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Series: Beach Series Beach Blonde Hardcover John Reynolds 9781988168548 $29.95 FICTION 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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Frame by Frame An Animator's Journey Hardcover Co Hoedeman 9781988168555 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & 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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Miraculous Sickness Paperback ky Perraun 9781988168579 $19.95 POETRY 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
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Gibbous Moon Paperback Dennis Cooley 9781988168531 $28.95 POETRY 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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Green Parrots in my Garden Poems from the Arab Middle East Paperback Jane Ross 9781988440804 $15.95 POETRY 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
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Beyond the Terrazzo Veranda Paperback Norman Morra 9781988440743 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & 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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Breaking Words Literary Confessions Hardcover George Melnyk 9781988440729 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & 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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You have been Referred My Life in Applied Anthropology Hardcover Michael Robinson 9781988440705 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & 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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An Explosion of Feathers Paperback Conor Kerr 9781772311532 $16.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2021

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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Electricity Slides Paperback John Brady McDonald 9781772311495 $16.95 POETRY 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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Form 100 Hardcover Zviad Kvaratskhelia 9781772311631 $19.95 FICTION 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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Why I Was Late Paperback Charlie Petch 9781771315579 $20.00 POETRY 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
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Dream of No One but Myself Paperback D.M. Bradford 9781771315609 $22.95 POETRY Oct 07, 2021

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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Autowar Paperback Assiyah Jamilla Touré 9781771315630 $20.00 POETRY 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
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Fetishes of the Floating World Paperback Don Domanski 9781771315661 $20.00 POETRY Oct 15, 2021

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
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Gold Pours Paperback Aurore Gatwenzi 9781988989372 $20.00 POETRY 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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Uncommon Sense An Autistic Memoir Paperback Adam Mardero 9781988989358 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & 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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No Crystal Stair Paperback Mairuth Sarsfield 9781773900919 $21.95 FICTION 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
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I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through Paperback Jack Hannan 9781773900957 $19.95 FICTION Aug 01, 2021

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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Blue Suitcase Documentary Poetics Paperback Jim Nason 9781771262798 $18.00 POETRY 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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Constrictor Paperback Nathaniel Moore 9781771262781 $18.00 POETRY 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
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A Nihilist Walks Into a Bar Paperback Brianna Ferguson 9781771262750 $18.00 POETRY Dec 07, 2021

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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Changing Residence New and Selected Poems Paperback Corrado Paina 9781771262774 $20.00 POETRY 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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Mouthful of Bees Paperback Shannon Quinn 9781771262712 $18.00 POETRY 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
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Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah Paperback Michael Trussler 9781771262743 $18.00 POETRY Dec 07, 2021

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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Repointing the Bricks Paperback Jacqueline Bourque 9781771262736 $18.00 POETRY 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.
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Your Turn Paperback Carole Glasser Langille 9781771262729 $18.00 POETRY 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.
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Personal Attention Roleplay Paperback H Felix Chau Bradley 9781777485214 $18.95 FICTION Nov 23, 2021

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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Good Arabs, The Paperback Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch 9781999058890 $17.95 POETRY 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 Series Cine Star Salon, The Paperback Leah Ranada 9781774390320 $21.95 FICTION 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
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Tenure Paperback Kieran Egan 9781774390306 $21.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2021

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 Edition Icefields Landmark Edition Paperback Thomas Wharton 9781774390368 $23.95 FICTION 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: Crow Said Poetry rump + flank Paperback Carol Steski 9781774390283 $19.95 POETRY 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 Series Last Tide Paperback Andy Zuliani 9781774390344 $21.95 FICTION 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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Stella's Carpet Paperback Lucy Black 9781989689264 $19.95 FICTION 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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My Two-Faced Luck Paperback Brett Grubisic 9781989689271 $19.95 FICTION 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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Sure Connection, A Paperback W.M. Herring 9781989689288 $19.95 POETRY 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.
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Death by Water Poems (1968-1972) Paperback Alberto Manguel 9781988254852 $20.00 POETRY Aug 29, 2023

Alberto Manguel's Spanish poetry, presented here in a dual-language edition, introduces readers to a new side of one of the most eclectic writers of our time.
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Aquarium, The Paperback Jacques Godbout 9781988254821 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2021

