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Series: Beach SeriesBeach BlondeHardcover
John Reynolds9781988168548
$29.95FICTION
Nov 02, 2021
After serving two years in prison for breaking the neck of the man who assaulted his sister, Arden is released on bail. He lands a job working at Tuffy's, a restaurant and bar on the beach strip, alongside his former cellmate, Slip Winegarden. Things seem to be looking good for Arden, until it all starts to unravel...When Slip is caught crossing Viktor Khernov, Tuffy's owner, Arden witnesses the madman's revenge from close quarters. Arden's parole officer tells him to find another job or lose his parole status. Meanwhile, the detective investig... + Read More
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Series: Frame by FrameAn Animator's JourneyHardcover
Co Hoedeman9781988168555
$32.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 05, 2021
Living through the Nazi occupation of Holland and arriving in Montreal with little more than a film reel under his arm, Co Hoedeman had a dream to work for the National Film Board of Canada's renowned animation unit. It was there where he became part of the vanguard in Quebec animation, launching a distinguished career combining animated film, writing and directing.Shortly after joining the National Film Board, he began to make film history with his innovative techniques and his films based on Inuit legends. Working in collaboration with Inuit ... + Read More
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Series: Miraculous SicknessPaperback
ky Perraun9781988168579
$19.95POETRY
Sep 10, 2021
Miraculous Sickness deals with society's views and treatment of schizophrenia from ancient times to modern day. From the cure for demon possession to the recovery model, Miraculous Sickness sheds light on a subject matter still shrouded in misconceptions and myth. In this collection of poetry, we get a sense how our approach to dealing with mental illness and those affected has evolved, yet how far we have yet to go. Skillfully wrought poems that detail her own lived experience, the poet expounds upon difficult terrain with careful footing so ... + Read More
With sensitivity and tenderness, Starkie Mak has captured a tale of the immigrant experience, from the eyes of a child. Masterfully rendered with careful homage paid the children's books that have touched the hearts of so many, Mak's brush strokes and calligraphy evoke the turbulent emotions and difficulties a child must surely experience when having their little world upended, only to have a much larger and foreign world unfold before them.In a heartbreaking parting, a child says goodbye to her family and is left with her imagination as guide.... + Read More
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Series: Gibbous MoonPaperback
Dennis Cooley9781988168531
$28.95POETRY
Oct 25, 2021
A gibbous moon arrives in shadow and light. First at waxing then at waning, two moons in one cycle just shy of full. Poet Dennis Cooley's eloquent words merge with photographer/composer Michael Matthews' decadent abstract photographs. These two celebrated artists draw connections and parallels to each other's masterful art forms, tying the two together seamlessly. The antecedent and subsequent illuminate the night sky with their dance; the shadows and the light taking turns at showing us the way through the darkness.
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Series: Green Parrots in my GardenPoems from the Arab Middle EastPaperback
Jane Ross9781988440804
$15.95POETRY
Sep 15, 2021
Green Parrots in My Garden emerged from the years Jane Ross lived in the Arab and extended Middle East. As she discovered the wealth of life, custom and landscape, she decided to write about them. Her essaie (French: essayer - to try) sharpened as she journeyed into Arab lands and the beliefs of the people who live there. Accordingly, the poems capture what that world held and holds for her: the constellation of culture, people and places. The experiences of life in the Gulf region stretched and enlarged her sense of what is possible and/or rea... + Read More
Toutes les histoires sont inspirées des événements de la société iranienne d'aujourd'hui. Les bossus comme moi: l'histoire métaphorique d'un homme qui en disant le mot "pour quoi" comme protestation, son dos tord avec des bosses. Madame Fabricante des baignoires: une artiste faussement accusée d'espionnage et d'exécution après l'arrivée au pouvoir du nouveau régime tyrannique.
