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Series: A Cemetery for BeesPaperback
Alina Dumitrescu9781773900834
$18.95FICTION
Feb 01, 2021
This autobiographical novel traces the journey of a woman from her youth in Socialist Eastern Europe to her transplanted life in Montreal, Canada. She is a precocious, thoughtful child, whose early life in Romania is marked by the scarcities of the time and the political games needed to survive, but she is not unhappy. Placed around her family's house are hives-the bees discourage the secret police from visiting too often-and they provide both a childish diversion and an overarching metaphor for departure and home. An elegant, candid book, A Ce... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction SeriesA Diary in the Age of WaterPaperback
Nina Munteanu9781771337373
$22.95FICTION
Jun 18, 2020
Winner (Bronze) of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Science Fiction); Winnner (Silver), 2020 Literary Titan Book AwardsCenturies from now, in a post-climate change dying boreal forest of what used to be northern Canada, Kyo, a young acolyte called to service in the Exodus, discovers a diary that may provide her with the answers to her yearning for Earth's past--to the Age of Water, when the "Water Twins" destroyed humanity in hatred--events that have plagued her nightly in dreams. Looking for answers to this holocaust--and disturbed... + Read More
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Series: Inanna PublicationsA Generous SpiritSelected Works by Beth BrantPaperback
Janice Gould9781771336857
$22.95FICTION
Sep 20, 2019
Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian FictionA Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant collects the writing of Beth Brant, Mohawk lesbian poet, essayist, and activist. During her life, Brant's work gave voice to an often unacknowledged Two-Spirit identity, and today, her words represent continued strength, growth, and connection in the face of deep suffering. A Generous Spirit is Brant's portrait of survival and empathy at the intersection of Native American and lesbian experience. Edited by noted Native poet and scholar ... + Read More
2021 Trillium Book Award Shortlist An extraordinary debut set in Toronto, unfurling against the backdrop of an ancient Persian love story. The story of Layla and Majnun, made immortal by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi in the 12th century, has been retold thousands of times, in thousands of different ways, throughout literature. Against the backdrop of this story, to the sound-track of modern hip-hop, and amid the struggle of an immigrant family to instill an old faith under new conditions, Irfan Ali's Accretion hurtles towards an unsustainable... + Read More
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Series: Alfabet/AlphabetPaperback
Sadiqa de Meijer9781989287606
$15.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 01, 2020
alfabet / alphabet is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer?s transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate the shifting cultural currents of language by using an eclectic approach to storytelling. As such, fellow linguistic migrants to anglophone Canada will recognize elements of their experience in alfabet / alphabet, while lifelong English speakers will perceive their mother tongue in a new light.
In these dark fairy tales, two girls face danger while grieving loved ones, and learn some hard truths about growing up along the way. Imaginative and curious, these fables illustrate adventures for children who have to make big choices. In Amaryllis, a preteen goes missing on her birthday. Amaryllis heads out with her sister Fey’s ashes, determined to scatter the remains and set Fey free. But when she discovers that Fey is stuck between life and death, she realizes she has to join Fey on a trek to the Land of the Dead. In Little Witch, a sickl... + Read More
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Series: Arctic SmokePaperback
Randy Schroeder9781988732701
$20.95FICTION
Sep 15, 2019
Shortlisted for Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, ageing punk Lor Kowalski is unsure of his sanity. He is haunted by hallucinogens and harbingers, strung out on broken stories that he cannot piece together into a lucid whole. Forced to join his old band from a life he'd rather forget, he is dragged north under the spell of a mysterious ad for an Arctic festival tour. As the band members unspool across the surreal snowscapes and frozen wastelands, rogue CSIS agents are hot on their... + Read More
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Series: Bar Mitzvah BoyPaperback
Mark Leiren-Young9780369100689
$17.95DRAMA
May 20, 2020
Joey Brant needs to have a bar mitzvah immediately. Like, next Tuesday. Except he’s not thirteen, the usual age for the Jewish milestone. He’s in his sixties. A task he thinks he could quickly cross off his to-do list becomes a deep immersion into the faith he no longer follows when he meets Rabbi Michael Levitz-Sharon. Michael’s personal life is hanging together by a thread. Her preteen daughter is being treated for cancer, which has put a strain on her marriage and her beliefs. Between her duties as rabbi, mother, and wife, she doesn’t have m... + Read More
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Series: BearsPaperback
Matthew MacKenzie9780369101068
$17.95DRAMA
Jun 10, 2020
As the prime suspect in a workplace accident, Floyd has to get out of town fast. Pursued by the RCMP, he heads through the Rockies for Burnaby, BC, along the route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. By the time he reaches the Pacific, Floyd has experienced changes: his gait widening, muscles bulging, sense of smell heightening…
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Series: Bestiary, ThePaperback
Dennis Cooley9780888016690
$17.00POETRY
Sep 15, 2020
Cooley conducts a chorus of "clucks & barks & muffled cries" to unconstrained cacophony. Bursting with a remarkable and encompassing cast of spiders and fish, crows and bears, rats, chickens, and cows, The Bestiary gives free rein to very human feelings and the way they grow, stunt, and stampede out on the prairie landscape. Amid hushed and howling moments, the natural bends uncanny while the extraordinary roots into the organic under Cooley's careful eye.
