationships, Lexi observes that nature abhors a vacuum. But she wonders if she herself has manipulated her circumstances to fill that vacuum. Eventually, Lexi... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Songs of My Surrenders Paperback Marc Di Saverio 9781771838511 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2023

Frenetic, fervent and musical, Songs of My Surrenders is the follow up to di Saverio's highly acclaimed epic poem Crito Di Volta. Whether writing about romantic love, filial reverence, friendship, or brotherhood, Di Saverio insists on passionate and profound connection. A wind of dust blows my tears Into the daisies of the jetty where I wait For you continuously; is it true What they say, that you no longer love Me? I will wait here, still. I will not move.
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Series: World Prose Burn It Down American Mayhem Vol. 1 Paperback Perry Glasser 9781771838566 $25.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2023

In 1967, the Summer of Love, 17-year old 'Buckles' Sinclair runs from her privileged home in Scarsdale to hitchhike to San Francisco, but instead of Flower Power, Peace, and Love she finds herself plunged into the darkest heart of the American nightmare. Her abandoned mother, KJ, rebuilds her identity and life in the company of a “family” of homosexual men—she is Wendy to The Lost Boys of Manhattan.
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Privacy is a Foreign Word in Supino Paperback Maria Coletta McLean 9781771339629 $22.95 FICTION Sep 25, 2023

The village of Supino looks as sleepy as the opening shot of an old black and white Fellini film. At the newspaper office, Bianca stumbles into a job meant for someone else and a new advice column, Ask Minerva, is born. Soon everyone is engaged in trying to discover the mystery columnist's identity as well as the identity of her correspondents.Seven years have passed since Rosa's husband's disappearance and now he's been declared legally dead. And her secret lover (that all the villagers know about) wants to marry her. Bravo! Except Rosa is unc... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Magnificat Song of Justice Paperback Kathleen S. Schmitt 9781771338721 $22.95 FICTION Oct 05, 2023

Sara Bowley has been languishing at Maison d'Arbutus, a mental health facility for the upper middle-class, for four years. Her spouse Alexander secured her stay. He has taken control of her finances and he and their eleven-year-old daughter, Casey, are currently living in Santa Rosa de Lima, in the small fictional country of Ixcheltlán. Amid her institutionalization and pharma-fueled haze, Sara believes this is likely best for her daughter and consoles herself by looking forward to Casey's regular correspondence, which keeps the two connected ... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Power: A Robin McFarland Mystery Paperback Sky Curtis 9781771339650 $22.95 FICTION Oct 12, 2023

Wry, forthright Home and Garden reporter Robin MacFarland has somehow gotten herselfalong with her best friend and investigative journalist colleague Cindyassigned by their newspaper editor to examine the deep rooted causes of homelessness in Toronto, Ontario. Their investigation quickly reveals that environmental racism not only created hydroelectric power, it harmed the environment and displaced a large population of Indigenous people. When the Premier of Ontario dies at Robin's family cottage in Muskoka, Robin sets about proving that he wa... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Sigrene's Bargain with Odin Paperback Zoë Landale 9781771339681 $19.95 POETRY Oct 19, 2023

Making a deal with Odin, the most powerful of the Norse gods, is a bad idea. Sigrene, who is considered one of the lowest of the low in Asgard, the Norse city of the gods, knows any dealings with Odin could get her killed, but after her friend is murdered, she is desperate to get justice for the girl.When Sigrene learns the killer will be coming for her next, she's pushed into action. What can she sacrifice to persuade the Norns, the three Fates, to teach her to spin magic to uncover the murderer's name? Between Odin, the Valkyrie warriors and ... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series The Namasté Way Stories of Soul Healing Paperback Mehrnaz Massoudi 9781771339711 $22.95 FICTION Oct 26, 2023

The Namasté Way is a collection of short stories written in journal form. Three of the stories reach into the hearts of grieving mothers and expose the darkest places a woman can go when faced with the unthinkable loss of her child. The author takes readers on a rollercoaster ride of emotion as the women gradually make their way out of their grieving and into a place of refuge; a place without blame or regret, where they and their families find a livable peace and they can again feel their soul connection to their lost children. Three other sto... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Publications Concrete Women Gender, Protest, and Urbanization in South Asia Paperback Tara Atluri 9781771339599 $44.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 07, 2023

People who live in South Asian cities re-shape politics and actualize constitutional rights, in parks, on playgrounds, and in city streets. Each chapter in this book discusses feminist, Transgender, and queer movements in urban India and Pakistan. The author has interviewed those who are part of a generation of unabashedly courageous, intersectional feminists who are living and working in South Asia and share their first-hand stories. These activists stage protests and artistic interventions in a time period of legal reforms regarding queer rig... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Zulaikha Paperback Niloufar-Lily Soltani 9781771339568 $22.95 FICTION Nov 09, 2023

In the winter of 2007, Zulaikha is travelling from Amsterdam to Tehran when she is approached by Kia, a family acquaintance she hasn's seen for many years, who is on the same flight. Kia's father has passed away and she is flying home to attend his funeral. In a shocking twist, Kia also reveals that her father may have had information about Zulaikha's missing brother, Hessam, and their mutual friend, Abbass, who was murdered before Hessam's disappearance during the Iran?Iraq War.When the flight is suddenly cancelled, and Zulaikha is later taken... + Read More
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our place Paperback Kanika Ambrose 9781990738265 $16.95 DRAMA Oct 01, 2023

our place by Kanika Ambrose is a new work set in a fictional Caribbean restaurant, Jerk Pork Castle in Scarborough, where newcomers Andrea and Niesha work in exchange for cash under the table. As the two women scrape out a life in Canada, leaving their children in their Caribbean homelands, they must also navigate their status as undocumented workers. This funny, keenly observant script unveils the lives of these undocumented Caribbean workers who go to desperate lengths to get Canadian citizenship for the betterment of their children--a moving... + Read More
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Cowgirl Up Paperback Anna Chatterton 9781990738272 $16.95 DRAMA Oct 01, 2023

Joyce, Effie and BB are cowgirl goddesses on Mount Olympus who lament that the heroines of rodeos past are all but forgotten. It's a cowboy's world. Cocky steer-ropers have stolen the spotlight down on earth for long enough. The goddesses decide to use their considerable supernatural powers to give rise to a cowgirl revolution. When they discover Cassidy Clark, a talented, charismatic loner from Claresholm, they know they have found the barrel racer poised to lead their cause. The three goddesses appear to her one day, offering her all the gift... + Read More