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Series: Beyond the Terrazzo VerandaPaperback
Norman Morra9781988440743
$19.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 15, 2021
Beyond the Terrazzo Veranda is more than a love story. Although a memoir, it traces how society changes over a lifetime. Our essence is due to many factors--some within our control--but many contingent on others' plans. Sometimes what happens before our birth impacts our personalities. My mother seeing my sister killed by a speeding truck from the veranda of our house affected my family and destroyed my mother. People mature and my evolution from a whining boy into a macho man and then a scholar was a slow and painful process. Others see us dif... + Read More
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Series: Breaking WordsLiterary ConfessionsHardcover
George Melnyk9781988440729
$19.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 15, 2021
Breaking Words: Literary Confessions provides a lively discussion of the impact of books on an author's identity. George Melnyk is an Alberta writer, who has published in various genres--essays, poetry, Alberta literature, and Canadian cinema. Why he came to be identified by certain communities of readers with one specific book and not any of his others is a mystery to be solved. He offers an engaged description of how reviews, cultural trends, and funding for writers impacts creativity. Nor is he afraid to provide the nitty-gritty of the fin... + Read More
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Series: You have been ReferredMy Life in Applied AnthropologyHardcover
Michael Robinson9781988440705
$24.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 15, 2021
You have been referred!: My life in Applied Anthropology, is a career memoir spanning the period 1969 - 2014, and detailing the process whereby the author combined his philosophical grounding in both Anthropology and Law to find fulfillment in several Canadian non- governmental organizations (NGOs). The organizational structure of the book follows the development of a career thesis, its exploration in antithesis employment in for- profit corporations, and its ultimate success in the synthesis provided by NGOs. The format of the book is a creati... + Read More
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Series: Enormous Hill, TheHardcover
Judd Palmer9781988440781
$17.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9
Nov 01, 2021
William and Bill climb to the top of an enormous hill. Little do they realise, the hill is actually a sleeping giant, and the summit is the end of the giant's nose. It seems like a great place to eat their sandwiches, but when the giant wakes up, the kids are in for the biggest adventure of their lives. Where is the giant going? Can they figure out how to get down? Will they panic? Or will there be wonders?The creators of The Enormous Hill are two of the founders of the world-renowned Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Judd Palmer and Pityu Kendere... + Read More
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Series: Seagull and the Barnacle, TheHardcover
Judd Palmer9781988440767
$17.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9
Nov 01, 2021
The Seagull and the Barnacle are good friends even though they're very different. The Seagull flies over the ocean to wonderful places that the Barnacle can't even imagine, because he's spent his whole life stuck on a rock. When the Seagull tells the Barnacle about his adventures, does it make the Barnacle feel jealous, or sad? Or is the Barnacle happy, in his own way? Maybe there is enough beauty even in one small corner of this world to fill a whole life - but maybe it takes a barnacle to know it.
This poetry collection is a unique take on an urban, contemporary Métis life. The poems have a narrative element that connects back to land, place, and the traditional and modern territories that a family finds themselves living on. Based on oral storytelling traditions, many of the poems focus on what creates a personal connection to an urban environment that not long ago was still under Indigenous governance systems. This book explores relationality, history, disenfranchisement, cultural resurgence, and through humour, leaves the reader think... + Read More
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Series: Electricity SlidesPaperback
John Brady McDonald9781772311495
$16.95POETRY
Dec 15, 2021
Electricity Slides describes a disjointed, somewhat dystopian, slightly connected series of events, written in the Dadaist "cut-up" style of the 1950s. The book first started out as a series of performance art monologues written and performed live for a multidisciplinary exhibition put on by the Indigenous Peoples Artists Collective every year in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The stories alternate between a third-person narrative and the first-person narrative of the protagonist, who goes without a name throughout the book, but whom we discover ... + Read More
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Series: Form 100Hardcover
Zviad Kvaratskhelia9781772311631
$19.95FICTION
Feb 01, 2022
Form 100 is a tragic, multi-faceted detective novel. It follows the story of Zaza Zandukeli, an unemployed writer with an elderly grandmother. One day, a film studio offers Zaza the chance to compose a script that allows him to write the story that has troubled him for years: the suicide of Martha, a former lover.Martha and Zaza were childhood friends, but her family had always been plagued by severe moral and existential problems. Following the arrest of Martha's brother, her mother leaves abroad for work. Left to her own devices, Martha encou... + Read More
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Series: Les cinq vœuxPaperback
Priya Chaudhary9781772311518
$12.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Dec 01, 2021
Randy the Racoon and Cindy the Squirrel are best friends. One day, while walking in Woodland Forest, they find their friend Bella the Butterfly. She is trapped in a spider's web! After Cindy and Randy help her out of the web, she grants them five wishes. Randy and Cindy are excited to make their own dreams come true. But, when each of their wishes hurts their friends, Randy and Cindy have to undo their wishes. With only one wish left, they then stumble upon their injured friend Doris the Crow. When deciding what to do, Randy and Cindy learn the... + Read More
Morning Song is a Cree girl who lives on a reserve. She does not like to eat vegetables because she thinks they are not important and do not taste good. One day, she goes on a walk and stumbles upon a magic garden where vegetables can talk. Morning Song meets carrots, cabbage, cucumbers, potatoes, pumpkins and other vegetables which explain her why each of them is an important part of a healthy diet. The book teaches children about importance of eating healthy, and living a happy and active lifestyle.
