1.
Series:
Cafe Conversations
Democracy and Dialogue in Public Spaces
Paperback
Michael Picard
9781772141689
$20.00
PHILOSOPHY
Mar 30, 2023
This collection of essays is the first to look closely at the phenomena of philosophy in a cafe. Since the tradition of philosophical dialogue in coffee-houses was revived in Paris in the 1990s, public venues for participatory philosophy have sprung up in numerous countries, taking many forms, all seeking to stimulate intellectual interest as well as meaningful democratic community engagement. Some of the earliest discussion series continue to this day. The simple activity of reasoning together in a cafe is of interest to democratic theory, epi...
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2.
Series:
Queen and Carcass
Paperback
Anna van Valkenburg
9781772141696
$18.00
POETRY
Nov 01, 2020
"A town is a tin of children in an ocean," writes Anna van Valkenburg in her debut poetry collection, Queen and Carcass, a rich, unpredictable, and deeply surreal exploration of identity and the multiple contradictions we each embody. These poems, set in locations real and imaginary, magical and banal, inhabited by figures out of Slavic folklore and a Boschian landscape, strive to unearth truths, especially those that are difficult or uncomfortable, using Bertolt Brecht's maxim "Do not fear death so much as an inadequate life" as a touchstone. ...
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3.
Series:
The Loop
Paperback
Dan Sanders
9781772141702
$18.00
FICTION
Oct 21, 2020
Winner of the 41st International 3-Day Novel Writing Contest Alan is unsure if he is dead or dreaming, he only knows that he is stuck in a loop. He finds himself being forced to walk along a straight path through an unending pine forest where any deviation from the path causes him to black out and begin again. Dipping in and out of an endless purgatorial walk, Alan relives key moments in his life where he missed the opportunity to learn, escape, and change: The death of his mother, an abusive relationship with his father, and the opportunity...
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4.
Series:
Fauna
Paperback
Christiane Vadnais
9781552454169
$20.95
FICTION
Sep 22, 2020
In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species – humans included – are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her. Ten lush and bracing ...
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5.
Series:
The Dark Library
Paperback
Cyrille Martinez
9781552454077
$20.95
FICTION
Oct 20, 2020
Libraries are magical places. But what if they’re even more magical than we know? In Cyrille Martinez’s library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. Meet the Angry Young Book, who has strong opinions about who reads what and why. He’s tired of people reading bestsellers, so he places himself on the desks of those who might appreciate him. Meet the Old Historian who mysteriously vanished from the stacks. Meet the Blue Librarian, the Mauve Librarian, the Yellow Librarian, and spend a day with the ...
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6.
Series:
Neighbourhood Watch
Paperback
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
9781552454176
$20.95
FICTION
Nov 24, 2020
The lives of three families intersect in the hallways of an apartment block in a Montreal neighborhood. Mélissa, Roxane, and Kevin have never had it easy. As their parents face their own struggles – with addiction, unemployment, and abuse – they must learn to fend for themselves. Though their lives converge at school, on the street, at the corner store, or when they can hear each other through their apartments’ thin walls, they each feel deeply alone. Neighbourhood Watch tells their coming-of-age stories with a cinematic ease, moving between de...
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7.
Series:
Word Problems
Paperback
Ian Williams
9781552454145
$21.95
POETRY
Oct 06, 2020
From Ian Williams, author of Reproduction, winner of the Giller Prize and a June 2020 Indie Next Great Read Frustrated by how tough the issues of our time are to solve – racial inequality, our pernicious depression, the troubled relationships we have with other people – Ian Williams revisits the seemingly simple questions of grade school for inspiration: if Billy has five nickels and Jane has three dimes, how many Black men will be murdered by police? He finds no satisfaction, realizing that maybe there are no easy answers to ineffable question...
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8.
Series:
Swivelmount
Paperback
Ken Babstock
9781552454138
$21.95
POETRY
Oct 06, 2020
Poems to read in the small hours before dawn, when the sirens start up again. Swivelmount’s concerns – the collapse of subject and world, eros and law, knowledge and bafflement – gain new urgency as Babstock fiercely reimagines and reassembles the remnants into a viable order. At the core of their kinetic imagery is a freefall into mourning, but also a faith in others: a Babstock poem is the voice next to you in the ER waiting room, becalmed, compassionate, darkly humorous. This is Babstock at his best. Past Praise: “This is a poetry that is so...
