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Series: Guernica Prize An Idea About My Dead Uncle Paperback K.R. Wilson 9781771834513 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2019

A young, mixed-race composer, raised without meaningful connections to his Chinese heritage and struggling with identity issues, travels to China in search of his long-missing uncle, an uncle who vanished in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square. An Idea About My Dead Uncle--winner of the inaugural Guernica Prize for the best unpublished novel manuscript--is about the identities we choose and the ones that are imposed on us. It is about being on the outside looking in. It is about dealing with pain through the artistic process. It is about delusion... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Mad Hatter Paperback Amanda Hale 9781771833905 $29.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2019

When Christopher Brooke is arrested under Regulation 18B in June 1940, a slow process of personal disintegration begins, affecting his family irreversibly. Irish farm girl Mary Byrne is hired as housekeeper for the Brooke household and proves an acute observer of the daily lives of Cynthia Brooke and her three children. But when Mary is shockingly expelled from the house upon Christopher's release from internment, 15-month-old Katie -- conceived on a prison leave and now speaking from adulthood -- takes over as narrator. Moving from the pre-war... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Itzel I A Tlatelolco Awakening Paperback Sarah Xerar Murphy 9781771834148 $29.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2019

The first of two-part novel, Itzel I tells the story of three disparate characters swept up in the drama of the Mexican student movement of 1968 whose ending in the Massacre in Tlatelolco on October 2nd, a date now always commemorated in Mexico, changed their lives forever. Broad in scope and exuberant in style in the best tradition of Latin American literature, this book roots its readers in the ebullience of Mexico's daily life and language, even as they are made to confront the horrors of history, to examine the difficulties of friendship an... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Melba's Wash Paperback Reesa Steinman Brotherton 9781771834001 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2019

Melba's Wash is a rich telling of the archetypal search. In this fractured familial story, Esther Prat wraps her fingers with her diamond necklace and reflects on the secrets, lies, and pain that haunt her life, and makes her choice. Born on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, as an infant she is unceremoniously taken to Montreal, Quebec, to spend the first ten years of her life brought up in an affluent Jewish family. At the age of ten, upon the death of her “daddy,” she is without explanation not allowed to attend his funeral and is taken on a... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Mother's Genius Paperback Kristin Andrychuk 9781771834247 $25.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

Set in the small town of Grenville, Ontario, a setting perhaps familiar to the reader from the author's previous novel Cadillac Road, this story progresses from the 1950s through the 1980s. In 1940, five-year-old Martin Thorton fell from the family's apartment balcony, suffering catastrophic and permanent injuries. His accident plays a role in everything that happens afterwards -- his marginalization growing up a disabled person, his mother's guilt and unfailing devotion, his sister's alienation. Told from the point of view of his sister Gretch... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series How To Tell If Your Frog Is Dead Paperback Julie Roorda 9781771833646 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

A tour guide leads a Valentine's Day-themed ghost walk, visiting the sites of horrific, yet romantic, deaths. A homicide cop solves tough cases using tips from his plants. Scientists discover a new species of religiously observant gophers, and a young math whiz, on the hunt for her escaped boa constrictor, ponders the theory of multiple worlds. Replete with dark humour and cheeky interrogations of philosophy and metaphysics, the thirty-three stories in How to Tell if Your Frog is Dead expose the fundamental absurdity of the human condition.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Canticles II: (MMXIX) Paperback George Elliott Clarke 9781771834094 $29.95 POETRY Oct 01, 2019

Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. This second testament--Canticles II (MMXIX) and Canticles II (MMXX)--issues re-readings--revisions, rewrites--of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African Diaspora in the Americas. Canticles II (MMXIX) follows Testament I (also issued in two parts--Canticles I (MMXVI) and Canticles I (MMXVII)) whose subject is History, principally, of slavery and imperialism and liberation and independence. Canticles II, the second part of a trilogy, is properly irreverent where necessary, but never blasphemous. I... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Tacet Paperback Suzanne Chiasson 9781771834216 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