Tarte à l'esquimaude: une poétique de l'identité inuit is the French translation of Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity previously published in English by BookLand Press. This poetry collection examines the author's lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. Her writing takes into account the many assimilative practices that Inuit continue to face and the expectations of mainstream as to what an Inuk person can and should be. Her words examine what it is like to feel the constant rejection of her wor... + Read More
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Series: Thirty Poems for ChildrenPaperback
Jawdat Fakhreddine9781772311594
$14.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8
Nov 15, 2021
With vivid imagery and an appealing use of Arabic meters and rhymes, the poems in this book explore nature, family, school, play, and boundless world of the imagination. The diverse themes and sounds in Thirty Poems for Children cultivate cognitive and contemplative senses along with unique layout and drawings of the book. The 30 poems deliver an important educational message in simple, yet captivating language, and prompt children to think creatively through the senses and the imagination.
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Series: Trente poèmes pour enfantsPaperback
Jawdat Fakhreddine9781772311600
$14.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8
Nov 15, 2021
Avec des images vivantes et une utilisation attrayante des mesures et des rimes arabes, les poèmes explorent la nature, la famille, l'école, le jeu et le monde illimité de l'imagination. Les thèmes variés du livre cultivent les sens cognitifs et contemplatifs des enfants, tout comme la mise en page et les dessins uniques du livre. Les 30 poèmes de ce livre promeuvent un message éducatif important à travers un langage simple, mais captivant, et encouragent la réflexion créative des enfants par les sens et l'imagination.
This is a poetry collection written during a period of trauma while the author was working as a Counsel to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in 2017. This book is about memories and experience growing up on the Pelican Narrows Reserve in northern Saskatchewan in the 1980s: summers spent on the land and the pain of residential school. With this collection, the author wants to teach and inform Canadians of her experiences growing up as an Indigenous woman in Saskatchewan. She believes it is important to sha... + Read More
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Series: Why I Was LatePaperback
Charlie Petch9781771315579
$20.00POETRY
Sep 01, 2021
Winner of the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places. Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, brings a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing—Petch works hard. And whether it's as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a p... + Read More
Winner of the 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry * 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Finalist * 2022 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist * 2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Shortlist * 2022 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal Jury Selection * 2022 Concordia University First Book Prize Shortlist An expansive, hybrid, debut collection of prose poems, self-erasures, verse, and family photo cut-ups about growing up in a racially trinary, diversely troubled family. Dream of No One but Myself is an interdisciplinary, lyrical unravelling of the trauma-mem... + Read More
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Series: AutowarPaperback
Assiyah Jamilla Touré9781771315630
$20.00POETRY
Nov 01, 2021
2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Longlist * 2022 ReLit Awards Longlist A visceral, vital, unblinking debut collection of poems exploring kinesthetic memory and longing, inherited violence, and the body as a geographical site. We're often told that we are given only what we can bear. For some of us our first lessons are in how much pain we're made to think we deserve — and the resulting scars are always meant to be kept secret. Assiyah Jamilla Touré's debut collection is a record of those scars — not those inflicted on us by the thousands of l... + Read More
Governor General's Award-winning poet Don Domanski's posthumous last collection once again melds perception-expanding environmental poetry and metaphysics into a seamless, moving lyric whole. Fetishes of the Floating World continues Don's lifelong exploration of mystical ecology. It is an invitation to experience the sacred dimensions of what-is and to become more intimate with the strangeness that haunts our lively, changeable world. Here is a spirituality that doesn't turn its back on the material and immerses us in earthly being. The sustai... + Read More
"A woman lives alone in a small house situated in a tidy yard surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable wall. She spends her days reading, swimming, and watching TV. She eats regular meals and keeps her house clean. But the simplicity is deceiving, because the woman has no idea how she came to live in her house, and--most importantly--what exists beyond the wall. Her only source of information is a talking TV monitor in her living room called Shiatsung. The entity controlling the monitor is committed to keeping the woman hydrated and educated, bu... + Read More
