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Series: Dear Black Girls Hardcover Shanice Nicole 9781999058838 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 10 Feb 08, 2021

Dear Black girls all around the world, this one is for you -- for us.Dear Black Girls is a letter to all Black girls. Every single day poet and educator Shanice Nicole is reminded of how special Black girls are and of how lucky she is to be one. Illustrations by Kezna Dalz support the book's message that no two Black girls are the same but they are all special--that to be a Black girl is a true gift. In this celebratory poem, Kezna and Shanice remind young readers that despite differences, they all deserve to be loved just the way they are.
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Series: Little Girl Gazelle Paperback Stéphane Martelly 9781773900711 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 04, 2020

A little girl gazelle leaps from page to page, asking hard questions about what is fair and right.She's sleek and fleet, and the poetic language lifts her up, up, higher and faster as she whirls through the bold eloquence of the book's illustrations, making colourful tracks, leaving her mark, finding her way, skimming and dancing through an unjust world. Part fable, part metaphor, Little Girl Gazelle is an extraordinarily beautiful picture book focused on discrimination and equality, presenting parents' subtle efforts to preparetheir black gaze... + Read More
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Series: Ghost's Journey A Refugee Story Hardcover Robin Stevenson 9781775301943 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 10 Sep 01, 2019

When Indonesia becomes a dangerous place for the LGBTQ+ community, Ghost and her family are forced to leave their home and escape to freedom in Canada.Ghost's Journey: A Reugee Story is inspired by the true story of two gay refugees, Rainer and Eka, and written from the perspective of their cat Ghost, with illustrations created from Rainer's photographs. Written by award-winning author, Robin Stevenson, Ghost's Journey is a perfect fit to teach young audiences about family diversity, human rights, and social justice. Shortlisted for the 2021 S... + Read More
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Series: The Sasquatch, the Fire and the Cedar Baskets Paperback Joseph Dandurand 9780889713765 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 8 Jun 21, 2020

“Deep in the thickest part of a cedar forest there lived a young Sasquatch. He was over nine feet tall and his feet were about size twenty. He had long brown hair that covered all of his body. His hands were so big and his arms so long he could wrap them around the biggest of the cedar trees. He had been born here many years ago and he did not know his parents, as they had been scared away by a great fire. He was left on his own and he had survived by eating berries and he had grown into the Sasquatch he now was...” So begins this charming stor... + Read More
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Series: The Street Belongs to Us Paperback Karleen Pendleton Jimenez 9781551528403 $14.95 JUVENILE 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
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Series: My Totem Came Calling Paperback Blessing Musariri 9781988449753 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) from 7 - 12 Sep 15, 2019

Chanda is a seventeen-year-old schoolgirl in Harare, Zimbabwe, who suffers from unexplained memory lapses, which become even more worrisome when she starts seeing her totem animal, a zebra, in all sorts of places. But nobody else can see it. Afraid of being institutionalized in a hospital, she follows the advice of an old aunt and sets off for her ancestral village, a backward, primitive settlement without the amenities she is used to in the city. But there she meets the rest of her family, including her grandmother, and learns the hard way wh... + Read More
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Series: Travesia A Migrant Girl's Cross-Border Journey//El viaje de una joven migrante Paperback Michelle Gerster 9781551528366 $19.95 YOUNG 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 Ice Shack Paperback Katia Canciani 9781550818505 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Nov 19, 2020

The most beautiful ice-fishing shack on the whole coast belongs to Alphonse. But he can’t seem to catch a thing—not even a sock, or an old pair of underwear! How will he ever win the Best Fisherman Contest?!
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Series: The Little Red Shed Paperback Adam Young 9781550818338 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 May 15, 2020

Once upon a fine morning, a little shed awakens to discover she isn’t quite the same as she used to be. Uncertain and feeling as if she no longer fits in, she decides to leave home and sets out to sea. All alone on the wide, wide ocean, she meets an extraordinary new friend who sees how special she really is, and with newfound confidence, the little red shed returns home and inspires everyone to cherish their differences.
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Series: Change Maker Series What's in it for Me? Paperback LS Stone 9781999241681 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Mar 15, 2021

