1.
Series: Essential Anthologies Series
A Second Coming
Canadian Migration Fiction
Paperback
Michael Mirolla
9781771831208
$25.00
FICTION
Aug 01, 2016
Migration stories are an essential component of Canada?s historical/literary continuum; we need to know of such writings to rationalize about who Canadians really are, and where they are from. Aren?t we all the children of migration? Where we came from, how we got here, who we were, and are, and who may become in time ? such themes should interest all those naturally concerned about identity and origin; that eternal enigma wrought of migration. These short-fiction stories tell much about migration and Canada, in ways that are funny, ribald, tra...
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2.
Series: Essential Anthologies Series
Coming Here, Being Here
A Canadian Migration Anthology
Paperback
Michael Mirolla
9781771831178
$25.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Aug 01, 2016
This migration anthology is an entertaining miscellany of factual stories, essays, newspaper reportage, and even a poem, all of which highlight the humour, as well as the ironies and agonies generated when humans seek a new homeland. The authors, and their stories, are as diverse as our Canadian population itself, and help to tell who we all are within this amazing, tolerant, nurturing geographic space called Canada. All migrants have stories, but not all are writers, so although most authors here are academics and/or widely published, the voic...
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3.
Series: MiroLand Essays
Daring to Dream
A Handbook for Hope in the Time of Trump
Paperback
Angelo Bolotta
9781771833417
$25.00
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Oct 01, 2018
Throughout human history, great and free nations have been built on noble dreams. Recently, in some once promising nations, dreams of betterment and possibility, have been effectively compromised. The current political landscape, featuring cold partisan interest, calculated distraction, divisive fear mongering, negativity, and voter disillusionment, has enabled a perfect storm of toxic dysfunction. To make matters worse, personal integrity and accountability have become almost non-existent in political leaders. In such an environment, dreams of...
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4.
Series: Essential Translations Series
The Four Roads Hotel
Paperback
France Théoret
9781771832106
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 01, 2017
In exchange for the slavish obedience of her two daughters, the mother promises to support them against the tyrannical father. Rather than Montreal or the suburbs, the family settle in a hotel at the cross-roads of a practically deserted village. An impenetrable forest surrounds the hotel where the usual customers resemble characters from Hugo and Gorki. In hopes of escape, the younger daughter marries while the elder, against her parents' wishes, immerses herself in studies and questions whose answers may prove disturbing.
5.
Series: Memoir and Biography
Philipovna
Daughter of Sorrow
Paperback
Valentina Gal
9781771833691
$25.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2019
Philipovna: The Daughter of Sorrow is a creative non-fiction based on my mother's surviving the holodomor [the Ukrainian starvation] in the early 1930's. It is the story of an orphan who goes to live with her aunt in a rural village in the Ukrainian countryside. The aunt swears on her dead sister's Bible that Vera Philipovna, the daughter of a cobbler and seamstress from a small village in Chercassy, Ukraine will survive no matter what might befall the family. No one foresees the horrors that they will have to face between the fall of 1930 an...
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6.
Series: Essential Prose Series
The Shining Fragments
Paperback
Robin Blackburn McBride
9781771832663
$25.00
FICTION
Oct 01, 2018
A heartbreaking arrival in a new country. Thrust too early into adulthood. Will he survive Canada’s turbulent streets? Toronto, 1882. Joseph Conlon has never felt more alone. Parentless after his mother dies on the voyage from Ireland, the frightened eight-year-old witnesses his sister’s abduction and is abandoned at the train station. But once he’s placed in a Catholic orphanage, Joseph discovers a gift for drawing and friends that begin to fill the hole in his heart. Falling for a mercurial girl acrobat, his desire to win her affection drives...
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7.
Series: Essential Poets Series
Where The Sun Shines Best
Paperback
Austin Clarke
9781550716931
$15.00
POETRY
Apr 30, 2013
Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to the war in Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury after a night of heavy drinking. The poet, whose downtown Toronto home overlooks the armoury and surrounding park, describes the crime, its perpetrators, the victim, and a cast of homeless witnesses that includes the woman, a prostitute, who first alerts police. The subsequent trial evokes reflection on the immigrant experience the poet shares with one of the accused, and on the agony of that young soldier’s mother. F...
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