1.
Series:
Dr. Bethune?s Children
Paperback
Xue Yiwei
9781988130514
$18.95
FICTION
Sep 02, 2017
Xue Yiwei?s life has been marked by that of the legendary Montreal surgeon Norman Bethune, who died in China in the cause of Communism. Like other Chinese of his generation ? the generation that has turned China into the world power it is today ? Xue Yiwei was inspired by Dr. Bethune?s example during the Cultural Revolution. But unlike his peers, he went to the lengths of moving to Montreal, where he has lived for sixteen years as a writer acclaimed in China and ? until now ? unknown in Canada. This subversive novel is the story that only he co...
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2.
Series:
Nan Goldin
The Warrior Medusa
Paperback
Martine Delvaux
9781988130552
$14.95
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sep 02, 2017
In her new book, the feminist author Martine Delvaux links her own experience as a writer with that of the American photographer and installation artist Nan Goldin, whose life has been marked by the suicide of her beloved older sister Barbara, and who is best-known for her intimate portrayals of the sexual underground.
3.
Series:
Carpenter from Montreal, The
Paperback
George Fetherling
9781988130477
$19.95
FICTION
Sep 02, 2017
Worlds collide when a naïve young heiress takes a tumble for a bootlegger with a murderous temper and his business partner falls in love with Montreal, the way Americans are prone to do. One world war has ended and a second is in the wings. In the space between, the neon-powered city on the St. Lawrence is notorious for its lavish nightlife, obsessive gambling and evident corruption. Controlling the action from behind the scenes is a large and mysterious figure called the Carpenter. He is the city?s fixer, mediator and manipulator. He is the bo...
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4.
Series:
What Is To Be Done?
Paperback
Mavis Gallant
9781988130224
$17.95
DRAMA
Sep 02, 2017
Mavis Gallant?s only play, which premiered at Toronto?s Tarragon Theatre on November 11, 1982, is a comedy that opens in 1942, in the heat of the battle against Fascism, when it was possible for Canadians to cheer for both Stalin and the Royal Family. At home in Montreal, Jenny (18) is impressed by her friend Molly?s copy of a political pamphlet written by V. I. Lenin entitled What Is To Be Done? The two young women are fascinated by the refugees who are flooding into the city from Europe, and they spend their spare time on left-wing political ...
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5.
Series:
Mr. Singh Among the Fugitives
Paperback
Stephen Henighan
9781988130293
$18.95
FICTION
Mar 25, 2017
R.U. Singh has always known he is destined to live the life of an English country squire. After a few false starts, in Bombay, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, he settles into a comfortable existence as a small-town Ontario lawyer, much solicited for the diversity he lends committees and conclaves. But?lest he forget?he is accepted only at the whim of his woman in white, a commanding university administrator, and by her whim can also fall. Mr. Singh Among the Fugitives sends up the multicultural aspirations of Canadian identity, pokes fun at our glitt...
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6.
Series:
Evil That Men Do, The
Paperback
Michael Blair
9781988130378
$18.95
FICTION
Mar 25, 2017
On his return to Montreal, Riley becomes entangled in the wreckage left behind by Brandt, a con man who ran a Ponzi scheme. When the fifty-million-dollar scam falls apart and dozens of people are left destitute, some of them figure that Brandt?s wife Terry must know where he?s hiding out. Riley?s not convinced, but then Terry?s the woman Riley was living with when he left Montreal twenty years before.
7.
Series:
Arabic for Beginners
Paperback
Ariela Freedman
9781988130330
$18.95
FICTION
Mar 25, 2017
When Hannah accompanies her husband and small children to Jerusalem for the year, she becomes fascinated with a group of expat women at her son?s daycare, as well as a young Palestinian woman named Jenna. As she grows close to Jenna she starts to question her own marriage and her relationship to Israel. A novel of domestic and political ambivalence, Arabic for Beginners is about marriage, motherhood, friendship, nation, and the complicated ways we think of home. It is the winner of the J. I. Segal 2018 Mona Elaine Adilman English Fiction and Po...
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