1.
Series:
Noopiming
The Cure for White Ladies
Paperback
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
9781487007645
$22.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel, one that combines narrative and poetic fragments through a careful and fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering a long-ago time of hopeless connection and now finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the seven main characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator’s will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their...
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Series:
French Exit
Paperback
Patrick deWitt
9781487004835
$22.95
FICTION
Aug 28, 2018
From Patrick deWitt, the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sisters Brothers, comes a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.Frances Price — tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature — is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Price’s aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances bel...
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3.
Series:
Reset
Reclaiming Social Media for Civil Society
Paperback
Ronald Deibert
9781487008055
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 29, 2020
In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the economy, the environment, and humanity. Digital technologies have given rise to a new machine-based civilization that is increasingly linked to a growing number of social and political maladies. Accountability is weak and insecurity is endemic, creating disturbing opportunities for exploitation.? Drawing from the cutting-edge research of the Citizen Lab, th...
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4.
Series:
Hollywood Eden
Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise
Hardcover
Joel Selvin
9781487007218
$32.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 06, 2021
From the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream.From surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys and the Mamas & the Papas, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of the California Paradise. Central to the story is a ...
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5.
Series:
The Fall 2020 Munk Debate
The Munk Debates
Paperback
Rudyard Griffiths
9781487008390
$14.95
The twenty-sixth semi-annual Munk Debate, North America’s premier public-policy event.Held semi-annually, the Munk Debates provide leading thinkers with a global forum to discuss the major public-policy issues facing the world. Participants in the Munk Debates have included Tony Blair, Stephen Fry, Newt Gingrich, Malcolm Gladwell, Christopher Hitchens, Garry Kasparov, Henry Kissinger, Paul Krugman, Steven Pinker, Samantha Power, and Fareed Zakaria.The Munk Debate series features the full text of the debates, along with interviews with the debat...
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6.
Series:
The Age of Creativity
Art, Memory, My Father, and Me
Paperback
Emily Urquhart
9781487005313
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 01, 2020
A moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart, the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes. “The fundamental misunderstanding of our time is that we belong to one age group or another. We all grow old. There is no us and them. There was only ever an us.” — from The Age of CreativityIt has long been thought that artistic output declines in old age. When Emily Urquhart and her family celebrated the eightieth birthday of her fath...
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7.
Series:
The Lost Spells
Hardcover
Jackie Morris
9781487007799
$31.00
POETRY
Oct 27, 2020
The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults.The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature, conjuring up red foxes, birch trees, jackdaws, and more in poems ...
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8.
Series:
On Love and Tyranny
The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt
Paperback
Dr. Ann Heberlein
9781487008116
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 05, 2021
In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of evil, totalitarianism, love, and exile prove essential amid the rise of the refugee crisis and authoritarian regimes around the world. What can we learn from the iconic political thinker Hannah Arendt? Well, the short answer may be: to love the world so much that we think change is possible.The life of Hannah Arendt spans a crucial chapter in the history...
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9.
Series:
The Conscious Creative
Practical Ethics for Purposeful Work
Paperback
Kelly Small
9781487008024
$22.95
SELF-HELP
Aug 04, 2020
An actionable guide to mindfulness and practical ethics for any creative professional who wants to make a living without selling their soul.It can be difficult to live according to our values in a complicated world. At a time when capitalism seems most unforgiving but the need for paying work remains high, it is important to learn how we can be more mindful and intentional about our impact — personal, social, economic, and environmental.As designer and creative director Kelly Small had to do to navigate a crisis of ethics and burnout in their c...
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10.
Series:
A Family Affair
Paperback
Nadine Bismuth
9781487007027
$22.95
FICTION
Aug 25, 2020
A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships, A Family Affair confirms award-winning author Nadine Bismuth’s place as a remarkable chronicler of contemporary middle-class mores in the manner of Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, and Lorrie Moore. Award-winning novelist and screenwriter for film and television Nadine Bismuth has returned with an unsparing portrait of twenty-first century life. In A Family Affair, love is the first casualty and deceit — towards others, towards oneself — the norm.Kitchen designer Magalie is being cheated upon and...
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11.
