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Series: Just PervsPaperback
Jess Taylor9781771665148
$20.00FICTION
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 IsEssays on Art, Literature and BeingPaperback
Johanna Skibsrud9781771665261
$20.00LITERARY 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 SpeciesPaperback
Alessandra Naccarato9781771665421
$18.00POETRY
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. 3Paperback
Chris Eaton9781771665100
$23.00FICTION
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
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 QueensPaperback
Vickie Gendreau9781771665223
$20.00FICTION
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
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
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
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 ArchivePaperback
Emmalea Russo9781771665544
$18.00POETRY
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
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 CousinsAn AutomythographyPaperback
Erin Brubacher9781771665469
$25.00DRAMA
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: Mother's DaughterPaperback
Kate Hennig9780369100115
$17.95DRAMA
Jun 03, 2019
In this stunning third part to Kate Hennig’s powerful Queenmaker series, England’s first queen regnant finds herself fighting xenophobia, religious nationalism, and strained familial bonds in the power struggle that dubs her Bloody Mary. Upon the death of King Edward VI, the thirty-eight-year-old princess Mary—daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon—wrests the throne from Edward’s deemed heir. But Mary’s mother appears from the vaults of memory, and adamantly questions the motives of Mary’s cousin Jane and her half-sister Bess, despite M... + Read More
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Series: Cyrano de BergeracPaperback
Kate Hennig9780369100153
$17.95DRAMA
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: tracePaperback
Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)9780369100566
$17.95DRAMA
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: Black BoysPaperback
Stephen Jackman-Torkoff9780369100474
$18.95DRAMA
Sep 26, 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
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 WolvesPaperback
Ryan Griffith9780369100351
$19.95DRAMA
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 GirlsPaperback
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman9780369100436
$17.95DRAMA
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 WinterPaperback
Esther Duquette9780369100559
$17.95DRAMA
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: PugwashPaperback
Vern Thiessen9780369100603
$17.95DRAMA 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'owxiyaThe Hungry Feast DishPaperback
Joseph A. Dandurand9780369100238
$17.95DRAMA 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 Stateor The Principality of Outer BaldoniaPaperback
A.J. Demers9780369100399
$17.95DRAMA
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 LoomPaperback
Suvendrini Lena9780369100313
$19.95DRAMA
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 PlaywrightAn Introduction to Playwriting2nd editionPaperback
Clem Martini9780369100191
$24.95PERFORMING 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: O Canada CrosswordsO Canada Crosswords, Book 20Paperback
Gwen Sjogren9780889713598
$15.95GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Oct 05, 2019
O Canada Crosswords just keeps on giving to thousands of solvers who like their crosswords Canadian. Nightwood Editions is proud to celebrate O Canada Crosswords’s milestone twentieth anniversary with Gwen Sjogren’s ninth book in the series, which features one hundred larger-sized grids and over 2,600 Canadian clues. With themes that touch on art, geography, Olympics and hockey—plus some music and magic mixed in for good measure—this instalment brings a cornucopia of CanCon to the table. Thirty-three Canadian-themed puzzles include “Breakout Hi... + Read More
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Series: Bone BlackPaperback
Carol Rose GoldenEagle9780889713642
$21.95FICTION
Oct 19, 2019
There are too many stories about Indigenous women who go missing or are murdered, and it doesn’t seem as though official sources such as government, police or the courts respond in a way that works toward finding justice or even solutions. At least that is the way Wren StrongEagle sees it. Wren is devastated when her twin sister, Raven, mysteriously disappears after the two spend an evening visiting at a local pub. When Wren files a missing persons report with the local police, she is dismissed and becomes convinced the case will not be properl... + Read More
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Series: Un-CanadianIslamophobia in the True NorthPaperback
Graeme Truelove9780889713628
$21.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Oct 19, 2019
Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North is a provocative warning to Canadians that the values they cherish are being eroded through a pattern of political, legal and social prejudice directed towards Muslims in Canada since September 11, 2001. Featuring never-before-published interviews with key politicians and journalists, influential Muslim leaders and ordinary Canadians who have suddenly found themselves thrust into what might become a full-fledged culture war, this book sounds the alarm about our politicians, our commitment to the rule ... + Read More
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Series: Let ’Em HowlLessons from a Life in Backroom PoliticsPaperback
Patricia Sorbara9780889713581
$22.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 05, 2019
Patricia Sorbara has been a political operative for more than forty years—a mainstay in the background of both federal and provincial politics in Ontario, dedicating her career to the Liberal Party. She’s worked for and with Liberal Opposition Leaders, Premiers, Members of Parliament, Members of Provincial Parliament and more candidates than any staffer could imagine. Sorbara became known as the woman to have on side, the one who knows the ground game and never backs down from a challenge. In December of 2014, all of that changed. A potential c... + Read More
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Series: Renaissance NormcorePaperback
Adèle Barclay9780889713604
$18.95POETRY
Oct 19, 2019
Renaissance Normcore belts like a classically trained riot grrrl, composing catchy tunes in the key of fear and desire. Building on the dreamy emotional landscapes she plumbed in If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You, Barclay navigates even sharper peaks and valleys in her second collection to examine the links between intimacy and power. Tracking the paradoxical impulses of anguish and joy that underpin daily life in our hostile neoliberal climate, these poems are both abject and sweet as they repurpose loss into life and test the bounds o... + Read More
Belated Bris of the Brainsick traces 1) a belated and in some ways violent revelation about one’s ancestry and one’s past, 2) a resultant mental breakdown and 3) the pursuit of a new life with someone else who lives with mental illness. These events and the styles in which they are told are inflected by queer, transgender and disabled perspectives and aesthetics. If there is a narrative arc to the collection, it is not the usual one of falling ill and then regaining health; rather, it is the pursuit of a “queered” version of health.
