1.
Series:
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.
2.
Series:
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."
3.
Series:
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?
4.
Series:
Wreck
A Very Anxious Memoir
Paperback
Kelley Jo Burke
9781989274446
$22.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 26, 2021
Kelley Jo Burke embarks on a wild journey to understand many things, including the part where her grandfather sort of murdered her grandmother. Returning to a house filled with her first memories of childhood, she begins to explore the complex origins of her own anxiety. Along the way, she reflects on alienation and immigration, mental health and generational trauma, and the nature of memory itself. A memoir filled with raw honesty, comedy, tragedy and grace.
5.
Series:
Handwringers
Paperback
Sarah Mintz
9781989274477
$22.00
FICTION
May 04, 2021
"I know a girl with a large head who tells only sad stories. She tells me that her stories are not sad because there are other people with worse stories and though this is true, it strikes me as the saddest thing she could say." A motley collection of characters populate these short, short stories, shaped by the daily barrage of media aimed at the general populace. Dramatic, and darkly funny, they revolve around Jewish identity. The schlemiel -- a figure in Jewish folklore who is unlucky and inept at the same time -- is not always apparent in t...
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6.
Series:
Kitotam: He Speaks to it
Paperback
John McDonald
9781989274507
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 13, 2021
The Neyhiyawak (Plains Cree) word "Kitotam" translates into English as, "He Speaks to It." This is a collection of free-verse poetry by Indigenous poet and artist John McDonald. Written in two parts, these poems chronicle John's life and experiences as an urban Indigenous youth during the 1980s. The second half of the book is a look into the inspirations and events, that shaped John's career as an internationally known spoken word artist, beat poet, monologist and performance artist.
7.
Series:
Strange Labour
Paperback
Robert Penner
9781989274354
$22.00
FICTION
Oct 05, 2020
"With this brilliant debut, Penner thoughtfully upends the tropes of postapocalyptic fiction" -- Publishers WeeklyStrange Labour is a powerful meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe that is indifferent to our extinction, and a provocative re-imagining of many of the tropes and clichés that have shaped the post-apocalyptic novel. Most people have deserted the cities and towns to work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks. The only adults unaffected by this mysterious obsession are a dwindling population th...
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8.
Series:
Tiny Ruins
Paperback
Nicole Haldoupis
9781989274385
$20.00
FICTION
Oct 05, 2020
"The dahlias on Sara's dress scrunched and stretched with her body as she spun on the grass and Alana couldn't understand why no one else was mesmerized." Tiny Ruins is a coming-of-age and coming out story that follows Alana, as she grows up, discovers, and tries to understand her bisexuality. Small windows offer us a glimpse of Alana's memories, often fragmentary, fleeting, and touching. When she confides in her sister that she is attracted to girls, she is met with disbelief, and so the secret is kept and Alana continues as the outsider looki...
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9.
Series:
Crooked at the Far End
Paperback
Gerald Hill
9781989274415
$20.00
POETRY
Oct 12, 2020
Crooked at the Far End, the latest book of poems in a series called The Man From Saskatchewan, travels, plays, and has a look around. Voices emanate from celebrities who inhabit cabins at Emma Lake, an old man sitting on a bench in Portugal, and the patrons of a fictional pub among others, all taking stock of the world we inhabit. A poet laureate details the incredible events that occurred during his tenure, "we saw industries of hope and growth/ and visitors from other lands sing/ in their own voices who they are/ We saw ourselves in a land al...
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10.
Series:
footlights
Paperback
Pearl Pirie
9781989274323
$20.00
POETRY
Oct 12, 2020
Inside the phobic and the crushing we trudge through the wreckage, the slippage, and the comic, in our search for joy. The beauty in these poems is an amalgam, like a gathering storm, of the meteorological and political, the mundane and the distressing.
11.
Series:
The Vivian Poems
Paperback
Bruce Rice
9781989274293
$20.00
POETRY
Mar 21, 2020
These poems peel back the layers of suburban life and the American Dream. Vivian Maier was a self-taught street photographer who worked as a nanny for wealthy employers in New York and Chicago. The poet imagines her as a documentarian who is compassionate, abrasive, and meditative, while her subjects provide their own narrative. More than anything, the poems are a response to her work, which is all we have that comes directly from her. It is a deliberate challenge to the "mystery nanny" she is reduced to in much of the constructed narrative of ...
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12.
Series:
The Teller from the Tale
Paperback
Ven Begamudré
9781989274248
$22.00
FICTION
Apr 21, 2020
In The Teller from the Tale, award winning author Ven Begamudré spins three stories in a masterful blend of myth and realism. In "Amar's Gift," a magical sculptor observes a princess, though it is forbidden for commoners to do so, and is determined to marry her. A father narrates a story called "Rainbow Knights" to his children every evening. Seven knights and their sister are offered to a fisherman and his wife, who have lost their only son to the god of the sea. The family travels to a bleak island cursed by a sorceress on their quest to resc...
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