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Series: Curb AngelsPaperback
Christopher Ducharme9781988168265
$24.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
May 30, 2019
In the post-punk, global economy of the 1980's, four young women from very different backgrounds are united by a common goal: justice. Curb Angels features fearless female characters on a mission that crosses borders and challenges the status quo. In the face of exploitation and violence against women, they carve their own path and leave a touch of well-deserved wreckage along the way. Powerhouse team Lisa Mendis and Christopher Ducharme join forces in this tour-de-force graphic novel debut to push boundaries and buttons as they explore cultura... + Read More
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Series: What Fox KnewPaperback
Mary Barnes9781988168203
$19.95POETRY
Nov 05, 2019
With poems that both calm and awaken, Mary Barnes brings her Ojibwe roots to the fore and elegantly coaxes out the seemingly quiet world we often take for granted in What Fox Knew. In this masterful first collection, Barnes reveals this world anew, with tempered grace.
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Series: DakgharThe House that CallsHardcover
Ashis Gupta9781988440354
$21.95FICTION
Dec 15, 2019
Based on true incidents, this complex novel remembers the staging of Tagore's play 'Dakghar' in a Warsaw ophanage run by Dr Janusz Korczak, days before 200 orphange children, staff and Dr Korczak were sent by railcars to the Treblinka Death Camp.
After having children of her own she rediscovered the magic and adventure in children's books. Highly passionate about little people and creating memorable experiences for them through the world of stories, she wrote and illustrated her debut book, Animalphabetical Adventures, which takes children on a magical adventure with animals from A to Z.
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Series: Quest for CoomaraswamyA Life in the ArtsHardcover
Pratapaditya Pal9781897411872
$39.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 22, 2020
An engaging and authouritative biography of one a remarkable man who has left a lasting impression on art in the world
In engaging prose as smooth and colourful as her Juno-nominated melodies, Dayna Manning's memoir provides a window into the world of her songwriting. In Many Moons, Manning depicts her collaborations with Canadian legends such as Burton Cummings, Chris Hadfield, and William Lishman, providing readers with an intimate view of a musician's life and up-close encounters with some of Canada's greatest personalities. Manning's charming debut memoir is a fascinating read, spanning Canada itself as well as a three-decade career in an ever-changing musi... + Read More
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Series: Ancient FallPaperback
Jaime Lee Mann9781988279855
$16.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 13
Sep 10, 2019
Vengeful Mother Earth has finally decided to fight back against the humans who, under the power of a dark curse, have been abusing her for centuries. /
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Series: Take FlightPaperback
Mark Burley9781988279879
$19.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 18
Sep 10, 2019
Deep inside a mountain far to the north, Eric will find out which myths and legends are true, and which are just stories; but the answers only matter if he makes it out alive.
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Series: The BeleagueredPaperback
Lynne Golding9781988279831
$19.99FICTION
Oct 25, 2019
A Toronto Star and Globe and Mail Bestseller! Welcome to the world of Jessie Stephens, a young Canadian girl coming of age in a time of war, when peace contentment, and innocence are lost.
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Series: Wish I KnewConscious Caregiving GuideCaregiving Starts HerePaperback
Lise Leblanc9781988279916
$21.95MEDICAL
Nov 05, 2019
"What kind of caregiver are you? The Doormat? The Fighter? The Judge? What if you knew which style would be best for your own health and the health of your loved one? It is THAT important to decide now... on the way IN to the caregiving journey, one that often begins abruptly." Lise Leblanc carefully constructs a step by step, easy to absorb plan for working through the illness of a loved one in Wish I Knew: Conscious Caregiving Guide . Here are: concrete examples self assessment quizzes real-life stories practical but quick exercises insight... + Read More
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Series: Wish I KnewCaregiving InsightsLessons LearnedPaperback
Lise Leblanc9781988279930
$21.95MEDICAL
Nov 05, 2019
Caregiving can be lonely, no matter what stage you're at. Millions of people worldwide struggle with caring for loved ones while still trying to care for themselves. You don't need to learn about caregiving all on your own. In Caregiving Insights, author Lise Leblanc has compiled brief stories and lessons from experts in the field and people just like you who have been caregivers themselves.Focusing on what other caregivers have learned, from setting boundaries and self care to being vulnerable and taking time to listen, the short stories in Ca... + Read More
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Series: Gentle Quotes on CaregivingA one-minute rechargePaperback
Blue Moon Publishers9781988279954
$19.99SELF-HELP
Nov 05, 2019
Looking for the right words to comfort a caregiver? Gentle Quotes on Caregiving is a thought-provoking collection of quotes that will encourage, inspire, and restore. The brief passages, chosen for the harried caregiver who may only have time to read a line or two, will be a source of reassurance and support. Gentle Quotes on Caregiving is the ideal companion to other books in the "Wish I Knew" series, and is designed to help grown children, spouses, friends, neighbours, or anyone looking after a loved one.
