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Series: World Drama
Il Vagabondo: An Urban Opera
A Tale of Gusto and Enchantment, Adaptation, Loss, and Preserving the Old Ways of Making a Life
Paperback
Glenn Carley
9781771836364
$29.95
MUSIC
Apr 01, 2021
Enter the cross-cultural tale of gusto and enchantment, adaptation and loss, preserving the old ways of making a life. Presented in six acts with intermissions and curtain calls, it is a new form of literature presented in interactive libretto form. Read it silently, read it out loud, or step upon the imaginary stage of all life to commandeer the operatic recitative called sing/speak. Il Vagabondo is a love story-an opera rusticana of the people, by the people, for the people. It is all true.
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Series: Essential Translations Series
Choosing Eleonore
Paperback
Andrée Gratton
9781771836500
$17.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2021
Choosing Eleonore tells the story of a one-way friendship, of tragic loneliness. In it, award-winning Quebec author Andrée A. Gratton explores the syndrome of the delusion of being loved. Centred on two young women: Eleonore and Marianne, this is Marianne's story. From the first sentence, we feel that something is wrong in her perception of reality. "Long before we met, Eleonore had been dreaming of me," she says. But who is this Eleonore, whom Marianne had never spoken to? What is so fascinating about her? Neither humiliation and rebuffs nor r...
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Series: First Poets Series
The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak
Paperback
Grace Lau
9781771835879
$20.00
POETRY
May 01, 2021
The poems in The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak explore the many identities, both visible and invisible, that a body contains. With influences from pop culture, the Bible, tech, and Hong-Kongese history, these pieces reflect and reveal how the stories of immigrants in Canada hold both universal truths and singular distinctions. From boybands that show the way to become “the kind of girl a girl could love” to “rich flavours that are just a few generations of poverty away,” they invite the reader to meditate on spirituality, food, and the...
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Series: MiroLand Essays
Higher Teaching
A Handbook for New Post-secondary Faculty
Paperback
John Oughton
9781771835954
$20.00
EDUCATION
Apr 01, 2021
Higher Teaching is divided into two sections: "Practice," which addresses what to teach when you get your first course outline, how to choose strategies and plan lessons, and how to manage your classroom so it is a safe and positive place in which students learn. There are chapters on instructional media, teaching online assessment and evaluation, dealing with difficult students and academic integrity issues, and how to improve your teaching. The second part "Theory and Background," focuses on the theories that inform current higher education t...
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Series: Essential Prose Series
Easily Fooled
Paperback
H. Nigel Thomas
9781771835817
$25.00
FICTION
Apr 01, 2021
Less than an hour after Millington receives his permanent resident visa, he wonders if his husband Jay would now end their marriage. And Jay has multiple reasons to. Millington is an ex-Methodist minister, who once believed he could be celibate. When he fled Caribbean Methodism and came to Montreal, he thought he’d resolved the issues that made him leave, but he comes to understand that psychological trauma, childhood conditioning, parental and community expectations and his own need for community and family valorization are not easily exorcise...
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Series: GWE Creative Non-Fiction
The Archeology of a Good Ragù
Discovering Naples, My Father and Myself
Paperback
John Domini
9781771835534
$20.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2021
The Archeology of a Good Ragù offers a unique take on the recovery narrative. A damaged but savvy author finds new wholeness by way of a fascinating old city: Naples, Italy. John Domini’s exploration of the place— little known to North Americans, yet rich in culture and challenge— draws on decades of research, living with local friends and family. His work has appeared previously in the New York Times and elsewhere, and he’s published award-winning Neapolitan novels. This memoir will take readers into the back alleys and hidden beaches. It will...
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Series: Essential Prose Series
Walking Leonard
And Other Stories
Paperback
Sophie Stocking
9781771835848
$20.00
FICTION
May 01, 2021
Walking Leonard and Other Stories, is a short story collection of roughly 30,000 words in the literary fiction genre. The stories depict unspoken pivot points in the lives of ordinary people. Themes include responsibility and violation between parent and child, nature as a protective force, and the shucking off of various selves in the process of a lifetime. The stories spring from the foothills of southern Alberta, specifically Calgary, and some even more specifically from the historic neighborhood of Bowness, once a small town in its own right.
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Series: Memoir and Biography
Fuse
Paperback
Hollay Ghadery
9781771835923
$20.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2021
Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of each culture. Painfully and at times, reluctantly, Fuse probes and explores the documented prevalence of mental health issues in bi-racial women.
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Series: Essential Prose Series
Pineapple Kisses in Iqaluit
Paperback
Felicia Mihali
9781771835886
$25.00
FICTION
May 01, 2021
Ten years after her picture on a magazine cover made her nationally famous as The Darling of Kandahar, Irina moves up North hoping that new experiences would allow old wounds to finally heal. Yet, in the land of darkness and polar bears, she learns that there really is no place to hide from herself. When she meets Constable Liam O’Connor, her past comes out to challenge her once again.
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Series: Essential Poets Series
Through the Waspmouth I Drew You
Paperback
Nicola Vulpe
9781771835916
$20.00
POETRY
May 01, 2021
Marrying the precise yet nuanced language of his earlier work with new, invented vocabularies and usages, Nicola Vulpe draws deep into the origins of language to confront what it means to write poetry or attempt any artistic endeavour, or, indeed, continue in a world where so many of us struggle, literally, not to drown. Written to be read aloud, to be heard like a poem in the most ancient oral traditions, Through the Waspmouth is a synesthetic work that arouses our senses and our intellect. We come to this poem as to a new language, a language...
