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Series: Unearthing Secrets, Gathering Truths Paperback Jules Koostachin 9781928120148 $18.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2018

Finalist for the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award in Published Poetry in English. To unearth our secrets means we must face our past, and in doing so, we will find our voice. Unearthing of Secrets: Gathering of Truths explores the heartfelt and evocative fragmented experiences through the eyes of an Indigenous woman. Through the honesty of her words, she embraces the spirit world, the resilience of her foremothers, the integral healing powers of disassociation as a survival mechanism, and the richness of her mitewin - dreams, which reconnects her t... + Read More
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Series: Gondolier Other Everest, The Navigating the Pathway to Successful Leadership Hardcover David Irvine 9781988440286 $29.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Aug 30, 2018

What David Irvine posits is that Everest is not unattainable. Integrity, sensitivity and discipline are some of the qualities that lead us to the peak.
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Series: Poems for Ingrid Paperback Don Brestler 9781988440347 $11.95 POETRY Sep 30, 2018

These are true love poems from the heart, simple, guileless, sorrowful.
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Series: Legend of Rhyme Series, The Stir of Shadows Paperback Jaime Lee Mann 9781988279725 $16.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 18, 2018

Marigold has never felt like she truly belonged with her family. And neither has Frederick. When a phoenix feather brings the young teens together for the first time, they finally understand why: they are twins, separated as children.The two soon learn they have other siblings, and that if they successfully reunite with their brother and sister before the feather bursts into flame, they will all fulfill otherworldly destinies. What they don't know is that their mysterious sister is a villainous witch who has been trapped in the cover of a grim... + Read More
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Series: Battledoors Series, The Battledoors The Golden Slate Paperback Brian Wilkinson 9781988279572 $16.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Sep 18, 2018

Life constantly seems to be wavering between really good and really bad for Owen, a lonely sixteen-year-old still reeling from the unexpected death of his mother and a fresh move to Toronto. After ducking into an old bookstore to escape high school bullies, Owen discovers that he can travel to a parallel, twisted version of the city using a magical tablet called a Battledoor. He encounters new allies, bizarre creatures, and the ultimate antagonist who will stop at nothing to procure the magical Golden Slate for himself. Forced to work closely w... + Read More
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Series: Deadish Chronicles, The Paramnesia Paperback Brian Wilkinson 9781988279596 $16.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Sep 18, 2018

Nora Edwards finally has everything she wants out of life, including the boy of her dreams, until one night that dream turns into a nightmare. On their way home from prom, Nora and Andrew are attacked by a supernatural creature called the Revenant that sucks the souls out of the living in order to feed itself. Nora manages to escape from the creature, but Andrew is not as fortunate.Although Nora suffers loss that night, she gains something as well: the ability to see the dead, including her recently deceased boyfriend. Whether the skill is a gi... + Read More
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Series: Beneath the Alders Innocent, The Paperback Lynne Golding 9781988279671 $19.99 FICTION Oct 30, 2018

In the year 1907, all of Brampton is present at the sod-turning ceremony for the Carnegie Library. At the end of the event, the crowd rises as one to walk to the Presbyterian Church for a consecration service... Everyone except Jessie Stephens and her family. Her father will not allow them to enter the Presbyterian Church. No one will tell young Jessie the reason, but she learns that it has something to do with her grandfather Jesse Brady, who built it. As she seeks to solve that mystery over many years, Jessie slowly begins to learn the histor... + Read More
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Series: Primrose Street Paperback Marina L Reed 9781988279695 $19.99 FICTION Oct 30, 2018

Welcome to Primrose Street, where neighbours share close interactions but know very little of each other. Only the maple trees that have lined the road for decades know their decisions, indiscretions, secrets, joys, and pains. From fifty-year residents Charlie and Cora and their grandson Ronald, to newcomer Sofia and her son Nicolas, to best friends Tabitha and Dayna, the residents of Primrose Street go about their daily lives--shopping, attending school, meeting at cafés, smiling as they pass on the sidewalk--all the while remaining invisible ... + Read More
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Series: The Immortal Writers Series Immortal Creators Electronic book text, EPUB Jill Bowers 9781988279565 $7.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Sep 18, 2018