Charlotte--a gifted but broken jazz singer--has found security and support under the roof of an overbearing French patroness of the arts, only to become trapped by her own dependence. There are no bars on the windows and no locks on the doors, but Charlotte is very much a prisoner in an opulent but unsympathetic world in which her self-worth is contingent on her voice. When the irresponsible and headstrong Theo re-enters her life after thirteen years, she is compelled, finally, to choose between complacency and autonomy.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Telescope Paperback Allan Weiss 9781771834285 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

Telescope is a story cycle about Lawrence Teitel, the protagonist of Living Room (Boheme Press, 2001). The collection deals with seeing distances: above all, the growing distancing of Lawrence's family as they cope with new challenges and Lawrence's own maturation, physical and spiritual. The cycle is made up of nine stories, each covering a different stage in Lawrence's development after his family has moved from their old neighbourhood in Montreal to a somewhat wealthier suburb, Ville St. Laurent.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Extraordinary Renditions Paperback Niki Lambros 9781771833868 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2019

The voices in Extraordinary Renditions come from the deep past when war began; and span the centuries to the present moment, with war still raging around the globe. We hear the ancient story of how violent killers became heroes and then saints, how the picture of torture became an icon to be venerated-- salvation achieved through the instruments of pain and death. The Greek word “martyr” means “witness”; in these poems the voices of victims speak in their own words, the disappeared and nameless dead tell their stories. Many of the poems relate ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series The Perfect Archive Paperback Paul Lisson 9781771833721 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2019

The Perfect Archive is the story of an archivist who moves beyond his role to become an author of texts on archival theory. In his work, he processes the flow and retention of government information, and he begins to question the very nature of a "pure and accurate" archive. He is embroiled in a complex story that sends him into hiding, engages him in love, and has him grappling with tyranny, injustice, the suppression of information, and the strength and the futility of resistance, except in the form of poetry.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Bewilderness Paperback Catherine Black 9781771833998 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2019

Bewilderness explores urban and suburban wildernesses--threshold places--in a darkly comedic, surreal set of prose poems. In Bewilderness, urban and suburban landscapes come to life as shape-shifting places, enchanted places, mundane places of magical thinking, as the reader explores the heterotopias of playgrounds and backyards, lakefront parks, splintery subdivisions, and semi-industrial wastelands. Creatures that inhabit these edged-out corners of land take on the features and neuroses of their human co-habitants in poems that are direct, de... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Footprints of Dark Energy Paperback Henry Beissel 9781771834278 $20.00 POETRY Jul 09, 2019

The title poem of this collection takes us on an epic journey across past and present historical events and through spaces defined by the natural sciences, as it explores the challenges of being human in these troubled times. It is accompanied by a gathering of shorter poems that confront the dark forces in our world as they struggle for the light at the end of the tunnel. In stark imagery, these poems turn words into music to celebrate the anguish and the glory of being alive.
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Series: Essential Poets Series McLuhan's Canary Paperback Bruce Meyer 9781771834063 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2019

If we are to live in this world and share in its experience, we must have patience. In McLuhan's Canary, Bruce Meyer examines the questions of how we wait to find love, why we love and show courage to the people and things that are important to us, and how we find purpose in the small, commonplace, and almost insignificant things that help us to endure with dignity. In these poems, paeans to the virtue of patience, Meyer listens as the world sings to us and awakens us to the perpetuity and strength in which we live and love.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Traveling the Lost Highway Paperback James Deahl 9781771834100 $20.00 POETRY Jul 09, 2019

Travelling The Lost Highway contains themes central to James Deahl's poetry: the poet's responsibility to nature, the necessity and beauty of love, elegies, and the vulnerability, yet surprising resilience, of all life. Central to the book is a series twenty-two travel pieces, written off the grid of main highways in Canada and the United States. Although not usually a political poet, the collection closes with a section of poems personally responding to the advent of President Donald Trump, an electoral result that, unlike most elections, chan... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series The Long Bond Selected and New Poems Paperback Allan Briesmaster 9781771834667 $25.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2019

