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Series: Dumb-Show Paperback Fawn Parker 9781927886564 $22.00 FICTION Sep 30, 2021

?This is literature made from flesh, messy and bloody and exacting and haunting.? Heather and Geoffrey ? twenty-something siblings ? become entangled in separate power struggles with a controversial professor, Dr. Barry Martin. His divisive views on masculinity have put him in the public spotlight in a way that?s created both public disgust and a private lust for proximity. As Geoffrey fumbles through grandiose academic desires, and Heather attempts to orient herself in a sea of male-inflicted indignities and conflicting impulses, the performa... + Read More
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Series: A Separate Star Paperback 9781927886540 $20.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

A Separate Star collects the decolonial socialist ambitions of Red Braid Alliance through reflections on struggle, popular-philosophical inquiries, and revolutionary strategy. The roots of the collectively-authored book are in Red Braid?s decade of efforts to foster the self-organization of what they referred to as subaltern social groups in tent cities, squats, and nameless low-rise apartment buildings facing demoviction in cities and towns throughout south-west British Columbia. Beyond a collection of reminiscences about such ?basebuilding? a... + Read More
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Series: Black Women Under State Surveillance, Poverty, & the Violence of Social Assitance Paperback Idil Abdillahi 9781927886588 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 11, 2022

The lives and conditions of Black women are inseparable from, and inextricably linked to, all dimensions of social and political life. Black Women Under State centres on the realities of Black women, both in-process and theory, who are living at the intersections of race, poverty, surveillance, and social services. Abdillahi, who is uniquely positioned as a community organizer, practitioner, public intellectual, and scholar, engaged twenty women living at these life intersections in the greater Toronto area. The text undertakes a deep and stud... + Read More
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Series: Brine Paperback Mallory Amirault 9781927886526 $17.00 POETRY Dec 06, 2021

Mallory Amirault's debut collection Brine is an ambitious land-metaphor; merging history and imagination, it's a work of poetry that doubles as a prose novel. Subtly unfolding character-led intimacies, it acts as an interruption to long-standing Maritime coloniality. Amirault describes Brine as an aboiteau at the shoreline of a colonial event. Engaging the elemental and political act of arriving and departing, the story is a mechanism that slowly removes salt from the Maritimes, and points to say ?wound.?
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Series: Bigotry on Broadway 1st edition Paperback Ishmael Reed 9781771862561 $24.95 PERFORMING ARTS Sep 01, 2021

How do intellectuals and scholars feel about how members of their ethnic groups are portrayed on Broadway? How would we know? Very few of them have the power to rate which plays and musicals are worthy and which ones are flops, and above all, be heard or read. The American critical fraternity is an exclusive club. Carla Blank and Ishmael Reed invited informed and accomplished writers, women and man, who are rarely heard from to comment about how ethnic groups are depicted on Broadway. The contributors are Lonely Christopher, Tommy Curry, Jack ... + Read More
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Series: Montreal and the Bomb 1st edition Paperback Gilles Sabourin 9781771862653 $24.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2021

With war raging in Europe, the Allies worried about advances being made by Germans scientists. The British wanted to get a jump ahead of Hitler and the physicists working for the Third Reich. England was too close to the enemy, so they decided to secretly establish a nuclear research laboratory in Montreal. The best scientists moved to Montreal with two goals in mind: develop an ultra-powerful bomb and find a new source of energy. What started as cooperation with the Americans instead became a race to harness the energy of the atom when Washing... + Read More
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Series: To See Out the Night 1st edition Paperback David Clerson 9781771862684 $19.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2021

After a man inadvertently swallows an insect, he withdraws from the human race; another feels an ape growing inside him; and a son struggles to decipher the meaning of his father?s death. Visceral, surprising, and surreal, these twelve stories from David Clerson move from the charged darkness of the woods to the urban underground, while characters set a course to see out the night. Scurrying insects and luminous jellyfish reveal a predatory, ever-present world of childhood fairy tales, lurking shadows, and unrelenting fevers. Individuals are sw... + Read More
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Series: Maker 1st edition Paperback Jim Upton 9781771862592 $24.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2021

