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Series: Robin's Egg Books Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea How I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions Paperback Alex Wood 9781551528335 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2021

A wildly disarming memoir by comedian Alex Wood on how he overcame his multiple addictions. As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and drunk. At the age of twenty-eight, feeling desperate in the face of addiction and associated health problems (ulcers, pancreatitis) - which were compounded by the deaths of loved ones and even worse undiagnosed issues - he decided to do something he'd actually been ... + Read More
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Series: How to Fail as a Popstar Paperback Vivek Shraya 9781551528427 $18.95 DRAMA Feb 18, 2021

The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation. Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, and poetry and children's books explore the beauty and the power of personal and cultural transformation. How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek's debut theatrical work, a one-person show that chronicles her journey from singing in shopping malls to "not quite" pop music superstardom with beguiling humor and insight. A reflection on the power of ... + Read More
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Series: Iron Goddess of Mercy Paperback Larissa Lai 9781551528441 $19.95 POETRY Feb 18, 2021

Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dance with them through the horror of the long now. Inspired by the tumultuous history of Hong Kong, from the Japanese and British occupations to the ongoing pro-democracy protests, the poem interrogates the complicated notion of identity, offering a prism through which the term 'Asian' can be understood to make sense of a complex set of relations. The self cry... + Read More
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Series: nedi nezu (Good Medicine) Paperback Tenille K. Campbell 9781551528465 $17.95 POETRY Feb 18, 2021

Indigenous Voices Award finalist A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country. nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates - not only as a partner, a fantasy, a heartbreak waiting to happen but also as an auntie, a role model, a voice that connects to others walking the same path. From the online hookup world of DMs, double taps, and secret texts to earth-shakingly erotic encounters under the northern stars to the ever-complicated relationship In... + Read More
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Series: Our Work Is Everywhere An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance Paperback Syan Rose 9781551528151 $23.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 01, 2021

A visually stunning graphic non-fiction book on queer and trans resistance. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse, amorphous, messy, real, and imagined queer and trans communities. In their own words, queer and trans organizers, artists, healers, comrades, and ... + Read More
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Series: The Canadian Art Library Series Emily Carr Life & Work 1st edition Hardcover Lisa Baldissera 9781487102326 $40.00 ART Oct 01, 2021

Emily Carr (1871–1945) is one of Canada’s most beloved artists. An independent woman and a Westerner who gained prominence at a time when female painters were not recognized internationally, her life and work reflect a profound commitment to the land that she knew and loved.Carr’s masterful creations reveal a fascination with spiritual questions inspired by the Canadian sea, land, and people. Although more than half a century has passed since her death, any artist who engages with the West Coast must contend with her legacy. Her paintings conti... + Read More
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Series: The Canadian Art Library Series Annie Pootoogook Life & Work 1st edition Hardcover Sara Angel 9781487102203 $40.00 ART Mar 29, 2022

Annie Pootoogook was the first Inuk to win the prestigious Sobey Art Award and to participate in renowned international exhibitions, such as documenta in Kassel, Germany. Her courageous drawings stand at the precipice of a shift in production and reception of Northern art, and they remain an inspiration for new generations of Inuit artists. Annie Pootoogook is revered as being one of Cape Dorset’s most pioneering contemporary graphic artists, drawing on her personal experiences to challenge Southern perceptions of life in the North. Cape D... + Read More
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Series: Foregone Paperback Russell Banks 9781771963992 $22.95 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2021 "Terrifically compelling ... In this complex and powerful novel, we come face to face with the excruciating allure of redemption."—Washington Post In his late seventies and dying of cancer, famed Canadian-American documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders who fled to Canada to avoid Vietnam, has agreed to one final interview, determined to bare all his secrets and demythologize his mythologized life. But the story that unspools in front of the camera and an intimate chorus... + Read More
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Series: Murder on the Inside The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary Paperback Catherine Fogarty 9781771964012 $24.95 TRUE CRIME Apr 13, 2021

Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award • Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book “You have taken our civil rights—we want our human rights.” On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control, making headlines around the world. For four intense days, the prisoners held the guards hostage while their leaders negotiated with a citizens’ committee of journalists and lawyers, drawing attention to the dehumanizing realities of their incarceration, including over... + Read More
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Series: Field Notes On Property Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition Paperback Rinaldo Walcott 9781771964074 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 02, 2021

A Globe and Mail Book of the Year A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd’s death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And w... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series On Time and Water Paperback Andri Snaer Magnason 9781771964210 $24.95 SCIENCE Mar 30, 2021

Finalist for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 Asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn’t writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced, Andri Snær Magnason, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals, protested: he wasn’t a specialist, he said. It wasn’t his field. But the scientist persisted: “If you cannot understand our scientific findings and present them in an emotional, psychological, poetic or mythological context,” he told him, “then no one will really unde... + Read More
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Series: The Barrøy Chronicles White Shadow Paperback Roy Jacobsen 9781771964036 $22.95 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The Unseen No-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: the Nazi occupation of Norway. When the bodies from a bombed vessel carrying Russian prisoners of war begin to wash up on the shore, Ingrid can’t know that one will not only be alive, but could be the answer to a lifetime of loneliness—nor can she imagine what sufferi... + Read More
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Series: 100 Miles of Baseball Fifty Games, One Summer Paperback Heidi LM Jacobs 9781771963909 $24.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Mar 16, 2021

From sandlots to major league stands, two fans set out to recapture their love of the game. For most of their lives together Dale Jacobs and Heidi LM Jacobs couldn’t imagine a spring without baseball. Their season tickets renewal package always seemed to arrive on the bleakest day of winter, offering reassurance that sunnier times were around the corner. Baseball was woven into the fabric of their lives, connecting them not only to each other but also to their families and histories. But by 2017 it was obvious something was amiss: the allure of... + Read More
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Series: Sea Loves Me Selected Stories Paperback Mia Couto 9781771963886 $24.95 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

An NPR Best Book of 2021 New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize. Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories. Sea Loves Me includes sixty-four of his best, thirty-six of which appear in English for the first time. Covering the entire arc of Couto's career, this collection displays the Mozambican author's inventiveness, sensitivity, and social range with greater richness than any previous collection—from earl... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series The Music Game Paperback Stéfanie Clermont 9781771963787 $22.95 FICTION Feb 08, 2022

Not far away from here is a lake. You have to pay for access to its shores, but I know where there’s a hole in the fence. The water will be icy, but it will still be in a liquid state. That’s what I will do today. I will go through the hole in the fence and I’ll dive into the icy water. And then I’ll go home. Friends since grade school, Céline, Julie, and Sabrina come of age at the start of a new millennium, supporting each other and drifting apart as their lives pull them in different directions. But when their friend dies by suicide in the ab... + Read More
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Series: Charity Paperback Keath Fraser 9781771963800 $17.95 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

Denise’s stepdaughter Greta is a med student who swims ocean marathons and runs off to Africa with a family friend four times her age—and also battles an eating disorder. When Judy, Greta’s birth mother, returns from Japan (to which she ran off herself, with a Mexican tennis pro) and tries to ingratiate herself with the husband and daughter she left, Denise must navigate their complicated relationships with each other while attempting to bring Greta’s addiction to light—and learning how to live more charitably.
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Series: Villa Negativa Paperback Sharon McCartney 9781771963497 $19.95 POETRY Mar 30, 2021

With less content in my life I am infinitely more content Against the backdrop of a sibling’s death, an eating disorder, and a few very dismal dating relationships, Villa Negativa looks for laughter behind darkness: the intruder who politely removes her shoes, the fabricator whose closest relationship is with fibreglass, the anorexic who sends the Diet Coke back because it tastes too good. Meditative and mischievous, confessional and philosophical, sincere and sly by turns, Sharon McCartney’s seventh collection articulates an essential truth of... + Read More
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Series: The Debt Paperback Andreae Callanan 9781771964173 $19.95 POETRY Apr 06, 2021

