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1.
Series:
Mirror's Edge
A Novel
Hardcover
Alex Passey
9781988168234
$29.95
FICTION
Sep 29, 2020
Rath has been on a downward spiral. And it's not just him - the world is a polluted mess, corporate influence has replaced independent thought, and his fiancée has decided that Rath is no longer worth her time. While Rath embraces his multiple vices, he never expected his next bender to land him in another world entirely. He finds himself in Sarah's world --an untainted parallel universe to his own: a pristine woodland where every person is the absolute master of their domain, and where Rath's AI chip isn't dictating his every move. The opport...
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Series:
The Muse Sings
Hardcover
Dennis Cooley
9781988168364
$24.95
POETRY
Sep 30, 2020
The Muse Sings and the poet sings songs of love and longing from states of joy, self-doubt, vexation, curiosity, affection, observation, mock-indignation...The poems speak for themselves and sometimes "they talk all at once." In seductive acts of language itself, they invoke and embrace the Muses as much as they do the writers who would become muses, from ancient Homer and Shakespeare to poets of contemporary time.These poems are the seasoned work of a trickster poet in his prime with a crow's eye trained on the world. No silent words on the pa...
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Series:
Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy
Hardcover
Christian McPherson
9781988168401
$24.95
POETRY
Oct 27, 2020
Over the course of a lifetime, we all experience catch-of-breath moments that stir exquisite awareness of life's transience. Such fleeting moments we share with poet Christian McPherson and his space-suited avatar negotiating bumpy terrain. In this collection the meandering, often self-deprecating poet considers and records moments of truth and insight common to us all as he registers his joys and regrets, and raises rants in postured outrage. A refreshing and often humorous honesty prevails. As the dedication promises, these poems are for thos...
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Series: TreeTalk
TreeTalk
Hardcover
Ariel Gordon
9781988168272
$19.95
POETRY
Sep 29, 2020
During the heatwave of July 2017, Ariel Gordon spent two days sitting on the patio of downtown Winnipeg's Tallest Poppy, writing snippets of poems which she hung from the boulevard tree using paper and string. Passersby were invited to TreeTalk too -- their secrets / one-liners / meditations / haiku were also hung from the tree. By the end of the weekend, the elm had a second temporary canopy of leaves: 234 poems, 111 written by Gordon, 107 written by passersby, and 16 from other sources.Gordon has assembled all these voices into a long/found p...
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5.
Series:
The Unpleasantness at the Battle of Thornford
A Father Christmas Mystery
Paperback
C.C. Benison
9781988168418
$15.95
FICTION
Nov 05, 2020
When a costumed, pike-spiked body turns up after a traditional historic reenactment of the 1645 Battle of Thornford, the Reverend Tom "Father" Christmas and the villagers of Thornford Regis find themselves in a battle of their own as they deal with events from the murky, more recent past. C.C. Benison's latest intriguing and delightful Father Christmas mystery will leave cozy mystery readers puzzling over the outcome and, like a refreshing English cream tea, wishing there were more.
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Series:
Quest for Coomaraswamy
A Life in the Arts
Hardcover
Pratapaditya Pal
9781897411872
$39.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 22, 2020
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Series:
Perimeter's Ridge
Marks, Musings and Machinations of F. Spina
Paperback
Ferdinando Spina
9781988440378
$21.95
ART
Jul 01, 2020
This collection of paintings and writings by Fred Spina is a much-awaited sequel to his "Arctic Notes and Prairie Places" published by Bayeux Arts.
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8.
Series:
The Complete Guide for Family Caregivers
Paperback
Tapp-McDougall Caroline
9781989517321
$28.95
MEDICAL
Nov 04, 2020
Providing eldercare while working and managing a busy home life is a recipe for burnout and is the worst situation in which to make thoughtful, informed decisions that have significant impact on the quality of life of an aging parent. The Complete Guide for Family Caregivers, written by one of Canada's foremost experts on eldercare, provides the advice people need to make smart decisions, both with and for their loved ones, including housing, finances, legal and estate planning, medical needs, and independence and mobility. This book provides n...
