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Series: The Goliath Run Hardcover Brad Smith 9781988168210 $28.95 FICTION Apr 16, 2020

When a deranged loner kills twenty-six people in a Pennsylvania schoolyard, the country is stunned and devastated. Among those catatonic with grief is Jo Matheson, an organic farmer who has lost her goddaughter in the shooting.Sam Jackson, an egotistical right-wing TV talking head, has sliding ratings and faces imminent cancellation. He arrives in Pennsylvania and during a rant, he blames the parents of the dead children. He intends the tirade to be his last salvo but, incredibly, his ratings climb, while Jo watches from her farmhouse in upstat... + Read More
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Series: From the Heart Once a Storm Grief Paperback Janet Trull 9781988168296 $6.95 FICTION May 01, 2020

Losing a loved one to addiction and the unsurmountable grief that follows cannot be aptly defined by linear, literal description. In Once a Storm, acclaimed short fiction writer Janet Trull nimbly and thoughtfully depicts the loss experienced by a parent who loses a child. When there are no words that can do the heart justice and the waves continue push and tug, the author offers up that which will not fade nor be washed away: the certainty of love.
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Series: Wish I Knew Conscious Grief & Loss Guide Paperback Lise Leblanc 9781989517154 $21.95 SELF-HELP May 05, 2020

None of us want to experience the loss of a loved one, but the sad reality is we've all experienced it, and it is certain that grief will come knocking many times throughout our lives. A psychotherapist for more than twenty years, Lise Leblanc has learned that we are rarely fully prepared for a loved one's death or our reaction to it. Like so many others, you may not know how to deal with the emotions, communication problems, and other complexities that arise in times of grief and loss.Although this book cannot take your suffering away, Conscio... + Read More
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Series: Wish I Knew Conscious Grief & Loss Guide Workbook Paperback Lise Leblanc 9781989517192 $21.95 SELF-HELP May 05, 2020

This Conscious Grief & Loss Workbook is your essential companion to Lise LeBlanc's Conscious Grief & Loss 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. This Workbook provides a simple framework for Lise's guide to journey through times of grief and loss. Think of the Conscious Grief & Loss Workbook as a safe place to record your thoughts, important informat... + Read More
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Series: Wish I Knew Gentle Quotes on Grief & Loss Paperback Blue Moon Publishers 9781989517130 $19.99 SELF-HELP May 05, 2020

Looking for the right words to comfort someone who has lost a loved one? Gentle Quotes on Grief & Loss 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 Grief & Loss is the ideal companion to other books in the "Wish I Knew" series, and is designed to help you achieve an optimum state of wellness throughout your grief journey.
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Series: Wish I Knew Grief & Loss Guided Journal Paperback Blue Moon Publishers 9781989517147 $21.95 SELF-HELP May 05, 2020

If you have experienced the loss of a loved one, let the Grief & Loss Guided Journal be a source of comfort for you: a thoughtful book that gently guides you to restore, and reflect, and to record memories and times shared. Through a series of simple, practical prompts and inspiring quotes, the Grief & Loss Guided Journal will help you achieve an optimum state of wellness throughout your grief journey.This guided journal can be completed on an as needed basis, and is designed to help you understand your grief and recognize your self-care needs.... + Read More
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Series: Remember, It's OK Series Remember, It's Ok: Loss of a Partner Paperback Marina L. Reed 9781989517031 $24.95 SELF-HELP May 05, 2020

If you have lost your partner, your love, your other half, this book is for you. If you don't know where to turn because your heart is so very broken, open the cover of this book. Inside these pages are moments you can identify with and guidance that will help you on this painful journey through grief.This unique book divides moments of grief into six colours of emotion as the road map forward. Each "moment" has two entries, one from the perspective of the person suffering from a loss, and another as a guide for a companion response, whether a ... + Read More
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Series: Remember, It's OK Series Remember, It's Ok: Loss of a Parent Paperback Marina L. Reed 9781989517208 $24.95 SELF-HELP May 05, 2020