Nicole Fortin is on the cusp of realizing a long-held dream when her life takes a sudden turn. Instead of participating in the Olympic Games, she finds herself struggling to master the challenging physical demands of her job in an aerospace plant and win the confidence of her male colleagues. As her involvement in union activity deepens, she is drawn into the centre of a bitter labour battle that pits her workmates against their employer. In the midst of this escalating confrontation, incidents from Nicole?s past threaten to destroy her credibi... + Read More
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Series: Waswanipi 1st edition Paperback Jean-Yves Soucy 9781771862530 $17.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2021

It is 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and looking for a summer job. He dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But to his dismay he is sent to an equipment depot somewhere between Val-d'Or and Chibougamau in Northern Quebec. His disappointment vanishes when he learns that the depot is located near a Cree community and that he will have two Cree guides, including a man named William Saganash, and his work will involve canoeing through the lakes and rivers of the region. On each encounter with the Crees, on each of... + Read More
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Series: Mussolini Also Did a Lot of Good The Spread of Historical Amnesia 1st edition Paperback Francesco Filippi 9781771862622 $24.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2021

Legend would have it that Mussolini put roofs over Italians? heads, developed the economy, had trains running on time, stood up for justice and against the mafia, protected the Jews from Nazi Germany, was a feminist, and put Italy on the map as a respected power. The founder of fascism?s only mistake was allying with Hitler.
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Series: Letters to Amelia Paperback Lindsay Zier-Vogel 9781771666985 $23.00 FICTION Sep 07, 2021

Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the thirty-year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her lover, Gene Vidal. She becomes captivated by the famous pilot who disappeared in 1937. Letter by letter, Grace understands more about Amelia while piecing her own life back together. When Grace discovers she is pregnant, her life becomes more intertwined with the aviation hero and she begins to write her own letters to Amel... + Read More
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Series: Tongues On Longing and Belonging through Language Paperback Ayelet Tsabari 9781771667142 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 26, 2021

In this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used as both bridge and weapon. Some explore the way power and privilege affect language learning, especially the shame and exclusion often felt by non-native English speakers in a white, settler, colonial nation. Some confront the pain of losing a mother tongue or an ancestral language along with the loss of community and highlight the empowerment that comes with reclamation.... + Read More
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Series: Suture Paperback Nic Brewer 9781771667029 $20.00 FICTION Sep 21, 2021

To make her films, Eva must take out her eyes and use them as batteries. To make her art, Finn must cut open her chest and remove her lungs and heart. To write her novels, Grace must use her blood to power the word processor. Suture shares three interweaving stories of artists tearing themselves open to make art. Each artist baffles their family, or harms their loved ones, with their necessary sacrifices. Eva's wife worries about her mental health; Finn's teenager follows in her footsteps, using forearms bones for drumsticks; Grace's network co... + Read More
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Series: Umbilical Cord Paperback Hasan Namir 9781771667180 $20.00 POETRY Sep 14, 2021

Dear Child Once upon a timeYour baba fell in love with your dadWe got married and dreamt of having a babyA roller coaster of emotions and feelingsWe were always hopeful Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir shares a joyful collection about parenting, fatherhood and hope. These warm free-verse poems document the journey that he and his husband took to have a child. Between love letters to their young son, Namir shares insight into his love story with his husband, the complexities of the IVF surrogacy process and the first y... + Read More
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Series: Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day that I Was Born Paperback Mona Høvring 9781771667067 $23.00 FICTION Oct 05, 2021

Winner of the 2021 Dobloug Prize (Norway)Longlisted for the Prix Femina 2021 (France)Winner of the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for LiteratureShortlisted for the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize In a hotel, high up in a mountain village, two sisters aim to reconnect after distant years that contrast their close, almost twin-like upbringing. Martha has just been discharged from a sanatorium after a mental breakdown. Ella agrees to keep her company in the hope that the clean winter air will provide clarity—and a way back to their childhood connection. It... + Read More
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Series: Iceland Is Melting and So Are You Paperback Talya Rubin 9781771667227 $20.00 POETRY Oct 12, 2021

