1.
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...
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2.
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...
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3.
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...
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4.
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...
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5.
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...
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6.
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...
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7.
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 ...
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8.
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...
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9.
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...
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10.
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...
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11.
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...
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