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Series: Thrillers Quill of the Dove Paperback Ian Shaw 9781771833783 $24.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2019

French journalist Marc Taragon is at the apex of his career in 2007. A tenacious idealist, Taragon has spent the last thirty years attempting to bring to readers the truths about the wars and political intrigues of the region. He is unsparing in his criticism of extremists and has earned many enemies. He agrees to be interviewed in Cyprus, by a young Canadian journalist, Marie Boivin, not knowing that Marie has a hidden agenda: to discover through Taragon the truth about her childhood. Before Marie finds the answers she seeks, she is enmeshed i... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Afrikaner Paperback Arianna Dagnino 9781771833578 $20.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2019

A hijacking in deeper Johannesburg goes horribly wrong. Zoe du Plessis, a paleontologist of Afrikaner origin, is suddenly confronted with her family's secret, seemingly wrapped in an old Xhosa's spell. As she heads for the Kalahari Desert in search of early human fossils, Zoe embarks on an inner journey into the unredeemable sense of guilt haunting her white tribe. She reluctantly seeks salvation in the love of a man scarred by South Africa's darker past.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Falconi's Tractor Paperback Dave LeBlanc 9781771833356 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2019

Like his three siblings, 32-year-old Alfredo Freddy Flowers Falconi has led two lives: the idyllic one before The Incident -- his mother's 1984 death -- and the complicated one afterward. He was just eight-years-old when his father abandoned the family, and nine when his oldest brother, Small Carm, covered up the circumstances of Rosa Falconi's demise to keep the family's honour intact. Twenty-three years later, that lie has become a black hole: hidden at the centre of all of their lives, it's supremely powerful force that, when uncovered by Fr... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Bonavere Howl Paperback Caitlin Galway 9781771833547 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2019

It is 1955, and the three Fayette sisters have lived their whole lives in the enchanting French Quarter of New Orleans. Though neglected by their parents, they share a close bond with one another--from afternoons in their small, shared bedroom, to trying to speak with ghosts beneath the sweeping trees in their garden. When the middle sister Constance disappears, the family believes she has run away, as she has done before; it is only the youngest--thirteen-year-old Bonavere (known as Bonnie)--who suspects there is more to it. Met only with grie... + Read More
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Series: Memoir and Biography Philipovna Daughter of Sorrow Paperback Valentina Gal 9781771833691 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2019

Philipovna: The Daughter of Sorrow is a creative non-fiction based on my mother's surviving the holodomor [the Ukrainian starvation] in the early 1930's. It is the story of an orphan who goes to live with her aunt in a rural village in the Ukrainian countryside. The aunt swears on her dead sister's Bible that Vera Philipovna, the daughter of a cobbler and seamstress from a small village in Chercassy, Ukraine will survive no matter what might befall the family. No one foresees the horrors that they will have to face between the fall of 1930 an... + Read More
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Series: Memoir and Biography Trapped A Mother's Quest to Reclaim Her Daughters Paperback Alexandra Karb 9781771833486 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2019

When Alexandra attempts to end an abusive marriage, her husband Tareq abducts their infant daughters from their Montreal home and deposits them with his family in a primitive village in Jordan. Trying to retrieve them through legal means, Alexandra comes face to face with Arab cultures where children belong to the father's family and women have no rights to them. She puts a promising career as a medical researcher on hold, sets off alone to Jordan and succeeds in an audacious plan to smuggle her daughters back home. But upon returning to Canada... + Read More
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Series: Memoir and Biography Seeker A Sea Odyssey Paperback Rita Pomade 9781771833516 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2019

Seeker: A Sea Odyssey is the story of two people who meet in Mexico and fall in love. Rita is an American part-time English language teacher and freelance reporter for an English language tourist magazine struggling to raise two young boys on her own. Bernard is a French geologist under contract to the Mexican government to search for underground thermal springs. She dreams of finding Shangri-la after witnessing a bloody government crackdown from which she barely escapes. He dreams of having a yacht and sailing the world. Their dreams mesh, and... + Read More
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Series: Essential Drama Series Revolt/Compassion Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance Paperback Michael Springate 9781771833967 $20.00 DRAMA May 01, 2019

