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Series: Radical Trust Basic Income for Complicated Lives Paperback Evelyn Forget 9781927886472 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 15, 2021

Radical Trust: Basic Income For Complicated Lives explores the notion that a basic income is a compassionate and dignified response to poverty and income inequality in Canada. Through extensive testimonials with those that the "social safety net" fails most dramatically, it tells the stories of lived experience, as individuals navigate the complicated circumstances of their lives. The myth of meritocracy creates distinctions between the deserving, a distinction that is the basis on which Canada's entire income support system rests. It's become... + Read More
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Series: I Have Lived Four Lives Paperback Wilfred Buck 9781927886496 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 12, 2021

Commencing by explaining how the word Ininew?refers to the phrase ?mixing of four,?Wilfred Buck embarks upon a series of dazzling stories: ?herein is the story of how I lived and how I died and how I lived again along with the dreams I have dreamed and the visions I have seen.? In this unique collection of writings Buck, an Ininew Dream Keeper (Pawami niki titi cikiw), illustrates, four separate stages of personal experience. The stories in I Have Lived Four Lives? are designed as aids to the discovery and healing for Indigenous youth, and enco... + Read More
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Series: Permanent Carnival Time Paperback Colin Smith 9781927886458 $18.00 POETRY Apr 08, 2021

?I?d rather have a transorbital lobotomy / Than a transnational economy.? In his new book of poetry, Colin Smith?s droll humour and meticulous control of language are metered out to explore the stakes of pain and the pain of folly. Language plays throughout the text, bringing a blithe tone to dark matters, and evoking fruitful tensions for the reader. Scattered topics of climate change, labour disputes, war, and massive inequities within cities are encountered by a voice that seems to scorn humanity as much as it delights in human language. P... + Read More
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Series: The Terrible Fours Paperback Ishmael Reed 9781771862431 $24.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2021
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Series: Life in the Court of Matane Second edition. With a foreword by Heather O'Neill Paperback Eric Dupont 9781771862264 $19.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2021
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Series: Woman in Valencia, The Paperback Annie Perreault 9781771862370 $23.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2021

While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral and a profound personal unravelling as she struggles to come to grips with her role in the incident. This haunting novel, which unfolds across three timelines set in as many decades, takes the reader on a dark journey through the minds of three women whose pasts, presents and futures are decided by a single encounter on a scorching summer afternoon.
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Series: The Annie Linton, Gilles Bellechasse Mysteries Banking on Life A Nurse Linton, Detective Bellechasse Mystery Novel Paperback Richard King 9781771862400 $22.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2021
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Series: Murder on the Orford Mountain Railway Paperback Nick Fonda 9781771862462 $24.95 FICTION May 01, 2021
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Series: Begin by Telling Paperback Meg Remy 9781771666633 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 16, 2021

Never forget / to connect the dots / This book is an attempt to connect a couple. In Begin by Telling, experimental pop sensation Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) spins a web out from her body to myriad corners of American hyper-culture. Through illustrated lyric essays depicting visceral memories from early childhood to present day, Remy paints a stark portrait of a spectacle-driven country. As though channel surfing, we catch glimpses of Desert Storm, the Oklahoma City Bombing, random street violence, the petrochemical industry, small town Deadheads, a... + Read More
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Series: We, Jane Paperback Aimee Wall 9781771666701 $23.00 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

Longlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the 2021 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2021 Concordia University First Book PrizeLe Grand Prix du livre de Montreal: 2021 Jury Selection A remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikeliest of places, We, Jane explores the precarity of rural existence and the essential nature of abortion. Searching for meaning in her Montreal life, Marthe begins an intense friendship with an older woman, also from Ne... + Read More
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Series: In Memory of Memory Paperback Maria Stepanova 9781771666596 $25.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeLonglisted for the National Book Awards: Translated Literature Longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford PrizeWinner of the 2018 Bolshaya Kniga AwardWinner of the 2019 NOS Literature Prize An exciting contemporary Russian writer explores terra incognita: the still-living margins of history. With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in R... + Read More
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Series: Phantompains Paperback Therese Estacion 9781771666862 $20.00 POETRY Mar 31, 2021

