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Series: Things Worth Burying Paperback Matt Mayr 9781771862042 $24.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2020

As a third generation logger, a life in the bush is all Joe Adler has ever known. He works, he hunts; he provides. But when a man dies on his watch, and his wife abandons their young family for writing school in Toronto, Joe must face the consequences of his hard-living ways. Left alone to care for his seven year old daughter, he enlists the help of Jenny Lacroix, the wife of the man whose death he might be responsible for. Resentful and angry, and his conscience over Jenny?s husband far from clear, Joe threatens to spiral down the path of fury... + Read More
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Series: The Annie Linton, Gilles Bellechasse Mysteries A Stab at Life A Nurse Linton, Detective Bellechasse Mystery Novel Paperback Richard King 9781771862066 $22.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2020

Former bookseller Richard King has created two memorable characters in his mystery novel, A Stab at Life.. Annie Linton, RN, is a nurse in the Emergency Department of the Gursky Memorial Hospital in Montreal and Gilles Bellechasse, a detective in the Major Crimes Division of the Montreal Police Force. Gilles is in charge of investigating a series of murders that have occurred in a park and the area surrounding the Gursky Memorial located in the Cote-des-Neiges area of the city. Suspects include members of a vigilante group devoted to getting dr... + Read More
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Series: Free of 'Incurable' Cancer Living in Overtime Paperback Susan Paton 9781771862059 $16.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Apr 01, 2020
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Series: Art of the Fall, The Paperback Véronique Côté 9781771862110 $19.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2020
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Series: Electric Baths, The Paperback Jean-Michel Fortier 9781771862141 $19.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2020

A surprise return home triggers a chain of events, their strands weaving together a sinister web of dreams and reality, lies and truth, secrets and spells. Jean-Michel Fortier?s chilling second novel features a cast of memorable characters, including Renée, who never dreams (or does she?), and the oft-widowed Bella, who signs her personal ads ?Come, and be prepared to stay forever.? Following in the tradition of Fortier?s absurdist first novel, The Unknown Huntsman, this is a dark and offbeat tale about lost love, lost dreams, and one lost limb.
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Series: World Poetry Injuring Eternity a Künstlerroman In Twenty-Six Cantos Paperback Tom Bradley 9781771835275 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2020

A precocious boy and his harried father are making a movie from scratch, using only materials in the backyard--or entertaining the possibilities. Their discussion expands to an examination of various cosmogonies and cosmologies, rational and borderline-psychotic, and gradually becomes a duel to the death
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Series: World Prose Thirteen Heavens Paperback Mark Fishman 9781771835282 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2020

"Two friends two friends, how close could they get without being one man ... one in love with a ghost, the other ... longed for the son who'd more than likely already become a ghost." Rubén Arenal, nicknamed Rocket by his close friends and family, and Ernesto Cisneros are longtime friends, as close as brothers, living in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua. Rubén is a potter who lives alone in his studio apartment. Ernesto is married to Guadalupe and they have one son, Coyuco, who is training to be a teacher. Out of these bald facts spins magi... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Itzel II A Three Knives tale Paperback Sarah Xerar Murphy 9781771834179 $25.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2020

In Itzel II: A Three Knives Tale, we continue to follow Nauta, Itzel and Basta through the cascading outcomes of their desire for agency and for change in themselves and in their world. As we contemplate the range of actions such desire makes them take and the range of emotions it brings, from euphoria to despair, we move from the Oaxaca coast back to Mexico City, from Nauta?s Brooklyn streets to her time in Canada, from the attraction between Basta and Itzel that has altered the characters' friendship to the rumours and reckonings that result.... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Quantum Theory of Love and Madness Paperback Jerry Levy 9781771834766 $20.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2020

To fill gaping holes in their lives, the protagonists in The Quantum Theory of Love and Madness embark on bizarre quests that ultimately lead them astray. Whether a child savant who sings the lyrics to hundreds of songs (and never talks), a woman who has to decide whether to turn in her arsonist brother, a failed writer whose fictional character suddenly comes to life, an unhappy insurance examiner who discovers a fallen angel and decides to cash in on his find, or a successful, middle-class man who pines for the poet he once was, nothing is sa... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Against the Machine Luddites Paperback Brian Van Norman 9781771834797 $25.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2020