Sixteen-year-old author Scott Beck never wanted to be an Immortal Writer--not after his father was killed on a mission attempting to dispatch his own villain. Scott blames Shakespeare and the Writers for his father's untimely demise, but no amount of hatred will prevent the oncoming alien attack, which has come over to reality straight from Scott's book.Scott is forced to collect his characters--an Air Force colonel, two of the best pilots on Earth, and an alien enthusiast from the year 2134--and defeat the alien king before Earth is obliterate... + Read More
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Series: The Hit the Ground Running Series Flow Like Water Paperback Mark Burley 9781988279480 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Sep 18, 2018

"Run, Eric--go as far as you can as fast as you can. I will find you."Eric Bakker's search isn't over. The conspiracy revealed by his parents' research goes deeper than he could have imagined, into a place and an organisation with as much history--and secrecy--as any in the world. Getting in won't be easy, and he'll need help from his friends more than ever. But when one of them commits a personal sacrifice so Eric can escape from the killers known as the Vidi, the fallout threatens to split the group apart.Tess has been there from the beginnin... + Read More
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Series: The Nefertari Hughes Mystery Series Medallion of Murder Paperback BR Myers 9781988279633 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Sep 18, 2018

Still struggling with nightmares from the past summer, Terry tries to bury her secret guilt and enjoy her family's first Christmas in Devonshire. But when a murdered man is found with a postcard addressed to her, Terry fears the repercussions from that fateful night in Egypt are becoming a reality.After she receives a coded message from Awad, Terry and her best friend Maude are thrown into the hunt for a lost medallion, an artifact that possesses a great power--and a gruesome destiny. As each clue leads to more disturbing truths (and bodies), T... + Read More
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Series: Modern Indigenous Voices As Long As the Sun Shines Paperback Janet Rogers 9781772310832 $16.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2018

This poetry collection creatively reveals the beautiful and bitter essences of the world from a distinctive Indigenous female voice. Speaking from her unique Mohawk perspective, the poet unapologetically sings words of wisdom and cultural confidence. By using this creative foundation to unite distinctive communities, she expresses raw emotion throughout her journey toward inner peace from a uniquely Indigenous point of view. It is this strong expression that the poet hopes will become a global guide for her communities to follow and interpret w... + Read More
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Series: Modern Indigenous Voices Going Back Home Paperback Marie Hess 9781772310894 $19.95 FICTION May 01, 2019

Written by a Mohawk Institute Residential School survivor, this is a fierce and candid story that reveals the heartbreaking trauma of that tragic time in our history. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools confinements has affected Indigenous communities over several generations and has contributed to many social problems that continue to exist today. By exploring that devastating history, the author finds and celebrates the resilient and hopeful spirit that many residential school survivors, like herself, have ma... + Read More
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Series: Sandscapes Paperback Eric Charlebois 9781772310863 $16.95 POETRY Dec 01, 2019

This debut English-language collection written by a Trillium Award-winning Francophone poet strikes with endless patterns and infinite grains. Through expert wordplay, technically sound poetry, and bold imagery, Charlebois offers a wistful approach to the moments we encounter most often in life. Each poem pulses with creativity as the poet breathes life into each of the thought-provoking pieces of his puzzle. It is this welcome interference with expectations and strong command of language that returns us to the overlooked, constantly changing w... + Read More
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Series: How to Avoid Huge Ships Paperback Julie Bruck 9781771314855 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2018

Both "grave and brave, serious and hilarious" — new poems from a Governor General's Award?winning poet. How to Avoid Huge Ships, Julie Bruck's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of arguments and spells against the ambushes of age. This is, of course, a pointless exercise with a rich history. Bruck's new poems excavate a middle zone as old parents wither and regress, while the young declare their independence. Parents grow down, children up, and it's from the uncomfortable in-between that these poems peer into what Philip Larkin describes as... + Read More
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Series: Reunion Paperback Deanna Young 9781771314886 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2018

Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint. Reunion is a parable, an origin story, a cautionary tale. It is also a time machine in which poems commune with ghosts in an attempt both to reckon with and subvert their legacy. It is a tale of the impossible quest for the original, unhurt self. A girlhood is re-inhabited and oddly transformed as the adult becomes ally of her younger self. Young's writerly range extends through language both candid and stylized, and to forms from ballads to prayer t... + Read More
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Series: Yellow Crane Paperback Susan Gillis 9781771314916 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2018

Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin. Yellow Crane, Susan Gillis's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of many views, many voices. A long look at the changing landscape of a Montreal neighbourhood becomes at once a lament and a love poem. A sequence of poems inspired by Japanese tanka take on the cultural weather, core-drilling into the contradictions and uncertainties of the everyday. Writers, artists, thinkers, cooks, and others congregate in a hammock on the edge of a h... + Read More
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Series: Tell Me More Paperback Brad Kelln 9781554832163 $19.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2018

Thirty years ago the military created a top secret program to assist military personnel and assets from around the world when they're experiencing stress, mental health problems, or other issues at a base in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The people the program helps cannot go thru mainstream military or civilian channels because of the extreme classified nature of their jobs. Enter Dr. Blake Waiter, psychologist, who works for the program and has above top secret level clearance as a result. When a new patient from a research project in the Nevada dese... + Read More
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Series: Crumbling of Arty Wall, The Paperback Nic Labriola 9781554832149 $19.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2018

Arty Wall is crumbling. Like a city on the verge of collapse, his life has become a fragmented and chaotic mess, destined for ruin. He can barely hang onto his job as an urban planner in Toronto. Though his city is thriving, he is failing. He's broke and overweight. He's addicted to food and slot machines. He spends hours in public washrooms, deciphering messages written on the walls. His wife, star of the home renovation show, Reno T.O., leaves him. His father dies building condos. His mother--walled in by Alzheimer's--lives in a nursing home ... + Read More
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Series: Chrome Kisses Paperback Jamie Popowich 9781554832156 $19.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2018

We live in the times of Chrome Kisses. A generation set adrift, with broken hearts, empty pockets, and pestering mothers. Where the only way to make a buck is to rob banks or wrestle robot-parts, and where two dying ex-lovers pass death jokes to one another in their last days. Chrome Kisses is a collection of stories, a series of loosely connected pulp fiction comedies, about our aggressively anxious times, when a car bumper collision feels like a kiss.
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Series: Leaving the Shoreline Paperback Grant Armstrong 9781554832170 $19.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Nov 01, 2018

Most new managers start with little or no training to prepare them for the transition ahead. One day they are showing up to work to run a machine, sell a product or provide a service and then the next day they are promoted to their first management position. Maybe they have been promoted because they are the best worker, maybe because they have some administrative ability or maybe it's because they get along with people. But regardless of the reason managing a team of people is very different from being an individual contributor.There are many ... + Read More
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Series: Searching for Terry Punchout Paperback Tyler Hellard 9781988784106 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

Shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Garden State meets King Leary in this slapshot debut novel. Adam Macallister's sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he's got one last shot: a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey's most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout-who also happens to be Adam's estranged father. Adam returns to Pennington, Nova Scotia, where Terry now lives in the local rink and drives the Zamboni. Going home means drinking with old friends... + Read More
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Series: This Keeps Happening Paperback H. B. Hogan 9781988784113 $17.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2018

Short, punchy, visceral stories A bush party leads to self-immolation. A cab ride ends in warfare. A squirrel is eviscerated. A universally impossible dare is accepted and proves not to be fatal. The weird kid triumphs. The stories in H.B. Hogan’s debut collection sizzle like butter on hot cast iron-they’re rich and dark and full of scrappy, sordid and sparkling humanity. "[A] darkly entertaining debut collection."—Toronto Star "This Keeps Happening is an impressive debut, one that will leave you laughing, cringing, looking off into space uncom... + Read More
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Series: Port of Being Paperback Shazia Hafiz Ramji 9781988784120 $16.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2018

Shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book AwardShortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardFinalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry PrizeLonglisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial AwardWinner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry Voyeurism and fact go head to head in Port of Being, a debut book of poetry that mines speech from the city streets and the internet. These are poems set firmly on the threshold of the private and public, the future-haunted and the real, forging the human adrift in a terrain of space junk, drones, and ad... + Read More
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Series: Throwback The Magpie Paperback Douglas Durkin 9781988784137 $19.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2018