2020 Raymond Souster Award Longlist * 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Shortlist * 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards Shortlist Poems about a young two-spirit Indigenous man moving through shadow and trauma toward strength and awareness. Bones, Tyler Pennock's wise and arresting debut, is about the ways we process the traumas of our past, and about how often these experiences eliminate moments of softness and gentleness. Here, the poems journey inward, guided by the world of dreams, seeking memories of a loving sister lost beneath layers of traged... + Read More
Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams is a story of B, a young non-binary woman coming of age in the Montreal music scene. As she witnesses her friends struggling with mental illness and drug addiction, she also must deal with her own craft, the nepotism of the industry, and maintaining her transient lifestyle. Lucid, subconscious, introverted, and taking B from Montreal to Los Angeles, Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams is an intimate perspective on the life of making music.
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction SeriesCarouselPaperback
April Ford9781771337137
$22.95FICTION
May 08, 2020
Winner of the 2020 International Book Award for LGBTQ Fiction; Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year AwardsMargot Wright has led a deliberate life. At 18, she left her unusual and abusive family situation and never looked back, and then two years later she devoted herself wholly to Estelle Coté, her first and only love. But now, at 45, freshly retired from a career in antique firearms dealing, and settling into a new home with her wife, Margot finds herself feeling restless. Bored. She admits this to herself on the day she visits Le... + Read More
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Series: Casting into Mystery1st editionPaperback
Robert Reid9780889844285
$26.95SPORTS & 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.
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Series: Curb AngelsPaperback
Christopher Ducharme9781988168265
$24.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
May 30, 2019
In the post-punk, global economy of the 1980's, four young women from very different backgrounds are united by a common goal: justice. Curb Angels features fearless female characters on a mission that crosses borders and challenges the status quo. In the face of exploitation and violence against women, they carve their own path and leave a touch of well-deserved wreckage along the way. Powerhouse team Lisa Mendis and Christopher Ducharme join forces in this tour-de-force graphic novel debut to push boundaries and buttons as they explore cultura... + Read More
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Series: The Cyborg AnthologyPaperback
Lindsay B-e9781771315302
$20.00POETRY
Oct 01, 2020
2021 VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award Shortlist * 2021 Elgin Awards Longlist Poems written by Cyborgs in the future—this collection melds sci-fi and poetry, human and machine. The Cyborg Anthology takes place in a future where there was a thriving world of Robots and Cyborgs living peacefully beside Humans, but a disaster destroyed all Robot and most Cyborg life. The book is organized like a typical anthology of literature, split into sections that include a biography of each poet and a sample of their poetry. It covers early Cyborg poetr... + Read More
Winner, 2021 IPPY Bronze Medal for Canada-East Best Regional Fiction.Precocious ten-year-old Vanessa Dudley-Morris knows lots of secrets. In 1949 when she and her family are forced to move into two rooms on the second floor of 519 Jarvis Street in Toronto, a genteel but somewhat rundown rooming house owned by a reclusive pianist, she learns a lot more.Despite the family's drastically reduced circumstances, her parents struggle to keep up their old standards. Threatened by blindness due to an eye condition, Vanessa is kept at home, tutored by an... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction SeriesDear HeartsPaperback
Barbara Miller Biles9781771337533
$22.95FICTION
Sep 10, 2020
Finalist, 2021 High Plains Book Award for Short StoriesDear Hearts is a collection of character-driven stories that are whimsical, sometimes magical, unsentimental yet poignant, and focus on the ways in which girls and women who were teenagers in the 1960s experienced the changing cultural values shaped by feminism. Many of them are about the experiences of young women in high school and university, and explore their response to changing sexual mores. The characters are hearts of longing caught in the irony of the times, transitioning from the... + Read More
