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Series: The Question of Separatism Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty Second Edition, Second edition Paperback Jane Jacobs 9781926824062 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 01, 2011

In this, her third and least-known book, first published in 1980, Jane Jacobs examines not only the particular question of Quebec and Canada, but also the larger issue of sovereignty and autonomy in general. Using Norway as a model, Jacobs details that country's campaign of peaceful persistence that led to breaking ties with Sweden—and suggests that Canada and Canadians should be inspired by the example. An essential component of Jacobs's urban activism, this new edition of the book incorporates and expands the 1979 Massey Lectures, Canadian Ci... + Read More
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Series: Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik Paperback Carolyn Marie Souaid 9781771861243 $24.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2017

A 23-year-old woman enters a whole new world of attraction in a community struggling with generations of loss of land and culture. Yasmeen’s tradition-bound mother wants her to stay in Montreal, get married, and have babies. But the young Syrian-Canadian wants more. Her appetite for adventure leads her to a teaching job in the northern Quebec village of Saqijuvik. Eager to adopt her new home and its Inuit inhabitants, Yasmeen embraces every experience that comes her way: camping on the tundra, hunting for ptarmigan, sewing with the local ladies... + Read More
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Series: Montreal, City of Secrets Confederate Operations in Montreal During the American Civil War Paperback Barry Sheehy 9781771861236 $39.95 HISTORY Oct 15, 2017

During the American Civil War, the Confederate government’s largest foreign secret service base was in Montreal. Montreal, then the largest city in British North America, has kept secret its unique role in the American Civil War ever since. Based on original archival research, Barry Sheehy challenges core tenets of the American Civil War narrative.
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Series: Over Our Heads Electronic book text, PDF Andrea Thompson 9781771331333 $9.99 FICTION Oct 15, 2014

Over Our Heads is a novel that weaves together the histories of two very different half-sisters who return home to deal with the aftermath that occurs when the grandmother who raised them dies. Emma, a punk band singer and poet turned pet psychic, and Rachel, an actuary with an interest in astronomy, both carry the remnants of childhoods overshadowed by issues of bullying, abandonment, alienation and fear. In the raw terrain of profound loss, the two sisters struggle through the stages of grief – each in their own way. The past merges with the ... + Read More
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Series: hope Arresting Hope Women Taking Action in Prison Health Inside Out Electronic book text, PDF Ruth Elwood Martin 9781771331616 $11.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 15, 2014

Arresting Hope reminds us that prisons are not only places of punishment, marginalization, and trauma, but that they can also be places of hope, blessing even, where people with difficult lived experiences can begin to compose stories full of healing, anticipation, communication, education, connection, and community. Arresting Hope does not present a romantic or nostalgic version of the story of a provincial correctional centre for women. It presents a story that acknowledges pressing challenges, but is also eager to present a testimony to how ... + Read More
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Series: A Hero Electronic book text, PDF Charlotte Mendel 9781771331968 $9.99 FICTION Jun 15, 2015

Mohammed is an aggressive, dominant character who bullies his wife and four children and wages paranoiac diatribes against his sister and her family. It is only when Mohammed leaves for work every morning that the house relaxes into the rich interconnectivity of familial relationships: between Mohammed’s gentle wife Fatima and his sister Rana, who yearns desperately to contribute to this historic fight for freedom; between the twelve-year old twins and Rana’s gentle son Mazin, whose effeminacy is a source of great anxiety to her. This formidabl... + Read More
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Series: Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You Electronic book text, PDF Donna Decker 9781771332040 $9.99 FICTION Jun 15, 2015

Through the braided narratives of three spirited characters, this novel bears witness to the infamous “American” crime that metastasized uber-civilized Montreal. Everyone wants a Marin at her party. Bohemian and beautiful, this engineering student is as passionate about constructing sets for theater and opera as she is about Trey, the one man she can finally trust. Deirdre is a first year engineering major, earnest and perceptive, but too naïve to know that frat boys can be dangerous. Montreal columnist Jenean is feisty and urbane, a feminist w... + Read More
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Series: Terra Incognita Electronic book text, PDF Adebe DeRango-Adem 9781771332200 $8.99 POETRY Jun 15, 2015