What's in it for Me? - Summer is only a month away, but things aren't going according to plan for fifteen-year-old Nick Bannerman. Nick dreams of making it big in music, and summer means scoring a deal for his band, mega parties, surfing in Tofino--and not much else. His best friend, Trevor, wants him to spend the summer with him in Africa building a school with a changemaker organization, but Nick isn't at all interested. Unlike Trevor, Nick has no interest in global activism, volunteering, or physical labour. So how does a teen like Nick, int... + Read More
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Series: Cancer is a C Word Hardcover Sunita Pal 9781999241605 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 8 Oct 15, 2020

Teaching tough and scary topics to children, especially to the very young, is not easy. Dealing with Cancer is a sad reality that many families have to face and explaining it to little children can be very difficult--and hard to do without creating a Monster of Fear.Cancer is a C Word will help families and schools introduce the concept of Cancer to little ones, specifically to early primary-aged children, in a very simple way that is easy for them to understand. At the same time, the book also focuses on the positive aspects by demonstrating t... + Read More
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Series: Some People's Children Paperback Bridget Canning 9781550818123 $22.95 FICTION May 15, 2020

***BRONZE, THE MIRAMICHI READER'S THE VERY BEST! FICTION AWARD ? ***49TH SHELF EDITOR'S PICK*** ***BMO WINTERSET AWARD LONGLIST** Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically. But as she grows older, she learns that many people in her small, rural town believe her father is Cecil Jesso, the local drug dealer—a man both feared and ridiculed. Weaving through a maze of gossip, community, and the complications of family, Some People’s Children is a revealing and liberating novel abo... + Read More
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Series: This Book Betrays My Brother Paperback Kagiso Lesego Molope 9781988449296 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 May 15, 2018

Winner of the Ottawa Book Award, English Fiction, 2019 Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018 Named to the Globe 100, 2018 CBC Books, Top YA Pick for 2018 Named to Best Books for Kids and Teens, Fall 2018 Named to Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books, 2018 What does a teenage girl do when she sees her beloved older brother commit a horrific crime? Should she report to her parents, or should she keep quiet? Should she confront him? All her life, Naledi has been in awe of Basi, her charming and outgoing older brother. They've sha... + Read More
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Series: Green Glass Ghosts Paperback Rae Spoon 9781551528380 $19.95 YOUNG 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: Essential Anthologies Series Changing the Face of Canadian Literature Paperback Dane Swan 9781771835237 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 01, 2020

A g call to action and accountability. – Shelagh RogersNeedless to say, moments like now, when the hurdles to becoming a respected author are at their lowest. When the only hurdles to being published are the quality of your writing and your patience to deal with certain less and less important gatekeepers. Moments in history like this, must be acknowledged and celebrated. That's what this anthology is: It's a celebration. A moment to cry out, “Look how many of us have a voice! There are stories, and poetry in this country that are about people ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Unravelling Paperback Josephine Boxwell 9781771835442 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Told in alternating chapters that go back and forth between the 1990s and the present, Unravelling uncovers a story of corruption that connects the two small-town British Columbia protagonists whose worlds are irreparably damaged. Ruthless octogenarian Vivian Lennox fights her deteriorating mind as she defends the catastrophic decisions she made decades earlier. Armed only with her curiosity, 10-year-old Elena Reid is dangerously unaware of who or what she is about to expose as she searches for answers to her father's disappearance, following a... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series I Will Be Corrupted Paperback Joseph Dandurand 9781771835060 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

A tale of a Kwantlen man who has been given the gift of healing but also is a heroin addict living on the eastside, what drove the author to write this book of poems was how the voice of the Healer came to him and it was with ease that each poem showed itself. It was if he were right there either talking to a Sasquatch or crawling down an alley on the eastside of Vancouver. It almost has a film quality to it as if each poem is a scene from an epic tale. This is a book of hope, loss, and hopefully a sense of redemption for all the poor souls who... + Read More
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Series: Selfie Paperback Christine Quintana 9780369101259 $17.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 14 - 18 Nov 23, 2020

A new year of high school is full of excitement and potential—but three teens didn’t expect it to bring such a dark change to their lives. After spending a summer reinventing herself in Paris, Emma is ready for her new life to start, while her best friend Lily is eager for them to reconnect. Lily throws a last-minute party fuelled by alcohol and Instagram, which leads to a long-awaited encounter between Emma and Lily’s older brother Chris. But the next day Emma feels that something went terribly wrong. When a doctor’s appointment and a visit fr... + Read More
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Series: Amaryllis & Little Witch Paperback Pascal Brullemans 9780369101143 $19.95 DRAMA Jul 15, 2020

