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Series: Stolen Motherhood Surrogacy and Made-to-Order Chldren Paperback Maria De Koninck 9781771862240 $24.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Sep 15, 2020
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Series: Still Crying for Help Chronicle of a Therapeutic Failure Foretold Paperback Sadia Messaili 9781771862271 $24.95 MEDICAL Sep 15, 2020
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Series: Pierre Trudeau's Darkest Hour War Measures 1970 Paperback Guy Bouthillier 9781771862233 $24.95 HISTORY Jul 15, 2020
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Series: The PS Royal William The First True Transatlantic Steamer Paperback Eileen Reid Marcil 9781771862295 $29.95 HISTORY Nov 01, 2020
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Series: Tatouine Paperback Jean-Christophe Réhel 9781771862288 $23.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020
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Series: Guernica Prize This Cleaving and This Burning Paperback J.A. Wainwright 9781771835664 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Two unrelated, aspiring writers, born on the same day in the same year to parents with the same first names, grow up together and eventually gain national prominence as authors. As the years pass, the complex sexual identities of Miller Sark and Hal Pierce undermine their intense private relationship, inflicting damage that cannot be undone by the distinction of their fiction and poetry. Inspired by the lives and works of American literary giants Ernest Hemingway and Hart Crane, This Cleaving and This Burning reveals the passion and purpose beh... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Occidental Hotel Paperback John Mays 9781771835145 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

"Mays’s passion for art electrifies fascinating sketches of Beuys." -Quill and QuireA brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America. He is a racist with a criminal past, an anti-hero who reflects on the ruins of the South and simultaneously on the life of a German performance artist called "Jupp". The fictional Jupp is a thinly-veiled cipher for the late real-life German artist, Joseph Beuys, and the photos in the novel are photos of the performances by the contr... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Cardinal Divide Paperback Nina Newington 9781771834421 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

A father comes out to his daughter as a woman. Or at least, he was once a woman. It's complicated. Funny. Painful. Eventually joyful. Meanwhile the daughter, who was adopted, has her own identity issues. At the Aboriginal addictions treatment centre where she works, everyone assumes she is Indigenous. But is she? How can she find out? Cardinal Divide explores the hunger for certainty and the mutability of identity, whether of gender, race or sexuality. Authenticity isn't simple. Acting as somebody else is simultaneously a way to deceive and to ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Tales from the Bottom of My Sole Paperback David Kingston Yeh 9781771835411 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

#1 Best Canadian Gay Fiction on Goodreads When a long-lost sister shows up as a trans man named Luke, a series of precipitous events throws the lives of boyfriends Daniel and David into turmoil. While David attends an extravagant family reunion in Sicily, Daniel's ex Marcus plans the world-premiere of his one-man show. The couple's vertiginous exploration of sex, intimacy and love comes to a head when a shocking revelation tests their commitment and future together.
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Series: MiroLand Essays The Butcher of Park Ex and Other Semi-Truthful Tales Paperback Andreas Kessaris 9781771834919 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2020

Kessaris manages to convey a sense of shared history through the prose itself, bringing the Montreal immigrant experience to life with wry humour and painstaking attention to detail. —Montreal Review of BooksThe Butcher of Park Ex is a humorous collection of personal stories inspired by the author's life growing up in Montreal's Park Extension neighbourhood, with Greek immigrant parents who never quite adapted to life in their new country. Never really fitting in with his ethnic community, and never feeling like part of mainstream Quebec or Can... + Read More
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Series: Essential Anthologies Series Changing the Face of Canadian Literature A Diverse Canadian Anthology Paperback Dane Swan 9781771835237 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 01, 2020

A g call to action and accountability. – Shelagh RogersNeedless to say, moments like now, when the hurdles to becoming a respected author are at their lowest. When the only hurdles to being published are the quality of your writing and your patience to deal with certain less and less important gatekeepers. Moments in history like this, must be acknowledged and celebrated. That's what this anthology is: It's a celebration. A moment to cry out, “Look how many of us have a voice! There are stories, and poetry in this country that are about people ... + Read More
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Series: Children's Books The Enchanted People Paperback Jennifer Pool 9781771835398 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Dec 01, 2021

