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Series: Copperhead Road Hardcover Brad Smith 9781988168623 $34.95 FICTION Apr 21, 2022

Summer 1936, Wilkes County, North Carolina during the great depression. The Flagg family resides in the middle of the Appalachia - one of the hardest hit areas in the country. As the depression drags on the Flagg family watch their molasses business decimated. Jedediah, the family patriarch and his sons Morgan and Ezra struggle to produce a few meager gallons a week. That is until their sister Ava arrives home and takes control of the family business and starts running moonshine. Ava bails out ex-con Bobby Barlow and tells him he is working for... + Read More
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Series: Occasionally Petty Paperback Michelle Lietz 9781988168593 $24.95 POETRY Apr 21, 2022

Like lyrics from a rock and roll album, this debut collection of poetry unfolds page-by-page to reveal a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Michelle Lietz grew up listening to the songs of Tom Petty. When the news of his passing was announced, the poet felt a piece of her past break away. Her beautiful poetry takes lyrics from Petty's songs to launch her exploration on themes of nostalgia, adolescence, and the poet's mixed Yaqui, European and Middle Eastern identity.
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Series: Pond and Beyond, The Paperback Audrey Lute 9781988168586 $32.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 15, 2022

Just beneath the water's surface exists a fragile and delicate ecosystem, yet is a place often overlooked and taken for granted. The Pond and Beyond explores the tiny worlds right beneath our feet and the beautiful creatures that inhabit them. This sensitive and poignant book calls out our arrogance as the dominant species and the risks of continuing to ignore the complex environments and social systems thriving right alongside our own.
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Series: Sun Compass Paperback Brigette DePape 9781988168616 $24.95 POETRY Apr 21, 2022

In this debut collection of poetry, sparse text resonates and creates an impactful presence as the poet unpacks past trauma. Divided into four parts, this essential collection delves into the magic of resilience in finding one's way through past pains. The poet's words harness both shadow and light, the contrast creating new directions and perspectives.
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Series: Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones Paperback David Williamson 9781988168609 $24.95 POETRY Mar 21, 2022

The weight of history lies on the spine of memory. That heft and delicate balance are palpable in these rich poems that echo with grief, longing, and observed beauty. From the silence and complexity of the northern wilderness to the vast prairie landscapes stretching across the province, Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones explores self, ancestry, and community through poems which dwell on the page with a satisfying density of imagery. Combining careful observation with sensitive reflection, this work examines the poet's memory and ex... + Read More
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Series: Bangladesh 1971 An Accidental War Correspondent Remembers Paperback Ashis Gupta 9781988440866 $17.95 HISTORY Aug 01, 2022

Reflections on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the creation of Bangladesh, from a war correspondent who was present at the birth of the new country.
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Series: Horuda Hardcover Kinga White 9781988440897 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Mar 01, 2022

A beautifully illustrated Children's story set in a ceramic workshop of a potter named Thaddeus. Horuda is one of his creations, a ceramic man with a beak who pops out of the kiln one snowy night and goes on a romp, with adventurous results.
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Series: Akia: The Other Side Paperback Norma Dunning 9781772311716 $18.95 POETRY Nov 01, 2022

In this poetry collection, the author honours Inuit who lay in the past, and Inuit who are with us now and most importantly the Inuit who are waiting to come to us. The author believes it is not okay that Inuit children and adults died and were buried in unmarked graves, their bodies never returned to their loved ones. It is not okay that their relatives were never told of their deaths or where they were buried because keeping track of dead Inuit bodies was simply not very important to Canadian authorities. The author wants to imagine a world f... + Read More
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Series: Beneath the Willows Paperback Marie Hess 9781772311679 $21.95 FICTION Nov 21, 2022

The Wright family was sharecropping in Alcott, New York. After years of plowing fields and hanging tobacco, they had an opportunity to own a small farm in southern Ontario. Beth, their only daughter, has just turned twelve. The neighbors warn the family not to go into the woods behind their property. They warned anyone who entered the sacred land has never returned, not even animals. After a harsh winter, Beth believes she can set the rabbit traps on her own and steps into the forest. Lost among the endless maples, she follows a small flickeri... + Read More
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Series: Predators and Prey Paperback Gordon K. Jones 9781772311655 $22.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2022