Amidst the phenomenon of our changing planet, another exists closer to home: how the urgency of the climate emergency affects our ability to be human; to comprehend and to feel. The latest collection from award-winning poet Talya Rubin explores the melting of ice sheets and the thawing of the heart. It offers recognition of, and salve for, the vast mysteries of our natural world, our human interior, and the relationship between the two. Rubin interweaves explorations of the range of the human condition amidst depictions of nature. She shares mo... + Read More
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Series: The Absence of Zero Paperback R. Kolewe 9781771667265 $28.00 POETRY Nov 09, 2021

The Absence of Zero is a triumphantly-executed celebration of the long poem tradition. Consisting of 256 16-line quartets, and 34 free-form interruptions, this slow-moving haunting work is a beautiful example of thinking in language, a meditation that explores time and memory in both content and form. The 20th century is already more than 20 years past: The Absence of Zero is Kolewe's elegy to that era, and the disparate fragments of its ideas that continue to affect and disrupt our present.
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Series: Young Readers Reversing Time One Boy's Quest to Change History Paperback Charlotte Mendel 9781771836050 $25.00 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Dec 01, 2021

A fast-paced fantasy YA novel that explores vital themes in today’s society – such as climate change and the environment – within the context of an exciting page-turner. This timely adventure story will empower and excite young people at the same time
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Series: Essential Translations Series The Strange Scent of Saffron Paperback Miléna Babin 9781771836197 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2021

Lower Saint-Lawrence, summer 1988. Looking to escape the violent grip of her uncle and twin brother, Nil heads for Le Bic with a half-tamed fox in tow. There, the tough young woman meets Jacob, an HIV-positive restaurant owner mixed up in illegal saffron trafficking. Meanwhile in India, Amar is about to take part in his first harvest of the red gold while his sister Alaka tries to conceal the embarrassment of her first period. The Strange Scent of Saffron is a raw, gut-wrenching novel about the lack and gradual attainment of empowerment, partly... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Call Me Stan A Tragedy in Three Millennia Paperback K.R. Wilson 9781771835985 $29.95 FICTION Dec 01, 2021

Long-listed for the 2022 Leacock Medal for Humour When King Priam's pregnant daughter was fleeing the sack of Troy, Stan was there. When Jesus of Nazareth was beaten and crucified, Stan was there - one cross over. Stan has been a Hittite warrior, a Roman legionnaire, a mercenary for the caravans of the Silk Road and a Great War German grunt. He’s been a toymaker in a time of plague, a reluctant rebel in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, and an information peddler in the cabarets of post-war Berlin. Stan doesn't die, and he doesn't know why. And now... + Read More
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Series: Guernica Prize The Shade Tree Paperback Theresa Shea 9781771836296 $25.00 FICTION Dec 01, 2021

Winner of the 2020 Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction and The 2022 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction When the lies of thirteen-year-old Ellie Turner cause a black man’s lynching in 1930s Florida, her younger sister Mavis begins to question the family's long-held beliefs about race. At the same time, the novel focuses on the courageous story of Sliver, a black midwife whose love for her grandson forces her to flee to Washington DC with the child, and Mavis, in tow. As the novel progresses through the decades, the lives of the three women merge a... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series A Good Name Paperback Yejide Kilanko 9781771836012 $25.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2021

Twelve years in America and Eziafa Okereke has nothing to show for it. Desperate to re-write his story, Eziafa returns to Nigeria to find a woman he can mold to his taste. Eighteen-year-old Zina has big dreams. An arranged marriage to a much older man isn't one of them. Trapped by family expectations, Zina marries Eziafa, moves to Houston, and trains as a nurse. Buffeted by a series of disillusions, the couple stagger through a turbulent marriage until Zina decides to change the rules of engagement.
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Series: World Young Readers Across the Face of the Storm Paperback Jerome R. Adams 9781771836814 $20.00 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Sep 01, 2021

