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Series:
Along the 46th
Short Fiction
1st edition
Paperback
Mitchell J Gauvin
9780994918307
$15.00
FICTION
Nov 14, 2015
An interstellar event occurs in your backyard. Time served in a Sudbury jail cell turns unexpected. A mudcat is caught. A prostitute pokes out underneath a hotel bed. A ghostly figure visits a painter. A bag of rotten carrots ruins a friendship. These are just some of the eclectic tales in this newest addition to the mythos of Northern Ontario. Along the 46th features 13 authors, 13 unique perspectives on the space beneath the 46th parallel. Prepare to confront and re-imagine the places we call home, the homes we promised ourselves we'd never r...
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Series:
Rule of Seconds
1st edition
Paperback
Shawna Diane Partridge
9780994918321
$15.00
FICTION
May 14, 2016
Four generations of women. Four generations of stories. Years of secrets. Rule of Seconds interlaces the extraordinary lives of four genera-tions of one family in the Northern Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie. The cyclical nature of themes and tragedy entwines the women and their histories. At age twenty-six, the narrator-protagonist Sheila recalls her past and that of her family in hopes of unearthing the cause of her painful epilepsy. Piecing together the depth of her troubled family history, Sheila discovers far more than she can cope with. ...
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Series:
The Dependent
A Memoir of Marriage and the Military
1st edition
Paperback
Danielle Daniel
9780994918345
$20.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 30, 2016
The Dependent is a true story written by a military wife married to a paratrooper who served in the Canadian Armed Forces for fourteen years before his army career came to a crashing halt--a freak accident near Armed Forces Base Trenton left him paraplegic and their future in shards. Danielle, a fiercely independent university student, meets Steve, an ambitious infantry private. Much of the first years of their marriage are spent apart, as Steve's infantry unit is sent overseas for duty in Croatia, Bosnia, and Afghanistan. With each tour of dut...
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Series:
Wolf Man Joe LaFlamme
Tamer untamed
2nd edition
Paperback
Suzanne F. Charron
9780995823518
$20.00
HISTORY
Sep 30, 2017
Did you ever wonder where life would lead you if you truly followed your passion? Joe LaFlamme not only wondered about it, he lived his passion to the limit. When, in 1920, he settled in Gogama, in remote Northern Ontario, he discovered a passion for the wild animals of the boreal forest. Taming wolves soon turned him into a legend, his fame spreading throughout Canada and the United States. Yet he himself remained untamed and unstoppable.Imagine a strapping Canadian trapper raising timber wolves to draw the sleigh; mushing his wolf team in the...
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5.
Series:
Whazzat?
Paperback
Roger Nash
9780995823525
$20.00
POETRY
Sep 30, 2017
Whazzat? explores how poetry invites us to look at things differently, with a sense of surprise, a whazzat. It looks at paradoxes we meet in life, and ways of resolving them through shifts of perspective. Poems cluster in four sections around paradoxes in different parts of our lives. Can we square the sheer unpredictability of events - especially with climate change - with our recurring need for certainty? Can we revitalize downtown cores without losing a sense of our past? In our personal lives, can we see unavoidable paradoxes as "gifts" tha...
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Series:
River of Fire
Conflict and Survival on the Seal River
1st edition
Paperback
Hap Wilson
9780995823532
$20.00
NATURE
Sep 30, 2017
New York's Men's Journal Magazine hired a studio photographer from Brooklyn, a post-master/writer from Thermond West Virginia and two Canadian river guides to paddle one of the country's most dangerous whitewater rivers - the Seal in northern Manitoba, for the purpose of publishing the quintessential Canadian adventure story. Add to this unlikely melange of characters, the possibility of capsizing in freezing water, the threat of polar bears, a midnight sail down Hudson Bay and Manitoba's worst boreal wild fire, this chronicle will carry the re...
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7.
Series:
Surviving Stutthof
My Father's memories behind the Death Gate
1st edition
Paperback
Liisa Kovala
9780994918390
$20.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 30, 2017
As the first Russian bombs drop on Oulu, Finland in early 1940 during the Winter War, Aarne Kovala is a young boy with a great love of the sea. While the war rages, Aarne takes fate into his own hands and joins the Finnish merchant marines. He spends his days delivering war materials between Finland, Poland, and Germany. But when Finland's ties with Germany are severed after the signing of the Moscow Armistice in 1944, Aarne and his fellow sailors are arrested by the Nazis and sent by cattle car to the infamous Stutthof concentration camp deep ...
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8.
