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Series: East Coast Keto 2 Electronic book text, EPUB Bobbi Pike 9781550818734 $32.99 COOKING Apr 30, 2021

Just when you thought it was impossible to find ketogenic meals that the whole family can enjoy, Bobbi Pike and her husband, Geoff, return with another generous serving of low-carb keto dishes that will have even the most finicky eater in the family asking for seconds. With over 100 new keto recipes, East Coast Keto 2 will teach you how to enjoy all the foods you love—ketofied! From show-stopping appetizers and entrees to delicious fat bombs and mouthwatering desserts, Bobbi and Geoff help you simplify your keto lifestyle the East Coast way... + Read More
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Series: The Pratt Lectures The Quest for a 'National' Nationalism E.J. Pratt’s Epic Ambition, ‘Race’ Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity Paperback George Elliott Clarke 9781550818758 $14.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Feb 26, 2021

In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic poet of Canada. And while Pratt’s epic poems, such as Brebeuf and His Brethren and Towards the Last Spike, stand as lofty poetic achievements, the poet is never able to escape his own identity and speak convincingly for all Canadians. Unable to speak for Francophones, Indigenous peoples, and People of Colour, Pratt becomes the epic poet of the establishment, but never tru... + Read More
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Series: Instructor Electronic book text, EPUB Beth Follett 9781550818673 $20.99 FICTION Apr 01, 2021

***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S VERY BEST BOOK AWARDS, FICTION: LONGLIST*** ***FOREWORD INDIES: LITERARY, ADULT FICTION: BRONZE*** When Ydessa Bloom’s husband dies in a Cessna crash in a mid-Ontario lake, she rents a cottage at that lake, without really comprehending why, and stays for three months. There she meets three people who will influence her life dramatically—her landlady, a yoga teacher, and a precocious eight-year-old boy named Henry Rattle. Years later, at the age of twenty-five and reeling from personal tragedy, Henry seeks Yde... + Read More
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Series: Uncle Race, Nostalgia, and the Cultural Politics of Loyalty Electronic book text, EPUB Cheryl Thompson 9781770566316 $15.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 02, 2021

From martyr to insult, how Uncle Tom has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what consequences for our society did Uncle Tom morph first into a servile old man and then to a racial epithet hurled at African American men deemed, by other Black people, to have betrayed their race? Uncle Tom, the eponymous figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe's ... + Read More
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Series: Night Watch The Vet Suite Electronic book text, EPUB Gillian Wigmore 9781988784724 $9.99 FICTION Feb 12, 2021

Shortlisted for the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award Three poetic novellas centred around the author’s background of growing up as the child of a veterinarian. Full of humour and compassion, Night Watch collects three novellas that explore the lives of rural veterinarians. Wigmore’s vets struggle to stay awake during unending calving seasons, reaching for moments of stillness and grace between phone calls and farm calls; they balance their own family’s births and deaths with shepherding animals through caesareans and euthanasia, covering miles ... + Read More
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Series: Sky of Bombs, Sky of Stars A Vietnamese War Orphan Finds Home Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch 9781772781793 $14.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Feb 26, 2021

A beautiful omnibus edition of the award-winning biographies Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War and One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way Tuyet remembers little about life before the Saigon orphanage, before polio left her limping and in constant pain, before the war made it too dangerous to stand under the bomb-filled Vietnam sky. Unable to play with the other children and knowing that at eight she is too old be adopted, she helps care for the babies in the orphanage. So when frantic aid-workers load a van full ... + Read More
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Series: The Egyptian Mirror Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Bedard 9781772782080 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 May 07, 2021

A darkly fantastic middle-grade mystery with the ominous atmosphere loved by fans of Jonathan Auxier and Jonathan Stroud Thirteen-year-old Simon’s life has been knocked askew ever since his family moved into his deceased grandfather’s house. First there’s his eccentric neighbor Mr. Hawkins, who is laid up with a broken leg. Simon’s mother begins sending him over there with dinner for the elderly man, and soon Mr. Hawkins is depending on Simon to fetch old books and manuscript pages from all over his eerie, mirror-filled house. There’s one mirro... + Read More
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Series: New Magic Valley Fun Town Electronic book text, EPUB Daniel MacIvor 9780369101358 $12.99 DRAMA Feb 01, 2021

