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Series: We are One Poems from the Pandemic Paperback George Melnyk 9781988440484 $14.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2020

An anthology of Canadian poets marking the 2020 Pandemic.
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Series: Meena's Story Flight to Freedom Hardcover 9781988440507 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Meena's Story: Flight to Freedom" is set around true events. Covering a span of nearly 80 years. It begins when her mother, Elizabeth stumbles into the arms of a handsome Indian man, Ali, in London. It is love at first sight. Ali has to leave England and return home to Hyderabad. Elizabeth finds it impossible to stay on in England without her love and she boards a P&O liner and surprises Ali in Hyderabad.Enduring cultural challenges laced with comic and ironic instances, the couple are accepted by Ali's widowed mother, uncle and aunt and other ... + Read More
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Series: From Howdy Modi to Modi ki Godi An Imaginary Guide to Cosmic Realities Paperback 9781988440460 $9.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Every morning Anand and Kabir start work in a run-down tea stall in a poor Delhi neighborhood. Winter, summer, rain or shine. It's the same day in and day out. The shop owner, Sharmaji, is a good man. It is out of kindness that he employs the two boys. He knows Anand is a Dalit, from the untouchable caste, and also that Kabir is a Muslim. The boss, a devout Hindu, is protective of the boys who both lead sad lives in the slums. This morning Anand sets off with a tray of steaming glasses of tea, while Kabir helps in the stall. Some customers are ... + Read More
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I Dream of Being a Concrete Mixer is an uplifting story about the power of friendship, about finding your place in the world, and about realizing your dreams while remaining true to who you are. Tumbledown is a little demolition truck growing up in a loving family. His parents go to work every day demolishing buildings with their big wrecking balls. But soft-hearted Tumbledown does not like to destroy. He would rather build things. He dreams of being a concrete mixer.
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Series: Je rêve d'être une bétonnière Paperback Hussain Al Mutawaa 9781772311419 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Oct 15, 2020

Je rêve d'être une bétonnière est un conte revigorant sur la puissance de l'amitié, la quête de sa propre place dans le monde et la concrétisation de ses rêves tout en restant soi-même. Haddam est un petit engin démolisseur qui grandi au sein d'une famille aimante. Ses parents vont tous les jours au travail qui consiste à démolir des immeubles à l'aide de leurs gros boulets de démolition. Mais le cœur tendre de Haddam n'aime pas détruire. Il préfère construire et rêve de devenir une bétonnière. Lorsque Haddam pleure, ses boulets de démolition t... + Read More
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Series: Sans chapeau Paperback Lateefah Boti 9781772311426 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Oct 15, 2020

Sans Chapeau suit une ligne narrative imaginative et inspirante. Elle adopte des valeurs élevées de coexistence et d'acceptation mutuelle des différences avec les autres qui partagent notre environnement. Elle laisse libre cours à l'imaginaire des enfants et stimule leur créativité. Le personnage principal est une petite fille prénommée Sans Chapeau, qui vit dans la Ville aux Chapeaux, où les gens naissent avec des couvre-chefs qui leur cachent tête et visage. Le monde y est sombre, silencieux et inodore, à l'intérieur duquel Sans Chapeau se se... + Read More
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Series: North to Crying Rock Paperback Gerald Richardson Brown 9781772620566 $20.00 FICTION Oct 18, 2020

Grieving for his dead wife and his lost world, a retired professor flees an earthquake-ravaged city that was his home, and goes north into the mountains to live with his cousin in an Indigenous community high above a flooded fishing village of the Kwakatouh People. Here, in a refuge from climate catastrophe, the professor finds life and love again. Cedar, a gentle artist, re-awakens his soul only to later reject his friendship. He meets an English widow who teaches the children of Crying Rock and Kwanatulhay the mysteries of the English languag... + Read More
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Series: Ghost Lake Paperback Nathan Adler 9781928120247 $19.95 FICTION Dec 31, 2020

In Ojibwe cosmology there are thirteen moons, and in these pages are thirteen offerings from Ghost Lake, an interrelated cast of characters and their brushes with the mysterious. Issa lives in fear of having her secret discovered, Aanzheyaawin haunts the roads seeking vengeance, Zaude searches for clues to her brother's death, Fanon struggles against an unexpected winter storm, Eadie and Mushkeg share a magical night, Tyner faces brutal violence, and Tyler, Clay, and Dare must make amends to the spirits before it's too late. Here the precolonia... + Read More
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Series: Blue Marrow Newly redesigned edition, published by Kegedonce Press, with an interview with the author as a new A Paperback Louise Halfe 9781928120254 $16.50 POETRY Mar 01, 2021