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9.
Series: Mental Health Recovery
PTSD Guide
Paperback
Leblanc Lise
9781989517291
$21.95
SELF-HELP
Sep 01, 2020
If you are suffering from PTSD, you may be at a loss on what to do and how to cope. Therapist Lise Leblanc has constructed this step-by-step, practical guide to help you understand your illness, manage your symptoms, and learn effective strategies to cope with the daily challenges and realities of PTSD. Through relatable and real-life stories, useful exercises, and reflective questions, the Mental Health Recovery: PTSD Guide will answer many of your questions while guiding you to achieve an optimum state of wellness.
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10.
Series: Mental Health Recovery
PTSD Guide Workbook
A companion to the Mental Health Recovery PTSD Guide.
Paperback
Leblanc Lise
9781989517352
$21.95
SELF-HELP
Sep 01, 2020
This workbook is your essential companion to Lise Leblanc's PTSD Guide . Each chapter in the workbook corresponds to a chapter in the book, providing space and graphic elements to work through the practical exercises, reflective questions, and more that Lise has outlined. The workbook provides a simple framework for Lise's step by step, easy to absorb plan for guiding you to achieve an optimum state of wellness.
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11.
Series: Modern Indigenous Voices series
Childhood Thoughts and Water
Paperback
John McDonald
9781772311198
$16.95
POETRY
Sep 01, 2020
"Childhood Thoughts and Water" is a collection of Beat Poetry, Spoken Word, Performance Art and Lyrical Verse. This is a work which journeys into the memories and events of an Urban Indigenous warrior's struggles to reconnect with a language and culture that is seemingly always almost out of reach. The common theme of reconnecting with nature and with water is interspersed with the imagery of childhood recollections and anecdotes about life and love, aspirations and defeats, and the desire to achieve greatness in spite of the obstacles and barr...
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12.
Series:
The Haunting
Poems of nature, love and loss
Paperback
Marianne Paul
9781772311259
$16.95
POETRY
Oct 15, 2020
This book is a reflection of our times, the issues that we face in the here and now, that impact upon the survival of our planet as we struggle to deal with climate change. At the same time it is a love poem to nature, to the teeming life with which we share the planet and have a responsibility for protecting and honouring. "The Haunting" shifts perspective and asks the reader to pause, to stop and notice the natural world, to see with open eyes and open hearts its beauty and delights, but also its struggles. In a world that is increasing domin...
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13.
Series:
The Lachine Canal Chronicles: The Luck of the Irish
Paperback
Frédéric Latreille
9781772311280
$22.95
FICTION
Dec 15, 2020
"The Luck of the Irish" is the first instalment of "The Lachine Canal Chronicles" series. It follows the misadventures of Eamon Jovanovski, a wannabe artist of Irish descent, who befriends the infamous Tom Murphy, another Irish Montrealer, at the age of sixteen. From then on, Eamon's life will be turned upside down due to of his friendship with Tom who is infatuated by sex, drugs and punk rock. Tom's downward spiral will eventually have a dark influence on Eamon who keeps helping him get back on his feet. Eamon and Tom will exile themselves fro...
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14.
Series:
Memoirs of a Noble Man
Paperback
Raymond McGregor
9781772311310
$19.95
FICTION
Jan 15, 2021
Jack Brown lost both his parents at a young age but continued to grow up understanding the meaning of respect and hard work thanks to a close family friend, Sam. Life for Jack is simple until a dangerous man comes to town seeking a high stakes poker game. Sam's lust for gambling leads the stranger to take Sam's money and his life. While collecting Sam's body, he learns that the stranger has also kidnapped a young woman. With nothing left to go home to, Jack decides to save the young woman, whom he finds himself growing attracted to and avenge h...