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Series: Caregiving JournalRecharge, Remember and ReflectPaperback
Blue Moon Publishers9781988279978
$19.99REFERENCE
Nov 05, 2019
The Caregiving Journal offers a chance to reflect and recharge and set aside time for collecting precious memories and focusing on your own self care.
This workbook is your essential companion to Lise Leblanc's Conscious Caregiving Guide. Each chapter in the workbook corresponds to a chapter in the book, providing space and graphic elements to work through the practical exercises, checklists, reflective questions, self assessments and more that Lise has outlined. The workbook provides a simple framework for Lise's step by step, easy to absorb plan for working through the illness of a loved one.
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Series: Dome, ThePaperback
Suzanne Craig-Whytock9781772311013
$19.95FICTION
Oct 15, 2019
It is the year 2135, almost four decades since the Water Wars ended. Much of the continent is a desert wasteland, and the powerful Consortium rules Adanac, one of the few habitable areas remaining, with an iron fist. Cee and Dee, 16-year-old twins who share a special, almost psychic bond, are runaways from a Consortium workhouse. Now living as Freeworlders in the largest tent city in Trillium province, they are determined to survive--Dee spends her days thieving with her best friend Rogan, and Cee makes a living selling his handmade woodcarving... + Read More
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Series: Secret of the Azure StonePaperback
Raymond McGregor9781772311044
$19.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 14
Nov 15, 2019
Although evil terror nearly brought Uthgar to his demise, Owen was able to save his friend from death, reconcile with his long-lost sister Elsa and free the town from the Evil King. With his family reunited, the Dwarf King wishes to share a secret known only by very few humans or dwarves. However, with this knowledge also comes a new quest and new challenges to ensure humans and dwarves can finally live in peace. As Owen and his friends seek ancient pieces of a hidden, mystical artifact for Stephanie, the young hero worries about his mother and... + Read More
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Series: Yemít and MerímstnPaperback
Nicola Campbell9781772311075
$16.95FICTION
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Series: Devil in the WoodsPaperback
D.A. Lockhart9781771315098
$20.00POETRY
Sep 01, 2019
A collection of letter and prayer poems in which an Indigenous speaker engages with non-Indigenous famous Canadians. D.A. Lockhart's stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, thoughts, and experiences of an Anishinaabe guy from Central Ontario and the manner in which he interacts with central aspects and icons of settler Canadian culture. Riffing off Richard Hugo's 31 Letters and 13 Dreams, the work utilizes contemporary Indigenous poetics to carve out space for often ignored voices in dominant Canadian discourse (and in par... + Read More
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Series: Sotto VocePaperback
Maureen Hynes9781771315128
$20.00POETRY
Sep 15, 2019
Poems that give full attention to a world in shambles, a world in which "mercy is failing." Maureen Hynes, in her fifth book of poetry, speaks tenderly yet vehemently about the threatened worlds that concern her. From Toronto, where she lives and walks the city's afflicted watershed, she turns her attention to the near and far, shifting it from the First Nations' stolen lands to Syria and the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean; from the deaths of family and friends to the newborns into whose care our endangered planet will pass; and from love'... + Read More
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Series: MowingPaperback
Marlene Cookshaw9781771315159
$20.00POETRY
Nov 01, 2019
An award-winning poet's day-book of poems, where both bounty and loss are tenderly assigned value. Marlene Cookshaw, in her first collection of poetry in more than a decade, invites her readers to partake in a long-anticipated harvest that comes in many forms. Whether she's haying June-high grasses, relishing a neighbour's gift of new potatoes with her husband, logging fragments of poetry she's read in a notebook, or honouring the deaths of her parents, Cookshaw works an open field. Through this pastorale wander dogs, horses, chickens, and donk... + Read More
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Series: River ReveryPaperback
Penn Kemp9781554832385
$19.95POETRY
Nov 15, 2019
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Series: The Best of the Worst NewsTales of Inspiration from Around the World and My Life with ALSPaperback
Norman MacIsaac9781554832392
$19.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 15, 2019
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Series: The Scorpion SeasonPaperback
Tara McGowan-Ross9781554832408
$19.95POETRY
Nov 15, 2019
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Series: The RussianPaperback
Brad Kelln9781554832415
$19.95FICTION
Nov 15, 2019
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Series: FireweedPaperback
Tunchai Redvers9781928120186
$16.00POETRY Age (years) from 16 - 0
Aug 31, 2019