Craig Forrester is newly returned to Winnipeg following World War I, and he has returned to a city and a country mired in social upheaval. Will he choose the complacency of upward mobility or his personal, more socially conscious ethical code? Originally published in 1923, The Magpie is a social commentary turned novel about post-war disillusionment. Set against the backdrop of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, The Magpie offers an articulate and perceptive examination of the greed, hypocrisy, and intolerance of the “decent” classes, the agrarian my... + Read More
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Series: Untold Northeastern Ontario's Military Past, Volume 1, 1662-WWI Paperback Dieter Buse 9780995823501 $22.95 HISTORY Oct 18, 2018

Brought together for the first time, the remarkable and mostly unacknowledged contributions, experiences, and remembrances of warfare by the people of Northeastern Ontario.
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Series: Soulmates on Ice From Hometown Glory to the Top of the Podium Paperback Meagan Duhamel 9781988989013 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Nov 01, 2018

Discover the unlikely path Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford followed en route to the top of the world in figure skating. The Northern Ontario pairs skaters, who won a complete set of Olympic medals, reflect on how they developed a working relationship and honed their resilience in a sport that often left them bloodied and bruised. Ultimately, the two-time world champions earned the perfect, storybook ending to the sport they have adored since they laced up their first pair of skates.
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Series: Eavesdroppers, The Paperback Rosie Chard 9781988732442 $20.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for 'listeners' to work on an unconventional project, he anticipates that his team of eavesdroppers will discover previously untapped insights into public opinion.But as five eager listeners begin eavesdropping in the cafes, dentist waiting rooms, public toilets, tube trains and launderettes of London, discreetly noting the details of unguarded conversations, Bill starts to notice subtle changes in their behaviour and realises he has underestimated the compuls... + Read More
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Series: Left Paperback Theanna Bischoff 9781988732435 $19.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

Finalist for Trade Fiction at the 2019 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Twenty-nine-year-old Natasha Bell went for an evening jog, just like any other night - except now no one knows where she is. Not her sister, Abby - eighteen, eight months pregnant, and without a game plan. Not her childhood sweetheart, now ex-boyfriend, Greg, an introverted academic who could never bring himself to commit. Not her best friend Josie, a newlywed, born-again Christian, with whom Natasha recently had a falling out. And not detective Reuben Blake, who thought this... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry Paper Caskets Paperback Emilia Danielewska 9781988732367 $18.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2018

Emilia Danielewska's debut book of prose-poetry reveals the dead. Divided into four parts, Paper Caskets proposes a poetics of the box -- as coffin, as prose parameters of the page, as photograph, and as state of mind and body in the face of death. From the act of photographing the dead, to mourning the dead, and to preparing for death that is coming, here is work startling in its clarity, which exposes, as a photograph does, the complicated relationship humans have with mortality.Paper Caskets looks beyond grief to see the dead as dynamic plac... + Read More
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Series: Detective Lane Mystery Sea of Cortez Paperback Garry Ryan 9781988732398 $18.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2017

After a series of assassinations rocks Calgary's underworld, Detective Lane is conscripted along with his husband Arthur into working undercover to seek out links in the Mexico-Canada drug connection and stop the violence.As tensions mount back in Canada and outright war on the streets seems imminent, the laconic detective and his allies must use some unorthodox tactics to avert disaster in the Gulf of California and dismantle the cartel.
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Series: Prairie Play Series Mighty Carlins and Other Plays, The Paperback Collin Doyle 9781988732428 $19.95 DRAMA Oct 15, 2018

"Let the Light of Day Through" is a finalist for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama at the 2019 Alberta Literary Awards!Award-winning playwright Collin Doyle has crafted three gripping plays that display a keen understanding of human relationships, both functional and dysfunctional.In The Mighty Carlins, an irascible father reunites with his two sons - one a naïve idealist, the other a compulsive manipulative liar - to commemorate the anniversary of their mother's death. In the dynamic Let the Light of Day Through, a couple in their thirt... + Read More
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Series: Oldness; Or the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O Paperback Brett Grubisic 9781988098630 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2018

With the rapid approach of the end of his professional life, Marcus O is quietly wondering what's next. Well first there's a workplace nemesis he aspires to humiliate. And then there's a style-conscious student whose shallow interests seem calculated to aggravate Marcus alone. And finally there are the nights scouring the web and composing attractive answers to profile questions generated by a seniors' online dating site he's recently joined. Set in a near future where everything is pretty much the same--or maybe a touch worse--Oldness; or The ... + Read More
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Series: Poplar Lake Paperback Ron Thompson 9781988098647 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2018