This is an apprenticeship novel, the story of Isabel Cooper, 17, and her 15-year-old brother, Frederick. In early 1911, they leave their Georgetown home after the sudden death of their Mexican mother. They are determined to find their father, a college professor who – like many American leftists – had joined the Mexican revolution a few months earlier. They travel by train, stagecoach, and wagon, at first put off by what they see of turn-of-the-century American South. But they soon learn of the quiet dignity of their mother’s homeland. After an... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Don't Hang Your Soul on That Paperback Robert Hilles 9781771836081 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2021

The novel features two main narratives in alternating chapters. The first narrative is set in Khon Kaen Thailand in 1970. This narrative follows the developing love story between Tuum and Roong. Tuum is a high school mathematics teacher and Roong has been forced to work in a wealthy family’s home to pay off a family debt. As they fall deeply in love, Roong’s circumstances become more precarious and dangerous. The second narrative in present day Thailand follows Canadian ex-pat Ed Linn, married to Nan, a Thai woman. While Ed is helping her great... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Inside the Pearl Paperback Jude Neale 9781771836746 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2021

Longlisted for the Magpie Award for Poetry Inspired by contemporary English language haiku, accomplished poet, Jude Neale, explores ordinary objects through both poetry and photography in her new collection, Inside the Pearl. These photos and haiku-like poems capture moments and memories – recording and archiving, the history and treasures of Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver, Canada. The images range from colourful household items to grainy, black and white snapshots of times past, reminders of a most difficult period in Japanese Canadian history ... + Read More
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Series: World Essays Romarcord Flânerie, spectacle et mémoire dans la Rome de Federico Fellini Paperback Marina Vargau 9781771836890 $39.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2021

Federico Fellini (1920-1993), cinéaste de Rome par excellence, contribue activement et d’une manière décisive à faire de sa ville adoptive la capitale cinématographique du XXe siècle. Sa Rome cinématographique émerge d’une filmographie impressionnante où se déploient trois constellations : celle des attractions (Luci del varietà, Le notti di Cabiria, La dolce vita), celle des survivances (Block-notes di un regista, Satyricon, Roma) et celle des simulacres (Ginger e Fred, Intervista). En confrontant ses souvenirs aux différents passés de la vill... + Read More
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Series: Essential Essays Series Shifting Paradigms Essays on Art and Culture Paperback Ewan Whyte 9781771835633 $20.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Dec 01, 2021

Continuing from Desire Lines, Shifting Paradigms is a collection of essays on art, poetry and culture--both high and low--gathered from the astute critical work of Toronto writer Ewan Whyte. Included: essays on Yayoi Kusama, Anish Kapoor, Janet Cardiff, Damien Hirst, Viktor Mitic, Anne Carson and a number of other Canadian artists and poets.
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Series: Essential Poets Series This Way Home Selected and New Work Paperback Gianna Patriarca 9781771836708 $25.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2021

This book contains selections from Gianna Patriarca’s previously published poetry books, as well as a number of new poems. It is a collection written by a woman in a time when the support and the encouragement was as limited as visibility. In many ways it is a collection of verses written as an act of survival and acknowledgement of existence.
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Series: World Prose 37 Paperback Joy Cohen 9781771836432 $25.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2021

If small-town reporter Polly Stern has to cover one more manure runoff story, she's going to lose her already unmindful mind. Polly thought she'd end up as a serious photojournalist, traveling the world, meeting important people, and documenting significant environmental and social events. Life didn't turn out as expected. With her career at a standstill, her marriage over, her nest empty, her spiritual foundation precarious, and her family keeping a vital secret from her, Polly is desperate for answers. And change. She sets out on an unintende... + Read More
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Series: Memoir and Biography ...and along came Alexis Paperback Emma Pivato 9781771836784 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2021