Fireweed is a collection of poetry that explores the rawness, trauma, and realities of adolescence compounded with the experience of being a young, Indigenous, and two-spirit intergenerational residential school survivor. Rooted in the symbolism and growth of fireweed, a flower native to the northwest of Canada, this collection takes readers through the hurt, healing, love, and spreading that encompassed the first 23 years of the author's attempt to find truth, safety and connection. Grounded in the simplicity of words and the illustration of t... + Read More
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Series: Ojibwe History SeriesTrail of Nenaboozhoo, Theand Other Creation StoriesPaperback
Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch9781928120193
$25.00HISTORY
Dec 31, 2019
Nenaboozhoo, the creator spirit-being of Ojibway legend, gave the people many gifts. This collection of oral stories presents legends of Nenaboozhoo along with other creation stories that tell of the adventures of numerous beloved animal spirits. The Trail of Nenaboozhoo is a book of art and storytelling that preserve the legends of the Anishinaabe people. Each story is accompanied by strikingly beautiful illustrations by revered Indigenous artists Isaac Murdoch and Christi Belcourt.
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Series: Before the Usual TimeA Collection of Indigenous Stories and Poems.Paperback
Darlene Naponse9781988989150
$20.00FICTION
Apr 23, 2020
A collection of words and imagery from diverse voices grounded in the land that explore community in relation to time. Filmmaker/writer, Darlene Naponse, curates a gathering of expression about time that has passed, time that is now and time that comes.
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Series: UntoldNortheastern Ontario's Military Past, Volume 2, World War II to PeacekeepingPaperback
Dieter Buse9781988989167
$25.95HISTORY
Oct 10, 2019
In this second volume of Untold: Northeastern Ontario's Military Past, authors Dieter K. Buse and Graeme S. Mount detail the contributions and experiences of men and women from northeastern Ontario who participated in military conflicts. They present, among many topics, the Spanish Civil War, internment of enemy aliens, prisoner of war camps in northeastern Ontario, and participating in World War II. They show the participation, contributions and sacrifice of men and women in all the services (army, navy and airforce) as Northeasterners fought ... + Read More
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Series: The ResponsePractising mindfulness in your daily lifePaperback
Gary Petingola9781988989228
$22.95BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Feb 20, 2020
The regular practise of Mindfulness Meditation can enrich our lives with enhanced calm, clarity, insight, emotional intelligence, creativity, productivity, and wellness. Mindfulness practices are useful in addressing illness, stress, and pain. In his first book Gary Petingola walks you through easy exercises using personal narratives to incorporate mindfulness into your daily life.
The playful and poignant novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) sifts through a queer trans woman's unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer love letter steeped in desire, grief, and delight, the story is interspersed with encyclopedia entries about a fictional TV show set on an isolated island.The experimental form functions at once as a manual for how pop culture can help soothe and mend us and as an exploration of oft-overlooked sources of pleasure, including karaoke, birding, and butt toys. Ultimately, Little Blu... + Read More
Poppy wants to go to college like everyone else, but her father has other ideas. Ever since her twin sister, Lola, mysteriously vanished, Poppy's father has been depressed and forces her to stick around. She hopes she can convince Lola to come home, and perhaps also procure her freedom, by sending her twin a series of nineteen letters, one for each year of their lives.When not excavating childhood memories, Poppy is sneaking away with her girlfriend Juniper, the only person who understands her. But negotiating the complexities of queer love and... + Read More
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Series: South AwayThe Pacific Coast on Two WheelsPaperback
Meaghan Hackinen9781988732633
$20.95TRAVEL
Oct 15, 2019
Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Nonfiction Category!Shortlisted for Best Trade Non-Fiction at the 2020 Book Publishing Awards!South Away follows Meaghan Marie Hackinen and her sister in the adventure of a lifetime: bicycling from Terrace, BC down the West Coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Along the way Hackinen battles with the elements in Vancouver Island's dense northern forests and frigid Mexican deserts; encounters strange men, suicidal highways and monster trucks; and makes some emergenc... + Read More
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Series: Arctic SmokePaperback
Randy Schroeder9781988732701
$20.95FICTION
Sep 15, 2019
Shortlisted for Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, ageing punk Lor Kowalski is unsure of his sanity. He is haunted by hallucinogens and harbingers, strung out on broken stories that he cannot piece together into a lucid whole. Forced to join his old band from a life he'd rather forget, he is dragged north under the spell of a mysterious ad for an Arctic festival tour. As the band members unspool across the surreal snowscapes and frozen wastelands, rogue CSIS agents are hot on their... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction SeriesInquirer, ThePaperback