Revolt/Compassion: Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance, gathers together six important works by Michael Springate: Historical Bliss, Dog and Crow, The Consolation of Philosophy, Freeport Texas, Kareena, and Kut: Shock and Awe. Written and produced over a twenty-five year period, they capture an expansive range of interests and influences, and reflect the artistic interdisciplinarity which has been a defining feature of his career. Dr. Erin Hurley, in her ground-breaking introduction, writes: Consciously crafted, precise in their diction, a... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Dead Voices Paperback F.G. Paci 9781771833189 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2019

Dead Voices is a collection of stories that are both seriously realistic and comically whimsical. They have everything from superheroes who get sick on words, to the appearance of dead playwrights, to the visit of saints and sinners from the past, to a hot stove discussion on hockey and love. They?re about the modern mind-set and its technological marvels and the older attention to character and virtue.
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Series: Essential Writers Series Antonio D'Alfonso Essays On His Works Paperback Licia Canton 9781771833615 $20.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Apr 01, 2019

This collection of essays is devoted to the work of Antonio D'Alfonso, a pivotal figure in the bilingual history of Canadian literature. This much anticipated volume gives Antonio D'Alfonso recognition for the enormous contribution he has made to Canadian writing, over nearly fifty years. He has worked as a writer, editor, translator and filmmaker in Quebec and in Ontario. D'Alfonso identifies as a bilingual writer, but he also speaks and writes in Italian. And he has translated works from French and Italian into English, and from English into ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Essays Series The Oulipo Challenge Paperback Hillar Liitoja 9781771833738 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 01, 2019

The adventure of discovering, then diving into the world of that esoteric and fascinating French literary club, the Oulipo ? and the perils of trying to reconfigure the world's most famous monologue while abiding by their fiendishly challenging rules.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Rivers Applaud Forever Paperback Raymond Filip 9781771833608 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

In Rivers Applaud Forever, Raymond Filip, the craftsman and musician, showcases his spoken-word texts that perform on a silent page, as well as his say then play recitals on stage. This collection features free verse and end rhymes; satire and nature studies; a concrete poem and a proem; a linked sequence of narratives, and a long bird call to the uncaptured. Filip's peace process comes to terms with his birth and disfigurement in a displaced persons camp after World War II; the unspeakable abuses of growing up with domestic violence and a brok... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Swinging Between Water and Stone Paperback Steven Mayoff 9781771833677 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

Swinging Between Water and Stone is a collection of poems comprising four sections. Each section roughly represents the four stages of the never-ending reincarnation cycle: birth, life, death and rebirth. These themes recur in each section, propelling these poems the way smaller wheels turn within larger wheels. Settings, both urban and rural, imaginary and real, domestic and distant, terrestrial and astral create a kind of existential road trip where the reader as traveller comes across signposts that lead to both the familiar and the inexplicable.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Plastic's Republic Paperback Giovanna Riccio 9781771833684 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

In 2019 Barbie turns 60. Never only a toy, she defines the stellar. In Plastic?s Republic, Giovanna Riccio delves into Barbie?s impact on female beauty highlighting how plasticity in body and persona have allowed the doll to remain top-diva. Other poems bring to life, Mattel?s movers-n-shakers who created Barbie to be their in-house money maker. Riccio?s Plastications lyrics illustrate how Barbie?s mouldable nature lets Mattel position their high achiever as ever-relevant, arguably, by exploiting social trends, political movements and historic... + Read More
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Series: First Poets Series Downtown Flirt Paperback Peter Jickling 9781771833776 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2019

