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Siteseeing Paperback Ariel Gordon 9781998779048 $24.95 POETRY Oct 25, 2023

Between February 2021 and March 2022, Ariel Gordon and Brenda Schmidt wrote a collaborative poetry manuscript, formatted like a call and response. Ariel intended to write about urban Manitoba, the city and its trees, and Brenda was to write about rural Saskatchewan and birds. Over the course of the year, the matter of place took over and the intentions branched and flew apart. They both wrote birds and trees but also moose and mushrooms, pronghorns and wild turkeys, and people making their way through it all. They wrote climate as it was manife... + Read More
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Dwelling Paperback Laurie Freedman 9781998779031 $24.95 FICTION Oct 26, 2023

Nora flees her small town after the sudden death of her lawyer husband. In Toronto, an ad lures her to rent a cheap apartment, where the landlord Henry lives in the next unit. Initially helpful to Nora, his charm hides a desire to manipulate women, leaving Nora vulnerable to his predations. The propulsive plot reveals that Nora hides secrets of her own - secrets that may save or undo her. This terrifying and essential debut novel brings forth a confident new literary voice to the trade.
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Pinching Zwieback Paperback Mitch Toews 9781998779055 $24.95 FICTION Nov 07, 2023

Pinching Zwieback: Made-up Stories from the Darp focuses on recurrent, related characters with a common reality: small town Mennonite life. It's socially engaged autofiction based heavily on the author's own background and experiences. The loosely linked stories read, "almost like a novel," with characters whose lives are given form by the past but undergo change as the world reshapes beliefs and circumstances. Author Mitchell Toews', who grew up in his parents' Mennonite bakery in Steinbach Manitoba, employs a gritty style containing psycholog... + Read More
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Series: The Shanghai Tetralogy City Rising From the Holy Mountain Paperback David Rotenberg 9781998779086 $24.95 FICTION Nov 09, 2023

The first book in the Shanghai Quartet - City Rising - starts on the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ where the FIRST EMPEROR the most powerful man the world to that time had ever known bequeaths a talisman to his three trusted followers: the BodyGuard, his favorite Courtesan and his Head Confucian - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth for the next 2500 years of a city at the Bend in the River - Shanghai. The warning from the First Emperor before he commits suicide is to watch for the White Ships on Water - and... + Read More
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First Few Feet in a World of Wolves, The Paperback Scott Mainprize 9781998779093 $24.95 FICTION Nov 21, 2023

The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves chronicles the fictionalization of the year the author spent teaching in Aupaluk (a remote Inuit community on the Ungava Coast of Nunavik). The second outlines, and explores, the history of oppression experienced by the more than five hundred Indigenous nations across northern Turtle Island at the hands of the Canadian government since the Royal Proclamation.Told through the voice of Nomad, who finds himself very much at odds with the land itself. Nomad slowly learns how to reconnect with his fractured hi... + Read More
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Murder in a Minor Key Paperback Robert Young 9781998779062 $24.95 FICTION Nov 28, 2023

Winnipeg, 1935. 47 year old Detective Inspector Sidney Baxter is the finest Detective with the Winnipeg Police Force with a keen analytical mind. He's also blind. When two grisly murders are discovered in different places, they appear to be unrelated. There is no evidence of theft as motive and no witnesses to either killing.From racetracks to hospitals, from sumptuous theaters like the Capital, and the carpeted elegance of Eaton's Grill room, to the ten stool counter at Winnipeg's first Salisbury House the reader is drawn into a city, time, an... + Read More
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Series: Willow Island Three Legged Fox, The A Willow Island Mystery Paperback Carol Dahlstrom 9781998779079 $24.95 FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 18 Nov 29, 2023

Middle-aged Jane Barken discovers a lump in her left breast. Five years after treatment she is depressed, her marriage is falling apart, and her singing career is faltering. Recuperating at her Willow Island cottage, Jane decides to embark on a canoe trip around the island. She uncovers a section of the island no one has ever visited and what she finds there is horrifying. Fraught with desperation and only a modicum of resources available to her she must face her darkest fears in order to reclaim her life.
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Une fleur pour maman Paperback Nor Arab 9781772312171 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 15, 2023