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9.
Series:
Entering Sappho
Paperback
Sarah Dowling
9781552454183
$21.95
POETRY
Oct 06, 2020
An abandoned town named for the classical lesbian leads to questions about history and settlement. Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road sign: Entering Sappho. Nothing remains of the town, just trash at the side of the highway and thick, wet bush. Can Sappho’s breathless eroticism tell us anything about settlement—about why we’re here in front of this sign? Mixing historical documents, oral histories, and experimental translations of the original lesbian poet’s works, this book combines documentary and speculation, surveyi...
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10.
Series:
The Lesser Known
A History of Oddities from the Heart of the Continent
Paperback
Darren Bernhardt
9781773370484
$29.95
HISTORY
Nov 27, 2020
A 2021 Manitoba Day Award Honorable Mention! Shortlisted for the 2021 Manuela Dias Book Design Award Manitoba's history is one of being carved. Ice sculpted the land before nomadic first people pressed trails across it. Southern First Nations dug into the earth to grow corn and potatoes while those in the north mined it for quartz used in arrowheads. Fur traders arrived, expanding on Indigenous trading networks and shaping new ones. Then came settlers who chiselled the terrain with villages, towns and cities. They levelled contours to straighte...
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11.
Series:
The Truth About Barns
A Voyage of Discovery and Contemplation
Paperback
David Elias
9781773370507
$24.95
HISTORY
Oct 09, 2020
The Truth About the Barn offers answers to important questions about how barns came into being, why they look the way they do, why they're worth reflecting on, and what possible future they may have. Chapters investigate the barn's place in culture and religion, art and literature. Psychological and philosophical implications are explored. Readers are treated to an occasional recollection or account of the author's own experiences with barns.
12.
Series:
Vermin
Short Stories
Paperback
Lori Hahnel
9781773370460
$21.95
FICTION
Oct 22, 2020
Nominated for the High Plains Book Award The stories in Vermin are linked by themes of loss, longing and music. Stories in this collection have appeared in Joyland, The Saturday Evening Post, Room, The Antigonish Review and other journals and anthologies.
13.
Series:
Be Scared of Everything
Horror Essays
Paperback
Peter Counter
9781988784564
$20.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Oct 13, 2020
Horror essays that read like Chuck Klosterman filtered through H. P. Lovecraft. Slinging ectoplasm, tombstones, and chainsaws with aplomb, Be Scared of Everything is a frighteningly smart celebration of horror culture that will appeal to both horror aficionados and casual fans. Combining pop culture criticism and narrative memoir, Counter’s essays consider and deconstruct film, TV, video games, true crime, and his own horrific encounters to find importance in the occult, pathos in Ouija boards, poetry in madness, and beauty in annihilation. C...
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14.
Series:
Daniil and Vanya
Paperback
Marie-Hélène Larochelle
9781988784571
$20.95
FICTION
Oct 01, 2020
We Need to Talk About Kevin meets Goodnight Mommy in this outrageous modern family thriller. Emma and Gregory have a perfect life—a gorgeous home, a successful design firm—except for their inability to start a family. Following a traumatic failed pregnancy, they decide to travel to Russia to adopt a pair of twin boys. From the moment they board the plane in St. Petersburg, the twins begin to demonstrate perverse behaviour that grows increasingly ominous, driving a wedge between Emma and Gregory, and alienating their friends and family. The two...
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15.
Series:
Night Watch
The Vet Suite
Paperback
Gillian Wigmore
9781988784588
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 12, 2021
Full of humour and compassion, Night Watch collects three novellas that explore the lives of rural veterinarians. Wigmore’s vets struggle to stay awake during unending calving seasons, reaching for moments of stillness and grace between phone calls and farm calls; they balance their own family’s births and deaths with shepherding animals through caesareans and euthanasia, covering miles of road in their vast jurisdictions during harsh winters and muddy, ruthless springs. Travelling from small towns in northern BC to the south of France and Fiji...
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16.
Series: Throwback
Prologue to Love
Paperback
Martha Ostenso
9781988784595
$23.95
FICTION
Nov 18, 2020
Autumn Dean unexpectedly returns home from Europe to her father's ranch in the Okanagan Valley, where she reconnects with Bruce Langdon, a stoic childhood friend grown into an accomplished rancher. Autumn and Bruce's budding romance is halted by the revival of an intergenerational grudge between their two families that is shrouded in mystery. Autumn is insistent on uncovering the root of the hostility: a forbidden romance between her mother and Bruce's father that had devastating consequences. As Bruce and Autumn circle the truth of what happen...
