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Series:
Radical Trust
Basic Income for Complicated Lives
Paperback
Evelyn Forget
9781927886472
$26.00
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...
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Series:
I Have Lived Four Lives
Paperback
Wilfred Buck
9781927886496
$22.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 15, 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...
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Series:
Permanent Carnival Time
Paperback
Colin Smith
9781927886458
$18.00
POETRY
Apr 15, 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...
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Series:
The Terrible Fours
Paperback
Ishmael Reed
9781771862431
$24.95
FICTION
Jun 01, 2021
When Ishmael Reed wrote The Terrible Twos about the American infantile need for instant gratification, he could not have realized that during the week of June 29, 2020, journalist Nicole Wallace would be referring to a president as a "toddler." Part science fiction, part Washington Novel and part Christmas Novel, The Terrible Fours follows The Terrible Twos (1982) and The Terrible Threes (1989). Some characters have been dropped and some of the principals are back. St. Nicholas is here, but his sidekick Black Peter, who appeared in The Terr...
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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
Nadia Comaneci's gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal is the starting point for a whole new generation. Eric Dupont watches the performance on TV, mesmerized. The son of a police officer (Henry VIII) and a professional cook - as he likes to remind us - he grows up in the depths of the Quebec countryside with a new address for almost every birthday and little but memories of his mother to hang onto. His parents have divorced, and the novel's narrator relates his childhood, comparing it to a family gymnastics performance worthy...
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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
An Annie Linton, Gilles Bellechasse Mystery Novel
Paperback
Richard King
9781771862400
$22.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2021
Michaela (Mickie) Bédard works at the Stevens, Bédard Investment Bank, a bank founded by her great grandfather. She is working on an Initial Public Offering for a technology company. Walking home one evening she suffers a severe asthma attack and heads to Montreal's Gursky Memorial Hospital. Triaged by Annie Linton, she is kept in the hospital overnight. During her stay, an unknown assailant attacks Mickie in her room.When a murder victim is discovered at the Gursky, Detective Sergeant Gilles Bellechasse is called upon to investigate.TThe inves...
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Series:
Murder on the Orford Mountain Railway
Paperback
Nick Fonda
9781771862462
$24.95
FICTION
May 01, 2021
On a warm August evening in 1905, a 12-year old boy is shot in the back and killed near the Orford Mountain Railway construction site in rural Quebec. The crime is all the more shocking for being the second such murder on a railway in three days. A 14-year old had been killed in nearby Farnham very near an existing rail line. Like the murder in Farnham, the Orford Mountain Railway murder leaves the nearby communities in a state of shock and terror. The killing is puzzling in the extreme and while the police investigation eventually leads to ...
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Series: Essais Series
Begin by Telling
Paperback
Meg Remy
9781771666633
$20.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 21, 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...
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Series:
We, Jane
Paperback
Aimee Wall
9781771666701
$23.00
FICTION
Apr 27, 2021
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 Newfoundland, who tells her a story about purpose, about a duty to fulfill. It's back home, and it goes by the name of Jane.?? Marthe travels back to a small town on the island with the older woman to continue the work of an undergro...
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Series:
In Memory of Memory
Paperback
Maria Stepanova
9781771666596
$25.00
FICTION
Mar 02, 2021
Winner 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 Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myri...
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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 hos...
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Series:
Catalogue d'oiseaux
Paperback
Aaron Tucker
9781771666947
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 13, 2021
Catalogue d'oiseaux began as notes sent to poet Aaron Tucker's long-distance partner. Not initially intended for publication, the writings moved, over time, into a long, lyrical, confessional love poem. Following the couple on travels across the globe—from Berlin to the Yukon, Porto to Toronto—this poem is expansive, moving sensually through small, intimate spaces and the larger world alike. Traced through art, architecture and the cultural life of varied cities, Catalogue d'oiseaux lives between geographies and chronologies as a kaleidoscopic ...
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Series:
Duct-Taped Roses
Paperback
Billeh Nickerson
9781771666909
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 15, 2021
As a pilot, Billeh Nickerson’s father would duct-tape his bush planes to keep them flying. In this gentle, warm meditation, the award-winning poet questions what can be repaired, and what—inevitably—is lost to time. From the bush pilot duct-taping parts to keep his plane aloft to the pizza delivery driver who runs over his pizzas to the never-ending raffle at a leather bar, Nickerson uses his signature irreverence, honesty and wit to question what can be repaired, and what—inevitably—is lost to time. Such humour contrasts the poignancy of Nicke...
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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. Meghan Bell’s debut collection of short stories is a highwire balance of levity and gravity, finding the surreal in everyday l...
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Series:
Permanent Revolution
Essays
Paperback
Gail Scott
9781771666824
$23.00
LITERARY CRITICISM
May 25, 2021
Permanent Revolution traces Gail Scott’s seminal investigation of prose experiment to the present, including a recreation of the iconic Spaces Like Stairs, in a collection relating the matter of writing in sentences to ongoing social upheaval. "Where there is no emergency there is likely no real experiment," she writes.In conversation with other writers across the continent identified with current queer/feminist avant-garde trajectories, including l’écriture-au féminin moment in Québec, and queer continental new narrative, Permanent Revolution ...