From the acclaimed playwright behind A Beautiful View, The Best Brothers, and This is What Happens Next comes a moving portrait about what we choose to forget and how we decide to move on. Cape Bretoner Dougie hasn’t seen his childhood best friend Allen in thirty years. Based on what can be seen on Facebook, things have changed, but Dougie has no doubt they’ll easily reconnect when Allen comes to visit. With the added flair of Dougie’s ex-wife Cheryl and daughter Sandy, the group spends a night reminiscing, drinking, and dancing. But as the par... + Read More
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Series: Theory Electronic book text, EPUB Norman Yeung 9780369101631 $12.99 DRAMA Feb 22, 2021

Is there a limit to free speech? Who gets to decide? Isabelle’s film theory students are stunned that she would open an unmoderated online discussion group to complement a controversial syllabus. Her intention was for them to learn from each other, but when an anonymous student starts to post racist comments and offensive videos on the forum and others challenge Isabelle’s methods, she is forced to decide whether to intervene or to let the social experiment play out. But the posts soon turn abusive and threatening to Isabelle’s relationship wi... + Read More
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Series: Bare Bear Bones Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Grant 9780369101556 $12.99 DRAMA Mar 16, 2021

At the instruction of their marriage counsellor, empty nesters Norm and Ruth book a trip to a place where they remember being in love, the Bear Bones Family Campground, in order to rekindle their spark. After arriving late in the night, the conservative couple wakes to discover that their once familiar spot has become the Bare Bones Alternative Lifestyle Campground, and that nobody else is wearing any clothes! Besides figuring out which side of the clothesline they’re on, Norm and Ruth have to work on their communication, whether it’s blindly ... + Read More
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Series: Take d Milk, Nah? Electronic book text, EPUB Jivesh Parasram 9780369101006 $12.99 DRAMA May 11, 2021

• The play’s structure is based on the form of “prayers” pujas and yagnas, as practised in the Trinidadian Smarta tradition.• Take d Milk, Nah? has been performed in Toronto and Vancouver, and will be performed in Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal in 2020.
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military History Canada's Mechanized Infantry The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920–2012 Electronic book text, EPUB Peter Kasurak 9780774862752 $32.95 HISTORY Feb 01, 2020

Canada’s Mechanized Infantry explores the development of the Canadian Army’s infantry after the First World War. Modern studies of technology and war have tended to focus on tanks and armour, but soldiers discovered that military success really depends on the combination of infantry, armour, and artillery. Peter Kasurak demonstrates how the Canadian army implemented successful infantry vehicles and doctrine to further its military goals during the Second World War until organizational constraints took hold in the postwar period. This book revea... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Empowerment through Co-management Land Claims Boards, Wildlife Management, and Environmental Regulation Electronic book text, EPUB Graham White 9780774863056 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 01, 2020

Co-management boards, established under comprehensive land claims agreements, have become key players in land-use planning, wildlife management, and environmental regulation across Canada’s North. This book provides a detailed account of the operation and effectiveness of these boards while addressing a central question: Have they been successful in ensuring substantial Indigenous involvement in policies affecting the land and wildlife in their traditional territories? While identifying constraints on the role Northern Indigenous peoples play i... + Read More
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Series: The Motivation to Vote Explaining Electoral Participation Electronic book text, EPUB André Blais 9780774862707 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 01, 2020

Elections are at the heart of our democracy. Understanding citizens’ decisions to vote or to abstain in elections is crucial, especially when turnout is declining. In this book, André Blais and Jean-François Daoust provide an original and elegant model that explains why people vote, based on four factors: political interest, sense of civic duty, perceived importance of the election, and ease of voting. Their findings are strongly supported by empirical evidence from elections in five countries. The analysis is compelling and demonstrates the po... + Read More
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Series: King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae Electronic book text, EPUB Jason Wilson 9780774862301 $34.95 MUSIC Feb 14, 2020

When Jackie Mittoo and Leroy Sibbles migrated from Jamaica to Toronto in the early 1970s, the musicians brought reggae with them, sparking the flames of one of Canada’s most vibrant music scenes. Professional reggae musician and scholar Jason Wilson tells the story of how reggae brought black and white youth together, opening up a cultural dialogue between Jamaican migrants and Canadians along the city’s ethnic frontlines. This underground subculture rebelled against the status quo, broke through the bonds of race, eased the acculturation proce... + Read More
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Series: Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic Electronic book text, EPUB Gary N. Wilson 9780774863100 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 15, 2020