Three years into the second millennium, Majestic, Alberta is a farm town dealing with depressed crop prices, international borders closing to Canadian beef, and a severe drought. Older farmers worry about their way of life changing while young people concoct ways to escape: drugs, partying, moving away. Even the church is on the brink of closing.When local woman Annie Gallagher is struck by lightning while divining water for a well, stories of the town's past, including that of Annie and the grandmother who taught her water witching, slowly pou... + Read More
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Series: EcholocationPaperback
Karen Hofmann9781988732565
$19.95FICTION
May 01, 2019
Winner of Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Third Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada! All Lit Up Book Club SelectionIn this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuous imagery, Hofmann considers a range of human foibles: a newlywed couple who transform into feral beasts during the hardships of a remote research exp... + Read More
Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity examines Dunning's lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. Her writing takes into account the many assimilative practices that Inuit continue to face and the expectations of mainstream as to what an Inuk person can and should be. Her words examine what it is like to feel the constant rejection of her work from non-Inuit people and how we must all in some way find the spirit to carry through with what we hold to be true demonstrating the importance of standing ta... + Read More
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Series: FairPaperback
Ed Seaward9780889844315
$19.95FICTION
Jun 22, 2020
In this spare, poetic novel, a young homeless man finds solace in friendship, falls prey to the machinations of a malevolent gang of thugs, and ultimately is swallowed up by the inevitability of consequences on the dangerous and deceptively sunny streets of L.A.
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Series: FanonymousHardcover
M. C. Joudrey9780991761050
$28.95FICTION
Apr 16, 2019
Earth and sky are devoid of colour. There are no beginnings or endings.Then the snow melts.Maybe it's the dead cars. It could be the escaped bison roaming the downtown core. Mosquitoes? Sure. Dragonflies? Absolutely.And it's also entirely possible it's the pomegranate tree at the corner of Portage and Main. Or maybe, just maybe, it's the people, like Dickie Reimer. Any way you slice it, something's going on in Winnipeg.That's really true.At some point, every Peg will ask so why'd you move here? Jack hopes the city will be the one place no one w... + Read More
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Series: Ghost LakePaperback
Nathan Adler9781928120247
$19.95FICTION
Dec 31, 2020
In Ojibwe cosmology there are thirteen moons, and in these pages are thirteen offerings from Ghost Lake, an interrelated cast of characters and their brushes with the mysterious. Issa lives in fear of having her secret discovered, Aanzheyaawin haunts the roads seeking vengeance, Zaude searches for clues to her brother's death, Fanon struggles against an unexpected winter storm, Eadie and Mushkeg share a magical night, Tyner faces brutal violence, and Tyler, Clay, and Dare must make amends to the spirits before it's too late. Here the precolonia... + Read More
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Series: Ghost's JourneyA Refugee StoryHardcover
Robin Stevenson9781775301943
$21.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 10
Sep 01, 2019
When Indonesia becomes a dangerous place for the LGBTQ+ community, Ghost and her family are forced to leave their home and escape to freedom in Canada.Ghost's Journey: A Reugee Story is inspired by the true story of two gay refugees, Rainer and Eka, and written from the perspective of their cat Ghost, with illustrations created from Rainer's photographs. Written by award-winning author, Robin Stevenson, Ghost's Journey is a perfect fit to teach young audiences about family diversity, human rights, and social justice. Shortlisted for the 2021 S... + Read More
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Series: Goth Girls of BanffPaperback
John O'Neill9781988732954
$19.95FICTION
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 ... + Read More
Series: Home WaltzPaperback
G.A. Grisenthwaite9781989287644
$18.95FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
In 1973, fifteen-year old Q?óq?ésk?i?, or "Squito" Bob, is a mixed-blood N?e?kepmx boy trying to find his place in a small, mostly Native town. His closest friends are three n?e?kepmx boys and a white kid, an obnoxious runt who thinks himself superior to his friends. Accepted as neither Native nor white, Squito often feels like the stray dog of the group and envisions a short, disastrous life for himself. Home Waltz follows the boys over thirty-six hours on what should be one of the best weekends of their lives. With a senior girls volleyball t... + Read More
