1.
Series:
Disarm, Defund, Dismantle
Police Abolition in Canada
Paperback
Shiri Pasternak
9781771135924
$23.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 04, 2022
Canadian laws are just, the police uphold the rule of law and treat everyone equally, and without the police, communities would descend into chaos and disorder. These entrenched myths, rooted in settler-colonial logic, work to obscure a hard truth: the police do not keep us safe. This edited collection brings together writing from a range of activists and scholars, whose words are rooted in experience and solidarity with those putting their lives on the line to fight for police abolition in Canada. Together, they imagine a different world—on...
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2.
Series:
It Should Be Easy to Fix
Paperback
Bonnie Robichaud
9781771135887
$25.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 08, 2022
In 1977, Bonnie Robichaud accepted a job at the Department of Defence military base in North Bay, Ontario. After a string of dead-end jobs, with five young children at home, Robichaud was ecstatic to have found a unionized job with steady pay, benefits, and vacation time. After her supervisor began to sexually harass and intimidate her, her story could have followed the same course as countless women before her: endure, stay silent, and eventually quit. Instead, Robichaud filed a complaint after her probation period was up. When a high-ranki...
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3.
Series:
The Mohawk Warrior Society
A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival
Paperback
Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall
9781771136013
$34.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 01, 2022
The first collection of its kind, this anthology by members of the Mohawk Warrior Society uncovers a hidden history and paints a bold portrait of the spectacular experience of Kanien'kehá:ka survival and self-defense. Providing extensive documentation, context, and analysis, the book features foundational writings by prolific visual artist and polemicist Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall (1918–1993)—such as his landmark 1979 pamphlet, The Warrior’s Handbook, as well as selections of his pioneering artwork. This book contains new oral history by key fig...
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4.
Series:
Women Winning Office
An Activist’s Guide to Getting Elected
Paperback
Peggy Nash
9781771135993
$25.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 02, 2022
When Peggy Nash first decided to run for elected office, she had no idea where to start, who to contact, or what the rules were. For those who are underrepresented in political life, politics can seem like a secret society designed to shut them out. Women Winning Office is a practical handbook for activist women on how to open doors and take their place in the political process. Find out how to build a team, get nominated, inspire volunteers, and canvass voters. Nash draws on her experience in five federal campaigns, as well as the stories o...
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5.
Series:
A Knife in the Sky
Paperback
Marie-Célie Agnant
9781771339186
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 30, 2022
In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student?s desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship. As the novel opens, Mika is dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during Haiti?s first Duvalier regime. Nearly thirty years later, her granddaughter Junon witnesses the repressive dynasty?s unravelling. Brutal, terrifying, and hopeful, A Knife in the Sky is an homage to those who have survived tyranny.Originally published by les éditions du remue-ménage in 2015 as Femmes au temps des carnassiers, t...
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6.
Series:
Deuce
Paperback
Vivian Zenari
9781771338998
$22.95
FICTION
Jul 12, 2022
Gilda Peterborough has always worried about her twin, but when Pete deletes his Facebook page, she is doubly concerned. Pete, A.K.A. Philippa, A.K.A. Phil, is intersex, and Gilda credits all of Pete's social problems with this biological fact. As far as Pete is concerned, however, the problems all lie with Gilda, who is constantly on his case for reasons that are unclear to him. Meanwhile, Pete and Gilda's mother Beth frets about both of her twins, neither of whom seem to be thriving. Beth tries desperately to be a patient and laid back parent...
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7.
Series:
Hypatia's Wake
Paperback
Susan Andrews Grace
9781771339094
$18.95
POETRY
Sep 13, 2022
This compelling new poetry collection presents Hypatia of Alexandria, the Neoplatonic philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who was murdered by Christians in the fifth century. The dearth of fact and truth about her has led to many false and fanciful representations of Hypatia. Hypatia's Wake addresses these and the reliable truth about her life.The double bind, a situation in which a person is given two different messages one of which negates the other, features largely in Hypatia's Wake. It links Hypatia's life and example to Luce Irigar...
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8.
Series:
(M)othering
an anthology
Paperback
Anne Sorbie
9781771339124
$24.95
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
May 17, 2022
(M)othering is a universally understood phenomenon that speaks to the act of becoming something unexpected and entirely outside ourselves. And this book is a collection of writing and art about that. 56 contributors illuminate the kind of gritty, body mind soul transformations that only the mothering myth can evoke. Their work will take you to wonder and wildness, kindness, beauty, grief, love.These writers and artists show us what it means to create, to birth something, to love it, and to suffer loss. They share their truths about being perse...
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Series:
Sensorial
A Poetry Collection
Paperback
Carolyne Van Der Meer
9781771338905
$18.95
POETRY
May 31, 2022
Sensorial is a journey in sensory perception. The senses guide us through urban landscapes, animal connections and familial bonds as we consider who we are, where we are-both physically and metaphysically-and what truly matters. Sensorial proposes one set of responses to the never-ending data we process as we navigate through life. In particular, it considers aging and illness on the journey towards life's end-and examines gain and loss in the aggregate.
10.
Series:
The Loneliness of the Time Traveller
Paperback
Erika Rummel
9781771338783
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 18, 2022
"It is a dreadful thing to be possessed, to be invaded by a spirit woman who commands your body and soul and looks out at the world through your eyes. It happened to me. Pray it will never happen to you."Adele's diary tells the story of her domination by the incubus Lynne, a serving girl in a London alehouse who died a violent death and commandeered Adele?s body for eight years. Can Adele be held responsible for Lynne?s crimes? Will the evil spirit return and renew her tyranny over Adele?s mind?Lynne has moved on into the twenty-first century,...
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11.
Series:
The Tempest
Paperback
Ilona Martonfi
9781771339063
$18.95
POETRY
Jun 14, 2022
Bearing witness to truth, The Tempest is invested in poetry that attempts to reveal human pain through the art of words. Each poem is powerful, but the book's strength emerges from its collective voice: different political conflicts, cultures, genders, ages, races-one shared human narrative. As we follow these survivors into their past and present lives we learn that poetry was the gift that restored.The book's wanderings in and out of forms-erasure poetry, free verse, prose poetry, haiku, tanka, haibun-signal its approach to some important pre...
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12.
Series:
Tumblehome
One Woman's Canoeing Adventures in the Divine Near-Wilderness
Paperback
Brenda Missen
9781771338455
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 17, 2022
On a warm August evening, Brenda Missen, a 37-year-old single, unattached writer, pitches her tent beside a lake in Canada's 7,600 square-kilometre [3,000 square-mile] Algonquin Provincial Park. She is on a four-night "reconnaissance mission," an hour's paddle from the parking lot, to find out if she has the capability-and nerve-to one day take a real canoe trip in the park interior by herself. Paddling and portaging from her campsite by day and surviving imaginary bear attacks by night, she decides she's ready. Then a ranger arrives to check h...
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13.
Series:
Slow Reveal
Paperback
Melanie Mitzner
9781771338981
$22.95
FICTION
May 03, 2022
Set in 1990s New York, Slow Reveal paints an extraordinary portrait of artists who defy the arbiters of culture and challenge social norms. Art, addiction and family dynamics capsize the Kanes when they discover the parallel life of Katharine, film editor, mother, lover and wife."A poem is never finished, only abandoned," wrote Paul Valéry, an outcome echoed in her decade-long affair with Naomi, a lesbian poet. Katharine's marriage to Jonathan collapses in his struggle with sobriety when he's ostracized for politicizing art and abandons his car...
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