Jaclyn Dawn9781988732671
$19.95FICTION
Oct 01, 2019
Shortlisted for Best Trade Fiction at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!When an accident jeopardizing the family farm draws Amiah Williams back to Kingsley, Alberta, population 1431, she doesn't expect her homecoming to make front-page news. But there she is in The Inquirer, the mysterious tabloid that is airing her hometown's dirty laundry. Alongside stories of high school rivalries and truck-bed love affairs, disturbing revelations about Amiah's past and present are selling papers and fuelling small-town gossip. As the stakes get higher... + Read More
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Series: Santa Rosa TrilogyBroke CityPaperback
Wendy McGrath9781988732732
$18.95FICTION
Sep 01, 2019
Broke City, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, follows young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton neighbourhood of Santa Rosa.Budding with creativity that her working-class parents do not understand, Christine questions her parents' fraught relationship, with alcoholism and implicit violence bubbling just under the surface of their marriage. Her insight turns beyond her family to her neighbourhood, nicknamed Packingtown, a community built on meat-packing plants and abattoirs, on death.Writte... + Read More
Peter Midgley's let us not think of them as barbarians is a bold narrative of love, migration, and war hewn from the stones of Namibia. Sensual and intimate, these evocative poems fold into each other to renew and undermine multiple poetic traditions. Gradually, the poems assemble an ombindi--an ancestral cairn--from a history of violent disruption. Underlying the intense language is an exploration of African philosophy and its potential for changing our view of the world. Even as the poems look to the past, they push the reader towards a futur... + Read More
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Series: Cheap ThrillsPaperback
David Kloepfer9781988098869
$19.95FICTION
Oct 15, 2019
Cheap Thrills takes place over the course of a single weekend, beginning with the incessantly stoned Ethan and his roommate Phil discovering the body of their weed dealer in a Vancouver alley alongside a box of porno magazines and crime noir paperbacks. Tasked by his eccentric boss with locating the money the dealer had been carrying, gang member Wynne Duncan is led to the two roommates. But things don't add up--for anybody. Cheap Thrills is about Vancouver, weed, lust, crime stories, a missing bag of money, an American conspiracy to invade Can... + Read More
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Series: Please Stand ByPaperback
Carolyn Bennett9781988098852
$19.95FICTION
Oct 15, 2019
"Donate to ABS. Do it for Courtney. Do it for his safety." Preying on loving parents is second nature to Suzanne Foley. So is drinking to oblivion while shilling for the publicly-supported Alberta Broadcasting System (ABS). When new management from Toronto threatens to gut the station, Suzanne rallies reluctant coworkers to fight back. Sex with a younger man, intrusive memories and regular trips to the prescription counter aside, she pins all her hope on ABS surviving another day because as she tells Leslie, "It's all I have." Set in the throes... + Read More
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Series: ViaticumPaperback
Natelle Fitzgerald9781988098876
$19.95FICTION
Oct 15, 2019
When Annika Torrey is diagnosed with cancer, she has no one in her life she can turn to. Divorced and estranged from her fundamentalist family, she sells her life insurance policy for cash, hoping to live out her final days in peace. But then Annika is given a rare second chance. Meanwhile, struggling real-estate agent Matt Campbell is drowning in debt. Desperate to save his career and marriage, he lets an old friend invest his money, but the big payout he's promised never materializes. Suspecting fraud, his search for answers leads him to the... + Read More
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Series: Fireweed and BrackenPaperback
Jennifer Coffey9781988098883
$19.95FICTION
Oct 15, 2019
Highlighting the tension between insiders and outsiders, and set against a sinister backdrop, Fireweed and Bracken follows the life of Effie Cambridge who, awkward and searching, leaves her complicated life in Ontario to work as a high school teacher in Charlottetown, PEI, where she makes friends, courts rejection, finds love, and struggles to come to terms with not only herself but with the life she is attempting to build in a place she doesn't belong. Drawing on an inner strength and the humour to explore the pleasures and challenges of livin... + Read More
Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams is a story of B, a young non-binary woman coming of age in the Montreal music scene. As she witnesses her friends struggling with mental illness and drug addiction, she also must deal with her own craft, the nepotism of the industry, and maintaining her transient lifestyle. Lucid, subconscious, introverted, and taking B from Montreal to Los Angeles, Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams is an intimate perspective on the life of making music.