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15.
Series:
Woodland Tales: The Five Wishes
Paperback
Priya Chaudhary
9781772311341
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 6
Oct 15, 2020
Randy the Racoon and Cindy the Squirrel are best friends. One day, while walking in Woodland Forest, they find their friend Bella the Butterfly. She is trapped in a spider's web! After Cindy and Randy help her out of the web, she grants them five wishes. Randy and Cindy are excited to make their own dreams come true. But, when each of their wishes hurts their friends, Randy and Cindy have to undo their wishes. With only one wish left, they then stumble upon their injured friend Doris the Crow. When deciding what to do, Randy and Cindy learn the...
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16.
Series:
sakaw askiy acimowina: niyanan pakosehtimowina
Paperback
Priya Chaudhary
9781772311372
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 6
Oct 15, 2020
Randy the Racoon and Cindy the Squirrel are best friends. One day, while walking in Woodland Forest, they find their friend Bella the Butterfly. She is trapped in a spider's web! After Cindy and Randy help her out of the web, she grants them five wishes. Randy and Cindy are excited to make their own dreams come true. But, when each of their wishes hurts their friends, Randy and Cindy have to undo their wishes. With only one wish left, they then stumble upon their injured friend Doris the Crow. When deciding what to do, Randy and Cindy learn the...
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17.
Series:
Cyborg Anthology, The
Paperback
Lindsay B-e
9781771315302
$20.00
POETRY
Oct 01, 2020
Poems written by Cyborgs in the future - this collection melds sci-fi and poetry, human and machine. The Cyborg Anthology takes place in a future where there was a thriving world of Robots and Cyborgs living peacefully beside Humans, but a disaster destroyed all Robot and most Cyborg life. The book is organized like a typical anthology of literature, split into sections that include a biography of each poet and a sample of their poetry. It covers early Cyborg poetry, political, celebrity, and pop culture poets, and ends with the next genera...
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Series:
Knowing Animals, The
Paperback
Emily Skov-Nielsen
9781771315333
$20.00
POETRY
Sep 01, 2020
Poems that sing, in various notes of female voice, the human being as an embodied, contemplative, feeling animal. In Skov-Nielsen's thrumming debut, The Knowing Animals, our consciousness is interconnected with the surrounding trees, bugs, rivers, atmospheres, and cosmos. Here, flowers escape Victorian domestication and ally with girls' green powers of attraction. Here, the social politeness of motherly domesticity and the raw dangers of adolescent sexual awakening are shot through with blood pulsing under the skin, with oxygen exchanged in g...
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Series:
I Am the Big Heart
Paperback
Sarah Venart
9781771315364
$20.00
POETRY
Nov 01, 2020
A love story to the emotional self--this heart is tender, but it also has a savage bite. What does it mean to be the big heart? Or to hope to be the big heart? Or to fail to be that big heart? How far can a heart stretch? How does being a parent stretch it further? How does a heart manage under the pressure of children, of self, of hospital technician, of partner, of death? In this collection, big heartedness is both demand and desire. It emerges from family life--the kid who says to your face that she prefers her other parent; the father mo...
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21.
Series:
Coyote Takes a Walk
Paperback
Joseph Urie
9781928120230
$19.00
FICTION
Oct 01, 2021
A lot of time has passed but the Trickster has returned and the world that he left is indesperate need of some levity, the truth and most importantly, reconciliation.It is time to start again. In the spirit of treaty. But before that can happen some things need to be cleared up. Some eyes need to be opened but most importantly some hearts need to change. This is a story of change. For the better.
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22.