X-Files meets The Young and The Restless On a typical autumn afternoon, Martha hosts a group of middle-aged women at her suburban home. The day takes a sudden turn when Elisabeth, an estranged friend, turns up unexpectedly--and she isn't the only unwanted guest at the tea party. Martha's sister, Maureen, shows up after years of radio silence, along some painful memories and a lot of confusion. It doesn't take long for the guest list to change again when Martha disappears after a simple trip to the backyard for herbs. Martha is the most beloved... + Read More
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Series: Dying for AttentionA Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home CarePaperback
Susan MacLeod9781772620610
$20.00COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 14, 2021
When Susan MacLeod accompanied her 90-year-old mother through a labyrinthine long-term care system, it was a nine-year journey navigating a government within a heart in a system without compassion. Her family, much like the system, erected walls rather than opening arms. She found herself involuntarily placed at the pivot point between her frail, elderly mother's need for love and companionship, the system's inability to deliver, and her brother's indifference. She had also spent three years as a government spokesperson enthusiastically defendi... + Read More
A surrealist journey through alienation, lost dreams, and self-redemptionA woman loses her sister to suicide and struggles with the overwhelming and confusing feelings that continue to plague her. A man reflects on a decade spent working in a call centre and the strange day-to-day momentum that caused him to unconsciously abandon his goals. Helem relies on a propulsive graphic narrative and evocative illustration to tell the intensely personal stories of two characters at a crossroads.The stories contained in Helem, originally published by TRIP... + Read More
Swan Song is the final chapter on a body of cut-and-paste work that is difficult to categorize but has sometimes been referred to as "graphic poetry." Culled from decades of hunting and gathering in the underground, Ahlers has filled many binders to overflowing. The book revisits the black and white photocopier esthetic of her genre-bending and influential book Temper, Temper and its sequel Fatal Distraction. Swan Song finally completes this groundbreaking trilogy. Part art book, part zine collection, part diary, part graphic novel, but all Son... + Read More
Where will Galen Toews wake up next? When Galen Toews collapses in the subway station, she immediately draws a crowd. As she lies on the platform, semi-conscious, faint murmurings of concern mingle with half-remembered voices from earlier spells. Before too long, Galen regains full consciousness and shuffles slowly out of station. A man follows her, urging her to sit down and rest. But Galen wanders away, following breadcrumbs of memory back to a time when the spells were just beginning--and there was still hope that someone, somewhere, might b... + Read More
Sometimes Google doesn't have all the answersAlison McCreesh is on the Russian leg of a circumpolar journey, family in tow, when she discovers a lump in her breast. Worried about the possibilities and concerned about navigating an unfamiliar healthcare system, McCreesh turns to Google for reassurance, but finds none. Reluctantly, she embarks on a new excursion--to find a doctor and a diagnosis in the town she's visiting. As a local guide escorts her from place to place with only the sparsest of explanations, McCreesh's anxiety mounts.Petrozavod... + Read More
With great power comes great... misfortune? Dutilleul lives a quiet life, spending his days in the office and evenings reading the newspaper. Until one night, when the power goes out. When the lights come back on, he finds himself in a strange situation--he's standing in the hallway, locked out of his apartment. After a few tentative experiments, Dutilleul discovers he's developed the ability to walk through walls. Perplexed by his newfound talent, he visits the doctor, who prescribes a cure. Unfortunately, Dutilleul doesn't quite follow the di... + Read More
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Series: AmikHardcover
Sharon King9781928120285
$15.00JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Dec 31, 2021
The beaver is busy... This delightful children's picture book tells the story of amik, the beaver, who works on his dam throughout the day while nature and the activities of other animals carry on around him. At the end of a long day, amik returns to his den to be with his family. Along with its beautiful cut-paper illustrations, Amik offers the chance for children to learn words and phrases in the Ojibwe language, as the text appears in both English and Anishinaabemowin. A fun, colourful and engaging book for children ages three through six.