Therese Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several fingers, and reproductive organs. Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with dreamlike surrealism. Taking inspiration from Filipino horror and folk tales, Estacion incorporates some Visayan language into her work, telling stories of mermen, gnomes, and ogres that haunt childhood stories of the Philippines and, then, imaginings in her hosp... + Read More
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Series: Catalogue d'oiseaux Paperback Aaron Tucker 9781771666947 $20.00 POETRY Apr 13, 2021

Catalogue d’oiseaux recounts a year in the life of a couple separated by distance, carefully documenting time spent together and apart. When reunited, they embark on travels across the globe—from Toronto to Berlin, Porto to the Yukon. This expansive poem moves sensually through small, intimate spaces and the larger world alike. Traced through art, architecture, and the cultural life of various cities, this stunning celebration of love lives between geographies and chronologies as a kaleidoscopic gathering of the many fractals that make up a cou... + Read More
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Series: Duct-Taped Roses Paperback Billeh Nickerson 9781771666909 $20.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2021

In Duct-Taped Roses, Billeh Nickerson shares heartbreaks and offers odes and elegies in reflections on family, community, life, and loss. As a bush pilot, Nickerson's father would duct-tape his planes to keep them flying. The poignancy of his relationship with his father is celebrated here in the long poem "Skies." Other poems reminisce about love and the complex resiliency of gay men. Through his signature irreverence, honesty and wit, Nickerson explores what can be repaired, what must be celebrated, and what—inevitably—is lost to time.
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Series: Erase and Rewind Paperback Meghan Bell 9781771666787 $20.00 FICTION May 18, 2021

An assault survivor realizes she can rewind time and relives the experience in order to erase it. A teen athlete wonders why she isn’t more afraid of death when the plane carrying her team catches fire. The daughter of a superhero ruminates on how her father neglected his children to pursue his heroics. Two shut-in depressives form a bond on Twitter while a deadly virus wipes out most of the population of North America. The stories in Erase and Rewind probe the complexities of living as a woman in a skewed society. Told from the perspective of ... + Read More
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Series: Permanent Revolution Essays Paperback Gail Scott 9781771666824 $23.00 LITERARY CRITICISM May 25, 2021

Finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal "A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates." From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like Stairs. In conversation with other writers working in queer/feminist avant-garde trajectories, including l’écriture-au-féminin in Québec and continental New Narrative, these essays provide an evolutionary snapshot of Scott’s ongoing prose experiment that hinges ... + Read More
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Series: The Union of Synchronized Swimmers Paperback Cristina Sandu 9781771666749 $20.00 FICTION Jun 22, 2021

Winner of the 2020 Toisinkoinen Literary Prize It's summer behind the Iron Curtain, and six girls begin a journey to the Olympics. But will they return? In a stateless place, on the wrong side of a river separating East from West, six girls meet each day to swim. At first, they play, splashing each other and floating languidly on the water's surface. But as summer draws to an end, the game becomes something more. They hone their bodies relentlessly. Their skin shades into bruises. They barter cigarettes stolen from the factory where they work f... + Read More
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Series: MiroLand Essays Higher Teaching A Handbook for New Post-secondary Faculty Paperback John Oughton 9781771835954 $20.00 EDUCATION Apr 01, 2021

Higher Teaching is divided into two sections: "Practice," which addresses what to teach when you get your first course outline, how to choose strategies and plan lessons, and how to manage your classroom so it is a safe and positive place in which students learn. There are chapters on instructional media, teaching online assessment and evaluation, dealing with difficult students and academic integrity issues, and how to improve your teaching. The second part "Theory and Background," focuses on the theories that inform current higher education t... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Letters From Johnny Paperback Wayne Ng 9781771835770 $20.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2021

Winner of BEST CRIME NOVELLA at The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence 2022 Set in Toronto 1970, just as the FLQ crisis emerges to shake an innocent country, eleven year old Johnny Wong uncovers an underbelly to his tight, downtown neighbourhood. He shares a room with his Chinese immigrant mother in an enclave with American draft dodgers and new Canadians. He is befriended by Rollie, one of the draft dodgers who takes on a fatherly and writing mentor role. Johnny's mother is threatened by the “children's warfare society.” A neighbour ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series buckled into the sky Paperback Adele Graf 9781771835800 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