Jake's fallen for Genny, and now he's bringing her home to meet his family. On the long trip to the prairies, he amuses her with childhood anecdotes--but he's careful what he says. There are things he doesn't want to acknowledge, even to himself, when he tours her around town, regaling her with stories of its founding on land stolen from the Cree, and of the scoundrels and visionaries who shaped it. Genny can tell he's hiding something, and she is determined to uncover his secret. Poplar Lake is a darkly satiric novel about families and relatio... + Read More
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Series: Going Fly Paperback Christian McPherson 9781988098654 $14.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2018

Christian McPherson's second collection of short stories serves up a boozy menu of mixed cocktails. Whether it be funny twisted tales of suburban marriages on the rocks, glue sniffing felons looking to win a radio contest, or Humpty Dumpty drinking the greatest cup of coffee in the world, these stories will have you reading and laughing to the last drop. There is also a serious side to Going Fly, in which we examine loss and what we do to carry on in the face of overwhelming tragedy. It's through these stories that McPherson gives us insight in... + Read More
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Series: Shatter the Glass, Shards of Flame Paperback Gerald Arthur Moore 9781988098661 $14.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2018

Shatter the Glass, Shards of Flame contains a wide array of narrative and confession-lyric poems written over the last fifteen years, examining the various joys and tragedies, the losses and redemptions, of the poet's life. These poems span a diverse range of Moore's experience, from his time in the Canadian military and on humanitarian work projects in Haiti, to travelling the storied avenues of Oxford University and working with young offenders on the hardscrabble streets of Moncton.
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Series: Want Paperback Barbara Langhorst 9781926794969 $18.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2018

Finalist: 2019 Book of the Year Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
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Series: Black Girls Women of African Descent Write Their World Paperback Donna Bailey Nurse 9781926794921 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM

One of Canada's most prominent and influential literary critics, Donna Bailey Nurse returns with a new collection of essays that explores the cultural impact of black women writers from across the diaspora. In Black Girls: Black Women of African Descent Write Their World, Bailey Nurse uses the fiction of Esi Edugyan, Chimamanda Adichie, and Toni Morrison, among many others, to reflect on what it means to be a black woman in North America and what their books have taught her about "how to survive this excruciatingly white world."
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Series: Skeletal Wand, A Paperback Ruth Roach Pierson 9781926794884 $18.95 POETRY Sep 16, 2018
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Series: Dividing the Wayside Paperback Jenny Haysom 9781926794846 $18.95 POETRY Sep 16, 2018

Winner: 2019 Archibald Lampman Award. Finalist: 2019 Gerald Lampert Award
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Series: The Pineapples of Wrath Paperback Cathon 9782924049518 $22.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 08, 2018

It's a tiki murder mystery in the tropical heart of Trois-Rivières! When a former limbo champion is found dead in her apartment, the local police force finds no reason to suspect foul play. But amateur detective (and bookworm barmaid extraordinaire) Marie-Pomme knows there's more to this case than just too much piña colada... and she intends to prove it, even if it means risking her own life at the bowling alley!The Pineapples of Wrath is a quirky detective story as well as a loving tribute to tiki kitsch and old school exotica. Cathon's exuber... + Read More
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Series: Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart Hardcover Steven Erikson 9781773740126 $29.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2018

A provocative, beautiful and visionary novel of first contact by New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson. Imagine a First Contact without contact, and an alien arrival where no aliens show up. Imagine the sudden appearance of exclusion zones all over the planet, into which no humans are allowed. Imagine an end to all violence, from the schoolyard bully to nations at war. Imagine an end to borders, an end to all crime. Imagine a world where hate has no outlet and the only harm one can do is to oneself. Imagine a world transformed, but w... + Read More
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Series: This is a Job for Mommy! An A-Z Adventure Paperback Keegan Connor Tracy 9781773740164 $9.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 0 - 9 Apr 02, 2019

