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Series: Glass Bricks Paperback Louella Lester 9781988168425 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 27, 2021

What does it mean to work for a living?Told in short prose, Glass Bricks tells the story of Lester's experience working both traditional and non-traditional jobs. Sometimes raw and often humourous, Lester shares stories about learning to work, working, and moving on. Glass Bricks explores the significance of our basic human right to work in an era where the struggle to find meaningful, full-time employment is all too real.
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Series: Ex Nihilo Hardcover J. R. Léveillé 9781988168470 $22.95 POETRY Apr 29, 2021

A bilingual collection of renga poetry by two of Canada's most celebrated poets in English and in French, each writing in his respective language in response to the other. A project of discourse itself, shared in dialogue between two poets, as they explore Novalis' definition of poetry as "the truly absolute real." The poetic act is world-changing, the agglomeration of atoms as they fall through space - a sort of "elective affinity", or state of grace - to constitute Being. If Lao Tzu reminds us that the Dao that can be named is not the eternal... + Read More
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Series: Status Update Paperback George Toles 9781988168371 $28.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 25, 2021

A collection of mini-narratives that have been posted on Facebook every day since 2009. This book will collect posts from the entire collection in one cohesive volume of work. Award-winning artist Cliff Eyland and famed writer George Toles combine their unique talents in a book like no other, tackling apropos issues related to climate change, politics, relationships, death, and sex with wry humour and deft tone.
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Series: The Charles Lauchlan Mystery Novels So Many Windings Hardcover Catherine Macdonald 9781988168463 $28.95 FICTION May 27, 2021

Reluctant amateur detective, Reverend Charles Lauchlan, departs the prairie city of Winnipeg and travels abroad to Scotland with his fiancé Maggie on a bicycle tour of the highlands. Two near fatal accidents put members of the tour on edge and, to make matters worse, a shadowy figure seems to be observing their every move. Stuck in the remote highland countryside, the group is thrown back on their own resources. While Charles and Maggie are trying to decipher what these strange events mean, they make another grisly discovery. It's murder most f... + Read More
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Series: From the Heart Signal Decay Paperback Keith Cadieux 9781988168487 $6.95 FICTION Jun 08, 2021

Tim has recently passed away and left Lori with piles of expensive recording equipment and mountains of debt. Tim's family wants to move on from the loss but Lori can't let go, not while she can still hear Tim's laugh as though he's still there beside her. That is, until she begins to hear his laugh in odd places, like old recordings Tim never worked on.Can love transcend to keep us connected through death? Or do we just create our own reality when we're not ready to let go?
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Series: The Upper Hand Leveraging limitations to turn adversity into advantage Paperback Chris Ruden 9781989517499 $19.99 SELF-HELP May 04, 2021

In life, we all face struggles, and we all handle these struggles differently. This book will help you overcome the adversities you currently face (and those you haven't faced yet) by giving you the tools you need, to get The Upper Hand. At its basic definition, winning The Upper Hand means to gain an advantage or control over a person or situation. The purpose of this book is not to put you in a winning position over another person. Plot twist. It's to give you The Upper Hand over yourself. This isn't an answer book for how to live a happy lif... + Read More
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Series: Wish I Knew Series Conscious De-Stress Guide Paperback Lise Leblanc 9781989517451 $21.95 SELF-HELP May 04, 2021

Are you feeling worn out? Overextended? Stressed out? You're not alone - we all get stressed and overwhelmed at times ... but how do we know when it has gone too far?As we face a global stress-test of epic proportions, this sense of destabilization and uncertainty is causing increasingly higher stress levels.A psychotherapist for more than twenty years, Lise Leblanc has learned that most us of us are looking for shortcuts. We want the quick-fix solutions. We want the drive-through version, and we want change NOW, but change will not likely happ... + Read More
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Series: Wish I Knew Series Conscious De-Stress Guide Workbook Paperback Lise Leblanc 9781989517475 $21.95 SELF-HELP May 04, 2021