Titled after the Latin term for “unknown land”—a cartographical expression referring to regions that have not yet been mapped or documented—Terra Incognita is a collection of poems that creatively explores various racial discourses and interracial crossings both buried in the grand narratives of history and the everyday experiences of being mixed-race. The poet asks how the discourse of multiculturalism speaks to the particular history of interracial figures—a history that has remained largely silenced, and a people who have continued to experi... + Read More
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Series: Between the Cracks She Fell Electronic book text, PDF Lisa de Nikolits 9781771332286 $9.99 FICTION Jul 30, 2015

When Joss finds herself having to make mortgage payments without help from her depressed, stoner boyfriend who has just moved out, and the company she works for folds leaving her suddenly unemployed, she is forced to sell her house, on which she takes a financial loss, and decides to camp out in a vacant complex of school buildings to give herself time to decide what to do next. It turns out the building is used by a gang of teenagers for wild, drug-fueled parties and Joss soon finds herself both repelled by their charismatic evil leader, as we... + Read More
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Series: Amity Electronic book text, PDF Nasreen Pejvack 9781771332408 $9.99 FICTION Aug 30, 2015

Amity provides a window to the wreckage caused by war and conflict that leave behind destruction, displacement, pain and struggle resulting in life-long and irreparable psychological disorders. It is a story about the lives of various people who are dealing with the devastation of war and conflict, here specifically within the contexts of Yugoslavia’s dissolution and Iran’s revolution. Payvand, an Iranian refugee and activist, still plagued with nightmares, meets a Ragusa, a Yugoslavian refugee whose pockets are loaded with stones ready to walk... + Read More
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Series: In the Land of Two-Legged Women Electronic book text, PDF Huey Helene Alcaro 9781771332446 $9.99 FICTION May 05, 2016

At the onset of puberty girls’ right legs are sawed off in Ramprend’s Beautification Ritual. In this dystopian novel, female stumps are desirable to men. Solanj’l — ’l denoting one-leg — hates her inability to move freely and makes a wooden leg to enable her to walk, or step-drag, rather than be rolled in a chair or swing along on props. It’s an extraordinary thing to do because no artificial limbs exist in Ramprend. Her husband sees commercial possibilities in his wife’s invention and begins producing Glom’s Glamor Legs. The ability to move mo... + Read More
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Series: First Gear A Motorcycle Memoir Electronic book text, MobiPocket Lorrie Jorgensen 9781771332477 $9.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 30, 2015

First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir is a compelling story of childhood physical, emotional and sexual abuse that unrolls as the author, at age 50 and living with Multiple Sclerosis, rides her 2009 Harley-Davidson — named Thelma D. — from Ottawa to Winnipeg and back with a stop off in northern Ontario and a detour into Quebec. During her ride through the stunning landscape of the Canadian Shield, she shares stories of her childhood growing up in the 1970s in the Ottawa Valley with her three brothers, a violent father and an alcoholic mother. Told wi... + Read More
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Series: The Dead Man Electronic book text, PDF Nora Gold 9781771332644 $9.99 FICTION Mar 15, 2016

The Dead Man is a compelling novel about a woman who is obsessed. Eve, a composer of sacred music and a music therapist, is well aware of the saying, “Physician, heal thyself,” but she just can’t seem to do this. For some unknown reason, she — a sensible, intelligent professional — can’t recover from a brief relationship she had five years ago with a world-famous music critic named Jake. This obsession with Jake is a mystery to Eve’s friends, and also to her. In an attempt to solve this mystery, she “returns to the scene of the crime”: Israel, ... + Read More
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Series: One Bead at a Time Electronic book text, PDF Beverly Little Thunder 9781771332682 $9.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 05, 2016

One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada. Transcribed and edited by two-spirit Métis writer Sharron Proulx-Turner, Little Thunder’s narrative is told verbatim, her melodious voice and keen sense of humour almost audible overtop of the text on the page. Early in her story, Little Thunder recounts a dream from her early adulthood, “I stared at thes... + Read More
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Series: All My Fallen Angelas Electronic book text, PDF Gianna Patriarca 9781771332804 $9.99 Apr 15, 2016

All My Fallen Angelas is a collection of stories inspired by the lives of Italian-Canadian women living in Toronto from the 1960s to the present. The stories document their strength and resilience, their power and vulnerability as the women move in community that allowed their presence in shops, factories, and churches, but offered them little else for entertainment and self-exploration outside of their families. The stories cover a wide range of women’s experiences from loneliness; disappointment; mothering; marriages, arranged and not ... + Read More
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Series: After Drowning Electronic book text, PDF Valerie Mills-Milde 9781771332880 $9.99 FICTION May 05, 2016