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Series: My Brother ChuckPaperback
Andrew Evans9781988754086
$19.95FICTION
Oct 15, 2018
My Brother Chuck is a touching and insightful look at growing up male in the 50s and 60s. Growing up in a peaceful suburban families, two dissimilar brothers attempt to apply the life-lessons from their parents with varying degrees of success. Little brother Chuck is a born salesman, while his older brother is a reticent engineer, who struggles to understand his more outgoing wife. Then a crisis, and an extreme step, leaving behind the haunting question, 'Is that what Dad meant?'
Spring, 1847, and Lady Franklin is back in London expecting to greet her hero husband, polar explorer Sir John Franklin, upon his triumphant return from the Northwest Passage. But as weeks turn to months, she reluctantly grows into her public role as Franklin's steadfast wife, the "Penelope of England." In this novel that imagines a rich interior life of one of Victorian England's most intriguing women, the boundaries of friendship, propriety, and love are bound to collide.
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Series: Poor Clare, ThePaperback
Elizabeth Gaskell9781988754093
$16.95FICTION
Oct 15, 2018
Set in Victorian England, Gaskell's gothic masterpiece weaves the tale of a lonely old woman whose curse upon the murderer of her cherished dog unleashes unintended consequences. The impulse of revenge is turned to contrition after the discovery of an unexpected connection between her and the accursed. Through Ireland to Yorkshire and finally London, a young lawyer discovers a beautiful young woman mysteriously followed by her own demonic doppelganger, and sets out to learn if the curse can be broken.
On a hot summer day, a young Anishinabe boy visits the shores of Gitchee Gumee with his mother. Nanaboozhoo, their teacher, is before them, presenting himself as a mass of land that stretches across the horizon. As they visit, Keeshig tells his mother about what he calls "the Ojibwe pterodactyls" that live with Nanaboozhoo. He talks about their hunting and what they like to eat. At the end of the story, Keeshig surprises his mom by sharing that the Ojibwe pterodactyls are indeed the thunderbirds and that they are the heartbeat of Nanaboozhoo. K... + Read More
Beautiful meditations on absences and loss interwoven with personal, local and cultural memories.This new and remarkable book of poetry weaves beautifully crafted and intuitive meditations on absences and loss, with personal, local and cultural presence and memories. The poems awaken transformative interconnections between literature, ecology, civilization, history and individual study. A story of acknowledgment and philosophical and spirit renewal are told from various points of view and identities; from vanished figures from a Victoria childh... + Read More
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Series: My Father, Fortune-tellers & MeA MemoirBook
Eufemia Fantetti9781896949758
$21.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 25, 2019
My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me: A Memoir is a powerful and witty coming-of-age story of fate versus free will. As the daughter of southern Italian immigrants joined in an acrimonious arranged marriage, Eufemia Fantetti weathered the devastating consequences of her mother’s treatment-resistant schizophrenia for years before moving to the West Coast to escape the constant turmoil. In her search for meaning beyond a host of ancestral superstitions—malocchio, maledictions and stregheria—she writes, cracks jokes, meets counselors, studies the sky f... + 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: 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
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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: 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: Devil in the WoodsElectronic book text, EPUB
D.A. Lockhart9781771315104
$11.99POETRY
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 p... + Read More
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Series: Devil in the WoodsElectronic book text, PDF
D.A. Lockhart9781771315111
$11.99POETRY
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 p... + Read More
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Series: Sotto VoceElectronic book text, EPUB
Maureen Hynes9781771315135
$11.99POETRY
Sep 01, 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 lov... + Read More
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Series: Sotto VoceElectronic book text, PDF
Maureen Hynes9781771315142
$11.99POETRY
Sep 01, 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 lov... + Read More
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Series: MowingElectronic book text, EPUB
Marlene Cookshaw9781771315166
$11.99POETRY
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 do... + Read More
Set-Point is humorously dry, insightful, and an understated portrait of a complex personal landscape. Lucy is a 20-something old aspiring screenwriter who takes up digital sex-work to pay the bills. Circulating a confused social atmosphere of half-engagement with lovers, friends, and co-workers in present-day Montreal, Lucy struggles with her self image, an eating disorder, and the illness of her mother. Haunted by self-doubt and a desire to believe in her work and worth, Lucy volleys between self-sabotage and ambition as she tries to develop... + Read More
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Series: Sex Work Activism in CanadaSpeaking Out, Standing UpPaperback
Amy Lebovitch9781927886298
$30.00SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 15, 2019
Serving as a history as well as a rare and valuable reference, Sex Work Activism in Canadabrings together the narratives, histories, expertise, and teachings of sex work activists across the country. Through texts and testimonials from the grass-roots level it explores the past and present work of sex work activists and advocates in our own words.
50.
Series: ROMANS/SNOWMAREPaperback
Scott Scott9781927886274
$17.00POETRY
Sep 15, 2019
51.
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: 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
53.
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.
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.
58.
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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