In these dark fairy tales, two girls face danger while grieving loved ones, and learn some hard truths about growing up along the way. Imaginative and curious, these fables illustrate adventures for children who have to make big choices. In Amaryllis, a preteen goes missing on her birthday. Amaryllis heads out with her sister Fey’s ashes, determined to scatter the remains and set Fey free. But when she discovers that Fey is stuck between life and death, she realizes she has to join Fey on a trek to the Land of the Dead. In Little Witch, a sickl... + Read More
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Series: Brontë: The World Without Paperback Jordi Mand 9780369101020 $17.95 DRAMA Aug 17, 2020

What happens when a passion is turned into a means to survive? Sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë have always enjoyed writing and storytelling, but so far, it’s been for their own personal enjoyment. Now that their father is sick and their brother is an alcoholic, they have to be the ones to support the family. They’d rather focus on their careers than settling down with suitors anyway, so writing is what could save them. But is it also what could tear them apart? Jealousy, rivalry, and the strong need for self-expression threaten not on... + Read More
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Series: Controlled Damage Paperback Andrea Scott 9781927922637 $15.95 DRAMA Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 01, 2020

Controlled Damage explores the life of Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond and how her act of bravery in a Nova Scotia movie theatre in 1946 started a ripple effect that is still felt today. An ordinary woman forced to be extraordinary by an unyielding and racist world, Desmond never gave up -- despite the personal cost to her and those who loved her. Andrea Scott's highly theatrical examination of Desmond and her legacy traces the impact that she had on our culture, but also casts light on the slow progress of the fight for social justice... + Read More
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Series: bug Paperback Yolanda Bonnell 9781927922668 $15.95 DRAMA Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 01, 2020

bug is a solo performance and artistic ceremony that highlights the ongoing effects of colonialism and intergenerational trauma experienced by Indigenous women, as well as a testimony to the women's resilience and strength. The Girl traces her life from surviving the foster care system to her struggles with addictions. She fights, hoping to break the cycle in order to give her daughter a different life than the one she had. The Mother sits in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, recounting memories of the daughter that was taken from her, and the str... + Read More
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Series: Suitcase/Adrenaline Paperback Ahmad Meree 9781927922644 $15.95 DRAMA Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 01, 2020

These two powerful plays by Ahmad Meree examine the effects of war and the refugee experience. Suitcase considers the lives of refugees and the spaces they inhabit. The play urges the audience to reassess the significance of their possessions, the relationships they value, and all of the things they have left behind. Adrenaline follows Jaber, a refugee getting ready to celebrate his first New Year's Eve in Canada after leaving his war-torn home in Syria. Using objects he has around the house, Jaber unpacks memories of war, and tries to understa... + Read More
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Series: A Maples Mystery Cat Possessed, The Paperback Louise Carson 9781773240749 $16.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 01, 2020

It's April 1st and young artist Gerry Coneybear, inheritor of her Aunt Maggie's big old house The Maples (and her aunt's twenty cats!), wishes her mountain of bills was a joke. She's just self-published her children's book The Cake-Jumping Cats of Dibble, and that cost money. Plus the valuable painting she was hoping to sell is missing from the auctioneers'. And on top of everything else, her kitten Jay is acting weird, keeping her up at night. It's almost as if the cat's possessed.At least Gerry's personal relationships are going well: with he... + Read More
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Series: Falling Into Flight A Memoir of Life and Dance Paperback Kaija Pepper 9781773240831 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 01, 2020

Falling into Flight untangles a daughter's complicated relationship with immigrant parents -- her angry Russian mother and quiet Finnish father -- as she grapples with the mysteries of her own body and self during the long years of growing up. And it offers insight into a life experienced through the arts: first as a young enthusiastic dancer, then as a thoughtful -- and equally enthusiastic -- dance critic.After her parents die within months of each other, Kaija begins to experience increasingly debilitating physical ailments that have no clea... + Read More
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Series: Haweaters, The Paperback Vanessa Farnsworth 9781773240695 $18.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Aug 01, 2020

The Haweaters brings to life the violent, real-life double-murder of Charles and William Bryan by two members of the Amer family on Manitoulin Island in 1877. Well known in its day, but unknown to us now, this murder pitted a wealthy landowner against his impoverished neighbour. It's a tale of treachery, gossip, drunkenness, arson and the merciless deaths of two not-so-innocent victims.
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Series: Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids Quebec Inuit Fight for their Homeland Paperback Zebedee Nungak 9781550654684 $15.95 HISTORY May 15, 2017