At war against Napoleon near bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker leads the Luddites attacking mills and smashing machines. With increased assaults and even murder North England feels the grip of terrorism. Government agents attempt to suppress the rebellion. In 1812 there are more British troops in North England than fighting Napoleon in Europe. Against the Machine relates the story of the diverse characters caught in this conflict. It unveils the rank exploitation... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Transaction Paperback Guglielmo D'Izzia 9781771834544 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2020

International Book Awards FinalistA property harbouring a gruesome secret goes up for sale. Two men —perhaps, the wrong men —are shot in plain daylight. Nothing is what it seems. And matters do not turn out as anticipated. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a real estate transaction, only to find himself embroiled in a criminal conspiracy. While en route, the train he's on mysteriously breaks down, forcing him to spend the night in a squalid whistle stop. Wh... + Read More
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Series: Personal Development It's Attachment A New Way of Understanding Yourself and Your Relationships Paperback Annette Kussin M.S.W., RSW 9781771835183 $25.00 PSYCHOLOGY May 01, 2020

How do we make sense of our relationships -- successes and failures, preferences and challenges, past and present. And after we make sense of them all -- what do we do to increase the successes that we are striving to attain. In It's Attachment, Kussin offers us a comprehensive overview of this dominant theory of human development and relationships in a way that gives us both understanding and practical ideas for constructive changes. She shows us the central features of the main attachment patterns that are present throughout childhood and adu... + Read More
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Series: Essential Anthologies Series Fish Wrapped True Confessions from Newsrooms Past Paperback David Sherman 9781771834971 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 01, 2020

Essays by Canadian newspaper reporters and editors on their lives in the news business before social media: "Here are their eulogies to lives dedicated to the fish-wrap business, many of whom, to stretch a metaphor, ended up as obsolete and tossed aside as the fish wrap they churned out."
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Foundations of Kindness Paperback Richard Vission 9781771834735 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2020

The Foundations of Kindness is a tale of love, politics, murder and assassination in Sixties Chicago told from the vantage point of the mountains of British Columbia in the Seventies. Plus contemporary commentary. Young revolutionaries take on the Chicago Democratic Party machine with disastrous consequences for them and their movement. Fifty years later some of them are older, wiser, weaker but uncowed.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Shattered Fossils Paperback Sharon Lax 9781771834858 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2020

Shattered Fossils, a collection of short stories, takes its title from themes of the irretrievable past, particularly within Ark of Gopherwood, in which the narrator describes his friend as someone who has pieced together elements of the historical past, to create a more complete picture of history. From the short story in which a character enters a "painted sidewalk," the collection moves into an exploration of the creation of memoir and memory. Some of the stories, but especially one about a 'bard,' set in Montreal, another set in Iceland and... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Comic Paperback Stan Rogal 9781771834827 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2020

A bored part-time college English instructor who teaches a class called "Humour in Classical Novels" to students who really don't care decides to try his hand at stand-up comedy, which takes him from his very protected academic world into an arena open to attack and persecution by his family, the public at large, the media and the courts. The novel explores issues such as political correctness/cultural sensitivity, personal and private space and social media, freedom of speech, huckster media, the notion of originality and most especially the n... + Read More
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Series: Essential Drama Series Triplex Nervosa Trilogy Paperback Marianne Ackerman 9781771835114 $20.00 PERFORMING ARTS May 01, 2020

The smash hit of Centaur Theatre's 2014-15 season, Triplex Nervosa is a rollicking comedy set in Montreal?s legendary music hub, Mile End. Tass Nazor has given up her cello to buy a three-story stone apartment building. Her friends/tenants, a clingy seller and semi-reliable handyman drive her to the brink. The sequel, Rooftop Eden, finds Tass hosting a memorial dinner for one who has died, meanwhile juggling motherhood and a musical career. A few months later, Famously delivers the ultimate clash of ambition versus domestic bliss. Seven actors ... + Read More
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Series: World Young Readers River Paperback Shira Nayman 9781771834575 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Apr 01, 2020

River is the story of a fourteen-year-old girl who travels back in time, and across continents, encountering her maternal forbears when they were her age. From the Australian Outback, where she meets a young Aboriginal man, to racist, rigidly segregated South Africa during World War II, to the midst of a pogrom in Lithuania, and then all the way back to the Babylon of biblical times, Emily has deep encounters with the young women she meets, as well as with the history that shapes them -- and ultimately, the histories that have mysteriously and ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Translations Series Journeys Paperback Nadine Ltaif 9781771834070 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