In October 2016 Peter Jickling left the Yukon to write in Toronto. His resulting poems document subjects ranging from subletting to subways ? illuminating quiet moments amidst noise. Sometimes sad, often funny, and always humane, Downtown Flirt is an outsider?s account of urban life.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Insult to the Brain Paperback Nicola Vulpe 9781771833769 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2019

Winner of the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in PoetryThey were shot, transported, deported. They were hanged, or they hanged themselves. They starved, or their hearts suddenly failed, or drugs or cancer consumed them. Others lived into their nineties, one even to 103. Nicola Vulpe's Insult to the Brain transports us from the gas-seeped muck of the Somme, to a tiny apartment in Buenos Aires, to an undisclosed prison yard in Iran, and a hundred times and places in between, to join some of the last century's finest poets in their final moment... + Read More
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Series: Paper Lions Paperback Sohan S Koonar 9781988449777 $23.95 FICTION Jul 01, 2019

Told from three distinct points of view, Paper Lions is an epic multi-generational novel about India, set in the years from the advent of the Second World War to the beginning of modern times in the 1960s. War brings opportunities and wealth to some; Independence ushers in great hope for the future; and the nation's Partition brings along horrors, during which fortunes are made and lost, homes destroyed and abandoned, people slaughtered. The years roll on, a new generation arrives. In the locality of Raikot, Punjab, the three main characters--B... + Read More
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Series: Youth of God, The Paperback Hassan Ghedi Santur 9781988449739 $22.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2019

Longlisted for Canada Reads, 2020 Finalist for the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing, 2019 The Youth of God tells the story of Nuur, a sensitive and academically gifted seventeen-year-old boy growing up in Toronto's Somali neighbourhood, as he negotiates perilously between the calling of his faith and his intellectual ambitions. Trying to influence him are a radical Muslim imam and a book-loving, dedicated teacher who shares his background. In its telling, this novel reveals the alienated lives of Somali youth in ... + Read More
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Series: Kabir's Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets Paperback Ayaz Pirani 9781988449692 $20.95 POETRY Jul 01, 2019

Step into the crater of East Africa and meet the grain of sand from Sindh. Taste the pearls from Indian Ismaili ginans and attend to the True Guru. Aglow with postcolonial loss, wryly defiant of what they reveal, the poems in Kabir's Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets describe a warm estrangement and salty gratitude for being on Earth. It's not war-reporting and Ayaz doesn't solve crimes. He doesn't have his head in the lion's mouth. He draws from Kabir's Bijak, Ghalib, and the oral granth and ginan traditions to plot a lifelong and generational im... + Read More
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Series: SH:LAM (The Doctor) Paperback Joseph A Dandurand 9781988449715 $20.95 POETRY May 01, 2019

Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, 2020 In this volume of poetry, Joseph A Dandurand lives the experiences of an Aboriginal people brought to the edge of extinction. From the Author's Note: "The poems in this collection tell the truth of what has happened to my people. The Kwantlen people used to number in the thousands, but 80% of our people were wiped out by smallpox and now there are only 200 of us...I believe the gift of words was given to me so I can tell our stories...The poems gathered here tell the tale of a Kwantlen m... + Read More
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Series: Coconut Dreams Paperback Derek Mascarenhas 9781771664813 $20.00 FICTION Apr 15, 2019

Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950's, the collection shifts to the unique perspectives of two adolescents, Aiden and Ally Pinto. Both first generation Canadians, these siblings tackle their adventures in a predominantly white suburb with innocence, intelligence and a timid foot in two distinct cultures.Derek Mascarenhas takes a fresh look at the world of the new immigrant and the South Asian experience in Canada. In these stories... + Read More
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Series: Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being Paperback Amy Fung 9781771665056 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 07, 2019

In that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn?t think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspectives, but exclude their physical bodies from entering and experiencing. In that moment, I felt like a real Canadian. Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of creative nonfiction essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada's mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity thr... + Read More
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Series: Hope Matters Paperback Columpa Bobb 9781771664974 $18.00 POETRY Apr 24, 2019