For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace. In this concise, lively account, Zebedee Nungak relates the inside story of how the young Inuit and Cree "Davids" took action when Québec began construction on the giant James Bay hydro project. They fought in court and at the negotiation table for an accord that effectively became Canada's first land-claims agreement. Nungak's account is ... + Read More
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Series: Dominoes at the Crossroads Short Stories Paperback Kaie Kellough 9781550655315 $19.95 FICTION Jan 20, 2020

In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation--one populated by Caribbean Canadians who hopscotch across the country. The characters navigate race, class, and coming-of-age. Seeking opportunity, some fade into the world around them, even as their minds hitchhike, dream, and soar. Some appear in different times and hemispheres, whether as student radicals, secret agents, historians, fugitive slaves, or jazz musicians. From the cobblestones of Montreal's Old Port through the foliage of a South American rainforest; from a ... + Read More
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Series: Resisting Canada An Anthology of New Poetry Paperback Nyla Matuk 9781550655339 $22.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2019

Resisting Canada gathers together poets for a conversation bigger than poetic trends. The book's organizing principle is Canada--the Canada that established residential schools; the Canada grappling with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; the Canada that has been visible in its welcome of Syrian refugees, yet the not-always-tolerant place where the children of those refugees will grow up; the Canada eager to re-establish its global leadership on the environment while struggling to acknowledge Indigenous sovereignty on resource-rich land a... + Read More
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Series: Working in the Bathtub Conversations with the Immortal Dany Laferrière Paperback Adam Leith Gollner 9781773900735 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 07, 2020

Montreal writer Dany Laferrière became "Immortal" in 2015, when he was inducted into the Académie française, the highest honour in all French literature - and the first Quebecer and only second Black writer to receive such an honour. In these wide-ranging interviews with Adam Leith Gollner, portions of which were originally published in The Paris Review, Laferrière reveals how his life and his writing are inseparable, discussing everything from his breakout debut, How To Make Love To a Negro Without Getting Tired, to the extraordinary success o... + Read More
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Series: Lunging into the Underbrush A Life Lived Backward Paperback David Homel 9781773900797 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2021

In 1970, David Homel escaped the American draft by moving to Paris. But a hiking accident in Spain led to a harrowing journey through botched surgeries, opiate addiction, the loneliness of a crippled traveler, and the constant pain that would define his life for years to come. Today, planning to stay in the game as long as possible, he has a few ideas about how to do just that. By confronting body image issues, performance anxiety, and the challenges of desire, Homel draws an affecting portrait of the battle between Eros and Melancholy. Which o... + Read More
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Series: Mirror's Edge A Novel Hardcover Alex Passey 9781988168234 $29.95 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

Rath has been on a downward spiral. And it's not just him - the world is a polluted mess, corporate influence has replaced independent thought, and his fiancée has decided that Rath is no longer worth her time. While Rath embraces his multiple vices, he never expected his next bender to land him in another world entirely. He finds himself in Sarah's world --an untainted parallel universe to his own: a pristine woodland where every person is the absolute master of their domain, and where Rath's AI chip isn't dictating his every move. The opport... + Read More
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Series: Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy Hardcover Christian McPherson 9781988168401 $24.95 POETRY Oct 27, 2020

Over the course of a lifetime, we all experience catch-of-breath moments that stir exquisite awareness of life's transience. Such fleeting moments we share with poet Christian McPherson and his space-suited avatar negotiating bumpy terrain. In this collection the meandering, often self-deprecating poet considers and records moments of truth and insight common to us all as he registers his joys and regrets, and raises rants in postured outrage. A refreshing and often humorous honesty prevails. As the dedication promises, these poems are for thos... + Read More
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Series: TreeTalk TreeTalk Hardcover Ariel Gordon 9781988168272 $19.95 POETRY Sep 29, 2020

During the heatwave of July 2017, Ariel Gordon spent two days sitting on the patio of downtown Winnipeg's Tallest Poppy, writing snippets of poems which she hung from the boulevard tree using paper and string. Passersby were invited to TreeTalk too -- their secrets / one-liners / meditations / haiku were also hung from the tree. By the end of the weekend, the elm had a second temporary canopy of leaves: 234 poems, 111 written by Gordon, 107 written by passersby, and 16 from other sources.Gordon has assembled all these voices into a long/found p... + Read More
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Series: Curb Angels Paperback Christopher Ducharme 9781988168265 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 30, 2019

