1.
Series:
Marvellous Grounds
Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto
Paperback
Jin Haritaworn
9781771133647
$29.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 18, 2018
Toronto has long been a place that people of colour move to in order to join queer of colour communities. Yet the city’s rich history of activism by queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and racialized people (QTBIPOC) remains largely unwritten and unarchived. While QTBIPOC have a long and visible presence in the city, they always appear as newcomers in queer urban maps and archives in which white queers appear as the only historical subjects imaginable. The first collection of its kind to feature the art, activism, and writings of QTBIPOC in T...
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2.
Series: Overhead
Clouds
Paperback
Lucy Haché
9780991761074
$24.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2016
In this brave first book, Lucy Haché transports the reader with intimate revelations on self-awareness and identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the sea, forest and sky. Through skilled restraint and beautifully astute description, Haché's prose reaches past her own contemplation to connect us all. Masterfully illustrated by artist Michael Joyal, his stunning and meteorologically accurate cloud drawings contribute to the overall sensory and transcendent experience.
3.
Series: Overhead
Stars
Paperback
Lucy Haché
9781988168104
$19.95
FICTION
Mar 01, 2018
In this second installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Haché once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the sky and stars. Hache's prose is extraordinary in its combination of self awareness yet unselfconscious honesty and skillful restraint, creating a sense of connection under the vastness of the stars above. Masterfully illustrated by artist Michael Joyal, his evocative astronomic drawings contribute to the overall sensory and transcendent experience.
4.
Series:
What Fox Knew
Paperback
Mary Barnes
9781988168203
$19.95
POETRY
Nov 05, 2019
With poems that both calm and awaken, Mary Barnes brings her Ojibwe roots to the fore and elegantly coaxes out the seemingly quiet world we often take for granted in What Fox Knew. In this masterful first collection, Barnes reveals this world anew, with tempered grace.
5.
Series: TreeTalk
TreeTalk
Hardcover
Ariel Gordon
9781988168272
$19.95
POETRY
Sep 29, 2020
During the heatwave of July 2017, Ariel Gordon spent two days sitting on the patio of downtown Winnipeg's Tallest Poppy, writing snippets of poems which she hung from the boulevard tree using paper and string. Passersby were invited to TreeTalk too -- their secrets / one-liners / meditations / haiku were also hung from the tree. By the end of the weekend, the elm had a second temporary canopy of leaves: 234 poems, 111 written by Gordon, 107 written by passersby, and 16 from other sources.Gordon has assembled all these voices into a long/found p...
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6.
Series:
ABC MTL
Hardcover
Jeanne Painchaud
9781773900353
$21.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Grade (US) from 3 - 14
Oct 07, 2019
Montreal spelled out in a mosaic of haiku, descriptive text and full-colour photographs. From A to Z, every letter introduces a different aspect of the city in all its diversity and fun.
7.
Series:
Kerouac & Presley
Paperback
André Pronovost
9781773900643
$22.95
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.
8.
Series:
South Away
The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels
Paperback
Meaghan Hackinen
9781988732633
$20.95
TRAVEL
Oct 15, 2019
Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Nonfiction Category!Shortlisted for Best Trade Non-Fiction at the 2020 Book Publishing Awards!South Away follows Meaghan Marie Hackinen and her sister in the adventure of a lifetime: bicycling from Terrace, BC down the West Coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Along the way Hackinen battles with the elements in Vancouver Island's dense northern forests and frigid Mexican deserts; encounters strange men, suicidal highways and monster trucks; and makes some emergenc...
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9.
Series:
Goth Girls of Banff
Paperback
John O'Neill
9781988732954
$19.95
FICTION
Nov 15, 2020
Shortlisted for a 2021 ReLit Award in the short fiction category!Finalist for Trade Fiction Book of the Year at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!John O'Neill's gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their survival is tenuous. A two-sister team of goth tour guides offers guided excursions up switchback mountain trails; a paroled convict thumbs his way into the life of a ...
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10.
Series:
Don't Try This at Home
One Family's (mis)Adventures Around the World
Paperback
Daria Salamon
9780888016539
$21.00
TRAVEL
May 16, 2019
Rob Krause and Daria Salamon sold their car, rented out their Winnipeg home, and packed up their two young children to embark on a 12-month journey around the world. In this dual retelling of their ambitious year abroad, Don't Try This at Home chronicles the hilarious and sensational misadventures of a Canadian family as they travel across 15 different countries in the Southern Hemisphere. In an honest reflection on parenting, marriage, and living for a year on a tight budget, Krause and Salamon take readers through some of the world's most stu...
