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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... + Read More
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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. ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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.
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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.
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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.
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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.
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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 ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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.
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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... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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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... + Read More