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Series: #IndianLovePoemsElectronic book text, EPUB
Tenille K. Campbell9781773240435
$9.99POETRY
Oct 10, 2018
The poetic speaker, a First Nations Donna Giovanni, relates stories of her search for The One, or even better, that One-Night-Stand, in heated lines that fearlessly shed light on the intimacy and honesty that may arise even from the most fleeting encounter, leading to reflection on the complexities of sex, race, culture, and intention within relationships.
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Series: A Roxanne Calloway MysteryAnd Then is Heard No MoreElectronic book text, EPUB
Raye Anderson9781773240893
$9.99FICTION
Jun 01, 2021
Opening night of the season at Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Centre is a glittering event on the city's arts calendar, and this October, there is real drama happening offstage. Gerald Blaise, the company's well-loved Artistic Director has failed to show up. Gerald's car is found the following day, north of the city, when a couple of dogs take a keen interest in the bloody contents of the trunk. Since Gerald's remains have been discovered outside the city limits, Sergeant Roxanne Calloway of the RCMP finds herself investigating the death. PTC's nex... + Read More
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Series: A Roxanne Calloway MysteryAnd We Shall Have SnowElectronic book text, EPUB
Raye Anderson9781773240671
$9.99FICTION
Aug 01, 2020
New to the RCMP's Major Crimes Unit, Corporal Roxanne Calloway is keen to make her mark. She's young and ambitious. But when she's called from the big city to tiny Cullen Village to lead the investigation into the death of the talented but devious star of the local music scene—discovered frozen and dismembered at the local dump—she finds much to contend with. The close-knit community does not give up its secrets willingly. Barely has she begun her investigation when another very dead, very frozen body disturbs the rural peace. In the summer Cu... + Read More
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Series: Another Spy for ParisElectronic book text, EPUB
Robert J. Young9781773240350
$9.99FICTION
Dec 17, 2018
While Canadian history professor Andrew Stanhope is doing research in Paris on the German invasion of France, he stumbles upon an odd and long-lost exchange between Colonel Marius Michel, principal deputy in France's counter-intelligence agency, the Deuxieme Bureau, and the Directeur-general of the Val de Grace military hospital. The Colonel wants Chastenet to warn the incoming Prime Minister, Philippe Petain, that there is an active spy in the French war ministry and that Petain's own ring of advisors includes at least one Nazi sympathizer. In... + Read More
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Series: Finding CallidoraElectronic book text, EPUB
Stella Leventoyannis Harvey9781773240626
$9.99FICTION
Oct 27, 2019
A horrific betrayal sets the destiny of the Alevizopoulos family, farmers who dare to choose a side, first in the Great War of 1914-1918, then in the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922. Theodore, the patriarch, was given a significant plot of fertile farmland in the Peloponnese for his efforts to fight the Ottomans in the Cretan revolution of 1886-1896. After he dies, it is Callidora, the matriarch, who must protect this legacy, raising her children to ensure the land is passed down from one generation to the next. But will the treacherous schemes ... + Read More
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Series: Finding Home in the Promised LandA Personal History of Homelessness and Social ExileElectronic book text, EPUB
Jane Harris9781773240008
$9.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 12, 2016
In 2013, a violent crime left Jane Harris seriously injured and tumbling down the social ladder toward homelessness -- for the second time in her life -- leading her to question the underlying conditions that could allow this to happen in a country like Canada. Finding Home in the Promised Land is the result of her harrowing journey through the wilderness of social exile. Her Scottish great-great-grandmother Barbara's portrait opens the door into pre-Confederation Canada; Harris's own story lights our journey through 21st-century Canada. Harris... + Read More
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Series: Home GameElectronic book text, EPUB
Endre Farkas9781773240534
$9.99FICTION
Oct 27, 2019
Tamasz Wolfstein escaped from Hungary with his parents when he was eight years old. They found refuge in Montreal, and Tamasz, who now goes by Tommy, or Wolfie to his soccer teammates, has become thoroughly Canadianized. His parents will never forget the persecution they endured as Jews in a right-wing Hungary, but Tommy's memories of that time are scant. When his university soccer tea is invited to Hungary to play against the country's top-ranking university team, however, Tommy will learn about his family's difficult past and the ongoing dang... + Read More
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Series: Left UnsaidElectronic book text, EPUB
Joan B. Flood9781773240107
$9.99FICTION
Oct 24, 2017
Delia Buckley hasn't seen Daniel Wolfe in twenty-two years, ever since he'd abandoned her and their unborn child. But now here he is, knowing all about Delia's family troubles and wanting to employ her to nurse him in his terminal illness. Desperate for money to keep both the family farm, and her sister Maggie in the home for the mentally ill she's lived in for years, Delia is in no position to turn down Daniel's very handsome offer. She is determined keep her distance and the truth about the past from him. But the past rises up around Delia fr... + Read More
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Series: Let the People SpeakOpression in a Time of ReconciliationElectronic book text, EPUB
Sheilla Jones9781773240725
$9.99HISTORY
Nov 15, 2019
Over the past fifty years, Canada’s Indigenous Affairs department (now two departments with more than 30 federal co-delivery partners) has mushroomed into a “super-province” delivering birth-to-death programs and services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. This vast entity has jurisdictional reach over 90 percent of Canada’s landscape, and an annual budget of some $20 billion. Yet Indigenous people have no means to hold this “super-province” accountable to them. Not a single person in this entity has been elected by Indigenous people to ... + Read More
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Series: Micro MiracleA True StoryElectronic book text, EPUB
Amy Boyes9781773240381
$9.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 20, 2018
Micro Miracle is the moving account of a first-time mother whose expectations of childbirth and parenting are dramatically altered when she gives birth sixteen weeks prematurely to Madeline. Weighing just over a pound, with eyes fused shut, and thin, fragile skin, Madeline could fit in a hand, but she's too ill to be touched. Unflinchingly honest, Micro Miracle is a true story of a medical triumph.