The Canadian federal system was never designed to recognize Indigenous governance, and it has resisted change. But Indigenous communities have successfully negotiated the creation of self-governing regions. Most of these are situated within existing units of the Canadian federation, creating forms of nested federalism. This governance model is transforming Canada as it reformulates the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state. Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic traces the journey toward self-governance in... + Read More
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Series: Refugee Law after 9/11 Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States Electronic book text, EPUB Obiora Chinedu Okafor 9780774861496 $34.95 LAW Feb 15, 2020

Common wisdom suggests that 9/11 changed everything about refugee law in the United States and Canada. But did it? Refugee Law after 9/11 systematically examines the evidence to reveal that refugee rights were already so whittled down in both countries before 9/11 that there was relatively little room for negative change after the attacks. It also shows that the Canadian refugee law regime reacted to 9/11 in much the same way as its US counterpart, and these similar reactions raise significant questions about security relativism and national se... + Read More
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Series: Faith On The Move Daily Reflections on Hope and Change Electronic book text, EPUB Julie McGonegal 9781551342559 $7.99 RELIGION Jan 01, 2021

Our spiritual practices carry us through the times of transition in our lives, when we wander in a metaphorical desert. For migrants, refugees, immigrants, and others, the journey is more than a metaphor. In this Lenten devotional, daily reflections by diverse contributors invite us to reflect on and embody God’s welcome and love for people who are on the move for a variety of reasons. A study guide for in-person or online groups is included.
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Series: White Coal City A Memoir of Place and Family Electronic book text, EPUB Robert Boschman 9780889778009 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 13, 2021

A moving, unflinching exploration of life in Prince Albert on Treaty Six territory, as told through one family’s multigenerational story. Robert Boschman grew up in the living quarters of the King Koin Launderette in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, sandwiched between a residential school and a jail built in the aftermath of the Riel Resistance of 1885. White Coal City is the story of this hard hockey-obsessed white-settler town on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River and Boschman’s troubled family who traveled these lands. Trauma was palpab... + Read More
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Series: This is How It is Electronic book text, EPUB Sharon King-Campbell 9781550818703 $17.99 POETRY Apr 19, 2021

***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S VERY BEST BOOK AWARDS, POETRY: LONGLIST*** Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell’s This Is How It Is range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way voices both historical and mythological in a compelling display of dramatic empathy and poetic imagination. Subverting history and fable while always returning to vividly depicted images of our landscapes within the specter of environmental crisis, King-Campbell spans the far corners o... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Toronto Stories That Carry This Place Electronic book text, EPUB Denise Bolduc 9781770566453 $17.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 13, 2021

WINNER OF THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARDRich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and presentBeneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, and, too often, silenced. Few of its current inhabitants know that Toronto has seen twelve thousand years of uninterrupted Indigenous presence and nationhood in this region, along with a vibrant culture and history that thrives to this day.With contributions by Indigenous Elders, scholars, journalists, artists, ... + Read More
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Series: A Number of Stunning Attacks Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Jessi MacEachern 9781988784755 $9.99 POETRY Mar 19, 2021

A raw and intimate testimony of the spatial and emotional difficulty of facing the self and the other A Number of Stunning Attacks contributes to the ongoing association of fragmented forms and women’s writing, yet the insistent repetitions and crystallized imagery produce something more coherent than a fragment and more dynamic than a single whole. Drawing on a line of innovative women’s poetics in Canada, these poems recall the radical experiments of Lisa Robertson, Erìn Moure, and Gail Scott. Intoxicated by disorientation, the reader will as... + Read More
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Series: Kerouac & Presley Electronic book text, EPUB André Pronovost 9781773900650 $9.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 22, 2021

Kerouac & Presley takes you on the road, guitar slung over your shoulder. Beginning in the Montreal neighbourhood where a teenage girl was brutally murdered in 1975, the International Year of the Woman, to an Abbey in Connecticut where a former starlet and Elvis co-star fled Hollywood to become a nun. This is the story of a wanderer who sets out to rewrite “the blank and flawless page” that is America. Inspired by the history of Quebec and America, Kerouac & Presley is an American prayer in prose and paragraphs.
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Series: Minoan Wings Cuckoo's Flight Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Wendy Orr 9781772782066 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 May 14, 2021