Naya tries to gift her Mommy a flower, but every time something goes wrong, even when her little brother is trying to help her. So, Mommy tells Naya a secret that keeps flowers growing in her heart forever. "Every time you smile or laugh," says Mommy, "a beautiful lower grows in my heart. And these flowers will live in my heart forever."
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Samsoom aime la lune endormie Paperback Nor Arab 9781772312188 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 15, 2023

Samsoom does not want to go to sleep. He does not feel like sleeping at all! But it is a bedtime, the sun has already gone to sleep and the sleepy moon is in the night sky. Samsoom does not feel tired and wants to play with his toys some more. His father tells him to go to sleep and reads him a bedtime story. Will Samsoom become sleepy as the sleepy moon? Read this sweet bedtime story to find out.
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The Devil You Know Paperback Suzanne Craig-Whytock 9781772312157 $21.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2023

Verity Darkwood and Gareth Winter have finally found some peace. Their business is thriving, they have a new home base, and Verity has finally established a relationship with her estranged father. But when she begins having visions of Samuel Bell, the man who killed her sister-- a man who has been in a coma for over a year at Strongpoint Psychiatric Prison--she and Gareth fear that their battle with John Berith, The Seventh Devil, may not be truly over. When the mysterious Mort Sterven confirms that Berith is indeed unvanquished and gaining str... + Read More
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The Children of Akletok Paperback Raymond McGregor 9781772312133 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Oct 15, 2023

The Children of Akletok is about two teenage boys who live in a small village named after their founder, and known sorcerer, Akletok. The village was entrusted to six long forgotten disciples who continued to promote Akletok's legacy and history after his sacrificial death. While it is unknown to almost everyone in the village, the bloodline containing magic still flows within these two teenagers, Kato and Amos, who are descendants of two of the original Elders. Amos and Kato are complete opposites in size, knowledge of their history and attitu... + Read More
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Series: Modern Indigenous Voices Akia : l'autre côté Paperback Norma Dunning 9781772312195 $19.95 POETRY Nov 15, 2023

In this poetry collection, the author honours Inuit who lay in the past, and Inuit who are with us now and most importantly the Inuit who are waiting to come to us. The author believes it is not okay that Inuit children and adults died and were buried in unmarked graves, their bodies never returned to their loved ones. It is not okay that their relatives were never told of their deaths or where they were buried because keeping track of dead Inuit bodies was simply not very important to Canadian authorities. The author wants to imagine a world f... + Read More
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Phobos and Deimos Paperback Jonathon Dalton 9781927742525 $35.00 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Nov 30, 2023

High school is rough, and making friends is hard enough without also being an interplanetary refugee. Maida Kilwa was born on Mars. Life was peaceful and happy until invaders from the twin moons Phobos and Deimos attacked her homeworld. She lost her dad, and her cousin, and her brother was kidnapped. At a young age she was compelled to flee to Earth with her aunt in search of a better life. On Earth she found a society rigidly divided by class, gender, and religion, where Martians are "fugees" and must survive on the charity of others. Maida do... + Read More
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An Unruly Little Animal 1st edition Paperback Scott Randall 9781927599600 $21.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2023

An Unruly Little Animal unfolds on the most stressful of February days for young worrier Darby Tamm. In the morning, the fifth grader must deliver a pair-presentation with classmate Jennie Phelps-Christianson, and in the afternoon, he must endure a class visit and career-talk on mechanical engineering from his recently estranged father. Additionally, other stressors complicate his day: a) Darby's original fifth grade teacher Mr. Henderson, who had a car-accident-of-unknown-origins back in November, has died that night before, b) the class's sub... + Read More
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North of Middle Island Paperback Daniel (D.A.) Lockhart 9781928120377 $17.95 POETRY Sep 02, 2023

