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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 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

In this satirical work of meta-fiction, psychoanalyst, cultural critic, and performance artist Jeanne Randolph uses (and discards) a series of artworks as tools in the creation of the fictional character La Betty: a flesh-denying creation of pure consumerist identity. She is the central figure in a series of humorous, surreal, and viciously critical vignettes that dive deep into complex waters of identity's relationship to consumerism. Through a La Betty's altered reality?one that is solely moderated through the processes of shopping and having... + 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 Unpleasantness at the Battle of Thornford A Father Christmas Mystery Paperback C.C. Benison 9781988168418 $14.95 FICTION Nov 17, 2020

Cozy mystery fans rejoice, The Reverend Tom "Father" Christmas is at it again. Brimming with wit, full of cunning and twists, and featuring one of the most memorable (and unlikely) detectives in mystery fiction, C. C. Benison's latest Father Christmas mystery will delight readers with twists that are sure to astound readers.The Battle of Thornford shows the detective Tom Christmas at his best and marks yet another brilliant entry in the Father Christmas annuls.
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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 Sep 01, 2020
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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: Agatha Paperback Anne Cathrine Bomann 9781771666459 $23.00 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA 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 young G... + 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

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 begins telling folktales 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, philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances.You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. is an intimate novel of... + 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 Ale... + Read More
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Series: 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 o... + 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: 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

A 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 controversial Beuys. At once echoing the moody worlds of W. G. Sebald and incorporating out... + 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? Her need to know leads her down dangerous roads.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Tales from the Bottom of My Sole Paperback David Yeh 9781771835411 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

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: Essential Prose Series Unravelling Paperback Josephine Boxwell 9781771835442 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Corruption connects the tales of two 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. It is the 1990s. An explosion at the local sawmill devastates a small town in British Columbia?s Southern Interior. Elena?s missing father soon becomes th... + 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: Guernica World Editions 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: Guernica World Editions 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 the coming apocalypse. 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 and on to the present. Beginning in the Midwest 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. After a stint on the East Coast... + Read More
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Series: The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) Paperback Carol Rose GoldenEagle 9781771337892 $22.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) navigates the unsettling, but necessary. When love of, and respect for, culture goes awry, it is our Indigenous women who bring us back to what is important. This novel is an interweaving of stories centred on a range of characters, both male and female, though the women, for the most part, are the healers. Though several were abused both in their own community and in residential schools, these women are smart and loving and committed to helping one another. They eagerly learn to celebrate their culture, i... + Read More
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Series: The Rage Room Paperback Lisa De Nikolits 9781771337779 $22.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

What if you made the worst mistake of your life and got the chance to fix it? Only you made it so much worse? From the incomparable crafter of nine cross-genre works of fiction, Lisa deNikolits expands her horizons to pen a grab-you-by-the-throat, feminist speculative-fiction thriller in the style of Groundhog Day meets The Matrix.The perfect father kills his family on Christmas Eve, and tries to undo his actions by jumping back in time. The result is murder and mayhem in dystopia. Set in 2055, the world is run by robots and virtual data, while... + Read More
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Series: Dancing With Chairs in the Music House Paperback Caro Soles 9781771338059 $22.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

Precocious ten-year-old Vanessa Dudley-Morris knows lots of secrets. In 1949 when she and her family are forced to move into two rooms on the second floor of 519 Jarvis Street in Toronto, a genteel but somewhat rundown rooming house owned by a reclusive pianist, she learns a lot more.Despite the family's drastically reduced circumstances, her parents struggle to keep up their old standards. Threatened by blindness due to an eye condition, Vanessa is kept at home, tutored by an erratic succession of eccentrics, some with questionable credentials... + Read More
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Series: Paper Stones Paperback Laurie Hill 9781771337854 $22.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

From the moment she holds her baby niece, Rose is on a mission. Terrified that her baby niece will fall victim to the sexual abuse rampant in the family, Rose tells us in her own warm, funny, down-to-earth voice, how she reluctantly agrees to join a therapy group, hoping she can find out how to prevent disaster and see that baby Jenny grows up unharmed. In the group, she meets new friends who will become like family: Josie, who "sees" the future; Tammy, with a suspicious bruise on her neck; good and steady Marg, whose father is threatening to b... + Read More
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Series: Memory's Shadow Paperback Gail Benick 9781771337816 $22.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