A new gripping Bronze Age story from Wendy Orr, internationally acclaimed author of Dragonfly Song and Swallow’s Dance Clio can’t remember a time when she didn’t share a bond with the mare Grey Girl. On the whole island of Crete, she and her Trojan-born father are the only people who raise and ride horses—and she couldn’t live without it. Between the freedom of the pasture and the safety of her grandmother Leira’s pottery studio, Clio has always had everything she needed. Then an accident stole Clio’s ability to ride, or even to walk without a ... + Read More
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Series: Jacob and the Mandolin Adventure Electronic book text, EPUB Anne Dublin 9781772601633 $6.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Mar 23, 2021

Thirteen-year-old Jacob’s life is hard in 1920s Poland, where he lives in an orphanage for Jewish children. His days are brightened by playing in the orphanage mandolin orchestra. When an American benefactor arrives with the promise of a new life in Canada at a farm school, Jacob and his friends are thrilled. But can they trust this man to keep his promises?The children travel by train and by ship, facing illness and prejudice along the way. where a stowaway becomes dangerously sick. Jacob, who has become the orchestra’s star player, must overc... + Read More
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Series: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History Challenge the Strong Wind Canada and East Timor, 1975–99 Electronic book text, EPUB David Webster 9780774863001 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2020

In 1975, Indonesian forces overran East Timor, which had just declared independence from Portugal. The occupation lasted twenty-four years. Challenge the Strong Wind recounts the evolution of Canadian government policy toward East Timor during that period. Canada initially followed key allies in endorsing Indonesian rule, but Canadian civil society groups promoted an alternative foreign policy that focused on self-determination and human rights. Ottawa eventually yielded to pressure from these NGOs and pushed like-minded countries to join it in... + Read More
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Series: Law and Society Faith or Fraud Fortune-Telling, Spirituality, and the Law Electronic book text, EPUB Jeremy Patrick 9780774863353 $32.95 RELIGION Mar 15, 2020

The growing presence in Western society of non-mainstream faiths and spiritual practices poses a dilemma for the law. Building on a thorough history of the legal regulation of fortune-telling laws in four countries, Faith or Fraud examines the impact of people who identify as “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR) on the future legal understanding of religious freedom. Unlike SBNR belief systems that can encompass multiple religions, philosophies, and folklore, traditional legal interpretations of “freedom of religion” are based on organized reli... + Read More
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Series: The Way of the Gardener Lost in the Weeds Along the Camino de Santiago Electronic book text, EPUB Lyndon Penner 9780889777811 $0.00 TRAVEL Mar 27, 2021

Reverence takes on a new meaning in this original memoir of an avid gardener walking the Camino de Santiago. The Camino de Santiago has been a journey for pilgrims for more than 1,000 years, testing—to varying degrees—their spirit, faith, and physical endurance. Lyndon Penner’s attention lies elsewhere. A renowned gardener and lover of literature, he revels in the plants, trees, and flowers that tell the history of the people and ecology of northern Spain. Brimming with wry observations—of nature, himself, and other pilgrims on the road—The W... + Read More
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Series: Oskana Poetry & Poetics Red Obsidian New and Selected Poems Electronic book text, EPUB Stephan Torre 9780889777798 $19.95 POETRY Mar 13, 2021

A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephan Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands. Drawing from a life lived well, amidst hard work and time for reflection in the northwest wild lands of the Canadian and American Wests, Stephan Torre returns to the literary world with his usual descriptive and lyric intensity. Comprised of new and selected poems, Red Obsidian explores the necessary tensions that arise between genders and the pain and grief of environmental loss. Inspired and influenc... + Read More
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Series: Resilience Is Futile The Life and Death and Life of Julie Lalonde Electronic book text, EPUB Julie S. Lalonde 9781771134705 $9.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 20, 2020

For over a decade, Julie Lalonde, an award-winning advocate for women’s rights, kept a secret. She crisscrossed the country, denouncing violence against women and giving hundreds of media interviews along the way. Her work made national headlines for challenging universities and taking on Canada’s top military brass. Appearing fearless on the surface, Julie met every interview and event with the same fear in her gut: was he there?Fleeing intimate partner violence at age 20, Julie was stalked by her ex-partner for over ten years, rarely mentioni... + Read More
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Series: Women and Work Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction Electronic book text, EPUB Susan Ferguson 9781771134408 $9.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 15, 2020