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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...
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Series: MiroLand
Higher Teaching
A Handbook for New Post-secondary Faculty
Paperback
John Oughton
9781771835954
$20.00
EDUCATION
Apr 01, 2021
Higher Teaching is divided into two sections: "Practice," which addresses what to teach when you get your first course outline, how to choose strategies and plan lessons, and how to manage your classroom so it is a safe and positive place in which students learn. There are chapters on instructional media, teaching online assessment and evaluation, dealing with difficult students and academic integrity issues, and how to improve your teaching. The second part "Theory and Background," focuses on the theories that inform current higher education t...
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Series: Essential Prose Series
Letters From Johnny
Paperback
Wayne Ng
9781771835770
$20.00
FICTION
Apr 01, 2021
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 a neighbourhood of American draft dodgers and new Canadians. In a span of a few weeks his world seesaws. 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.” Meany Ming, one of the characters by the rooming ho...
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Series: Essential Poets Series
buckled into the sky
Paperback
Adele Graf
9781771835800
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 01, 2021
Why do we travel the world to discover where home really is? Even if we find it in the place we started from, is it ever really the same? In buckled into the sky, Adele Graf routes our search for home through ancestors in their own country and family who settled abroad. Yet it’s only after travel that we’re drawn to “zigzag back” to our “pillared front door” — whether that’s our current home, our childhood home, our mind’s home, our home in the world — or all of these at once. We’d left home, had even ignored our “house with its blue shutters,”...
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Series: Guernica World Editions
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: Guernica World Editions
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 f...
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Series: Essential Prose Series
Easily Fooled
Paperback
H. Nigel Thomas
9781771835817
$25.00
FICTION
Apr 01, 2021
Less than an hour after Millington receives his permanent resident visa, he wonders if his husband Jay would now end their marriage. And Jay has multiple reasons to. Millington is an ex-Methodist minister, who once believed he could be celibate. When he fled Caribbean Methodism and came to Montreal, he thought he’d resolved the issues that made him leave, but he comes to understand that psychological trauma, childhood conditioning, parental and community expectations and his own need for community and family valorization are not easily exorcise...
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Series: 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...
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Series: Essential Translations Series
Choosing Eleonore
Paperback
Andrée Gratton
9781771836500
$17.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2021
Choosing Eleonore tells the story of a one-way friendship, of tragic loneliness. In it, award-winning Quebec author Andrée A. Gratton explores the syndrome of the delusion of being loved. Centred on two young women: Eleonore and Marianne, this is Marianne's story. From the first sentence, we feel that something is wrong in her perception of reality. "Long before we met, Eleonore had been dreaming of me," she says. But who is this Eleonore, whom Marianne had never spoken to? What is so fascinating about her? Neither humiliation and rebuffs nor r...
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Series: 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...
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Series: Essential Poets Series
Through the Waspmouth I Drew You
Paperback
Nicola Vulpe
9781771835916
$20.00
POETRY
May 01, 2021
Marrying the precise yet nuanced language of his earlier work with new, invented vocabularies and usages, Nicola Vulpe draws deep into the origins of language to confront what it means to write poetry or attempt any artistic endeavour, or, indeed, continue in a world where so many of us struggle, literally, not to drown. Written to be read aloud, to be heard like a poem in the most ancient oral traditions, Through the Waspmouth is a synesthetic work that arouses our senses and our intellect. We come to this poem as to a new language, a language...
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Series: Guernica World Editions
The Archeology of a Good Ragù
Discovering Naples, My Father and Myself
Paperback
John Domini
9781771835534
$20.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2021
The Archeology of a Good Ragù offers a unique take on the recovery narrative. A damaged but savvy author finds new wholeness by way of a fascinating old city: Naples, Italy. John Domini’s exploration of the place— little known to North Americans, yet rich in culture and challenge— draws on decades of research, living with local friends and family. His work has appeared previously in the New York Times and elsewhere, and he’s published award-winning Neapolitan novels. This memoir will take readers into the back alleys and hidden beaches. It will...
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Series: MiroLand
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...
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Series: Essential Translations Series
The Ocean in the Well
Paperback
Damiano Pietropaolo
9781771836401
$20.00
FICTION
May 01, 2021
Stefano falls madly in love with Milena, leaves the seminary and his religious vocation, mesmerized by the beauty and the charm of the girl. But, as often happens in life, reality does not follow the schemes designed by humans: fate, perfidy and destiny, hinder the path established by the two lovers. The people of the town, who had seen the vocation of the young man as a collective good, receive the news of Stefano abandoning the seminary with disappointment and dismay. To escape the hostility, Stefano leaves for America with a promise to come ...