This workbook is your essential companion to Lise Leblanc's Conscious De-Stress Guide.Each chapter in the workbook corresponds to a chapter in the book, providing space and graphic elements to work through the practical exercises, checklists, reflective questions, self assessments and more that Lise has outlined. The workbook provides a simple framework for Lise's step by step, easy to absorb plan for managing your stress.Wish I Knew: Conscious De-Stress Guide Workbook will provide the help you need to achieve an optimum state of wellness. This... + Read More
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Series: Beneath the Alders Series The Mending Paperback Lynne Golding 9781989517550 $19.99 FICTION May 04, 2021

As the world settled the treaty to the recently concluded war-to-end-all-wars, and as the Canadian government repatriated the brave members of her expeditionary force, Canadians sought two things above all else: an end to the beleaguered state suffered during the war, and a return to the innocence that preceded it.In the final book of the Beneath the Alders trilogy, Jessie Stephens discovers that neither is entirely possible. Set between 1918 and 1931, Jessie comes of age on the heels of the Spanish flu epidemic, in a time where skirt hems rose... + Read More
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Series: sfumato New and Selected Poems Paperback David Stones 9781989517529 $19.99 POETRY Apr 06, 2021

A dead mouse reclining in a slipper; a cigarette smouldering on a motel bedside table; a woman seeing her life reflected in a deserted bird feeder. In Stones' poetic universe the images pile starkly into the complex tissue of mortal experience, an abstruse sfumato-like weave of the human soul. By turns playful, darkly meditative and beautifully transcendent, Stones ventilates a world keenly observed, acutely realized and memorably articulated. Poets show people things that they cannot see themselves. David Stones is such a poet and sfumato is h... + Read More
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Series: Remember, It's OK Series Remember, It's Ok: Loss of a Pet Paperback Marina L. Reed 9781989517390 $24.95 SELF-HELP May 04, 2021

Losing a pet is heartbreaking. They are part of your life, your family, your heart. So many people who lose a pet friend suffer in silence. It can often be difficult to get understanding and validation for the depth of that loss. We will do both. Your pet was your family, regardless of what others may think or say. Grief will find its way into your life. Remember, It's OK. You are not alone. Your grief is real, and we are here to help you on your grief journey. /
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Series: Remember, It's OK Series Remember, It's Ok: Loss of a Child Paperback Marina L. Reed 9781989517413 $24.95 SELF-HELP May 04, 2021

The loss of your child is a devastating and life-altering experience. Each memory can feel like shattered glass. Sometimes you can cope with your emotions but at other times you are at a loss as to how to calm your pain-filled heart, your splintered world. You are not alone. We are here to gently guide you forward. This book will become your friend and help you learn to breathe again./
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Series: Remember, It's OK Series Remember, It's Ok: Loss of a Sibling Paperback Marina L. Reed 9781989517437 $24.95 SELF-HELP May 04, 2021

Losing a sibling can feel like missing a piece of yourself. Losing a friend can feel exactly the same, often without the validation from family and friends. The bond that connects us to people we love is strong and their loss creates a hole in our lives. It can feel like that hole is bottomless. It's not. Remember, It's OK. You are not alone. This book will help you find your way back. We are here for you./
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Series: The Seventh Devil Paperback Suzanne Craig-Whytock 9781772311433 $22.95 FICTION Jul 15, 2021

When nineteen-year-old runaway Verity Darkwood, flat broke and devastated by guilt, takes refuge in a bar to escape the unwanted attention of a stranger, she doesn't expect to meet Gareth Winter, let alone become business partners with him. They discover that they each possess the ability to interact with the world "beyond the veil" and, with the help of Horace Greeley III, editor of the fantastical online journal The Echo, Verity and Gareth spend the next two years on the road, helping the earthbound spirits who haunt their clients to cross ov... + Read More
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Series: Modern Indigenous Voices Iskotew Iskwew: Poetry of a Northern Rez Girl Paperback Francine Merasty 9781772311457 $17.95 POETRY Jul 15, 2021

Iskotew Iskwew/Fire Woman is a poetry collection written during a period of trauma while the author was working as a Counsel to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in 2017. This book is about memories and experience growing up on the Pelican Narrows Reserve in northern Saskatchewan in the 1980s: summers spent on the land and the pain of residential school. With this collection, the author wants to teach and inform Canadians of her experiences growing up as an Indigenous woman in Saskatchewan. She believes i... + Read More
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Series: The Lachine Canal Chronicles: Murphy's Law Paperback Frédéric Latreille 9781772311471 $22.95 FICTION Dec 15, 2021