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Series: HorseplayMy Time Undercover on the Granville StripPaperback
Norm Boucher9781988732985
$21.95TRUE CRIME
Nov 15, 2020
Shortlisted for the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book at the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence!Finalist for Book Cover Design at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!In his first true crime memoir, undercover operator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver's heroin scene, a world of paranoia, ripoffs, and violence. It is 1983 and the War on Drugs is intensifying. From his barroom observer's seat, Boucher candidly reveals the lives of heroin addicts who spend each day looking for their nex... + Read More
Finalist for the Seventh Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the Literary Fiction categoryIncludes author-curated discussion questions!Traci Skuce's Hunger Moon is a collection of stories that echo with the yearning to be replenished, to be made full. Here are characters at cusp-points in their lives, attempting to shift their trajectories: to cease wrapping up their heart's desire in a pink bubble by launching it into the universe. Some turn to ESP, some to a belief in ghosts, some to the future caught inside a glass bottle, each char... + Read More
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Series: I Am the Big HeartPaperback
Sarah Venart9781771315364
$20.00POETRY
Nov 01, 2020
Winner of the 2021 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry * 2021 ReLit Awards Longlist A love story to the emotional self—this heart is tender, but it also has a savage bite. What does it mean to be the big heart? Or to hope to be the big heart? Or to fail to be that big heart? How far can a heart stretch? How does being a parent stretch it further? How does a heart manage under the pressure of children, of self, of hospital technician, of partner, of death? In this collection, big heartedness is both demand and desire. It emerges from family life—the ki... + Read More
What does it mean to say "I love you"?Ariadne is a single, forty-something writer and mother embroiled in an affair with a married man. At the core of her current work, a manuscript about the declaration of love, is the need to understand why: why her lover has returned to his wife, why their relationship still lingers in her mind, why she's unable to conquer her longing. Lacking answers and struggling financially, she takes part in a research study in which she's paid to live with an AI device called Dirk.But the study quickly enters uncharter... + Read More
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Series: In Memory of MemoryPaperback
Maria Stepanova9781771666596
$25.00FICTION
Mar 02, 2021
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeLonglisted for the National Book Awards: Translated Literature Longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford PrizeWinner of the 2018 Bolshaya Kniga AwardWinner of the 2019 NOS Literature Prize An exciting contemporary Russian writer explores terra incognita: the still-living margins of history. With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in R... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction SeriesIn VeritasPaperback
C.J. Lavigne9781988732831
$21.95FICTION
May 01, 2020
Finalist for the 2021 Crawford Award!Winner of Speculative Book of the Year at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Best of List for Tor.com and Every Book a DoorwayAirdrie Reads WINNING book!"Things that are and are not, she thinks, and the dog is a snake."In this fantastic and fantastical debut, C.J. Lavigne concocts a wondrous realm overlaying a city that brims with civic workers and pigeons. Led by her synesthesia, Verity Richards discovers a hidden world inside an old Ottawa theatre. Within the timeworn walls live people who should not ... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction SeriesInquirer, ThePaperback
Jaclyn Dawn9781988732671
$19.95FICTION
Oct 01, 2019
Shortlisted for Best Trade Fiction at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!When an accident jeopardizing the family farm draws Amiah Williams back to Kingsley, Alberta, population 1431, she doesn't expect her homecoming to make front-page news. But there she is in The Inquirer, the mysterious tabloid that is airing her hometown's dirty laundry. Alongside stories of high school rivalries and truck-bed love affairs, disturbing revelations about Amiah's past and present are selling papers and fuelling small-town gossip. As the stakes get higher... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose SeriesKaidenberg's Best SonsA Novel in Stories2nd editionPaperback