The loss of a parent is heartbreaking. Your parent has been part of your life and has affected your self-esteem, relationships, decision-making, and life choices. Whether you experienced a warm relationship or one fraught with difficulty, this book will help you deal with your grief journey. This unique book divides moments of grief into six colours of emotion as the road map forward. Each "moment" has two entries, one from the perspective of the person suffering from a loss, and another as a guide for a companion response, whether a friend, fa... + Read More
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Series: Remember, It's OK Series Remember, It's Ok: Loss for Teens Paperback Marina L. Reed 9781989517239 $24.95 SELF-HELP May 05, 2020

Whether it be the death of a friend or family member, this book was written in consultation with teens to ensure it meets their needs. Inside these pagesare moments you will identify with and guidance that will help you on your painful journey. There are no secrets here--this book can be your safety net, your comfort, your help. This unique book divides moments of grief into six colours of emotion as the road map forward. Each "moment" has two entries, one from the perspective of the person suffering from a loss, and another as a guide for a co... + Read More
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Series: Stratford For All Seasons Series Stratford For All Seasons: Secrets & Surprises Paperback Phyllis Hinz 9781989517093 $19.99 TRAVEL Apr 07, 2020

Stratford For All Seasons, Secrets & Surprises , is loaded with magical and little-known stories about Stratford, Ontario. This quiet, scenic city in a rural setting has managed to stay true to its roots even though thousands of people visit each year from around the world. Many of the 500,000 annual visitors to this city of approximately 32,000 are not aware of the fun facts and history that make this corner of the universe unlike all the others. Stratford is not your pop-up tourist town.This book is about the things you can do, see, and disco... + Read More
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Series: Stratford For All Seasons Series Stratford For All Seasons: Theatre & The Arts Paperback Phyllis Hinz 9781989517062 $19.99 TRAVEL Apr 07, 2020

Stratford for All Seasons, Theatre & Arts, shares the immensity and diversity of the theatre and arts scene in Stratford, Ontario. It is extraordinary to have culture of this magnitude in a city with a population of approximately 32,000. Many of the 500,000 annual visitors to the city who attend the Stratford Festival, as well as many busy Stratfordites, are not aware of the countless cultural events available to them year-round. Stratford is not your pop-up tourist town. This quiet, scenic city in a rural setting has remained true to its roots... + Read More
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Series: Modern Indigenous Voices Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity Paperback Norma Dunning 9781772311136 $16.95 POETRY Jun 15, 2020

Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity examines Dunning's lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. Her writing takes into account the many assimilative practices that Inuit continue to face and the expectations of mainstream as to what an Inuk person can and should be. Her words examine what it is like to feel the constant rejection of her work from non-Inuit people and how we must all in some way find the spirit to carry through with what we hold to be true demonstrating the importance of standing ta... + Read More
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Series: Home by the Sea Paperback Paul Savoie 9781772311105 $19.95 FICTION Dec 15, 2019

A car skids off a fog-covered road and rolls over. A woman emerges and helps her badly wounded husband out of the wrecked vehicle. Together they make their way down a narrow path which leads them to a large house near the sea, where are playing and friendly people welcome them inside. But things are not as they seem. Something evil, deadly lurks behind the door. Once you find yourself inside these walls, there may be no way to ever get out. Beware.
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Series: Saving Tiberius Paperback Gordon Jones 9781772311228 $22.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

Morgan Watson has a problem. When word leaked that his cat, Tiberius, miraculously cured itself of diabetes and may hold the key to a cure, he is attacked in his home and almost killed in a bloody fight. Paula Rogers, a strong-willed dedicated police officer, has put herself in the line of fire protecting them, and for the first time is stretching the rules and hiding facts from her superiors. The two fiercely independent people find their romantic feelings for each other grow as they search to find who is behind the brutal attempts to get Tibe... + Read More
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Series: Glass Float Paperback Jane Munro 9781771315241 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

Griffin Award-winner returns with new poems that are spacious with interiority, alive with a hard-earned lightness. Waves carried a glass float—designed to hold up a fishing net—across the Pacific. Beached it safely. Someone's breath is inside it. In Glass Float, her seventh collection, award-winning poet Jane Munro considers the widening of horizons that border and shape our lives, the familiarity and mystery of conscious experience, and the deepening awareness that comes with a dedicated practice such as yoga. This book is about connections: ... + Read More
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Series: Bones Paperback Tyler Pennock 9781771315210 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