North of Middle Island journeys to the southernmost tip of the territories of Canada. The first section of the book captures in verse the spirit of the relatively isolated, sparsely populated Pelee Island, exploring contemporary Indigenous experience in the natural and built environments. Its second section is an epic poem, in traditional Anglo-Saxon style, entitled "Piper." A myth loosely based on the infamous professional wrestler and actor Rowdy Roddy Piper's time on Pelee Island, this epic story unfolds the events of Wrestlemania XII, Piper... + Read More
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Deep Sea Feline Paperback Dave Hurlow 9781988989709 $22.95 FICTION Sep 23, 2023

When the time comes for humanity to be its own salvation, will we rise to the occasion? Or let greed and selfishness stand in our way?Deep Sea Feline follows Charlie Potichny, a failing musical artist living in Toronto, when a mysterious creature from another world visits him in his deceased mother's painting, gifting him with a song that will turn his life and musical career upside down. Charlie, not understanding the power and implications of the other world, upsets the delicate balance between ancient forces. Slowly, Toronto falls into chaos... + Read More
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Joe Pete Paperback Ian McCulloch 9781988989723 $22.95 FICTION Oct 04, 2023
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Making Up the Gods Paperback Marion Agnew 9781988989686 $22.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2023

Making Up the Gods is equal parts quirky and sincere in its thoughtful exploration of tragedy and recovery, of new and old relationships, and of deeper questions of when to let the past rest.Simone, a retired widow, would live a quiet and isolated life, if not for the lingering ghosts of her family. One day, Simone is visited at her home by a man named Martin claiming to be her cousin. When Martin asks if Simone is willing to sell her cottage by the lake, a proposition made sweeter by the prospect of a condo in Florida, Simone, though pleased a... + Read More
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Living in the Masterpiece Paperback Ken Norris 9781771262897 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2023

In his latest collection of poems, Ken Norris poses the question: "Why does it take so long to understand / you're living in the masterpiece?" Often Autumnal in spirit and retrospective in their point of view, the poems in Living In The Masterpiece survey the territory and landscape of a life lived variously. Norris looks back over a lifetime that was almost evenly divided between the United States and Canada, offering us his different and incisive perspectives. Of the USA he writes "I just take a taxi / from pizza to pizza / in this land cover... + Read More
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This Instant List Paperback Conor Mc Donnell 9781771262873 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2023

This Insistent List is that rarest of things in poetry: a sequel. Taking up where his first collection, Recovery Community, left off, physician-poet Conor Mc Donnell races into an all-too plausible Burroughs-Ballardian future where science has fought and lost the great battle over data, facts, language, and truth. In this future, physicians wander the land offering services in return for food, and Morlocks stalk kings from deep beneath their feet. Through shifting perspectives and innovative use of form, This Insistent List is a collection of u... + Read More
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The Lockdown Elegies Paperback Reid Monty 9781771262903 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2023

Either too early or too late, Monty Reid's The Lockdown Elegiesis a farewell to something that hasn't disappeared yet. Fragmentary, slightly aphoristic, sometimes funny and sometimes scared, the poems address the stresses, the isolation and the contradictory responses brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. They try, repeatedly, to pretend it's over. The entire collection is an elegy for friends who died during this period, including Reid's father-in-law, who passed away during the second lockdown. The work is never bleak, and while there is a pervas... + Read More
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A Current Through the Flesh Paperback Richard-Yves Sitoski 9781771262910 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2023

A Current Through the Flesh weaves family history into an abrasive cloth from which Richard-Yves Sitoski tailors the full regalia--pre-moth-eaten and torn--of everyday life. To do so he traces traumas back three generations and across families to reveal the flimsiness of male self-images, the perils of silence, and the latent power of women oppressed by toxic beliefs. Above all, he asks what we owe our parents, when they both make and unmake us, when the line between innocence and guilt is erased, and when we find ourselves emulating those who ... + Read More
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The Wax Museum Paperback K.R. Segriff 9781771262880 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2023

Welcome to The Wax Museum.In this bold debut poetry collection, K.R. Segriff explores what it means to be alive, to be dead, and to exist in the various states of 'almost being' between them. The museum offers a diverse collection of characters. Some are somber and damaged, some seem to laugh out loud, but all possess an uncanny resemblance to someone familiar. There are cursing aunties, hated neighbours, snake-skinned C.E.O.'s., bearers of silent things, and ghosts who refuse to rest. These figures navigate themes of resurrection, relationsh... + Read More
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Some Other Epic Battles Paperback Rhonda Douglas 9781771262927 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2023