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Series: Off the RopesMy StoryElectronic book text, EPUB
Roland Vandal9781773240022
$9.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 12, 2016
Having been sexually abused by a boxing coach as a teen, and not knowing who to trust or tell, Roland Vandal found solace in drugs and alcohol. His battle with addiction, and his unwillingness to speak of his demons, led to failed relationships, bad choices, crime, trouble with the law, and PTSD. After a night of partying with friends in 2001, Roland found himself alone in a Winnipeg hotel and attempted suicide. When he woke, plagued by guilt and shame at what he'd done, he knew he had hit bottom. He dialled the phone and sought helpClean and s... + Read More
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Series: Operation Stealth SeedElectronic book text, EPUB
George Amabile9781773240565
$9.99FICTION
Oct 30, 2019
NYPD Detective Nicola Cortese, veteran of three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, is leading a routine drug bust at a warehouse in the Bronx, but the SWAT team Commander pulls rank and starts a firefight that gets Cortese’s partner killed. The tragedy triggers combat flashbacks, sleepless nights with cold sweats, nightmares, and violent outbursts during which he assaults fellow officers. He is demoted and transferred to a desk job in Operations. For months, all his appeals are denied. But when a new Precinct Commander returns him to active duty, h... + Read More
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Series: Paul Is DeadElectronic book text, EPUB
C.C. Benison9781773240329
$9.99FICTION
Nov 14, 2018
Under the sway of a charismatic stranger, five friends at an isolated lakeside cottage find their idyll unravelling, leaving two of them -- Lydia Eadon and Dorian Grant -- trapped in an explosion of violence that shatters their young lives and propels them past the borders of conventional morality. Forty years later when a body is unearthed from the scene of their revels, Lydia -- a book editor in San Francisco -- and Dorian -- a vagabond actor -- are plunged into a terrible reckoning with the past. Like Donna Tartt's The Secret History, this... + Read More
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Series: ReverberationsA Daughter's Meditations on Alzheimer'sElectronic book text, EPUB
Marion Agnew9781773240596
$9.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 30, 2019
Most people think Alzheimer's Disease is the same as memory loss, if they think about it at all. But most people prefer to ignore it, hoping that if they ignore it hard enough, it will go away. That was certainly Marion Agnew's hope, even after she knew her mother's diagnosis. Yet, with her mother's diagnosis, Marion's world changed. Her mother — a Queen's and Harvard/Radcliffe-educated mathematician, a nuclear weapons researcher in Montreal during Word War II, an award-winning professor and researcher for five decades, wife of a history profes... + Read More
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Series: Sea Over BowA North Atlantic CrossingElectronic book text, EPUB
Linda Kenyon9781773240411
$9.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 14, 2018
After her marriage of 25 years ended badly, Linda Kenyon was determined to never put herself in the way of a broken heart again. But then she met an extraordinary man, and in an act of great courage -- or foolishness -- decided to sell everything she owned and sail across the ocean with him. Sea Over Bow: Crossing the North Atlantic is the account of that journey. It takes readers to the middle of the ocean, a place most people have only imagined. It describes the trail of sparkling blue-green light that traces their path across the water a... + Read More
Skye Rayburn, a somewhat eccentric but well-respected veterinarian, always had a troubled relationship with her daughter Moira. When Moira is killed in a car accident, Skye has no choice but to take in her two-year-old grandson Duncan. Maybe this time she will "get it right." Over the years, Skye creates a diary: Life Lessons for Duncan. This diary, a surreal blend of fact and fiction, catalogues human and animal characteristics—their similarities and differences, as well as their complex interdependencies, which she hopes will help Duncan und... + Read More
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Series: Cat Between, TheElectronic book text, EPUB
Louise Carson9781773240503
$9.99FICTION
Oct 27, 2019
Trying to beat the mid-winter blahs by snowshoeing and cross country skiing when she’s not teaching art history at a local college (or being driven crazy by her numerous cats, cooped up in her rambling old country home), Gerry Coneybear thinks she has her busy life under control. That is, until she rescues her neighbour’s injured cat. Then a body pops up where she’d least expect it. And she even knows the victim – slightly. From gossiping with friends to discussing events while baking at home with her housekeeper Prudence, Gerry manages to pick... + Read More
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Series: A Maples MysteryThe Cat PossessedElectronic book text, EPUB
Louise Carson9781773240756
$9.99FICTION
Oct 01, 2020
It's April 1st and young artist Gerry Coneybear, inheritor of her Aunt Maggie's big old house The Maples (and her aunt's twenty cats!), wishes her mountain of bills was a joke. She's just self-published her children's book The Cake-Jumping Cats of Dibble, and that cost money. Plus the valuable painting she was hoping to sell is missing from the auctioneers'. And on top of everything else, her kitten Jay is acting weird, keeping her up at night. It's almost as if the cat's possessed.At least Gerry's personal relationships are going well: with he... + Read More