After Drowning is set in a small fishing town on the shores of Lake Erie and concerns the volatile fortunes of a fishing family. At one time, Lake Erie was the home of a thriving fishing industry but the sad fortunes of the lake have limited the industry, forcing those who live near it to adapt. A drowning, a tragedy witnessed by Penelope Beau and her four-year-old daughter, Maddy, brings back memories of Pen’s childhood: the death of her father Rod in a boating accident, which may or may not have been an accident, and the subsequent disappeara... + Read More
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Series: The Nearly Girl Electronic book text, EPUB Lisa de Nikolits 9781771333146 $11.99 FICTION Sep 01, 2016

Fans of A Prayer for Owen Meany and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest will love this clever, fast-paced and enjoyable thriller. Like a modern-day Joan of Arc, Amelia Fisher attempts to carve out a ‘normal life’, showing us how mythic the idea of ‘normal’ really is. With a poetic genius for a father, an obsessed body builder for a mother, and an enchantingly eccentric group seeking the help of an unorthodox therapist, what could possibly go wrong? A chance discovery propels Amelia and fellow therapy attendee, Mike, with whom she is in love, into a... + Read More
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Series: The Nearly Girl Electronic book text, PDF Lisa de Nikolits 9781771333160 $11.99 FICTION Sep 01, 2016

Fans of A Prayer for Owen Meany and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest will love this clever, fast-paced and enjoyable thriller. Like a modern-day Joan of Arc, Amelia Fisher attempts to carve out a ‘normal life’, showing us how mythic the idea of ‘normal’ really is. With a poetic genius for a father, an obsessed body builder for a mother, and an enchantingly eccentric group seeking the help of an unorthodox therapist, what could possibly go wrong? A chance discovery propels Amelia and fellow therapy attendee, Mike, with whom she is in love, into a... + Read More
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Series: Under the Zaboca Tree Electronic book text, PDF Glynis Guevara 9781771333320 $11.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 May 15, 2017

At ten, Melody Sparks, better known as Baby Girl, is excited to move to the tropical island of Trinidad with her single-parent dad, but she silently longs for her mother, a woman she can’t recall ever meeting and doesn’t have a photo of. She fits in to her new life in Paradise Lane quite well: she loves her school and makes new friends. However, her longing for blood family remains strong. But Baby Girl is suddenly and unexpectedly uprooted from her comfortable life in Paradise Lane by and forced to reside in Flat Hill Village, a depressed, cri... + Read More
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Series: Mountain Electronic book text, PDF Ursula Pflug 9781771333528 $11.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 May 15, 2017

Seventeen-year-old Camden splits her time between her father, a minor rock star, and her mom, a scruffy “hardware geek” who designs and implements temporary and sustainable power systems and satellite linkups for off-grid music and art festivals, tree-sits, and attends gatherings of alternative healers. Lark, Camden’s father, provides her with brand-name jeans, running shoes, and makeup, while her mother’s world is populated by anarchists, freaks, geeks, and hippies. Naturally, Camden prefers staying with her dad and going to the mall with his ... + Read More
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Series: Writing Menopause An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction Electronic book text, EPUB Jane Cawthorne 9781771333542 $12.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 15, 2017

The Writing Menopause literary anthology is a diverse and robust collection about menopause: a highly charged and often undervalued transformation. It includes over fifty works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews and cross-genre pieces from contributors across Canada and the United States that break new ground in portraying menopause in literature. The collection includes literary work from award-winning writers such as Roberta Rees, Margaret Macpherson, Lisa Couturier and Rona Altrows. Emerging voices such as Rea Tarvydas, Lean... + Read More
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Series: Writing Menopause An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction Electronic book text, PDF Jane Cawthorne 9781771333566 $12.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 15, 2017

The Writing Menopause literary anthology is a diverse and robust collection about menopause: a highly charged and often undervalued transformation. It includes over fifty works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews and cross-genre pieces from contributors across Canada and the United States that break new ground in portraying menopause in literature. The collection includes literary work from award-winning writers such as Roberta Rees, Margaret Macpherson, Lisa Couturier and Rona Altrows. Emerging voices such as Rea Tarvydas, Lean... + Read More
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Series: The Women of Saturn Electronic book text, PDF Connie Guzzo-McParland 9781771333603 $11.99 FICTION Apr 15, 2017