2020 Raymond Souster Award Longlist * 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Shortlist * 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards Shortlist Poems about a young two-spirit Indigenous man moving through shadow and trauma toward strength and awareness. Bones, Tyler Pennock's wise and arresting debut, is about the ways we process the traumas of our past, and about how often these experiences eliminate moments of softness and gentleness. Here, the poems journey inward, guided by the world of dreams, seeking memories of a loving sister lost beneath layers of traged... + Read More
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Series: Accretion Paperback Irfan Ali 9781771315180 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

2021 Trillium Book Award Shortlist An extraordinary debut set in Toronto, unfurling against the backdrop of an ancient Persian love story. The story of Layla and Majnun, made immortal by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi in the 12th century, has been retold thousands of times, in thousands of different ways, throughout literature. Against the backdrop of this story, to the sound-track of modern hip-hop, and amid the struggle of an immigrant family to instill an old faith under new conditions, Irfan Ali's Accretion hurtles towards an unsustainable... + Read More
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Series: If You Discover a Fire Paperback Shaun Robinson 9781771315272 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

Precision-built poems that attempt CPR on their own irregular meter, on their own unreliable meaning. Vancouver poet Shaun Robinson's If You Discover a Fire is a debut collection of poems that make a virtue of their failure to communicate. They forage through the syntax and vocabulary of late-night voicemails, letters to the editor, songs invented in the shower, professional jargon, "Witness Wanted" signs, technical manuals, and text-message typos to assemble verbal collages that raise more questions than they answer. In settings ranging from M... + Read More
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Series: Moccasin Souls Paperback Jules Koostachin 9781928120223 $19.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Moccasin Souls, a haunting memoir follows AaSheeNii / Good Spirit, a hopeful Trickster with a burning desire for change and growth, as they set off on their path into the world of the InNiNeWak/human beings. Selected by a council of Sacred Beings, AaSheeNii makes their way into the world of the living on AsKi / Earth. AaSheeNii is birthed to an IsKwew / Cree woman in the early 70s in what is now called Northern Ontario, the ancestral lands of the MoshKeKoWok. AaSheeNii's human journey into adulthood is not an easy one, as they try to not only u... + Read More
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Series: If Tenderness be Gold Paperback Eleanor Albanese 9781988989174 $22.95 FICTION May 09, 2020

If Tenderness Be Gold is set in 19th-century and early 20th-century northern Ontario and Manitoba. An Irish mother, an Italian herbalist, and a Scottish midwife come together on the night of a difficult birth, and the result of their union has effects that echo through the generations.
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Series: Before the Usual Time A Collection of Indigenous Stories and Poems. Paperback Darlene Naponse 9781988989150 $20.00 FICTION 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: Home Sickness Paperback Chih-Ying Lay 9781773900445 $21.95 FICTION Feb 14, 2020

Connecting is not easy, but proximity is unbearable. The characters in these ten stories are longing for escape and attempt to leave home, but inevitably and perhaps ironically find themselves homesick. Chih-Ying Lay, a Montreal-based expatriate from Taiwan familiar with both homesickness and home sickness, probes our desperate need for home, often matched with an equally desperate need to get away from it. Lay?s characters are outsiders, whether queer, indigenous, unloved or lost, and each discovers that home is not the sanctuary it was meant ... + Read More
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Series: Lightness Paperback Fanie Demeule 9781773900520 $16.95 FICTION Feb 14, 2020

Told with startling, unapologetic honesty and in a haunting, minimalist style, Lightness is the story of a woman's profound sense of alienation, beginning with her own physical body and its desires. In this original and moving take on anorexia, we go deep into the mind of the narrator as she carries out her secret, prolonged hunger strike against the constraints of her life. The original French version (Déterrer les os) won the Best First Novel Prize at the Biennale littéraire des Cèdres in 2018 and was adapted for stage at the Centre du Théâtr... + Read More
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Series: Who Belongs in Quebec? Identity Politics in a Changing Society Paperback Raquel Fletcher 9781773900568 $18.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 14, 2020