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Series: A Maples MysteryThe Cat VanishesElectronic book text, EPUB
Louise Carson9781773240299
$9.99FICTION
Nov 14, 2018
It's Christmas time but many of Gerry Coneybear's friends are away for the holidays and she has no family to celebrate with at the Maples, the old house bequeathed to her by her aunt. Just the 23 cats her aunt left her with. When Gerry first finds a bone in her bedroom, naturally she assumes it's a chicken bone one of the cats has dragged in from the garbage. But it turns out to be from a skeleton buried under the floorboards in the shed where her firewood is stored. On the up side, the skeleton is over 100 years old. But then, more disturbin... + Read More
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Series: The Dying DetectiveElectronic book text, EPUB
Gerald Lynch9781773240787
$9.99FICTION
Oct 01, 2020
Retired Detective Kevin Beldon has left Ottawa and gone into retreat at a Buddhist monastery in California following his successful treatment for lung cancer. He’s trying to make sense of his life, but death is very much on his mind. And not just his own; he’s still trying to come to terms with the loss ten years earlier of his wife and son, victims of Dr. Ewan Randome, an evil mastermind whom Beldon had been forced to let escape. Aside from providing the occasional consultation for the California police, Beldon has happily gone into retirement... + Read More
Eleanor Sawchuck believes she deserves to spend her last years in peace, perhaps even in the happiness of pursuing a December romance. But then Donald Eston, a man whose abusive past only she and her book club know about, moves into her seniors' complex. Not only are Eleanor and her friends uncertain what to do about him, they can't be sure they know the truth. After one of her friends dies and her lover becomes ill, Eleanor decides it's time to learn some facts from Eston's son, and to finally confront Eston himself.
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Series: Permanent TouristsElectronic book text, EPUB
Genni Gunn9781773240817
$9.99FICTION
Oct 01, 2020
The stories in Permanent Tourists feature displaced characters loosely connected through a support group, all of them dealing with loss precipitated by an elusive father, husband or lover, by a wife's death, a lost child, sibling rivalries. Tourists in their own lives, these characters are often paralysed by emotional inertia and are fleeing to evade their responsibilities, their failed relationships, their own shortcomings. Within the unfamiliar, their problems resurface and they're forced to confront and re-examine them. Permanent Tourists pr... + Read More
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Series: I Wasn't Always Like This1st editionPaperback
Shelley A. Leedahl9781927426517
$18.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2014
Some people claim they would like to walk away from their lives. Shelley A. Leedahl had the nerve to do it. Was it an act of selfishness, or self-preservation? Provocative, candid, and engaging, these intimate essays explore the implicit complexities and contradictions when personal and professional lives both complement and clash. How can she be a good mother when her literary calling requires her to be away — sometimes countries away — from her school-aged children? How does she reconcile the fact she is often more comfortable with stranger... + Read More
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Series: Ellipses1st editionPaperback
Andrea MacPherson9781927426395
$14.95POETRY Age (years) from 15 - 99
Mar 31, 2014
The poems in Ellipses are extractions, explorations, and, finally, moments of alternate life experiences that are so often left to the gaps of historical record. Ellipses was inspired by a trinity of personal events: the birth of Andrea MacPherson's daughter and the deaths of both of her grandmothers. After they died, MacPherson came to realize that she did not really know their stories, and would never be able to ask them. In Ellipses she reimagines familiar lore to recreate the lives of these two extraordinary women. This exploration leads t... + Read More
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Series: Martial Music1st editionPaperback
George Amabile9781927426821
$14.95POETRY
Apr 01, 2016
Martial Music, George Amabile's eleventh book and newest collection of poetry, explores the relationships between civilization, technology, empire and human violence, theatres of war, the collateral damage of military occupation, the machinations of power politics, oil spills, destruction of the environment, ptsd, and other characteristics of what we call ?world events.? These are tough poems for tough times?our times?when the human cost of military conflict, environmental disaster and gun violence have become the daily staple of news headlines... + Read More
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Series: Metropantheon1st editionPaperback
Steven Artelle9781927426401
$14.95POETRY Age (years) from 15 - 99
Mar 31, 2014
Metropantheon imagines the mythological origins, the ecstatic rites, and the divine interventions that comprise the essential nature of cities -- the mythic hotels, the gods of coffee, street noise, and commuting, prayers to the lord of parking spaces and corporate ambition, hymns to the muses of sex, death, and roller derby, and recurring tales of the legendary graffitichild, who ties together the advent and apocalypse of all cities.