Series:
I Am Ariel Sharon
Paperback
Yara El-Ghadban
9781487007973
$22.95
FICTION
Nov 17, 2020
A bold and innovative novel, I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.Award-winning Palestinian Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban imagines the confrontation at death’s door between Ariel Sharon, the “King of Israel,” and the women closest to him — his mother, his wives, and the mysterious nurse Rita. Like latter-day Greek furies, they lament the brutality of his life and maltreatment of the Palestinian people and demand he face up to his part i...
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12.
Series:
How to Be Happy Though Human
New and Selected Poems
Paperback
Kate Camp
9781487008376
$21.95
POETRY
Sep 01, 2020
A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed poets, How to Be Happy Though Human introduces Kate Camp’s eclectic and musical poetry to international audiences for the first time.How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems is Kate Camp’s seventh book of poetry and the first to be published outside New Zealand. Incorporating a grouping of new, previously unpublished work and a selection of important poems from her six earlier collections, this volume introduces North American readers to ...
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13.
Series:
Fortune
The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung
Paperback
Ian Hamilton
9781487004026
$19.95
FICTION
Jan 05, 2021
International bestselling author Ian Hamilton returns with a riveting new novel featuring fan-favourite Uncle Chow Tung, who is called upon to end a violent turf war between rival gangs and stop a new organized-crime bureau of the Hong Kong Police from eliminating the triad societies once and for all.Hong Kong, 1995. Two years before Hong Kong is to be returned to the People’s Republic of China, the Communist government has its eye on the New Territories, and tensions are running high among the triads. A turf war breaks out in Macau and quickly...
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14.
Series:
The Shadow
Paperback
Melanie Raabe
9781487008635
$22.95
FICTION
Jan 05, 2021
Ruth Ware meets Shari Lapena in this internationally bestselling psychological thriller about the inescapable pull of destiny and revenge.Norah Richter has recently moved from Berlin to Vienna, hoping to put her old life behind her. While walking to her new office one morning, Norah is approached by an elderly homeless woman who utters these chilling words:On the eleventh of February, you will kill a man called Arthur Grimm … With good reason. And of your own free will.Norah is unnerved — many years earlier, something terrible happened to her o...
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15.
Series:
When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks
Paperback
Austin Clarke
9781487008420
$16.95
FICTION
Oct 06, 2020
Now available after over four decades, the first collection of short fiction from bestselling author and Barbadian-born Canadian luminary Austin Clarke — winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the Trillium Book Award for his novel The Polished Hoe — is a vital, lyrical, and provocative exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada. Originally issued in 1971, Austin Clarke’s first published collection of eleven remarkable stories showcases his groundbreaking approach to chronicling the Caribbean dia...
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16.
Series:
Museum of Bone and Water
Paperback
Nicole Brossard
9781487008093
$16.95
POETRY
Mar 02, 2021
Available for the first time in more than fifteen years, this collection from celebrated poet, novelist, and essayist Nicole Brossard is a provocative investigation of the human body — our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire.Nicole Brossard’s Museum of Bone and Water delivers sensual and provocative investigations of the human body — our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire — that pulse and surprise at every turn. In this collection, fingers, lips, fists, cheeks mingle in the palm trees of Dublin and Key West,...
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17.
Series:
Tamara
Paperback
John Krizanc
9781487008482
$16.95
DRAMA
Aug 03, 2021
Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy. In the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d’Annunzio waits in his opulent villa — a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence — for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a tale of art, sex, violence and the meaning of complicity in an aut...
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18.
Series:
Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
Paperback
Ailton Krenak
9781487008512
$16.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 06, 2020
“Ailton Krenak’s ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book.” — Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen FeathersIndigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march towards the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene.From Brazil comes Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist and leader, who demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society’s flawed concept o...
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19.
Series:
The Lost Words Magpie Puzzle
Toy
Robert Macfarlane
9781487009342
$28.95
ART
Age (years) from 12
Oct 06, 2020
The perfect companion to the internationally bestselling collection of poems and illustrations The Lost Words, this 500-piece special-edition jigsaw puzzle brings to life Jackie Morris’s magical watercolour painting of magpies. Since its publication, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s stunning collection of poems and art The Lost Words has enchanted the lives of children and adults alike with its depictions of the beauty of the natural world. Through the magic of word and paint, the book celebrates the wonder and importance of everyday natur...
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