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Series: Constructive NegativityPrize Culture, Evaluations, and Disability in Canadian PoetryPaperback
Shane Neilson9781989287347
$19.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Oct 15, 2019
Series: Causes, TheFirst EditionPaperback
Cathy Stonehouse9781897141953
$22.00FICTION
Aug 23, 2019
Cathy Stonehouse was a teenager in the UK when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. Opening salvos in April 1982 would go on to become a 74-day war over who owned the British-held territory in the southernmost reaches of the Atlantic Ocean. Stonehouse, a young peace activist, was deeply affected by living in a country at war, one that seemed to happen only on television. Thirty years later, she began work on The Causes. This complex and unsettling debut novel follows the young Argentine conscript José Ramirez from his torture on the bleak pl... + Read More
Sister Language is a collaboration, composed mainly of letters and other writings, between two sisters, one of whom, Christina, is schizophrenic. In the careful building of a bridge between sisters, a prose nonpareil is achieved, and a linguistic "bridge" created between readers and the authors, one of whom's deep isolation is in this way diminished."A playful duet, a radiant howl, a swirling portrait of schizophrenia and sisterhood--this beautiful, wildly-groomed book magnifies two brilliant minds in motion. It is a story of what happens when ... + Read More
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Series: Difficult, TheFirst EditionPaperback
Stan Dragland9781897141977
$22.00LITERARY CRITICISM
Oct 17, 2019
The Difficult was at first a footnote to an essay on Lisa Moore's novel, February. I was defending that novel against an absurd charge that it was anti-feminist. That quite accessible novel had been so superficially and insensitively read that I began to wonder how any such reader could begin to cope with more challenging books. From the essay on February, that was too great a detour, certainly for the book (Strangers & Others: Newfoundland Essays) it appeared in, so I cut it. I let the subject of reading and writing about difficult texts lie ... + Read More
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Series: Local HauntsFirst EditionPaperback
David White9781897141960
$20.00POETRY
Oct 26, 2019
The growth of a poet's mind through the darkness of remembered trauma into the light of creativity. It ends with "Sunrise On The Coldstream Road" originally written almost 40 years ago
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Series: Little RussiaPaperback
Francis Desharnais9782924049587
$24.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Apr 30, 2020
Guyenne is a small village north-east of Amos. Unlike other communities in Abitibi, Guyenne is a cooperative: 50% of all the money its inhabitants make goes to developing the colony. People in the vicinity have a nickname for it: they call it "Little Russia." Inspired by the story of his grandparents, who lived in Guyenne from 1948 to 1968, Little Russia sees author Francis Desharnais delving into his own family's past to explore Quebec's rural heritage through the lens of both grassroots socialism and early feminism. An intimate story of epic ... + Read More
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Series: Quattro FictionPeggy Lee's Delicious LipsPaperback
Harry Posner9781988254678
$20.00FICTION
Sep 01, 2019
Peggy Lee's Delicious Lips is a story from inside the head of one Percy Barnum Thurman, a man driving up a hill in the countryside. So worried about what he could run into beyond the crest of the rise, his life leaps out in front of him, like a sudden deer, sharply and brutally detailed. He is a man still struggling for identity, worried about the state of his marriage, estranged from his son, and living a double life on this forever hill, in a vice grip of memories.
Alan Blum's concerns are dramatized in the surreal narrative ofhis novel Somebody Nobody Anybody: When the Cows ComeHome. He inverts the genre of magical realism that injects fictionand fantasy into a realistic tale as a way of showing how life needsmagic, by showing alternatively that magic needs a dose of the Realto deal with life. A beleaguered professor decides to study hatred bydoing research on the Anti-Hate unit of the Toronto Police Force.After becoming entangled in the clichés governing public opinionabout what is inoffensive rather th... + Read More
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Series: Quattro FictionMaternity and Other CorsetsPaperback
Siobhan Jamison9781988254708
$20.00FICTION
Sep 01, 2019
Maternity and Other Corsets is the story of Maebh Murray as she chases the bohemian life through Europe with a French alcoholic painter she meets in Prague the summer after the Velvet Revolution. They move to Paris and have a child, and Maebh becomes breadwinner by day and breast feeder by night. They try life in Greece, Ireland, and Spain, where she ponders her artistic pretensions, bad marriage, and parenting and how difficult it is, in an atmosphere of western arrogance that is blind to its own contradictions, to make it all work.