Set in the tumultuous 1970s when women, African Americans, gays, and lesbians fought for equality while a "New Right" mobilized in defense of political conservatism and traditional family values, Memory's Shadow is the story of a family that survived the Holocaust and their ongoing engagement with that legacy long after World War II has ended. The novella deals with memory and mourning through the lens of the adult sisters in the Berk family. Hetty the oldest, a real estate agent, is fearful of the urban black population moving into her "safe" ... + Read More
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Series: Bird Shadows Paperback Jennie Morrow 9781771338011 $22.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Bird Shadows is a playful tale of eccentricities, misconceptions, and misogyny. While working on a personal spiritual project, an irreverent artist encourages her religious sister to rethink the marriage that seems to be killing her soul.The people in the quaint little Bay of Fundy fishing village of Brood Bay will not soon forget the events of 1995. It was an outrage! A good Christian family was torn apart by the wicked influence of a mentally unbalanced, morally challenged artist. Pastor Wallace was appalled by the improper, if not evil, beha... + Read More
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Series: Pigeon Soup and Other Stories Paperback Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli 9781771337939 $22.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

The characters in Pigeon Soup & Other Stories are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food. These tales portray the dark places they inhabit physically, emotionally, or metaphorically, with twists that sometimes provide a flicker--or even a bright beam--of hope.
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Series: Dusk in the Frog Pond and Other Stories Paperback Rummana Chowdhury 9781771337977 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Today diasporic literature is an integral component of the international literary fabric that makes for relevant story telling. Dusk in the Frog Pond is a collection of eight short stories that explore the lives of immigrants as they deal with the challenges of migration, displacement, identity, nostalgia, loneliness, socio-economic disparity, and cultural assimilation. A particular focus is the theme of arranged marriages. The main characters are Muslim women in or from Bangladesh. Some of the marriages are happy. In others the women feel isol... + Read More
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Series: Daria Paperback Irene Marques 9781771338417 $22.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2020

Daria is a novel about a young immigrant girl trying to find her way in a new (but also very old) world, where patriarchal networks abound. Daria's story is bound to multiple characters, their individual stories forcing the reader to see the world with different eyes: an Indo-Portuguese-Canadian sexual predator; an idealist and resilient Mozambican freedom fighter with an insatiable thirst for virgins; an exquisite Iberian Roma circus--Iberian Christianized Muslims and Jews; a Nubian master who knows how to capture black matter; a searching Car... + Read More
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Series: Coyote Takes a Walk Paperback Joseph Urie 9781928120230 $19.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

A lot of time has passed but the Trickster has returned and the world that he left is indesperate need of some levity, the truth and most importantly, reconciliation.It is time to start again. In the spirit of treaty. But before that can happen some things need to be cleared up. Some eyes need to be opened but most importantly some hearts need to change. This is a story of change. For the better.
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Series: The Wintermen III At the End of the World Paperback Brit Griffin 9781988989242 $22.95 FICTION Sep 25, 2020

The third and final installment in Brit Griffin's cli-fi action series.
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Series: Connection at Newcombe Paperback Kayt Burgess 9781988989266 $20.00 FICTION Sep 23, 2020

Newcombe is too small to qualify for a rail station. So begins a campaign against time and government to guarantee the survival of their community in post-war Northern Ontario.
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Series: Kinmount Paperback Rod Carley 9781988989259 $20.00 FICTION Sep 23, 2020

Comedy and tragey are mainstays in the worst directing gig for an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet for an eccentric producer in Ontario farm country.
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Series: Daughter of Here Paperback Ioana Georgescu 9781773900681 $21.95 FICTION Sep 04, 2020

Daughter of Here is an experiment in memory, desire, and time. As she sifts through her international whirlwind romance with Célestin, her larger-than-life love for her daughter Mo, and her own childhood behind the Iron Curtain, Dolores's narrative shifts from Williamsburg, to Tokyo, to Bucharest before and after the fall, and to Cairo at the first spark of the Arab Spring. Filmic and thought-provoking, this novel straddles the political and the personal.
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Series: Mina Among the Shadows Paperback Edem Awumey 9781774150238 $20.95 FICTION Oct 21, 2020