In Some Other Epic Battles, Rhonda Douglas invites us to reckon with personal and family history, with loss, with broken relationships, with connection and intimacy, with desire and lust. This collection is a rich gathering of potent emotional, psychological, and deeply sensual, physical themes. With each subject - from the all-to-real loss of a brother to the anticipated loss of a lover, grief over how the world processed the pandemic or delight in the opening of new love - Douglas offers us poems that crack apart our sense of self and the sel... + Read More
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Haunting of Adrian Yates, The Paperback Markus Harwood-Jones 9781998898008 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Oct 24, 2023

Adrian's best friend and his boyfriend don't get along. Oh, and his boyfriend is a ghost. Adrian Yates expected his summer would involve sharing Slurpees with his best friend Zoomer and pretending not to hear his dads' whispered fighting. And that's exactly how it was going, until the night Sorel appeared in the graveyard by Adrian's apartment. Sorel gets Adrian in ways no one else has; the fact that he's not technically alive only makes things exciting. But Sorel can't always control his otherworldly behaviour, and Zoomer's worried he might be... + Read More
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Uncontrolled Flight Paperback Frances Peck 9781774390757 $24.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2023

Wildfire season in the British Columbia Interior. Experienced firefighting pilot Rafe Mackie loses control of his airplane while doing a routine drop and plummets to his death.The investigation that follows unleashes revelations that forever change the lives of three people: Will, the pilot who watched his mentor crash; Sharon, the widow struggling to come to terms with her loss; and Nathalie, an accident investigator with shadowy connections to the incident. As a form of the truth emerges, these three are drawn into a tangle of secrets and lie... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry Kink Bands Paperback David Martin 9781774390771 $20.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2023

In his second book of poems, David Martin digs deep into an examination of the world using the lens of geology. With lyrically experimental poems expanding and retracting, this collection finds sonic and conceptual energy from the perspective of deep time and the geological forces that have shaped and continue to shape the Earth. Enacting seismic shifts, catastrophes, and erosions throughout the natural and cultural worlds, Martin's poetic practice pushes forward to contend with the contemporary environmental changes and the structure of the An... + Read More
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The Sum of One Man's Pleasure Paperback Danial Neil 9781774390788 $22.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2023

1963 - Finn Kenny fled Ottawa after being implicated in an RCMP purge of suspected Communist sympathisers and "homosexuals", ending up on Vancouver Island working for the Spencerwood Estate alongside devoted caretakers, the Bishops. Theodore Spencer was Finn's saviour, a barroom companion who offered him a way out of his predicament. But when Spencer dies suddenly, Finn's life is turned upside down as he's forced to work with the cold, calculating lady of the house.Thrown together unexpectedly, Finn, Lady Spencer, and the Bishops are faced with... + Read More
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Shifting Gears Coast to Coast on the Trans Am Bike Race Paperback Meaghan Hackinen 9781774390801 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2023

Meaghan Marie Hackinen's follow-up to her award-nominated debut South Away charts her unforgettable, twenty-five-day journey on the Trans Am Bike Race: a coast-to-coast ride across the entire North American continent from Oregon to Virginia. Without the aid of a support crew, Hackinen must rely entirely on her wits, ingenuity and sheer determination to finish this extremely challenging feat. A sports story with a unique theme, Hackinen writes about the Trans Am Bike Race as a cultural whole, as she encounters consequences and unforeseen repercu... + Read More
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Series: Prairie Play Series Matara The Elephant Play Paperback Conni Massing 9781774390825 $20.95 DRAMA Oct 15, 2023

At a crumbling zoo, an elephant keeper, a security guard, and a newly hired media consultant have differing views over what should be done about the zoo's main attraction, the aging Sri Lankan elephant Matara. Matara is deteriorating by the day following the loss of her companion elephant Cheerio and a petition is circulating to try to force the zoo's management to move her to a sanctuary. Karen, Matara's keeper, argues adamantly that the zoo is Matara's home and family, and that she is not strong enough to travel. Romney, the enthusiastic but ... + Read More
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Yes, Miss Thompson Paperback Amy Boyes 9781989689530 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2023