With #metoo dominating headlines and an unprecedented number of women running for office, the fight for women’s equality has perhaps never been higher on the political agenda. Around the world, women are fighting against unfair working conditions, restrictive abortion laws, and the frayed social safety net. The same holds true within the business world—but there’s a twist: even as some women argue that pushing for more female CEOs would help the struggle for equality, other activists argue that CEOs themselves are part of the problem, regardle... + Read More
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Series: Us, Now Paperback Lisa Moore 9781550818819 $22.95 FICTION May 15, 2021

Us, Now roves from Indonesia to the Middle East, Taiwan, Mexico, China, Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Pakistan, and points in between, converging in Newfoundland. These stories by racialized Newfoundlanders are by turns joyous, tender, hilarious, and heart-wrenching. They confront racism and celebrate the act of enduring. They are about settling and getting unsettled, about parents and their children, about language, about facing down the horrors of homophobia, about the joy of love, about lifelong relationships or the glee of a magnificent... + Read More
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Series: My Indian My Indian Paperback Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe 9781550818789 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 14 Apr 30, 2021

***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – LONGLIST*** ***2022-2023 HACKMATACK AWARD: ENGLISH FICTION – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 IPPY AWARDS: MULTICULTURAL FICTION: JUV/YA – SILVER*** In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who could lead him across Newfoundland in search of the last remaining Beothuk camps on the island. In his journals, Cormack refers to his guide only as “My Indian.” Now, almost two hundred years later, Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Nei... + Read More
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Series: Grey All Over Electronic book text, EPUB Andrea Actis 9781771315401 $11.99 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

“Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment…” Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So began her passage through grief, self-reckoning, and graduate school in Providence, Rhode Island, where the poetics she studied (and sometimes repudiated) became integral to her gradual reconstruction of wholeness. An assemblage of “evidence” recovered from emails about paranormal encounters sent and received by Jeff (greyallov... + Read More
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Series: awâsis – kinky and dishevelled Electronic book text, EPUB Louise Bernice Halfe Sky Dancer 9781771315494 $11.99 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

A gender-fluid trickster character leaps from Cree stories to inhabit this racous and rebellious new work by award-winning poet Louise Bernice Halfe. There are no pronouns in Cree for gender; awâsis (which means illuminated child) reveals herself through shape-shifting, adopting different genders, exploring the English language with merriment, and sharing his journey of mishaps with humor, mystery, and spirituality. Opening with a joyful and intimate Introduction from Elder Maria Campbell, awâsis – kinky and dishevelled is a force of Indigenou... + Read More
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Series: Moldovan Hotel Electronic book text, EPUB Leah Horlick 9781771315463 $11.99 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

Moldovan Hotel explores the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust in Romania through a queer Jewish voice in the Diaspora. In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she unearthed there is an elaborate web connecting conscious worlds to subconscious ones, fascism to neofascisms, Europe to the Americas to the Middle East, typhus to HIV/AIDS, genocide in Romania to land grabs in Palestine, women's lives in farming villages to queer lives in the city, language to its trap doors, and love t... + Read More
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Series: Because The Sun Electronic book text, EPUB Sarah Burgoyne 9781770566705 $14.95 POETRY Apr 27, 2021

Camus’s Meursault and Thelma and Louise meet up under the blazing sun. Vexed by the ‘unremarkable star’ that ‘presses’ Camus’s Meursault to commit murder, Because the Sun considers the blazing sun as a material symbol of ambient violence – violence absorbed like heat and fired at the nearest victim. Likewise, as a friendship between women confronts gendered aggression in Thelma and Louise, the sun becomes the repository of pain, the high noon that pushes us through desert after desert. Because the Sun’s pastiche of voices embodies both stylisti... + Read More
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Series: Exhibitionist Electronic book text, EPUB Molly Cross-Blanchard 9781770566729 $14.95 POETRY Apr 13, 2021

Shortlisted for the ReLit 2022 Poetry Award Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry. One minute she’s drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror, the next she’s asking the sky to swallow her up: the narrator of Exhibitionist oscillates between a complete rejection of shame and the consuming heaviness of it. Painfully funny, brutally honest, and alarmingly perceptive, Molly Cross-Blanchard’s poems use humour and pop culture as vehicles for empathy and sorry-not-sorry confessionalism. What this speaker wants more than anything is to... + Read More
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Series: The Only Way Is the Steady Way Essays on Baseball, Ichiro, and How We Watch the Game Electronic book text, EPUB Andrew Forbes 9781988784748 $9.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2021