A sequel to The Girls of Piazza d’Amore, this novel is a sweeping epic that chronicles the lives of three women of different generations, all living in Montreal, but connected and haunted by the same Italian village past. After her childhood friend, Lucia— protagonist of The Girls of Piazza D’Amore — is found beaten, an apparent victim of domestic violence, and Lucia’s husband disappears, Cathy, a high school teacher, takes Lucia’s daughter, Angie, into her home. This arrangement causes conflict between Cathy and her live-in boyfriend, Sean. Th... + Read More
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Series: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air Electronic book text, PDF Carole Giangrande 9781771333641 $11.99 FICTION Apr 15, 2017

In the morning fog of the North Atlantic, Valerie hears the frenetic ticking of clocks. She’s come from Toronto to hike on the French island of St. Pierre and to ponder her marriage to Gerard Lefèvre, a Montrealer and a broadcast journalist whose passion for justice was ignited in his youth by the death of his lover in an airline bombing. He’s a restless traveller (who she suspects is unfaithful) and she’s the opposite: quiet, with an inner life she nurtures as a horticulturalist. Valerie’s thinking about Gerard on assignment in her native New ... + Read More
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Series: In Many Waters Electronic book text, PDF Ami Sands Brodoff 9781771333689 $11.99 FICTION Apr 15, 2017

In Many Waters is the gripping story of three orphans whose lives intersect on the island of Malta during our current, urgent refugee crisis. Zoe, a budding historian, comes to Malta with her younger brother Cal to learn more about their Maltese mother, as well as the mysterious circumstances surrounding their parents’ untimely deaths. The siblings’ well-mapped plans are derailed when Cal, who is a daily swimmer in the Mediterranean, discovers a girl floating in the sea, barely alive. The small, battered fishing boat on which she has journeyed ... + Read More
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Series: Flush A Robin MacFarland Mystery Electronic book text, PDF Sky Curtis 9781771333764 $11.99 FICTION May 15, 2017

Robin MacFarland is a somewhat eccentric and highly intelligent journalist for the Home and Garden section of a Toronto paper, who at age fifty-five looks aghast in the mirror and pronounces herself, “Old. Fat. Alcoholic. Alone. Failure.” She resolves to lose weight, quit drinking, and try online dating, although not, perhaps in quite that order. The intrigue begins when Robin chooses to cover a water cooling system conference where she thinks there will be a lot of men. By coincidence, her first online date is with the owner of the water compa... + Read More
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Series: Uncommitted Crimes The Defiance of the Artistic Imagi/nation Electronic book text, EPUB Tara Atluri 9781771333948 $14.99 ART Sep 25, 2018

Theodor Adorno once remarked that, “…every work of art is an uncommitted crime.” This book is a tribute to political artists who deviate from the mainstream and create art that engages with questions of societal oppression, survival, and resistance. It draws on interviews with transnational artists whose work is representative of emerging trends in art, visual culture, and political aesthetics. These are a new generation of transnational artists whose creative praxis, sensibilities, influences, and frames of reference derive from multiple natio... + Read More
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Series: Uncommitted Crimes The Defiance of the Artistic Imagi/nation Electronic book text, PDF Tara Atluri 9781771333962 $14.99 ART Sep 25, 2018

Theodor Adorno once remarked that, “…every work of art is an uncommitted crime.” This book is a tribute to political artists who deviate from the mainstream and create art that engages with questions of societal oppression, survival, and resistance. It draws on interviews with transnational artists whose work is representative of emerging trends in art, visual culture, and political aesthetics. These are a new generation of transnational artists whose creative praxis, sensibilities, influences, and frames of reference derive from multiple natio... + Read More
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Series: The Widow's Fire Electronic book text, PDF Paul Butler 9781771334082 $11.99 FICTION May 15, 2017

The Widow’s Fire explores the shadow side of Jane Austen’s final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance. We join the action close to the moment when Austen draws away for the last time and discretely gives an overview of the oncoming marriage between heroine Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth. This, it transpires in The Widow’s Fire, is merely the beginning of a journey. Soon dark undercurrents disturb the order and symmetry of Austen’s world. The gothic flavor of the period, usually satirized by... + Read More
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Series: The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy Electronic book text, EPUB Genevieve Vaughan 9781771334105 $18.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Dec 15, 2018