The Enchanted People is a humanitarian fairytale about a young girl named Wawatay who lives away from her village as an outcast because she is different. All the people in her village have an enchanted power except for her, and so, she is not accepted by them. While living in solitude, Wawatay finds an injured baby sparrow and begins to care for her despite ridicule and discouragement from her people. When Baby Bird grows up and asks Wawatay to teach her to fly, Wawatay embarks on a journey across the Earth to seek help from her animal friends ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series I Will Be Corrupted Paperback Joseph Dandurand 9781771835060 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

I Will Be Corrupted is a collection of poems about a man who suffers from serious depression but is able to appear normal and live somewhat of a normal life. And yet what he sees and experiences in his everyday become poems and an insight into the mind of a kind and gentle person who wants to understand why he is here.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Unravelling Paperback Josephine Boxwell 9781771835442 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Told in alternating chapters that go back and forth between the 1990s and the present, Unravelling uncovers a story of corruption that connects the two small-town British Columbia protagonists whose worlds are irreparably damaged. Ruthless octogenarian Vivian Lennox fights her deteriorating mind as she defends the catastrophic decisions she made decades earlier. Armed only with her curiosity, 10-year-old Elena Reid is dangerously unaware of who or what she is about to expose as she searches for answers to her father's disappearance, following a... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Down in the Ground Paperback Bruce Meyer 9781771834889 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Dying is not merely the domain of the dead; it is a shared experience. What remains after someone has passed are the memories, that reflections of the past and those who have passed, and the challenges everyone faces in the wake of loss. Down in the Ground is a collection of short, flash fiction stories that examine the ways in which individuals deal with grief and loss, not as morbid reactions but as attempts to understand what they are experiencing. From the cradle to the grave, Down in the Ground is a study in the complex creativity we use t... + Read More
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Series: Essential Essays Series Shakespeare Beyond Science When Poetry Was The World Paperback Sky Gilbert 9781771835039 $20.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 01, 2020

Shakespeare wrote at a unique historical turning point: the world was understood through poetry -- rather than through the science of observing it. In Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World, Sky Gilbert's radical new research locates Shakespeare as a disciple of the Greek rhetorician Hermogenes, and a student of the Neo-Platonist Johannes Sturm. No, not just another ‘interpretation' of the meaning of Shakespeare's work. Instead, a radical approach to Shakespeare as magician and rhetorician, as a post-structuralist, more concerned... + Read More
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Series: Essential Essays Series Mini Musings Miniature Thoughts on Theatre and Poetry Paperback Keith Garebian 9781771835343 $20.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 01, 2020

Inspired by American playwright Sarah Ruhl's 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, this collection is a series of miniature reflections, meditations, and ruminations on subjects encompassing matters of theatre and poetry, two subjects very close to Garebian's heart. Perceptive, witty, and intimate, the mini musings bubble with a sense of wonder, excitement, and intimacy. A vibrant, provocative series of mini musings that also affords insight into a particular artistic sensibility as several pieces are really slices of memoir and autobiography.
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Series: Essential Essays Series Shifting Paradigms Essays on Art and Culture Paperback Ewan Whyte 9781771835633 $20.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Dec 01, 2021

Continuing from Desire Lines, Shifting Paradigms is a collection of essays on art, poetry and culture--both high and low--gathered from the astute critical work of Toronto writer Ewan Whyte. Included: essays on Yayoi Kusama, Anish Kapoor, Janet Cardiff, Damien Hirst, Viktor Mitic, Anne Carson and a number of other Canadian artists and poets.
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Series: Essential Essays Series Dervish at the Crossroads A Soundquest Through the First Two Decades of the New Millennium Paperback Wanda Waterman 9781771835008 $20.00 MUSIC Sep 01, 2020

Dervish at the Crossroads isn't a music guide so much as an autobiographical exploration of the experience of music from 2000 to 2020, with commentary on what makes the experience of music during these two decades radically different from all that came before. As the title of the book implies, due to the unique conditions of our time we can no longer think of ourselves as points on a series of evolutions; we're now much more present to all of music, from the beginning of written and recorded music, all of which turns around us like spokes on a ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Canticles II: (MMXX) Paperback George Elliott Clarke 9781771835480 $29.95 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Clarke's visions of canonical and apocryphal scriptures are black in ink, but lightning in illumination. Testament II issues re-readings, revisions, rewrites of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African Diaspora in the Americas. Canticles II (MMXIX) and Canticles II (MMXX) follow Testament I (also issued in two parts) whose subject is History, principally, of slavery and imperialism and liberation and independence. Canticles II is properly irreverent where necessary, but never blasphemous. It is s... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Götterdämmerung Paperback Len Gasparini 9781771835473 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