Nadine Ltaif's poems reflect deeply on the meaning of life, of regrets and the irrepressible determination to continue living. The poet takes us to Carthage; to Andalusia to contemplate its history of Moors, wars and religion; to India where women?s lives, past and present, are expressed through vivid imagery. Hamra sees the exiled poet return to Beirut, the childhood home she fled in 1975. Yet, her poems are full of colour and lightness as she explores her old neighbourhood. This you will not read is a letter of love and absence in Montreal. J... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Swoon Paperback Elana Wolff 9781771835077 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2020

Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for PoetryThe poems in Swoon speak to the steady wending of a life's thematic drama: the falling / rising permutations across biographical phases. Indications are filtered through relationship, encounter, art, the natural world, and dream. Associations coalesce in a rhythmic clocking of feeling / thought. Randomness and accident may have a part to play, destiny and mystery, too; suggestion of a plot. There's storyline unfolding that resists a denouement.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Crito di Volta An Epic Paperback Marc Di Saverio 9781771835213 $25.00 POETRY May 01, 2020

When 26-year old Crito Di Volta is released after 10 years of psychiatric institutionalization, he develops and launches Mortarismo?a new socio-political, psycho-spiritual, artistic movement? with the aim of deinstitutionalizing, and eventually reconnecting with, all of humanity. Called a work of genius and a poem that exceeds Allen Ginsberg's Howl in both authenticity and intensity, di Saverio?s epic Crito Di Volta is a strong pronouncement on civil rights, religion and art; and a daring revolt against the platitudes of contemporary Western so... + Read More
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Series: First Poets Series We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite Paperback Conyer Clayton 9781771835091 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2020

Winner of the 2021 Ottawa Book Award for English Fiction In her debut collection of poetry, Conyer Clayton hovers in the ether, grasping wildly for a fleeting sense of certitude. Through experiences with addiction and co-dependence, sex and art, nature and death, she grapples for transcendence while exploring what it means to disengage. What is revealed when you allow yourself to truly feel? What do you ask for to carry you into life, and where do you land when this fails? And when you are finally, beautifully, emptied out, who are you? The poe... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Squall Poems in the Voice of Mary Shelley Paperback Chad Norman 9781771835176 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

What if the lady -- Jane Austen's contemporary --who conceived the world's most intriguing modern monster (Doc Frankenstein's creature) -- was also a proto-suffragette, precursor-feminist, and, simultaneously, much to her chagrin, wedded to a narcissist poet, whose liberalism urged on his libertinism? How would such a woman think? What would she say about her majuscule Romantic dilemma and miniscule romantic predicament? Such are the questions that Chad Norman pursues in his act (and art) of sympathetic re-animation: Squall: Poems in the Voice ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Mummyjihad Paperback Earl Fowler 9781771835084 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2020

An act of introspection, a lifting of the curtain, a gnaw at the jugular, a wisp of the jocular, all this and more in Earl Fowler's reverent and irreverent exposition of the pain and joy of an aged woman from India plopped into a nursing home on the West Coast. Beyond a culture clash, it is a cultural explosion for Mummy, who finds most things and people repugnant, especially the author, The Printer, while she lusts for A&W chicken strips. Fowler's poetic prose is an uber mash of cultural references, from James Joyce to Glen Campbell, Hollywood... + Read More
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Series: Essential Translations Series The Haunted Hand Paperback Louise Dupré 9781771835107 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2020

A woman has her cat euthanized, a decision that causes her to become aware of her ability to kill. She writes, hand haunted by history, and returns to the forgotten memory of the time when her ancestors were animals. By writing, she tries to understand the psyche and its obvious manifestations of cruelty, which she sees every day in the media: rapes, murders, bombings of civilians, indifference towards the powerless, humans and animals that are made to suffer without remorse. This book is a cry provoked by existential questions: how to deal wit... + Read More
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Series: Essential Writers Series Alice Munro Country Essays on Her Works I Paperback J.R. (Tim) Struthers 9781771834353 $29.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 01, 2020