Series:
A Matter of Will
1st edition
Paperback
Rod Carley
9780994918383
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 30, 2017
Will Crosswell's decision to pursue acting shattered his father's dream of him being a useful adult. When we first meet the young Will he is a wolf in wolf's clothing. But in the ensuing years, from relationships to the theatre, his life has become one shipwreck after another. Dumped by his fiancée and desperate to pay the rent, he finds himself taking a job on the bottom rung of the Great Chain of Being - a telemarketer. The satire becomes serious when Will hits rock bottom. After a life-altering AA encounter with an unconventional minister, W...
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9.
Series:
150 Years Up North and More
Paperback
Laura Stradiotto
9780995823594
$20.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Mar 26, 2018
A collection of creative non-fiction stories about the colonization and immigration in northern Ontario.
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10.
Series:
Wintermen II, The
Into the Deep Dark
Paperback
Brit Griffin
9781988989006
$22.95
FICTION
Apr 30, 2018
The nightmare of an endless winter is the least of the problems for Johnny Slaught and his rag tag group of climate chaos refugees. They've been surviving in a frontier town abandoned by a government that has lost control -- but their world is about to be rocked by the greatest menace of all -- human greed. Into the Deep Dark is the second in Brit Griffin's eco-catastrophic adventure series the Wintermen. The north is full of ancient legends of violence, fear and madness that descended on isolated communities in the darkness of winter. For Jo...
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11.
Series:
Watermark
Paperback
Jennifer Farquhar
9780995823570
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 18, 2018
Returning to her childhood home on Mikinaak Island after a twenty year absence, Mina McInnis unravels the incidents that caused her family's disintegration. She is determined to uncover the truth about the tragedy from her past, and the presence that dwells in the cold, dark waters of Lake Huron.
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Series:
The Wintermen
Paperback
Brit Griffin
9780995823556
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 30, 2018
The Wintermen is a near-future western, with snow machines riding into town and a showdown in the snow. Johnny Slaught and his Algonquin buddy Chumboy Commando didn't set out to lead one of the most notorious bands of rebels in recent history. But after the world descended into climate change chaos, the government did some serious triage, forcing wide-scale evacuations and abandoning rural areas to the non-stop snow. Soon enough, Slaught is forced by circumstance to stand up the the muscle of TALOS Security Corporation, setting in motion a rebe...
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13.
Series:
Soulmates on Ice
From Hometown Glory to the Top of the Podium
Paperback
Meagan Duhamel
9781988989013
$22.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Nov 01, 2018
Discover the unlikely path Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford followed en route to the top of the world in figure skating. The Northern Ontario pairs skaters, who won a complete set of Olympic medals, reflect on how they developed a working relationship and honed their resilience in a sport that often left them bloodied and bruised. Ultimately, the two-time world champions earned the perfect, storybook ending to the sport they have adored since they laced up their first pair of skates.
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Series:
Untold
Northeastern Ontario's Military Past, Volume 1, 1662-WWI
Paperback
Dieter Buse
9780995823501
$22.95
HISTORY
Oct 18, 2018
Brought together for the first time, the remarkable and mostly unacknowledged contributions, experiences, and remembrances of warfare by the people of Northeastern Ontario.
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Series:
The Sun Will Shine
Paperback
Laura Cotesta
9781988989112
$20.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 18, 2019
The Sun Will Shine chronicles Laura Cotesta's decade long battle with a rare form of cancer, from childhood to adolescence, in her own words. Taken from her journals, essays and school assignments, Laura reflects on being diagnosed with a rare spinal cord tumour and demonstrates that even through adversity one can embrace both life and death and find peace. Proceeds of the sale of books will go to support pediatric cancer care in Northern Ontario.
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Series:
Notes Towards Recovery
Paperback
Louise Ells
9781988989082
$20.00
FICTION
Mar 25, 2019
Notes Towards Recovery, is a short story collection that explores loss and the spaces around loss. At the centre of these stories are everyday women who must navigate these spaces and their shifting boundaries, often redefining themselves in the process.
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Series:
Slagflower
Poems Unearthed From A Mining Town
Paperback
Thomas Leduc
9781988989105
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 15, 2019
Slagflowers is the story of a fourth generation son of miners and his journey beyond the world underground. It's the story on a city struggling to grow beyond its past and become more than just a mining city. It's the story of everyone's struggle to be more than their family history, more than their past. It's the story of breaking through the earth and into the light.
