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Series: Robin's Egg BooksFloat Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint TeaHow I Beat the Shit Out of All My AddictionsPaperback
Alex Wood9781551528335
$22.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 2021
A wildly disarming memoir by comedian Alex Wood on how he overcame his multiple addictions. As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and drunk. At the age of twenty-eight, feeling desperate in the face of addiction and associated health problems (ulcers, pancreatitis) - which were compounded by the deaths of loved ones and even worse undiagnosed issues - he decided to do something he'd actually been ... + Read More
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Series: Green Glass GhostsPaperback
Rae Spoon9781551528380
$19.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14
May 04, 2021
From writer and musician Rae Spoon: a rollicking yet introspective young adult adventure about screwing up, finding yourself, and forging a new life on your own. At age nineteen in the year 2000, the queer narrator of Green Glass Ghosts steps off a bus on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, a city where the faceless condo towers of the wealthy loom over the streets to of the east side where folks are just trying to get by, against the deceptively beautiful backdrop of snow-capped mountains and sparkling ocean. Armed with only their guitar... + Read More
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Series: TravesiaA Migrant Girl's Cross-Border Journey//El viaje de una joven migrantePaperback
Michelle Gerster9781551528366
$19.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12
Apr 06, 2021
A poignant bilingual YA graphic novel about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir, based on real events, tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who attempts to cross the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey, filled with both heartbreak and hope, begins in Tijuana, where they are transported from house to house by strangers. Here they meet the mysterious smuggler el Guero, who p... + Read More
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Series: The Street Belongs to UsPaperback
Karleen Pendleton Jimenez9781551528403
$14.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12
May 04, 2021
A sweet middle-grade chapter book about two best friends who transform their torn-up street into a world where imaginations can run wild. In 1984 Los Angeles, Alex is a tomboy who would rather wear her hair short and her older brother's hand-me-downs, and Wolf is a troubled kid who's been wearing the same soldier's uniform ever since his mom died. They temporarily set their worries aside when their street is torn up by digging machines and transformed into a muddy wonderland with endless possibilities. To pass the hot summer days, the two best... + Read More
The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation. Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, and poetry and children's books explore the beauty and the power of personal and cultural transformation. How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek's debut theatrical work, a one-person show that chronicles her journey from singing in shopping malls to "not quite" pop music superstardom with beguiling humor and insight. A reflection on the power of ... + Read More
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Series: Iron Goddess of MercyPaperback
Larissa Lai9781551528441
$19.95POETRY
Feb 18, 2021
Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dance with them through the horror of the long now. Inspired by the tumultuous history of Hong Kong, from the Japanese and British occupations to the ongoing pro-democracy protests, the poem interrogates the complicated notion of identity, offering a prism through which the term 'Asian' can be understood to make sense of a complex set of relations. The self cry... + Read More
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Series: nedi nezu (Good Medicine)Paperback
Tenille K. Campbell9781551528465
$17.95POETRY
Feb 18, 2021
Indigenous Voices Award finalist A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country. nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates - not only as a partner, a fantasy, a heartbreak waiting to happen but also as an auntie, a role model, a voice that connects to others walking the same path. From the online hookup world of DMs, double taps, and secret texts to earth-shakingly erotic encounters under the northern stars to the ever-complicated relationship In... + Read More
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Series: Our Work Is EverywhereAn Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans ResistancePaperback
Syan Rose9781551528151
$23.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Mar 01, 2021
A visually stunning graphic non-fiction book on queer and trans resistance. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse, amorphous, messy, real, and imagined queer and trans communities. In their own words, queer and trans organizers, artists, healers, comrades, and ... + Read More
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Series: ForegonePaperback
Russell Banks9781771963992
$22.95FICTION
Mar 16, 2021
