The Porcupine’s Quill Fall 2018/Winter 2019

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The Porcupine’s Quill Fall 2018/Winter 2019

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Series: Mrs Romanov Paperback Lori Cayer 9780889844179 $16.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2018

Lori Cayer's poetry collection Mrs Romanov reveals the unexpectedly quotidian concerns of Alexandra Feodorovna, the last tsarina of Imperial Russia.
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Series: Overtime Portraits of a Vanishing Canada Paperback Karl Kessler 9780889844155 $19.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2018

In Overtime, Karl Kessler and Sunshine Chen document the lives of men and women who practise vanishing trades, professions and cultural traditions in the cities and townships of Waterloo Region, Ontario.
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Series: The Essential Charles Bruce Paperback Charles Bruce 9780889844162 $14.95 POETRY Oct 30, 2018

The Essential Charles Bruce explores the clear, direct verse and vernacular imagination of Maritime poet Charles Bruce, whose practical, no-nonsense lyrics audaciously eschewed the trappings of modernist poetry.
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Series: Beyond Walls Theatre Passe Muraille 1968-1975 Paperback Peter Jobin 9780889844186 $16.95 PERFORMING ARTS Nov 30, 2018

Beyond Walls is an insider's look at the early development of Theatre Passe Muraille, from its origin as radical and provocative theatre company out of Rochdale College to its evolution into a Toronto cultural institution that has helped to shape Canadians' perception of homegrown theatre.
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Series: The House on Major Street Paperback Leon Rooke 9780889844193 $19.95 FICTION Dec 15, 2018

Populated by media personalities, literary characters, three-legged deer-like creatures and an array of idiosyncratic Toronto neighbours, The House on Major Street is an internal and external picaresque tale which begins with a dramatic bicycle accident and explores, along the way, the blurred boundaries between the stories we read, the stories we tell and the stories we live.