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Series: Essential Prose Series
Letters From Johnny
Paperback
Wayne Ng
9781771835770
$20.00
FICTION
Apr 01, 2021
Winner of BEST CRIME NOVELLA at The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence 2022 Set in Toronto 1970, just as the FLQ crisis emerges to shake an innocent country, eleven year old Johnny Wong uncovers an underbelly to his tight, downtown neighbourhood. He shares a room with his Chinese immigrant mother in an enclave with American draft dodgers and new Canadians. He is befriended by Rollie, one of the draft dodgers who takes on a fatherly and writing mentor role. Johnny's mother is threatened by the “children's warfare society.” A neighbour ...
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Series: Essential Poets Series
South China Sea
A Poet's Autobiography
Paperback
Ken Norris
9781771835732
$25.00
POETRY
Apr 01, 2021
South China Sea is a poet's autobiography. Forgoing the props of conventional narrative, the book travels through space and time, revealing the moments in a life that anchor reality and constitute memory. In poems that compel us to remember and to re-evaluate our own personal stories, Norris travels back to a New York City childhood and to his years as a young man in the art and literary scene of Montreal, while moving forward in the present on a soul-changing journey through China.
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Series: Essential Poets Series
buckled into the sky
Paperback
Adele Graf
9781771835800
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 01, 2021
Why do we travel the world to discover where home really is? Even if we find it in the place we started from, is it ever really the same? In buckled into the sky, Adele Graf routes our search for home through ancestors in their own country and family who settled abroad. Yet it’s only after travel that we’re drawn to “zigzag back” to our “pillared front door” — whether that’s our current home, our childhood home, our mind’s home, our home in the world — or all of these at once. We’d left home, had even ignored our “house with its blue shutters,”...
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Series: World Essays
Quarantine of The Mind
Obedience Training for Adult Humans
2nd edition
Paperback
W. Strawn Douglas
9781771836715
$20.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2021
This book is grounded in W. Strawn Douglas' personal battle with mental illness and his experiences with it at the mental institution where he's lived for almost three decades. Different portions of it were created in different times, with Douglas in a variety of different mindsets, and it concerns itself mainly with the hoops that the government wants people who are mentally ill to jump through in all too often vain hopes of regaining their freedom. Some of the hoops are admittedly linked to reasonable goals and ideals. Unfortunately, too many...
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Series: Essential Essays Series
From Sojourners to Citizens
Alberta's Italian History
Paperback
Adriana A. Davies
9781771836548
$34.95
HISTORY
May 01, 2021
From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta’s Italian History brings to life the untold story of Italian immigrants in Alberta from the 1880s to the present. It places them in the narrative of province building from work on railways, mines and other industries to breaking the land for agriculture. Oral history excerpts allow the men, women and children to speak for themselves. What emerges is an unquenchable desire to make good, and overcome intolerable working conditions and discrimination, which culminated with enemy alien designation and internment...
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Series: Essential Translations Series
The Ocean in the Well
Paperback
Damiano Pietropaolo
9781771836401
$20.00
FICTION
May 01, 2021
Stefano falls madly in love with Milena, leaves the seminary and his religious vocation, mesmerized by the beauty and the charm of the girl. But, as often happens in life, reality does not follow the schemes designed by humans: fate, perfidy and destiny, hinder the path established by the two lovers. The people of the town, who had seen the vocation of the young man as a collective good, receive the news of Stefano abandoning the seminary with disappointment and dismay. To escape the hostility, Stefano leaves for America with a promise to come ...
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Series: Essential Anthologies Series
Chronicling the Days
Dispatches from a Pandemic
Paperback
Linda M. Morra
9781771836579
$20.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Apr 01, 2021
Where were you when the pandemic hit? While the shock of COVID-19 was fresh, the Quebec Writers’ Federation sent out a call to its members asking for short descriptions of life under lockdown. The response was immediate and heartfelt. Written and posted online between April 6 and May 26 of 2020, these dispatches—including several from the front lines—are first-person stories of hunkering down, gasping for air, facing challenges, getting through. Mainly written from isolation, the pieces present reading and writing as constant themes: trying, fa...
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Series: GWE Creative Non-Fiction
Why Do You Look at Me and See a Girl?
Paperback
Anvi Hoàng
9781771834452
$20.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 2021
Making coal patties. Selling liquid soap. Shopping at a glittering shoe mecca. She’s done them all living half her life in deprived-post-war-communist-Vietnam-turned-free-market. It’s life in a vacuum when strange types of brainwashing happened. Part memoir and part social criticism, Why Do You Look at Me and See a Girl? is a provocative read about a full-fledged bilingual who fights to get free from the dead past and her ancestors’ sins. The story starts with her grandmother’s prison visit and moves to a journey through the jungle carried out ...
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Series: Essential Poets Series
Not in Vain You've Sent Me Light
Paperback
Cora Siré
9781771836111
$20.00
POETRY
May 01, 2021
Not in Vain You’ve Sent Me Light begins with a provocative, sometimes humorous exposé of two lovers and their collisions and triumphs, and evolves into a high-voltage portrait gallery, depicting heroes and artists, scientists and politicians, mothers and their conflicted daughters. Cora Siré draws on a multi-dimensional palette to deepen her exploration of identity, displacement and the cosmic powers of love and art.
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Series: World Prose
Living Dolls and Other Women
Paperback
S. Montana Katz
9781771835572
$25.00
FICTION
Jul 01, 2021
In our era of #MeToo and fresh attempts to break the gender biased holds on our culture, a portrait of gender bias in the art world offers a microcosm of the pervasive challenges to achieving equality. Living Dolls and Other Women provides a fictionalized account of that world set against the pervasive sexual harassment in every corner of urban daily life. Set in the late 1980s, with New York City in the middle of a real estate crash, Living Dolls and Other Women chronicles the lives of five urban women as well as an activist organization comp...
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