Jason Heit9781771836517
$20.00FICTION
Mar 01, 2021
Kaidenberg’s Best Sons is an enthralling portrait of a community starting over in a new land. In a series of linked stories, author Jason Heit explores the lives and fortunes of people bound together by tradition, heritage and history, yet riven by envy, greed and lust. When a community of Eastern European settlers in North Dakota learn that there is promising farmland available in the newly established province of Saskatchewan they load their wagons and head north. Along with their furnishings, they also pack up their resentments, desires and ... + Read More
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Series: Kiskajeyi- I AM READYA Hermeneutic exploration of Mi'kmaq komqwejwi'kasikl poetryPaperback
Michelle Sylliboy9781775301929
$19.99POETRY
Apr 14, 2019
Kiskajeyi- I AM READY is a ground breaking Indigenous poetry book that also includes ancient Mi'kmaq (L'nuk) hieroglyphics. In 2020, Kiskajeyi- I AM READY won the Canadian Indigenous Voices Award (IVAs) for Published Poetry (English category). Indigenous artist and writer, Michelle Sylliboy blends her poetry, photography, and Mi'kmaq (L'nuk) hieroglyphic poetry in this unprecedented book.
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Series: The Knowing AnimalsPaperback
Emily Skov-Nielsen9781771315333
$20.00POETRY
Sep 01, 2020
2021 New Brunswick Book Awards Shortlist * 2021 ReLit Awards Shortlist Poems that sing, in various notes of female voice, the human being as an embodied, contemplative, feeling animal. In Skov-Nielsen's thrumming debut, The Knowing Animals, our consciousness is interconnected with the surrounding trees, bugs, rivers, atmospheres, and cosmos. Here, flowers escape Victorian domestication and ally with girls' green powers of attraction. Here, the social politeness of motherly domesticity and the raw dangers of adolescent sexual awakening are shot ... + Read More
This debut graphic novel tells the story of the 2015 European "migrant crisis" in Budapest, Hungary through the perspective of Langosh and Peppi, a vagabond and his faithful dog. The pair brings to mind an older, down-on-their-luck Tintin and Snowy with adventures to match. A semi-autobiographical work based on Post's own experiences, Langosh and Peppi escape the pressures of conformity by exploring out-of-the-way places, where they stumble on the vestiges of the war torn region's hidden past. We follow them through streets, alleys, tunnels, tr... + Read More
The playful and poignant novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) sifts through a queer trans woman's unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer love letter steeped in desire, grief, and delight, the story is interspersed with encyclopedia entries about a fictional TV show set on an isolated island.The experimental form functions at once as a manual for how pop culture can help soothe and mend us and as an exploration of oft-overlooked sources of pleasure, including karaoke, birding, and butt toys. Ultimately, Little Blu... + Read More
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Series: World ProseLiving Dolls and Other WomenPaperback
S. Montana Katz9781771835572
$25.00FICTION
Jul 01, 2021
In our era of #MeToo and fresh attempts to break the gender biased holds on our culture, a portrait of gender bias in the art world offers a microcosm of the pervasive challenges to achieving equality. Living Dolls and Other Women provides a fictionalized account of that world set against the pervasive sexual harassment in every corner of urban daily life. Set in the late 1980s, with New York City in the middle of a real estate crash, Living Dolls and Other Women chronicles the lives of five urban women as well as an activist organization comp... + Read More
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Series: Lonely BoysPaperback
Sophie Bédard9782924049662
$27.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Nov 12, 2020
After a year of radio silence, Ella bursts back into the lives of her former roommates, Jen and Lucie. Her intentions seem simple enough: she wants to mend fences and regain their trust. But it won't be that easy. Lonely Boys is a story of friendship, sisterhood and self-affirmation. It captures life at twenty-something as three young women navigate the challenges of work, sex and romantic relationships, all the while trying to hold on to the connection they share despite the hurt it carries.What can be done about the friendships that are bound... + Read More
In this wordless biography, wood engraver George A. Walker provides a fitting stage to explore the life of Mary Pickford, a silent film star whose groundbreaking contributions to the motion picture industry earned her the title `Queen of the Movies'.