Götterdämmerung is Len Gasparini's fifteenth book of poetry since the early 1970s. What distinguishes this collection from his earlier work is the long title poem: a tour de force that covers new ground in the genre of ecopoetics by launching an acerbic yet lyrical assault on the Anthropocene. Other poems explore such diverse themes as memory, art, and botany. Also included are three literary essays that evince the importance of language and imagination.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Swimming Towards the Sun Collected Poems 1968-2020 Paperback Laurence Hutchman 9781771835404 $25.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

Swimming Toward the Sun: Collected Poems 1968-2018 gathers together five decades of poetry of the accomplished Canadian poet Laurence Hutchman. He invites us to take a poetic odyssey, starting in the late 1960's enriched by his travels to Europe, leading us through the turbulent times in cosmopolitan Montreal of the 1970's, to a long residence in New Brunswick and finally his return to Ontario. Through a powerful and daring use of language and a haunting musicality of lines, Hutchman explores the relationship between real and imaginative landsc... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Blood Rises Paperback David Haskins 9781771835381 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

The past infuses the present in the poems gathered in this collection. Painting a transformative Southeast wind helps restore a culture to a decimated people. Everyday events trigger a yearning for love from those already departed. A goldfish experiences poetry for the first time, again. An arduous trek through the Peruvian mountains leads to a stone that stops the sun. By turns ironic, comic, imagistic, experimental, these poems ask what?s next, and how we get there.
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Series: Essential Translations Series Tell Me What Moves You Paperback Phillippe Haeck 9781771835220 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

Haeck's intensity is such that he needs to use the fragment to complete an on-going project of finding his way to luminosity. Behind a deliberate modesty, the output is voluminous. Never boastful, Haeck introduces his prose as notes, poem-essay, poem, life-poem, life-novel, as if what he wrote did not merit adjectives such ‘completed' or ‘final'. He has invented a genre that was missing in Canada. The verse has prolonged itself into a regular paragraph. Fiction reads like a telecast, and reality made to look like conscientious invention. The wr... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series A Map of Rain Days Paperback Jennifer Hosein 9781771834414 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

A Map of Rain Days invites us into the liminal between the nights and the too-bright days. The author navigates a life felt full on, inhabiting all its beauty and shadows the slap-tumble of sex, the mean streets of the suburbs, the swill and gore of youth. Interwoven into this life are the realities of racism, addiction, suicide, rape, and death. And then clarity ensues.
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Series: Essential Poets Series The Two-Headed Man Collected Poems 1970-2020 Paperback Antonio D'Alfonso 9781771835497 $25.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

The collected poetry, covering a 50-year span from 1970 to 2020, of one of Canada's most influential writers, literary critics and publishers. His work has been described as a "multidimensional oeuvre that includes autobiography, politics, the quotidian, myth, tragedy and humor." And D'Alfonso himself has been called "a philosopher who puts on the mask of the poet in order to better grasp the ambiguities of our world."
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Series: Essential Poets Series Cosmic Bowling The I-Ching Poems Paperback Cornelia Hoogland 9781771835374 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

This book is a collaborative work of Ted Goodden?s ceramic sculptures and Cornelia Hoogland?s poems. Specifically, they are responding through image and text to the 64 hexagrams contained in the ancient book of wisdom, the I Ching, or Book of Changes. Cosmic Bowling's calm weather lands in the midst of twitter storms in which everybody wants to start a conversation. Here's a conversation -- facilitated through visual art and poetry -- that's been going on for three millennia, one that asks the perennial question: How should we live now?
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Series: World Poetry The Tenderness and the Wood Paperback Marlon Fick 9781771835565 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