Why do we travel the world to discover where home really is? Even if we find it in the place we started from, is it ever really the same? In buckled into the sky, Adele Graf routes our search for home through ancestors in their own country and family who settled abroad. Yet it’s only after travel that we’re drawn to “zigzag back” to our “pillared front door” — whether that’s our current home, our childhood home, our mind’s home, our home in the world — or all of these at once. We’d left home, had even ignored our “house with its blue shutters,”... + Read More
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Series: World Drama Il Vagabondo: An Urban Opera A Tale of Gusto and Enchantment, Adaptation, Loss, and Preserving the Old Ways of Making a Life Paperback Glenn Carley 9781771836364 $29.95 MUSIC Apr 01, 2021

Enter the cross-cultural tale of gusto and enchantment, adaptation and loss, preserving the old ways of making a life. Presented in six acts with intermissions and curtain calls, it is a new form of literature presented in interactive libretto form. Read it silently, read it out loud, or step upon the imaginary stage of all life to commandeer the operatic recitative called sing/speak. Il Vagabondo is a love story-an opera rusticana of the people, by the people, for the people. It is all true.
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Series: GWE Creative Non-Fiction Why Do You Look at Me and See a Girl? Paperback Anvi Hoàng 9781771834452 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2021

Making coal patties. Selling liquid soap. Shopping at a glittering shoe mecca. She’s done them all living half her life in deprived-post-war-communist-Vietnam-turned-free-market. It’s life in a vacuum when strange types of brainwashing happened. Part memoir and part social criticism, Why Do You Look at Me and See a Girl? is a provocative read about a full-fledged bilingual who fights to get free from the dead past and her ancestors’ sins. The story starts with her grandmother’s prison visit and moves to a journey through the jungle carried out ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Easily Fooled Paperback H. Nigel Thomas 9781771835817 $25.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2021

Less than an hour after Millington receives his permanent resident visa, he wonders if his husband Jay would now end their marriage. And Jay has multiple reasons to. Millington is an ex-Methodist minister, who once believed he could be celibate. When he fled Caribbean Methodism and came to Montreal, he thought he’d resolved the issues that made him leave, but he comes to understand that psychological trauma, childhood conditioning, parental and community expectations and his own need for community and family valorization are not easily exorcise... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series South China Sea A Poet's Autobiography Paperback Ken Norris 9781771835732 $25.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

South China Sea is a poet's autobiography. Forgoing the props of conventional narrative, the book travels through space and time, revealing the moments in a life that anchor reality and constitute memory. In poems that compel us to remember and to re-evaluate our own personal stories, Norris travels back to a New York City childhood and to his years as a young man in the art and literary scene of Montreal, while moving forward in the present on a soul-changing journey through China.
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Series: Essential Anthologies Series Chronicling the Days Dispatches from a Pandemic Paperback Linda M. Morra 9781771836579 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 01, 2021

Where were you when the pandemic hit? While the shock of COVID-19 was fresh, the Quebec Writers’ Federation sent out a call to its members asking for short descriptions of life under lockdown. The response was immediate and heartfelt. Written and posted online between April 6 and May 26 of 2020, these dispatches—including several from the front lines—are first-person stories of hunkering down, gasping for air, facing challenges, getting through. Mainly written from isolation, the pieces present reading and writing as constant themes: trying, fa... + Read More
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Series: Essential Translations Series Choosing Eleonore Paperback Andrée Gratton 9781771836500 $17.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2021

Choosing Eleonore tells the story of a one-way friendship, of tragic loneliness. In it, award-winning Quebec author Andrée A. Gratton explores the syndrome of the delusion of being loved. Centred on two young women: Eleonore and Marianne, this is Marianne's story. From the first sentence, we feel that something is wrong in her perception of reality. "Long before we met, Eleonore had been dreaming of me," she says. But who is this Eleonore, whom Marianne had never spoken to? What is so fascinating about her? Neither humiliation and rebuffs nor r... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Pineapple Kisses in Iqaluit Paperback Felicia Mihali 9781771835886 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2021

Ten years after her picture on a magazine cover made her nationally famous as The Darling of Kandahar, Irina moves up North hoping that new experiences would allow old wounds to finally heal. Yet, in the land of darkness and polar bears, she learns that there really is no place to hide from herself. When she meets Constable Liam O’Connor, her past comes out to challenge her once again.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Walking Leonard And Other Stories Paperback Sophie Stocking 9781771835848 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2021