Are Quebecers less tolerant than other Canadians? Ongoing debate about secularism and religious symbols has led many observers to ask this very question. Premier François Legault denies that racism or Islamophobia exists in Quebec, even after a gunman opened fire in a Quebec City mosque in 2017, killing six people and wounding 19 others. Two years later, the Quebec government established Bill 21, a religious symbols ban for public employees. The province's increasingly diverse new reality is sometimes embraced and sometimes met with hostility f... + Read More
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Series: A Woman of Her Time Memories of My Mother Paperback Louise Dupré 9781773900483 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 14, 2020

In this memoir, the distinguished feminist author and poet Louise Dupré conjures up the tragedies and joys of her mother?s life--and does so not only in the personal context of the family but as a woman of her time in the dramatically changing backdrop of Quebec before, during, and after the heady days of the Quiet Revolution. A compelling read that will expand your understanding of the complexity of Quebec society over the past century, as well as your appreciation of the great, wise, and compassionate Louise Dupré.
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Series: Dear Black Girls Hardcover Shanice Nicole 9781999058838 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 10 Feb 08, 2021

Dear Black girls all around the world, this one is for you -- for us.Dear Black Girls is a letter to all Black girls. Every single day poet and educator Shanice Nicole is reminded of how special Black girls are and of how lucky she is to be one. Illustrations by Kezna Dalz support the book's message that no two Black girls are the same but they are all special--that to be a Black girl is a true gift. In this celebratory poem, Kezna and Shanice remind young readers that despite differences, they all deserve to be loved just the way they are.
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Series: A "Hammerhead" Jed Mystery Rolling Thunder Paperback A.J. Devlin 9781988732862 $18.95 FICTION May 15, 2020

Former pro wrestler "Hammerhead" Jed Ounstead, now a fully-fledged private investigator, is riding high after his first successful case. In this second episode, Jed leaves the wrestling realm to enter a new arena: women's flat-track roller derby. When old acquaintance Stormy Daze seeks his help finding her team's missing coach, Jed discovers that the turnbuckle-and-metal-chair mayhem of the wrestling ring pales in comparison to roller derby's four-wheeled ferocity.As his search intensifies, Jed is drawn into the criminal orbit of a shady entrep... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series In Veritas Paperback C.J. Lavigne 9781988732831 $21.95 FICTION May 01, 2020

Finalist for the 2021 Crawford Award!Winner of Speculative Book of the Year at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Best of List for Tor.com and Every Book a DoorwayAirdrie Reads WINNING book!"Things that are and are not, she thinks, and the dog is a snake."In this fantastic and fantastical debut, C.J. Lavigne concocts a wondrous realm overlaying a city that brims with civic workers and pigeons. Led by her synesthesia, Verity Richards discovers a hidden world inside an old Ottawa theatre. Within the timeworn walls live people who should not ... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series Hunger Moon Paperback Traci Skuce 9781988732800 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2020

Finalist for the Seventh Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the Literary Fiction categoryIncludes author-curated discussion questions!Traci Skuce's Hunger Moon is a collection of stories that echo with the yearning to be replenished, to be made full. Here are characters at cusp-points in their lives, attempting to shift their trajectories: to cease wrapping up their heart's desire in a pink bubble by launching it into the universe. Some turn to ESP, some to a belief in ghosts, some to the future caught inside a glass bottle, each char... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry Lullabies in the Real World Paperback Meredith Quartermain 9781988732787 $18.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

Long-listed for the 2021 Raymond Souster Award!Finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Meredith Quartermain's Lullabies in the Real World is a sequence of poems about a train journey from West Coast to East Coast that invokes a patchwork of regions, voices and histories. Her language zings with train rhythms as she unfolds a complex conversation with poets such as bpNichol and Robin Blaser.This collection reflects and refracts Canada from diverse angles, and challenges colonizing literatures ... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry Response of Weeds, The A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies Paperback Bertrand Bickersteth 9781988732794 $18.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