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2021 "Terrifically compelling ... In this complex and powerful novel, we come face to face with the excruciating allure of redemption."—Washington Post In his late seventies and dying of cancer, famed Canadian-American documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders who fled to Canada to avoid Vietnam, has agreed to one final interview, determined to bare all his secrets and demythologize his mythologized life. But the story that unspools in front of the camera and an intimate chorus... + Read More
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Series: Murder on the InsideThe True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston PenitentiaryPaperback
Catherine Fogarty9781771964012
$24.95TRUE CRIME
Apr 13, 2021
Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award • Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book “You have taken our civil rights—we want our human rights.” On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control, making headlines around the world. For four intense days, the prisoners held the guards hostage while their leaders negotiated with a citizens’ committee of journalists and lawyers, drawing attention to the dehumanizing realities of their incarceration, including over... + Read More
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Series: Field NotesOn PropertyPolicing, Prisons, and the Call for AbolitionPaperback
Rinaldo Walcott9781771964074
$14.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 02, 2021
Nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award • Longlisted for the Toronto Book Awards • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd’s deat... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation SeriesOn Time and WaterPaperback
Andri Snaer Magnason9781771964210
$24.95SCIENCE
Mar 30, 2021
Longlisted for the 2022 National Translation Award • Finalist for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize • A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 Asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn’t writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced, Andri Snær Magnason, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals, protested: he wasn’t a specialist, he said. It wasn’t his field. But the scientist persisted: “If you cannot understand our scientific findings and present them in an emotional, psychological, poetic or mythologic... + Read More
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Series: The Barrøy ChroniclesWhite ShadowPaperback
Roy Jacobsen9781771964036
$22.95FICTION
Apr 06, 2021
The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The Unseen No-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: the Nazi occupation of Norway. When the bodies from a bombed vessel carrying Russian prisoners of war begin to wash up on the shore, Ingrid can’t know that one will not only be alive, but could be the answer to a lifetime of loneliness—nor can she imagine what sufferi... + Read More
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Series: 100 Miles of BaseballFifty Games, One SummerPaperback
Heidi LM Jacobs9781771963909
$24.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Mar 16, 2021
From sandlots to major league stands, two fans set out to recapture their love of the game. For most of their lives together Dale Jacobs and Heidi LM Jacobs couldn’t imagine a spring without baseball. Their season tickets renewal package always seemed to arrive on the bleakest day of winter, offering reassurance that sunnier times were around the corner. Baseball was woven into the fabric of their lives, connecting them not only to each other but also to their families and histories. But by 2017 it was obvious something was amiss: the allure of... + Read More
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Series: Sea Loves MeSelected StoriesPaperback
Mia Couto9781771963886
$24.95FICTION
Feb 23, 2021
An NPR Best Book of 2021 New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize. Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories. Sea Loves Me includes sixty-four of his best, thirty-six of which appear in English for the first time. Covering the entire arc of Couto's career, this collection displays the Mozambican author's inventiveness, sensitivity, and social range with greater richness than any previous collection—from earl... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation SeriesThe Music GamePaperback
Stéfanie Clermont9781771963787
$22.95FICTION
Feb 08, 2022
Winner of the 2023 French-American Translation Prize for Fiction Not far away from here is a lake. You have to pay for access to its shores, but I know where there’s a hole in the fence. The water will be icy, but it will still be in a liquid state. That’s what I will do today. I will go through the hole in the fence and I’ll dive into the icy water. And then I’ll go home. Friends since grade school, Céline, Julie, and Sabrina come of age at the start of a new millennium, supporting each other and drifting apart as their lives pull them in diff... + Read More
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Series: CharityPaperback
Keath Fraser9781771963800
$17.95FICTION
Feb 02, 2021
Denise’s stepdaughter Greta is a med student who swims ocean marathons and runs off to Africa with a family friend four times her age—and also battles an eating disorder. When Judy, Greta’s birth mother, returns from Japan (to which she ran off herself, with a Mexican tennis pro) and tries to ingratiate herself with the husband and daughter she left, Denise must navigate their complicated relationships with each other while attempting to bring Greta’s addiction to light—and learning how to live more charitably.