The Tenderness and the Wood traverses cities, continents, and centuries searching for elusive swallows, symbolic of angels. It is a search for pre-religious purity in lyricism, resisting any sort of paraphrase or story that might later lead to easy codification. The result is an existential and agnostic gospel wherein redemption emerges as the transformative beauty of language itself
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Series: World Prose A Place in the Dark/ The Glamour of Evil Paperback Frank Lentricchia 9781771835312 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

This is a flip book with two novels: A Place In The Dark braids history, fiction and politics. It is set in Utica with substantial passages of painful, site-specific memories of the characters of both the Vietnam war and the American engagement in Iraq. These memories are carried by a Vietnamese immigrant woman living in Utica, who suffered in Saigon, an American Marine and Italian-American Utican who committed an atrocity during the siege of Khe Sanh, and an Iraqi who administered torture and worked as translator and interpreter in Baghdad on ... + Read More
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Series: World Prose Side Effects A Footloose Journey to the Apocalypse Paperback S. Montana Katz 9781771835503 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Side Effects: A footloose journey to the apocalypse is a novel about the post-World War II baby boom generation and the factors that have led to climate catastrophe. The novel provides a portrait of the boomers by following the lives of a zany, idealistic couple and their growing family through the '50s, '60s, '70s. Beginning on a honeymoon motorcycle trip the couple sets the goal of putting down roots in California, the land of wild beauty, abundance, and political activism. The music, art, science, and politics of the era are palpable through... + Read More
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Series: Mina Among the Shadows Paperback Edem Awumey 9781774150238 $22.95 FICTION Oct 21, 2020

Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. Kerim Neto returns to his hometown, a city on Africa's Atlantic coast, to search for Mina, his former model, lover, and muse. But Mina has disappeared. He combs the streets and byways he has known, hoping to find her. He questions his old friends from the theatre, with whom he and Mina had performed and mocked the country's army and dictators. But these friends have now joined the establishment, they are now imams, preachers, and police informers. Which Mina will Kerim find? Does she... + Read More
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Series: Maame (Mother) Paperback Elizabeth Allua Vaah 9781774150290 $22.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2020

In Aakonu, a small village on the coast of Ghana, life is a constant tussle between the reality of the mundane and the superstitions presided over by the local priestess. In this setup, girls in their puberty can only look forward to marriage--often to men old enough to be their fathers and already with other wives. Ahu, a young widow of eighteen, has no choice but to marry an older relative. But she refuses to have more children and returns to Aakonu. Overcoming all odds, she sets up a village eatery and raises her children, educating them al... + Read More
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Series: Four Sufferings, The shiku hakku Paperback Terry Watada 9781774150177 $20.95 POETRY Oct 22, 2020

Shiku hakku in Japanese means to endure, an expression that originates in Buddhism. This collection links Terry Watada's past and present while acknowledging the fundamental suffering of human existence--in birth, aging, illness, and death--and the suffering endured in daily living--common frustrations, desire, separation. But at the same time it celebrates love, and in the end seeks an enlightened state of acceptance. Rise above life's hardships and rejoice in the state of life is the overall theme of this collection.
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Series: Bittersweet Paperback Natasha Ramoutar 9781774150207 $20.95 POETRY Sep 22, 2020

Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, 2021 Reflections on a reconstructed homeland and Scarborough. Bittersweet is an exciting, accomplished collection of poems evoking both a reconstructed homeland and Scarborough (Ontario). Using memory--intimate as well as collective--prompted by photographs, maps, language, and folklore, Ramoutar meditates on themes of obscured and suppressed history, time, and liminality. Her poems journey from home to home to home, from Toronto to Guyana to South Asia; and Scarborough remains omnipresent, w... + Read More
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Series: Finish this Sentence Paperback Leslie Roach 9781774150269 $20.95 POETRY Oct 20, 2020

Finish this Sentence is about a personal experience in dealing with racism and healing from its effects. As this book weaves through the anger and anxiety provoked by racism, it points to the ultimate realization: one is neither the conditioning nor the incessant chatter that racism can provoke. Rather, one is powerful and able to arrest those harmful thoughts. Awakening to these truths have helped Leslie to heal. She hopes that her work will be beneficial to others as well.
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Series: Alfabet/Alphabet Paperback Sadiqa de Meijer 9781989287606 $15.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 01, 2020

alfabet / alphabet is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer?s transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate the shifting cultural currents of language by using an eclectic approach to storytelling. As such, fellow linguistic migrants to anglophone Canada will recognize elements of their experience in alfabet / alphabet, while lifelong English speakers will perceive their mother tongue in a new light.
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Series: Hell Light Flesh Paperback Klara du Plessis 9781989287521 $18.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2020
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Series: Home Waltz Paperback G.A. Grisenthwaite 9781989287644 $18.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