Hope Matters, written by multiple award-winner Lee Maracle, in collaboration with her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, focuses on the journey of Indigenous people from colonial beginnings to reconciliation.Maracle states that the book, "is also about the journey of myself and my two daughters." During their youth, Bobb and Carter wrote poetry with their mother, and eventually they all decided that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream. Written collaboratively by all three women, the poems in Hop... + Read More
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Series: Mama's Boy Trilogy Mama's Boy Behind Bars Paperback David Goudreault 9781771664851 $20.00 FICTION Jun 18, 2019

Now I've killed another person. I'm a serial killer. Sure, two people is hardly serial, but it's a good start. I'm still young. Who knows where opportunities might lead me? Opportunity makes the thief, or the murderer, or even the pastry chef. It's well documented.Mama's Boy Behind Bars is the second book in David Goudreault's wildly successful and darkly funny Mama's Boy trilogy. Once again written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy Behind Bars, picks up where the first book in the series left off.Mama's Boy finds himse... + Read More
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Series: Worst Case, We Get Married Paperback Sophie Bienvenu 9781771664899 $20.00 FICTION May 08, 2019

Aïcha lives with her mother in Montreal's Centre-Sud neighbourhood. She's only thirteen but claims to be older. She has never known her father, and resents her mother for leaving Hakim, her stepfather. Her only friends are Mel and Jo, two local prostitutes, and Baz, a musician in his twenties, who comes to her rescue one day and with whom she proceeds to fall in love. Her impossible love for Baz, her precociousness and her rebellious streak come together into an explosive cocktail. Raw and heartrending, Worst Case, We Get Married is the stateme... + Read More
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Series: Q & A Paperback Adrienne Gruber 9781771664721 $18.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

Adrienne Gruber's third full poetry collection, Q & A, is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places, a grotesque history of the treatment of pregnant and birthing women reveals itself.
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Series: War / Torn Paperback Hasan Namir 9781771664936 $18.00 POETRY Apr 10, 2019

2020 Stonewall Book Award – Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Book Lambda Literary Award-winner Hasan Namir';s debut collection of poetry, War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity—the performance and sense of belonging they delineate and draw together. Namir summons prayer, violence, and the sensuality of love, revisiting tenets of Islam and dictates of war to break the barriers between the profane and the sacred. Praise for War / Torn: "War / Torn mourns, loves and burns all the derogatory impulses of... + Read More
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Series: I Am a Body of Land Paperback Shannon Webb-Campbell 9781771664776 $18.00 POETRY Jan 08, 2019

I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell explores poetic responsibility and accountability, and frames poetry as a form of revisioning. In these poems, Webb-Campbell returns to her own text Who Took My Sister?, to examine her self and to decolonize, unlearn, and undo harm. By reconsidering individual poems and letters, Webb-Campbell's confessional writing circles back upon itself to ask questions of her own settler-Indigenous identity and belonging to cry out for community, and call in with love.Edited and with an Introduction by multiple a... + Read More
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Series: Where, the Mile End Paperback Julie Morrissy 9781771664677 $18.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

Where, the Mile End, Irish poet Julie Morrissy's debut collection, embodies an energetic lyricism that whips through Europe and North America with humour, curiosity and a distinct edginess. Morrissy's lines track emotional, physical, and geographical change, as she intimately links the vitality of two continents: the snow, the streets, the sensual memories. Where, the Mile End reimagines the places we inhabit, the moments we remember, the things we long for.Praise for Where, the Mile End:"Humming with energy and startlingly fresh, these poems c... + Read More
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Series: Disquieting Essays on Silence Paperback Cynthia Cruz 9781771664356 $20.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 01, 2019