The Long Bond is a gathering of the finest work from six books over four decades by a widely respected and remarkably versatile poet. It spans a massive range of subjects and styles, encompassing the Canadian landscape, music and art, love and family, science, technology, and the manifold challenges to a questioning mind on our anxious planet.
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Series: Essential Translations Series Sleepless Nights and Days of Glory Paperback Hélène Rioux 9781771834674 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

Tragedy at Montreal's End of the World restaurant. A little marriage fatigue, a cottage to sell and a woman in cashmere: suddenly twenty seven years of conjugal life are swept away. Jean-Charles has left his wife. And with her goes the charm the restaurant possessed, where simple food was served to simple people. Sleepless Nights and Days of Glory, the third volume in Hélène Rioux's Fragments of the World series, opens with the theme of abandonment and betrayal, and then takes the reader around the world.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Asylum/Ransomed Breaking the Fourth Wall Paperback Laura Swart 9781771833875 $25.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2019

Asylum features interviews with sixteen Canadian refugees from around the world. The interviews are shaped into a five-act play in the likeness of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to address poignant questions about what is true, what is real. Philosophers, artists, and politicians take the stage alongside the refugees to highlight stories of war, displacement, and being other.
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Series: Essential Essays Series Colours to the Chameleon Canadian Actors on Shakespeare Paperback Keith Garebian 9781771833936 $25.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 01, 2019

The first work of its kind in Canada, this book explores 11 first-rate actors' perceptions and comments in relation to performing Shakespeare in order to offer a sense of what these actors mean by the work. Colourful, lively, with strong considerations of technique and interpretation, this book gives Canadian actors a rare and generous opportunity to explore the highest reaches of their art in relation to Shakespearean acting.
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Series: World Prose Leaves on Frozen Ground Paperback Dave Carty 9781771833455 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2019

Céline Vaillancourt saw the untamed forest in shades of apprehension. But Edmund, her 11-year-old son, was possessed of a different vision, as though he had put the very same brooding colors together and produced a painting shot through with adventure and the light of discovery. There was no talking to him. But talk no longer seemed to matter. Edmund was his father's son, stubborn and willful. His dog and the wild country beyond their orchard owned his heart. But now it was December, and cold. And neither dog nor boy were paying attention.
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Series: Guernica World Editions Disc of the Sun 1st edition Paperback Jerilyn Mirpol 9781771834209 $20.00 Jan 01, 2020
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Series: World Poetry Thirteen Ways of Crossing the Piazza Collected Poems Paperback D'Acierno Pellegrino 9781771834346 $20.00 POETRY Nov 15, 2019

Roman poems set in the Piazza Navona that stage a fundamental encounter with both Rome and Italy, one that involves writing/desiring Italy. They experiment with a number of different voices and poetic styles and they present a montage of voices of diverse characters that range from an aristocratic flâneur whose drift-work is interrupted by a bold street-walker to an old poet in agony as a result of compromising his poetry by his compliance with Fascism.
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Series: World Prose Help Me, Rhonda & Other Stories Paperback David Hornik 9781771834636 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2019

The fourteen stories in this collection are roughly evenly divided between those set in Israel and those set in the U.S.; a couple occur in vague, exotic places including an imagined Greenland. The lead--and longest--story, “Help Me, Rhonda,” features two American immigrants in Israel, a man and a woman, the former divorced and the latter single, who meet by chance and try to navigate the difficult maze of fear, doubt, and need that their encounter prompts in them. Other stories as well put romance, or failed romance, front and center--the ques... + Read More
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Series: GWE Creative Non-Fiction Ten Letters to Montaigne Paperback Jüri Talvet 9781771834704 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 15, 2019

Socrates looked expectantly to the afterlife, when he would be able to converse with the wisest of the honored dead. Jüri Talvet has elected not to wait, but instead to begin his conversations with the wise in this life. In these ten letters, Talvet has entered into conversation with one of those wise predecessors, Michel de Montaigne. Talvet?s ruminations place contemporary issues into a long historical perspective, and a rich literary context. These letters offer an uncompromising critique of current global tendencies, but Talvet?s critiq... + Read More
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Series: World Prose Gauguin's Moon Paperback Marello Laura 9781771834315 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2019