Murphy's Law, the second book in the "Lachine Canal Chronicles" series, follows Tom Murphy who is trying to cope with the tragic events of his life and his newfound fame as a writer. Tom is trying to get rid of his self-destructive habits and is asked to speak at one of his A.A. meetings. The story revolves around him detailing his life: from his upbringing in LaSalle to his friendship with Eamon, his time in the army and his unhinged sex life - all while losing, in the process, everyone who is dear to him. Murphy's Law states that anything tha... + Read More
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Series: awâsis — kinky and dishevelled Paperback Louise B. Halfe 9781771315487 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

Winner of the 2022 SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski * 2022 High Plains Book Awards Finalist * 2022 Raymond Souster Award Shortlist * 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Longlist * 2022/2023 First Nation Communities Read Awards Longlist A gender-fluid trickster character leaps from Cree stories to inhabit this racous and rebellious new work by award-winning poet Louise Bernice Halfe. There are no pronouns in Cree for gender; awâsis (which means illuminated child) reveals herself through shape-shifting, adopting different genders, exp... + Read More
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Series: Grey All Over Paperback Andrea Actis 9781771315395 $22.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

2022 ReLit Awards Longlist "Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment?" Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So began her passage through grief, self-reckoning, and graduate school in Providence, Rhode Island, where the poetics she studied (and sometimes repudiated) became integral to her gradual reconstruction of wholeness. An assemblage of "evidence" recovered from emails about paranormal encounters sent and r... + Read More
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Series: Moldovan Hotel Paperback Leah Horlick 9781771315456 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

2022 Raymond Souster Award Shortlist * 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Shortlist Moldovan Hotel explores the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust in Romania through a queer Jewish voice in the Diaspora. In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she unearthed there is an elaborate web connecting conscious worlds to subconscious ones, fascism to neofascisms, Europe to the Americas to the Middle East, typhus to HIV/AIDS, genocide in Romania to land grabs in Palestine, women's lives in far... + Read More
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Series: First Paperback Arleen Paré 9781771315425 $22.95 POETRY May 01, 2021

Governor General's Award?winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost first friend. They conjure the subtle layers of meaning in that early friendship to riff on to a search for how we might possibly understand the primal First: the beginnings of the cosmos that contains our own particular lives, beginnings and longings. This layered evocation of the past—of childhood in 1950s Dorval, "a gre... + Read More
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Series: Burning in This Midnight Dream Paperback Louise B. Halfe 9781771315517 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2021

A deeply scouring poetic account of the residential school experience, and a deeply important indictment of colonialism in Canada. Many of the poems in Louise Halfe's Burning in This Midnight Dream were written in response to the grim tide of emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares that arose in her as the Truth and Reconciliation process unfolded. In heart-wrenching detail, Halfe recalls the damage done to her parents, her family, herself. With fearlessly wrought verse, Halfe describes how the experience of the residential schools continues ... + Read More
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Series: Pizza Punks Paperback Cole Pauls 9781772620535 $15.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 15, 2021

A punk-rock celebration of pizza in all its gooey glory. Dive deep into the world of cheese-loving, crust-craving, sauce-savouring punks with award-winning cartoonist Cole Pauls. In Pizza Punks, Pauls pushes the limits of pizza devotion by exploring just how far an extremely dedicated punk might go to attain the cheesiest of pies. Backpack pizza? Sure. Couch pizza? Absolutely. Even Mosh pizza isn't off-limits. Pineapple pizza, though? That's a little more controversial. This quirky graphic novel is served up hot and (not so) fresh by the autho... + Read More
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Series: Weeding Paperback Genevieve Lebleu 9781772620481 $18.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 13, 2021