Walking Leonard and Other Stories, is a short story collection of roughly 30,000 words in the literary fiction genre. The stories depict unspoken pivot points in the lives of ordinary people. Themes include responsibility and violation between parent and child, nature as a protective force, and the shucking off of various selves in the process of a lifetime. The stories spring from the foothills of southern Alberta, specifically Calgary, and some even more specifically from the historic neighborhood of Bowness, once a small town in its own right.
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Series: First Poets Series The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak Paperback Grace Lau 9781771835879 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2021

The poems in The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak explore the many identities, both visible and invisible, that a body contains. With influences from pop culture, the Bible, tech, and Hong-Kongese history, these pieces reflect and reveal how the stories of immigrants in Canada hold both universal truths and singular distinctions. From boybands that show the way to become “the kind of girl a girl could love” to “rich flavours that are just a few generations of poverty away,” they invite the reader to meditate on spirituality, food, and the... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Through the Waspmouth I Drew You Paperback Nicola Vulpe 9781771835916 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2021

Marrying the precise yet nuanced language of his earlier work with new, invented vocabularies and usages, Nicola Vulpe draws deep into the origins of language to confront what it means to write poetry or attempt any artistic endeavour, or, indeed, continue in a world where so many of us struggle, literally, not to drown. Written to be read aloud, to be heard like a poem in the most ancient oral traditions, Through the Waspmouth is a synesthetic work that arouses our senses and our intellect. We come to this poem as to a new language, a language... + Read More
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Series: GWE Creative Non-Fiction The Archeology of a Good Ragù Discovering Naples, My Father and Myself Paperback John Domini 9781771835534 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2021

The Archeology of a Good Ragù offers a unique take on the recovery narrative. A damaged but savvy author finds new wholeness by way of a fascinating old city: Naples, Italy. John Domini’s exploration of the place— little known to North Americans, yet rich in culture and challenge— draws on decades of research, living with local friends and family. His work has appeared previously in the New York Times and elsewhere, and he’s published award-winning Neapolitan novels. This memoir will take readers into the back alleys and hidden beaches. It will... + Read More
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Series: Memoir and Biography Fuse Paperback Hollay Ghadery 9781771835923 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2021

Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of each culture. Painfully and at times, reluctantly, Fuse probes and explores the documented prevalence of mental health issues in bi-racial women.
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Series: Essential Essays Series From Sojourners to Citizens Alberta's Italian History Paperback Adriana A. Davies 9781771836548 $34.95 HISTORY May 01, 2021

From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta’s Italian History brings to life the untold story of Italian immigrants in Alberta from the 1880s to the present. It places them in the narrative of province building from work on railways, mines and other industries to breaking the land for agriculture. Oral history excerpts allow the men, women and children to speak for themselves. What emerges is an unquenchable desire to make good, and overcome intolerable working conditions and discrimination, which culminated with enemy alien designation and internment... + Read More
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Series: Essential Translations Series The Ocean in the Well Paperback Damiano Pietropaolo 9781771836401 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2021

Stefano falls madly in love with Milena, leaves the seminary and his religious vocation, mesmerized by the beauty and the charm of the girl. But, as often happens in life, reality does not follow the schemes designed by humans: fate, perfidy and destiny, hinder the path established by the two lovers. The people of the town, who had seen the vocation of the young man as a collective good, receive the news of Stefano abandoning the seminary with disappointment and dismay. To escape the hostility, Stefano leaves for America with a promise to come ... + Read More
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Series: Minarets on the Horizon Muslim Pioneers in Canada Paperback Murray Hogben 9781774150320 $34.95 HISTORY May 01, 2021

This book gives us a detailed look at the Muslim presence in Canada, starting with the pioneer settlers from Syria/Lebanon and the Balkans in the early twentieth century and moving on to the more modern midcentury arrivals from South Asia and Africa. Told in their own words, the stories in this collection give us a rare insight into the lives of these pioneer Muslims. Punjabi men in the timber mills of British Columbia; Lebanese Arab peddlers on foot or horse cart on the rural highways of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba; men venturing north... + Read More
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Series: Feel Ways A Scarborough Anthology Paperback Adrian De Leon 9781774150115 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 01, 2021