This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir, "Alice Munro: Not Bad Short Story Writer"; by Munro's renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction writer Jack Hodgins, playwright Judith Thompson, poet John B. Lee, poet-playwright-teacher James Reaney, and local historian Reg Thompson. Overall, the twenty contributions to Alice Munro Country, including a previously unpublished interview with Munro by J.R. (Tim) Struthers and a superb essay by George Elliott Clarke on Munro's Lives... + Read More
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Series: Essential Writers Series Alice Munro Everlasting Essays on Her Works II Paperback J.R. (Tim) Struthers 9781771834384 $29.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 01, 2020

This rich volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, “Returning to the Source: Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty,” followed by a major new essay by one of Munro's most long-standing and most perceptive readers, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, identifying and examining the major concerns which Munro has revisited so compellingly for the duration of her astonishing career. Overall, the twenty contributions to Alice Munro Everlasting take an ardently literary approach, with each essay ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Writers Series Pictura Essays on the Works of Roy Kiyooka Paperback Juliana Pivato 9781771834940 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 01, 2020

How do you write about an artist who refused to be contained? Widely published and celebrated, Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was an influential Canadian artist and writer who gifted an extensive body of work that unfolded in nearly every dimension of media. Throughout his life, he continued to redefine his context for articulation. His early success and recognition as a painter and poet expanded to include a practice in photography, sculpture, film, performance and music improvisation. But his compulsion for articulation also manifested as a resistance to... + Read More
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Series: Choosing Hope One Woman, Three Cancers Paperback Munira Premji 9781774150054 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 15, 2020

Choosing Hope: One Woman. Three Cancers. is the story of how Munira Premji battled three advanced cancers: Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Stage 3 multiple myeloma, and Stage 3 breast cancer, within a period of five years. Written as a series of anecdotes based on entries from a blog the author started shortly after her first diagnosis--when her focus was simply on surviving--it tells an inspirational story about resilience, courage, and hope in the face of overwhelming odds. It explores and shares the author's experiences at home, in the communi... + Read More
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Series: Keepers of the Faith Paperback Shaukat Ajmeri 9781988449968 $24.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2020

Keepers of the Faith is set within a small Muslim sect of India, ruled by an avaricious priesthood that demands absolute submission while enforcing archaic social customs. When a section of the community rebels, it is summarily excommunicated, shunned by friends and family and denied religious rites. The peaceful community is split into two. The novel follows the fates of two blissful young lovers, Akbar and Rukhsana, in the historic city of Udaipur. When the communal split occurs, their families are on opposite sides; the lovers' dream of a h... + Read More
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Series: Feel Ways A Scarborough Anthology Paperback Adrian De Leon 9781774150115 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 01, 2021

Feel Ways is a breakthrough anthology of works by writers of Scarborough, Ontario. It is inspired by the suburb of Scarborough in Greater Toronto, shedding light on its myths and its many stories set in the diverse immigrant communities that arrived in the 1960s and later. It presents us with a "chorus of emotional reality," in a community in its most vibrant state. The collection includes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and an introduction by the editors.
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Series: Hands for Language Paperback Uma Menon 9781774150085 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Jul 15, 2020

In this versatile collection, a fifteen-year-old American girl of color takes us on a surprising journey as she explores the currently urgent issues of transnationalism, migration, language, family, and culture. Beautiful and inspiring, these remarkably mature and thoughtful poems trace the author's own path to self-realization and discovery; in the process of reading them inevitably we come to our own surprising discoveries.
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Series: Understan Paperback Gavin Barrett 9781774150146 $20.95 POETRY Jun 30, 2020

Across space and time, crossing continents and decades, in this volume the poet uses memory and the minutiae of daily life to unravel the mysteries of love and death. He examines belief and superstition, on occasion prays, and delights in the sight of the familiar and the strange, the young and the old. In his journey the poet is lost but holds up the map to everywhere and everyone.
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Series: Mythical Man Paperback David Ly 9781989287354 $18.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

In Mythical Man, David Ly builds, and then tears down, an army of men in a quest to explore personhood in the 21st century. Tenderness, toxic masculinity, nuances of queer love, and questions of race and identity mix in Ly?s poetry, casting a spell that enters like "a warm tongue on a first date." Mythical Man is an authentic and accomplished debut.
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Series: The Weight of the Heart Paperback Theresa Kishkan 9781989287477 $15.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2020