Essays about baseball’s past, present, and future—and the wisdom of Ichiro Suzuki The Only Way Is the Steady Way is a baseball memoir in scorecards and baseball cards, a recollection of the game’s biggest stars and outlandish personalities, and introspective letters to a legendary player. These essays examine the meaning of baseball across international borders and at all levels of the game—from Little League diamonds to big league ballparks. Parents learn unexpected lessons at t-ball, cheap souvenirs reveal their hidden significance, and baseb... + Read More
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Series: Lunging into the Underbrush A Life Lived Backward Electronic book text, EPUB David Homel 9781773900803 $9.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 01, 2021

In 1970, David Homel escaped the American draft by moving to Paris. But a hiking accident in Spain led to a harrowing journey through botched surgeries, opiate addiction, the loneliness of a crippled traveler, and the constant pain that would define his life for years to come. Today, planning to stay in the game as long as possible, he has a few ideas about how to do just that. By confronting body image issues, performance anxiety, and the challenges of desire, Homel draws an affecting portrait of the battle between Eros and Melancholy. Which ... + Read More
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Series: Orca Issues The Disability Experience Working Toward Belonging Electronic book text, EPUB Hannalora Leavitt 9781459819306 $18.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 13, 2021

People with disabilities (PWDs) have the same aspirations for their lives as you do for yours. The difference is that PWDs don’t have the same access to education, employment, housing, transportation and healthcare in order to achieve their goals. In The Disability Experience you’ll meet people with different kinds of disabilities, and you'll begin to understand the ways PWDs have been ignored, reviled and marginalized throughout history. The book also celebrates the triumphs and achievements of PWDs and shares the powerful stories of those who... + Read More
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Series: Accidental Series How to Become an Accidental Activist Electronic book text, EPUB Elizabeth MacLeod 9781459826137 $18.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 13, 2021

Just Get Started! Be Unstoppable! Dream Big! How to Become an Accidental Activist profiles almost 100 activists from around the world, including change-makers like Greta Thunberg, Pete Seeger and Lilly Singh. This book shows us how ordinary people have persevered throughout history to do extraordinary things to help themselves and others. These activists come from many different backgrounds and a drives to take action. They work for human rights, to help the environment, to preserve historic buildings and more. This book will inspire young read... + Read More
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Series: Leopold's Leotard Electronic book text, EPUB Rhiannon Wallace 9781459825987 $14.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 5 Apr 13, 2021

Leopold loves to dance! He dances everywhere he goes. When his dance teacher announces the year-end recital, Leopold hopes he will get to be a graceful bird. Alas, no such luck. Miss Linda says the dancers are going to be bees. But Leopold doesn’t want to be a buzzing little bee. He wants to be tall and elegant like an ostrich! When the big night comes around, the combination of stage fright and an uncomfortable costume are too much for Leopold. Will he find a way to overcome his fear and disappointment to show off his passion for dance?
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Series: Monster Sisters The Monster Sisters and the Mystery of the Stone Octopus Electronic book text, PDF Gareth Gaudin 9781459822306 $14.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 13, 2021

In the final chapters of their story the Monster Sisters delve deeper into the meta-narrative of their lives when they find comic books starring themselves on their father's desk. After the events of The Monster Sisters and the Mystery of the Unlocked Cave, sister sleuths Enid Jupiter and Lyra Gotham traverse the city uncovering clues as to why their sleepy seaside town has become overrun by giant monsters. Using the city's archives, well-read local booksellers, their keen intellects and their father's comic book collection, the girls piece to... + Read More
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Series: My Heart Beats Electronic book text, EPUB Rina Singh 9781459825703 $8.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 2 Apr 13, 2021

A beautiful photographic board book featuring babies from all over the world and the sounds their hearts make as they beat with love. No matter what language we speak, no matter where we live in the world, our hearts beat with the same rhythm. We may hear and say the sounds differently—doki doki in Japanese, tu tump tu tump in Italian, dugeun dugeun in Korean, dhak dhak in Urdu, boum boum in French and thump thump in English—but when our hearts beat, all the sounds mean the same thing: you are alive and you are loved.
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Series: Nye, Sand and Stones Electronic book text, EPUB Bree Galbraith 9781459820340 $14.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 5 Apr 13, 2021