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction SeriesMelting Queen, ThePaperback
Bruce Cinnamon9781988732503
$20.95FICTION
Apr 01, 2019
Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize--Literary Fiction Category!Shortlisted for Best Speculative Fiction at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Shortlisted for Best Book Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Second Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen--a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who mus... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction SeriesMolly of the MallLiterary Lass & Purveyor of Fine FootwearPaperback
Heidi Jacobs9781988732596
$19.95FICTION
May 15, 2019
Winner of the 2020 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour!Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor's life is strikingly different from a literary heroine's. Named for one of literature's least romantic protagonists, Moll Flanders, Molly lives in Edmonton, a city she finds irredeemably unromantic, where she writes university term papers instead of novels, and sells shoes in the Largest Mall on Earth. There she seeks the other half of her young life's own matched pair. Delightfully whimsical, Heidi L.M. Jacobs' Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Pu... + Read More
The year is 1893, and airships cloud the skies over the bustling metropolis of Toronto. The city is set to host the world's fair thanks in no small part to the work of two fantastical inventors. The New World Exhibition is to be a celebration of cultural and technological marvels; roving automatons, clockwork contraptions, the world's biggest steam-powered paddle boat, all to be fully lit by the wonder of electricity! On the day of the grand opening, young Norwood Quigley, aspiring journalist, photographer and scion of a world-famous airship ma... + Read More
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Series: Mythical ManPaperback
David Ly9781989287354
$18.95POETRY
Apr 01, 2020
In Mythical Man, David Ly builds, and then tears down, an army of men in a quest to explore personhood in the 21st century. Tenderness, toxic masculinity, nuances of queer love, and questions of race and identity mix in Ly?s poetry, casting a spell that enters like "a warm tongue on a first date." Mythical Man is an authentic and accomplished debut.
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Series: Nothing Without UsNothing Without UsPaperback
Cait Gordon9781987963663
$25.00FICTION
Sep 30, 2019
"Can you recommend fiction that has main characters who are like us?" This is a question we who are disabled, Deaf, neurodiverse, Spoonie, and/or who manage mental illness ask way too often. Typically, we're faced with stories about us crafted by people who really don't get us. We're turned into pathetic, tragic souls; we merely exist to inspire the abled main characters to thrive; or even worse, we're to overcome "what's wrong with us" and be cured. Nothing Without Us combines both realistic and speculative fiction, starring protagonists who a... + Read More
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Series: Once RemovedPaperback
Andrew Unger9780888017093
$21.95FICTION
Sep 15, 2020
Timothy Heppner is a frustrated ghostwriter struggling to make ends meet in Edenfeld, a small Mennonite community bulldozing its way towards modernity--if it's old, it has to go!A member of the Preservation Society but desperate to keep his job with the mayor's Parks and "Wreck" department, Timothy finds himself in an awkward position when he is hired to write an updated version of the town's history book. Fuelled by warring loyalties, the threat of personal bankruptcy, and a good deal of fried bologna, Timothy must find his own voice to tell t... + Read More
Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Literary Fiction Category!Niall Howell's Only Pretty Damned is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep Rowland's World Class Circus afloat for another season. When Toby, former trapeze artist turned disgruntled clown, begins seeing Gloria, a young and beautiful dancer longing for a bigger role under the spotlight, his hardboiled past resurfaces. Can he live without Genevieve, h... + Read More
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Series: Our Latest in FolktalesPaperback
Matthew Gwathmey9781771314978
$20.00POETRY
Apr 01, 2019
Poems of serious wordplay — an affirmation and celebration of the spectacles we make of our lives. On-stage in Matthew Gwathmey's debut collection are agitated 19th century horsemen, 80s comic book beetles, plaid-clad suburban grunge enthusiasts, Korean aunts turned traffic cops, Parisian mimes — in short, "a multitude of horns." Meanwhile, the "understories," the sub-spectacles of these poems, are the everyday trials and thrills of marriage and family, the search for meaningful love and friendship, and the palpable relief at being able to perf... + Read More