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Series: Villa NegativaPaperback
Sharon McCartney9781771963497
$19.95POETRY
Mar 30, 2021
With less content in my life I am infinitely more content Against the backdrop of a sibling’s death, an eating disorder, and a few very dismal dating relationships, Villa Negativa looks for laughter behind darkness: the intruder who politely removes her shoes, the fabricator whose closest relationship is with fibreglass, the anorexic who sends the Diet Coke back because it tastes too good. Meditative and mischievous, confessional and philosophical, sincere and sly by turns, Sharon McCartney’s seventh collection articulates an essential truth of... + Read More
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Series: The DebtPaperback
Andreae Callanan9781771964173
$19.95POETRY
Apr 06, 2021
Finalist for the 2022 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry Set against the backdrop of a post-moratorium St. John’s, Newfoundland, The Debt explores tensions between tradition and innovation, and between past and present in a province unmoored by loss and grief. The Debt is about development and change, idleness and activism, ecological stewardship, feminism, motherhood, the personal and the political. It is also about resistance—against the encroaching forces of greed and capitalism, even against the accumulated notions of the self. Th... + Read More
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Series: StrangersPaperback
Rob Taylor9781771964197
$19.95POETRY
Apr 06, 2021
“It makes no sense. You would be strangers / if not for this.” In Strangers, Rob Taylor makes new the epiphany poem: the short lyric ending with a moment of recognition or arrival. In his hands, the form becomes not simply a revelation in words but, in Wallace Stevens' phrase, “a revelation in words by means of the words.” The epiphany here is not only the poet’s. It’s ours. A book about the songlines of memory and language and the ways in which they connect us to other human beings, to read Strangers is to become part of the lineages (literary... + Read More
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Series: Untold LivesDrivenThe Secret Lives of Taxi DriversPaperback
Marcello Di Cintio9781771963848
$22.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 04, 2021
Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. “The taxi,” writes Marcello Di Cintio, “is a border.” Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met—yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occu... + Read More
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Series: A Ghost in the ThroatPaperback
Doireann Ní Ghríofa9781771964111
$22.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 01, 2021
An Post Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Guardian Best Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize • Winner of the James Tait Black Biography Prize • A New York Times New & Noteworthy Title • Longlisted for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize • A Buzzfeed Recommended Summer Read • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021 • A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 • An NPR Best Book of 2021 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021 • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A Wi... + Read More
In this compelling whodunnit, Elaine Dewar reads the science, follows the money, and connects the geopolitical interests to the spin. When the first TV newscast described a SARS-like flu affecting a distant Chinese metropolis, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar started asking questions: Was SARS-CoV-2 something that came from nature, as leading scientists insisted, or did it come from a lab, and what role might controversial experiments have played in its development? Why was Wuhan the pandemic's ground zero—and why, on the other side of the... + Read More
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Series: LuciaPaperback
Alex Pheby9781771964234
$22.95FICTION
Jun 15, 2021
A GLOBE & MAIL RECOMMENDED SUMMER 2021 READ "A writer possessed of unusual indeed, extraordinary powers... Read [Lucia] with your eyes wide open."—The Guardian She is about thirty-three, speaks French fluently. . .[she] is gay, sweet and ironic, but she has bursts of anger over nothing when she is confined to a straightjacket, writes James Joyce in one of the few surviving documents concerning his daughter. A gifted dancer, Beckett’s lover, an aspiring writer—what little we know about Lucia Joyce effectively ends with a diagnosis of schizophren... + Read More
A celebration of fifty years of Best Canadian Stories Now in its fiftieth year, the Best Canadian Stories series has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Cana... + Read More
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Series: East Coast Keto 2Paperback
Bobbi Pike9781550818727
$34.95COOKING
Mar 31, 2021