Winner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award!Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for PoetryWinner of a 2021 High Plains Book Award for First Book!Finalist for the 2020 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!A 2020 CBC Poetry Book of the Year!Finalist for a 2021 High Plains Book Award for PoetryBertrand Bickersteth's debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. The Response of Weeds offers a much-needed window on often ov... + Read More
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Series: Panegyric Paperback Logan Macnair 9781988098975 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2020

When underachieving writer Larry Mann is granted the lucrative opportunity to ghostwrite the memoirs of the notorious and eccentric businessman-turned-politician Maxime Montblanc, he accepts immediately, tantalized by the financial benefits he's promised. However, as the two men begin to learn about and confide in one another, hints of their pasts surface to reveal two men both breaking in their own ways and both searching for a brighter future that may not exist. Alternating between the stark and the surreal, the abstract and the lyrical, Pane... + Read More
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Series: Mad Cow Paperback Alexis Kienlen 9781988098982 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2020

Told from two points of view--a mother and her daughter--Mad Cow examines farming life in small-town Alberta, a life fourteen-year-old Allyson wants only to escape. Meanwhile her mother, Donna, dealing with her own assortment of problems and setbacks, soldiers on through the daunting days. But when a strange affliction starts picking off the local cattle, everything changes, and when tragedy strikes the extended family, life as they know it is seemingly over forever. Now Donna and Allyson must work together to keep the family and the farm intac... + Read More
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Series: Never A Child Paperback M.A. Mahadeo 9781988098999 $14.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2020

At its core, Never a Child is the culmination of a young woman's experiences--both an open dialogue with, and a true reflection of, those individuals who have contributed to her understanding of her feminine identity. Through dealing with anxiety, reclaiming herself after trauma, and coming to terms with spirituality, the poet's work matures with each page, allowing both the author and the reader to grow together. This outpouring of faith, self-acceptance and strength to overcome conflict never strays from the author's own journey, yet never lo... + Read More
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Series: Seven Floors Down Paperback Trevor Clark 9781989689004 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2020

Seven Floors Down follows the lives of Ryder and Kendall through bouts of homicide and homelessness, beginning when Ryder gets out of jail and crashes with his alcoholic friend who, on the verge of being evicted, remains infuriated with an ex-cop who owes him thousands. Kendall is a raconteur who entertains with countless stories, often while lying supine on the floor, and Ryder decides to help his friend recover his money. But then there's an accidental killing and Ryder leaves Toronto on a bus for Vancouver where he lives in the downtown east... + Read More
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Series: Benjamenta College of Art, The Paperback Alan Reed 9781989424018 $21.00 FICTION Apr 24, 2020

Alan Reed's lyric novel, The Benjamenta College of Art, is a story about walking into an unknown world and meeting yourself there. At the Benjamenta College of Art, you can sit on the roof of a building and draw until supper because it is your designated work. Your life is an endlessly unfolding present. You will meet a woman you love and she will leave you. Space is reserved for whimsy at the Benjamenta College of Art, and because you feel both lost and safe, the Benjamenta College of Art's real existence may be in question. May we all enjoy a... + Read More
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Series: Were There Gazelle Paperback Laura McRae 9781897141991 $20.00 POETRY Feb 28, 2020

The speaker in Laura K. McRae's debut poetry collection, Were There Gazelle, has travelled long and hard, wide open to the world. The poems explore how moments can become fixed points in our memory, and how the senses and the strangeness of travel can awaken us to links between past and present, place and time. "There is no shelter in folklore," McRae writes, "we taste what is to come/ in what once was. [M]oments scour our passage,/ clear it of debris--/human discourse and rot--a few shining pebbles/ left to bruise our feet."
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Series: Cult Life Paperback Kyeren Regehr 9781989424001 $20.00 POETRY Feb 28, 2020

Enlightenment may not be on everyone's bucket list, but for the three hundred devotees of the Master Teacher, "awakening" was their singular purpose. Cult Life follows three years in the life of the poet as a twenty-something single mother whose spiritual devotion stood in juxtaposition to her search for worldly love. All the marvellous peculiarities of coterie life are laid bare through the voices of strange characters and the poet-narrator's own unflinching honesty. Cult Life is a crucible where philanthropists and sociopaths, artists and mis... + Read More
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Series: Little Russia Paperback Francis Desharnais 9782924049587 $24.95 COMICS & 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: The Vivian Poems Paperback Bruce Rice 9781989274231 $20.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2020