Set against the backdrop of a post-moratorium St. John’s, Newfoundland, The Debt explores tensions between tradition and innovation, and between past and present in a province unmoored by loss and grief. The Debt is about development and change, idleness and activism, ecological stewardship, feminism, motherhood, the personal and the political. It is also about resistance—against the encroaching forces of greed and capitalism, even against the accumulated notions of the self. The poems are an argument for community and connection in an age incr... + Read More
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Series: Strangers Paperback Rob Taylor 9781771964197 $19.95 POETRY Apr 06, 2021

“It makes no sense. You would be strangers / if not for this.” In Strangers, Rob Taylor makes new the epiphany poem: the short lyric ending with a moment of recognition or arrival. In his hands, the form becomes not simply a revelation in words but, in Wallace Stevens' phrase, “a revelation in words by means of the words.” The epiphany here is not only the poet’s. It’s ours. A book about the songlines of memory and language and the ways in which they connect us to other human beings, to read Strangers is to become part of the lineages (literary... + Read More
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Series: East Coast Keto 2 Paperback Bobbi Pike 9781550818727 $34.95 COOKING Mar 31, 2021

Just when you thought it was impossible to find ketogenic meals that the whole family can enjoy, Bobbi Pike and her husband, Geoff, return with another generous serving of low-carb keto dishes that will have even the most finicky eater in the family asking for seconds. With over 100 new keto recipes, East Coast Keto 2 will teach you how to enjoy all the foods you love—ketofied! From show-stopping appetizers and entrees to delicious fat bombs and mouthwatering desserts, Bobbi and Geoff help you simplify your keto lifestyle the East Coast way... + Read More
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Series: The Pratt Lectures The Quest for a 'National' Nationalism E.J. Pratt’s Epic Ambition, ‘Race’ Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity Paperback George Elliott Clarke 9781550818758 $14.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Feb 26, 2021

In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic poet of Canada. And while Pratt’s epic poems, such as Brebeuf and His Brethren and Towards the Last Spike, stand as lofty poetic achievements, the poet is never able to escape his own identity and speak convincingly for all Canadians. Unable to speak for Francophones, Indigenous peoples, and People of Colour, Pratt becomes the epic poet of the establishment, but never tru... + Read More
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Series: Instructor Paperback Beth Follett 9781550818666 $22.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2021

***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S VERY BEST BOOK AWARDS, FICTION: LONGLIST*** When Ydessa Bloom’s husband dies in a Cessna crash in a mid-Ontario lake, she rents a cottage at that lake, without really comprehending why, and stays for three months. There she meets three people who will influence her life dramatically—her landlady, a yoga teacher, and a precocious eight-year-old boy named Henry Rattle. Years later, at the age of twenty-five and reeling from personal tragedy, Henry seeks Ydessa out once again, and they find themselves alone on the... + Read More
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Series: This is How It is Paperback Sharon King-Campbell 9781550818697 $19.95 POETRY Mar 19, 2021

***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S VERY BEST BOOK AWARDS, POETRY: LONGLIST*** Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell’s This Is How It Is range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way voices both historical and mythological in a compelling display of dramatic empathy and poetic imagination. Subverting history and fable while always returning to vividly depicted images of our landscapes within the specter of environmental crisis, King-Campbell spans the far corners o... + Read More
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Series: Us, Now Paperback Lisa Moore 9781550818819 $22.95 FICTION May 15, 2021

Us, Now roves from Indonesia to the Middle East, Taiwan, Mexico, China, Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Pakistan, and points in between, converging in Newfoundland. These stories by racialized Newfoundlanders are by turns joyous, tender, hilarious, and heart-wrenching. They confront racism and celebrate the act of enduring. They are about settling and getting unsettled, about parents and their children, about language, about facing down the horrors of homophobia, about the joy of love, about lifelong relationships or the glee of a magnificent... + Read More
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Series: We All Go Back to the Land The Who, Why, and How of Land Acknowledgements Paperback Suzanne Keeptwo 9781550598674 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 03, 2021