X-Files meets The Young and The Restless On a typical autumn afternoon, Martha hosts a group of middle-aged women at her suburban home. The day takes a sudden turn when Elisabeth, an estranged friend, turns up unexpectedly--and she isn't the only unwanted guest at the tea party. Martha's sister, Maureen, shows up after years of radio silence, along some painful memories and a lot of confusion. It doesn't take long for the guest list to change again when Martha disappears after a simple trip to the backyard for herbs. Martha is the most beloved... + Read More
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Series: Represented Immobilized Paperback Rick Trembles 9781772620542 $12.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 15, 2021

Schoolyard scuffles. Seedy matinees. Run-ins with inept riot cops. Represented Immobilized is an unflinching look through the smudged lenses of Rick Trembles' glasses at his early years in Montreal. Montreal Punk legend and alternative cartoonist Trembles was roommates with the editor of the influential zine Fish Piss where these autobiographical strips were first published. After a midnight move from a crumbling apartment Trembles gradually started bringing all his childhood belongings back, bit by bit, which started triggering memories from h... + Read More
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Series: Gift, The Paperback Zoe Maeve 9781772620559 $18.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 13 - 17 May 01, 2021

The Shining meets Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette in this gripping debut from an award-winning talent.The Gift opens on the snow-blanketed grounds of the Alexander Palace in Western Russia where a moth has come to attend the birth of the fourth Romanov princess, Anastasia. She and her siblings grow up in a gilded world, isolated from the society beyond the palace walls despite their dominion over it. After mysteriously receiving a camera on her fifteenth birthday, she begins to document her world, but the gift carries with it a weight she can... + Read More
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Series: Pleasure of the Text, The Paperback Sami Alwani 9781772620528 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 01, 2021

In The Pleasure of the Text, Sami Alwani weaves together themes of art induced dissociation, queer intergenerational polyamory, racial capitalism and esoteric mystical experiences into 20 slice of life comic stories that are equal parts comedy and tragedy. These stories question society and individual identity. A talking baby philosophizes away his own emotions. A half-man, half-dog cartoonist's spirit burns too bright when he alienates the entire alternative comics industry, drunk on his own power. A friendly ghost survives COVID quarantine wi... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum 25 Day Old Paperback Joe Ollman 9781772620580 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 10, 2021

A toasted bagel isn't a lot to ask for. Or is it?A mother and her four children are at the end of a long, uncomfortable night spent in a hospital waiting room far from home. The children are hungry, so they all head to the bagel shop across the street.The woman doesn't have much money in her pocket, so when she finds a bag of reduced-price day-old bagels, it's a relief. Now she just needs to get her bagels toasted so she can get the family back to the hospital. But even that turns out to be complicated and frustrating.In Day Old, award-winning ... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum 25 The Water Lover Paperback Patrick Allaby 9781772620597 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 10, 2021

A powerful tale of thirst, illness, and obsessionPatrick is almost finished university when his life turns upside down. It begins innocently enough, with a newly developed appreciation for the taste of water. His love of water quickly becomes an obsession, and before long, Patrick is drinking twenty cups a day. Then he starts experiencing other changes: exhaustion, weight loss, and (naturally) constant urination. He begins to fall behind in his last semester, but can't even muster up the energy to care. That's when Patrick lands in intensive ca... + Read More
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Series: The Undertaking of Billy Buffone Paperback David Giuliano 9781988989334 $22.95 FICTION Apr 17, 2021

The Undertaking of Billy Buffone is a story about the trauma - immediate and ongoing, personal and collateral - inflicted by Rupert Churley, who preyed on boys in Twenty-Six Mile House, an isolated town in northern Ontario. The suicides, the conspiracy of silence, the secrets and the damage done to the boys, their friends and families, persist long after the murder of Scouter Churley.
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Series: Connection at Newcombe Paperback Kayt Burgess 9781988989266 $20.00 FICTION Apr 24, 2021

Newcombe is too small to qualify for a rail station. So begins a campaign against time and government to guarantee the survival of their community in post-war Northern Ontario. It's 1920. The Great War is over and the troops are on their way home to reclaim their old lives. But before he can return to his days as a lawyer, Major Callum Bannatyne has one more mission: to ensure The Canadian National Railway builds its newest expansion through his hometown of Newcombe.The only problem? Newcombe's population is too small for it to qualify for a s... + Read More
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Series: Lunging into the Underbrush A Life Lived Backward Paperback David Homel 9781773900797 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 01, 2021