Series:
Krillian Key, The
Salamander Run
Paperback
Neal Shannacappo
9781928120216
$24.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Nov 20, 2020
"My million years of immortality have barely begun..." Pursued by warring human/alien hybrids, the immortal Kyrill, also known as Salamander, is the key to a prison forged by the seven gods of creation. While one of the warring factions moves to protect him, the other seeks to use him to open the prison. The Krillian Key, Salamander Run is a sassy, fast-paced Indigenous-themed graphic novel set in the post-apocalyptic future of Neo-New York circa 2242, with flashbacks to modern-day Canada.
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Series:
The Seventh Shot: On the Trail of Canada's .22-Calibre Killer
Paperback
Ann Burke
9781988989235
$20.00
TRUE CRIME
Oct 22, 2020
The Seventh Shot is a recounting of two grisly Ontario murders some thirty years on, and the remarkable efforts of police detectives to unravel the senseless brutality of these crimes. The author and one-time classmate of the killer, haunted by the grisly crimes and some demons of her own, sets about shedding light on the dogged determination of Ontario Police Detectives to bring a killer cop to justice, involving a little luck, and a whole lot of talent. Drawing on faded archival copies, hours of interviews and first hand accounts, This one t...
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24.
Series:
The Wintermen III:
At the End of the World
Paperback
Brit Griffin
9781988989242
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 25, 2020
Life after climate catastrophe is a dystopian nightmare Brit Griffin's series The Wintermen wraps up as Johnny Slaught tangles with new Talos strongman Eton Love over who the future belongs to: the people and the land, or the same old capitalist profiteers. With a slim promise of spring on the horizon, megalomaniac Love is gearing up for a cut and run replay of business as usual, and that means grabbing the wealth that lies within the Wintermen's territory. But the forests, deep snows, and wolves, have a different idea about the fate of the nor...
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25.
Series:
Connection at Newcombe
Paperback
Kayt Burgess
9781988989266
$20.00
FICTION
Apr 24, 2021
Newcombe is too small to qualify for a rail station. So begins a campaign against time and government to guarantee the survival of their community in post-war Northern Ontario.
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26.
Series:
Kinmount
Paperback
Rod Carley
9781988989259
$20.00
FICTION
Oct 17, 2020
Rod Carley has concocted another hilarious romp behind the theatre curtain - a showdown between artistic freedom and censorship in rural Ontario. Kinmount is the last place down-and-out director Dave Middleton wants to revisit yet there he is directing an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet for an eccentric producer in farm country. And there his quixotic troubles begin. From cults to karaoke, anything that can go wrong does. In one hilarious chapter after another, Dave becomes the reluctant emissary of truth in a comic battle between artist...
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27.
Series:
Working in the Bathtub
Conversations with the Immortal Dany Laferrière
Paperback
Adam Leith Gollner
9781773900735
$18.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 07, 2020
Montreal writer Dany Laferrière became "Immortal" in 2015, when he was inducted into the Académie française, the highest honour in all French literature - and the first Quebecer and only second Black writer to receive such an honour. In these wide-ranging interviews with Adam Leith Gollner, portions of which were originally published in The Paris Review, Laferrière reveals how his life and his writing are inseparable, discussing everything from his breakout debut, How To Make Love To a Negro Without Getting Tired, to the extraordinary success o...
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28.
Series:
Kerouac & Presley
Paperback
André Pronovost
9781773900643
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 06, 2021
Kerouac & Presley takes you on the road, guitar slung over your shoulder. Beginning in the Montreal neighbourhood where a teenage girl was brutally murdered in 1975, the International Year of the Woman, to an Abbey in Connecticut where a former starlet and Elvis co-star fled Hollywood to become a nun. This is the story of a wanderer who sets out to rewrite "the blank and flawless page" that is America. Inspired by the history of Quebec and America, Kerouac & Presley is an American prayer in prose and paragraphs.