And Along Came Alexis is a book about choices and consequences. The author’s youngest daughter, Alexis, was born in 1978 with multiple disabilities, including blindness, an intractable seizure disorder and spastic quadriplegia. The choice to keep her at home despite medical advice resulted in a limiting of career opportunities for her parents and educational and other enrichment opportunities for her siblings. However, it also introduced the family to a whole community of earnest and interesting people dealing with similar challenges that they ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Against the Machine Manifesto Paperback Brian Van Norman 9781771836951 $25.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2021

Mel Buckworth, dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills so apparent in his children’s generation. He is galled by his daughter Dani’s university friend, Stanley Best, who is about to achieve fame in the fields of nano technology and artificial intelligence. As Mel desperately attempts to find equilibrium he estranges his family, leaves his wife and enlists the help of a greedy grad student. Will Baker teaches Mel the ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Anthony A Composite Novel Paperback Shayne McGreal 9781771836265 $20.00 FICTION Dec 01, 2021

Following a stranger hoping he’s a long-lost friend, breaking into a relative’s home to retrieve your antidepressants, planning to get pregnant, getting pregnant, and trying to tell your husband you don’t want the baby, waiting all evening for your wife to compliment your appearance, running a social experiment and getting blamed when a woman gets hit by a car, getting fired after you’re caught with your pants down at work – all stories involve Anthony, a sensitive, insecure, mentally ill young man and aspiring filmmaker. The collection explore... + Read More
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Series: Mystery and Crime April on Paris Street Paperback Anna Dowdall 9781771836234 $25.00 FICTION Dec 01, 2021

Most Anticipated Fall Fiction from 49th Shelf Your basic damsel-in-distress gig sounds perfect to private investigator Ashley Smeeton, who’s got her own personal and professional struggles in Montreal. Against the backdrop of the winter Carnaval, the job first takes her to Paris where she’s drawn into an unsettling world of mirages and masks, not to mention the murderous Bortnik brothers. When she returns to Montreal, a city rife with its own unreasonable facsimiles, the case incomprehensibly picks up again. Convinced she’s being played, Ashley... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Drawing Daybreak Paperback Maria Caltabiano 9781771836227 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2021

Maria Caltabiano’s poems are the result of years of ponderings and musings about life after losing her husband to cancer. They paint moments that clung to her and begged expression. Most try to work through the sadness and introspection that accompanies loss and mourning. But they also depict a healing process that imposes a new perspective as one embarks on an unknown road: the fears, the guilt, the joys. Nature figures prominently as a teacher and a source of solace. A sanctum away from a troubled world, be it the inner world, or the outer on... + Read More
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Series: Children's Books The Enchanted People Paperback Jennifer Pool 9781771835398 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Dec 01, 2021

The Enchanted People is a humanitarian fairytale about a young girl named Wawatay who lives away from her village as an outcast because she is different. All the people in her village have an enchanted power except for her, and so, she is not accepted by them. While living in solitude, Wawatay finds an injured baby sparrow and begins to care for her despite ridicule and discouragement from her people. When Baby Bird grows up and asks Wawatay to teach her to fly, Wawatay embarks on a journey across the Earth to seek help from her animal friends ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Grave Dancing on Two Left Feet Paperback Raphael Burdman 9781771836128 $25.00 FICTION Jul 01, 2021

At times a comedy of terrors, pitting the severe pogrom pain of one side of our narrator’s family against the other’s imagined holocaust horrors in a contest of who suffered more, the consequences are deadly serious: when long-ago traumas trigger ones even more devastating for our protagonist, his fantastic schemes of vengeance and gallows humor can barely conceal his mad despair. Weaving tales of comic misfortune and heartbreaking tragedy, this is part detective story, part probe into one family’s edifice of unhappiness. From past to present, ... + Read More
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Series: World Prose Manhattan Meltdown A Novella Paperback Frank Lentricchia 9781771836753 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2021