In 1970, David Homel escaped the American draft by moving to Paris. But a hiking accident in Spain led to a harrowing journey through botched surgeries, opiate addiction, the loneliness of a crippled traveler, and the constant pain that would define his life for years to come. Today, planning to stay in the game as long as possible, he has a few ideas about how to do just that. By confronting body image issues, performance anxiety, and the challenges of desire, Homel draws an affecting portrait of the battle between Eros and Melancholy. Which ... + Read More
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Series: Kerouac & Presley Paperback André Pronovost 9781773900643 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 22, 2021

Kerouac & Presley takes you on the road, guitar slung over your shoulder. Beginning in the Montreal neighbourhood where a teenage girl was brutally murdered in 1975, the International Year of the Woman, to an Abbey in Connecticut where a former starlet and Elvis co-star fled Hollywood to become a nun. This is the story of a wanderer who sets out to rewrite ?the blank and flawless page? that is America. Inspired by the history of Quebec and America, Kerouac & Presley is an American prayer in prose and paragraphs.
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Series: A Cemetery for Bees Paperback Alina Dumitrescu 9781773900834 $18.95 FICTION Feb 01, 2021

This autobiographical novel traces the journey of a woman from her youth in Socialist Eastern Europe to her transplanted life in Montreal, Canada. She is a precocious, thoughtful child, whose early life in Romania is marked by the scarcities of the time and the political games needed to survive, but she is not unhappy. Placed around her family?s house are hives?the bees discourage the secret police from visiting too often?and they provide both a childish diversion and an overarching metaphor for departure and home. An elegant, candid book, A Ce... + Read More
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Series: Dear Black Girls Hardcover Shanice Nicole 9781999058838 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 10 Feb 08, 2021

Dear Black girls all around the world, this one is for you -- for us.Dear Black Girls is a letter to all Black girls. Every single day poet and educator Shanice Nicole is reminded of how special Black girls are and of how lucky she is to be one. Illustrations by Kezna Dalz support the book's message that no two Black girls are the same but they are all special--that to be a Black girl is a true gift. In this celebratory poem, Kezna and Shanice remind young readers that despite differences, they all deserve to be loved just the way they are.
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Series: Natural History of Transition, A Paperback Callum Angus 9781999058876 $18.95 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow as tall as buildings, turn into mountains, unravel hometown mysteries, and give birth to cocoons. Portland-based author Callum Angus infuses his work with a mix of alternative history, horror, and a reality heavily dosed with magic.
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Series: A Brief View from the Coastal Suite Paperback Karen Hofmann 9781774390177 $21.95 FICTION Apr 14, 2021

The reunited Lund siblings, separated as children by Social Services, find that family, whether held together by blood or by choice, can be both a curse and a blessing, an obstacle and a point of connection.Set in Vancouver during the economically turbulent year of 2008, A Brief View from the Coastal Suite explores the Lunds' differing values in respect to relationships, money, and environment - all markers for a materialistic society that is becoming increasingly inhospitable. Cleo struggles to find time for her challenging job as an architec... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry Coconut Paperback Nisha Patel 9781774390238 $19.95 POETRY Mar 30, 2021

In her debut collection, Canadian National Slam Champion Nisha Patel commands her formidable insight and youthful, engaged voice to relay experiences of racism, sexuality, empowerment, grief, and love. These are vitally political, feminist poems for young women of colour, with bold portrayals of confession, hurt, and healing.Coconut rises fiercely like the sun. These poems bestow light and warmth and the ability to witness the world, but they ask for more than basking; they ask readers to grow and warn that they can be burnt. Above all, Nisha P... + Read More
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Series: Dominion of Mercy Paperback Danial Neil 9781774390207 $20.95 FICTION Mar 31, 2021