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Series:
Daughter of Here
Paperback
Ioana Georgescu
9781773900681
$21.95
FICTION
Sep 04, 2020
Daughter of Here is an experiment in memory, desire, and time. As she sifts through an international whirlwind romance with Célestin, her larger-than-life love for her daughter Mo, and her own childhood behind the Iron Curtain, Dolores's narrative shifts from Williamsburg, to Tokyo, to Bucharest before and after the fall, and to Cairo at the first spark of the Arab Spring. Filmic and thought-provoking, this novel straddles the political and the personal with ease and eloquence.
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Series:
Little Girl Gazelle
Paperback
Stéphane Martelly
9781773900711
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Sep 04, 2020
A little girl gazelle leaps from page to page, asking hard questions about what is fair and right.She's sleek and fleet, and the poetic language lifts her up, up, higher and faster as she whirls through the bold eloquence of the book's illustrations, making colourful tracks, leaving her mark, finding her way, skimming and dancing through an unjust world. Part fable, part metaphor, Little Girl Gazelle is an extraordinarily beautiful picture book focused on discrimination and equality, presenting parents' subtle efforts to preparetheir black gaze...
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31.
Series:
ZOM-FAM
Paperback
Kama La Mackerel
9781999058845
$16.00
POETRY
Sep 10, 2020
In their debut poetry collection, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island, Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems, ZOM-FAM (meaning "man-woman" or "transgender" in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a gender-creative child growing up in the 80s and 90s on the plantation island, as they seek vocabularies for loving and honouring their queer/trans self amidst the legacy of colonial silences. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrativ...
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32.
Series: A Chris Ryder Thriller
Weight of Blood, The
Paperback
D.B. Carew
9781988732923
$18.95
FICTION
Nov 01, 2020
After barely surviving the events of The Killer Trail, Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder once again finds himself at the centre of a high-profile murder case: Marvin Goodwin, a young man who falls on the extreme end of the autism spectrum, is found covered with blood at the murder scene of a local ice cream truck driver. When Chris is called in to learn what he can about Marvin, he finds that the weight of blood might just be too much for him to bear.Complicating matters are Chris' strained relationship with his father; the viciou...
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33.
Series:
Taken by the Muse
On the Path to Becoming a Filmmaker
Paperback
Anne Wheeler
9781774390016
$20.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 15, 2020
Laced with humour and revelation, Anne Wheeler's creative non-fiction stories tell of her serendipitous journey in the seventies, when she broke with tradition and found her own way to becoming a filmmaker and raconteur.Join this celebrated screenwriter and director as she travels south of Mombasa after calling off her wedding; attempts to gain acceptance in a male-dominated film collective; travels to India to visit friends who are devoted to a radical Master, and ultimately discovers her sense of purpose and passion close to home, sharing sto...
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34.
Series:
Horseplay
My Time Undercover on the Granville Strip
Paperback
Norm Boucher
9781988732985
$21.95
TRUE CRIME
Nov 15, 2020
In his first true crime memoir, undercover operator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver's heroin scene, a world of paranoia, ripoffs, and violence. It is 1983 and the War on Drugs is intensifying. From his observer's seat in barrooms, Boucher candidly reveals the lives of heroin addicts who spend each day looking for their next hit. Their dangerous subculture, centred around three gritty hotels on the Granville Strip, becomes Boucher's domain as he attempts both to gain acceptance in a world far removed from his own ...
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35.
Series:
Image Decay
Paperback
Mark Lisac
9781988732893
$19.95
FICTION
Nov 01, 2020
Mark Lisac's Image Decay returns to the pugnacious world of backroom politics laid out in his award-nominated Where the Bodies Lie. Set again in that "unnamed capital city east of the Rockies," where the Brutalist architecture of the downtown core reflects the body politic laid bare.When a cantankerous ex-government photographer seeks ownership of his prints, the powers-that-be are determined to prevent the release of certain sensitive photos. Set in the 1990s, this political thriller delves into questions of identity and memory, established po...
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36.