In the post-punk, global economy of the 1980's, four young women from very different backgrounds are united by a common goal: justice. Curb Angels features fearless female characters on a mission that crosses borders and challenges the status quo. In the face of exploitation and violence against women, they carve their own path and leave a touch of well-deserved wreckage along the way. Powerhouse team Lisa Mendis and Christopher Ducharme join forces in this tour-de-force graphic novel debut to push boundaries and buttons as they explore cultura... + Read More
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Series: Be Scared of Everything Horror Essays Paperback Peter Counter 9781988784564 $20.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 13, 2020

Horror essays that read like Chuck Klosterman filtered through H. P. Lovecraft. Slinging ectoplasm, tombstones, and chainsaws with aplomb, Be Scared of Everything is a frighteningly smart celebration of horror culture that will appeal to both horror aficionados and casual fans. Combining pop culture criticism and narrative memoir, Counter’s essays consider and deconstruct film, TV, video games, true crime, and his own horrific encounters to find importance in the occult, pathos in Ouija boards, poetry in madness, and beauty in annihilation. C... + Read More
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Series: Daniil and Vanya Paperback Marie-Helene Larochelle 9781988784571 $20.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

We Need to Talk About Kevin meets Goodnight Mommy in this outrageous modern family thriller. Emma and Gregory have a perfect life—a gorgeous home, a successful design firm—except for their inability to start a family. Following a traumatic failed pregnancy, they decide to travel to Russia to adopt a pair of twin boys. From the moment they board the plane in St. Petersburg, the twins begin to demonstrate perverse behaviour that grows increasingly ominous, driving a wedge between Emma and Gregory, and alienating their friends and family. The two... + Read More
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Series: Swimmers in Winter Paperback Faye Guenther 9781988784502 $19.95 FICTION Aug 24, 2020

Certain Women meets The Mars Room in this debut collection featuring three pairs of stories. Sharp and stylistic, the trifecta of diptychs that is Swimmers in Winter swirls between real and imagined pasts and futures to delve into our present cultural moment: conflicts between queer people and the police; the impact of homophobia, bullying, and PTSD; the dynamics of women’s friendships; life for queer women in Toronto during WWII and after; the intersections between class identities and queer identities; experiences of economic precarity and p... + Read More
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Series: Blueberries and Apricots Paperback Natasha Kanapé Fontaine 9781988449326 $19.95 POETRY Jul 15, 2018

Translated from French by Howard Scott In this, her third volume of poetry, this Aboriginal writer from Quebec again confronts the loss of her landscape and language. On my left hip a face I walk I walk upright like a shadow a people on my hip a boatload of fruit and the dream inside women and children first "A cry rises in me and transfigures me. The world waits for woman to come back as she was born: woman standing, woman powerful, woman resurgent. A call rises in me and I?ve decided to say yes to my birth."
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Series: Stella Atlantis Paperback Susan Perly 9781928088967 $22.00 FICTION Nov 03, 2020

It's 2016, and there's a new president in the White House. The world is on edge, and celebrated novelist Johnny Coma, survivor of a bomb test in the Nevada desert and the subsequent disintegration of his marriage to photographer Vivienne Pink, must face the one trauma he can no longer put behind him: the death of their young daughter, Stella, in Toronto more than a decade ago. Now united only by their grief, Johnny and Vivienne drift further apart and fall for other people. While Vivienne heads to Amsterdam to cover a terror event, the quixotic... + Read More
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Series: The Only Card in a Deck of Knives Paperback Lauren Turner 9781989496091 $18.00 POETRY May 12, 2020

The Only Card in a Deck of Knives is a groundbreaking new collection in the area of sickness poetry. Within these poems, Lauren Turner aims to reclaim the "hysterical" label given to sick women throughout history. Rather than shying away from the emotional urgency and raw vulnerability surrounding a terminal diagnosis, Turner shines an interrogative light upon it. These fierce poems are written from the perspective of a twentysomething female speaker with a terminal disease, a speaker who is preoccupied with maintaining the illusion of health, ... + Read More
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Series: From My Mother's Back A Journey from Kenya to Canada Paperback Njoki Wane 9781928088738 $18.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 18, 2020