The idea of a free gift economy has become important in the movement for alternative economics, however the connection with women and especially with mothers has not been widely understood. The conference “The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy,” held in Rome in 2015, brought together women and men from around the world to discuss this important issue.In a moment when the values of Patriarchy and the market seem to have triumphed, the values of mothering and care are more sorely needed than ever. This book explores many aspects of the gift par... + Read More
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Series: The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy Electronic book text, PDF Genevieve Vaughan 9781771334129 $18.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Dec 15, 2018

The idea of a free gift economy has become important in the movement for alternative economics, however the connection with women and especially with mothers has not been widely understood. The conference “The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy,” held in Rome in 2015, brought together women and men from around the world to discuss this important issue.In a moment when the values of Patriarchy and the market seem to have triumphed, the values of mothering and care are more sorely needed than ever. This book explores many aspects of the gift par... + Read More
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Series: No Fury Like That Electronic book text, EPUB Lisa de Nikolits 9781771334143 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

No Fury Like That is a literary thriller about life and death—and the power of second chances. What is your moral compass? Julia Redner has to die in order to find her answer to this question—but is she really dead or is she being given the opportunity to rethink her life while solving an intricate puzzle of murders? And she does not miss the opportunity to exact righteous revenge! With an unforgettable cast of characters, a surprising plot with twists and turns, and a powerful, determined female protagonist, the novel takes you on a fast-paced... + Read More
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Series: No Fury Like That Electronic book text, PDF Lisa de Nikolits 9781771334167 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

No Fury Like That is a literary thriller about life and death—and the power of second chances. What is your moral compass? Julia Redner has to die in order to find her answer to this question—but is she really dead or is she being given the opportunity to rethink her life while solving an intricate puzzle of murders? And she does not miss the opportunity to exact righteous revenge! With an unforgettable cast of characters, a surprising plot with twists and turns, and a powerful, determined female protagonist, the novel takes you on a fast-paced... + Read More
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Series: Once Upon a Time in West Toronto Electronic book text, EPUB Terri Favro 9781771334181 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

A gritty tragi-comic fairy tale of sexual obsession and longing, based in equal parts on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, Once Upon A Time In West Toronto is the story of outsiders reinventing themselves in Toronto’s immigrant neighbourhoods from the 1970s to the present. It follows the adventures of Ida, an Italian proxy bride who came to Canada married a man she’d never met, only to run off with his son; her lover, the brilliant ditch digger, Marcello; Bum Bum, a virtuous thief; and various hustlers... + Read More
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Series: Once Upon a Time in West Toronto Electronic book text, PDF Terri Favro 9781771334204 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

A gritty tragi-comic fairy tale of sexual obsession and longing, based in equal parts on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, Once Upon A Time In West Toronto is the story of outsiders reinventing themselves in Toronto’s immigrant neighbourhoods from the 1970s to the present. It follows the adventures of Ida, an Italian proxy bride who came to Canada married a man she’d never met, only to run off with his son; her lover, the brilliant ditch digger, Marcello; Bum Bum, a virtuous thief; and various hustlers... + Read More
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Series: The Other Mrs. Smith Electronic book text, EPUB Bonnie Burstow 9781771334228 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

This novel traces the life experiences of a once highly successful woman who falls prey to electroshock and subsequently struggles, partly successfully, partly in vain, to piece back together her life. Naomi Cohan Smith suffers enormous memory loss; additionally, an estrangement from her family of origin that she has no way to wrap her mind around. The novel begins with her wandering the corridor of St. Patricks-St Andrews Mental Health Centre (St. Pukes) faced with the seemingly impossible challenge of coming to terms with the damage done her,... + Read More
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Series: The Other Mrs. Smith Electronic book text, PDF Bonnie Burstow 9781771334242 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