Two men, no longer young, and friends from childhood, fly to NYC—each with a secret purpose unknown to the other. They arrive just as COVID-19 explodes across the city’s 5 boroughs. One of the men (white) has come to Manhattan to confront a theater producer who has made a coercive offer to his wife. The other man (black, former All-American football star) plans to confront and take revenge on his white girlfriend from college days—who left him for a white man. As they pursue their goals they are caught up in the hunt for America’s most famous c... + Read More
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Series: Essential Anthologies Series Mirrors and Windows East-West Poems with translations Paperback Anna Yin 9781771836159 $25.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2021

Over the years Anna Yin has had the honour to translate more than 50 poets’ works. With more and more people growing interested in translation and bilingual poetry, it is time to publish these translations in book form. I hope this serves as a good resource, and will further stimulate wider and stronger interest and conversation for cross-cultural exchange. As Maya Angelou said: "I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself." I hope this contribution will open more of these homes.
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Series: Essential Translations Series Of Love Paperback Paul Bélanger 9781771836463 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2021

With echoes of Jacques Brault, Simone Weil, Baudelaire and Petrarch, in Of Love, Paul Bélanger continues his poetic quest for the sources of spiritual ecstasy. In this "body of song," the quest includes a series of distinct women as representatives of the Muse: an exciting black woman; a woman met in a poignant one-time encounter; a medley of women with “a variety of skins,” who speak “the strangest of languages”; a lady for whom he lives out an epistolary passion; and finally a woman who is dying.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Somewhat Absurd, Somehow Existential Paperback J.J. Steinfeld 9781771836043 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2021

Through these far-reaching and searching poems, J. J. Steinfeld’s work continues to not only orbit a multitude of realities and multifaceted worlds, but to interrogate various aspects of being, whether they appear as the worldly or the otherworldly, the ordinary or the extraordinary, the physical or the spiritual. As Steinfeld concludes in his poem “The End of the World,” somewhat confronting the absurd and somehow embracing the existential: “I want a poem with a good ending / all the thoughts and uncertainties / and missed opportunities / tied... + Read More
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Series: World Prose Welcome to Kamini A Novel Paperback Don Engebretson 9781771836609 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2021

Poor Russell Dean, golden boy of American advertising. His meticulously crafted career has brought him wealth, fame, an idyllic lifestyle and a beautiful wife. But now his wife is divorcing him, he's surrounded by fools and Russell is in a tailspin. A golf vacation to a remote Ontario resort town is exactly what he needs to skate through a rare rough patch. Or not. Mysterious natural forces far beyond his control and the eclectic characters he meets -- including three skilled, powerful women and a mirthful Ojibwe fishing guide -- have decidedly... + Read More
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Series: Manam Paperback Rima Elkouri 9781774150443 $22.95 FICTION Oct 29, 2021

Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, 2022 Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. Léa is a teacher. She does not believe in silence and secrecy, and this is what she always tells her pupils. Silence isn't a large part of the inheritance she received from her Téta, her beloved Armenian grandmother, who has just died at the age of one hundred and seven. Regularly over the years her large Armenian family would gather around Téta, and she would tell stories. But there is one story that she refused to tel... + Read More
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Series: searching for eastman Paperback Charles C Smith 9781774150535 $20.95 POETRY Sep 22, 2021

Shortlisted for the ReLit Award, Poetry, 2022searching for eastman is a multidisciplinary performance--a choreopoem--in four acts, based on the interpretation of four of Julius Eastman's compositions--evil nigger; prelude to st joan; stay on it; and gay guerrilla. Making use of different artistic forms--poetry, theatre, music, dance, video, and digital--it is inspired by the African griot tradition, the Harlem Renaissance (eg the work of Langston Hughes with jazz and Kurt Weil), and the Black Arts movement (eg Amiri Baraka's work with Sun Ra).
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Series: Confluences 3 Essays on the New Canadian Literature Paperback Dannabang Kuwabong 9781774150474 $24.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Jan 31, 2022

The essays in this volume continue the examination, begun in Confluences 1 and continued in Confluences 2, of the exciting new writing that has emerged in Canada in the past few decades. Employing a variety of approaches and addressing the many concerns engaging their author-subjects-memory, history, and concentric identities; the subordination of women; and racism, this new body of writing collectively redefines and challenges the traditional idea of Canadian Literature. Included in this volume are: "W H Hudson's English Argentina and Pablo ... + Read More
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Series: Reminders on the Path Paperback Sheniz Janmohamed 9781774150597 $20.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2021