Daniella believes her lost mother is a World War II spy, but is terrorized by a dream of a war-torn jungle, raining fire. At forty, with her life and career stalled, Daniella is visited by four dead ancestors, who try to help her put her life back together. When this fails, propelled by curiosity about her recurring dream, she travels to the nuclear testing grounds at the Bikini Islands, to find out her mother's real role in the war and its aftermath.
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Series: My Totem Came Calling Paperback Blessing Musariri 9781988449753 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) from 7 - 9 Sep 15, 2019

Chanda is a seventeen-year-old schoolgirl in Harare, Zimbabwe, who suddenly starts suffering from memory lapses, which become even more worrisome when she starts seeing a zebra in all sorts of places. The trouble is, nobody else can see it. Afraid of being institutionalized in a hospital, she follows the advice of an old aunt and sets off for her ancestral village, a primitive settlement with none of the amenities she is used to in the city. But there she meets the rest of her family, including her strange and mysterious grandmother, and learns... + Read More
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Series: Keepers of the Faith Paperback Shaukat Ajmeri 9781988449968 $24.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2020

Keepers of the Faith is set within a small Muslim sect of India, ruled by an avaricious priesthood that demands absolute submission while enforcing archaic social customs. When a section of the community rebels, it is summarily excommunicated, shunned by friends and family and denied religious rites. The peaceful community is split into two. The novel follows the fates of two blissful young lovers, Akbar and Rukhsana, in the historic city of Udaipur. When the communal split occurs, their families are on opposite sides; the lovers' dream of a h... + Read More
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Series: Polychromasia Paperback Mohineet Kaur Boparai 9781988449937 $20.95 POETRY Nov 12, 2019

Polychromasia, as the word implies, metaphorically looks at the many hues of life as it is lived, especially in India. It takes on love, through confessional poems, the biosphere through the idea of geographical space over human time, patriarchy, class, and caste as it affects people, and the practice and appreciation of art.
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Series: Somali Camel Boy, The Paperback Nur Abdi 9781988449876 $22.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2019

Where simply yawning can be a crime... Ali belongs to a camel-herding family of the Sudi clan, in a Somali society riven by ancient clan rivalries. When members of the rival Duki clan kill his father and steal his herd, Ali walks all the way to the capital town to start a new life. The ruling government, however, is dominated by the Duki; its actions are murderous, its rulings arbitrary, and its target the Sudi clan. For the crime of yawning--thus acting out the Great Leader's nickname, "Big Mouth"--Ali is arrested, imprisoned, brutally beaten... + Read More
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Series: Waiting for the Rain An Iraqi Memoir Paperback Lamees Al Ethari 9781988449906 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 31, 2019

In this memoir, Lamees Al Ethari traces her transition from an idyllic childhood in a large extended Iraqi family to the relative stability of an exilic family life in Canada. Through memory fragments, flights of poetry, diary entries, and her own art, the author reveals the trauma suffered by Iraqis, caused by three senseless wars, dehumanizing sanctions, a brutal dictatorship, and a foreign occupation. Finely observed, highly personal, and intensely moving, this account also gives testimony to the Iraqi people's resilience and the humanity th... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: trace Paperback Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) 9780369100566 $17.95 DRAMA Dec 02, 2019

"I support you when you need, so that you support me when I need." An elegant and sweeping story of a Chinese family’s history, trace follows the footsteps of four generations as their homes and identities are challenged. Jeff Ho brings life to his great grandmother, grandmother, and mother through considerate storytelling as they recount their pasts, leading to a paralleled present. Great Grandmother fled the Japanese during World War II by escaping China into Hong Kong, a traumatic event that’s rippled down the family line. Grandmother marrie... + Read More
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Series: Cyrano de Bergerac Paperback Kate Hennig 9780369100153 $17.95 DRAMA Jul 24, 2019