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 run into her. He questions his old friends from the theatre, with whom he and Mina had performed, mocking the country's rulers, the army and dictators. But these friends have now joined the established order, become imams, preachers, and police informers. Which Mina will Kerim find? Will she be hidden behind a veil? Or sing of the risen ... + Read More
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Series: Maame Mother Paperback Elizabeth Vaah 9781774150290 $20.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2020

Maame is a collection of linked stories about women in a small community in Ghana. Life in the village is a constant rotation between the real and the supernatural. For girls there exists a short window between childhood and adulthood, in which they must learn to navigate a stringent code of conduct, if they are to succeed. But what is success? What makes a good mother? What happens when they have eventually had enough? Ahu is a young woman married at fifteen and widowed with two children at eighteen. She overcomes all odds to set an example... + Read More
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Series: A Chris Ryder Thriller The Weight of Blood Paperback D.B. Carew 9781988732923 $18.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2020

After barely surviving the events of The Killer Trail, Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder once again finds himself at the centre of a high-profile murder case: Marvin Goodwin, a young man who falls on the extreme end of the autism spectrum, is found covered with blood at the murder scene of a local ice cream truck driver. When Chris is called in to learn what he can about Marvin, he finds that the weight of blood might just be too much for him to bear.Complicating matters are Chris' strained relationship with his father; the viciou... + Read More
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Series: Image Decay Paperback Mark Lisac 9781988732893 $19.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2020

Mark Lisac's Image Decay returns to the pugnacious world of backroom politics laid out in his award-nominated Where the Bodies Lie. Set again in that "unnamed capital city east of the Rockies," where the Brutalist architecture of the downtown core reflects the body politic laid bare.When a cantankerous ex-government photographer seeks ownership of his prints, the powers-that-be are determined to prevent the release of certain sensitive photos. Set in the 1990s, this political thriller delves into questions of identity and memory, established po... + Read More
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Series: Goth Girls of Banff Paperback John O'Neill 9781988732954 $19.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2020

John O'Neill's gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their survival is tenuous. A two-sister team of goth tour guides offers guided excursions up switchback mountain trails; a paroled convict thumbs his way into the life of a family driving west; and an animal pathologist, while performing a necropsy on a grizzly bear, has an unusual encounter with both technology and humani... + Read More
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Series: Cam & Beau Paperback Maria Cichosz 9781989689073 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Cam and Beau are best friends, roommates, and massive potheads. Life is sweet, except for one crucial thing: Cam will never get up the nerve to tell Beau Larky he's in love with him. Cam is a man of thought, not action, and would rather linger in doubt than risk losing the friendship. That is, until the mysterious and unwelcome involvement of a mutual friend with an unshakable conviction that Beau reciprocates Cam's feeling and needs to be told the truth. Equal parts gonzo bromance and melancholy longing, Cam & Beau is a novel about unspoken kn... + Read More
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Series: Something Drastic Paperback Luke Inglis 9781989689080 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Earl Qume's poisoned mind has altered his reality and transformed his surroundings into omnipresent threats. After his wife kicks him out and he finds himself on the run from the law, he escapes the concrete confines of Toronto to find refuge in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. There he joins a group of travelers, led by a peculiar wilderness guide named Wolfgang Yellowbird, who takes them on a journey deep into the winter-scape of a massive and glorious wilderness. As Earl's mind calms and his body begins to heal, astronomical forces pulv... + Read More
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Series: Songs from a Small Town (In a Minor Key) Paperback Penny Chamberlain 9781989689097 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Based on a true incident of mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York in 2002, Songs from a Small Town (in a Minor Key) is a novel written as a series of stories from different points of view. It examines a mysterious condition that strikes only teenage girls in a small farming town--their arms twitch and jump, and they can't control the movements--and while people speculate about what is causing the disease, no one knows for sure. As the stories progress, various facets of this bizarre phenomenon are explored, dark secrets come to light, and the hyste... + Read More
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Series: Beneath the Statue Paperback Jeremy Colangelo 9781989689103 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Beneath the Statue is an inventory of the tactics of the weak, the methods of the contained and the imprisoned, and the weapons of those who cannot fight. Each story is like its own small island on a vast sea, an isolated world where things work differently. Yet among the family dramas, political machinations, the surreal dreamscapes, and the nightmares come to life, what rises again and again is the urge to struggle on, the need to fight even when it feels impossible.
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Series: Home Waltz Paperback G.A. Grisenthwaite 9781989287644 $18.98 FICTION Sep 01, 2020
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Series: Seeing Martin Paperback Su Croll 9781989424049 $22.00 FICTION Sep 25, 2020