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Series: Gold PoursPaperback
Aurore Gatwenzi9781988989372
$20.00POETRY
Oct 16, 2021
In this debut collection by emerging poet Aurore Gatwenzi, a stunning new voice emerges as she shares the experience of being young and Black in northern Ontario. Gold Pours is a collection of poems that talk about God, identity, heartbreak and passion. Gatwenzi's honest approach to writing exposes readers to humility, surrender and lessons learned from courageous acts of vulnerability.
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Series: Uncommon SenseAn Autistic MemoirPaperback
Adam Mardero9781988989358
$20.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 16, 2021
Adam Mardero was diagnosed with Asperger's at the age of nine, and began the journey to understand his differences and the label that would define his life. Uncommon Sense is a vulnerable and insightful exploration of a boy growing into a young man while battling a label and the misunderstandings that arise from being on the spectrum. Through the perspective of his geek world, Adam shares the challenges faced after being labeled and how he found his voice as an activist for neurodiverse young people.
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Series: No Crystal StairPaperback
Mairuth Sarsfield9781773900919
$21.95FICTION
Oct 01, 2021
First published in 1993, No Crystal Stair is an absorbing story of urban struggle in the 1940s. Raising her three daughters alone, Marion discovers she can only find gainful employment if she passes as white. Set in the Montreal working class neighbourhood of Little Burgundy against the backdrop of an exciting cosmopolitan jazz scene-home of Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones, and Rockhead's Paradise-and the tense years of World War II, No Crystal Stair is both a tender story of friendship and community as well as an indictment of Canada's "soft" rac... + Read More
A photographer takes pictures of his wife. She watches him look. What do they see and how does that change over the years? I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through is about what keeps people together--and what can pull them apart. As Tomas and Marie cross the country and each other's lives, they discover what it means to be fully human. A story of passion, love, aging, dark secrets, and the sadness of loss.
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Series: Blue SuitcaseDocumentary PoeticsPaperback
Jim Nason9781771262798
$18.00POETRY
Dec 15, 2021
In his seventh poetry collection, poet and novelist Jim Nason, delves into the lives of the eight missing and murdered men from Toronto's gay village in 2017. The disappearance of one man in particular, Selim Esen, compels Nason to search for a deeper understanding of the serial-killer murders while examining his own troubled history. What he discovers will surprise, enrage, and inspire. Cherish each day as if it were your last, Nason urges, as if you had already died and were looking back.
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Series: ConstrictorPaperback
Nathaniel Moore9781771262781
$18.00POETRY
Dec 07, 2021
Constrictor piles shock on top of shock until all one can feel is the places where ones nerves are twitching liked downed Hydro wires. A long poem outlining the trauma and resolution of teenage sexual abuse acts as the centre piece for a collection which examines the chaotic imbalance of power dynamics. These rowdy, risky poems are like sticking your fingers into an electric fan. Whether detailing love torn at every corner, family tragedy or economic anxiety, Nathaniel G. Moore's fourth collection of poetry examines the pulsing shrapnel years a... + Read More
A Nihilist Walks Into A Bar is the frustrated, fierce, and funny first book of a woman for whom all the old expectations of life have fallen apart. Railing against careers, religion, sex, drinking, and all the usual signposts on the road to self fulfillment, Ferguson strips away the facade of old ideas and shouts and laughs at the chaos that lies beneath. This book is a manifesto of the disenfranchised, and the diary of a country girl with her head in the clouds. It is a love letter to the world, and a breakup text at 3am. To anyone who's ever ... + Read More
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Series: Changing ResidenceNew and Selected PoemsPaperback
Corrado Paina9781771262774
$20.00POETRY
Nov 15, 2022
Changing Residence documents the conflicts and resolutions of a restless writer who has spent a lifetime traveling the world to document what he finds there. Raised in Italy, with its old-world perspective, and settled in Canada amid the babel of its grand multicultural experiment, Paina's poetry, over the course of many books, has been an evolutionary and revolutionary response to the accident of birth that separates humans from each other and the cultural bonds we forge to bridge that separation. Michael Redhill has called Paina's work "a cel... + Read More
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Series: Mouthful of BeesPaperback
Shannon Quinn9781771262712
$18.00POETRY
Dec 07, 2021
Mouthful of Bees comes from Quinn's own experience as someone who both provides and uses mental health and addiction services. The collection moves between personal, communal and mythical experiences of madness to obliterate the idea that recovery is a tidy or linear event. These pieces ask us to be unflinchingly honest with how we care for each other and our environment. They ask us to be patient with each other and our inevitable mistakes while prodding at society's uncomfortable relationship with forgiveness. Finally, they challenge us to w... + Read More
In Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah, Michael Trussler engages with the beauty and violence manifested in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The poems here blur online reality with Zen Buddhism (relating the Japanese female anthropomorph Hatsune Miku to Basho), and explore humanity's changing relationship with "Nature" to gain a deeper understanding of language and technology. With thematic subtext pertaining to mental illness and aging, much of Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah offers the sense that this subjecti... + Read More
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Series: Repointing the BricksPaperback
Jacqueline Bourque9781771262736
$18.00POETRY
Dec 07, 2021
Repointing the Bricks inhabits and is inhabited. Examining the lasting impression that birthplace can have on those who eventually find refuge elsewhere, Jacqueline Bourque writes from multiple locations - both geographical and bodily - in pursuit of identity. Confident that home is often experienced as addition and subtraction of the self, the poet "sheds new homes regularly" with the knowledge that instability can lead to a reconsideration of how a person is defined. Repointing the Bricks is a remarkable, reorienting debut.