Just when you thought it was impossible to find ketogenic meals that the whole family can enjoy, Bobbi Pike and her husband, Geoff, return with another generous serving of low-carb keto dishes that will have even the most finicky eater in the family asking for seconds. With over 100 new keto recipes, East Coast Keto 2 will teach you how to enjoy all the foods you love—ketofied! From show-stopping appetizers and entrees to delicious fat bombs and mouthwatering desserts, Bobbi and Geoff help you simplify your keto lifestyle the East Coast way... + Read More
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Series: The Pratt LecturesThe Quest for a 'National' NationalismE.J. Pratt’s Epic Ambition, ‘Race’ Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian IdentityPaperback
George Elliott Clarke9781550818758
$14.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Feb 26, 2021
In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic poet of Canada. And while Pratt’s epic poems, such as Brebeuf and His Brethren and Towards the Last Spike, stand as lofty poetic achievements, the poet is never able to escape his own identity and speak convincingly for all Canadians. Unable to speak for Francophones, Indigenous peoples, and People of Colour, Pratt becomes the epic poet of the establishment, but never tru... + Read More
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Series: InstructorPaperback
Beth Follett9781550818666
$22.95FICTION
Mar 01, 2021
***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S VERY BEST BOOK AWARDS, FICTION: LONGLIST*** ***FOREWORD INDIES: LITERARY, ADULT FICTION: BRONZE*** When Ydessa Bloom’s husband dies in a Cessna crash in a mid-Ontario lake, she rents a cottage at that lake, without really comprehending why, and stays for three months. There she meets three people who will influence her life dramatically—her landlady, a yoga teacher, and a precocious eight-year-old boy named Henry Rattle. Years later, at the age of twenty-five and reeling from personal tragedy, Henry seeks Yde... + Read More
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Series: This is How It isPaperback
Sharon King-Campbell9781550818697
$19.95POETRY
Mar 19, 2021
***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S VERY BEST BOOK AWARDS, POETRY: LONGLIST*** Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell’s This Is How It Is range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way voices both historical and mythological in a compelling display of dramatic empathy and poetic imagination. Subverting history and fable while always returning to vividly depicted images of our landscapes within the specter of environmental crisis, King-Campbell spans the far corners o... + Read More
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Series: Us, NowPaperback
Lisa Moore9781550818819
$22.95FICTION
May 15, 2021
Us, Now roves from Indonesia to the Middle East, Taiwan, Mexico, China, Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Pakistan, and points in between, converging in Newfoundland. These stories by racialized Newfoundlanders are by turns joyous, tender, hilarious, and heart-wrenching. They confront racism and celebrate the act of enduring. They are about settling and getting unsettled, about parents and their children, about language, about facing down the horrors of homophobia, about the joy of love, about lifelong relationships or the glee of a magnificent... + Read More
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Series: My IndianMy IndianPaperback
Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe9781550818789
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 14
Apr 30, 2021
***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – LONGLIST*** ***2022-2023 HACKMATACK AWARD: ENGLISH FICTION – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 IPPY AWARDS: MULTICULTURAL FICTION: JUV/YA – SILVER*** In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who could lead him across Newfoundland in search of the last remaining Beothuk camps on the island. In his journals, Cormack refers to his guide only as “My Indian.” Now, almost two hundred years later, Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Nei... + Read More
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Series: Errol's AdventuresOnce Upon an IcebergErrol's Twillingate AdventurePaperback
Sheilah Lukins9781550818901
$12.95JUVENILE FICTION Reading age from 7 - 12
May 31, 2021
***2022 BRUNEAU FAMILY CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT AWARD, NL BOOK AWARDS – FINALIST*** When the dog’s away, the mice go on an adventure! Errol is off on another adventure! With his new-found friend Gus, Errol travels to Twillingate to help search for Gus’s father. In the course of his search, he finds treasures on the beach, almost floats away with the icebergs, and visits the Long Point Lighthouse. There he meets Olivia and her family, who help him on his quest, showing him around and hunting for clues. But time is running out; they have to head... + Read More
A rich and informative guide to the common—and uncommon—beauty of the province. The most comprehensive guide of its kind on the market today, the Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador features more than 900 photographs and illustrations: from flora and fauna to icebergs and weather, no stone is left unturned in this perfect introduction to the province’s life and landscape. Compiled and edited by Memorial University biologist Michael Collins, with contributions from over twenty renowned experts, the guide is accessible, durable, perfectl... + Read More