In 1973, fifteen-year old Q?óq?ésk?i?, or "Squito" Bob, is a mixed-blood N?e?kepmx boy trying to find his place in a small, mostly Native town. His closest friends are three n?e?kepmx boys and a white kid, an obnoxious runt who thinks himself superior to his friends. Accepted as neither Native nor white, Squito often feels like the stray dog of the group and envisions a short, disastrous life for himself. Home Waltz follows the boys over thirty-six hours on what should be one of the best weekends of their lives. With a senior girls volleyball t... + Read More
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Series: Humanimus Paperback David Huebert 9781989287569 $18.95 POETRY Oct 01, 2020
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Series: To Refrain From Embracing Paperback Luscombe Jeffrey 9781927886397 $25.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

From the backdrop of an impoverished steel-working community in working class Hamilton Ontario in the 1970?s, To Refrain From Embracing follows the trials faced by a small family after a suicide-attempt results in 38-year-old veteran Ted being checked into the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital. His wife Gloria struggles with family finances and growing worries related to the well-being of their 10-year old son Josh while also re-embracing of her Indigenous identity begins to grow through encounters with a local steelworker and remembrances of her m... + Read More
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Series: My Claustrophobic Happiness Paperback Jeanne Randolph 9781927886410 $18.00 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Inspired by Athanasius' The Temptations of St. Anthony in which the protagonist is repeatedly beset by desert demons, My Claustrophobic Happiness offers La Betty, a wealthy condo inhabitant whose cloistered consumer object worship provides her with fragile protection against supernatural visitations of representatives from a reality outside. Psychoanalyst Jeanne Randolph approaches La Betty's psyche with distinctively transcendental wit, unveiling an unstable and absurdly fragile existence of repetition in denial. Lush and playful descriptions... + Read More
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Series: Talking Animals Paperback Joni Murphy 9781771666053 $23.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

A fable for our times, Joni Murphy's Talking Animals takes place in an all-animal world where creatures rather like us are forced to deal with an all-too-familiar landscape of soul-crushing jobs, polluted oceans, and a creeping sense of doom.It's New York City, nowish. Lemurs brew espresso. Birds tend bar. There are bears on Wall Street, and a billionaire racehorse is mayor. Sea creatures are viewed with fear and disgust and there's chatter about building a wall to keep them out.Alfonzo is a moody alpaca. His friend Mitchell is a sociable llama... + Read More
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Series: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty Affirmations for the Real World Paperback Hana Shafi 9781771666091 $25.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 22, 2020

Let's get one thing straight: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World is not a book of advice. You're not going to find a step-by-step guide to meditation here, or even reminders to drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Those things are all good for you, but that's not what Hana Shafi wants to talk about. Instead, Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty—built around art from Shafi's popular online affirmation series—focuses on our common and never-ending journey of self-discovery. It explores the ways in which the world can... + Read More
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Series: The Bones Are There Paperback Kate Sutherland 9781771666251 $18.00 POETRY Oct 13, 2020

Zigzagging across the globe, Kate Sutherland's fourth book is poetry by way of collage: pieced-together excerpts from travellers' journals, ships' logs, textbooks and manuals, individual testimony, and fairy and folk tales that tell stories of the extinction of various species, and of the evolution of human understanding of—and culpability for—the phenomenon. Across its three sections, Sutherland draws identifiable connections between various animal extinctions and human legacies of imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and misogyny, charting t... + Read More
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Series: Agatha Paperback Anne Cathrine Bomann 9781771666459 $23.00 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A psychiatrist is counting down towards his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor family. Often, he resorts to drawing bird caricatures of his patients instead of taking notes. His social life consists of brief conversations with his meticulous secretary Madame Surrugue, who has reigned over the clinic for more than thirty years. The two of them have no relationship outside the office, where everything runs smoothly and uneventfully. Until one day, that is, when a youn... + Read More
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Series: You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. Paperback Sheung-King 9781771666411 $20.00 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for FictionFinalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for Canada Reads 2021 Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award A Globe and Mail Best Book Debut of 2020 A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and enigmatic relationship in... + Read More
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Series: The Lightning of Possible Storms Paperback Jonathan Ball 9781771666138 $20.00 FICTION Sep 30, 2020