This novel traces the life experiences of a once highly successful woman who falls prey to electroshock and subsequently struggles, partly successfully, partly in vain, to piece back together her life. Naomi Cohan Smith suffers enormous memory loss; additionally, an estrangement from her family of origin that she has no way to wrap her mind around. The novel begins with her wandering the corridor of St. Patricks-St Andrews Mental Health Centre (St. Pukes) faced with the seemingly impossible challenge of coming to terms with the damage done her,... + Read More
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Series: The Street of Butterflies Electronic book text, EPUB Mehri Yalfani 9781771334266 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges they face also reveal the racial, gendered and cultural anxieties of these same individuals who carry with them the biases of their country of origin to the norms of the new land. “Soleiman’s Silence,” “Felicia,” “If You Were I,” “Geranium Family,” and “Line,” all portray many dimensions of the migrant’s strive (or the ref... + Read More
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Series: The Street of Butterflies Electronic book text, PDF Mehri Yalfani 9781771334280 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges they face also reveal the racial, gendered and cultural anxieties of these same individuals who carry with them the biases of their country of origin to the norms of the new land. “Soleiman’s Silence,” “Felicia,” “If You Were I,” “Geranium Family,” and “Line,” all portray many dimensions of the migrant’s strive (or the ref... + Read More
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Series: In the Belly of the Horse Electronic book text, EPUB Eliana Tobias 9781771334303 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

In the Belly of the Horse is a gripping story illuminating an historic period in the life of a Peruvian family separated and kept apart by seemingly insurmountable forces during a time of civil conflict. Outraged and fearful that war is surging too close to home, Manuel Perez takes his seven-year-old son Salvador into hiding. Otilia, his wife and mother of the child, stays behind to protect the family property. As the elusive enemy roams the countryside, she waits, distraught, for Manuel to return. This is Peru in the 1990s, a struggling nation... + Read More
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Series: In the Belly of the Horse Electronic book text, PDF Eliana Tobias 9781771334327 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

In the Belly of the Horse is a gripping story illuminating an historic period in the life of a Peruvian family separated and kept apart by seemingly insurmountable forces during a time of civil conflict. Outraged and fearful that war is surging too close to home, Manuel Perez takes his seven-year-old son Salvador into hiding. Otilia, his wife and mother of the child, stays behind to protect the family property. As the elusive enemy roams the countryside, she waits, distraught, for Manuel to return. This is Peru in the 1990s, a struggling nation... + Read More
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Series: Outside People and Other Stories Electronic book text, EPUB Mariam Pirbhai 9781771334341 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

A Haitian woman survives the ravages of an earthquake only to find her sister, an émigré in Montreal, the subject of a grisly crime. A chambermaid in a Mexican tourist resort frequented by Canadian tourists wonders why all the men in her life seem to leave her for distant lands. A Jamaican migrant worker at an Ontario chicken farm comes to the aid of his Peruvian co-worker on the eve of a fatal car accident. And a young Pakistani-Canadian woman finds herself in the midst of a protest march defending Muslim women’s rights on the same day she has... + Read More
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Series: Outside People and Other Stories Electronic book text, PDF Mariam Pirbhai 9781771334365 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

A Haitian woman survives the ravages of an earthquake only to find her sister, an émigré in Montreal, the subject of a grisly crime. A chambermaid in a Mexican tourist resort frequented by Canadian tourists wonders why all the men in her life seem to leave her for distant lands. A Jamaican migrant worker at an Ontario chicken farm comes to the aid of his Peruvian co-worker on the eve of a fatal car accident. And a young Pakistani-Canadian woman finds herself in the midst of a protest march defending Muslim women’s rights on the same day she has... + Read More
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Series: A Handbook for Beautiful People Electronic book text, EPUB Jennifer Spruit 9781771334426 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

When twenty-two-year-old Marla finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she wishes for a family, but faces precariousness: an uncertain future with her talented, exacting boyfriend, Liam; constant danger from her roommate, Dani, a sometime prostitute and entrenched drug addict; and the unannounced but overwhelming needs of her younger brother, Gavin, whom she has brought home for the first time from deaf school. Forcing her hand is Marla’s fetal alcohol syndrome, which sets her apart but also carries her through. When Marla loses her job and breaks... + Read More
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Series: A Handbook for Beautiful People Electronic book text, PDF Jennifer Spruit 9781771334440 $11.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

When twenty-two-year-old Marla finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she wishes for a family, but faces precariousness: an uncertain future with her talented, exacting boyfriend, Liam; constant danger from her roommate, Dani, a sometime prostitute and entrenched drug addict; and the unannounced but overwhelming needs of her younger brother, Gavin, whom she has brought home for the first time from deaf school. Forcing her hand is Marla’s fetal alcohol syndrome, which sets her apart but also carries her through. When Marla loses her job and breaks... + Read More
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Series: I'm the Girl Who Was Raped Electronic book text, EPUB Michelle Hattingh 9781771334464 $11.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2017