When plain, outspoken Yorkshire schoolgirl Marjory Thompson immigrates with her rambunctious family to Canada in 1904, her parents are convinced that fortune awaits in the flat farmland of Manitoba. Before long, the impatient Marjory realizes her parents have got it all wrong: nothing but hard work, loneliness, and boredom lie before them. Desperate to escape, Marjory takes one rural teaching post after another, scrimping and saving, until she can afford to attend university. After graduation, she is employed as a high school principal, a rare ... + Read More
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The Brickworks Paperback Lucy Black 9781989689547 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2023

When the Tay Bridge collapsed in 1879 it killed everyone on the train that was crossing, leaving the son of the driver, young Brodie Smith, traumatized and reduced to poverty as a result of his father's death. Leaving home determined to make his way in the world, Brodie finds safe haven with his kindly uncle in Edinburgh and studies engineering, intent on demonstrating that the bridge disaster was not his father's fault. In search of adventure and further opportunities, Brodie then travels to Buffalo where he befriends Alistair, another young S... + Read More
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The Man Who Hunted Ice Paperback Trevor Mahon 9781989689554 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2023

Lorne Lorch is an ice cleaner: each night he snakes through the ducts of an office tower peeling "ice rats"--bioluminescent blooms that cause their surroundings to freeze--one of the dirtiest, most unpleasant jobs imaginable. And thanks to a bet between influencers, a sociology student's essay going viral, and an ice-cleaning-focused comic book becoming an underground hit, Lorne finds himself something of a celebrity, and before long newspapers are printing daily statistics of his rat takes. Fans tailgate behind his building. He faces daily med... + Read More
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(Un)spoken Paperback Marjorie Silverman 9781989689561 $14.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2023

(Un)spoken takes the reader on a journey through negative affects, sexuality, and responses to violence and trauma. Constructed as dialogues that engage directly with the reader, the poems explore the impact of repressed grief and highlight how trauma lodges in the body as eating disorders and self-inflicted wounds. Anchored in Jewish cultural identity and written in a resolute feminist voice, this collection offers a contribution to current feminist and queer conversations about sexual and psychological violence, how we survive in chilly domes... + Read More
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Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman Paperback Éloïse Marseille 9782925114239 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 07, 2023

In this unabashed and uncensored personal memoir, author Éloïse Marseille examines her sexual education (and miseducation), from a forbidden first kiss with a female best friend in Catholic school to her exposure to the extremes of online porn, fumbling hookups, and navigating the complexities of lust and love in the modern era... But most importantly of all, the author's nuanced relationship with her own body, sexuality, and self. A raw, hilarious, and deeply touching book, Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman makes a powerful case for a s... + Read More
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Jawbone Paperback Meghan Greeley 9781998926008 $22.00 FICTION Oct 14, 2023

A young woman has one minute to speak on a submission video to win a trip to Mars, the location she views as the ultimate penal colony. As she barricades herself in a cottage by the sea and prepares to record, she examines her fixation on the colour red, shame, guilt, and the dramatic breakdown of her most important friendship. But there'sanother problem, her jaw was wired shut for a long time, and she's having trouble speaking. A passionate story about queer love and loneliness from debut author Meghan Greeley.
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The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief Paperback Steven Mayoff 9781989274972 $25.00 FICTION Oct 14, 2023

Samson Grief, a reclusive painter in PEI struggling with a creative block, is confronted by three red-haired figments of his imagination in the form of Judas Iscariot, Fagin and Shylock. They claim to be messengers of "The Supreme One", a genderless deity who has decreed PEI to bethe new Promised Land and also wants Samson to build the Island's first synagogue. Scared, confused, and seriously doubting his sanity, Samson eventually, though grudgingly, accepts the challenge amidst increasingly bizarre obstacles.
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if you lie down in a field, she will find you there Remembering Doris Brown Paperback Colleen Brown 9781989274941 $22.00 TRUE CRIME Oct 21, 2023