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17.
Series:
Les cadeaux du corbeau
Hardcover
Kung Jaadee
9781989122440
$11.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Oct 15, 2020
Kung Jaadee (Roberta Kennedy) est une conteuse haïda traditionnelle, une auteure, une enseignante de langue haïda,  chanteuse et une joueuse de tambour de Haida Gwaii  dans le nord de la Colombie-Britannique. Dans ce livre, Les cadeaux du corbeau, Kung Jaadee nous dit que le corbeau a donné à chaque personne un cadeau spécial à partager avec le reste du monde. Ce cadeau ou cette passion est unique.
18.
Series:
Awkward Pause
Paperback
Ryan Harby
9781989754023
$19.99
HUMOR
Sep 09, 2020
Awkward Pause is an anthology collection curated from Ryan Harby's popular online comic series Honey Dill. A love letter to odd humour, Awkward Pause is a mix of joy and sorrow, both soft and sharp. The book includes over 50 comics, which range in topic from mental health to time travel, murder, and butts. Absurd and strange in ways that will warm even the coldest of hearts.
19.
Series:
VMT
Vampire Menstrual Tension
Paperback
William Simpson
9781988903705
$19.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 07, 2022
10 years in the works, VMT represents William Simpson's return to no-holds barred vampires stories following the success of DC Vertigo's Vamps with author Elaine Lee. Simpson was inspired to pick up his pen whilst drawing concept art and storyboards on Game of Thrones, after a visceral reaction to The Twilight saga movies left him covered in coffee and a burning desire to put vampires back into the seriously nasty monster category where they truly belong. The bloody brainchild of William Simpson, VMT represents his unfiltered vision for a real ...
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20.
Series:
Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures
Paperback
S.M. Beiko
9781989754030
$24.99
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 21, 2020
What haunts our hearts today may haunt us in the hereafter . . . In future-Edo Japan, two lovers cross paths after fifty years apart. A drone-stream influencer is stalked by a spectre her online audience can't see. Trans vampires' lives intertwine in cyber-goth Paris. A non-binary chaplain serving a haunted space station becomes enamoured with the ship's AI. And the treachery and passion of a gestalt alien mind reaches critical mass for the explorer who discovered it. With stories spanning time, galaxies, and spirits, Gothic Tales of Haunted...
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21.
Series: Bogart Creek
Bogart Creek 2
Paperback
Derek Evernden
9781988903903
$19.99
HUMOR
Nov 18, 2020
Collecting even more of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden's laugh out loud funny, single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. Similar in style to The Far Side, Bogart Creek is a perfect book for washroom reading.
22.
Series:
ABC Monstrosity
Paperback
Shea Proulx
9781988903880
$14.99
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Sep 16, 2020
ABC Monstrosity is a freaky-fun book designed to thrill adults and kids alike with pages that teach and terrify all at once. As each new letter is introduced with a drawing of a familiar object or animal, the previous ones are continuously combined to create bizarre monstrosities.The detailed drawings are beautifully hand coloured by Shea. ABC Monstrosity includes a zany glossary featuring fascinating scientific facts augmented with humour, the detailed monstrosities have goofball nonsense definitions, but the science behind how we might define...
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23.
Series:
St. Michael's Residential School
Lament and Legacy
Paperback
Nancy Dyson
9781553806233
$21.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 15, 2021
One of the few accounts by care-givers in an Indian Residential School describing the horrific conditions. Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein In 1970, the authors, Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein, were hired as childcare workers at the Alert Bay Student Residence (formerly St. Michael's Indian Residential School) on northern Vancouver Island. Shocked when Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their families, punished for speaking their native language, fed substandard food and severely disciplined for minor offences, Dan and Nancy questioned ...
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24.
Series:
Out of the Dark
Paperback
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
9781553806325
$17.95
POETRY
Nov 10, 2020
A collection of poetry by a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. This collection offers a cycle of poems about the poet who, as a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, has had to live with the memories of the Holocaust all her life. The first section describes the evils of suffering and prejudice, of war and destruction, and the loss of loved ones, even the loss of self. "This is a ghetto / where humans live in neglected cages / within a fire that burns sleep out of their eyes." The second section brings glimmers of light in finding ways to move towar...
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