Trophy killing for sport? Trent Corbett finally had enough of seeing Facebook posts showing African big game hunters, their long range rifles in hand, kneeling proudly by their kill. The outraged comments below the photos were not enough. It was time for him to do something about it. His solution? Hunt the hunters. Kill them in their own neighborhoods, just like the hunters kill lions, elephants, leopard, buffalo and rhinoceros in theirs. Soon local police discover they have a serial killer on their hands. Led by Police Chief Avery Johnson, sma... + Read More
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Series: The Haunting Poems of nature, love and loss Paperback Marianne Paul 9781772311259 $16.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2022

This book is a reflection of our times, the issues that we face in the here and now, that impact upon the survival of our planet as we struggle to deal with climate change. At the same time it is a love poem to nature, to the teeming life with which we share the planet and have a responsibility for protecting and honouring. The Haunting shifts perspective and asks the reader to pause, to stop and notice the natural world, to see with open eyes and open hearts its beauty and delights, but also its struggles. In a world that is increasing dominat... + Read More
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Series: The Long Holiday Paperback Christian Kako 9781772311693 $19.95 POETRY Nov 01, 2022

In November 2019 the author started reading a book about possible future apocalypses for humanity. Pandemics and viral sources were given short shrift in comparison to climate change and nuclear war, versus the more popular and social media-friendly possibilities of hyperintelligent AI, robot takeover, a supernova cosmically next door, and universe-wide vacuum changes. When COVID-19 emerged shortly thereafter and started to spread across the world, every day he wondered if this was the predicted axe for human beings, but it turned out thankfull... + Read More
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Series: Tommy's Fairy Tales Paperback Giorgi Kekelidze 9781772311730 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Aug 15, 2022

Does our childhood really end when we are no longer afraid to look under the bed? Join Tommy the magical dwarf, Flammeus the owl, and a host of other original and amusing characters in this lively and inventive collection of adventures for children of all ages, penned by award-winning writer Giorgi Kekelidze and illustrated vibrantly and heart-warmingly by Salome Khotivari.
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Series: Fantastic Frights Paperback Evan Waterman 9781927742235 $22.00 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 18 Sep 01, 2022

Evil dust bunnies, botanical horrors, werewolf landlords, and more! We've gathered all of our most thrilling tales together in this terrible tome of terrors, known only as... FANTASTIC FRIGHTS. Drawing inspiration from shows like, Tales from the Crypt and Freaky Stories, Fantastic Frights is a dreadfully delightful return to the pulp horror anthologies of the past, featuring stories from over 20 creators that are sure to entertain both new readers and seasoned horror veterans alike!
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Series: Last Tide, The An Innverse story Paperback pirateaba 9781927742228 $25.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 11, 2022

The first installment in the Last Tide series, as told by renown fantasy writer pirateaba, is the story of Solca Vis, a young woman transported into another world. Rather than landing near any nation or continent on earth, Solca finds herself at the end of the world. A [Fisher] by class and a fisherwoman by trade, Solca Vis will discover what classes, levels, monsters, and magic are at the place where even [Stormcaptains] and the bravest of adventurers fear to sail.
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Series: Madeline's Good Dirt and Junk Collection Paperback Madeline Berger 9781927742211 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 08, 2022

Madeline's Good Dirt and Junk Collection is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Madeline Berger a non-binary creator living and creating in Vancouver, BC. This is a project that is a celebration of things that we take for granted and often let us pass us by. Madeline is a strong proponent for community, often finding inspiration in local queer culture, art culture, and their friends and fellow artists. This project taps into how they would like people to perceive different parts of their community and different parts of their neighborho... + Read More
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Series: Through the Labyrinths of the Mind Paperback Bevan Thomas 9781927742204 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 01, 2022