From the acclaimed author of The Last Wife and The Virgin Trial comes a new adaptation of one of the finest love stories ever told. Cyrano de Bergerac is a swashbuckling seventeenth-century swordsman who can do anything . . . except tell Roxane, the woman he loves, how he feels. He’s just too self-conscious about his unusually large nose. Roxane finds romance in words, and Cyrano is full of them, so when he sees the chance to ghostwrite love letters to her from an inarticulate, love-struck cadet, he takes it—but can he ever reveal himself? Coul... + Read More
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Series: Black Boys Paperback Stephen Jackman-Torkoff 9780369100474 $18.95 DRAMA May 30, 2023

Black Boys by Saga Collectif (Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen) uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black experience. Text, movement, and design portray the rhythm and vulnerability of three very different Black individuals who seek a deeper understanding of themselves, each other, and of how they encounter the world. As they explore their unique identities, their performances rigorously interrogate and playfully subvert the ways in which gender, sexuality, and race a... + Read More
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Series: Unholy Paperback Diane Flacks 9780369100276 $17.95 DRAMA Sep 03, 2019

Should women abandon religion? Four female panellists face off in a wild, whip-smart televised debate about the intersection of religion and misogyny. On one side, there’s Maryam, a progressive Muslim lawyer, and Yehudit, an Orthodox Jewish spiritual leader. The other has Liz, a lesbian antitheist pundit, and Margaret, an excommunicated nun. The debaters wrestle with themselves and with each other: Can you be a feminist and believe in religion? What can or can’t be forgiven? Why do we have faith to begin with? Between the arguments, each of the... + Read More
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Series: Fortune of Wolves Paperback Ryan Griffith 9780369100351 $19.95 DRAMA Nov 12, 2019

What would it feel like if the world emptied out? Lowell Garrish has lost everything—his parents, his grandma, the music the waves make on the shore in Nova Scotia. Desperate to hold on to real sound, Lowell sets off on a road trip across Canada with a tape recorder, capturing something from every person he meets and his observations along the way. But as he drives, strange occurrences and mass disappearances imply that something terrible is happening, and Lowell begins to realize that time for humanity may be running out. Written as transcript... + Read More
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Series: Guarded Girls Paperback Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman 9780369100436 $17.95 DRAMA Oct 07, 2019

The stories and experiences of three imprisoned women and a guard intertwine in dramatic and dangerous ways, as the psychological destruction that is solitary confinement taunts each of their lives. Nineteen-year-old Sid is transferred to a new prison, finding friendship with her cellmate Brit, but she also forms a complicated relationship with a guard who seems to be watching their every move. In another time, an older inmate named Kit talks to an unseen audience about a coming visitor and how she’ll stop at nothing to see them, even if that m... + Read More
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Series: Straight Jacket Winter Paperback Esther Duquette 9780369100559 $17.95 DRAMA Nov 12, 2019

When Esther and Gilles decided to move from Montréal to Vancouver, they didn’t expect their lives to change so starkly. All they wanted was to start a new life for themselves, to find new artistic opportunities. But their new home proves to be a challenging culture shock as the young couple struggles to connect with others, navigate their language barrier, and cope with non-stop rain. These blocks become walls, cutting Gilles and Esther off from the world, and with cabin fever comes erratic behaviour. They find themselves being torn apart, divi... + Read More
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Series: Pugwash Paperback Vern Thiessen 9780369100603 $17.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 12 - 18 Dec 09, 2019

1957. Barely a decade after the first use of atomic bombs, the world is divided and fearful of the real threat of nuclear weaponry. In an effort to understand the devastating effects of radiation, leading scientists and academics—world-renowned “Thinkers”—are invited to a conference in the small town of Pugwash, Nova Scotia. Two local children, Conni and Jamie, take interest in some of the Thinkers, who are humbled by their innocent welcome. But a spy disguised as a reporter has conned Jamie for information to use against the Thinkers, putting ... + Read More
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Series: Th'owxiya The Hungry Feast Dish Paperback Joseph A. Dandurand 9780369100238 $17.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 5 - 15 Sep 03, 2019