Somewhere off the coast and around the corner there are two islands. One island is made mostly of stones and the other mainly of sand, and that’s where the problem began. Young Nye doesn’t understand why the people on her Island of Sand work so hard to build beautiful sandcastles every day if they are destined to be ruined by the stones catapulted over by the people of the Island of Stones every evening. When she asks “Why?” all she ever hears in response is “Because.” As years go by, Nye realizes that the Because is starting to make sense to h... + Read More
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Series: Nye de l’île de Sable Electronic book text, EPUB Bree Galbraith 9781459824744 $14.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 5 Apr 13, 2021

Quelque part au large, mais pas trop loin, se trouvent deux îles. Une est en grande partie faite de pierres tandis que l’autre est couverte de sable. C’est là que les problèmes commencent.La petite Nye ne comprend pas pourquoi les habitants de son île de Sable s’acharnent à construire jour après jour de beaux châteaux de sable qui sont détruits tous les soirs par les habitants de l’île de Roche qui y catapultent des pierres. Quand elle demande pourquoi, on lui répond toujours : « C’est comme ça, c’est tout. »Au fil des ans, Nye se rend compte q... + Read More
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Series: Sueño Bay Adventures Otter Lagoon Electronic book text, PDF Nancy Deas 9781459819665 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 8 Apr 13, 2021

A tiny island is experiencing extreme weather, a rash of shipwrecks and the disappearance of whole swaths of marine life. Is it climate change? A bad storm season? Or is something else going on? The second graphic novel in the Sueño Bay Adventures returns to the Pacific Northwest, where plucky and independent Jenna finds herself in some trouble after a dog in her care is injured. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Jenna aligns herself with exotic animal dealers looking to make a quick buck off the local floral and fauna. When Jenn... + Read More
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Series: Orca Echoes Shark Bait! Electronic book text, EPUB Jeff Szpirglas 9781459823693 $5.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 8 Apr 13, 2021

Shark-obsessed Orly spends every summer with her family on the coast. This year her parents have signed her up for sailing lessons, hoping to teach her some water safety while they're busy with her baby brother. Orly is excited to be on the water, but she has other ideas about how she’s going to spend her time there: rather than learning to tie knots and batten down the hatches, she's going to use her tablet to track Delta, a great white shark known to frequent the area. Orly’s misplaced enthusiasm repeatedly gets her in hot water with her inst... + Read More
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Series: The Sun is a Shine Electronic book text, EPUB Leslie A. Davidson 9781459826281 $8.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 2 Apr 13, 2021

Magical illustrations enhance evocative text in a delightful blend of cultural diversity, geography, science, rich language and gratitude. A gentle and poetic board book about weather systems across the world. Young readers will enjoy meeting children from around the globe and experiencing the phenomena of the sky as each child thanks Mother Earth for bringing the sun, wind, rain, snow, lightning and thunder to them. The sun is a shine, that wakens the day, sparkles the dew, makes everything new. Miigwetch, merci, golden Sun. Thank you, thank y... + Read More
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Series: The Sun Will Come Out Electronic book text, EPUB Joanne Levy 9781459812482 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 13, 2021

The Sun Will Come Out is a funny and heartwarming account of a shy girl’s first summer away from home, where she learns she really can do anything and that silver linings can be found just about anywhere. Twelve-year-old Bea Gelman and her best friend Frankie are planning the BEST SUMMER EVER at Camp Shalom—a sleep-away camp. But at the last minute, Frankie bows out, leaving painfully shy Bea on her own. Just talking to strangers causes Bea to break out into ugly, blotchy hives. As if the hives weren't bad enough, Bea gets pranked by a couple o... + Read More
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Series: Halfway There Electronic book text, EPUB Norm Foster 9780369102249 $11.99 DRAMA Apr 12, 2021

There’s no such thing as a secret in Stewiacke. Not when the gossips meet for coffee every day at the local diner. Vi, Rita, Mary Ellen, and Janine are all as close as can be, and they know everybody’s business. But when Sean, a heartbroken doctor, moves in to take a temporary job at the clinic, he tips the Maritime town that’s famous for being halfway between the North Pole and the equator off its axis. While Sean decides to pursue Janine, it only brings her closer together with her friends, who each have their own messy love lives. Vi just tu... + Read More
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Series: The Law of Gravity Electronic book text, EPUB Olivier Sylvestre 9780369101716 $14.99 DRAMA Age (years) from 12 - 15 May 11, 2021