While in the middle of a divorce and in the process of reinventing herself, Doris Brown died suddenly in 1974. Two years later, a serial killer confessed to her murder. What propels this book is a desire to recover Doris' life, which has been obscured by the spectacle of her death. If you lie down in a field, she will find you there, captures the cadence of family stories collected through interviews the author conducted with her siblings. Essays and memories by Doris Brown's youngest children, Colleen and Laura, appear alongside spoken word an... + Read More
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Stazy and the Magic List Paperback Nancy Hundal 9781989996157 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Oct 15, 2023

Stazy can't believe her lousy luck...parents separated, new school, new (tiny!) house. And on the first day of Grade Seven Skills Class! Stazy is dyslexic and knew she'd need some extra help...but on the first day?? Even worse, the three snooty girls who've been giving her the eye all day are in her Skills Class. Hali, Faye, and Rena have been friends forever, and aren't ready to turn their threesome into four. So even when Stazy stumbles across their secret and they find out about hers, it takes more than a little magic to turn a trio into a... + Read More
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Pirate Glitterbeard Paperback Oksanna Crawley 9781989996140 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Oct 15, 2023

Alone In his cabin, Pirate Glitterbeard sprinkled pink glitter onto his beard and put on his finest pink skirt! All aboard The Heart's Desire! Pirate Glitterbeard loves everything pink and glittery. Will his crew rebel when they find out? In this rollicking sea tale, the captain and his quirky crew journey to find their treasure - the Wikkie-Tikkie's legendary meat pies. But, argh, evil Pirate Squidlips and her ship, The Rotten Turnip draw near...teacher resources available https://www.rebelmountainpress.com/pirate-glitterbeard-teacher-resource... + Read More
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Series: Lucky in Love Crushing It Paperback Jen Desmarais 9781990086441 $22.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Sep 01, 2023

When Tommy Fairfield, an ordinary science geek, meets Carter Batudev at the Door Tech March Break camp, chemistry isn't only in the classroom.After an epic grounding for some bad decisions with even worse friends, Tommy is lucky to even go to the March Break camp. Thankfully, his mother still drops him off in Westmeath, leaving his sister Kennedy and her fiancé Jason in charge. With love and a renewed interest in STEM, Tommy returns home to Parry Sound.Despite his parents' worries, Tommy makes better friends and joins the STEM club, which goes ... + Read More
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Series: Baker City Mysteries The Mystery of the Dancing Lights Elizabeth Investigates Paperback Éric Desmarais 9781990086465 $22.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Sep 01, 2023

Mysteries are Elizabeth Coderre's life, and after wizards, hags, artificers, vampires, kobolds, genies, and killer kittens, she thinks she's seen everything.She's wrong!And when she goes to Riding Thorpe summer camp, which is built on an old government experimental facility, she discovers that there's a lot she doesn't know.Can she solve the mystery of the dancing lights, save her friends, and escape a time loop? Or is she cursed to relive her friends' deaths forever?Includes a brand-new murder mystery novella by Jen Desmarais starring Kennedy ... + Read More
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Series: Iris and the Crew Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! Paperback Cait Gordon 9781990086496 $22.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2023

In a galactic network known as the Keangal, where space is accessible...Lieutenant Eileen Iris and the command crew of the S.S. SpoonZ haven't a clue what it means to be disabled. That's not a metaphor--no one they know has ever applied that term to living beings. So, when a startled intergalactic janitor calls them disabled but is 'ported away a bit too soon, they realize they might never get the answer to that particular question. Unphased, duties resume as Lieutenant Iris tries to appease her overprotective guidebot Clarence; Security Chief ... + Read More
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Hunting a Sea-Glass Heart Paperback Carolyn Charron 9781990086489 $22.99 FICTION Sep 19, 2023

Hunting a Sea-Glass Heart is a humorous blend of Pirates of the Caribbean and Golden Girls with a dash of magic. Anne Bonny has changed little from the wild young pirate she was twenty years ago and chafes under the bonds of southern society in Charles Towne Carolina in 1741. The death of her father breaks these shackles and the subsequent theft of her sea-glass heart, a memento from her beloved Mary Reed, frees Anne to return to her piratical ways. Sailing from port to port, the menopausal Anne revels in her freedom from corsets and societal c... + Read More
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The Smell of Rain Paperback Alyson Hope 9781990086502 $22.99 FICTION Sep 21, 2023