Since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Report in 2015, Land or Territorial Acknowledgments have been sweeping the nation. Academic conferences, government press conferences, cultural events, and even hockey games now often begin with an acknowledgment of the Original Peoples of the lands they are situated upon. Initially, Land Acknowledgments may have made an impact as most Canadians didn’t know which Indigenous Land base their suburb or city or town was built upon, but most acknowledgements now have a standardized, token feel ... + Read More
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Series: Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms A Mother & Daughter’s Journey through Racism, Internment and Oppression Paperback Grace Eiko Thomson 9781773860411 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 11, 2021

A vital memoir by two Japanese Canadian women reflecting on their family history, cultural heritage, generational trauma, and the meaning of home.At eight years old, Grace Eiko Nishikihama was forcibly removed from her Vancouver home and interned with her parents and siblings in the BC Interior. Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms is a moving and politically outspoken memoir written by Grace, now a grandmother, with passages from a journal kept by her late mother, Sawae Nishikihama. An educated woman, Sawae married a naturalized Canadian man a... + Read More
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Series: Beyond the Legal Limit Surviving a Collision with a Drunk Driver Paperback Pat Henman 9781773860497 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 18, 2021

A searingly honest memoir of surviving a head-on collision with a drunk driver, the physical and emotional scars left behind, and the trauma endured in flawed systems intended to support victims.On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June 2013, performer and singer Pat Henman, was driving home on the highway with her 19-year-old daughter, Maia, when they were struck head-on by a drunk driver. Pat and Maia’s injuries were too complicated and life-threatening for the small hospital in Cranbrook, and they were flown to Calgary. Pat was revived four times,... + Read More
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Series: Pinkerton’s and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot Double Murder, Secret Agents and an Elusive Outlaw Paperback Geoff Mynett 9781773860503 $24.95 TRUE CRIME Mar 11, 2021

An intriguing and riveting true crime tale of alleged murderer Simon Gunanoot, evading and outwitting the infamous Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency.Pinkerton’s and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot throws new light on the extensive manhunt for an accused murderer in northern British Columbia in the early 1900s. After a double murder in 1906, Gitxsan trapper and storekeeper Simon Gunanoot fled into the wilderness with his family. Despite lack of proof, the police pursued Gunanoot for nearly three years, sending search parties and police operative... + Read More
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Series: Surviving Samsara A Memoir of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and Mental Illness Paperback Kagan Goh 9781773860329 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 14, 2021

A frank and touching memoir celebrating the resiliency of the spirit in the face of mental illness, psychotic breakdowns and stigma in society.“Samsara is defined as the ‘round of rebirth’ or ‘perpetual wandering’ … a continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering and dying.” —Buddhist Dictionary by Nyanatiloka MahatheraIn Kagan Goh’s debut memoir, he recounts his struggles with manic depression, breaking the silence around mental illness. From an honest and personal perspective, Surviving Samsara traces Goh’... + Read More
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Series: Atlas of Roots Paperback Beth Kope 9781773860510 $18.00 POETRY Jan 28, 2021

A poignant and courageous collection seeking love, belonging, and the truth following adoption.Within us all are questions of identity, belonging, and connection. Beth Kope’s third poetry collection, Atlas of Roots, is a work of the heart that uncovers the many facets of adoption. In poems that both witness and question, Kope shares her own quest to uncover family history and answers—finding her adoption records, questioning her parent’s choices, and the truth of her own conception. Moving beyond the personal, Atlas of Roots shares other ... + Read More
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Series: The Fifth A Love(s) Story Paperback Monica Meneghetti 9781773860534 $22.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2021

A contemporary novel about polyamory, full of eclectic and refreshing characters navigating love, life, and desire among their chosen family.Critically acclaimed in the original French, The Fifth offers a refreshing take on sexuality and desire. Alice, Gayle, Camille and Simon live together in a polyamorous relationship, affectionately referred to as the Family. Camille, a trans woman, and Gayle are lovers; Simon is in a relationship with Alice; and Alice is in a relationship with everyone. But when Alice invites her seemingly straight ex-boyfr... + Read More
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Series: Run Riot Ninety Poems in Ninety Days Paperback Ash Winters 9781773860541 $18.00 POETRY Jan 28, 2021