Feel Ways is a breakthrough anthology of works by writers of Scarborough, Ontario. It is inspired by the suburb of Scarborough in Greater Toronto, shedding light on its myths and its many stories set in the diverse immigrant communities that arrived in the 1960s and later. It presents us with a "chorus of emotional reality," in a community in its most vibrant state. The collection includes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and an introduction by the editors.
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Series: Prison of Dreams His Sacred Army Paperback B Devakanthan 9781774150382 $22.95 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

His Sacred Army is the first volume of the quintet, Prison of Dreams, depicting the growth of the Tamil armed struggle in 1980s Sri Lanka. The five novels together describe the Sinhala-Tamil ethnic conflict, the hard choices faced by the minority communities subject to pogroms and oppressive laws, and the sufferings and exiles of simple villagers as the conflict finally flares up into a full-fledged and bloody civil war. His Sacred Army centres around the life of Rajalakshmi, a young woman in the small island community of Nainativu, off the coa... + Read More
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Series: Prison of Dreams Time of Questions, A Paperback B Devakanthan 9781774150412 $22.95 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

A Time of Questions is the second volume of the quintet, Prison of Dreams, depicting the growth of the Tamil armed struggle in 1980s Sri Lanka. The five novels together describe the Sinhala-Tamil ethnic conflict, the hard choices faced by the minority communities subject to pogroms and oppressive laws, and the sufferings and exiles of simple villagers as the conflict finally flares up into a full-fledged and bloody civil war. A Time of Questions explores the choices faced by Tamil youth in the face of a growing Sinhala Buddhist nationalism. Raj... + Read More
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Series: Malaria Memoirs My Life Journey as a Public Health Doctor in Tanzania Paperback Zul Premji 9781774150351 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 30, 2021

Zul Premji's passion has been science and its use for the benefit of his fellow citizens. From a background of abject poverty in a village in Tanzania, he rose to become, progressively a laboratory technician, a medical doctor, and finally a malaria expert and professor of pathology in a public university. In his practice he observed the clash between tradition and modernization, between "the iPod and the mullahs." What he discovered is that more important than drugs and vaccines in combating widespread disease is the human spirit. Zul Premji t... + Read More
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Series: Honorarium Paperback Nathaniel Moore 9781989287804 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM May 01, 2021

In Honorarium, Nathaniel G. Moore compiles twenty years worth of reading other people?s books, while also faithfully attempting to convey a sense of what it?s like to work behind-the-scenes in CanLit. Always breaking from convention, Moore?s non-fiction is imbued a sense of urgency, passion and intimacy with the community of creators that surround him; creators that include Derek McCormack, Sheila Heti, Camilla Gibb, Jen Sookfong Lee, Catullus and Chuck Palahniuk. Add the author?s backstory of growing up anxious, escaping through literature and... + Read More
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Series: Dear Birch Paperback Margaret Christakos 9781989287682 $19.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

?Attachment is the puzzle." Three years after her mother?s death and on the brink of a break up, a bisexual writer sits in the company of an urban birch tree, auditing the odds of new loves entering her future. So begins Dear Birch, an intimate poem cycle that improvises within the permutability of grief, wind, reading, refusal and desire, listening for an ethos of ongoingness. Synthesizing memoir, votive and epistle, Margaret Christakos displays her trademark fidelity to writing as attentive process, imbuing her work with the polyamory of tend... + Read More
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Series: Thimbles Paperback Vanessa Shields 9781989287767 $19.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

In this heart-wrenching collection, Vanessa Shields chronicles the life of her Nonna, Maria, from her origins as a seamstress in Italy to her eventual death from dementia. These raw, prosaic poems thread together grief, memory, loss, and love into a conversation that speaks across pages, years, and oceans. Shields bravely interrogates her own feelings of guilt, grief, and curiosity with unflinching precision. As she attempts to navigate and accept Nonna's decline, Shields takes on the role of witness as she excavates the larger narrative that i... + Read More
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Series: The Junta of Happenstance Paperback Tolu Oloruntoba 9781989287729 $19.95 POETRY May 01, 2021