A delightful ABC adventure which shows that moms can do any job - and so can you! Join a mother-daughter duo (and their kitty!) as they travel through the alphabet, exploring twenty-six different careers. With a fun, rhyming text and vibrant illustrations, this book is ideal for reading to children and teaching them not only the basics of the alphabet but also about the big, exciting world out there!
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Series: This is a Job for Mommy! An A-Z Adventure Hardcover Keegan Connor Tracy 9781773740270 $16.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 0 - 9 Sep 18, 2018

A delightful ABC adventure which shows that moms can do any job - and so can you! Join a mother-daughter duo (and their kitty!) as they travel through the alphabet, exploring twenty-six different careers. With a fun, rhyming text and vibrant illustrations, this book is ideal for reading to children and teaching them not only the basics of the alphabet but also about the big, exciting world out there!
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Series: Dark Seed Beyond Control The seed has been sown Paperback Lawrence Verigin 9781773740102 $17.95 FICTION Nov 13, 2018

The explosive conclusion to the award-winning Dark Seed trilogy. The mysterious cabal has been thwarted, their laboratory work is stumbling and their leadership is in chaos. But for Nick Barnes the situation is only getting worse. Jail time is a certainty, his powerful foes are still free, and there are now indications that their evil scheme is getting beyond even their control. If so, it could threaten all human life on earth.
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Series: Quattro Fiction Learning How to Love China Paperback Daniel Woo 9781988254531 $20.00 FICTION Nov 18, 2001

Learning How to Love China tells the story of a young factory worker in a city near Shanghai. She tries to set down some of the weight she carries for her work and family. It's a tale of her droning daily life in our contemporary world of global economies, many run by authoritarian power structures. The book shows us the consequences of unbridled accumulation and the systemic exploitation of certain groups. And it asks the question, are we all to blame somehow?
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Series: Quattro Fiction Homeless Paperback Jane Bow 9781988254555 $20.00 FICTION Nov 18, 2001

A woman caught breaking into a Century stone house won't tell her name. Police cannot charge her. The judge remands her to a psychiatric ward for assessment. She meets Dr. Elaine Price. Their sessions lead both women deep into the uncertain terrain of identity, where living on the street is just one form of homelessness and laws do not always deliver justice. Dr. Price writes Homeless so that, if her crime is ever uncovered, her children might understand.
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Series: Quattro Fiction Grass-Fed Paperback Aaron Schneider 9781988254548 $20.00 FICTION Nov 18, 2001

An academic, an artist, two businessmen, a talk show host, and a retired hockey player gather at a hunting lodge and resort in Northern Ontario. Over the course of their retreat they kill, they eat and they justify their lives. Fragments connect multiple storylines and moral contexts in a skewering social critique. In this literary horror, power bends rhetoric to its own ends, torqueing language until it legitimizes itself and all its exploitational goriness.
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Series: Green Intervals Paperback Nilofar Shidmehr 9781988254562 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

Green Intervals is a thriller about a former political prisoner, now a Canadian, who goes back to Iran to join the 2009 Green Movement. To save her family from heartache, she doesn't tell them about her trip and also decides to stay with her ex-husband, although she is engaged to another man in Canada. The novel recounts the consequences of these decisions, amid the chaos of the uprising, and how they do end up affecting her and the people closest to her.
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Series: Quattro Fiction Chemin Saint-Paul Paperback Lise Tremblay 9781988254579 $20.00 FICTION Sep 18, 2001

Between the white room, where she endures her mother's silence, and the blue room, where she sits with her father until he draws his last breath, Lise Tremblay recounts the lives of her parents. She describes their childhood on Chemin Saint-Paul, marked by poverty and madness, and their adult lives, as both try to escape the wounds of the past. Chemin Saint-Paul is a poignant account of a middle-aged woman saying farewell to her aging parents as Tremblay unravels her ties to them.
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Series: Quattro Fiction Yoshiko's Flags Paperback Jaeyoon Song 9781988254586 $20.00 FICTION Jan 18, 2018

Heeja is a displaced North Korean immigrant in the U.S. At the age of 80, after a squabble with her fellow Korean immigrants, she decides to become an American citizen. Waiting to go in for the final interview, the immigration officer unsuspectingly calls Heeja by the name Yoshiko, a name she carried more than seventy years ago when she lived under Japanese imperial rule. It is at that moment that Heeja is forced to reckon with her past and identity.
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Series: Quattro Poetry This Is Why We're Made in the Dark Paperback Justin Lauzon 9781988254609 $20.00 POETRY Dec 18, 2001