Edinburgh, 1917: Headstrong Highland lass Mary Stewart is a vibrant woman forced into the world's oldest profession in order to provide for her ailing father and younger sister in the city's Old Town. When her uncle, a well-to-do solicitor with political aspirations, thinks that her presence might impede his lofty ambitions he gives her a way out with dignity: a one-way ticket to the frontier town of Anyox, British Columbia, where nurses are needed to care for injured soldiers returning from the war.Mary agrees to depart Scotland and leaves her... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series Light on a Part of the Field Paperback Kevin Holowack 9781774390146 $21.95 FICTION Apr 30, 2021

In his evocative debut novel, Light on a Part of the Field, Kevin Holowack introduces us to a family grappling with artistic ambition, mental illness, and rifts that may not be possible to mend. Set in B.C. and Alberta in the 1960s and 1970s, this is a novel of finely observed vignettes offering a refracted look at art and family in the modern West.A young artist, Ruth, and her obsessive husband are struck by lightning, an experience that throws their lives into a universe of intense beauty and angst. Years later, Ruth lives on a farm her husba... + Read More
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Series: Burning the Night Paperback Glen Huser 9781774390115 $19.95 FICTION May 13, 2021

From small-town Alberta, Curtis comes to Edmonton to obtain a teaching degree. There he forms a close friendship with his elderly, blind Aunt Harriet, considered a family pariah due to her eccentric enthusiasm for a lost world of artists and musicians.When Curtis begins reading aloud to Harriet the diary her intended husband Phillip kept before his death during World War One, an obsessed Curtis examines parallels to his own life: his desire to become a skillful artist and to find fulfilling love.Timeless and essential, award-winning author Glen... + Read More
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Series: All That Monk Business Paperback Barry Kennedy 9781989689202 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2021

Meet Buddy Monk, a barber, recently dropped by his social activist wife who has, for the last time, been deceived by her hypercompetitive husband's attempts to win anything, anyhow, all rules be damned. She's now trying her hand at waitressing, in a restaurant run by Buddy's mother, which ought to go well. As for Buddy's father, he's been dead for 25 years, but when a retired fisherman finds his will the past comes roaring back into Buddy's life, exposing a previously unknown family connection and turning on its head our barber's relationship w... + Read More
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Series: Running Downhill Like Water Paperback Jane Woods 9781989689196 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2021

Set in a small town in Quebec, Running Downhill Like Water is made up of four interconnected stories spanning fifty years of the lives of four people whose prospects have been violently shattered. Lucy, a perennial misfit, is thwarted in her desperate hope for love and belonging; Sheila, a classical violinist, fails miserably in both her career and as a mother; and Brothers Evan and Neil, struggling with the disastrous fallout of a rigid fundamentalist upbringing, endure not only severe mental illness but catastrophic crises of faith. Running o... + Read More
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Series: Rogue Wave, The Paperback Paul Mason 9781989689219 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2021

Andrew and his fiancée, Hannah, are on board a whale-watching boat in the Bay of Fundy when the vessel is hit by a rogue wave. Thirty-eight people are rescued by the coast guard, but Hannah is not one of them, and she is subsequently presumed to have drowned. Some weeks later, however, a friend sends Andrew a link to a wedding video shot in southern Mexico, and who is there but Hannah, sitting next to a man her friends do not recognize. Desperate to get to the truth and find his fiancée, Andrew hires a detective, Matthew Harding, whose search t... + Read More
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Series: Casa Rodeo 1st edition Paperback Thom 9782924049921 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 26, 2021

It's business as usual at the residence of Titus and his motley crew. Champagne baths, reckless scientific experimentations, casual littering. It's all fun and games, until their house decides it has had enough and goes looking for a better life... leaving the gang without a place to call theirown! Will Titus and his friends find a new home, or convince their old one to come back?Thom shows an ever-growing mastery of visual storytelling in this brilliant follow-up to his 2017 debut VII. Once again eschewing words altogether, the Montréal-based ... + Read More
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Series: Kitotam: He Speaks to it Paperback John McDonald 9781989274507 $20.00 POETRY Apr 13, 2021

The Neyhiyawak (Plains Cree) word "Kitotam" translates into English as, "He Speaks to It." This is a collection of free-verse poetry by Indigenous poet and artist John McDonald. Written in two parts, these poems chronicle John's life and experiences as an urban Indigenous youth during the 1980s. The second half of the book is a look into the inspirations and events, that shaped John's career as an internationally known spoken word artist, beat poet, monologist and performance artist.
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Series: Wreck A Very Anxious Memoir Paperback Kelley Jo Burke 9781989274446 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 26, 2021