How do our bodies speak for us when words don?t suffice? How can we make ourselves understood when what we have to say is inarticulable?In Disquieting, Cynthia Cruz tarries with others who have provided examples of how to ?turn away,? or reject the ideologies of contemporary Neoliberal culture. These essays inhabit connections between silence, refusal, anorexia, mental illness, and Neoliberalism. Cruz also explores the experience of being working-class and poor in contemporary culture, and how those who are silenced often turn to forms of disqu... + Read More
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Series: Florine Stettheimer New Directions in Multimodal Modernism Paperback Irene Gammel 9781771665018 $25.00 ART Oct 03, 2019

This collection of essays explores the multimodality of the work of Jazz-era New York saloniere, painter, and poet Florine Stettheimer, allowing readers to discover why Andy Warhol once called her his favourite artist. Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism brings to light the prescient theorizing of a dissolution between high and low art that Stettheimer's highly original and boldly interdisciplinary aesthetic pioneered and that artists like Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O'Keeffe and Warhol understood and admired.Conceived of as... + Read More
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Series: Je Nathanaël Paperback Nathanael 9781771665094 $18.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2019

Je Nathanaël is an endangered text. Neither essay nor poem nor novel nor sex-show, what it takes from language it gives back to the body.In this new and updated veresion of Je Nathanaël, first published by BookThug in 2006, Nathanaël explores ways in which language constrains the body, shackles it to gender, and proposes instead a different way of reading, where words are hermaphroditic and transform desire in turn. Suggesting that one body conceals another, it lends an ear to this other body and delights in the anxiety it provokes. With parts ... + Read More
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Series: What a Young Wife Ought to Know Paperback Hannah Moscovitch 9781770919860 $17.95 DRAMA Aug 26, 2019

Just don’t lie down and no child will come. It’s Ottawa in the 1920s, pre-legalized birth control. Sophie, a young working-class girl, falls madly in love with and marries a stable-hand named Jonny. After two difficult childbirths, doctors tell Sophie she shouldn’t have any more children, but don’t tell her how to prevent it. When Sophie inevitably becomes pregnant again, she faces a grim dilemma. In an unflinching look at love, sex, and fertility, and inspired by real stories of mothers during the Canadian birth-control movement of the early t... + Read More
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Series: Other Side of the Game Paperback Amanda Parris 9781770919914 $17.95 DRAMA May 21, 2019

I don’t think you can expect society to change if you’re not ready to take the first step. In the 1970s Beverly walks into an office of Black activists, wanting to join the Movement, and has to prove she’s committed enough to fight. Some forty years later, in the Hip Hop Generation, Nicole reunites with her ex-boyfriend on a basketball court, wondering where he’s been, when a police officer stops them. In this striking debut, Amanda Parris turns the spotlight on the Black women who organize communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, an... + Read More
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Series: BANG BANG Paperback Kat Sandler 9781770919822 $17.95 DRAMA Nov 19, 2019

Lila, a young Black ex-cop, has been on leave from the police force ever since she shot an unarmed Black youth. She’s moved back in with her mother, Karen, and is drinking beer for breakfast. So when Tim, a white playwright, shows up at her door to casually inform her that his play inspired by her experience is being adapted into a movie, Lila’s trauma is dragged out for speculation once again. The star of the film, their ex-cop bodyguard and Karen are pulled into the fight, leading to an epic metatheatrical standoff in a living room play about... + Read More
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Series: Cake Paperback Donna-Michelle St. Bernard 9781770919709 $17.95 DRAMA Apr 02, 2019

A man earns. However little, however nefariously, he earns. Oba, a middle-aged businessman, is torn between his pride and dignity. He’s obsessed with making deals in unidentified substances to stay afloat. A powerful client named Araf arrives, interested in Oba’s business, but also his fierce, inherited servant Femi. Oba’s young progeny Mabo is hungry and desperate, but still driven by his skills and sympathetic to the needs of others. In this stark and poetic musing on the nature and poisons of survival, Cake humanizes the dynamic between Nige... + Read More
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Series: Body Politic Paperback Nick Green 9781770919747 $17.95 DRAMA May 21, 2019