The voices of Blue Marrow sing out from the past and the present. They are the voices of the Grandmothers, both personal and legendary. They share their wisdom, their lives, their dreams. They proclaim the injustice of colonialism, the violence of proselytism, and the horrors of the residential school system with an honesty that cuts to the marrow. Speaking in both English and Cree, these are voices of hopefulness, strength, and survivance. Blue Marrow is a tribute to the indomitable power of Indigenous women of the past and of the present day.... + Read More
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Series: Shadowpaw Press Shapers of Worlds Paperback Edward Willett 9781989398067 $22.95 FICTION Nov 17, 2020

Within these pages lie eighteen stories, from eighteen worlds shaped by some of today's best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its first year. There are never-before-seen stories by Tanya Huff, Seanan McGuire, David Weber, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., John C. Wright, D.J. Butler, Christopher Ruocchio, Shelley Adina, and Edward Willett, plus outstanding fiction by John Scalzi, Joe Haldeman, David Brin, Julie E. Czerneda, Fonda Lee, Gareth L. Powell, Dr. Charles E. Gannon, Derek ... + Read More
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Series: World Prose Molly Lake in the Quebec Affair Paperback Samuel Endicott 9781771836333 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

It is spring, 1759. Two European empires are battling for North America. When Raiders from New France abduct her mother, Molly's rescue effort crosses paths with a French assassin, Indians, government corruption, and a handsome enemy soldier. Samuel Endicott captures the essence of colonial Quebec and weaves a masterful yarn of a teenager coming of age within as besieged city's stone walls. Employing exhaustive research, he brings to life the final days of New France that forever changed the continent. The Quebec Affair has elements every reade... + Read More
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Series: MiroLand Essays Surviving the Apocalypse Understanding and Fighting Through the Coming Emergency Paperback Thomas F. Pawlick 9781771835749 $25.00 SELF-HELP Oct 01, 2020

Almost daily scientists are sounding dire warnings about the effects of climate change. Our young will bear an unprecedented burden. They are eager to discover what can be done, as time slips away. But few of them – or us – are aware that global warming is but one facet of a looming planetary catastrophe. Most of the natural and social systems humans depend on for survival are also in various stages of collapse. Each failure will impact the other systems, including climate, in a series of feedback loops that can unleash a virtual tsunami of des... + Read More
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Series: Essential Translations Series God's Zoo Paperback Pablo Urbanyi 9781771835701 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

God's Zoo captures the brutality of the Second World War in Eastern Europe, told through the eyes of young Fenix, a boy who lives in the small Hungarian-Czechoslovak city of Ipolyság. Fenix lives in a loveless world, abused by his cold, materialistic mother, and neglected by his often absent father. He seeks refuge in the care of Judit, a young woman who works as a nanny and servant in the family home. Judit and Fenix form a deep and complex bond that is at once familial and erotic, embodying friendship, kinship, motherhood, romantic love, and ... + Read More
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Series: Heart of Goodness: The Life of Marguerite Bourgeoys in 30 poems Du coeur à l'âme: La vie de Marguerite Bourgeoys en 30 poèmes Paperback Carolyne Van Der Meer 9781771836395 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

1653, Marguerite Bourgeoys s'établit en Nouvelle-France déterminée à transmettre la foi aux habitants de Ville-Marie et à donner une education aux jeunes femmes de la colonie. Carolyne Van Der Meer se glisse dans la tête et le coeur de Marguerite Bourgeoys pour partager, à travers sa poésie, les espoirs et les défis qui se présentent au moment d'établir la Congrégation de Notre-Dame. Ces poèmes, d'abord écrits en anglais, ont été traduits par l'autrice en français, langue maternelle de Marguerite Bourgeoys, rapportant ainsi les aspirations de c... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Kaidenberg's Best Sons A Novel in Stories 2nd edition Paperback Jason Heit 9781771836517 $20.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2021

Kaidenberg’s Best Sons is an enthralling portrait of a community starting over in a new land. In a series of linked stories, author Jason Heit explores the lives and fortunes of people bound together by tradition, heritage and history, yet riven by envy, greed and lust. When a community of Eastern European settlers in North Dakota learn that there is promising farmland available in the newly established province of Saskatchewan they load their wagons and head north. Along with their furnishings, they also pack up their resentments, desires and ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Writers Series Pasquale Verdicchio Essays On His Works Paperback Antonio D'Alfonso 9781771836470 $20.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Mar 01, 2021

The ten essays included in this volume address the themes of immigration, migration, and history in Pasquale Verdicchio’s poetry and scholarship. Giuliana Gardellini, Joseph Pivato, Anna Zampieri Pan, Diego Bastianutti, Carmelo Militano, Leonardo Buonomo, Kenneth Scambray, Laura E. Ruberto, and Antonio D’Alfonso discuss Verdicchio’s unconventional forms and contents that reveal the difficulties of being considered a marginalized ethnic voice in North American culture. Not conforming to conventional poetic models, Verdicchio writes poetry that p... + Read More