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Series: Nan's PantryTraditional Newfoundland and Labrador RecipesPaperback
Mary Duffy Hayward9781550818598
$12.95COOKING
Delicious down-home cooking at its finest. Every community has its good cooks—those people who can take the same ingredients and recipes as everyone else and somehow make everything taste better. Mary Hayward was one of those cooks, and Nan’s Pantry shares her favourite recipes—many handed down from her own mother—and special touches that made her a home-cooking legend. Every recipe is a kitchen and family tested wonder of great downhome Newfoundland cooking, with easy to follow instructions for beginners and tried-and-true kitchen secre... + Read More
***IPPY AWARDS: LITERARY FICTION – BRONZE*** An audacious tale of murder, privilege, and servitude - of both humans and nature. A stunning work of imaginative fiction, Last Hummingbird West of Chile spins a tale of adventure that is in turn comedic, violent, poignant and thoughtful. Through the exploits of a young sailor born in questionable circumstance and a pair of murderous servants, as well as an assortment of other 19th century regulars, the vital subjects of today—race, religion, sexuality, environment—are framed in history and huma... + Read More
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Series: CrippledPaperback
Paul Power9781550818932
$17.95DRAMA
Jul 01, 2021
***2021 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FINALIST, DRAMA CATEGORY*** Crippled is a story about love, death, life and redemption. You will laugh, you will cry and you will walk away with a new perspective about life and what matters. Paul Power’s play, Crippled, has garnered awards and glowing reviews for his portrayal of his experiences as a person living with a disability. Now in a published form, his story of challenge, loss, and redemption presents universal themes and emotions told through a voice that is not often heard in the mai... + Read More
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Series: Land of Many ShoresPerspectives from a Diverse Newfoundland and LabradorPaperback
Ainsley Hawthorn Ph.D.9781550818963
$24.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 30, 2021
Seeing through the eyes of others brings new perspective on the place we call home. In Land of Many Shores, writers share their perspectives about life in Newfoundland and Labrador from often- neglected viewpoints. In this collection, Indigenous people, cultural minorities, 2SLGBTQ+ people, people living with mental or physical disabilities, workers in the sex industry, people from a variety of faiths, people who have experienced incarceration, and other marginalized and under-represented voices are brought to the forefront, with personal, ... + Read More
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Series: Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry BlossomsA Mother & Daughter's Journey through Racism, Internment and OppressionPaperback
Grace Eiko Thomson9781773860411
$24.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 11, 2021
A vital memoir by two Japanese Canadian women reflecting on their family history, cultural heritage, generational trauma, and the meaning of home.At eight years old, Grace Eiko Nishikihama was forcibly removed from her Vancouver home and interned with her parents and siblings in the BC Interior. Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms is a moving and politically outspoken memoir written by Grace, now a grandmother, with passages from a journal kept by her late mother, Sawae Nishikihama. An educated woman, Sawae married a naturalized Canadian man a... + Read More
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Series: Beyond the Legal LimitSurviving a Collision with a Drunk DriverPaperback
Pat Henman9781773860497
$24.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 18, 2021
A searingly honest memoir of surviving a head-on collision with a drunk driver, the physical and emotional scars left behind, and the trauma endured in flawed systems intended to support victims.On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June 2013, performer and singer Pat Henman, was driving home on the highway with her 19-year-old daughter, Maia, when they were struck head-on by a drunk driver. Pat and Maia’s injuries were too complicated and life-threatening for the small hospital in Cranbrook, and they were flown to Calgary. Pat was revived four times,... + Read More