Written each day in rehab, Ash Winters’ debut collection is a vulnerable and powerful portrait of the struggle against addiction.“This is a weird place to wake up / For someone who has woken up in some pretty strange places before.” Run Riot is a collection of ninety poems, one written each day during Ash Winters’ ninety day stay at a Vancouver rehab centre. A fiercely personal account of what it feels like to stop drinking after a decade of excess, Run Riot takes the reader through moments of determination, anger, hilarity, and heartbreak. Win... + Read More
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Series: Richard Wagamese Selected What Comes from Spirit Hardcover Richard Wagamese 9781771622752 $24.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Sep 18, 2021

Richard Wagamese, one of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same. Following the success of Embers, which has sold almost seventy thousand copies since its release in 2016, this new collection of Wagamese’s non-fiction works, with an introduction by editor Drew Hayden Taylor, brings together more of the prolific author’s short writings, many for... + Read More
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Series: Peyakow Reclaiming Cree Dignity, A Memoir Hardcover Darrel J. McLeod 9781771622318 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 20, 2021

Mamaskatch, Darrel J. McLeod’s 2018 memoir of growing up Cree in Northern Alberta, was a publishing sensation—winning the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for many other major prizes and translated into French and German editions. In Peyakow, McLeod continues the poignant story of his impoverished youth, beset by constant fears of being dragged down by the self-destruction and deaths of those closest to him as he battles the bullying of white classmates, copes with the trauma of physical and sexual abuse, and endur... + Read More
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Series: Outdoor School Hardcover Diane Borsato 9781771622844 $44.95 ART May 01, 2021

For more than a decade, the Outdoor School project has provided a framework for interdisciplinary artists to come together and share projects that reimagine ways of relating with the landscape. The experiential and community-based art projects described in Outdoor School present an alternative to scientific, commercial and colonial conceptions of land and nature in the face of climate change and mass extinction. These art practices include activities like mushroom foraging, water witching, trespassing, pumpkin-boat sailing, cloud identifying,... + Read More
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Series: Unravelling Canada A Knitting Odyssey Paperback Sylvia Olsen 9781771622868 $24.95 TRAVEL Apr 17, 2021

Author and knitter Sylvia Olsen explores Canada's history, landscape, economy and social issues on a cross-country knitting-themed road trip. In 2015, Sylvia Olsen and her partner, Tex, embarked on a cross-Canada journey from the Salish Sea to the Atlantic Ocean to conduct workshops, exchange experiences with other knitters and, Olsen hoped, discover a fresh appreciation for Canada. Along the way, with stops in over forty destinations, including urban centres as well as smaller communities like Sioux Lookout, ON, and Shelburne, NS, Olsen obse... + Read More
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Series: Tainna The Unseen Ones, Short Stories Paperback Dr. Norma Dunning 9781771622714 $19.95 FICTION Mar 27, 2021

Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, young to elderly, and even from alive to deceased, Dunning’s characters are united by shared feelings of alienation, displacement and loneliness resulting from their experiences in southern Canada. In Tainna—meaning “the unseen ones” and pronounced Da-e-nn-a—a fraught reunion between sisters Sila and Amak ends i... + Read More
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Series: Octopus Has Three Hearts Paperback Rachel Rose 9781771622882 $22.95 FICTION Apr 24, 2021

The Octopus Has Three Hearts offers dispatches from the margins of human society. These are stories about damaged people who have committed, witnessed or survived terrible acts and who must make their way in an unforgiving world. From a goat farmer to a suburban adulterer, a violent child to a polyamorous marine biologist, Rose’s diverse characters have little in common except a life-sustaining connection to the animal world. The octopus, dogs, pigs, chameleons, bats, parrots, rats and sugar gliders in their lives extend a measure of compassion... + Read More
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Series: Race for Real Sailors The Bluenose and the International Fishermen's Cup, 1920–1938 Paperback Keith McLaren 9781771622677 $32.95 TRANSPORTATION Mar 26, 2021