That morning, Michelle presented her Psychology honours thesis on rape. It began: "A woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read…." That evening, celebrating her degree, she and a friend go to the beach, where they are both robbed, assaulted and raped. Within minutes of getting help, Michelle realizes she'll never be herself again. She is now "the girl who was raped." This book is Michelle's fight to be herself again. Of the taint she feels, despite the support and resources at her disposal as the c... + Read More
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Series: I'm the Girl Who Was Raped Electronic book text, PDF Michelle Hattingh 9781771334488 $11.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2017

That morning, Michelle presented her Psychology honours thesis on rape. It began: "A woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read…." That evening, celebrating her degree, she and a friend go to the beach, where they are both robbed, assaulted and raped. Within minutes of getting help, Michelle realizes she'll never be herself again. She is now "the girl who was raped." This book is Michelle's fight to be herself again. Of the taint she feels, despite the support and resources at her disposal as the c... + Read More
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Series: The Size of a Bird Electronic book text, EPUB Clementine Morrigan 9781771334587 $8.99 POETRY Sep 15, 2017

The Size of a Bird is an invocation of desire in times of violence and trauma. Refusing to shy away from difficult topics the poet tackles addiction, abuse, suicide, and sexual violence while infusing each word with a relentless drive for life. Seeking pleasure, these poems navigate dangerous terrain, staying with ambivalence and probing its depths. Queer femininity seeks heterosexual masculinity with varying results. First dates and one-night-stands, alleyways and coffee shops, forest floors and skateparks, these poems reveal a world pulsating... + Read More
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Series: The Size of a Bird Electronic book text, PDF Clementine Morrigan 9781771334600 $8.99 POETRY Sep 15, 2017

The Size of a Bird is an invocation of desire in times of violence and trauma. Refusing to shy away from difficult topics the poet tackles addiction, abuse, suicide, and sexual violence while infusing each word with a relentless drive for life. Seeking pleasure, these poems navigate dangerous terrain, staying with ambivalence and probing its depths. Queer femininity seeks heterosexual masculinity with varying results. First dates and one-night-stands, alleyways and coffee shops, forest floors and skateparks, these poems reveal a world pulsating... + Read More
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Series: Days of Moonlight Electronic book text, EPUB Loren Edizel 9781771334785 $11.99 FICTION Apr 05, 2018

Days of Moonlight takes place in Turkey between 1924 and 2010, and spans the lives of three generations who move as refugees from Crete to Izmir and finally to Toronto. The novel centres on the life and loves of Mehtap, a woman in her mid-twenties with a delicious sense of humour. While working as a secretary at a zipper factory in Izmir, she falls madly in love with her boss for whom she has to lie and wrap presents for his mistress and his wife. Her love for him doesn’t change when she also falls in love with her friend, Nuray. After Nuray mo... + Read More
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Series: Days of Moonlight Electronic book text, PDF Loren Edizel 9781771334808 $11.99 FICTION Apr 05, 2018

Days of Moonlight takes place in Turkey between 1924 and 2010, and spans the lives of three generations who move as refugees from Crete to Izmir and finally to Toronto. The novel centres on the life and loves of Mehtap, a woman in her mid-twenties with a delicious sense of humour. While working as a secretary at a zipper factory in Izmir, she falls madly in love with her boss for whom she has to lie and wrap presents for his mistress and his wife. Her love for him doesn’t change when she also falls in love with her friend, Nuray. After Nuray mo... + Read More
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Series: Hiraeth Electronic book text, EPUB Carol Rose Daniels 9781771334860 $8.99 POETRY Apr 05, 2018

Hiraeth is about women supporting and lending strength and clarity to other women so they know that moving forward is always possible— and always necessary. It documents a journey of struggle that pertains to a dark point in Canadian history that few talk about and of which even fewer seem aware. Poems speak to the 1960's "scoop up" of children and how this affected the lives of (one or thousands) of First Nations and Métis girls— girls who later grew to be women with questions, women with wounds, women who felt like they had no place to call h... + Read More
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Series: Hiraeth Electronic book text, PDF Carol Rose Daniels 9781771334884 $8.99 POETRY Apr 05, 2018

Hiraeth is about women supporting and lending strength and clarity to other women so they know that moving forward is always possible— and always necessary. It documents a journey of struggle that pertains to a dark point in Canadian history that few talk about and of which even fewer seem aware. Poems speak to the 1960's "scoop up" of children and how this affected the lives of (one or thousands) of First Nations and Métis girls— girls who later grew to be women with questions, women with wounds, women who felt like they had no place to call h... + Read More
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Series: The Madrigal Electronic book text, EPUB Dian Day 9781771334945 $11.99 FICTION Apr 05, 2018

