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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: 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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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: 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: Life in the Court of Matane Second edition. With a foreword by Heather O'Neill Paperback Eric Dupont 9781771862264 $19.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

Nadia Comaneci's gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal is the starting point for a whole new generation. Eric Dupont watches the performance on TV, mesmerized. The son of a police officer (Henry VIII) and a professional cook - as he likes to remind us - he grows up in the depths of the Quebec countryside with a new address for almost every birthday and little but memories of his mother to hang onto. His parents have divorced, and the novel's narrator relates his childhood, comparing it to a family gymnastics performance worthy... + Read More
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Series: Brotherhood to Nationhood George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement 2nd edition Paperback Peter McFarlane 9781771135108 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2020

Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography From Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present. George Manuel (1920–1989) was the strategist and visionary behind the modern Indigenous movement in Canada. A three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, he laid the groundwork for what would become the Assembly of First Nations and was the founding president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Authors Peter McFarlane and Doreen Manuel follow ... + Read More
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Series: Going Public A Survivor's Journey from Grief to Action Paperback Julie Macfarlane 9781771134750 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 14, 2020

It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud – the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she confronts her own silence and deeply rooted trauma to chart a remarkable course from sexual abuse victim to agent of change. Going Public merges the worlds of personal and professional, activism and scholarship. Drawing upon decades of legal training, Macfarlane decodes the well-worn methods used by church, school, and state to silence survivors, from first re... + Read More
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Series: The Taste of Longing Ethel Mulvany and Her Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook Paperback Suzanne Evans 9781771134897 $28.95 HISTORY Sep 21, 2020

Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing decadent games of make-believe and writing down recipes filled with cream, raisins, chocolate, butter, cinnamon, ripe fruit – the unattainable ingredients of peacetime, of home, of memory. In this novelistic, immersive biography, Suzanne Evans presents a truly individual account of WWII through the e... + Read More
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Series: Jeannie’s Demise Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto Paperback Ian Radforth 9781771135139 $29.95 HISTORY Oct 18, 2020

August 1, 1875, Toronto: The naked body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie’s Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that played out in the bustling streets and courtrooms of “Toronto the Good,” cast with all the lurid stock characters of the genre. Historian Ian Radforth brings to life an era in which abortion was illegal, criminal proceedings were a spectator sport, and coded advertisements for back-alley procedures ran in the margins of newspapers. At the centre of th... + Read More
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Series: Leading Progress The Professional Institute of the Public Service Canada 1920–2020 Paperback Jason Russell 9781771134781 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2020

On February 6, 1920, a small group of public service employees met for the first time to form a professional association. A century later, the Professional Institute of the Public Service Canada (PIPSC) is a bargaining agent representing close to 60,000 public sector workers, whose collective efforts for the public good have touched the lives of every Canadian. Published on the centennial of PIPSC’s founding, Leading Progress is the definitive account of its evolution from then to now—and a rare glimpse into an under-studied corner of North ... + Read More
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Series: À L’avant-garde du progrès L’Institut professionnel de la fonction publique du Canada 1920–2020 Paperback Jason Russell 9781771135160 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 31, 2020

Le 6 février 1920, un petit groupe d’employés de la fonction publique se réunit pour la première fois afin de former une association professionnelle. Un siècle plus tard, l’Institut professionnel de la fonction publique du Canada (IPFPC) est un agent négociateur représentant près de 60 000 travailleurs du secteur public dont les efforts pour le bien collectif améliorent la vie de chaque Canadien. Publié à l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de fondation de l’IPFPC, À l’avant-garde du progrès dresse le portrait complet de son évolution, de 1920 à... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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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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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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

Longlisted for Canada Reads 2021 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 which emotions are often muted and sometimes masked by verbal play and philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances. You Are Eating an Orange. Y... + Read More
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Series: The Lightning of Possible Storms Paperback Jonathan Ball 9781771666138 $20.00 FICTION Sep 30, 2020

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 capitalism strives to impress his cutthroat boss. The more A... + 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

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 individuality in favour of mutuality, to arrive separately yet in unison at a radiance in which all living beings... + 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: 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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Weeding Paperback Genevieve LeBleu 9781772620481 $18.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 28, 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... + Read More
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Series: 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... + Read More
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Series: 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... + Read More
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Series: MiroLand Around the Block 55 Timeless Outdoor Games Illustrated and Explained Novelty book Vlad Tomei 9781771835695 $27.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Dec 01, 2021

Around the Block is a collection of games kids played in the 70's, 80's and 90's. And even earlier than that. The project started in Eastern Europe and is now going global. The book hits a nerve at a worldwide level and could be the first step in addressing a global phenomenon. It hit the bestseller mark in its home market in just one year, reaped both national and international awards and was picked up by schools as a "play manual." This will, sooner or later, be in every home. Come join the ride. Around the Block contains 55 timeless outdoor... + Read More
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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 The Butcher of Park Ex and Other Semi-Truthful Tales Paperback Andreas Kessaris 9781771834919 $20.00 HUMOR 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 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: MiroLand The Enchanted People Paperback Jennifer Pool 9781771835398 $20.00 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Oct 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 friend... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series I Will Be Corrupted Paperback Joseph Dandurand 9781771835060 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

A tale of a Kwantlen man who has been given the gift of healing but also is a heroin addict living on the eastside, what drove the author to write this book of poems was how the voice of the Healer came to him and it was with ease that each poem showed itself. It was if he were right there either talking to a Sasquatch or crawling down an alley on the eastside of Vancouver. It almost has a film quality to it as if each poem is a scene from an epic tale. This is a book of hope, loss, and hopefully a sense of redemption for all the poor souls who... + Read More
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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 Sep 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 Glenn Gould, Yayoi Kusama, Anish Kapoor, Janet Cardiff, Damien Hurst, Anne Carson, Peter Doig 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