When her brother dies in the turbulent water of B.C.'s Thompson River, Isabel sets out to find traces of him in the places he loved. At the same time, she is seeking locations referenced in important literary works by Sheila Watson and Ethel Wilson for a graduate thesis. Her map becomes a cartography of both feminine and personal engagements with landscape and memory. In locating the sources of rich creative expression and by reaching back to ancient ceremonial rituals for death and the afterlife, she finds a way to reconcile her own grief and ... + Read More
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Series: Democratically Applied Machine Paperback Robert Colman 9781989287439 $18.95 POETRY May 01, 2020
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Series: ceaseless rain Paperback Dorothy Mahoney 9781989287392 $18.95 POETRY May 01, 2020
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Series: Start to Figure Fugitive Essays, Selected Reviews Paperback Andrew DuBois 9781989287514 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM May 01, 2020
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Series: Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin Reclaiming, Reconnecting, and Demystifying Resiliency as Life Force Energy for Residential School Survivors Paperback Theresa Turmel 9781927886359 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 30, 2020

Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin is a twenty-five year research and community based book. It brings forward Indigenous thought, history, and acts of resistance as viewed through the survivors of residential school who through certain aspects of their young lives were able to persevere with resiliency, and share their life experiences, teaching us about them, and their understanding of their own resiliency. Through their voices, we hear how they found strength within?their own life force energy, or mnidoo bemaasing bemaadiziwin?and survived and thr... + Read More
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Series: Crossing Borders Essays in Honour of Ian H. Angus Paperback Samir Gandesha 9781927886335 $30.00 PHILOSOPHY Jun 15, 2020

Crossing Borders: Essays in Honour of Ian H. Angus is a collection of original and cutting-edge essays by thirteen outstanding and diverse Canadian and International scholars that engage with Professor Ian Angus?s rich contributions to three distinct, albeit overlapping, fields: Canadian Studies, Phenomenology and Critical Theory, and Communication and Media Studies. These contributions are distinct, unique, and have had resonance across the intellectual landscape-over the thirty years that Angus has been teaching communications, philosophy, Ca... + Read More
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Series: Semaphore Storying Violence Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial Paperback Gina Starblanket 9781927886373 $15.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 30, 2020

In August of 2016, Cree youth Colten Boushie was shot dead by Saskatchewan farmer Gerald Stanley. Using colonial and socio-political narratives that underlie white rural settler life, the authors position the death of Boushie and trial of Stanley in relation to Indigenous histories and experiences in Saskatchewan. They point to the Stanley case as just one instance of Indigenous peoples? presence being seen as a threat to settler colonial security, then used to sanction the exclusion, violent treatment, and death of Indigenous peoples and commu... + Read More
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Series: Polar Vortex Paperback Shani Mootoo 9781771665643 $23.00 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

Some secrets never die...Priya and Alexandra have moved from the city to a picturesque countryside town. What Alex doesn't know is that in moving, Priya is running from her past—from a fraught relationship with an old friend, Prakash, who pursued her for many years, both online and off. Time has passed, however, and Priya, confident that her ties to Prakash have been successfully severed, decides it's once more safe to establish an online presence. In no time, Prakash discovers Priya online and contacts her. Impulsively, inexplicably, Priya inv... + Read More
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Series: Where Things Touch A Meditation on Beauty Paperback Bahar Orang 9781771665698 $20.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 11, 2020

Finalist for the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning. I can only take account of where things touch. Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang considers clinical encounters and how they rela... + Read More
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Series: day/break Paperback Gwen Benaway 9781771665735 $20.00 POETRY Apr 02, 2020

day/break, Governor General's Literary Award winner Gwen Benaway's fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, day/break asks what it means to be a trans woman, both within the text and out in the physical world. Shifting between theory and poetry, Benaway questions how gender, sexuality, and love intersect with the violence and transmisogyny of the nation state and established literary institutions. In beautiful lyric verse, day/break re... + Read More
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Series: I Can't Get You Out of My Mind Paperback Marianne Apostolides 9781771665773 $23.00 FICTION Apr 07, 2020

What does it mean to say "I love you"?Ariadne is a single, forty-something writer and mother embroiled in an affair with a married man. At the core of her current work, a manuscript about the declaration of love, is the need to understand why: why her lover has returned to his wife, why their relationship still lingers in her mind, why she's unable to conquer her longing. Lacking answers and struggling financially, she takes part in a research study in which she's paid to live with an AI device called Dirk.But the study quickly enters uncharter... + Read More
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Series: The Neptune Room Paperback Bertrand Laverdure 9781771665810 $20.00 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