The Twisted Gardens/Les Jardins Tordus is the exploration of an inverted creation, not that of the light that was, but that of the darkness in which everything exists. It is a journey through a territory of birth and viscera, animals and desire, spirits and metal. Written simultaneously in both French and English, Dyens searches for singular emotions and unique metaphors in the folds of two intertwined languages, examining how words both unleash and imprison our humanity. The Twisted Gardens/Les Jardins Tordus is also an experiment in virtual r... + Read More
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Series: Your TurnPaperback
Carole Glasser Langille9781771262729
$18.00POETRY
Dec 15, 2021
There are poems in Your Turn that are political, outward-looking, recording inequities; others revisit literary and visual artists and other sections contain more intimate, personal poems whose theme might be summarized as the double self. Whether poems speak to those no longer here or the poet's own mortality, Your Turn affirms our trust and conviction. In their surprising insights and language these poems wake us up.
A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother. A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships--with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals-on-wheels recipient. A queer metal band's summer tour unravels amid the sticky heat of the Northeastern US. A codependent listicle writer becomes obsessed with a Japanese ASMR channel.The stories in Personal Attention Roleplay are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and th... + Read More
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Series: Good Arabs, ThePaperback
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch9781999058890
$17.95POETRY
Sep 21, 2021
Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on the city bus. The collection is an interlocking and rich offering of the speaker's communities, geographical surroundings both expansive and precise, and family both biological and chosen. The Good Arabs gifts the reader with insight into cycles and repetition in ourselves and our b... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction SeriesCine Star Salon, ThePaperback
Leah Ranada9781774390320
$21.95FICTION
Oct 01, 2021
Philippine-born Vancouverite Sophia is most grateful for two things: her modest hair salon and Adrian, her mild-mannered fiancé. She is eager to get married, move away from her highly educated but career-frustrated parents, who believe that their daughter can be so much more than a beautician.Then Sophia's estranged friend reaches out from Manila, desperate for help. After a dubious accident, her fiery Auntie Rosy is on the verge of losing the Cine Star Salon--the place where Sophia first felt the call to become a hairstylist and salon owner. C... + Read More
Saved from certain death on the Whistler-Vancouver highway after his luxury car malfunctions, Mark Morata feels honour-bound to reward his rescuer, Geoff Pybus, with a token of his undying gratitude. Geoff, a frustratingly humble university professor, happy with his family's lot in life, only wants the impossible: for his modest, straightforward wife to get tenure at her university.Luckily, Mark is a man for whom impossible is just another word. As a sophisticated importer-exporter of certain recreational substances ("drug lord" is such a clich... + Read More
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Series: Landmark EditionIcefieldsLandmark EditionPaperback
Thomas Wharton9781774390368
$23.95FICTION
Oct 15, 2021
In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of sunlight illuminates the ice in front of him and Byrne sees something in the blue-green radiance that will forever link him to the ancient glacier. In this moment, his life's purpose becomes uncovering the mystery of the icefield that almost was his tomb. Along the way, he encounters similarly fixated individuals, each ... + Read More
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Series: Rescue at Fort EdmontonNeWest Press editionPaperback
Rita Feutl9781774390412
$12.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 16
Sep 01, 2021
Janey doesn't want to spend the summer away from her friends in Toronto--and certainly not in Edmonton with the grandmother she hardly knows. But her parents will be away--her mother in Turkey designing housing for earthquake victims, her dad on business trips. Her first surprise is her feisty grandma, who meets her at the airport in her vintage Cadillac, Marilyn. The second comes when she visits the Fort Edmonton historic park and time travels to 1907. The third is learning the real reason she's in Edmonton. Her grandma is going through cancer... + Read More