Infused with the language of place, the poems in this collection are stepping-stones from the author's past to her present, from forgetfulness to remembrance, from unknowing to a deep knowing found only through direct experience. Here, the poet is wayfarer: at each step she sees reminders of the ephemeral and the indelible. All serve as guideposts to cross the threshold of the self.
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Series: Where the Baedeker Leads Paperback James Yeku 9781774150504 $20.95 POETRY Sep 17, 2021

Where the Baedeker Leads uncovers the many delicate layers that lie in the spaces between departures and arrivals, offering memories and stories. Whether it's about journeys, personal transition, or changes in the seasons, the aim in these poems is to draw attention to the personal experiences and social conditions that push people away from home to the new landscapes, sights, and encounters that remind them of the times and place they have so painfully left behind.
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Series: Voyage, The Paperback H Nigel Thomas 9781774150566 $20.95 POETRY Nov 04, 2021

The Voyage is a collection of poems culled from a lifetime of meditations on self, family, time, and ageing; it also reflects on political and social aspects of human lives, such as hubris, abuse of power, racism and oppression.
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Series: Everything Affects Everyone Paperback Shawna Lemay 9781989287842 $18.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2021

Do you believe in angels? When Xaviere is tasked with transcribing taped interviews her deceased friend Daphne left to her in her will, she begins to piece together the story of the photographer Irene Guernsey, a moderately well known but elusive photographer Daphne was interviewing. Irene?s mysterious images captivate Xaviere as they had Daphne. Irene had never given interviews or talked about her work publicly, but near the end of her life, she reveals the magic hidden in plain sight in her mysterious and ethereal photographs and her attempt ... + Read More
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Series: Poetry is Queer Paperback J Kirby 9781989287866 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 01, 2021

Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers?real and imagined?conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word ?queer? for those ? who self-proclaim the authority of their own bodies in defiance of church and state,? Kirby pays tribute to gay touchstones while embodying both their work and joy. From gazing upon street boys with constant companion C.P. Cavafy, to end of day observances with Frank O?Hara, to mowing Walt Whitman?s grass, Poetry Is Queer is a hybrid-genre memoir lik... + Read More
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Series: The Winter-Blooming Tree Paperback Barbara Langhorst 9781989287859 $18.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2021

The Winter-Blooming Tree draws us into the lives of Ursula Koehl-Niederhauser, a school teacher suffering from lapses of memory who is convinced that she has dementia; Andreas, her charming, well-intentioned but somewhat self-absorbed husband; and their grown daughter, Mia, who is about to move home after bouncing all over the country, trying to find herself as a journalist. Distracted by thoughts and memories of the winter-blooming apple tree in her laundry room, Ursula misses the neurologist?s diagnosis and becomes convinced she is falling il... + Read More
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Series: Danger Flower Paperback Jaclyn Desforges 9781989287835 $19.95 POETRY Sep 23, 2021

A baby transforms into a reverse mermaid in a baptism gone wrong. After being stepped on, a snail exacts revenge. In Danger Flower, Jaclyn Desforges leads enlightened witnesses through a wild garden where archetypal tales are treated with tongue-in-cheek irreverence. Amidst nesting dolls and opossums, poison oak and Tamagotchis, the poet navigates gender roles, sexual indiscretions, episodic depression, and mothering, forming essential survival strategies for a changing world. Danger Floweris a necessary debut.
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Series: Postscripts from a City Burning Paperback Sam Cheuk 9781989287811 $19.95 POETRY Sep 23, 2021