Personal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba?s poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. This includes disease in the traditional sense, as informed by the poet?s time as a physician, and dis-ease as a primer for family dysfunction, the (im)migrant experience, and urban / corporate anxiety. In the face of struggles against social injustice, Oloruntoba navigates the contemporary moment with empathy and intelligence, finding beauty in chaos, and strength in suffering. The Junta of Happens... + Read More
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Series: Halfway There Paperback Norm Foster 9780369102225 $16.95 DRAMA Apr 12, 2021

There’s no such thing as a secret in Stewiacke. Not when the gossips meet for coffee every day at the local diner. Vi, Rita, Mary Ellen, and Janine are all as close as can be, and they know everybody’s business. But when Sean, a heartbroken doctor, moves in to take a temporary job at the clinic, he tips the Maritime town that’s famous for being halfway between the North Pole and the equator off its axis. While Sean decides to pursue Janine, it only brings her closer together with her friends, who each have their own messy love lives. Vi just tu... + Read More
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Series: Andy's Gone Paperback Marie-Claude Verdier 9780369102188 $19.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 15 - 18 Jul 13, 2021

What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution? In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city’s perimeter comes to a head when a young princess named Alison tries to expose the truth of her beloved cousin Henry’s death. By night, Henry went as Andy, as together he and Alison scaled the walls of their kingdom to help the migrants who are kept out of sight. Burdened by the weight of the inequality that his future reign represented, he killed him... + Read More
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Series: When Words Sing Seven Canadian Libretti Paperback Julie Salverson 9780369101242 $29.95 DRAMA May 11, 2021

Meet the creators behind the words of Canadian opera in this exciting new collection of contemporary libretti. Featuring Ours by Robert Chafe, Rocking Horse Winner by Anna Chatterton, Beatrice Chancy by George Elliott Clarke, Missing by Marie Clements, Nigredo Hotel by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Shelter by Julie Salverson, and Dog Days by Royce Vavrek, When Words Sing turns the spotlight on everything that goes into writing libretti, answering frequently asked questions along the way. Through supplementary interviews, essays, and illustrations, the b... + Read More
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Series: The Law of Gravity Paperback Olivier Sylvestre 9780369101693 $19.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 12 - 15 May 11, 2021

Dom has had a rough go of things so far. At fourteen, he has the hardened look of someone who’s had to fight for everything. Fred has just moved to Not-The-City, a new place to try to disappear. But he didn’t expect to actually make friends. He just hopes he’s accepted for how he looks. When Dom and Fred meet on a hill overlooking a bridge that connects Not-The-City to The City, a place where anyone can be anything they want, the two find a refuge in one another and make a pact: they’ll cross the bridge at the end of the school year. They’ll be... + Read More
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Series: Black Boys Paperback Stephen Jackman-Torkoff 9780369100474 $18.95 DRAMA Oct 25, 2022

Black Boys by Saga Collectif (Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen) uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black experience. Text, movement, and design portray the rhythm and vulnerability of three very different Black individuals who seek a deeper understanding of themselves, each other, and of how they encounter the world. As they explore their unique identities, their performances rigorously interrogate and playfully subvert the ways in which gender, sexuality, and race a... + Read More
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Series: The Bridge Paperback Shauntay Grant 9780369102263 $18.95 DRAMA Apr 26, 2021

Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridge explores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed one by one from the brothers themselves, as well as a trio of community gossips who provide the musical backdrop for this gospel-infused tale. A story of a family torn apart by betrayal, The Bridge invites us to consider the roads we choose in life, and to wonder whether we can ever cross back over the bridges we burn along the way.
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Series: Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes Paperback Hannah Moscovitch 9780369102300 $18.95 DRAMA Jul 27, 2021

The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny. Jon, a star professor and author, is racked with self-loathing after his third marriage crumbles around him when he finds himself admiring a student—a girl in a red coat. The girl, nineteen-year-old Annie, is a big fan of his work, and also happens to live down the street. From their doorways to his office to hotel rooms, their mutual admiration and sexual ... + Read More
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Series: WROL (Without Rule of Law) Paperback Michaela Jeffery 9780369102386 $18.95 DRAMA Jun 22, 2021