The publication of this novel, Godbout's first, was seen as a watershed event in French-Canadian literary history: The Aquarium broke out of the mold of the literary traditionalism and realism that had been dominant until then, and it is generally hailed as having inaugurated the nouveau roman in Québec. The action is set in an unnamed third-world country on the brink of independence, and the plot centers around a group of tense expatriates residing in the Casa Occidentale.
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Complete Poetry Paperback Huguette Gaulin 9781988254838 $20.00 POETRY Sep 15, 2021

This dual-language edition brings together the complete poetry of one of twentieth-century Québec's most important poets.
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Cosecant Hyperbole Paperback Angela Marchionni 9781988254845 $20.00 POETRY Sep 15, 2021

Written in the aftermath of a protracted illness and the sudden loss of two friends who had been companions on an intimate journey of healing, Marchionni's poems enact a generative conversation between the abstractions of mathematics and the polysemic openings of poetic writing (and artistic practice in general) in an effort to loosen their entanglements with the most devastating vectors of contemporary technological and economic reasoning. The vicissitudes of a body vulnerable to pain, disease and the educated guesswork of biomedical protocols... + Read More
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Diamanda Galás Paperback Catherine Mavrikakis 9781988254869 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 15, 2021

An exercise in admiration, this book takes a look at the petrifying work of Diamanda Galás, the singer with three octaves. Far from being dumbfounded by Galás and her voice, Catherine Mavrikakis takes the artist's work head-on. From ancient Greece to the suburban United States, from the Armenian genocide to the AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s, Galás is constantly renewing herself.
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Displacements and Déchirements A Bilingual Anthology of Nathanaël's Writings Paperback Nathanaël 9781988254876 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 15, 2021

Displacements and Déchirements, curated by Elena Basile, is the first-ever anthology of Nathanaël's writings in English and French.
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Empty Room, The Paperback Sadia Abbas 9781988254883 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2021

In 1970s Karachi, where violence and political and social uncertainty are on the rise, a beautiful and talented painter, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it Shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a trap from which there appears no escape. Accustomed to the company of her brother Waseem and friends, Andaleep and Safdar, who are activists, writers and thinkers, Tahira struggles to adapt to her new world of stifling conformity and to fight for her identity as a woman and an artist. Shortedlisted for the DSC Prize for... + Read More
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End of the Nylon Age Paperback Josef Škvorecký 9781988254890 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2021

Banned at the time of its writing, and later published in a censored edition, this novella of 1956 is the last of Josef Škvorecký's major works to be published in English translation.
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Magnetic Earth, The Paperback Édouard Glissant 9781988254906 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 15, 2021

Sylvie and Édouard Glissant's intention was not to add hypotheses to those many that have attempted to pierce the mystery of Easter island. They wanted to touch imaginatively the stirring of a place that is both primordial and yet so contemporary, tormented and yet liberated, solitary and yet not alone, whose population, descended from a unique and legendary stock, today enjoys a peaceful existence based on its very diversity and its relationship with the world. Sylvie Glissant, during her stay there, assembled notes, drawings, photos, films, w... + Read More
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Mysteries of My Land Paperback Reza Baraheni 9781988254937 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2021

Hossein Tanzifi, a young English interpreter for American advisors in Iran, is caught at a crossroads when he witnesses the assassination of an American adviser by thirteen army officers. Hossein, who had no role in the incident, is sentenced to life in prison. Fourteen people were executed for the murder and he is the only one who knows what happened and who is covering it up. Eighteen years later, during the Iranian revolution, Hossein is released from prison and while dodging his own murder, he searches for the one woman who can unveil the t... + Read More
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Plague Diary Paperback Gonçalo Tavares 9781988254913 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 15, 2021

Plague Diary is a series of daily journals documenting time spent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Vulnerable Point, 1949 Fourteen Poems of Youth Paperback Nikos Kachtitsis 9781988254920 $20.00 POETRY Sep 15, 2021

Re-issued by Quattro Books in a new quadrilingual edition (English, French, Greek, Italian), the poetry of Nikos Kachtitsis is an essential read for those wishing to discover one of the most formidable and enigmatic voices in twentieth-century Greek and Canadian letters.
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The Errant Husband Paperback Elizabeth Haynes 9781989274583 $25.00 FICTION Oct 12, 2021

Thelma's marriage is unravelling as her oblivious husband Wally rediscovers his youthful obsession with Che Guevara. When Rosa, a young Cuban poet, joins his writing group, he unexpectedly books a trip to Cuba. Thelma decides to join him and discovers that he has inexplicably disappeared. As she searches for Wally she converses with the ghost of her father, confronts her abandoned dreams, and relies on the help of odd strangers.
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A Natural History of Unnatural Things Paperback Zachari Logan 9781989274545 $20.00 POETRY Sep 20, 2021