Meet Frederick Madrigal: the seventh son of a struggling woman on welfare who already had three sets of male twins spaced two years apart. A one-time child prodigy, Frederick was the subject of the benevolent index finger of God. While his older brothers ran wild, the sensitive and musically gifted Frederick began to sneak out of the house to sing for spare change in front of city bars and nightclubs, his repertoire learned from his mother’s secret midnight singing. Through the intervention of a number of well intentioned benefactors, he ends ... + Read More
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Series: The Madrigal Electronic book text, PDF Dian Day 9781771334969 $11.99 FICTION Apr 05, 2018

Meet Frederick Madrigal: the seventh son of a struggling woman on welfare who already had three sets of male twins spaced two years apart. A one-time child prodigy, Frederick was the subject of the benevolent index finger of God. While his older brothers ran wild, the sensitive and musically gifted Frederick began to sneak out of the house to sing for spare change in front of city bars and nightclubs, his repertoire learned from his mother’s secret midnight singing. Through the intervention of a number of well intentioned benefactors, he ends ... + Read More
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Series: A Season Among Psychics Electronic book text, EPUB Elizabeth Greene 9781771335027 $11.99 FICTION Apr 05, 2018

Judith, at fifty, feels that her life is irremediably stalled, and she is depressed. Although she has a secure job teaching English at a university, she is the single mother of a son on the autistic spectrum who has been lurching through the school system, year by year. He is a non-reader, and she is worried that ninth grade English may be too much for him. Because of the demands of work and mothering, she is isolated. Buried under the surface of her life, is her longing to write, and her deep feelings for Brian, a man who taught her in a creat... + Read More
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Series: A Season Among Psychics Electronic book text, PDF Elizabeth Greene 9781771335041 $11.99 FICTION Apr 05, 2018

Judith, at fifty, feels that her life is irremediably stalled, and she is depressed. Although she has a secure job teaching English at a university, she is the single mother of a son on the autistic spectrum who has been lurching through the school system, year by year. He is a non-reader, and she is worried that ninth grade English may be too much for him. Because of the demands of work and mothering, she is isolated. Buried under the surface of her life, is her longing to write, and her deep feelings for Brian, a man who taught her in a creat... + Read More
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Series: Almost True Electronic book text, EPUB Jan Rehner 9781771335065 $11.99 FICTION Apr 05, 2018

Almost True is the story of an extraordinary friendship among four women living in a small village in Burgundy during World War II. Madeleine, the eccentric village beauty, is a spinner of stories and dreams. Léa, the doctor’s daughter, is brave and resourceful. Simone, the outsider from Paris, has a secret of her own to hide, and the hardworking and practical Eugénie struggles to keep her vineyard alive. When Eugénie’s younger brother, the reckless and handsome Gaston, is suddenly missing, the village buzzes with rumour. All four women think t... + Read More
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Series: Almost True Electronic book text, PDF Jan Rehner 9781771335089 $11.99 FICTION Apr 05, 2018

Almost True is the story of an extraordinary friendship among four women living in a small village in Burgundy during World War II. Madeleine, the eccentric village beauty, is a spinner of stories and dreams. Léa, the doctor’s daughter, is brave and resourceful. Simone, the outsider from Paris, has a secret of her own to hide, and the hardworking and practical Eugénie struggles to keep her vineyard alive. When Eugénie’s younger brother, the reckless and handsome Gaston, is suddenly missing, the village buzzes with rumour. All four women think t... + Read More
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Series: The Land's Long Reach Electronic book text, EPUB Valerie Mills-Milde 9781771335102 $11.99 FICTION Apr 05, 2018

It is The War to End All Wars, and Ena Connelly, a keenly sensory and extraordinary woman, is newly married and living on an Ontario farm. The shock of violence in far-off battlefields is echoed in a terror much closer to hand. With bold perception and remarkable self-reliance, Ena faces a dramatically altered world. Ena is self-contained, and careful not to reach too far into the turbulent emotional lives of others. As the war progresses, Ena forms a fierce bond of loyalty for Blain, the delightful but (necessarily) duplicitous boy who comes t... + Read More