The point is that we started the conversation. In 1971 Phillip was on the cusp of starting something big. Something that would make history. Now he’s an aging journalist trying to make sense of Grindr. Phillip was a founding member of The Body Politic, a gay-liberation newspaper based in Toronto. As he recounts memories of censorship battles, police raids, historic rallies, and the onset of HIV/AIDS during an intimate encounter with a younger man, their generational differences shine a light on the massive shifts in queer identity and politics ... + Read More
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Series: Marriage A Demolition in Two Acts Paperback Rick Chafe 9781770919969 $17.95 DRAMA Jun 11, 2019

Put away the knives because tensions are rising in this kitchen renovation. What could help patch up a marriage better than a home renovation? Wayne thinks he’s doing his wife Julie a favour by hiring a young couple to help redo the kitchen (at a fraction of the cost she’d hoped for). But Julie has higher standards in mind. John and Maggie think they’ve found a way to make some quick money to pay off the land John bought. John just proposed, but Maggie hasn’t given her answer yet. With both couples on edge amongst themselves and with each other... + Read More
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Series: Category E Paperback Belinda Cornish 9781770919785 $17.95 DRAMA Apr 16, 2019

I didn’t think we got to have names.Two human test subjects—Corcoran, a half-blind paraplegic, and Filigree, a clinical psychopath—coexist in a laboratory cell. They are sterilized, property of the state, and utilized for the benefit of higher-valued citizens. In their cell are two beds and two chairs. But then Millet arrives. Within thirty-six hours there will only be two again. In the meantime, they play Monopoly, try to figure out who is next door, eat what is given to them, and do their best not to kill each other.This black comedy takes a ... + Read More
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Series: The Bears Sleep at Last Paperback Geneviève Billette 9781770919952 $18.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 9 - 18 Nov 15, 2019

Their whole bodies are ready for sleep, but sleep doesn’t come. The cold has deserted winter, causing the polar bears in the zoo to pace in an endless quest for sleep. Their caretaker, Sasha, will do anything to bring them slumber. But when a boy named Marcus suddenly appears at his window, bringing a different outlook on the meaning of family, Sasha finds himself buried under new responsibilities—such as packing lunches and reading bedtime stories—rather than snow. And so he keeps going back to the bears, believing that he’ll find relief by th... + Read More
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Series: Birds of a Kind Paperback Wajdi Mouawad 9781770919907 $18.95 DRAMA Apr 23, 2019

Is it really important to cling to our lost identities? A terrorist attack in Jerusalem puts Eitan, a young Israeli-German genetic researcher, in a coma, while his girlfriend Wahida, a Moroccan graduate student, is left to uncover his family secret that brought them to Israel in the first place. Since Eitan’s parents erupted at a Passover meal when they realized Wahida was not Jewish, he has harboured a suspicion about his heritage that, if true, could change everything. In this sweeping new drama from the prolific Wajdi Mouawad, the Israeli-Pa... + Read More
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Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre Theatre and (Im)migration Paperback Yana Meerzon 9780369100016 $25.00 PERFORMING ARTS Jun 18, 2019

Theatre and (Im)migration shines a bright light on the impact that immigrant artists have made and continue to make on the development of Canadian theatre, from themes, characters, and world issues to financial structures and artistic techniques. This collection of essays demonstrates how the increased presence of immigrant theatre artists actively contributing to English and French Canadian theatre prompt their audiences to rethink fundamental concepts of nationalism and multiculturalism. Contributors include Moira Day, Alan Filewod, Aida Jord... + Read More
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Series: Scripting (Im)migration New Canadian Plays Paperback Yana Meerzon 9780369100009 $29.95 DRAMA Jun 18, 2019