These poems peel back the layers of suburban life and the American Dream. Vivian Maier was a self-taught street photographer who worked as a nanny for wealthy employers in New York and Chicago. The poet imagines her as a documentarian who is compassionate, abrasive, and meditative, while her subjects provide their own narrative. More than anything, the poems are a response to her work, which is all we have that comes directly from her. It is a deliberate challenge to the "mystery nanny" she is reduced to in much of the constructed narrative of ... + Read More
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Series: The Teller from the Tale Paperback Ven Begamudré 9781989274248 $22.00 FICTION Apr 21, 2020

In The Teller from the Tale, award winning author Ven Begamudré spins three stories in a masterful blend of myth and realism. In "Amar's Gift," a magical sculptor observes a princess, though it is forbidden for commoners to do so, and is determined to marry her. A father narrates a story called "Rainbow Knights" to his children every evening. Seven knights and their sister are offered to a fisherman and his wife, who have lost their only son to the god of the sea. The family travels to a bleak island cursed by a sorceress on their quest to resc... + Read More
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Series: Disabled Voices Anthology Paperback sb smith 9781775301950 $18.95 FICTION Mar 05, 2020

Written and illustrated by the Disabled community about the Disabled community in North America, Disabled Voices is an international anthology collection of short stories (both fiction and non-fiction), personal essay, poetry, and artwork. Featuring both new as well as established authors, Disabled Voices is comprised of submissions written by Canadian, American, and UK authors. A first of its kind, Disabled Voices captures life as a Disabled person: from the bad and ugly, to the good and victorious, and anything in between. Likewise, some ... + Read More
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Series: TOPP Promoter Gary Topp Brought us the World Paperback David Collier 9781772620320 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 01, 2020

As with all of Collier's work, his latest graphic novel is a combination of memoir and biography. This time, he explores his involvement in the cultural landscape of Toronto in the 1970s and 80s, specifically focusing on the life of Gary Topp, a concert promoter and founder of the pioneering Canadian repertory cinema. Topp emerged from an immigrant background, abandoned the family textile business, and became an influential figure in the lives of an entire community. He was also Collier's first boss and mentor. Though outspoken and opinionated,... + Read More
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Series: The Adventures of Drippy the Newsboy The Dripping Boat Paperback Julian Lawrence 9781772620450 $12.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 15, 2020

The final volume of the Drippy the Newsboy series based on the writings of Stephen Crane. Join Drippy, Harry, Bleeker and Zot in The Dripping Boat, as they battle waves, wind, wits, and wills. Following a shipwreck, the four find themselves stranded on a lifeboat, frantically trying to reach an invisible shore. Rub a dub dub, four men in a tub . . . but how many will return?Drippy the character emerged in 1999. Lawrence had been working as a comics editor at a Vancouver weekly publication called Terminal City. When Terminal City folded, Lawrenc... + Read More
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Series: Art Life Paperback Catherine Ocelot 9781772620467 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 15, 2020

Winner of the Best Graphic Novel in Quebec 2018! Catherine Ocelot wonders about her place as an artist, digging into the layers of what it means to live this Art Life. In her search for answers, she talks with seven artists from different disciplines who express their doubts, their struggles, their ambitions and their sometimes-wise and sometimes-funny observations. The author stages these encounters with finesse and wit, and echoes them with scenes from her own life. Art Life is a tragicomic tale tinged with fantasy that explores the impact of... + Read More
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Series: Langosh & Peppi Fugitive Days Paperback Veronica Post 9781772620443 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 05, 2020

This debut graphic novel tells the story of the 2015 European "migrant crisis" in Budapest, Hungary through the perspective of Langosh and Peppi, a vagabond and his faithful dog. The pair brings to mind an older, down-on-their-luck Tintin and Snowy with adventures to match. A semi-autobiographical work based on Post's own experiences, Langosh and Peppi escape the pressures of conformity by exploring out-of-the-way places, where they stumble on the vestiges of the war torn region's hidden past. We follow them through streets, alleys, tunnels, tr... + Read More
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Series: International Unknown, The Paperback Anna Sommer 9781772620474 $17.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 02, 2020