Kelley Jo Burke embarks on a wild journey to understand many things, including the part where her grandfather sort of murdered her grandmother. Returning to a house filled with her first memories of childhood, she begins to explore the complex origins of her own anxiety. Along the way, she reflects on alienation and immigration, mental health and generational trauma, and the nature of memory itself. A memoir filled with raw honesty, comedy, tragedy and grace.
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Series: Handwringers Paperback Sarah Mintz 9781989274477 $22.00 FICTION May 04, 2021

"I know a girl with a large head who tells only sad stories. She tells me that her stories are not sad because there are other people with worse stories and though this is true, it strikes me as the saddest thing she could say." A motley collection of characters populate these short, short stories, shaped by the daily barrage of media aimed at the general populace. Dramatic, and darkly funny, they revolve around Jewish identity. The schlemiel -- a figure in Jewish folklore who is unlucky and inept at the same time -- is not always apparent in t... + Read More
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Series: Change Maker Series What's in it for Me? Paperback LS Stone 9781999241681 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Mar 15, 2021

What's in it for Me? - Summer is only a month away, but things aren't going according to plan for fifteen-year-old Nick Bannerman. Nick dreams of making it big in music, and summer means scoring a deal for his band, mega parties, surfing in Tofino--and not much else. His best friend, Trevor, wants him to spend the summer with him in Africa building a school with a changemaker organization, but Nick isn't at all interested. Unlike Trevor, Nick has no interest in global activism, volunteering, or physical labour. So how does a teen like Nick, int... + Read More
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Series: The Sergeant Neumann Mysteries Dishonour in Camp 133 Paperback Wayne Arthurson 9780888016218 $16.95 FICTION Oct 18, 2021

Sergeant Neumann and the inmates of Camp 133 are back! Even thousands of miles from the front lines, locked into a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp at the base of the Canadian Rockies, death isn't far away. For August Neumann, head of Camp Civil Security and decorated German war hero, this is the reality. Chef Schlipal has been found dead in Mess #3, a knife in his back. Now it's up to Neumann to find out what would drive the men of the camp, brothers-in-arms, to turn on each other. He's learned, of course, that beneath the veneer of duty and hono... + Read More
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Series: Nostalgia for Moving Parts Paperback Diane Tucker 9780888017277 $17.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2021

Poised between thoughts of mortality and an exquisite taste for the most tender, small details of life, the poems in Nostalgia for Moving Parts are whimsical, quirky, and resonant with memory. Deeply grounded in the rainy mists and green reeds of the Canadian west coast, solitude becomes a spiritual practice transmuting loneliness and loss into grand appreciations for the gift of childhood and the untravelled road ahead.
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Series: Cattail Skyline Paperback Joanne Epp 9780888017239 $17.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2021

In her second poetry collection, Joanne Epp ventures from open prairie roads into little creek beds, down onto the warm earth of strawberry patches and far afield to the busy markets of Cambodia to examine the intimate ways we come to know and experience place. With vivid detail and a sense of quiet reverence, Cattail Skyline captures a myriad of landscapes where every change of season and slant of light reveals something previously unnoticed, and where even the most well- trodden paths hold the potential for new discovery.
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Series: Postmodern Weather Report Paperback Kristian Enright 9780888016973 $21.95 POETRY Feb 01, 2023

In today's world, space is at a premium to accommodate humans, nature, and ideas, but what, exactly, occupies the vast psychic space of the Prairie landscape? In Postmodern Weather Report, Kristian Enright expertly weaves critical theory with playful poetics to suffuse this space with reflections on science, semantics, pop culture, philosophy, and a blossoming emergence into new cultural awareness for a contemporary age.
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Series: Death Becomes Us Paperback Kristen Wittman 9780888017321 $17.00 POETRY Sep 15, 2021