This Is Why We Are Made In The Dark wrestles with the idea of transformation. The poems alternate between lyrical and narrative; they explore the way changes in the physical world and language mirror each other through an extravagance of subjects: colour, the city, maps, bodily transformation, astronomy, weather, and celestial objects.
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Series: Best New Poets in Canada Best New Poets in Canada Paperback Tara Borin 9781988254593 $20.00 POETRY Dec 18, 2001

In this anthology, three emerging poets are chosen and showcased as the best of Canada's new voices. This is the first edition of our Best New Poets in Canada Series and the newest poetry anthology series across the country.
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Series: Quattro Poetry a toast to illness Paperback Corrado Paina 9781988254616 $20.00 POETRY Dec 18, 2001

This new poetry collection by Corrado Paina explores the induced meditations and considerations that illness imposes upon a body and mind.
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Series: Panoptic Paperback Thomas Hamilton 9781987872132 $20.00 POETRY Jun 25, 2018

Here is crystallized experience and formal inventiveness from a poet whose work embodies maturity and vitality. He approaches his subject matter from diverse vantage points, employing a variety of lenses to encompass broad vistas, from the Canadian West to travels abroad to the world of work. Though largely autobiographical, there are frequent departures from the first person. Roughly chronological in the order of its sections, Panoptic offers thoughtful accounts of the poet's early life, and with humour, wit and searching insight goes on to de... + Read More
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Series: Fox Haunts Paperback Penn Kemp 9781987872149 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2018

Celebrated for her performance poetry, Penn Kemp broaches new territory in Fox Haunts. In poems drawn from nature and literature, she reveals a gift for deft adaptation. Sporting her familiar spirit of play while drawing on wide background reading, she invites you to thoroughly explore the nature of a specific urban creature, the Fox. Centred in mythology, these engaged and engaging poems offer a compendium of lore and look both outward to the world and inward to the imaginal realm.
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Series: Seasons Before the War Hardcover Bernice Morgan 9781927917183 $29.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Oct 31, 2018

Seasons Before the War by Bernice Morgan (author of acclaimed historical novels Random Passage and Waiting for Time) is a delightful, unsentimental remembrance of growing up in St. John's, Newfoundland just before the city, and the world, changed irrevocably with the advent of WWII. This slightly fictionalized telling explores the delights of every day and of each season: how Bernice and her siblings played and passed their time — watching the fire trucks put out fires at the dump, going for messages at the local shops, listening to stories b... + Read More
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Series: To See the Stars Paperback Jan Andrews 9781927917176 $16.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 17 Feb 15, 2019

In her deeply-affecting final novel, acclaimed children's writer and storyteller Jan Andrews gives us Edie Murphy – an indomitable and engaging heroine on the cusp of womanhood. The novel moves from Edie's remote Newfoundland outport to St. John's and finally to New York City's Lower East Side. Against the background of the history-making "Uprising" of 1909, when 20,000 garment workers went on strike for better working conditions, and the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911), Edie begins to find her own voice, hone her already-s... + Read More
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Series: Peg Bearskin Paperback Andy Jones 9781927917190 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 10 Feb 15, 2019

Peg's big, ugly, and hairy, yes, but she's also smart enough and brave enough to outsmart a witch, help a king, and find husbands for her two beautiful sisters and for herself. This brilliant re-take on a classic folktale from Placentia Bay, Newfoundland will have readers of all ages cheering for Peg. And falling for her too! The story is now available in this bright and beautiful new edition. Maintaining Dinn and Jones's original adapted text, with all of its playful wit and delightful musicality, this new book features all new illustration... + Read More
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Series: Lady Franklin of Russell Square Paperback Erika Behrisch Elce 9781988754079 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2018

Spring, 1847, and Lady Franklin is back in London expecting to greet her hero husband, polar explorer Sir John Franklin, upon his triumphant return from the Northwest Passage. But as weeks turn to months, she reluctantly grows into her public role as Franklin's steadfast wife, the "Penelope of England." In this novel that imagines a rich interior life of one of Victorian England's most intriguing women, the boundaries of friendship, propriety, and love are bound to collide.