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Series: Rescue in the RockiesNeWest Press editionPaperback
Rita Feutl9781774390399
$12.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 16
Sep 01, 2021
Can 14-year-old Janey disentangle her time-hopping dilemma and save not just her own life, but the past lives of others, before it's too late?Rescue in the Rockies follows Janey as she is forced to spend the holidays with her grandma - and her grandma's new beau, Charlie, who has invited along his German grandson, Max - in Banff, Alberta. Janey can't believe her parents might potentially miss one of the most important holidays of the year and resigns herself to spending her time away from home wandering around the hotel with, of all people, Max... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetryrump + flankPaperback
Carol Steski9781774390283
$19.95POETRY
Sep 01, 2021
Carol Harvey Steski's tenacious and unapologetic debut, rump + flank, explores the body in nature's many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical. The result is a fantastical poetic work that sheds light on what bodies--especially female ones--endure, probing the full range of experiences from pleasure and hope to deep loss and trauma.These poems are piercingly humorous, sexy, and peppered with startling absurdities, but are grounded by an undercurrent of nostalgia (and a soupçon of feminist rage): mercury reproduces like funh... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction SeriesLast TidePaperback
Andy Zuliani9781774390344
$21.95FICTION
Oct 01, 2021
Ana and Win find themselves stuck, lifting the weight of their pasts, while frustrated by their present jobs: photographing vacant lots and decayed industrial sites, cataloguing the decline of capitalist excess to digitally scrub away humanity, making way for more gentrification.When the pair is sent by their employers to a rustic island in the Pacific Northwest--home to hippies, runaways, and survivalist preppers--they meet Lena, an oceanographer and climate scientist, who has moved to the island in search of "the big one," the cataclysmic ear... + Read More
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Series: Stella's CarpetPaperback
Lucy Black9781989689264
$19.95FICTION
Oct 15, 2021
Exploring the intergenerational consequences of trauma, including those of a Holocaust survivor and a woman imprisoned during the Iranian Revolution, Stella's Carpet weaves together the overlapping lives of those stepping outside the shadows of their own harrowing histories to make conscious decisions about how they will choose to live while forging new understandings of family, forgiveness and reconciliation. As the story unfolds, readers are invited to ponder questions about how we can endure the unimaginable, how we can live with the secrets... + Read More
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Series: My Two-Faced LuckPaperback
Brett Grubisic9781989689271
$19.95FICTION
Oct 15, 2021
1990. Transferred to Horsetail Institution and mortally ill, an inmate devotes his remaining weeks to a project--recording his history on cassette tape. The account describes a curious queer journey that began in rural New England in 1927. Meditating on ruined family, illicit lovers, drunken parties, a tragic marriage, and strange terms of employment, the American inmate strives to wring sense--meaning--from a life now winding down in River Bend City, British Columbia... a few years after a jury found him guilty of murdering his boss, a geriatr... + Read More
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Series: Sure Connection, APaperback
W.M. Herring9781989689288
$19.95POETRY
Oct 15, 2021
In A Sure Connection the author contemplates the connections that matter, and that confirm we matter--connections with others and with our real or re-imagined selves. Through portraits of faith, family, nature, mortality and ordinary life, the work affirms resilience and resolve with clear, rich language seasoned with a wry twist, ensuring an engaging read. With many pieces set in British Columbia--from the sub-boreal plateau to the coastal rainforest--A Sure Connection evokes a sense of attachment to place that is as personal as it is universal.
Follow Sgoobidoo, famed canine detective, to the corner store, bingo hall and amusement park in a series of feeble intrigues with disappointing endings. Listen to the deafening silence of the broken television set as the wretched Sammy sits waiting for the professor, the prospector or his mother to call with a mission. Accompany the pitiful pooch and his humble human through a series of sad adventures in this collection of stories gathered in the familiar format of an Archie digest, interspersed with ketchup-flavoured games and advertisements. ... + Read More
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