In this warm and honest memoir, celebrated academic Njoki Wane shares her journey from her parents' small coffee farm in Kenya, where she helped her mother in the fields as a child, to her current work as a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Moving smoothly between time and place, Wane uses her past to illuminate her present. The childhood confusion caused by nuns at her boarding school dismissing her proper name and demanding she give them a Christian first name she did not possess, which ... + Read More
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Series: I Am the Big Heart Paperback Sarah Venart 9781771315364 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2020

A love story to the emotional self--this heart is tender, but it also has a savage bite. What does it mean to be the big heart? Or to hope to be the big heart? Or to fail to be that big heart? How far can a heart stretch? How does being a parent stretch it further? How does a heart manage under the pressure of children, of self, of hospital technician, of partner, of death? In this collection, big heartedness is both demand and desire. It emerges from family life--the kid who says to your face that she prefers her other parent; the father mo... + Read More
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Series: Bones Paperback Tyler Pennock 9781771315210 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

Poems about a young two-spirit Indigenous man moving through shadow and trauma toward strength and awareness. Bones, Tyler Pennock's wise and arresting debut, is about the ways we process the traumas of our past, and about how often these experiences eliminate moments of softness and gentleness. Here, the poems journey inward, guided by the world of dreams, seeking memories of a loving sister lost beneath layers of tragedy and abuse. With bravery, the poems stand up to the demons lurking in the many shadows of their lines, seeking glimpses of... + Read More
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Series: Cyborg Anthology, The Paperback Lindsay B-e 9781771315302 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

Poems written by Cyborgs in the future - this collection melds sci-fi and poetry, human and machine. The Cyborg Anthology takes place in a future where there was a thriving world of Robots and Cyborgs living peacefully beside Humans, but a disaster destroyed all Robot and most Cyborg life. The book is organized like a typical anthology of literature, split into sections that include a biography of each poet and a sample of their poetry. It covers early Cyborg poetry, political, celebrity, and pop culture poets, and ends with the next genera... + Read More
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Series: The Talking Drum Paperback Lisa Braxton 9781771337410 $22.95 FICTION May 01, 2020

Winner, 2020 National Association of Black Journalists Outstanding Literary Award; Overall Winner, 2020 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book AwardFeatured on Ms. Magazine's June 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us and Bustle's 23 Debut Books That Are Too Good To Ignore. It is 1971. The fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon expected to transform this dying factory town into a thriving economic center. This planned transformation has a profound effect on the residents who live in Bellport ... + Read More
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Series: The Rage Room Paperback Lisa De Nikolits 9781771337779 $22.95 FICTION Oct 30, 2020

What if you made the worst mistake of your life and got the chance to fix it? Only you made it so much worse? From the incomparable crafter of nine cross-genre works of fiction, Lisa deNikolits expands her horizons to pen a grab-you-by-the-throat, feminist speculative-fiction thriller in the style of Groundhog Day meets The Matrix.The perfect father kills his family on Christmas Eve, and tries to undo his actions by jumping back in time. The result is murder and mayhem in dystopia. Set in 2055, the world is run by robots and virtual data, while... + Read More
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Series: The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) Paperback Carol Rose GoldenEagle 9781771337892 $22.95 FICTION Oct 30, 2020

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) weaves the stories of a group of women committed to helping one another. Despite abuse experienced by some, both in their own community and in residential schools, these women learn to celebrate their culture, its stories, its dancing, its drums, and its elders. Principal of these elders is Nina, the advisor at the women's shelter. With the help of Sandy and Charlene, Nina uses Indigenous practices to heal the traumatized Mary Ann. This is a powerful novel--sometimes brutally violent, sometimes healing, s... + Read More
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Series: Tatouine Paperback Jean-Christophe Réhel 9781771862288 $23.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020
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Series: A Stab at Life Paperback Richard King 9781771862066 $22.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2020
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Series: Things Worth Burying Paperback Matt Mayr 9781771862042 $24.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2020
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series Molly of the Mall Literary Lass & Purveyor of Fine Footwear Paperback Heidi Jacobs 9781988732596 $19.95 FICTION May 15, 2019