Drawn with guileful clarity and bite, The Unknown is a story of deceit, self-deception and the search for happiness.One day, Helen finds a newborn abandoned in a changing room in her boutique. She decides to keep it, nested in a cardboard box and hidden even from her husband.Vicky and Wanda are boarding school roommates. Wanda talks Vicky into turning tricks. Meanwhile, Vicky can't keep her secrets from Wanda - not her affair with their history teacher, and not the pregnancy she tries to sabotage and yet stubbornly carries out.As the two narrat... + Read More
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Series: Unbelieving, The Paperback Pier Di Cicco 9781771262408 $17.00 POETRY Sep 30, 2020

They travel in Jurassic herds through plains of lost faith, through canyons of lost dogma to find only the idols of spectacle. Others rummage frantically through ancestral narrative hoping for shards of consolation, assurance and prophecy. The wiser just collect beliefs and huddle under the passing weather of global enthusiasms. And there are the colonies of the saved, weary of asking who believes in God, wondering if God believes in them. On the horizon, past sneering administrators of temples, beyond the toxic amnesia of millennials, there em... + Read More
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Series: This is about Angels, Women, and Men Paperback Chantal Lavoie 9781771262446 $17.00 POETRY Sep 30, 2020

This is about Angels, Women, and Men both separates women and men from the angels, and suggests they are one and the same. In sections titled "Brothers, Sisters, Consorts, Offspring, and Refuse," Chantel Lavoie argues that the familial can be more foreign than familiar. These relationships rooted in blood and bone, sex, and the longing for God, split our lives apart. They break us and they make us whole. The crown of sonnets with which the collection ends -- "The Waste Poems"-- addresses uncomfortable truths about our shared humanity, and what ... + Read More
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Series: Uncharted Paperback Sabyasachi Nag 9781771262484 $17.00 POETRY Sep 30, 2020

Moving through geographies; through everyday bric-a-brac; through apparitions inherited and invented; through matters of flesh and make-believe this collection weaves portraits of violence, despair and bewilderment, generating a range of new relationships and meaning. Informed equally by circumstances of race, history and politics, each poem in the collection attempts to push language by playfully re-examining the old or by making new metaphors borne from narratives that are sometimes moral, religious, political and metaphysical. Uncharted is a... + Read More
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Series: Each Blossom Makes Horses Tremble Paperback Glen Downie 9781771262521 $17.00 POETRY Sep 30, 2020

What are these writings? Aphorisms? Cryptic telegrams? The sound of one hand clapping? Perhaps all the above. What John Thompson once wrote of the ghazal seems to apply here, as each disjointed fragment allows the imagination to move by its own nature: discovering an alien design, illogical and without sense -- a chart of the disorderly, against false reason and the tacking together of poor narratives. It is the poem of contrasts, dreams, astonishing leaps.
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Series: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow The change, growth and development of the Italian-Canadian business community In Toronto and the GTA from the 20th century until today Paperback Corrado Paina 9781771262569 $35.00 HISTORY Dec 15, 2021

This is a book that documents the immense contribution of the Italian-Canadian business community to the social, cultural and economic prosperity of Toronto and the GTA. Covering the economic developments, trends and changes from the 20th century until today, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow will narrate the history of a dynamic, influential community as well as the leaders of tomorrow who will contribute to the final phase of integration in Canada.
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Series: Endlings Paperback Joanna Lilley 9780888016898 $18.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2020

Endlings takes us across continents and through the long expanse of aeons to give voice to the dead. In poems that are lyrical, exact, and deeply melancholic, Joanna Lilley demands audience for the final moments of animal extinction. From the zebra-horse quagga and chiding dodo, to the giant woolly mammoth and delicate Xerces Blue Butterfly, the haunting, urgent words of these "endlings" cut to the bone to expose the brutality of Nature and the devastating repercussions of human ignorance and intent, while giving hope that our humanity will hel... + Read More
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Series: Lunatic Engine Paperback Paul Pearson 9780888016935 $17.00 POETRY Sep 15, 2020