Dom has had a rough go of things so far. At fourteen, he has the hardened look of someone who’s had to fight for everything. Fred has just moved to Not-The-City, a new place to try to disappear. But he didn’t expect to actually make friends. He just hopes he’s accepted for how he looks. When Dom and Fred meet on a hill overlooking a bridge that connects Not-The-City to The City, a place where anyone can be anything they want, the two find a refuge in one another and make a pact: they’ll cross the bridge at the end of the school year. They’ll be... + Read More
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Series: The Bridge Electronic book text, EPUB Shauntay Grant 9780369102287 $13.99 DRAMA Apr 26, 2021

Premiered in January 2019 at Neptune Theatre, Halifax, in a co-production by 2b theatre and Obsidian Theatre.The Bridge’s premiere production was nominated for eleven Robert Merritt Awards, taking home four, including Outstanding New Play by a Nova Scotian Playwright.Planned but postponed tour dates to come.
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Series: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery The Case of the Burgled Bundle Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Hutchinson 9781772601671 $6.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 06, 2021

The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered together in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats—cousins Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day-long ceremony, is taken, the four mystery-solving cousins set out to catch those responsible and help protect Windy Lake’s reputation! What’s worse, prime suspect Pearl takes off to the city with her older brother and known troublemaker, Eddie. If they have the burgled bundle with them, the Mighty Muskrats fear it may be lost for go... + Read More
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Series: The Great Cookie War Electronic book text, EPUB Caroline Stellings 9781772601749 $6.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 06, 2021

Life in her traditional Mennonite community is peaceful, if a little dull, for twelve-year-old Beth who dreams of being an artist. She goes to school, helps with the cooking and cleaning at home, and works with her parents at the local farmer’s market. One Saturday, however, excitement shows up in the form of a determined lawyer from New York City who insists she needs a family cookie recipe to win a multi-million-dollar lawsuit. Beth’s parents are bemused, but her grandmother is equally determined that the recipe will not leave her kitchen. A... + Read More
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Series: The Shoe Boy A Trapline Memoir Electronic book text, EPUB Duncan McCue 9780774880596 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2020

At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec. Reflecting on his search for his own personal identity, that kid – Duncan McCue – takes us on an evocative exploration of the teenage years and the culture shock he experienced moving to the unfamiliar North. The result is a contemplative, honest, and unexpected coming-of-age memoir set in the context of the Cree struggle to protect their way of life, after massive hydro... + Read More
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Series: Canada and Ireland A Political and Diplomatic History Electronic book text, EPUB Philip J. Currie 9780774863308 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 15, 2020

Canadians have been involved in, intrigued by, and frustrated with Irish politics, from the Fenian Raids of the 1860s to the present day. Yet scholars have largely neglected Canadian–Irish relations since the consolidation of the Irish Free State in the 1920s. In Canada and Ireland, Philip J. Currie addresses this lacuna and examines political relations between the two countries, from partition to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. This intriguing study sheds light on Ottawa’s responses to key developments such as Ireland’s neutrality in the Se... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military History Making the Best of It Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War Electronic book text, EPUB Sarah Glassford 9780774862806 $34.95 HISTORY Apr 15, 2020

Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities. But did it? Making the Best of It examines how gender and other identities intersected to shape the experiences of female Canadians and Newfoundlanders during the war. The contributors to this thoughtful collection consider mainstream and minority populations, girls and women, and different parts of Canada and Newfoundland in their essays. Ultimately, they lay a foundation for a better understanding of the ways in which the lives of Canadian wom... + Read More
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Series: No Place for the State The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill Electronic book text, EPUB Christopher Dummitt 9780774862455 $32.95 HISTORY Apr 15, 2020

“There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau told reporters. He was making the case for the most controversial of his proposed reforms to the Criminal Code, those concerning homosexuality, birth control, and abortion. In No Place for the State, contributors offer complex and often contrasting perspectives as they assess how the 1969 Omnibus Bill helped shape sexual and moral politics in Canada. Fifty years later, the origins and legacies of the bill are equivocal and the state still seems interested in ... + Read More