Series:
Goth Girls of Banff
Paperback
John O'Neill
9781988732954
$19.95
FICTION
Nov 15, 2020
John O'Neill's gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their survival is tenuous. A two-sister team of goth tour guides offers guided excursions up switchback mountain trails; a paroled convict thumbs his way into the life of a family driving west; and an animal pathologist, while performing a necropsy on a grizzly bear, has an unusual encounter with both technology and humani...
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37.
Series:
Cam & Beau
Paperback
Maria Cichosz
9781989689073
$19.95
FICTION
Oct 15, 2020
Cam and Beau are best friends, roommates, and massive potheads. Life is sweet, except for one crucial thing: Cam will never get up the nerve to tell Beau Larky he's in love with him. Cam is a man of thought, not action, and would rather linger in doubt than risk losing the friendship. That is, until the mysterious and unwelcome involvement of a mutual friend with an unshakable conviction that Beau reciprocates Cam's feeling and needs to be told the truth. Equal parts gonzo bromance and melancholy longing, Cam & Beau is a novel about unspoken kn...
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38.
Series:
Something Drastic
Paperback
Luke Inglis
9781989689080
$19.95
FICTION
Oct 15, 2020
Earl Qume's poisoned mind has altered his reality and transformed his surroundings into omnipresent threats. After his wife kicks him out and he finds himself on the run from the law, he escapes the concrete confines of Toronto to find refuge in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. There he joins a group of travelers, led by a peculiar wilderness guide named Wolfgang Yellowbird, who takes them on a journey deep into the winter-scape of a massive and glorious wilderness. As Earl's mind calms and his body begins to heal, astronomical forces pulv...
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39.
Series:
Songs from a Small Town
(In a Minor Key)
Paperback
Penny Chamberlain
9781989689097
$19.95
FICTION
Oct 15, 2020
Inspired by a true incident of mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York in 2011-2012, Songs from a Small Town (in a Minor Key) is a novel written as a series of stories from different points of view. It examines a mysterious condition that strikes only teenage girls in a small farming town--their arms twitch and jump, and they can't control the movements--and while people speculate about what is causing the disease, no one knows for sure. As the stories progress, various facets of this bizarre phenomenon are explored, dark secrets come to light, and t...
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40.
Series:
Beneath the Statue
Paperback
Jeremy Colangelo
9781989689103
$19.95
FICTION
Oct 15, 2020
Beneath the Statue is an inventory of the tactics of the weak, the methods of the contained and the imprisoned, and the weapons of those who cannot fight. Each story is like its own small island on a vast sea, an isolated world where things work differently. Yet among the family dramas, political machinations, the surreal dreamscapes, and the nightmares come to life, what rises again and again is the urge to struggle on, the need to fight even when it feels impossible.
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41.
Series:
Seeing Martin
Paperback
Su Croll
9781989424049
$24.00
FICTION
Sep 25, 2020
When art student Mira Samhain loses her father, she becomes preoccupied with images of flesh and anguish. Martin Zorn becomes her lover and muse, his body's every detail she commits to paper. It's not the first time Zorn has been curated. His sister, photographer Marie Claire Zorn, spent her career working to record every gesture her younger brother made, every emotion he expressed; she made them both famous, and eventually destroyed them. Seeing Martin is Su Croll's debut novel, a work that investigates the predatory gaze, the tidal pull betwe...
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42.
Series:
Niagara & Government
Paperback
Phil Hall
9781989424032
$20.00
POETRY
Aug 22, 2020
"To tell what happened to you is not a poem," writes Governor General Award-winning poet Phil Hall in this, his latest collection, Niagara & Government. What a poem is: roaring calamity, wedding deceptions, sobriety, Charlottesville mobs, estranged sisters, folk art, poverty, puffery, work, names on cenotaphs, white space, white space, white space. These long sequential poems want to be spoken. They invite the reader to check her ego and sit with "the good stories that un-tongued us."
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43.
Series:
love, life.
a mostly-true fable.