Winner of the 2021 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction Aleya's world starts to unravel after a café customer leaves behind a collection of short stories. Surprised and disturbed to discover that it has been dedicated to her, Aleya delves into the strange book... A mad scientist seeks to steal his son's dreams. A struggling writer, skilled only at destruction, finds himself courted by Hollywood. A woman seeks to escape her body and live inside her dreams. Citizens panic when a new city block manifests out of nowhere. The personification of capit... + Read More
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Series: Mama's Boy Trilogy Mama's Boy Game Over Paperback David Goudreault 9781771666176 $20.00 FICTION Nov 10, 2020

At the end of this story I'm going to kill myself. And then die. That's the way it is. All good things must come to an end, including me. Mama's Boy Game Over is the third and final book in David Goudreault's bleakly comic bestselling Mama's Boy trilogy. Mama's Boy has been transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital. He manages to escape, and goes on the run in Montreal, hiding in plain sight. In his short but eventful life, Mama's Boy has already managed to achieve most of his ambitions: fame, fatherhood and friendship, at least in his ... + Read More
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Series: Without Ceremony Paperback Angela Carr 9781771666299 $18.00 POETRY Oct 15, 2020

Centred on the everyday, and crafted without preamble or pretension, the poems in Without Ceremony are a literary pastiche—a thematic mosaic not unlike tracks on an album. Amidst a timeless cast of characters from Lucretius and Eva Hesse, to Joan Mitchell and St. Augustine, Carr illuminates what it means to truly know something and questions how certain knowledge becomes valued over others. Without Ceremony spotlights the gendered division of ideas and the inherent strength of language to harm and oppress, as well as elevate. Within these pages... + Read More
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Series: Propositions and Prayers Paperback Lise Downe 9781771666374 $18.00 POETRY Nov 17, 2020

Propositions and Prayers, Lise Downe's first book of poetry in nine years, is a collection in two parts: "Propositions" is a series of short poems-as-possibilities, structured by the compression of images and voices to convey an urgency through degrees of incoherence; "Prayers" explores living and language as acts of devotion. These poems blur the boundaries between inner and outer experiences of the self, often subverting expectations and habit in their deconstruction of structure and style. It beautifully portrays humanity's myriad complexiti... + Read More
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Series: This Radiant Life Paperback Chantal Neveu 9781771666336 $20.00 POETRY Nov 19, 2020

Winner of the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for TranslationWinner of the 2021 Nelson Ball Poetry Prize In this stunning long poem, Chantal Neveu draws from the lexicons of science, art, revolution and corporeal movement to forge intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making up our world. This is poetry capable of holding life and death, solidarity and love. Renewal. Breathing. In its brevity and persistence, This Radiant Life is a material call for action: it asks us to let go, even just a little bit, of our i... + Read More
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Series: Trapsongs Three Plays Paperback Shannon Bramer 9781771666213 $20.00 DRAMA Dec 08, 2020

With an introduction by Sara Tilley From playwright and poet Shannon Bramer comes Trapsongs, a collection of three dark comedies that navigate the realm of the surreal and absurd. In "Monarita," an intimate friendship between Mona, a frazzled new mother, and Rita, her beloved, estranged friend, is explored. Their interaction is a dance—part ballet, part mud-fight. In "The Collectors," Hanna Parson is being harassed by three ghastly collection agents who force her to confront her debt and isolation as she struggles to create meaningful art in he... + Read More
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Series: Forget Me Not Paperback Ronnie Burkett 9780369101570 $19.95 DRAMA Aug 09, 2022