In this companion anthology to Theatre and (Im)migration, plays by immigrant artists take a look at communication, historic moments, the immigrant and refugee experiences in Canada, accents, and more. In The Aeneid, the classic tale of searching for a new home is reimagined into an urgent modern-day refugee story. Settling Africville is a dedication to the African American refugees of the War of 1812 that settled in Nova Scotia. The Tashme Project, a documentary-style play, carefully pieces together the experiences of Japanese Canadians who wer... + Read More
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Series: Hilda's Yard Paperback Norm Foster 9781770919662 $15.95 DRAMA Mar 19, 2019

Lemonade is for people who use the front door. It’s an exciting summer day in 1956 for Hilda and Sam Fluck. Newly on their own since their thirtysomething children Gary and Janey moved out, they are finally ready to relax. Hilda plans to hang her laundry while Sam goes to buy a shiny new television. What could disturb their simple peace? Turns out doors are merely decoration as Gary and Janey literally fall over the fence into the backyard, looking for help out of sticky situations. Gary has lost his job, is enamoured with his new girlfriend, B... + Read More
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Series: With Glowing Hearts How Ordinary Women Worked Together to Change the World (And Did) Paperback Jennifer Wynne Webber 9781927922491 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2019

is the rousing true story of a group of Canadian gold miners' wives who came together in 1941 to stand up for better conditions for their families. These least-likely activists ended up as part of a continent-wide labour movement that lasted for decades and that created significant and lasting change in themselves and in the world around them.
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Series: Moon Was a Feather Paperback Scott Nolan 9781927922514 $15.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

Evolving from a routine of long walks he began to help him quit smoking, Winnipeg singer, songwriter and musician, Scott Nolan's debut poetry collection Moon Was a Feather reflects on a life well-considered. Poems that chronicle a difficult youth, experience with drugs, friendships, and music are interwoven with insights gleaned from the eclectic jumble of neighbourhoods and people he encounters on his long walks. Spare -- eloquent with a healthy dose of grit -- the poems of Moon Was a Feather are infused with the poet's deep appreciation for t... + Read More
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Series: Fighting Season, The Paperback Sean Harris Oliver 9781927922507 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2019

Sean Harris Oliver's The Fighting Season is a searing investigation into the Afghan War through the eyes of a Canadian field medic (Kristy), an OR surgeon (Terry), and a recovery room nurse (Karine). When all three medical professionals experience a life changing event in the operating room of the NATO controlled Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield, they are sent back to Canada for further evaluation. Through Kristy, Terry and Karine's interwoven monologues we begin to understand the harrowing contribution that Canada's med... + Read More
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Series: Nails, The Paperback Jason Maghanoy 9781927922484 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2019

Ally and Josh spend every summer with their father as he goes from small town to small town working for a construction company in America. But this summer is different. This is the summer they grow up. The Nails is a play about family. It is a play about faith. And it captures a world of freedom and extremism in all directions; love and cruelty exist within the same space here. Sometimes they feel like the same thing.
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Series: Honour Beat Paperback Tara Beagan 9781927922477 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2019

Two grown sisters face off over their mother's deathbed. Together they confront one another, their own identities, and what will remain when their mom leaves this world. A contemporary look at the significance of faith and family, Honour Beat evokes both laughter and tears as three women grapple with one of life's most difficult inevitabilities.
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Series: Salt and Ashes 1st edition Paperback Adrienne Drobnies 9781773240480 $17.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

These are poems of dislocation and migration, poems of rage and healing, poems of transformation. Drobnies? scientific background, keen intellect and seasoned perspective create a poetic vision informed by the language and concepts of science, and through this lens turns a keen observational eye on the natural world
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Series: Put Your Hand in Mine 1st edition Paperback Elaine Woo 9781773240473 $17.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

Put Your Hand in Mine is a humorous, surreal survey of patterns of behavior as they relate to the social good. Beneath the surface is wisdom, too, which is revealed in the most unexpected places
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Series: Virga 1st edition Paperback Jennifer Houle 9781773240466 $17.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