Paperback
bernardine stapleton
9781989424056
$22.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 04, 2020
love, life. is a memoir-fable about coming out, going back in, grief, eating Italian, and catching the Piazzo Bernardini. Funny, ascerbic, this is a story of first unrequited love that follows emotional truth rather than chronological time, and is layered with darkly delicious tendencies. The ending will move readers to resume their own journey, loving life more.
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44.
Series:
Thunks
Paperback
Adam Seelig
9781989424025
$20.00
POETRY
Nov 06, 2020
In the spirit of Samuel Beckett's "It's the shape that matters," Thunks offers visually arresting and emotionally rousing new poems by Toronto playwright and poet Adam Seelig. Thunks explores music, love, myth, nature, art, money, kids, friends, writing, writers, wankers, religion, theatre, food, terror, war, cancer, death, and invites the reader into an unusual conversation.
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45.
Series:
Little Boys
Paperback
Sophie Bédard
9782924049662
$24.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Nov 12, 2020
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Series:
Cancer is a C Word
Hardcover
Sunita Pal
9781999241605
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 8
Oct 15, 2020
Teaching tough and scary topics to children, especially to the very young, is not easy. Dealing with Cancer is a sad reality that many families have to face and explaining it to little children can be very difficult--and hard to do without creating a Monster of Fear.Cancer is a C Word will help families and schools introduce the concept of Cancer to little ones, specifically to early primary-aged children, in a very simple way that is easy for them to understand. At the same time, the book also focuses on the positive aspects by demonstrating t...
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47.
Series:
Humane
Paperback
Anna Marie Sewell
9781988754246
$19.95
FICTION
Nov 02, 2020
'In Humane, Anna Marie Sewell's brings an Indigenous and poetic sensibility to the crime novel, infusing it with imagery and dance as a Métis mother of two works as an unlicensed Private Investigator. Like its Métis characters, Humane straddles two worlds, following the contours of Western-based novel but infusing it with Indigenous storytelling and allegory. It's a wonderful read, a significant addition to the canon of authentic Indigenous crime novel.' Wayne Arthurson, award-winning writer of the Leo Desroches novels. Who steals a dog from a...
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48.
Series:
Censorettes
Paperback
Elizabeth Frank
9781988754321
$19.95
FICTION
Nov 05, 2020
Booklist: "This refreshingly unusual wartime tale is a testament to female friendship, and its strength lies in its superbly written, fierce and funny heroine, and a well-developed cast of supporting characters."For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening. She is determined to get into the fight--then the fight is brought to her. Lucy Barrett is a Censorette, part of a branch of British Intelligence stationed on the island to inspect mail bet...
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Series:
Rough
Paperback
Robin van Eck
9781988754260
$19.95
FICTION
Nov 01, 2020
"When the river jumps the banks, eating the city's downtown core as it goes, one man, homeless by choice, is forced to confront his past in order to save those he cares about. Visually rich and intense, Robin van Eck's debut novel provides a deep reflection on humanity- An eye-opening, haunting, and unforgettable read." Fran Kimmel, author of No Good Asking. It is 2013 and Calgary's Bow river is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend-an accident?Taking cover downtown that night, Sherme...
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Series:
Fall of Night
Paperback
D.K. Stone
9781988754307
$19.95
FICTION
Nov 04, 2020
Rich Evans is desperate to say goodbye to his past in New York and embrace a future in Waterton with Lou Newman, the small-town car mechanic who is also the love of his life. Just when he is closing the door on the chaos of the big city, tragedy ensues on a large scale. He arrives in Waterton to discover the body of his ex-girlfriend has turned up in a remote area nearby. Grisly details emerge, and Rich and Lou prepare to try to prove his innocence in a small town where the term 'outsider' can be applied to anyone who wasn't born there.