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Series:
Minarets on the Horizon
Muslim Pioneers in Canada
Paperback
Murray Hogben
9781774150320
$34.95
HISTORY
Apr 01, 2021
This book gives us a detailed look at Muslim presence in Canada, starting from the pioneer settlers from Syria/Lebanon in the early twentieth century and moving on to the more modern mid-century arrivals from South Asia and Africa. Partly told in their own words, the stories collected here give us a rare insight into the lives and successes of these pioneer Muslims. Gangs of Punjabi men in the timber mills of British Columbia; Lebanese Arabs on horse carts or foot, peddling wares along the rural highways of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba; ...
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Series:
Feel Ways
A Scarborough Anthology
Paperback
Adrian De Leon
9781774150115
$20.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Mar 19, 2021
FEEL WAYS is a breakthrough anthology of works by writers of Scarborough, Ontario. It is inspired by the suburb of Scarborough, shedding light on its myths and stories. The collection includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and an Introduction by the editors.
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Series: Prison of Dreams
His Sacred Army
Paperback
Devakanthan
9781774150382
$21.95
FICTION
May 17, 2021
His Sacred Army is the first volume of a quintet of novels, Prison of Dreams, which tells the story of the growth of the armed struggle in Sri Lanka in the eighties. Through the experiences of its characters, who desire simply to go about their ordinary lives, the quintet depicts the suffering and separations caused by the political exploitation of ethnic differences leading to a full-fledged civil war. His Sacred Army centres around the life of a young woman, Rajalakshmi, and the small island community of Nainativu to which she belongs. Naina...
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Series: Prison of Dreams
A Time of Questions
Paperback
Devakanthan
9781774150412
$21.95
FICTION
May 17, 2021
This second volume in the Prison of Dreams quintet explores the disenfranchisement of Tamil youth in the face of growing Sinhala Buddhist nationalism. Rajalakshmi faces two options, whether to remain in her beloved little island, Nainativu, or to seek refuge in India. At the same time, as the idea of separatism grows, the movement begins to fracture through internal differences, and Rajalakshmi's beloved Suthan makes a decision that irrevocably alters their fates. As people begin to leave Nainativu, the novel shifts to mainland Sri Lanka and In...
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Series:
Malaria Memoirs
My Life Journey as a Public Health Doctor in Tanzania
Paperback
Zul Premji
9781774150351
$21.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 14, 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 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 tells his story ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Series:
Halfway There
Paperback
Norm Foster
9780369102225
$16.95
DRAMA
Apr 13, 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...
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Series:
Andy's Gone
Paperback
Marie-Claude Verdier
9780369102188
$19.95
DRAMA
Age (years) from 15 - 18
Apr 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...
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Series:
When Words Sing
Seven Canadian Libretti
Paperback
Julie Salverson
9780369101242
$29.95
DRAMA
Apr 13, 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...
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47.
Series:
The Law of Gravity
Paperback
Olivier Sylvestre
9780369101693
$19.95
DRAMA
Age (years) from 12 - 15
Apr 13, 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. And he’s sick of pronouns, but when push comes to shove, he uses he. Fred has just moved to Not-The-City, a new place where he can 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 an...
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Series:
Black Boys
Paperback
Virgilia Griffith
9780369100474
$18.95
DRAMA
Apr 26, 2021
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 male experience. Text, movement, and design portray the rhythm and vulnerability of three very different Black men 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 are ...
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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
Apr 26, 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 ...
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51.
Series:
WROL (Without Rule of Law)
Paperback
Michaela Jeffery
9780369102386
$18.95
DRAMA
May 17, 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, e...
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Series:
A Perfect Bowl of Pho
Paperback
Nam Nguyen
9780369102348
$18.95
DRAMA
May 17, 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...
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Series:
Yaga
Paperback
Kat Sandler
9780369101655
$17.95
DRAMA
May 17, 2021
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...
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54.
Series:
Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers
Paperback
Makambe K Simamba
9780369102423
$18.95
DRAMA
Age (years) from 15 - 18
May 31, 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
May 31, 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 Three Sisters, rule with darkness in their hearts. So when Philly appears, the duwende believe that she is Nale and the key to saving the kingdom. Can Philly save Uwi wh...
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56.
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre
Digital Performance in Canada
Paperback
David Owen
9780369102515
$29.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Jun 14, 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, Owen Brierley, Chris Eaket, Alan Filewod, Patrick Finn, Peter Kulin...
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Series:
Long Live the New Flesh
Six Plays from the Digital Frontier
Paperback
David Owen
9780369102508
$34.95
DRAMA
Jun 14, 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. In Avatar, Freya Olafson uses contemporary dance paired with the ambiguities of virtual social networks to navigate the digitally altered notions of exhibitionism, orientation, and identity. You Are Very Star by The Electric Company is a virtual site-specific treasure hunt between the height of the Space Race and the dawn of new humanity. Helen...
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Series:
The Artist and the Assassin
1st edition
Paperback
Mark Frutkin
9780889848801
$19.95
FICTION
May 15, 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
Apr 01, 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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60.
Series:
Artful Flight
Essays and Reviews 1985-2019
1st edition
Paperback
Susan Glickman
9780889848795
$24.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Apr 15, 2021
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.