How does one write a preemptive eulogy for their hometown, a transient metropolis arriving at its last stop? Composed over a span of three months, Postscripts from a City Burning reassembles the embers left behind by the 2019 Hong Kong protests (and ultimately failed coup), weaving nostalgia, loss, and possible redemption into a time capsule of diaristic verse, photographs, dramatic monologues, and historical testimony. At once angry, despondent and unflinching, Sam Cheuk?s second full-length collection offers up a microcosmic prelude of a city... + Read More
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Series: The Empire A Trilogy of Modern Epics Paperback Susanna Fournier 9780369102751 $24.95 DRAMA Mar 15, 2022

Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom. The story starts in The Philosopher’s Wife. Deep in the North, a philosopher exiled for promoting his atheist work amidst a bloody religious war yearns to ignite a revolution, but his personal life has collapsed into chaos. What begins as a desperate attempt to cure his wife’s animalistic behaviour erupts into a power struggle between the sexes, unleas... + Read More
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Series: Secret Life of a Mother Paperback Hannah Moscovitch 9780369102836 $18.95 DRAMA Jan 11, 2022

The raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering are revealed in this true story of motherhood for the twenty-first century. A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood full of her own darkly funny confessions and taboo-breaking truths. One of her real-life friends, an actress, performs the piece, and through it her own experiences of motherhood start to surface. These mothers are not the butts of jokes, the villains, or the perfect angels of a household. This empowered and relatable play was written collab... + Read More
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Series: Ravage of Life Paperback Evelyne de la Chenelière 9780369102720 $22.95 DRAMA Oct 10, 2023

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, and writing. The culmination of this is Ravage of Life, a bold departure from prevailing norms where the playwright breaks with written and performative conventions in her dramatization of an endless and multi-faceted instant between life and death. In this experimental text, bits and pieces of a family’s realities unfold in a non-linear simultanei... + Read More
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Series: Do This In Memory of Me Paperback Cat Walsh 9780369102782 $18.95 DRAMA Nov 30, 2021

Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it’s 1963 and Father Paul tells her that’s not allowed. After having her dreams crushed and being made fun of by her classmate and star altar boy Martin, Genevieve prays to God hoping for an exception. Instead, a fourteen-year-old martyr from the fourth century, St. Pancras, appears and promises to get her an answer from God. But with her mom missing for weeks and Martin disappearing on his way home from school ... + Read More
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Series: Too Good to be True Paperback Cliff Cardinal 9780369102904 $18.95 DRAMA Jan 11, 2022

From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make the best of a desperate situation. Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, and Jude, an excitable preteen—are on the run following the murder of Lisa’s rapist. As the police close in, Maria is determined to give her kids a last supper that prepares them for everything they’re going to need to survive in the world without her.
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Series: Wasp Paperback Rhiannon Collett 9780369102997 $18.95 DRAMA Dec 06, 2022

In a town ruled by a shadowy cult, outliers Wasp and Janey nurture a dwindling community of queer resistance. Faced with social isolation and medical barriers, they remain determined to make things work and defend their home. Meanwhile, the Prophet’s daughters grapple with their own sense of home. True-believer Caroline anticipates a lavish future in the cult, but Rachel pushes back at its narrow-minded structures. When birth control is banned and Wasp’s ex-boyfriend Isaac turns up with a suspiciously generous offer, all of their lives are thro... + Read More
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Series: Mortified Paperback Amy Rutherford 9780369102935 $18.95 DRAMA Jan 11, 2022

A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what really happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a synchronized swimmer struggling to make sense of the world around her. Humorous and dark, Mortified explores sex, shame, and transformation and how we reckon with the traumatic experiences that have shaped us.
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Series: Voices of a Generation Three Millennial Plays Paperback Michelle MacArthur 9780369102966 $24.95 DRAMA Feb 01, 2022

Voices of a Generation gathers three Canadian plays that crack open millennial stereotypes to reveal a generation’s complex and varied experiences. zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows Namid through multiple generations: as a survivor of abuse in a residential school in the 1960s, as a missing woman held in a suburban basement in the 1990s, and as the rebellious daughter of a tyrannical queen in a post-apocalyptic, matriarchal society. A comedy about loss in the era of truth and reconciliation, zahgidiwin/love uses a mash-up of theatrical ... + Read More