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All the Night Gone
Paperback
Sabrina Uswak
9781988754284
$19.95
FICTION
Nov 03, 2020
A tragic car accident, and two brothers are left to cope. No one seems to notice that the boys are left alone; the older one takes care of the younger, and the years drag on.Then she arrives. She is lost like them, and she glides into their lives almost imperceptibly. They are almost a family. Almost.When she suddenly disappears, what else can they do but get in the car and search? The brothers don't agree on much lately, but this is unquestionable: no one could need her as much as they do.
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Series:
Weeding
Paperback
Genevieve LeBleu
9781772620481
$18.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Mar 15, 2021
X-Files meets The Young and The Restless On a typical autumn afternoon, Martha hosts a group of middle-aged women at her suburban home. The day takes a sudden turn when Elisabeth, an estranged friend, turns up unexpectedly--and she isn't the only unwanted guest at the tea party. Martha's sister, Maureen, shows up after years of radio silence, along some painful memories and a lot of confusion. It doesn't take long for the guest list to change again when Martha disappears after a simple trip to the backyard for herbs. Martha is the most beloved...
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To Know You're Alive
Paperback
Dakota McFadzean
9781772620498
$20.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Nov 01, 2020
Graphic shorts filled with horror, humour, and the absurd Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Dakota McFadzean returns with a brilliantly dark collection that offers a glimpse into the cracks between childhood imagination and the disappointing harshness of adulthood. Populated by cruel bullies, exhausted parents, and relentless cartoon mascots, the world of To Know You're Alive renders the familiar into something that is alien and absurd. The characters in these stories long to uncover something uncanny in shadowy attics and beneath masks, only t...
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Nova Graphica
Paperback
Laura Kenins
9781772620504
$20.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 05, 2020
The fiddle-free side of Nova Scotia history More than the stereotypes of lobsters and fiddles, Canada's "ocean playground" of Nova Scotia boasts a vibrant history of ghost stories, folklore, industry, politics, and vibrant Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ and immigrant communities. Home or formerly home to some of Canada's biggest names in comics over the past decades, this anthology brings together 15 artists, making Nova Scotia's history come to life through a collection of graphic stories that are spooky, funny and thought-provoking. Nova Scotia and...
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Pronounced / Workable
Paperback
Candace de Taeye
9781771262644
$17.00
POETRY
Sep 30, 2020
In Pronounced/Workable many of the poems draw from pre-hospital care medical protocols, standards and legislative acts as well as colloquial quotes of patients, literary reference, graffiti, signage and other texts. It hopes to mimic the fast paced collage and varied tonality that a 12 hour shift in the city produces. Food, opportunistic creatures, tragedy and apathy are recurring themes, as well as many Toronto-specific landmarks. Some later poems reflect on the medicalization of the poets own female body through the use of personal medical re...
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Recovery Community
Paperback
Conor Mc Donnell
9781771262606
$17.00
POETRY
Sep 30, 2020
In Recovery Community, physician-poet Conor Mc Donnell explores the complexities of trauma, illness and loss. Shot through with personal and professional experiences, Mc Donnell's poems recruit actors, addicts and artists to a Greek-chorus rallying call: drug users are serenaded by the medications that seek to trap them, Laura Palmer is released from TV to be replaced by her captive audience, Shelley Winters is raised from a succession of pre-dug Hollywood graves, and noir cinema retreats to the shadows under the glare of a 21st century lens. T...
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Love and other failed religions
Paperback
Dane Swan
9781771262682
$17.00
POETRY
Sep 30, 2020
"There is no messiah here." The most popular religion on Earth was founded by a Jewish man who traveled the Roman Empire. He allegedly challenged religious leaders, while preaching the importance of love. He was persecuted in his time, but eventually, his preachings flourished. Millennia later (in the 60's), another Jewish man challenged political and religious leaders on the stage as a comic. He preached lessons of love through laughter. He also was persecuted for his beliefs. They both had humiliating deaths. After he died, many of those who ...
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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 ha...
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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...
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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.