All over the world, millions of people experience a wide range of mental health issues - depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, and more. Sadly, their struggles are often ignored and misunderstood, even mocked. Through the Labyrinths of the Mind is a graphic novel anthology from Cloudscape Comics that gives these issues a voice, presenting 11 stories about mental health from a wide range of comic creators.
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Series: July Underwater Paperback Zoe Maeve 9781772620696 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 01, 2022

As dusk falls over the lake, Lina's world is beginning to dissolve.It's a typically sticky Toronto summer and Lina's spending her first couple of weeks after graduation reading and hanging out with her best friend Cara. Everything's calm--until she finds out that her childhood friend Alicia has died. With her high school friends quickly drifting apart and her parents out of town, Lina tries to make sense of what has happened on her own. Hoping for answers, she turns to Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse and Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Sal... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum25 Maladies Paperback Henriette Valium 9781772620726 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Dec 15, 2021

Mysterious maladies and dubious doctors. The head sickness. The super swelling syndrome. The hallucinating hand. These are among the disturbing diseases readers will discover in Henriette Valium's Maladies. Perhaps more concerning, however, are the cures. Absurd and grotesque, Maladies is a tour through an impossibly monstrous landscape of disease, with Valium at the wheel. It perfectly encapsulates Valium's longstanding fascination with the human body, as well as society's cultural quirks and taboos. Maladies is a graphzine published in Franc... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum25 Next Time Around Paperback Billy Mavreas 9781772620733 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 01, 2022

Everyone has a story Sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where they begin. Other times, those beginnings are so utterly astonishing they're impossible to ignore. An accident, for example, if you survive it, can be a surefire way to find the start of something new--whether it's a fresh perspective or a rediscovered appreciation for the people who matter most. In Next Time Around, Montreal artist Billy Mavreas taps into his considerable talents in cartooning, collage, and graphic poetry to tell the dreamlike tale of a near-death experienc... + Read More
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Series: Shelterbelts Paperback Jonathan Dyck 9781772620689 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 01, 2022

Progress isn't always a straight line. When a non-denominational megachurch opens on the edges of a rural Mennonite community, a quiet--but longstanding battle--begins to reveal itself. For years, the traditionalists in the community have held fast to the values and beliefs they grew up with, while other community members have begun raising important questions about LGBTQ+ inclusion, Indigenous land rights, and the Mennonite legacy of pacifism. Through a series of vignettes, Shelterbelts explores the perspectives, experiences and limitations o... + Read More
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Series: Take the Long Way Home Paperback Jon Claytor 9781772620702 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 01, 2022

A classic road trip memoir about love, family, and Canadian wildlifeIn 2019, artist Jon Claytor said good-bye to the Maritimes and hit the road. His destination: an artist's residency in Prince Rupert, where he planned to work on a graphic novel about his eight-week journey across Canada. But this story, like most, isn't about the destination. When Jon sets out, he's less than two years sober, he's recently broken up with his girlfriend, and his mother has just revealed a startling family secret. As Jon drives, he makes frequent stops to visit... + Read More
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Series: The Weakly Dispatch Paperback Rick Trembles 9781772620719 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 12, 2022

A pandemic time capsule by a celebrated underground cartoonist. When COVID-19 hit Montreal, cartoonist Rick Trembles started The Weakly Dispatch, a series of diary comics offering his personal perspective on pandemic life. Trembles' asthma put him at risk of a serious infection so, like many people, he took careful measures to avoid coming into contact with the virus. He self-isolated for months, surviving on grocery deliveries from friends, DIY workouts (to prevent muscle atrophy), and of course, comics. Leaving the apartment, however, turned ... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum 25 The Man Who Walked Through Walls Paperback Obom 9781772620658 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 25, 2022