Winner of the 2020 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour!Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor's life is strikingly different from a literary heroine's. Named for one of literature's least romantic protagonists, Moll Flanders, Molly lives in Edmonton, a city she finds irredeemably unromantic, where she writes university term papers instead of novels, and sells shoes in the Largest Mall on Earth. There she seeks the other half of her young life's own matched pair. Delightfully whimsical, Heidi L.M. Jacobs' Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Pu... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry Response of Weeds, The A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies Paperback Bertrand Bickersteth 9781988732794 $18.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

Bertrand Bickersteth's debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. The Response of Weeds offers a much-needed window on often overlooked contributions to the province's character and provides personal perspectives on the question of black identity on the prairies. Through these rousing and evocative poems, Bickersteth uses language to call up the contours of the land itself, land that is at once mesmerizing as it is dismissively eff... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series Inquirer, The Paperback Jaclyn Dawn 9781988732671 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

Shortlisted for Best Trade Fiction at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!When an accident jeopardizing the family farm draws Amiah Williams back to Kingsley, Alberta, population 1431, she doesn't expect her homecoming to make front-page news. But there she is in The Inquirer, the mysterious tabloid that is airing her hometown's dirty laundry. Alongside stories of high school rivalries and truck-bed love affairs, disturbing revelations about Amiah's past and present are selling papers and fuelling small-town gossip. As the stakes get higher... + Read More
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Series: Humane Paperback Anna Marie Sewell 9781988754246 $19.95 FICTION Nov 02, 2020

'In Humane, Anna Marie Sewell's brings an Indigenous and poetic sensibility to the crime novel, infusing it with imagery and dance as a Métis mother of two works as an unlicensed Private Investigator. Like its Métis characters, Humane straddles two worlds, following the contours of Western-based novel but infusing it with Indigenous storytelling and allegory. It's a wonderful read, a significant addition to the canon of authentic Indigenous crime novel.' Wayne Arthurson, award-winning writer of the Leo Desroches novels. Who steals a dog from a... + Read More
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Series: Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Ti-Yat’a Paperback Katlià 9781773632377 $21.00 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

A vexatious shapeshifter walks among humans. Shadowy beasts skulk at the edges of the woods. A ghostly apparition haunts a lonely stretch of highway. Spirits and legends rise and join together to protect the north. Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Ti-Yat’a is the debut novel from Dene author Katlià. Set in Canada’s far north, this layered composite novel traverses space and time, from a community being stalked by a dark presence, a group of teenagers out for a dangerous joyride, to an archeological site on a mysterious island that holds a powerfu... + Read More
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Series: Black Matters Paperback Afua Cooper 9781773632957 $20.00 POETRY Oct 12, 2020

Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya — a dialogue between image and text. Cooper translates Raussert’s photos into poetry, painting a profound image of what disembodied historical facts might look like when they are embodied in contemporary characters. This visual and textual conversation honours the multiple layers of Blackness in the African diaspora around North America and Europe. The re... + Read More
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Series: Text Messages Paperback Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman 9781773632964 $27.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman. Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Narcy’s writing speaks of the existential crises experienced by diasporic children of war before and during imperialism in the age of the Internet. Narcy’s verses span the space between hip-hop and manifesto, portraying a crumbling, end-stage capitalist society, visions for a new reality, and the myth of multicul... + Read More
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Series: From Bear Rock Mountain The Life and Times of a Dene Residential School Survivor Hardcover Antoine Bear Rock Mountain 9781927366806 $30.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 28, 2019

In this poetic, poignant memoir, Dene artist and social activist Antoine Mountain paints an unforgettable picture of his journey from residential school to art school—and his path to healing. In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land near Radelie Koe, Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. At the tender age of seven, he was stolen away from his home and sent to a residential school—run by the Roman Catholic Church in collusion with the Government of Canada—three hundred kilometres away. Over the next twelve years, the three residential sch... + Read More
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Series: Radiant Voices 21 Feminist Essays for Rising Up Inspired by EMMA Talks Paperback Carla Bergman 9781927366844 $22.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 08, 2019

A collection of essays inspired by EMMA Talks, a speakers’ series committed to amplifying the voices of thinkers, activists, scholars, artists, and community builders who are also women-identified, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks.From Idle No More to Black Lives Matter to the Me Too movements and more, one thing is certain: There is a burgeoning collective desire to hear non-dominant voices in subtle, curious, generative ways.The Vancouver-based EMMA Talks speakers’ series amplifies the voices of women-identified, trans, and gender-noncon... + Read More