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Series:
Untold
Northeastern Ontario's Military Past, Volume 2, World War II to Peacekeeping
Paperback
Dieter Buse
9781988989167
$25.95
HISTORY
Oct 10, 2019
In this second volume of Untold: Northeastern Ontario's Military Past, authors Dieter K. Buse and Graeme S. Mount detail the contributions and experiences of men and women from northeastern Ontario who participated in military conflicts. They present, among many topics, the Spanish Civil War, internment of enemy aliens, prisoner of war camps in northeastern Ontario, and participating in World War II. They show the participation, contributions and sacrifice of men and women in all the services (army, navy and airforce) as Northeasterners fought ...
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19.
Series: StoriaBooks
The Response
Practising mindfulness in your daily life
Paperback
Gary Petingola
9781988989228
$22.95
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Feb 20, 2020
The regular practise of Mindfulness Meditation can enrich our lives with enhanced calm, clarity, insight, emotional intelligence, creativity, productivity, and wellness. Mindfulness practices are useful in addressing illness, stress, and pain. In his first book Gary Petingola walks you through easy exercises using personal narratives to incorporate mindfulness into your daily life.
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Series:
Before the Usual Time
A Collection of Indigenous Stories and Poems.
Paperback
Darlene Naponse
9781988989150
$20.00
FICTION
Apr 23, 2020
A collection of words and imagery from diverse voices grounded in the land that explore community in relation to time. Filmmaker/writer, Darlene Naponse, curates a gathering of expression about time that has passed, time that is now and time that comes.
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Series:
If Tenderness be Gold
Paperback
Eleanor Albanese
9781988989174
$22.95
FICTION
May 09, 2020
If Tenderness Be Gold is set in 19th-century and early 20th-century northern Ontario and Manitoba. An Irish mother, an Italian herbalist, and a Scottish midwife come together on the night of a difficult birth, and the result of their union has effects that echo through the generations.
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Series:
Kinmount
Paperback
Rod Carley
9781988989259
$20.00
FICTION
Oct 17, 2020
Rod Carley has concocted another hilarious romp behind the theatre curtain - a showdown between artistic freedom and censorship in rural Ontario. Kinmount is the last place down-and-out director Dave Middleton wants to revisit yet there he is directing an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet for an eccentric producer in farm country. And there his quixotic troubles begin. From cults to karaoke, anything that can go wrong does. In one hilarious chapter after another, Dave becomes the reluctant emissary of truth in a comic battle between artist...
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Series:
The Seventh Shot: On the Trail of Canada's .22-Calibre Killer
Paperback
Ann Burke
9781988989235
$20.00
TRUE CRIME
Oct 22, 2020
The Seventh Shot is a recounting of two grisly Ontario murders some thirty years on, and the remarkable efforts of police detectives to unravel the senseless brutality of these crimes. The author and one-time classmate of the killer, haunted by the grisly crimes and some demons of her own, sets about shedding light on the dogged determination of Ontario Police Detectives to bring a killer cop to justice, involving a little luck, and a whole lot of talent. Drawing on faded archival copies, hours of interviews and first hand accounts, This one t...
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Series:
The Wintermen III:
At the End of the World
Paperback
Brit Griffin
9781988989242
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 25, 2020
Life after climate catastrophe is a dystopian nightmare Brit Griffin's series The Wintermen wraps up as Johnny Slaught tangles with new Talos strongman Eton Love over who the future belongs to: the people and the land, or the same old capitalist profiteers. With a slim promise of spring on the horizon, megalomaniac Love is gearing up for a cut and run replay of business as usual, and that means grabbing the wealth that lies within the Wintermen's territory. But the forests, deep snows, and wolves, have a different idea about the fate of the nor...
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Series:
The Undertaking of Billy Buffone
Paperback
David Giuliano
9781988989334
$22.95
FICTION
Apr 17, 2021
The Undertaking of Billy Buffone is a story about the trauma - immediate and ongoing, personal and collateral - inflicted by Rupert Churley, who preyed on boys in Twenty-Six Mile House, an isolated town in northern Ontario. The suicides, the conspiracy of silence, the secrets and the damage done to the boys, their friends and families, persist long after the murder of Scouter Churley.
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Series:
Connection at Newcombe
Paperback
Kayt Burgess
9781988989266
$20.00
FICTION
Apr 24, 2021
Newcombe is too small to qualify for a rail station. So begins a campaign against time and government to guarantee the survival of their community in post-war Northern Ontario. It's 1920. The Great War is over and the troops are on their way home to reclaim their old lives. But before he can return to his days as a lawyer, Major Callum Bannatyne has one more mission: to ensure The Canadian National Railway builds its newest expansion through his hometown of Newcombe.The only problem? Newcombe's population is too small for it to qualify for a s...
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