When art student Mira Samhain loses her father, she becomes preoccupied with images of flesh and anguish. Martin Zorn becomes her lover and muse, his body's every detail she commits to paper. It's not the first time Zorn has been curated. His sister, photographer Marie Claire Zorn, spent her career working to record every gesture her younger brother made, every emotion he expressed; she made them both famous, and eventually destroyed them. Seeing Martin is Su Croll's debut novel, a work that investigates the predatory gaze, the tidal pull betwe... + Read More
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Series: Darkness Paperback David Albahari 9781988254739 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020
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Series: Drizzle Paperback Elena Botchorichvili 9781988254746 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020
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Series: A Return Paperback Alberto Manguel 9781988254760 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020
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Series: The Overdiscriminating Lover Paperback Alberto Manguel 9781988254777 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020
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Series: House of Wrinkles Paperback Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto 9781988254791 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020
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Series: Café Van Hautten Paperback Pablo Urbanyi 9781988254807 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020
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Series: Tiny Ruins Paperback Nicole Haldoupis 9781989274385 $20.00 FICTION Oct 20, 2020

"The dahlias on Sara's dress scrunched and stretched with her body as she spun on the grass and Alana couldn't understand why no one else was mesmerized." Tiny Ruins is a coming-of-age and coming out story that follows Alana, as she grows up, discovers, and tries to understand her bisexuality. Small windows offer us a glimpse of Alana's memories, often fragmentary, fleeting, and touching. When she confides in her sister that she is attracted to girls, she is met with disbelief, and so the secret is kept and Alana continues as the outsider looki... + Read More
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Series: Strange Labour Paperback Robert Penner 9781989274354 $22.00 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Strange Labour is a powerful meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe that is indifferent to our extinction, and a provocative re-imagining of many of the tropes and clichés that have shaped the post-apocalyptic novel. Most people have deserted the cities and towns to work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks. The only adults unaffected by this mysterious obsession are a dwindling population that live in the margins of a new society they cannot understand. Isolated, in an increasingly deserted landscape, l... + Read More
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Series: Permanent Tourists Paperback Genni Gunn 9781773240800 $19.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 01, 2020
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Series: A Maples Mystery Cat Possessed, The Paperback Louise Carson 9781773240749 $16.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 01, 2020
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Series: Dying Detective, The Paperback Gerald Lynch 9781773240770 $19.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 01, 2020
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Series: Humane Paperback Anna Marie Sewell 9781988754246 $19.95 FICTION Nov 02, 2020

Who steals a dog from a shelter after receiving a dream message from their grandmother?Hazel Lesage never expected it to be her. Then again, she didn't plan on becoming an unlicensed PI, helping the 'throwaway people.' However much has changed in Amiskwaciy, the problem of poor Indigenous women and girls being expendable hasn't. Nobody else is going to help the Augusts find out who killed their daughter Nell; so Hazel takes the case. And then she takes the dog.What follows will force Hazel and her family to confront the question of what it mean... + Read More
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Series: Censorettes Paperback Elizabeth Frank 9781988754321 $19.95 FICTION Nov 05, 2020

For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening. She is determined to get into the fight--then the fight is brought to her.Lucy Barrett is a Censorette, part of a branch of British Intelligence stationed on the island to inspect mail between North America and European nations at war. Determined to contribute in a more substantial way, Lucy uses her Cambridge education and love of Shakespeare to detect a Nazi spy ring operating out of Brooklyn. Jus... + Read More
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Series: Rough Paperback Robin van Eck 9781988754260 $19.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2020

It is 2013 and Calgary's Bow river is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend-an accident?Taking cover downtown that night, Shermeto intervenes in the attack on a bar patron, and finds himself laid up in the hospital. Outside, as the city reels from an unthinkable disaster, Shermeto finds himself away from the swelling river and face-to-face with the a part of past he is trying to hide from: his daughter Kendra.