1.
Series:
Resolve
The Story of the Chelsea Family and a First Nation Community’s Will to Heal
Paperback
Carolyn Parks Mintz
9781987915884
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 13, 2019
Andy and Phyllis Chelsea met during their years spent at the St. Joseph’s Mission School in Williams Lake, B.C. Like the thousands forced into the church-run residential school system, Andy and Phyllis are no strangers to the ongoing difficulties experienced by most Indigenous peoples in Canada. The couple married in 1964 but brought the trauma of their mission school years into their marriage. The Chelseas’ struggle with alcohol came to an abrupt halt in 1971 when their daughter, Ivy, then aged seven, stated that she and her brothers did not w...
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Series:
The Co-op Revolution
Vancouver's Search for Food Alternatives
Paperback
Jan DeGrass
9781987915952
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 07, 2019
“We were undercapitalized, inexperienced, practiced democratic decision-making and some of us smoked dope occasionally. All elements that would make us grow as human beings and as business people. We ran a helluva show.” In the spring of 1975, a free-spirited Jan DeGrass backpacked across Canada in search of adventure and greater meaning in life. When she arrived in Vancouver, she met a group of people committed to social change; together they re-imagined the food industry in B.C. In The Co-op Revolution: Vancouver's Search for ...
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Series:
On the Curve
The Life and Art of Sybil Andrews
Paperback
Janet Nicol
9781987915877
$28.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 14, 2019
Sybil Andrews was one of Canada’s most prominent artists working throughout the late twentieth century. From a cottage by the sea in Campbell River, Andrews created striking linocut prints steeped in feeling and full of movement. Inspired by the working-class community that she lived in, her art is known for its honest depiction of ordinary people at work and play on Canada’s West Coast. Although she was raised in Bury St Edmunds, England, On the Curve focuses on Andrews’ life after she immigrated to Canada in 1947. Settling in Campbell Ri...
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4.
Series:
Body & Soul
Stories for Skeptics and Seekers
Paperback
Susan Scott
9781987915938
$24.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Feb 06, 2019
Body & Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seekers is a spiritual journey through experiences that can be liberating but also awkward and sometimes even dangerous, because women are so often excluded from conversations about spirituality. Liberation comes with breaking that age-old code of silence to talk about the messiness of faith, practice, religion and ceremony, to confess our sublimely unconventional modes of spiritual yearning. The writers in this volume, including Sharon Bala, Carleigh Baker, Eufemia Fantetti, Sue Goyette, K.D. Miller, Zarqa...
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5.
Series:
How She Read
Paperback
Chantal Gibson
9781987915969
$20.00
POETRY
Jan 10, 2019
How She Read is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination. Drawing from grade-school vocabulary spellers, literature, history, art, media and pop culture, Chantal Gibson’s sassy semiotics highlight the depth and duration of the imperialist ideas embedded in everyday things, from storybooks to coloured pencils, from paintings to postage stamps. A mediation on motherhood and daughterhood, belonging, loss and recovery,...
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6.
Series:
The Brightest Thing
Paperback
Ruth Daniell
9781987915907
$18.00
POETRY
Feb 07, 2019
In her first full-length collection, award-winning poet Ruth Daniell offers work that is both earnest and hopeful, even in the face of trauma. In formally-exquisite and lyrical poems, The Brightest Thing tells the story of a young woman who is raped by her first boyfriend and her struggle afterwards to navigate her fairy-tale expectations of romantic love. This contemporary story of hurt and healing is paired with poems that give voice to silenced princesses from fairy tales—including Rapunzel, Donkeyskin, the little mermaid’s sister and the pr...
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7.
Series:
Free to a Good Home
More than a Memoir
Paperback
Jules Torti
9781987915600
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 13, 2019
The German word zugunruhe translates as the “stirring before moving.” It’s used to describe birds and herds of animals, like wildebeests, before the great migration. Though Jules Torti is neither German nor a wildebeest, she understands this marrow-deep anxiousness all too well; she is just someone looking for a home. Free to a Good Home is evidence of Torti’s life-long commitment to feeling at home where it mattered most: within herself. At eighteen, with $1,000 in her bank account, she moved to the West Coast from Ontario to find “her pe...
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8.
Series:
Chenille or Silk
Paperback
Emma McKenna
9781987915891
$18.00
POETRY
Mar 07, 2019
Chenille or Silk is a startling first collection of confessional poetry examining the slippery relations of desire, class, embodiment and trauma. Emma McKenna’s writing traverses the bounds and the wounds of a family marked by poverty and intergenerational trauma. The collection asserts the primacy of intimacy and sexuality to subjectivity, as the poems move through the struggle to find identity, love and belonging in an urban queer community’s ever-shifting economy of desire. Striking, brave, and at times uncomfortable, Chenille or Silk captur...
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