Jennifer Houle?s second collection, Virga, is a departure?or perhaps, more accurately, a return to a distinctly feminine and feminist mythos. Witchy, sensuous, and urgent, the poems collected here are shot through with lore, love, and determination, reflecting the preoccupations of young?and not so young?womanhood
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Series: St. Boniface Elegies 1st edition Paperback Catherine Hunter 9781773240459 $17.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

In four sections, St. Boniface Elegies traces a poet's relationships with her family and her community through poems about travel, love, illness, work, and the writing life. The first section, "Submission," focuses on the importance of place: the Cape Cod poems describe a holiday taken in the midst of a period of grieving, while the Irish poems delve into the poet's relationship to her ancestors, the Banff poems look at the irony of an injury to the writer's hand while away at a writing retreat, and the poem "Oodena," set at the junction of the... + Read More
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Series: Bite Me! Musings on Monsters and Mayhem 1st edition Paperback Joe Rosenblatt 9780889844247 $16.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2019

Joe Rosenblatt delights in revealing a fantastical hidden world of ravenous monsters and rapacious critters of all sorts-one in which `either you're the eater, or the one who'll be consumed'.
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Series: Margin of Interest Essays on English Language Poetry of the Maritimes 1st edition Paperback Shane Neilson 9780889844209 $22.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Aug 27, 2019

The essays in Margin of Interest showcase the rich history of poetry in the Canadian Maritimes, recognizing the drawbacks of regional frameworks while finding power and beauty in the literary traditions of writers who exist on the margins of Canadian poetry and culture.
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Series: Rerouted 1st edition Paperback Daniel Bryant 9780889844216 $19.95 FICTION Jul 18, 2019

Expect the unexpected in Daniel Bryant's Rerouted, a collection of linked short stories in which myth, mirth and mayhem are never far away.
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Series: The Essential Douglas LePan 1st edition Paperback Douglas LePan 9780889844230 $14.95 POETRY May 01, 2019

The Essential Douglas LePan presents a wide-ranging collection of poetry-from tense verses on the fog of war to homoerotic love poems to lyrics in praise of the natural world, all in celebration of the heart's blood `that runs through and supports everything mankind has made'.
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Series: Viaticum 1st edition Paperback Jeffery Donaldson 9780889844223 $19.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 15, 2019

What does it mean to think, to imagine, to create, to be? Why do we believe what we do? Is death an ontological state of being, or is it a grammar error? What exactly is poetry? The varied writings in Jeffery Donaldson's Viaticum explore life's most basic questions-and its biggest illusions-from the nature of language to the rhetorical potential of the afterlife.
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Series: From My Mother's Back A Journey from Kenya to Canada Paperback Njoki Wane 9781928088738 $18.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 18, 2020

In this warm and honest memoir, celebrated academic Njoki Wane shares her journey from her parents' small coffee farm in Kenya, where she helped her mother in the fields as a child, to her current work as a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Moving smoothly between time and place, Wane uses her past to illuminate her present. The childhood confusion caused by nuns at her boarding school dismissing her proper name and demanding she give them a Christian first name she did not possess, which ... + Read More
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Series: Western Alienation Merit Badge, The Paperback Nancy Jo Cullen 9781928088783 $20.00 FICTION May 28, 2019

Set in Calgary in 1982, during the recession that arrived on the heels of Canada's National Energy Program, The Western Alienation Merit Badge follows the Murray family as they struggle with grief and find themselves on the brink of financial ruin. After the death of her stepmother, Frances "Frankie" Murray returns to Calgary to help her father, Jimmy, and her sister, Bernadette, pay the mortgage on the family home. When Robyn, a long-lost friend, becomes their house guest old tensions are reignited and Jimmy, Bernadette and Frances find themse... + Read More