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Series: Permanent RevolutionEssaysPaperback
Gail Scott9781771666824
$23.00LITERARY CRITICISM
May 25, 2021
Finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal "A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates." From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like Stairs. In conversation with other writers working in queer/feminist avant-garde trajectories, including l’écriture-au-féminin in Québec and continental New Narrative, these essays provide an evolutionary snapshot of Scott’s ongoing prose experiment that hinges ... + Read More
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Series: Place Into BeingPaperback
Robert Pasternak9781988168166
$24.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Apr 01, 2019
Robert Pasternak (NAK) is a virtuoso of the sequential art form. An adept panelologist and painstaking craftsman. Despite a loyal and attentive following, awareness of his work is limited. In many ways, what may appear to be a constraint is part of the NAK mystery and lore. The abstract comics medium is highly complex and only vaguely understood. For NAK, it's merely a brushstroke. Yet, to define this artwork as abstract could be considered derivative. To the observer, NAK is ocular candy. Psychedelic sensuality.Delve into the NAK experience, a... + Read More
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Series: Polar VortexPaperback
Shani Mootoo9781771665643
$23.00FICTION
Mar 03, 2020
Some secrets never die...Priya and Alexandra have moved from the city to a picturesque countryside town. What Alex doesn't know is that in moving, Priya is running from her past—from a fraught relationship with an old friend, Prakash, who pursued her for many years, both online and off. Time has passed, however, and Priya, confident that her ties to Prakash have been successfully severed, decides it's once more safe to establish an online presence. In no time, Prakash discovers Priya online and contacts her. Impulsively, inexplicably, Priya inv... + Read More
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Series: Quick Bright ThingsPaperback
Christina Cook9780369100863
$17.95DRAMA
May 20, 2020
“Everyone hears voices. I’m treated like I’m broken for admitting it.” Can a weekend trip to visit family ever be smooth? Nick was hoping for a quick dinner at his brother Reid’s house when he stopped by with his seventeen-year-old adopted son, Gerome, on their way to meet Gerome’s birth mother. Gerome was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he wants to know more about his family history. Though Reid and his family wreak havoc with their well-meaning but misguided ideas about Gerome’s diagnosis, they manage to convince Nick and his son ... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said PoetryResponse of Weeds, TheA Misplacement of Black Poetry on the PrairiesPaperback
Bertrand Bickersteth9781988732794
$18.95POETRY
Apr 01, 2020
Winner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award!Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for PoetryWinner of a 2021 High Plains Book Award for First Book!Finalist for the 2020 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!A 2020 CBC Poetry Book of the Year!Finalist for a 2021 High Plains Book Award for PoetryBertrand Bickersteth's debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. The Response of Weeds offers a much-needed window on often ov... + Read More
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Series: Seeking ShadePaperback
Frances Boyle9780889844353
$18.95FICTION
Aug 05, 2020
In Frances Boyle's short story collection Seeking Shade, nuanced characters endure trauma, evolution and epiphany as they face challenges, make decisions, and suffer the inevitable consequences.
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Series: SelfiePaperback
Christine Quintana9780369101259
$17.95DRAMA 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... + Read More
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 ... + Read More
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Series: Sound of the BeastPaperback
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard9780369100764
$17.95DRAMA
Sep 21, 2020
"Compassion is good, but it’s just motivation. Cars need engines. Movements need mobilization." Through spoken word, storytelling and hip hop, acclaimed wordsmith Donna-Michelle St. Bernard illuminates racial discrimination, the suppression of expression and the trials of activism. Her experience as a Canadian emcee is woven through with allusion to Tunisian emcee Weld El 15’s unjust imprisonment for rhymes against a regime. This story creates a space to reflect on how we are connected to the systems that oppress us, and how we can empower each... + Read More
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