With great power comes great... misfortune? Dutilleul lives a quiet life, spending his days in the office and evenings reading the newspaper. Until one night, when the power goes out. When the lights come back on, he finds himself in a strange situation--he's standing in the hallway, locked out of his apartment. After a few tentative experiments, Dutilleul discovers he's developed the ability to walk through walls. Perplexed by his newfound talent, he visits the doctor, who prescribes a cure. Unfortunately, Dutilleul doesn't quite follow the di... + Read More
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Series: Invisible Sea Paperback Kevin Bushell 9781927599570 $19.95 POETRY Apr 08, 2022

Joseph Campbell: "The airplane has replaced the bird in the imagination as the symbol of the release of spirit from the bonds of earth." Hence, Invisible Sea. Part critique, part celebration of technology, these poems explore the symbolic and mythical associations of the historical moment when human beings took flight and, in a sense, became Godlike. The opening section is in the voice of Wilbur Wright as he unlocks the mysteries of human flight and, consequently, pays a heavy price. The next section examines the stories of other early aeronaut... + Read More
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Series: Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: the Condor and the Eagle Meet Paperback Jennifer Murrin 9781928120346 $24.00 POETRY May 31, 2022

A Cross-Continental Roar! In 2021, sixteen Indigenous spoken word artists from North and South America performed their works at the Festival of the Peripheries (FLUP) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) in Toronto, Canada. This anthology, featuring poems from each of the performers, is the result of this remarkable cross-border collaboration. Digitally enhanced with QR codes, Slam Coalkan links readers to the poets' performances at the festivals. From these pages the poets sing their hopes and the... + Read More
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Series: Through the Eyes of Asunder Paperback Neal Shannacappo 9781928120322 $17.95 POETRY Jun 30, 2022

Through the Eyes of Asunder is a poetic journey through the life of one once broken, in heart, spirit, and mind. It starts and it ends with hope, and takes the reader through despair, grief, sorrow and sadness, with moments of introspective happiness and love.
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Series: The Burden of Memories Paperback Janet Calcaterra 9781988989457 $20.00 FICTION May 14, 2022

A powerful family drama about fractured lives, secrets, addiction and ultimate reinvention. In 1995, sisters Adrienne and Cass unravel the mystery behind their father, Dr. Alexander Muir, a doctor during World War 11's Italian Campaign and later a psychiatrist. As children they barely recall the sudden death of their father, but, through a series of family letters, they learn, despite their mother's best efforts, that their father suffered from PTSD due to war time experiences and died by his own hand. While their mother is ashamed of her late ... + Read More
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Series: Claimings and Other Wild Things Paperback Noelle Schmidt 9781988989433 $20.00 POETRY Apr 21, 2022

Noelle Schmidt plows through the distorted shrapnel of trauma dormant and still tingling.Claimings and Other Wild Things is a brave debut poetry collection which delves into a catalog of personal struggle and identity, all the while inviting readers to imagine the "prophet in the dirty motel" or "the illusion of soft flesh giving way" or the pent up rage of a "boxed-up grenade sent round trip".This is poetry of exactitude -- honest, at times tender, a collection which reminds us how life's obstacles inform the accruing intensity of being human ... + Read More
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Series: Enough Light for the Next Step A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Spirit Paperback Annie Wenger-Nabigon 9781988989440 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2022

Enough Light for the Journey tells the story of Annie Wenger-Nabigon and her husband Herb Nabigon, an Oji-Cree Anishinabe elder. In this powerful and moving tribute to her late husband and the beliefs and teachings he shared with her, Annie Wenger-Nabigon shares the Oji-Cree teachings Herb wanted to pass on.
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Series: Grin Reaping Paperback Rod Carley 9781988989464 $20.00 FICTION Jun 18, 2022

"Grin Reaping catalogues the foibles of the fictional Boyle family. In a series of fourteeninterconnected short stories and musings, Rudy Boyle, a Northern Ontario college Englishteacher stuck both in middle age and in the middle of his five siblings, transforms the strangenessof his everyday life into exaggerated home-movie prose. From the significance of tuna fish andBotox, the threat of coyotes and aliens, to the big-ticket items of mortality, gender, climate-change, and Armageddon, Rudy tackles a range of topics with a wry, self-deprecating... + Read More
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Series: Can't Help Falling A Long Road to Motherhood Paperback Tarah Schwartz 9781773901084 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 12, 2022