In the summer of 1920, the public following the latest America’s Cup series were frustrated to find that every time the wind got up, the organizers called off the race. There was muttering in the taverns of Halifax and Lunenburg: why not show these fancy yachtsmen what real sailors can do? A Nova Scotia newspaper donated a trophy and put out a challenge to their rivals in New England, inviting them to meet the Maritimes’ best in a “race for real sailors.” A Race for Real Sailors is a vibrant history of the Fishermen’s Cup series, which dominate... + Read More
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Series: The Great Gatsby Paperback F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781989544037 $17.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

In 1922 Nick, a would-be writer, moves to a waterfront home on Long Island and ends up next door to a mysterious millionaire named Jay Gatsby, who hosts wild parties that are the talk of New York—yet very few of his guests know who he is or where he came from. Directly across the bay from Gatsby lives Nick’s beautiful, wealthy cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom, a brash bully used to getting his own way. As the languid Long Island summer stretches on, Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the wealthy—the rumours, illusions, and deceits of ... + Read More
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Series: The Good Soldier A Tale of Passion Paperback Ford Madox Ford 9781989544020 $20.95 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

Two wealthy Edwardian couples—one American, the other British—meet at a spa in Germany and for nine years enjoy a placid friendship. But over the course of four days, everything falls apart: love affairs are exposed, blackmail schemes uncovered, and deceptions revealed. After a sequence of shocking deaths, the polished public masks of these four respectable citizens are ripped away to reveal the heart (and heartlessness) of their carefully concealed selves. Told from the ever-shifting perspectiveof the American husband— at turns sorrowful and c... + Read More
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Series: Pride and Prejudice Paperback Jane Austen 9781989544013 $20.95 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. ‘However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.’ Elizabeth Bennet’s first impression of Fitzwilliam Darcy, whose wealth alone makes him a desirable match, is that he is arrogant and condescending—and the last man she w... + Read More
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Series: The Scarlet Letter A Romance Paperback Nathaniel Hawthorne 9781989544006 $20.95 FICTION Jul 30, 2019

‘She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness.… The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,—stern and wild ones,—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.’ In the strict theocracy of the newly-formed Massachusetts Bay Colony, even private sins are punished. For the sin of adultery, the magistrates of the colony sentence Hester Prynne, her fatherless child in her arms, to wear a red letter A on her breast for the re... + Read More
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Series: Mrs Dalloway Paperback Virginia Woolf 9780995013292 $20.95 FICTION Mar 26, 2019

‘She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.’ On a Wednesday in the middle of June, 1923, a British parliamentarian’s wife decides ‘she will buy the flowers herself’ for the evening party she has planned. What transpires is a walk through post-WWI London set to the inner monologue of Mrs Dalloway, and, as the hours pass, deftly shifts to the thoughts, worries, desires, and histories of those around her... + Read More
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Series: The Age of Innocence Paperback Edith Wharton 9780995013254 $20.95 FICTION Nov 07, 2018

It was the old New York way of taking life ‘without effusion of blood’: the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease… The elite families of Gilded Age New York adhered to rigid social conventions: marry within one’s circle (if not higher); if a man must have a career, make it a profession (and not an overly-??ambitious one); shun the new and risqué; and most importantly, never cause a scandal. For all of his life, Newland Archer followed these rules without question. On the eve of his engagement to shy, well-bred May Welland, her un... + Read More
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Series: Wuthering Heights Paperback Emily Brontë 9780995013216 $20.95 FICTION Jul 30, 2018

‘May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you—haunt me, then!’ Heathcliff, a ‘dark-skinned’ orphan, and Catherine Earnshaw, the cruel daughter of his wealthy benefactor, were inseparable: twinned spirits running wild on the Yorkshire moors. But when Catherine’s father dies, those around the lovers conspire to tame Catherine so she will take her place in society, and to humiliate proud Heathcliff, raised to believe he was equal to the Earnshaws and their neighbours, the Lintons, but now forced to labour as a servant. After a... + Read More
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Series: The Hound of the Baskervilles Paperback Arthur Conan Doyle 9780995013223 $16.95 FICTION Sep 29, 2018

