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Series: Field Notes On Risk Paperback Mark Kingwell 9781771963923 $14.95 PHILOSOPHY Oct 13, 2020

With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it? As we cope with the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, considerations of everyday risk have been more pressing, and inescapable. In the past, everyone engaged in some degree of risky behaviour, from mundane realities like taking a shower or getting into a car to purposely thrill-seeking activities like rock-climbing or BASE jumping. Many activities that seemed high-risk, such as flying, were claimed basically s... + Read More
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Series: Field Notes On Decline Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever Paperback Andrew Potter 9781771963947 $14.95 PHILOSOPHY Aug 17, 2021

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit vote—and the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year wraps declared 2016 “the worst … ever.” Four even more troubling years later, the question of our apocalypse had devolved into a tired social media cliché. But when COVID-19 hit, journalist and professor of pub... + Read More
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Series: Reaching Mithymna Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos Paperback Steven Heighton 9781771963763 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2020

A poet’s firsthand account of a month volunteering on the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis.In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother's native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY-—a jerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. In a ... + Read More
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Series: Forgotten Work Paperback Jason Guriel 9781771963824 $19.95 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

A love story about fandom, an ode to music snobs, and a time-tripping work of speculative fiction—in verse.In the year 2063, on the edge of the Crater formerly known as Montréal, a middle-aged man and his ex’s daughter search for a cult hero: the leader of a short-lived band named after a forgotten work of poetry and known to fans through a forgotten work of music criticism. In this exuberantly plotted verse novel, Guriel follows an obsessive cult-following through the twenty-first century. Some things change (there’s metamorphic smart print fo... + Read More
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Series: Stoop City Paperback Kristyn Dunnion 9781771963862 $22.95 FICTION Sep 22, 2020

A sea witch, a bossy Virgin Mary, and a lesbian widow’s wife—in ghost form—walk into a short story collection ...From a homeless teen abandoned by his scam-artist boyfriend and a woman who finds herself renegotiating the terms of her relationship with her lover’s ghost, to the lovelorn Mary Louise, who struggles with butch bachelorhood, and a tribute to Grimm’s “The Golden Goose” rendered as a jazz dance spectacle, Kristyn Dunnion’s freewheeling collection goes wherever there’s a story to tell—and then, out of whispers and shouts, echoes and sn... + Read More
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Series: Watching the Devil Dance How a Spree Killer Slipped Through the Cracks of the Criminal Justice System Paperback William Toffan 9781771963251 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 10, 2020

The unbelievable true story of North America’s first known spree killer, written by a veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.In June 1966, Matthew Charles Lamb took his uncle’s shotgun and wandered down Ford Blvd in Windsor, Ontario. At the end of the bloody night, two teenagers lay dead, with multiple others injured after an unprovoked shooting spree. In his investigation into Lamb’s story, William Toffan pieces together the troubled childhood and the history of violence that culminated in the young man’s dubious distinction as Canada’s ... + Read More
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Series: London Free Press: From the Vault 2 Hardcover Jennifer Grainger 9781771963343 $44.95 HISTORY Nov 10, 2020

The much-anticipated follow-up to From the Vault, Volume 1 draws on local archives to bring historic London, Ontario, to life.Welcome to 1950 in London, Ontario. The post-war boom is in full swing, fueled by jobs, babies, and the modern consumer. New buildings dot the landscape, marking the advent of suburbia and rise of the shopping mall. When the 401 cuts through town, London finds itself on the cultural map, bringing famous acts to town. Taken by the spirit of protest, Londoners hit the streets to make their voices heard. Is this the heyday ... + Read More
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Series: Best Canadian Best Canadian Essays 2020 Paperback Sarmishta Subramanian 9781771963664 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 20, 2020

2020 editor Sarmishta Subramanian draws on her extensive editorial career to select the best of Canadian nonfiction.The twelfth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. Culled from leading Canadian magazines and journals by acclaimed guest editor Sarmishta Subramanian, Best Canadian Essays 2020 contains award-winning and award-nominated nonfiction articles that are topical and engaging and have their finger on the pulse of our contemporary psyches.
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Series: Best Canadian Best Canadian Poetry 2020 Paperback Marilyn Dumont 9781771963640 $22.95 POETRY Oct 20, 2020

The annual installment of the poetry anthology Quill & Quire calls "must-have."Guest editor Marilyn Dumont, author of the widely acclaimed collection A Really Good Brown Girl, brings a passionate ear for rhythm, an eye for narrative compression, an appetite for vital subject matter, and an affinity for warmth and wit to Best Canadian Poetry 2020. The fifty poignantly independent poems gathered here explore themes of emergence, defiance, ferocious anger, gratitude, and survival. They are alive with acoustic energy, precise in their lan... + Read More
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Series: Best Canadian Best Canadian Stories 2020 Paperback Paige Cooper 9781771963626 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 20, 2020

Giller-nominated editor Paige Cooper's 2020 selection includes work by Lynn Coady, Casey Plett, Naben Ruthnum, Thea Lim, and other standouts of Canadian short fiction.Now in its fiftieth year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others ha... + Read More
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories The Morgan Trust A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback Richard Bridgeman 9781771963725 $9.50 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

World-renowned illustrator Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2020.Intrigued by a travel guide’s mention of tales of hauntings, Selby Pyle, an “Amateur Psychic Investigator,” sets out for a village deep in the Welsh mountains—where the moss-covered walls of an unfinished Shangri La left behind by a deceased entrepreneur is far from the strangest thing he encounters.
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback M.R. James 9781771963701 $9.50 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

World-renowned illustrator Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2020.After receiving word that his Uncle Henry has gone missing, W.R. travels to his town to join in the search, but soon suspects his uncle is already dead. After an unusual encounter with a traveling salesman, W.R. has a nightmare about a terrifying puppet show—and a ghostly clergyman.
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories The Open Door A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback Margaret Oliphant 9781771963688 $9.50 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

World-renowned illustrator Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2020.Retired officer Colonel Mortimer takes a lease on the mansion of Brentwood, the grounds of which share the ruins of an older house, including a strange, vacant doorway, but eerie events begin to unfold and Mortimer’s son falls ill. As the supernatural takes hold, Mortimer resolves to do what he must to save his son even as he ventures further into an increasingly horrifying place.
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Series: Field Notes On Killing a Revolution Paperback Andray Domise 9781771964050 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 01, 2022

An argument against the liberal paradigm of allyship in favour of movements based on Black self-determination Blackout Tuesday was the pivotal moment, Andray Domise argues, when street-level protests were uploaded to corporate boardrooms and the grassroots protest movement begun after the murder of George Floyd turned from rebellion against white supremacist state violence to a corporatized love-in—what Malcom X dubbed “the circus.” In On Killing a Revolution, Domise analyzes the co-opting by liberal interests of Black liberation movements ran... + Read More