1.
Series:
Just Pervs
Paperback
Jess Taylor
9781771665148
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 04, 2019
Two sex addicts meet and fall in love. A woman catches her husband cheating on her with their dog and escapes to her sister's horse farm. Four girlfriends—fellow pervs—grow up and drift apart, pining for each other in silence until one of them is murdered.In Jess Taylor's sophomore story collection, contemporary views of female sexuality are subverted, and women are given agency over their desires and bodies. Through these characters, sex is revealed to be many things at once: gross, shameful, exhilarating, hidden or open—and always complicated...
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Series:
The Nothing That Is
Essays on Art, Literature and Being
Paperback
Johanna Skibsrud
9781771665261
$20.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 01, 2019
Rather than making "something" out of "nothing," what follows is an endeavour to express the potential of language and thought to encounter what is infinitely beyond both yet to be imagined.In The Nothing That Is, Johanna Skibsrud gathers essays about the very concept of "nothing." Addressing a broad range of topics—including false atrocity tales, so-called fake news, high-wire acts, and telepathy, as well as responses to works by John Ashbery, Virginia Woolf, Anne Carson, and more—these essays seek to decentre our relationship to both the "giv...
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3.
Series:
Re-Origin of Species
Paperback
Alessandra Naccarato
9781771665421
$18.00
POETRY
Sep 16, 2019
Winner of RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging WritersWinner of CBC Poetry PrizeRe-Origin of Species is a lyric contemplation of our relationship to the environment.Weaving personal narratives with a poetic study of the insect kingdom, this book looks at the interdependence of all species, drawing parallels between human illness, climate change and the state of peril of the natural world.Diving into the poet's ancestry, these poems trace the inheritance of poverty, addiction and trauma against the backdrop of Southern Italy and Northern Ontar...
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4.
Series:
Symphony No. 3
Paperback
Chris Eaton
9781771665100
$23.00
FICTION
Oct 08, 2019
Symphony No. 3 follows the life of renowned French composer Camille Saint-Saëns as he ascends from child prodigy to worldwide fame. As his acclaim grows in Paris, the musical world around him clamours with competitors, dilettantes, turncoats and revenge seekers. At the height of his success, Camille leaves everything behind to embark on a Dantean quest for his dead lover, Henri. At the end of this adventure, still haunted by the holes in his past, he takes up an invitation to journey by ocean-liner to the New World.Finely crafted in its own uni...
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5.
Series:
Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest
Paperback
Rune Christiansen
9781771665186
$23.00
FICTION
Sep 10, 2019
Shortlisted for the 2017 Brage PrizeFanny, a 17-year-old high school senior, has lost both her parents in a car accident. Granted permission to live independently in the family home located on the outskirts of a small Norwegian town, the days pass by as she performs her daily routine: going to school, maintaining the house, chopping and stacking wood, and keeping the weeds at bay. As Fanny grieves and attempts to come to terms with the sad circumstances of her life, a fairy tale-like world full of new possibilities begins to emerge around her.W...
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6.
Series:
Drama Queens
Paperback
Vickie Gendreau
9781771665223
$20.00
FICTION
Oct 22, 2019
At the book fair in Rimouski, a woman picked up my first book to read the back cover. She put it back down, avoiding my eyes. It's heavy, cancer and death and all that. I wish books were more interactive. Like video game controllers. They could vibrate at the end of each chapter. But that's not how life works. I wonder what death is like. Do you vibrate? Do the words GAME OVER appear?In 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour and wrote a book narrating her own death. Testament could have been Gendreau's first and only novel, but...
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7.
Series:
Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real
Paperback
Moez Surani
9781771665384
$18.00
POETRY
Sep 16, 2019
Following Surani's previous collection Operations, which excavated the debasement done to language by nations worldwide, how does one return to using language for poetry? Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real responds to this question. Amidst the dangers of figurative language, the coercion of sentimentality and the insidious freight of abstraction, these poems embody the necessity for the critical, the communal, the real. This collection uses conceptual critiques of public discourse and experimental social cartographies, as well as lyrics of intim...
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8.
Series:
Vancouver for Beginners
Paperback
Alex Leslie
9781771665346
$18.00
POETRY
Oct 03, 2019
Winner of the Writers' Trust Dayne Ogilvie Award for LGBTQ WritersIn Vancouver for Beginners, mapping becomes a form of nostalgia, and readers are led through a territory portrayed by real estate listings, childhood landmarks long gone and developers who pace at a city's limits shored with aquariums. In these poems there are many Vancouvers and and there is no Vancouver, so that the very idea of city is drawn into question. What emerges is a new idea of city, one meant for elsewhere, something left behind after the fire has swept through, somet...
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9.
Series:
Mobile
Paperback
Tanis MacDonald
9781771665308
$18.00
POETRY
Sep 12, 2019
Mobile is an uncivil feminist reboot of Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working and walking women in a love/hate relationship with Toronto, its rivers and creeks, its sidewalks and parks, its history, misogyny and violence. How do we, in Lee's words, see the "lives we had not lived" that "invisibly stain" the city? What are the sexual politics of occupying space in a city, in a workspace, in history? How can we name our vulnerabilities and our disasters a...
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10.
Series:
Wave Archive
Paperback
Emmalea Russo
9781771665544
$18.00
POETRY
Oct 29, 2019
Is it possible to archive the invisible symptoms of an illness? Is the archive emotional? Emmalea Russo's Wave Archive moves between essay and poetry while also pondering the mind-body connection and the unreliability of thought patterns and histories. Here, Russo invokes her own experiences with seizures, photographs and art-making, archival and indexical processes, brain waves, and the very personal need to document and store while simultaneously questioning the reliability of memory and language. Drawing upon the history of epilepsy in both ...
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11.
Series:
Try Not to Get Too Attached
Paperback
Robin Richardson
9781771665506
$25.00
ART
Nov 05, 2019
Using line drawings, colour and text, Robin Richardson transposes the sensibility of poetry into illustrated works, creating bite-sized, artistic meditations on the terribly wonderful, malleable and absurd experience of being alive. Richardson's intuitive works—inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts—are drawn from fleeting, conscious contact with various notions and emotions; they feel their way around meaning and what it is to be human.It's here, amongst animal imagery and Jungian psychological concepts, that the viewer can, if not caref...
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12.
Series:
7th Cousins
An Automythography
Paperback
Erin Brubacher
9781771665469
$25.00
DRAMA
Nov 19, 2019
From July 7th to August 6th, 2015, we walked 700 kilometres, from Pennsylvania to Ontario. A stranger asked if we were walking to learn how to work and be together. This was certainly part of it.In July 2015, Erin Brubacher and Christine Brubaker, two politically left, secular, Canadian women traced the migration route of their Mennonite ancestors by walking from Pennsylvania to Ontario, through the American Bible Belt. Along the way they were hosted by a series of people with whom they had next to nothing in common. They were welcomed into str...
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