Each family has their story, and each one is different, depending on who tells it. Fighting encroaching darkness, Alice chronicles her own story, one of love, loss, and learning how to piece it all back together. These deeply personal entries weave their way through past and present, spinning a kaleidoscopic and increasingly fragmented narrative."No matter who we are or what kind of life we lead, we are always alone in the end," writes Alice.Both delicate and iridescent, The Smell of Rain is bound to make you think: how will you fare when you s... + Read More
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Little Joe Paperback Stephanie Kast 9781990086472 $22.99 FICTION Oct 01, 2023

At the age of seven, Joe was a part of a cruise ship disaster that resulted in the death of his parents and the separation from him and his three older siblings. After fourteen years of a different life, Joe opens his mail to see an invitation to his sister's wedding. Before he knows it, Joe begins to struggle finding a balance between his old and new life. With constant night terrors and the inability to move on from the loss of his parents, Joe's troubles start to consume him. Joe must find a way to incorporate his old life into his new life,... + Read More
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There's No Place Tales of Home by Storytellers Who Have Experienced Homelessness Paperback H.E. Casson 9781990086526 $25.00 FICTION Oct 10, 2023

What is home? Is it a place, a person, a memory, a sensation?These stories, written by storytellers who have experienced homelessness, take you around the block, around the world, and out into the wider universe. But in the end, they always bring you back home.From adventurous to everyday, from absurd to heartfelt, these tales are a mosaic of home as uncertainty, as longing, and as hope.
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Mighty An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes Paperback Emily Gillespie 9781990086533 $25.00 FICTION Oct 10, 2023

With great powerchair comes great responsibility...It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... accessibility!You wouldn't like me when I'm out of spoons...All too often, superhero media depicts disability as something to overcome on the journey to becoming a hero, or as a sign of villainy. It's time to make heroism accessible for everyone.In these 15 stories, you'll meet winged wheelchair users, supernatural spoonies, guardians with glaucoma, and many more. These disabled superheroes fight villains as well as outdated ableist stereotypes, and show that ... + Read More
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Elvie, Girl Under Glass Paperback Elvira Cordileone 9781990086519 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 25, 2023

Elvie, Girl Under Glass tells the poignant story of a child transplanted from a sunny mountain village in Italy to Montreal, Quebec, in 1952.Raised in a household ruled by a cruel, controlling father, her desire to free herself from his oppression mirrors the French-language majority's battle to wrest control of the province's economic resources from the English-speaking elite.Unlike some of the separatists who eventually turn violent, Elvie responds to her father's growing strictures by withdrawing deeper into herself. Respite comes from the ... + Read More
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Bounty Paperback Jason Pchajek 9780888017741 $23.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2023

Nikos Wulf is at the top of his game. Within the sublevels of 2120 Winnipeg, he is the undisputed king of bounty hunters, working for the elite Bounty Commission Eco-Terror Taskforce. The job: maintain the delicate ecological balance in a city holding back climate collapse. But when a series of bounties go wrong, Nikos finds himself on the trail of a troubling new player among the city's anti-establishment. Bound to a sense of duty to the city that made him, Nikos finds himself in a deadly game of catch-up with an insidious enemy bent on bringi... + Read More
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Twistical Nature of Spoons, The Paperback Patti Grayson 9780888017710 $23.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2023

Blisse has guarded the family secret for her entire childhood. No one can know the origin of her unconventional birthday gifts Her mother, Ina, has insisted that Blisse never tell a soul - believing it's the only way to keep her daughter safe from a dire fate. Together, mother and daughter must sift through their own versions of events to understand how the secret has led to the unravelling of their lives. Chock-full of masks and curses, art and magic, seduction and spoons, their stories are both fraught with misdirection and awash in whimsy. C... + Read More
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Spirits in the Dark 30th Anniversary Edition Paperback H. Thomas 9781550656336 $22.95 FICTION Sep 07, 2023