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11.
Series:
Still Me
A Golf Tragedy in 18 Parts
Paperback
Jeffrey John Eyamie
9780888017130
$21.95
FICTION
Oct 01, 2020
Golf is the only way I know to control time. It happens in the millisecond of that focused backswing, right before the violence of intention.When I escape time, I escape memory. In that way, golf is an alchemy. A magick. I am a practicing magician.When James Khoury discovers that his prized golf memorabilia from some of Canada's best golf courses has been destroyed, he journeys back through memories of being on the fairway, his struggles with gnawing ineptitude, and a troubled relationship with his wife and son.Slowly, his memory precipitates t...
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12.
Series: Essential Prose Series
Unravelling
Paperback
Josephine Boxwell
9781771835442
$20.00
FICTION
Oct 01, 2020
Told in alternating chapters that go back and forth between the 1990s and the present, Unravelling uncovers a story of corruption that connects the two small-town British Columbia protagonists whose worlds are irreparably damaged. Ruthless octogenarian Vivian Lennox fights her deteriorating mind as she defends the catastrophic decisions she made decades earlier. Armed only with her curiosity, 10-year-old Elena Reid is dangerously unaware of who or what she is about to expose as she searches for answers to her father's disappearance, following a...
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13.
Series: Essential Poets Series
Götterdämmerung
Paperback
Len Gasparini
9781771835473
$20.00
POETRY
Oct 01, 2020
Götterdämmerung is Len Gasparini's fifteenth book of poetry since the early 1970s. What distinguishes this collection from his earlier work is the long title poem: a tour de force that covers new ground in the genre of ecopoetics by launching an acerbic yet lyrical assault on the Anthropocene. Other poems explore such diverse themes as memory, art, and botany. Also included are three literary essays that evince the importance of language and imagination.
14.
Series: World Prose
Side Effects
A Footloose Journey to the Apocalypse
Paperback
S. Montana Katz
9781771835503
$20.00
FICTION
Oct 01, 2020
Side Effects: A footloose journey to the apocalypse is a novel about the post-World War II baby boom generation and the factors that have led to climate catastrophe. The novel provides a portrait of the boomers by following the lives of a zany, idealistic couple and their growing family through the '50s, '60s, '70s. Beginning on a honeymoon motorcycle trip the couple sets the goal of putting down roots in California, the land of wild beauty, abundance, and political activism. The music, art, science, and politics of the era are palpable through...
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15.
Series: Essential Prose Series
Walking Leonard
And Other Stories
Paperback
Sophie Stocking
9781771835848
$20.00
FICTION
May 01, 2021
Walking Leonard and Other Stories, is a short story collection of roughly 30,000 words in the literary fiction genre. The stories depict unspoken pivot points in the lives of ordinary people. Themes include responsibility and violation between parent and child, nature as a protective force, and the shucking off of various selves in the process of a lifetime. The stories spring from the foothills of southern Alberta, specifically Calgary, and some even more specifically from the historic neighborhood of Bowness, once a small town in its own right.
16.
Series: World Prose
Kissing a Tree Surgeon
Paperback
Eleanor Levine
9781771835602
$20.00
FICTION
Oct 01, 2020
In Kissing a Tree Surgeon, worlds traverse the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in New Jersey. Southern women get kidnapped by North Koreans. A Dutch girl solicits money on OKCupid. A young woman meets Golda Meir on an Upper East Side bus in New York City. A character believes he’s the biological son of Frank Sinatra. Zionist-Hasidic lesbians protest anti-Semitism at a women’s Catholic college. A stalking moviegoer takes her dead grandmother to a Bertolucci film. A daughter meets her father’s mistress at his grave. An employee is banned from callin...
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17.
Series:
Casting into Mystery
1st edition
Paperback
Robert Reid
9780889844285
$26.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Feb 18, 2020
Casting into Mystery celebrates the meditative sport of fly fishing, rejoicing in the camaraderie and quietude to be found not only in the gentle flow of river currents, but also in the community and culture of anglers past and present.