Convinced the world at large can’t be trusted to prioritize the well-being of adolescent girls in the event of a cataclysmic event (or just in general), a determined troupe of preteen “doomers” commit to preparing for survival in the post-collapse society they anticipate inheriting. When Maureen, Jo, Sarah, Vic, and Robbie sneak out at night to investigate an ominous hidden lair in the woods, they believe they have stumbled onto proof of what happened to a mysterious local cult that vanished over a decade ago. As they search for vital clues, ex... + Read More
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Series: A Perfect Bowl of Pho Paperback Nam Nguyen 9780369102348 $18.95 DRAMA Nov 22, 2021

Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup pho. What follows is pure meta musical, genre-bending through thousands of years of history, featuring rapping ancient kings, communist spies, dancing sharks and refugees, and awkward first dates in suburbia. However, Nam eventually finds himself caught between his different characters as each argues what pho (the food and the show) truly repres... + Read More
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Series: Yaga Paperback Kat Sandler 9780369101655 $17.95 DRAMA Aug 30, 2022

She’s more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, smart, modern woman operating off of morally ambiguous motives? A detective finds himself in a small, isolated town asking, what does the disappearance of the young heir to a yogurt empire have to do with some random lore about an old witch? Matched by an apprehensive local sheriff, a university professor with a taste for younger men, and a whol... + Read More
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Series: Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers Paperback Makambe K Simamba 9780369102423 $18.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 15 - 18 Sep 07, 2021

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through the unknown, as Slimm grapples with the truth of the life he lived and the death he didn’t choose. Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers is a protest for all Black life beyond headlines and hashtags, a prayer for all families left behind, and a promise to the community that all Black lives matter.
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Series: Through the Bamboo Paperback Andrea Mapili 9780369102461 $18.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 8 - 14 Jul 06, 2021

Twelve-year-old Philly is literally pulled into an action-packed adventure while mourning the loss of her lola when she opens an old book and finds herself tossed into the fantastical land of Uwi. In Uwi, memories are stories, and all stories are forbidden since the datu’s storytelling-loving wife died and his youngest daughter Nale disappeared. Now his remaining daughters, the Sisters, rule with darkness in their hearts. So when Philly appears, the duwende believe that she is Nale and the key to saving Uwi. Can Philly save them all while searc... + Read More
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Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre Digital Performance in Canada Paperback David Owen 9780369102515 $29.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 30, 2021

Especially necessary in a historical moment in which many theatre companies have been forced to move their work online, Digital Performance in Canada illuminates the influence and ubiquity of digital technology on performance practices in Canada. This collection of essays explores how digital technology forces us to reimagine our relationships to performance. Looking at the three categories of space, bodies, and relationships, this collection includes contributors Bruce Barton, Beth Kates, Chris Eaket, Alan Filewod, Peter Kuling, Pirkko Markula... + Read More
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Series: Long Live the New Flesh Six Plays from the Digital Frontier Paperback David Owen 9780369102508 $34.95 DRAMA Aug 02, 2021

In this companion anthology to Digital Performance in Canada, six works of digital theatre illustrate how audiences are forced to re-evaluate definitions of performative space, bodies, and relationships. Alien Contagion: Rise of the Zombie Syndrome by Andy Thompson, Tyler Clarke, and Finn Ghosh-Leudke is an immersive theatrical adventure in which audience members need to work together to save the world and conquer the undead. In AVATAR, Freya Björg Olafson uses contemporary dance paired with the ambiguities of virtual social networks to navigat... + Read More
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Series: The Artist and the Assassin 1st edition Paperback Mark Frutkin 9780889848801 $19.95 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

The play of light and shadow defines Mark Frutkin's vibrant narrative based on the life of the seventeenth-century painter known as Caravaggio, whose revolutionary use of the chiaroscuro technique fuelled his dazzling success while his demons led him down the path of exile and, ultimately, assassination.
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Series: The Essential Elizabeth Brewster 1st edition Paperback Elizabeth Brewster 9780889848788 $14.95 POETRY May 15, 2021

In The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, questioning, conversational poetry melds the private and the collective, exploring the challenges of constructing selfhood and voicing historically silenced female perspectives.
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Series: Artful Flight Essays and Reviews 1985-2019 1st edition Paperback Susan Glickman 9780889848795 $24.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Feb 28, 2022

In Artful Flight, Susan Glickman dives into poetry and prose, music and visual art, in an effort to find the joy in creative work not as a path to the truth but as an end in itself.