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Series: Quattro FictionThe Sicilian CowboysPaperback
Joseph Maviglia9781988254722
$20.00FICTION
Sep 01, 2019
The Sicilian Cowboys is a road novella set in Canada, southern Italy, and North Africa. Through vernacular speech patterns and narrative monologue, the story follows the life of high school dropout Bobby Rienzo and his coming to terms with the death of two friends. One died in an accident at work, fuelled by his addictions. The other trampled by a wild horse in San Fratellano, Sicily. As the story unfolds, Bobby falls in love with a southern Italian girl, Donina, and is overwhelmed by a series of dreams and nightmares concerning the internment ... + Read More
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Series: Quattro FictionMeme NoirPaperback
Steve McCabe9781988254647
$20.00FICTION
Sep 01, 2019
Meme-Noir bridges the gap between flash fiction and memoir. Between realism and surrealism. Exploring the ley lines between synchronicity, humour, and strangeness. Elegantly simple writing bridging zen koans and prose poetry. Micro non-fiction. Haiku-like in their simplicity. Vonnegut-like in their elegy. Vignettes like snapshots at the scene of a crime.
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Series: Quattro FictionThe Last News VendorPaperback
Michael Mirolla9781988254715
$20.00FICTION
Nov 01, 2019
A one-legged news vendor with a dilapidated newsstand. An exotic dancer with a penchant for witchcraft. An existentialist narrator who devises a plan to fade out of his own life in a subversive and comically absurd attempt at self-preservation, leaving his partner and two children with no memory of him.Comparable only to Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis as an allegory of transformation, reality, and the absurdity of human existence; The Last News Vendor is a dreamlike meditation on broken spirituality, a collapsing society, and the overburdened ... + Read More
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Series: Quattro FictionWalls of the CavePaperback
Syr Ruus9781988254685
$20.00FICTION
Sep 01, 2019
A writer of unknown gender, an orphan, brought up by despised and religious foster parents, seeks comfort in the invention of a Father. Father takes on a life of his own, however, bringing along a wife and two children, leading all of them into unexpected realms. Although Walls of the Cave contains a strong intellectual foundation, the plot engages in dark humour and the consequently spiced-up tale exposes us to Estonian as a "secret language."
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Series: Quattro PoetryThis White NestPaperback
Frances Boyle9781988254692
$20.00POETRY
Sep 01, 2019
Key themes in This White Nest include shadows and absences, and the human and natural worlds. Some poems speak from family and domestic spheres, while many others engage with archetypal and/or universal voices, incantatory Everywomen dealing with unspecified but difficult or even traumatic situations. The book also explores the wild places that remain in and around cities, engaging a sense of connection or mystery, so that lines between humans and objects in the environment (trees or ocean waves) become blurred, people identifying with and beco... + Read More
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Series: Climbing a QuestionPaperback
Roger Nash9781987872224
$20.00POETRY
Sep 01, 2019
The poetry in this collection explores insights that paradoxes point to in our lives, as energizing antidotes to bland generalities. What's the present, when past and future erupt into it? Can truth be found among our very errors? Can we speak beyond the limits of language? Do we all live in the same world, if different animals see it differently? There are many sorts of poems here, about love, family, farming, war, nature ... seeking a wider view of life in our age.
This book "plays" with Christian scripture toward a specifically meta-physical description of the experience of G-d not unlike - though perhaps only in this regard - Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing. It also takes up doctrinal foci and liturgical forms historically important for Christian thinking, including Augustine's Confessions, Luther's Small Catechism, the topos of Christology, Karl Barth's Dogmatik im Grundriss, the O-antiphons of Advent, Augustine's City of God. Under the aegis of the athlete as traditional model for the Christian asceti... + Read More
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Series: The Clarity of DistanceRevised EditionPaperback
Ayesha Chatterjee9781987872217
$18.00POETRY
Sep 01, 2019
The poems in this collection were written in and about three continents. They attempt to address the question of belonging versus the universality of experience. Writing in vey spare language and using metaphors drawn from both Western and Eastern sources, Chatterjee pares down the complexity of existence in today's global reality into simple moments of truth.
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