Welcome to the New Now, a time in which written language has been forbidden and forgotten. Those who desire to have their love letters written and read must make a dangerous journey to the secret and illegal camp of She, the Keeper of the Lost Hand. Aided by the mysterious showman Me, She recounts how her past led her to be one of the last people able to read and write in cursive. The tandem tale of Zako Budaydos and His Dancing Bear illuminates the time of the Before, when the carnival performer had to rely on wit, love, and a secret coded lan... + Read More
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Series: Yaga Paperback Kat Sandler 9780369101655 $18.95 DRAMA Jan 31, 2023

She’s more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, smart, modern woman operating off of morally ambiguous motives? A detective finds himself in a small, isolated town asking, what does the disappearance of the young heir to a yogurt empire have to do with some random lore about an old witch? Matched by an apprehensive local sheriff, a university professor with a taste for younger men, and a whol... + Read More
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Series: The Children's Republic Paperback Hannah Moscovitch 9780369101457 $17.95 DRAMA Mar 08, 2022

Confined within the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, Dr. Janusz Korczak struggles to protect the children at his orphanage from the horrors of the Second World War. There is not enough food or pairs of eyes to keep watch over them. Between a troublemaking thief, an abandoned girl, a malnourished boy, and a violin prodigy, Janusz has his hands full, but together they fight for beauty and hope in a world crumbling around them. Based on the WWII advocacy work of Dr. Janusz Korczak, The Children’s Republic is a reminder of the hope that can still be fou... + Read More
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Series: New Magic Valley Fun Town Paperback Daniel MacIvor 9780369101334 $17.95 DRAMA Feb 01, 2021

From the acclaimed playwright behind A Beautiful View, The Best Brothers, and This is What Happens Next comes a moving portrait about what we choose to forget and how we decide to move on. Cape Bretoner Dougie hasn’t seen his childhood best friend Allen in thirty years. Based on what can be seen on Facebook, things have changed, but Dougie has no doubt they’ll easily reconnect when Allen comes to visit. With the added flair of Dougie’s ex-wife Cheryl and daughter Sandy, the group spends a night reminiscing, drinking, and dancing. But as the par... + Read More
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Series: Beautiful Man & Other Short Plays Paperback Erin Shields 9780369101495 $19.95 DRAMA Dec 16, 2020

Award-winning playwright Erin Shields has crafted three thought-provoking plays that centre on the inner lives of women, offering space for those who dare to listen. An eviscerating satire of gender roles in popular culture, Beautiful Man imagines a world in which women are the subjects and men the objects. As three women dissect the latest Hollywood blockbuster, narrative after narrative of strong female characters fold into each other, fusing into a brutally recognizable story. In Unit B-1717, a woman is trying to clean out her storage locker... + Read More
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Series: Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell Paperback Trina Davies 9780369101419 $17.95 DRAMA Dec 16, 2020

It only takes one spark of love to change the world forever. Mabel Hubbard Bell was a strong, self-assured woman—bright, passionate, and a complete original. Despite a near-fatal case of childhood scarlet fever that cost her the ability to hear, she learned to talk and lip-read in multiple languages. At nineteen, she married a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell and became the most significant influence in his life. This is Mabel's story, offering the unique perspective of a woman whose remarkable life was forever connected to her famous... + Read More
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Series: Pretty Goblins Paperback Beth Graham 9780369101297 $17.95 DRAMA Nov 30, 2020

From holding hands in the womb to holding each other’s hair back when they puked, twins Laura and Lizzie grew up only having each other. They couldn’t count on their practically feral mom, absent dad, or even the boys they liked. They’re polar opposites—Laura’s reserved while Lizzie’s reckless—but their shared mischievous giggles and dreams for the future kept them going. One day, Laura finds a familiar book of poems in Lizzie’s apartment and is dragged through their turbulent past. Together, the sisters relive their complicated history in an e... + Read More
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Series: Theory Paperback Norman Yeung 9780369101617 $17.95 DRAMA Feb 22, 2021

Is there a limit to free speech? Who gets to decide? Isabelle’s film theory students are stunned that she would open an unmoderated online discussion group to complement a controversial syllabus. Her intention was for them to learn from each other, but when an anonymous student starts to post racist comments and offensive videos on the forum and others challenge Isabelle’s methods, she is forced to decide whether to intervene or to let the social experiment play out. But the posts soon turn abusive and threatening to Isabelle’s relationship wi... + Read More