‘Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.’ One wet spring night, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the moors near his estate, a look of horror frozen on his face. No foul play is apparent, yet alongside his body are the footprints of a gigantic dog—reviving the spectre of a centuries-old curse that a black hellhound will seek vengeance on all who bear the Baskerville name. Sir Charles’ long-lost heir, Henry, is determined to ... + Read More
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Series: Outside A Novel Paperback Sean McCammon 9781554201686 $24.00 FICTION Mar 11, 2021

Emotional and uplifting, Outside is the story of a teacher's escape to Japan from classroom, country, and self in the wake of a small-town Ontario tragedy.David Woods, a first-year teacher, shares his grade-4 students' passion for nature and their reluctance to be hemmed in by classroom walls. He pushes the boundaries of risk and the constraints of school board policy, leading his class on outdoor adventures with hooting owls, curious stream creatures, and maple syrup making. Then, during a seemingly innocuous field trip, a fateful decision lea... + Read More
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Series: The Renter Paperback Michael Tregebov 9781554201631 $18.00 FICTION Feb 25, 2021

"Absolutely brilliant!" — Guy MaddinThe sentimental and financial education of a young Jewish Winnipegger in and around 1968.1968. Winnipeg Beach. Summer. Poor Jewish boy meets rich Jewish girl. The sun is high, libidos soar, even the high is high. And as the poor boy tries to marry up, the Jacob-Rachel myth gives way to an Icarian leap.The still of a time and a social milieu so close to our own that it itches, Michael Tregebov's The Renter, the fourth entry in his comédie humaine, is a sex-fuelled tour d'échec. As Bret Yeatman envisions a way ... + Read More
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Series: A Feminist History Society Book The Unconventional Nancy Ruth Paperback Ramona Lumpkin 9781772601688 $28.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 11, 2021

Born into privilege but expected to use her advantages for the good of others, Senator Nancy Ruth has led an uncommon, unconventional life. From her religious ministry to rewriting Canada's national anthem to make it gender-neutral, this outspoken, complicated woman has put her stamp on Canada's public life. Her generous feminist philanthropy allowed numerous women's organizations to flourish, and her talents for friendship and for controversy meant the work was serious but never dull. Like Nancy herself, this book is rich in surprises and cont... + Read More
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Series: Crafting Seitan Creating Homemade Plant-Based Meats Paperback Skye Michael Conroy 9781570673962 $29.95 COOKING Apr 01, 2021

The rise in popularity of plant-based foods has resulted in a vast array of commercial meatless meats. Now many of the flavors, appearances and textures of meat dishes we grew up can be replicated and our feelings of nostalgia for family favorites and ethnic traditional dishes can be satisfied?all from your home kitchen. Crafting Seitan offers step-by-step guidance for preparing more than one hundred recipes that include zesty chicken, roast beaf, juicy pork, and hearty vegan sausages. Whether for a party, holiday, or every day, home cooks can ... + Read More
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Series: The General Buzz Rude Eye of Rebellion Paperback J.R.H. Lawless 9781949671100 $16.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2021

The Rude Eye of Rebellion is the riotously absurd sequel to Always Greener, a sci-fi satire called ?hilarious and horrifying? by Foreword Reviews and ?cultured, witty, and very British? by Kirkus Reviews. A reality show host struggles to find any meaningful way to rebel against the dystopian corporate state that picked him to be a star. Life doesn?t pick winners and losers. That?s for the corporations to decide. And they picked Liam Argyle for a carefree life of fame and fortune as host of the world?s most popular reality show competition. Un... + Read More
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Series: Wild Sun Unbound Paperback Ehsan Ahmad 9781949671131 $16.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2021

In this old-school interplanetary epic, the flames of hope cannot easily be extinguished. After three years of forced labor in the mines, Cerrin is free at last. Now she leads a band of escaped slaves on a deadly race for freedom across an endless, ancient forest. At her heels are soldiers of the most powerful, most advanced, most ruthless empire the galaxy has ever known. Leading the pursuit is Count Talazeer himself, a vicious nobleman driven by a personal vendetta again Cerrin??and a desperate need for redemption in the eyes of his family an... + Read More
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Series: Orcapedia A Guide to the Victims of the International Orca Slave Trade Paperback Captain Paul Watson 9781570673986 $29.95 NATURE Oct 15, 2020