Beginning with halcyon days cast in soft light and cool dew, onward through veiled years of diagnosis and environmental damage, Death Becomes Us captures, with masterful grace and restraint, the intensity of absence and the importance of grief. Within the darkest moments of personal and ecological loss, Kristen Wittman's second collection fashions a garden of love poems from memories of soft kisses and falling towers, a broken Eden where pain nurtures tender, blooming petals, and the ceaseless heartbeat of Mother Nature pulses underfoot, bringi... + Read More
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Series: Monumental Manitoba Roadside Attractions and More! Paperback Meghan Kjartanson 9780888016652 $27.50 TRAVEL Apr 15, 2023

From Flintabbaty Flonatin to Gimli's mighty Viking, the Glenboro camel to Morden's monstrous mosasaur, Meghan Kjartanson sets out to follow the stories of Manitoba's statues. Featuring over 60 sites of interest, Kjartanson charts an all-ages adventure tracking prairie giants, roadside attractions, and important landmarks, including fire hydrants and golf balls, sturgeons and sunflowers, and, of course, Manitoba's provincial "bird"--the mosquito. Explore the diverse characters and communities at the centre of Canada with this info-packed guide o... + Read More
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Series: Modern Home Winemaking A Guide to Making Consistently Great Wines Paperback Daniel Pambianchi 9781550655636 $24.95 COOKING Jul 22, 2021

Modern Home Winemaking describes the process of making flawless wine, consistently, from crush to bottle, using modern techniques and the latest products. Making wine is not only about fermenting juice into wine; this book details the many other processes involved in making outstanding wine--wines that will win medals at competitions.
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Series: Book of Wings Paperback Tawhida Tanya Evanson 9781550655643 $19.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2021

In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one's own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist traces a global journey from Vancouver to the United States, Caribbean, Paris, and Morocco as a relationship with her lover and travel partner disintegrates and she finds herself on a path toward personal discovery and spiritual fulfillment that leads her deep into the North African landscape.
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Series: Family Way, The Paperback Christopher DiRaddo 9781550655650 $22.95 FICTION Apr 21, 2021

The year Paul turns forty, his friends Wendy and Eve ask him to help them get pregnant. Nothing about the process feels natural to him. But for a gay man of a certain age, making a family still means finding your own way through a world with few ready answers. The eighteen-month journey reveals many insights about Paul's past and present, from his strained relationship to his father, his overprotective relationship with his partner Michael, and the many friends around him whom he considers his family.
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Series: Nectarine Paperback Chad Campbell 9781550655667 $17.95 POETRY May 05, 2021

Memory--how we retrieve and replenish it--is at the heart of Nectarine, Chad Campbell's visionary second collection. Figures, cities, and landscapes from the author's life shift in and out of these dreamlike poems that explore the "unaccountable, uncountable" ways in which our past keeps speaking to us: through objects, through paintings, through colours, and through the spectre of places that map themselves over the places we live in. Subtle, unsettling, compressed, and full of incandescently beautiful language, Nectarine is about lost things,... + Read More
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Series: Geography of Pluto, The Paperback Christopher DiRaddo 9781550655681 $19.95 FICTION Apr 21, 2021

Twenty-eight-year-old Will, a teacher living in Montreal, has spent the last few months recovering from a breakup with his first serious boyfriend, Max. He has resumed his search for companionship, but has he truly moved on? Will's mother Katherine - one of the few people, perhaps the only one, who loves him unconditionally - is also in recovery, from a bout with colon cancer that haunts her body and mind with the possibility of relapse. Having experienced heartbreak, and fearful of tragedy, Will must come to terms with the rule of impermanence... + Read More
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Series: Montreal Prize Anthology 2020, The Paperback Jordan Abel 9781550655698 $17.95 POETRY May 05, 2021

Founded in 2010, the Montreal International Poetry Prize has established itself as a major event in contemporary poetry, both in Canada and around the world. The Montreal Prize Anthology 2020 explodes with talent, combining radiant vision with striking invention in form. The loss of a father finds equivalence in a tornado's blowing an apartment open to the night sky. Sacred and profane images of a mother pile up in couplets, making a heap of gold. Family memory stirs in the dreamy measures of a sestina. Racial injustice is defied and reversed i... + Read More