Pinkerton's and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot throws new light on the extensive manhunt for an accused murderer in northern British Columbia in the early 1900s. After a double murder in 1906, Gitxsan trapper and storekeeper Simon Gunanoot fled into the wilderness with his family. Despite lack of proof, the police pursued Gunanoot for nearly three years, sending search parties and police operatives into the wilds of northern BC. The hunt was covered by numerous newspapers at the time, describing a melodramatic cat-and-mouse chase--a not-entirely-a... + Read More
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Series: Surviving SamsaraA Memoir of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and Mental IllnessPaperback
Kagan Goh9781773860329
$22.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 14, 2021
A frank and touching memoir celebrating the resiliency of the spirit in the face of mental illness, psychotic breakdowns and stigma in society.“Samsara is defined as the ‘round of rebirth’ or ‘perpetual wandering’ … a continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering and dying.” —Buddhist Dictionary by Nyanatiloka MahatheraIn Kagan Goh’s debut memoir, he recounts his struggles with manic depression, breaking the silence around mental illness. From an honest and personal perspective, Surviving Samsara traces Goh’... + Read More
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Series: Atlas of RootsPaperback
Beth Kope9781773860510
$18.00POETRY
Jan 28, 2021
A poignant and courageous collection seeking love, belonging, and the truth following adoption.Within us all are questions of identity, belonging, and connection. Beth Kope’s third poetry collection, Atlas of Roots, is a work of the heart that uncovers the many facets of adoption. In poems that both witness and question, Kope shares her own quest to uncover family history and answers—finding her adoption records, questioning her parent’s choices, and the truth of her own conception. Moving beyond the personal, Atlas of Roots shares other ... + Read More
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Series: The FifthA Love(s) StoryPaperback
Monica Meneghetti9781773860534
$22.95FICTION
Feb 04, 2021
A contemporary novel about polyamory, full of eclectic and refreshing characters navigating love, life, and desire among their chosen family.Critically acclaimed in the original French, The Fifth offers a refreshing take on sexuality and desire. Alice, Gayle, Camille and Simon live together in a polyamorous relationship, affectionately referred to as the Family. Camille, a trans woman, and Gayle are lovers; Simon is in a relationship with Alice; and Alice is in a relationship with everyone. But when Alice invites her seemingly straight ex-boyfr... + Read More
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Series: Run RiotNinety Poems in Ninety DaysPaperback
Ash Winters9781773860541
$18.00POETRY
Jan 28, 2021
Written each day in rehab, Ash Winters’ debut collection is a vulnerable and powerful portrait of the struggle against addiction.“This is a weird place to wake up / For someone who has woken up in some pretty strange places before.” Run Riot is a collection of ninety poems, one written each day during Ash Winters’ ninety day stay at a Vancouver rehab centre. A fiercely personal account of what it feels like to stop drinking after a decade of excess, Run Riot takes the reader through moments of determination, anger, hilarity, and heartbreak. Win... + Read More
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Series: The List of Last ChancesPaperback
Christina Myers9781773860596
$22.95FICTION
Apr 29, 2021
In this witty and heartwarming novel, Ruthie launches a last-ditch effort to pull herself up from rock bottom, only to discover that life and love don’t always go as planned. At thirty-eight years old, Ruthie finds herself newly unemployed, freshly single, sleeping on a friend’s couch and downing a bottle of wine each night. Having overstayed her welcome and desperate for a job, Ruthie responds to David’s ad: he’s looking for someone to drive his aging mother, Kay, and her belongings from PEI to Vancouver. Ruthie thinks it’s the perfect ch... + Read More
A striking and genre-bending debut short story collection from writer and musician Barbara Black, woven through with eerie tones, quirky imagery and sharp lyricism. Off-beat, provocative, philosophical, Music from a Strange Planet traces the fault lines of identity and emotional attachment. Grief, tenderness, and longing soak the pages, admitting the reader into the intimate places of the heart: An awkward child envisions herself as a darkling beetle; an unemployed business analyst prefers water-walking over “rebranding” himself; after bei... + Read More
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Series: Essential TremorPoemsPaperback
Barbara Nickel9781773860602
$18.00POETRY
Apr 02, 2021
Award-winning poet Barbara Nickel returns with a contemporary and enchanting reflection on the many manifestations of the body—human life, the divine, and the world.Taking the name of a nervous system disorder that causes involuntary shaking, Essential Tremor undertakes an exploration of the body that holds disruption at its heart. The captivating and timely poems in Essential Tremor attend to many bodies—the body of the world, changing, unreachable, at times momentarily illumined; the human body, loved, ill, mourning, passing or passed from th... + Read More