Sandrine's parents are dead—or they are about to be. Her father, certainly; her mother, not quite yet. Alone and suffering from an incurable disease, the eleven-year-old girl finds companionship in her doctor, Tiresias, who morphologically changes sex in unpredictable ways and seemingly without anyone noticing.The Neptune Room, a melancholic tale about the mysteries of identity and the power dynamics associated with it, opens a door unto a universe of agonies: the long agony of an entire civilization and, microscopically, the spectrum of pain e... + Read More
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Series: The Handsome Man Paperback Brad Casey 9781771665858 $20.00 FICTION Apr 28, 2020

When life is upended, what do you do? Do you remain as you were, trapped in a form of stasis? Or do you accept your losses and move forward? These questions and more are the heart of The Handsome Man.These linked stories follow several years of the life of a young man as he is drawn around the world: from Toronto to Montreal, New York, Ohio, New Mexico, British Columbia, Berlin, Rome, and Northern Ontario, along the way meeting hippies, healers, drinkers, movie stars, old friends, and welcoming strangers. He isn't travelling, however; he's runn... + Read More
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Series: Literature in Translation Series Spawn Paperback Marie-Andree Gill 9781771665971 $18.00 POETRY Apr 09, 2020

Spawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Gill's poems ask: How can one reclaim a narrative that has been confiscated and distorted by colonizers? The poet's young avatar reaches new levels on Nintendo, stays up too late online, wakes to her period on class photo day, and carves her lovers' names into every surface imaginable. Encompassing twenty-first-century imperialism, coercive assimilation, and ... + Read More
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Series: Nought Paperback Julie Joosten 9781771665896 $20.00 POETRY Apr 14, 2020

Nought, a new collection of lyric poetry from Governor General's Literary Award finalist Julie Joosten, explores the intersections of body, identity, and love. These poems, in all their passions, inhabit the unfastened "and" of capacious loves and allegiances, refusing to choose between them; in Nought, thought comes alive through the materiality of body and experience, neurology and metaphysics entangled with sentient physicality—skin, eyes, mouths. Throughout, Joosten grapples with form and rhythm, crafting work that is intimately perceptive;... + Read More
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Series: Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart Paperback Beatriz Hausner 9781771665933 $18.00 POETRY Apr 16, 2020

Juxtaposing the diction of surrealism with Ovid, Callimachus, and popular music—punk and new wave—the poems in Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart concern themselves with various aspects of Eros.From wistful romance to explicit sex, these poems are inspired by the troubadour poets of Provence and Italy, and invoke such historical figures as the Byzantine Empress Theodora and her husband, Emperor Justinian, not to mention the Countess of Dia—Beatriz—a major poet of the troubadour tradition; these are Hausner's "alter voices," expressing permutation... + Read More
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Series: Sound of the Beast Paperback Donna-Michelle St. Bernard 9780369100764 $17.95 DRAMA Sep 21, 2020

"Compassion is good, but it’s just motivation. Cars need engines. Movements need mobilization." Through spoken word, storytelling and hip hop, acclaimed wordsmith Donna-Michelle St. Bernard illuminates racial discrimination, the suppression of expression and the trials of activism. Her experience as a Canadian emcee is woven through with allusion to Tunisian emcee Weld El 15’s unjust imprisonment for rhymes against a regime. This story creates a space to reflect on how we are connected to the systems that oppress us, and how we can empower each... + Read More
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Series: Bears Paperback Matthew MacKenzie 9780369101068 $17.95 DRAMA Jun 10, 2020

As the prime suspect in a workplace accident, Floyd has to get out of town fast. Pursued by the RCMP, he heads through the Rockies for Burnaby, BC, along the route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. By the time he reaches the Pacific, Floyd has experienced changes: his gait widening, muscles bulging, sense of smell heightening…
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Series: Take d Milk, Nah? Paperback Jivesh Parasram 9780369100986 $17.95 DRAMA May 11, 2021

Jiv is “Canadian.” And “Indian.” And “Hindu.” And “West Indian.” “Trinidadian,” too. Or maybe he’s just colonized. He’s not the “white boy” he was teased as within his immigrant household. Especially since his Nova Scotian neighbours seemed to think he was Black. Except for the Black people—they were pretty sure he wasn’t. He’s not an Arab, and allegedly not a Muslim—at least that’s what he started claiming after 9/11. Whatever he is, the public education system was able to offer him the chance to learn about his culture from a coffee table boo... + Read More
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Series: The Breathing Hole Paperback Colleen Murphy 9780369101105 $19.95 DRAMA Nov 23, 2020

Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear. In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuk widow, has a strange dream about the future. The next day, she discovers a bear cub floating on ice near a breathing hole. Despite the concerns of her community, she adopts him and names him Angu’ruaq. In 1845, Angu’ruaq and his mate Ukuannuaq wander into a chance meeting between explorers from the Franklin Expedition and Inuit hunters. Later, when the explorers are starving, the bears meet them again. By 20... + Read More
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Series: It's All Tru Paperback Sky Gilbert 9780369100948 $17.95 DRAMA Jun 10, 2020

“There used to be people dying and they didn’t know why and there was nothing anyone could do, but most of all—no one cared whether we lived or whether we died.” Love, sex, and pharmaceuticals are put to the test when a gay couple’s open relationship is threatened with dangerous consequences. Kurt, a silver fox dance instructor, and his young fiancé, Travis, have an arrangement: when one’s away, they’re allowed to stray . . . as long as they’re safe. One night, over a dinner conversation about wedding invitations, Travis admits that he had a fl... + Read More
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Series: Brontë: The World Without Paperback Jordi Mand 9780369101020 $17.95 DRAMA Aug 17, 2020

What happens when a passion is turned into a means to survive? Sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë have always enjoyed writing and storytelling, but so far, it’s been for their own personal enjoyment. Now that their father is sick and their brother is an alcoholic, they have to be the ones to support the family. They’d rather focus on their careers than settling down with suitors anyway, so writing is what could save them. But is it also what could tear them apart? Jealousy, rivalry, and the strong need for self-expression threaten not on... + Read More
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Series: Quick Bright Things Paperback Christina Cook 9780369100863 $17.95 DRAMA May 20, 2020

“Everyone hears voices. I’m treated like I’m broken for admitting it.” Can a weekend trip to visit family ever be smooth? Nick was hoping for a quick dinner at his brother Reid’s house when he stopped by with his seventeen-year-old adopted son, Gerome, on their way to meet Gerome’s birth mother. Gerome was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he wants to know more about his family history. Though Reid and his family wreak havoc with their well-meaning but misguided ideas about Gerome’s diagnosis, they manage to convince Nick and his son ... + Read More
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Series: Acha Bacha Paperback Bilal Baig 9780369100900 $17.95 DRAMA Aug 17, 2020

For years, Zaya has delicately balanced his relationship with his Muslim faith and queer identity by keeping his genderqueer lover and manipulative mother apart. But when his mother ends up in the hospital on the same day his partner is leaving for pilgrimage, Zaya’s worlds come crashing in on each other, opening a space for traumatic memories to resurface. Acha Bacha boldly explores the intersections between queerness, gender identity and Islamic culture in the Pakistani diaspora. It’s about the way we love, the way we are loved and what it ta... + Read More
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Series: Bar Mitzvah Boy Paperback Mark Leiren-Young 9780369100689 $17.95 DRAMA May 20, 2020

Joey Brant needs to have a bar mitzvah immediately. Like, next Tuesday. Except he’s not thirteen, the usual age for the Jewish milestone. He’s in his sixties. A task he thinks he could quickly cross off his to-do list becomes a deep immersion into the faith he no longer follows when he meets Rabbi Michael Levitz-Sharon. Michael’s personal life is hanging together by a thread. Her preteen daughter is being treated for cancer, which has put a strain on her marriage and her beliefs. Between her duties as rabbi, mother, and wife, she doesn’t have m... + Read More
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Series: Speed Dating for Sperm Donors Paperback Natalie Meisner 9780369100825 $17.95 DRAMA May 20, 2020

Can a lesbian couple find Mr. Right? Helen and Paige really want a baby. Maybe even two. They’ve decided they want to use a sperm donor, but because of Paige’s own upbringing as an adopted child they want the donor to at least be known to the child. This challenge makes the normally anonymous favour even harder and more intimate than they expected. And then there are the options for donors. Through the fast-paced “dating” of several candidates, all of whom come with their own warning labels, Helen and Paige’s relationship is strained to a point... + Read More