Orcapedia presents a sobering look at the current imprisonment of a highly intelligent, socially complex, non-threatening species?orcas?by an industry strictly for profit. Many remember the movement to release Keiko, the orca who appeared in the family drama Free Willy, into the wild. Today, there are still dozens of orcas still in captivity. Readers are introduced to more than 60 individual orcas by name along with colored photos, personal history, and notable incidents that have occurred during their captivity. The text makes it clear that th... + Read More
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Series: Planet in Crisis Plagued Surviving a Modern Pandemic Paperback Albert Bates 9781570674006 $12.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 15, 2020

Pandemics are infectious diseases that cross over international boundaries and spread out of control. These diseases put immense pressures on the societies they strike and can widen cracks in social structures that had been previously ignored. Plagued recounts the history of deadly pandemics?smallpox, plague, cholera, Spanish flu, and AIDS?as well as the current crises faced by populations across the world: malaria, meningitis, measles, SARS, and now COVID-19. Renown environmentalist and science writer Albert Bates explains how infectious disea... + Read More
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Series: Business Series Chronic Profit Building Your Small Business While Managing Persistent Pain 1st Edition Paperback Alison Tedford 9781770403321 $26.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 27, 2021

Building a business is hard enough. Entrepreneurship while dealing with a chronic illness or condition is even harder. 'Chronic Profit: Building Your Small Business While Managing Persistent Pain' shares the story of how one entrepreneur sought freedom from cubicle life along with the flexibility to be a parent and a business owner, and learned to extend herself enough grace and compassion to excel in business while still taking care of herself. This book covers business-building strategies that will work for any entrepreneur, such as the impo... + Read More
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Series: Legal Series Mediation Guide Navigate the faster, cheaper, kinder process 1st Edition Paperback David Greig 9781770403338 $19.95 LAW Mar 30, 2021

Mediation is a private and voluntary process that can be undertaken by two or more parties in conflict. Mediation can be used by people or organizations to settle disputes in family law, estates cases, car accidents, EI claims, landlord/tenant affairs, small claims court, and more. When successful, it allows participants to avoid litigation, or other alternative dispute resolution means such as arbitration. However, most books about the mediation process are for the mediators. This book is for participants, who — most of the time — don’t know ... + Read More
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Series: Business Series Managing Remote Staff Capitalize on Work-from-Home Productivity 1st Edition Paperback Lin Grensing-Pophal 9781770403314 $26.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Nov 30, 2020

The world as we know it has changed. Even businesses that long declared that working from home wasn’t an option have found themselves adjusting and overhauling their business models, since the only other alternative is to close. Despite being thrust into this “new normal,” businesses and their displaced staff have risen to the challenges and acclimatized to ways of working remotely. Since then, the idea of managing remote workers has grown and become more widely accepted as a viable way to do business. If your business needs more employees bu... + Read More
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Series: Painting Time Paperback Maylis de Kerangal 9781772012835 $19.95 FICTION Mar 21, 2021

In 2007, Paula Karst begins her studies at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. There she meets two friends, both enigmatic, resourceful, impulsive, and gifted. Together, the three weave a complex relationship that mirrors the interconnectedness of their artistic materials. Replicating the grain of wood, the wear of marble, or the protrusion on a tortoiseshell requires method, technique, talent … but also something else. Paula strives to understand what she’s painting, the “micro” that she is and the “macro” that she contemplates in art... + Read More
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Series: One Good Thing A Living Memoir Paperback M.A.C. Farrant 9781772012842 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 15, 2021

One Good Thing is a charming collision of memoir with the living, exuberant, and vulnerable natural world. Written in sixty-four short epistolary chapters, M.A.C. Farrant’s latest offering represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing and often perplexing society. One Good Thing is also an homage to gardening columnist extraordinaire Helen Chesnut of Victoria’s Times Colonist, each section of the book focusing and expanding on one of her gardening columns.Using a familiar “Dear Helen” structure, almost every piece in One Go... + Read More