When you take something from the earth you must always give something back. From the Kwantlen First Nation village of Squa’lets comes the tale of Th’owxiya, an old and powerful spirit that inhabits a feast dish of tempting, beautiful foods from around the world. But even surrounded by this delicious food, Th’owxiya herself craves only the taste of children. When she catches a hungry mouse named Kw’at’el stealing a piece of cheese from her dish, she threatens to devour Kw’at’el’s whole family, unless he can bring Th’owxiya two child spirits. Ign... + Read More
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Series: Whimsy State or The Principality of Outer Baldonia Paperback A.J. Demers 9780369100399 $17.95 DRAMA Oct 07, 2019

With a few drinks and some “Ayes!” three fishermen on a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia declare independence from Canada: henceforth, they shall be known as the Princes of the Principality of Outer Baldonia! It’s 1948 when Russ, Elson, and Ron discover that the Canadian government plans to open their Atlantic commercial fishing rights to the Spanish, posing an overcrowding threat to business and wildlife. Russ, a vacationing American lawyer, has just purchased Outer Bald Tusket Island for $750. With a newly erected stone lodge, plenty... + Read More
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Series: The Enchanted Loom Paperback Suvendrini Lena 9780369100313 $19.95 DRAMA Nov 22, 2022

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of the war play out, the family bears witness from their new home of Toronto. Thangan’s other son Kanan comes home from a protest, shaken that someone referred to him by his brother’s name. His young daughter Kavitha innocently dances around with a mysterious pair of anklets that she found. And Thangan’s wife Sevi is consumed with feeling responsible ... + Read More
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Series: The Blunt Playwright An Introduction to Playwriting 2nd edition Paperback Clem Martini 9780369100191 $24.95 PERFORMING ARTS Sep 16, 2019

The Blunt Playwright won’t tell you everything there is to know about playwriting. It won’t even try. What it will do is examine process, structure, dialogue, and character; provide classic and contemporary scenes to study; outline clever exercises to strengthen writing skills; and so much more. Highly regarded and used in schools everywhere, this updated edition cements its place as one of the best resources for playwrights. From organizing the structure of a script to developing characters’ voices, from employing visual effects on stage to wr... + Read More
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Series: The Directors Lab Techniques, Methods, and Conversations About All Things Theatre Paperback Evan Tsitsias 9780369100511 $24.95 PERFORMING ARTS Dec 16, 2019

After spending ten years in international Directors Lab programs—first in New York and Chicago, then co-founding Directors Lab North in Toronto—Evan Tsitsias has amassed an extensive amount of advice, examples, and notes that prove essential reading for theatre creators and artists across disciplines. Combined with master classes and interviews with established, emerging, and mid-career directors, this manual is an artistic, logistic, and pedagogical exploration into the mechanics of theatre creation through the lens of a director. With so much... + Read More
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Series: Naming the Shadows 1st edition Paperback Sharon Berg 9780889844292 $18.95 FICTION Sep 23, 2019

Sharon Berg's quietly insightful collection focuses on relationships between generations, acknowledging the prevalence of the shadows that are everywhere-but also celebrating the light.
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Series: The Essential Kay Smith 1st edition Paperback Kay Smith 9780889844261 $14.95 POETRY Dec 23, 2019

Light and shadows clash in The Essential Kay Smith, a collection that demonstrates an early modernist poet's attempts to reconcile faith, imagination, reality and being.
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Series: The Ballad of Samuel Hewitt 1st edition Paperback Nick Tooke 9780889844278 $19.95 FICTION Dec 15, 2019

Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, a young horse thief and his unlikely accomplice are pursued through the forbidding landscape of the BC interior. There they encounter villains, drifters and fiercely insular circus folk in a profound tale of friendship, forgiveness and finding home.
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Series: The Hunting of the Snark 1st edition Paperback Lewis Carroll 9780889844308 $16.95 HUMOR Nov 11, 2019

In this illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, master wood engraver George A. Walker provides an uproarious reinterpretation of the classic poem as seen through the convex lens of contemporary American politics.
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Series: Casting into Mystery 1st edition Paperback Robert Reid 9780889844285 $26.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Feb 18, 2020

Casting into Mystery celebrates the meditative sport of fly fishing, rejoicing in the camaraderie and quietude to be found not only in the gentle flow of river currents, but also in the community and culture of anglers past and present.