1.
Series:
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...
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2.
Series: Conundrum 25
The Water Lover
Paperback
Patrick Allaby
9781772620597
$10.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
May 10, 2021
A powerful tale of thirst, illness, and obsessionPatrick is almost finished university when his life turns upside down. It begins innocently enough, with a newly developed appreciation for the taste of water. His love of water quickly becomes an obsession, and before long, Patrick is drinking twenty cups a day. Then he starts experiencing other changes: exhaustion, weight loss, and (naturally) constant urination. He begins to fall behind in his last semester, but can't even muster up the energy to care. That's when Patrick lands in intensive ca...
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3.
Series:
Dear Twin
Paperback
Addie Tsai
9781999058807
$18.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Nov 15, 2019
Poppy wants to go to college like everyone else, but her father has other ideas. Ever since her twin sister, Lola, mysteriously vanished, Poppy's father has been depressed and forces her to stick around. She hopes she can convince Lola to come home, and perhaps also procure her freedom, by sending her twin a series of nineteen letters, one for each year of their lives.When not excavating childhood memories, Poppy is sneaking away with her girlfriend Juniper, the only person who understands her. But negotiating the complexities of queer love and...
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4.
Series:
Aurora Borealice
Paperback
Joan Steacy
9781772620375
$20.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
May 24, 2019
When Joan Steacy graduated from High School in 1974, she left her small town behind to embark on a lifelong quest for education. In Aurora Borealice, Steacy explores her personal journey through alter-ego Alice, a functional illiterate with a creative mind and artistic skill. The book is a lesson in perseverance and ultimately believing in yourself regardless of the challenges thrown your way. The story follows Alice as she winds her way through art college, marriage, an art career in Toronto, parenthood, and a major move to Victoria. Along the...
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5.
Series:
Case of the Missing Men, The
Paperback
Kris Bertin
9781772620160
$20.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Nov 11, 2017
The Case of the Missing Men is the first part of an ongoing mystery thriller set in a strange and remote east-coast village called Hobtown. The story follows a gang of young teens who have made it their business to investigate each and every one of their town's bizarre occurrences as The Teen Detective Club (a registered afterschool program). Their small world of missing pets and shed-fires is turned upside down when real-life kid adventurer and globetrotter Sam Finch comes to town and enlists them in their first real case--the search for his m...
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6.
Series: Hobtown Mystery Stories
Cursed Hermit, The
Paperback
Kris Bertin
9781772620306
$20.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Nov 01, 2019
The highly-anticipated follow-up to The Case of the Missing MenWill our Teen Detectives untangle the mystery of Knotty Pines--before it's too late? Reeling from the strange and confusing discoveries of their last adventure, the Hobtown Junior Detective Club is looking forward to Christmas break when two of its Teen Detectives--Brennan and Pauline--are made to attend an extra-credit boarding school called Knotty Pines. After attending their first classes, however, they realize they may have stumbled on their weirdest case yet!It's not just that ...
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7.
Series:
Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
Paperback
Hannah Moscovitch
9780369102300
$18.95
DRAMA
Jul 27, 2021
The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny. Jon, a star professor and author, is racked with self-loathing after his third marriage crumbles around him when he finds himself admiring a student—a girl in a red coat. The girl, nineteen-year-old Annie, is a big fan of his work, and also happens to live down the street. From their doorways to his office to hotel rooms, their mutual admiration and sexual ...
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8.
Series:
Theory
Paperback
Norman Yeung
9780369101617
$17.95
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...
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9.
Series:
Selfie
Paperback
Christine Quintana
9780369101259
$17.95
DRAMA
Age (years) from 14 - 18
Nov 23, 2020
A new year of high school is full of excitement and potential—but three teens didn’t expect it to bring such a dark change to their lives. After spending a summer reinventing herself in Paris, Emma is ready for her new life to start, while her best friend Lily is eager for them to reconnect. Lily throws a last-minute party fuelled by alcohol and Instagram, which leads to a long-awaited encounter between Emma and Lily’s older brother Chris. But the next day Emma feels that something went terribly wrong. When a doctor’s appointment and a visit fr...
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10.
Series:
Youth of God, The
Paperback
Hassan Ghedi Santur
9781988449739
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 01, 2019
Longlisted for Canada Reads, 2020 Finalist for the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing, 2019 The Youth of God tells the story of Nuur, a sensitive and academically gifted seventeen-year-old boy growing up in Toronto's Somali neighbourhood, as he negotiates perilously between the calling of his faith and his intellectual ambitions. Trying to influence him are a radical Muslim imam and a book-loving, dedicated teacher who shares his background. In its telling, this novel reveals the alienated lives of Somali youth in ...
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11.
Series:
Small Predators
Paperback
Jennifer Black
9781927886076
$19.00
FICTION
Jun 01, 2018
In this vibrant debut, Jennifer Ilse Black combines prose, lists, and structural experimentation. Small Predators follows a collective of student activists as they cope with the aftermath of a violent political demonstration carried out against their university by a member of their collective, Mink. The story's narrator, Fox, recounts Mink's addiction to a form of physical self-harm, both a violence motivated by guilt of privilege and a method of coping with political vulnerability. As Fox navigates her anger with Mink, debating whether or n...
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