Away From Her meets Strangers on a Train in this follow-up to cult bestseller And the Birds Rained Down After And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique outlook on self-determination in this unsettling story about a woman’s disappearance. Gladys might look old and frail, but she is determined to finish her life on her own terms. And so, one September morning, she leaves Swastika, her home of the past fifty years, and hops on the Northlander train, eager to put thousands of mil... + Read More
Four writers, four different perspectives on the problematic notion of purity. "All purity is created by resemblance and disavowal." With this sentence as a starting point, four authors each write a novella considering the concept of purity, all from astonishingly different angles. Jean Marc Ah-Sen writes about love blooming between two writers belonging to feuding literary movements. Emily Anglin explores an architect's search for her twin at a rural historic house. Devon Code documents the Wittgensteinian upheavals of the last days of an elde... + Read More
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Series: Seconds OutWomen and FightingPaperback
Alison Dean9781552454190
$21.95SPORTS & RECREATION
May 18, 2021
Kicking ass and taking notes—what it’s like to be a woman in the ring. Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. Hard. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer. “You punch like a girl” still isn’t a compliment — women aren’t supposed to choose to participate in violence. Her unique perspective as a 30-something university lecturer turned amateur fighter allows Dean to articulately and with great insight delve into the ways martial arts can change a p... + Read More
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Series: The Far ShoreIndie Games, Superbrothers, and the Making of JETTPaperback
Adam Hammond9781552454206
$21.95GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Nov 16, 2021
The genius and artistry behind Superbrothers and the making of an indie video game, from inception to its highly anticipated launch. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery was released in 2011 at the forefront of an exciting era of “indie games” – with the aesthetic of punk rock and the edge of modernist fiction, indie games pushed gaming into the realm of the avant-garde. Superbrothers (Craig D. Adams) was hailed as a visionary in the video game world. Now, his long-awaited follow-up, JETT: The Far Shore, has been released for Sony PlayStation and Ep... + Read More
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Series: Because The SunPaperback
Sarah Burgoyne9781552454237
$21.95POETRY
Apr 27, 2021
Camus’s Meursault and Thelma and Louise meet up under the blazing sun. Vexed by the ‘unremarkable star’ that ‘presses’ Camus’s Meursault to commit murder, Because the Sun considers the blazing sun as a material symbol of ambient violence – violence absorbed like heat and fired at the nearest victim. Likewise, as a friendship between women confronts gendered aggression in Thelma and Louise, the sun becomes the repository of pain, the high noon that pushes us through desert after desert. Because the Sun’s pastiche of voices embodies both stylisti... + Read More
Shortlisted for the ReLit 2022 Poetry Award Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry. One minute she’s drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror, the next she’s asking the sky to swallow her up: the narrator of Exhibitionist oscillates between a complete rejection of shame and the consuming heaviness of it. Painfully funny, brutally honest, and alarmingly perceptive, Molly Cross-Blanchard’s poems use humour and pop culture as vehicles for empathy and sorry-not-sorry confessionalism. What this speaker wants more than anything is to... + Read More
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Series: In Praise of RetreatFinding Sanctuary in the Modern WorldPaperback
Kirsteen MacLeod9781770414730
$24.95BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Mar 30, 2021
For readers of Walden, Wild, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, A Book of Silence, A Gift from the Sea and other celebrations of the inner adventure. An utterly engaging dive into our modern ways of retreat — where we go, why we’re drawn, and how it’s urgent From pilgrim paths to forest cabins, and from rented hermitages to arts temples and quiet havens for yoga and meditation, In Praise of Retreat explores the pleasures and powers of this ancient practice for modern people. Kirsteen MacLeod draws on the history of retreat and personal experience... + Read More
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Series: Happily Ever OlderRevolutionary Approaches to Long-Term CarePaperback
Moira Welsh9781770415218
$23.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 09, 2021