First published in Canada in 1993, Spirits in the Dark is a pioneering intersectional novel of the LGBTQ+ and Caribbean-Canadian experience that was far ahead of its time.In his powerful debut novel, H. Nigel Thomas writes with compelling honesty about the confusing maze of societal pressures that paralyze Jerome Quashee while growing up in the Caribbean, and later on in his adult life. Jerome's intelligence at first promises him a gateway out of the poverty his parents have known, but he must compete with privileged White boys for scholarships... + Read More
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Cathedral/Grove Paperback Susan Glickman 9781550656350 $19.95 POETRY Sep 14, 2023

Cathedral/Grove, Susan Glickman's brilliant new collection, comes to terms with the question of legacy--what we leave behind as a species, as citizens, and as parents. Marked by the lucidity and precision she has been celebrated for, the poems encompass the monuments of Western civilization, a climate in decline and the pandemic. The title is inspired by the fire that ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019, destroying the wooden roof-frame known as La Forêt; it also alludes to "Cathedral Grove," otherwise known as MacMillan Provincial Park, one o... + Read More
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Quicker Than The Eye Paperback Joe Fiorito 9781550656367 $19.95 POETRY Sep 14, 2023

In his third collection of verse, Quicker Than The Eye, Joe Fiorito continues to craft short, sharp poems that define the harder edges of urban life. His principal tools are a photographer's eye for detail, and a musician's ear for the sound of the human voice. Now, in Quicker Than The Eye, Canada's poet of the streets turns his gaze inward, writing about the influences of early love, family tragedy, and the search for meaning in a world where "the desolate things are mine." A master of spare, razor-sharp language, Fiorito manages to strip sen... + Read More
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Whispering City Paperback Horace Brown 9781550656381 $15.95 FICTION Sep 21, 2023

Quebec City crime reporter Mary Roberts is about to leave her desk for the day when she receives word that a woman has been struck down in the centre of town. The victim is Renée Brancourt. A former pin-up, she'd once been a big star, treading the boards at the Comédie-Française, until her lover, Robert Marchand, plunged over Montmorency Falls. Renée's inability to accept his death led her to be institutionalized.Now on her deathbed at the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, the faded vedette tells Mary that Robert's death was no accident. She points an accus... + Read More
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My Brother's Keeper Paperback Sheila Kindellan-Sheehan 9781550656343 $22.95 FICTION Oct 12, 2023

A TONI DAMIANO MYSTERYTen years ago, the prestigious suburban community of Beaconsfield, Quebec was shaken by the discovery of the bodies of an ordinary couple in their home. What appeared to be a common murder-suicide--husband kills wife and takes his own life--has baffled two previous investigations. At one point, the son, who had a tumultuous relationship with his father, was considered a suspect. Lieutenant Detective Toni Damiano and her partner, Detective Pierre Matte, attached to the newly-created Cold Case Unit, have reopened the case wi... + Read More
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States of Emergency Paperback Yoyo Comay 9781550656374 $19.95 POETRY Oct 19, 2023

States of Emergency is a book-length poem about the apocalyptic present, written in a language whose meaning is liquid and full of slippage, always spilling out from its container. In Yoyo Comay's hands, words roil, churn, and surge. By taking on different mood and modes, from the prophetic to the colloquial, he has created a form that is a constant unravelling--a leap of faith into intuitive meaning, a letting go into ongoingness. "I am catapulted into where I am," he writes, "and the air concusses around me." Comay sees poetry as a visceral e... + Read More
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Girls, Interrupted How Pop Culture is Failing Women Paperback Lisa Whittington-Hill 9781550656329 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 26, 2023

The past decade has seen a rise in documentaries, memoirs and podcasts that revisit the legacies of women wronged by pop culture. With movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp challenging long-standing narratives around female celebrities, it's no surprise so many believe the representation of women in the media has improved. In her scathingly witty collection of essays, Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture is Failing Women, Lisa Whittington-Hill argues otherwise. Pop culture's treatment of women, writes Whittington-Hill, is still marked by misogyny a... + Read More