Slow planetary rotation, the push and pull of the moon, a book--Paul Pearson's debut collection of poems lays before readers a mapping and re-mapping of the familiar systems of order we rely on to survive the human experience. Reflecting on the principles set down by both Galileo and the Church, Lunatic Engine directs our gaze to the heavens, to the childhood home, to the womb, to the quiet moments of our daily lives to contemplate what comfort is offered by doctrines when staring down the barrel of birth, death, and everything in between.
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Series: Rupture North-west 1885 Paperback Walter Hildebrandt 9780888017017 $19.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2023

In the spring of 1885, after years of growing tensions between the Canadian government and the spurned Métis, an armed resistance broke out that left dozens dead and wounded and generations of Indigenous peoples subjugated to Canadian rule.In a hypnotic retelling of this North-West Resistance, acclaimed poet Walter Hildebrandt breaches the divide between Imperialist narrative, Indigenous orality, and Continental philosophy to disrupt this heavily-charged period of Canadian history. With resounding precision, Rupture: North-West 1885 opens the f... + Read More
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Series: World is Mostly Sky, The Paperback Sarah Ens 9780888017055 $17.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2020

In this shining debut, identity and community converge in poems for a modern generation. Beginning with the open prairie skies of her youth, Sarah Ens maps an emergence into millennial womanhood, questioning feminine expectations and examining heartache and disembodiment during an age of personal and planetary upheaval. The World Is Mostly Sky looks backwards and inwards to find respite in stars, warm earth, and deep waters while rejoicing in the sacred bonds of sisterhood that offer the courage to meet our uncertain horizon.
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Series: Talking to a Portrait Tales of an Art Curator Paperback Rosalind Pepall 9781550655414 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 15, 2020

Behind the scenes at the world's major art museums, the life of a curator can be thrilling, amusing, disappointing--but never boring. In these fifteen essays we encounter artists falling in and out of love, family tragedies, the creation of the Stanley Cup, the secrets of Tiffany, Antiques Roadshow, a rootless baroness, the design craze for aluminum, small Japanese boxes called kogos, watercolour sketchbooks of the Canadian north, a beautiful prayer room in Montreal, gondolas flying through windows in Venice, and Moscovites who love Goldfinger.... + Read More
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Series: Apple S Paperback Éric Plamondon 9781550655421 $19.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2020

In Apple S, the kaleidoscopic worldview of celebrated Québécois novelist Éric Plamondon sets its sights on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and the seeds of Silicon Valley. Concluding a wide-lens journey through the American West that began with Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller (Hungary-Hollywood Express, 2016) and continued with counter-culture poet Richard Brautigan (Mayonnaise, 2018), the final installment of the 1984 trilogy delivers a heart-rending meta-biography of a technological mastermind. With Plamondon's alter ego, Gabriel Rivages, using h... + Read More
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Series: The Outer Wards Paperback Sadiqa de Meijer 9781550655452 $17.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

The Outer Wards, Sadiqa de Meijer's new collection, explores questions of maternal love and duty--and the powerlessness that comes with the disruption of that role through illness. "I was awake. / The hour was wrong," de Meijer writes, and her poems track, in visceral and tender detail, the distraction, exhaustion, exhilaration, and fear of child-rearing through crisis. For de Meijer, the experience was also a crisis of language, and the struggle to find new terms for her state. Addressed, in part, to a child she calls "my grievous spectacle, /... + Read More
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Series: All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been Paperback Joe Fiorito 9781550655469 $17.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been, Joe Fiorito's second collection, establishes him as the preeminent chronicler of people in extremis. Drawing on the precison and unsentimentality that have become hallmarks of his poetry, Fiorito creates uncompromising mini-narratives about addiction, failed rehabs, incarceration, demeaning jobs, and homelessness; much of it derived from nearly two decades spent as a newspaper columnist covering daily life on Toronto's streets. In poem after poem, Fiorito's exact word choices, cold-eyed details, and cris... + Read More