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Series: Mood Swing, with Pear1st editionPaperback
Sue MacLeod9781927426838
$14.95POETRY
Apr 01, 2016
Mood Swing, with Pear is a refreshing take on life, love and everything in between. Ranging from a tribute to iconic paintings by the late Canadian painter, Alex Colville, to poems constructed from how-to books and encyclopedias to a eulogy for an upstairs neighbour who is both an inspiration and an annoyance. Sue MacLeod illuminates, instructs and reminds us that sometimes the greatest insight is often found in the smallest corner of getting through the day. Playful but never glib, MacLeod succeeds in getting us to look closer at the everyday ... + Read More
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Series: Refugee Song1st editionPaperback
Lawrence Feuchtwanger9781927426418
$14.95POETRY Age (years) from 15 - 99
Mar 31, 2014
What does it mean to leave the country - and the people - you love? To be uprooted from the soil that gave birth to, and nurtured you? To abandon both your past and your hoped-for future and embark on a voyage of uncertainty? In Refugee Song, Feuchtwanger weaves together fragmented memories of his South African childhood, youth, and self-exile, with the stories of others - refugees, the displaced and dispossessed, voyagers - who were forced, or chose to leave their homes; his Jewish forebears, Africa's colonized and colonizers, heroic and tragi... + Read More
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Series: Signs of Subversive Innocents1st editionPaperback
Cora Siré9781927426388
$14.95POETRY Age (years) from 15 - 99
Mar 31, 2014
Signs of Subversive Innocents travels the depth of human experience from the celebratory to the delusional. This debut collection by Cora Siré tells of characters and realms, both distant and familiar, with vibrant intensity and lyricism. The poems speak of physical and metaphysical signs—omens, gestures, creations, and other markings or traces of human existence—and the impulse to subvert destiny, the tension between actuality and desire that underlies beauty, terror, desperation, and triumph. Uniquely structured around a quartet set in an aba... + Read More
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Series: Text MeDimmelo per SMS1st editionPaperback
Corrado Calabro9781927426609
$19.95POETRY
Aug 15, 2014
An English-Italian bilingual collection of love poems, Text Me expresses through language and metaphor the many ways to say “I love you.” Calabrò’s poems often evolve from the experiences of the body: from sensual impressions, “Your cheek on my weary shoulder / the day pales, your lips pale / up, up, one more wing-beat / till we run out of oxygen”; to image, “In cold blood / the ice contrail of a Phantom jet /stabs the blue. / Like a blade in honey / you plunge your gaze into my heart”; to memory , “We met and I kissed you / already consumed b... + Read More
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Series: The Back Channels1st editionPaperback
Jennifer Houle9781927426845
$14.95POETRY
Apr 01, 2016
Jennifer Houle's debut collection, The Back Channels, reflects the effort to build a meaningful life in a rapidly changing culture, in a region afflicted, as many are, with outmigration and an economy of anxiety and hard choices. Here, where memories of a more prosperous past loom large, she takes us to the backwoods where a discouraged woman walks, down to the shore beyond the fairgrounds, and into the parking lots where smokers gather to talk about layoffs or pay cuts. Houle's poems invite the reader to listen in on these moments and pause am... + Read More
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Series: Touch Anywhere to Begin1st editionPaperback
Jim Nason9781927426852
$14.95POETRY
Apr 01, 2016
In Touch Anywhere To Begin, Jim Nason's fifth collection of poetry, poems are set in a physical world where full-throttle desire commingles with love, loss and grief. Although death is ever present, death of a father, death of a friend, there is a life-affirming/mystical quality at the core of this book. Nason reminds us that the city is both real and surreal, a place of creatures and buildings, imagination and deep emotions. He celebrates demolition as enthusiastically as construction. The death of a child is no more or less significant t... + Read More
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