A microscopic and intense view of the sometimes invisible and ignored parts of the world we inhabit. Peering into cities and our place within them, the poet searches for meaning after the death of his father, and observes the flora and fauna, which provide beauty and nourish us. This book delights the senses and poses the question, are we contributing to, or ultimately destroying our planet?
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Earth-cool, and Dirty Paperback Jacob Lee Bachinger 9781989274613 $20.00 POETRY Oct 12, 2021

Earth-cool, and Dirty iis a timely debut collection by Jacob Lee Bachinger, full of wisdom, and beautiful reflections on the state of humanity. It is a call to pay careful attention to the earth, to nurture it in the same way we attend to the people we love. In "My Son Asleep, Age 4," he observes: "What no one told me,/what I've had to learn for myself:/to love this much is painful."
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Series: AfriCANthology AfriCANthology Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets Paperback A. Gregory Frankson 9781990086090 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 01, 2022

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by Greg Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspects of navigating their unique personal, professional, and artistic path... + Read More
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Artificial Divide Paperback Randy Lacey 9781990086083 $25.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2021

Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more. This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives.When we think about it, we're not reall... + Read More
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Beyond the Stone Paperback Jamieson Wolf 9781990086045 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2021

After a schism renders the world unrecognizable, Magic comes out into the open. Bane is a Supernatural who works for the Clocktower, the organization that is supposed to protect mortals from themselves. Jackson is able to teleport long distances and is also a clairvoyant, something that no mortal should be able to do. That's the least of their troubles, however. Sparks fly when they meet, even if relationships between mortals and Supernaturals are frowned upon. When they learn that the Clocktower is keeping mortals and Supernaturals prisoner,... + Read More
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Series: Dissatisfied Me Dissatisfied Me A Love Story Paperback Bruce Gordon 9781990086076 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2021

Rick "Dickie" Duncan is turning fifty. Meh. On the eve of this mid-century milestone, he finds himself alone in his mother's Ottawa basement, surrounded by gaudy decor and a carpet that hasn't been raked in years. Grabbing some brews and frozen hotdogs, Rick rummages through the clutter that's made up his dissatisfied life. From the death of Santa to the last days of Scottish Rot, Rick meanders through the decades, mapping his existence amid the pop culture of the '70s to the present day. Marking key moments of his unsated misadventures and ... + Read More
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Shifting Trust Paperback Madona Skaff-Koren 9781990086052 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2021

Tyler Demir left the RCMP after an undercover operation he was in charge of turned deadly. Refusing to make life and death decisions anymore, he now works as assistant head of security for a military funded Canadian nano-tech company. But when one of their scientists is kidnapped, the military send Tyler to England to retrieve him. Not sure who to trust, Tyler uses contacts from his undercover days to get the scientist to safety. At every step, he sees the rescue crumble around him and again he has blood on his hands. How the hell did he manag... + Read More
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Best of the Bonnet, The Paperback Andrew Unger 9780888017390 $21.95 FICTION Dec 10, 2021

Since its debut, the internet's most trusted source for Mennonite satire has drawn the attention of everyone from the Canadian Prairies to the high-rises of New York, keeping readers laughing with hundreds of hysterical headlines and tongue-in-cheek editorials where (almost) no topic is off-limits. The Best of the Bonnet brings together some of the funniest, most loved posts from The Daily Bonnet, a website that Miriam Toews calls "fantastic" and "hilarious." This collection also includes new and updated articles, scholarly commentary, a glossa... + Read More
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Series: Turnstone Selects Marshburning Paperback David Arnason 9780888017437 $17.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2023

Reissued in a magnificent new edition, Marshburning is David Aranson's masterful long poem binding his Icelandic roots to the shore of Lake Winnipeg. First published in 1980, this classic is the latest edition in the Turnstone Selects series, highlighting important works that hold both mass and academic interest.
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Sweetest Dance On Earth, The New and Selected Paperback Di Brandt 9780888017352 $19.00 POETRY Sep 30, 2022

Since her debut in 1987 with questions I asked my mother, Di Brandt has remained curious, still asking questions and pushing poetic bounds. Now for the first time, the best work of this Griffin Award winning poet has been gathered together in one place. Distilled into one collection is Di Brandt's insatiable desire to understand, question and show the world in a new light. From her feminist work to her eco poetics, readers will get a chance to see the breathtaking career of one of Canada's most influential poets.