While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older reveals how the right living arrangements can create a vibrancy that defies age or ability. Reporter Moira Welsh has spent years investigating retirement homes and long-term care facilities and wants to tell the dangerous stories. Not the accounts of falls or bedsores or overmedication, but of seniors living with purpose and energy and love. Stories... + Read More
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Series: The Murders That Made UsHow Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay AreaPaperback
Bob Calhoun9781770415492
$24.95TRUE CRIME
May 04, 2021
The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city’s art, music, and politics In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From its earliest days when vigilantes hung perps from downtown buildings to the Zodiac Killer and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, murder and mayhem have shaped the city into the political and economic force that she is today. The Great 1906 Earthquake shook a city that was alread... + Read More
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Series: Leadership Moments from NASAAchieving the ImpossibleHardcover
Dr. Dave Williams9781770416048
$29.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jul 06, 2021
The NASA way: lessons on leadership, teamwork, and corporate culture. How does NASA take on seemingly insurmountable challenges, recover from tragedy and continue to attract the best and brightest talent? Space exploration is as much a story of leadership and teamwork as it is a story of exploration and discovery. Leadership Moments from NASA delves into the culture of the famed organization and examines the leadership styles and insights of NASA senior executives spanning five decades of human spaceflight to share the lessons they learne... + Read More
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Series: Shifting the BalanceHow Top Organizations Beat the Competition by Combining Intuition with DataHardcover
Mark Schrutt9781770415744
$39.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Apr 06, 2021
Digital transformation expert Mark Schrutt reveals how the world’s top companies are using vast amounts of data to inform their decisions, disrupt industries, and get closer to their customers. Businesses that continue to rely only on intuition do so at their peril. What if you had the data you always wanted and could tell what was truly an emerging trend that would forever change your industry? Shifting the Balance analyzes the turn towards data-driven decision-making and describes how best-in-class organizations use data to shift their ... + Read More
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Series: A Portrait of Canada’s ParliamentBillingual French and English editionHardcover
William McElligott9781770415713
$60.00ARCHITECTURE
May 04, 2021
A stunning visual exploration of Canada’s most recognized building accompanied by a comprehensive study of its history, in a coffee-table worthy volume. The Centre Block, the iconic parliament building that has come to be Canada’s foremost representation, was closed in 2018 and will remain closed for at least a decade for a complete renovation and restoration. During that time, hundreds of thousands of Canadians and visitors to Canada will miss the opportunity to tour the building and view its architecture and symbolic artwork. With or... + Read More
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Series: Train (Your Brain) Like an OlympianGold Medal Techniques to Unleash Your Potential at WorkPaperback
Jean François Ménard9781770415904
$26.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jan 26, 2021
The global pandemic has completely disrupted how, where, and when we work and added tremendous pressure to individuals and their families. Learn how to refocus and achieve your full potential from one of the world’s top mental performance coaches. In Train (Your Brain) Like an Olympian, Jean François Ménard provides the skills necessary to: Remain focused in the face of distractions Overcome negative self-talk and replace it with a constructive mindset Recover quickly and learn from setbacks Be comfortable with the uncomfortabl... + Read More
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Series: Robin's Egg Books Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea How I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions Paperback 9781551528335 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2021
Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms A Mother & Daughter's Journey through Racism, Internment and Oppression Paperback 9781773860411 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 11, 2021
Beyond the Legal Limit Surviving a Collision with a Drunk Driver Paperback 9781773860497 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 18, 2021
Pinkerton's and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot Double Murder, Secret Agents and an Elusive Outlaw Paperback 9781773860503 $24.95 HISTORY Mar 12, 2021
Surviving Samsara A Memoir of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and Mental Illness Paperback 9781773860329 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 14, 2021