When Tarah Schwartz miscarried for the first time at almost 5 months, it was devastating. Determined to try again, more miscarriages would follow, threatening her stability and her relationships, and changing her profoundly. In this memoir, Tarah puts words to excruciating loss as she recounts her unexpected and deeply inspiring journey to motherhood. As a long time news reporter, she spent years working in front of a television camera, telling stories that reflected the power of the human spirit to survive. This time she tells her own.
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Series: Firebrands Paperback Marc Ménard 9781773901053 $24.95 FICTION Mar 12, 2022

Philippe is a creature of habit now, a man of routine. Trapped in an uninspiring job, with a wife, two children, and an uneventful life in the suburbs of Montreal, his wild student days spent chasing neo-Nazis across Europe was a lifetime ago. Until a ghost from the past turns up on his doorstep. Old friend Robert Moranowitz convinces Philippe to return to his activist ways, leaving everything behind to hunt down a dangerous band of white supremacists. But why are Philippe and Mora really after Hans Wolf? And how far are they prepared to go?
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Series: Lea Paperback Ariela Freedman 9781773901022 $24.95 FICTION Feb 12, 2022

How do you change the world? Meet Léa, polyglot, labour activist, farbrente feminist. Born to a large Jewish family and raised in a French Catholic town, Léa moves fluidly between languages and cultures. Her search for meaning and her instinct for justice place her at the centre of the great changes of the 20th century. From street fights in Berlin to protests in Montreal, she defies the expectations and limitations of women?s lives, wins historic victories for the union movement, and grapples with her own convictions. Based on the life of fam... + Read More
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Series: Sleep Orchard, The A Response to the Life and Art of Arshile Gorky Paperback Amy Dennis 9781771262804 $18.00 POETRY Nov 15, 2022

The Sleep Orchard is a collection of poetry written in response to the life and artwork of Arshile Gorky. By mapping the differences as well as the deepening intersections between Gorky and the author, these poems highlight the complexities inherent in attempting to understand another's life and art within the frame of one's own consciousness. In addition to meditating on various paintings and the subsequent thoughts they inspire, the text shifts between reflection, recollection, description, confessionalism, and collage, ultimately carving an ... + Read More
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Series: Immune to the Sacred Paperback Stephen Brockwell 9781771262811 $18.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2022

Nick Lowe wrote, "There stands the naked ape in a monkey suit." If he hadn't, Stephen Brockwell might have. Immune to the Sacred is loaded with the poet's trademark intelligence and dark humour. These poems, both artful and direct, strive to find sense in this stupid world, in stupid us. In the midst of the despair, a profound humanness and generosity emerge. Read this book by this underrated poetry superstar and watch "the sunlight catch / the satellite of your delusions / on its re-entry."--STUART ROSS, author of Motel of the Opposable Thumbs... + Read More
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Series: LOTE Canadian edition Paperback Shola von Reinhold 9781777485245 $21.95 FICTION Jul 21, 2022

What was beyond doubt by the time I got back was that a new Transfixion had arrived in the form of Hermia Druitt, the woman in this photograph. This was confirmed by the sensations: flashes from Arcadia. Moonlight, of a kind, sighed up and down the tube of my spine, but above all, that indescribable note which accompanied all my Transfixions was present: humming beneath the high fine rush--probably not dissimilar to holy rapture--was an almost violent familiarity. The feeling of not only recognising, but of having been recognised. A new Transfi... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series Broken Places, The Paperback Frances Peck 9781774390450 $24.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a sprint up a mountain. Charlotte, wife of a tech tycoon, is combing the farm belt for local cheese and a sense of purpose. Back in the city their families go about their business: landscaping, negotiating deals, skipping school. It's a day like any other--until suddenly it's not.When the earthquake hits, the city erupts in chaos and fear. Kyle's and Charlotte's families, along with two passersby, are thrown together in an oceanfront mansion. The con... + Read More
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Series: Ezra's Ghosts Stories Paperback Darcy Tamayose 9781774390474 $20.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2022

Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra's Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, as well as a deep understanding of grief and what it makes of us. Within these pages a scholar writes home from the Ryukyu islands, not knowing that his hometown will soon face a deadly calamity of its own. Another seeker of truth is trapped in Ezra after her violent death, and must watch how her family--and her killer--alter in her absence. The oldest man in town, an immigrant who came to Ca... + Read More
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Series: Sloane Donovan Mysteries To Those Who Killed Me Paperback J.T. Siemens 9781774390436 $21.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

Disgraced ex-cop Sloane Donovan has relied on her job as a fitness instructor to keep her mental illness and PTSD in check--until she finds a close friend dead, apparently by her own hand. Obsessive demons triggered and doubtful of the official narrative, she teams up with Wayne Capson, a PI willing to bend the law, to find out who really killed her friend. The search leads Sloane from Vancouver's wealthiest enclaves to the street's darkest corners, questioning millionaires, tennis instructors, sex workers, former police colleagues--anyone who ... + Read More
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Series: Landmark Edition Up The Coast One Family's Wild Life in the Forests of British Columbia Paperback Kathryn Willcock 9781774390511 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 15, 2022

Kathryn Willcock and her sisters grew up in logging camps on the coast of B.C. in the 1960s when children were set loose to play in the wilderness, women kept rifles next to the wood stove, and loggers risked their lives every single day. The author's tales of grizzly bears, American tourists, and a couple of terrified gangsters, along with the wisdom of Indigenous elders, pour off the page like warm syrup on a stack of cookhouse hotcakes.
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series Why I'm Here Paperback Jill Frayne 9781774390498 $21.95 FICTION May 01, 2022

Fifteen-year-old Gale is desperate to get out of Whitehorse, a fact that is immediately clear to counsellor Helen Cotillard when Gale walks into her office with her reluctant stepmother. It's 1995, and one counselling agency for kids and families serves all of the Yukon. Gale has been having anxiety attacks, the last one so severe it landed her in the hospital.Helen soon begins to realize that Gale's distress at being separated from her little sister Buddie too closely parallels a calamity from her own past. This tragic similarity leaves Helen ... + Read More
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Series: Bombing the Moon Paperback Nancy Chislett 9781989689318 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2022

At 24, Devin Rush's future is unknown and his parents don't support his dream of becoming a songwriter. Jobless and antagonistic, Devin feels like the world is rigged against him, and his parents, wondering if he'll ever man up, fear he'll depend on them for life. But when Devin's grandfather gives him a one-way ticket to Nairobi, Kenya, Devin believes it's his family that wants him gone; outraged and seeing no alternative, he leaves abruptly, and is thrust into a world unlike any he's ever seen.Stunned by his sudden departure, Devin's parents ... + Read More
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Series: City of Sensors Paperback A.M. Todd 9781989689332 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2022

In a city where everything is recorded by data--from the coffee you drink to your most intimate secrets--Data Detective Frank Southwood, down on his luck and saddled with a gambling addiction, faces jail time if he can't pay his debts. Working for an elite body of detectives who use big data for police work, Frank gets the case that might make his career when he begins investigating a high-profile money laundering ring. Meanwhile, he meets and falls for Jenny, a political activist with ties to the criminal underworld. Desperate to pay his debts... + Read More
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Series: Somewhere There's Music Paperback Sean Bedell 9781989689349 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2022

In this stark and unsparing coming-of-age story, the shy and intelligent Joel watches helplessly as his alcoholic and abusive paramedic father spirals ever downward and out of control. Joel's life crumbles further when his older brother, disturbed by the drunken violence inflicted on their mother, flees their home seemingly for good. Convinced he must track down his brother and bring him back home if he is to survive in this lonely and frightening new reality, Joel's awareness of his father's workplace experiences gradually begins to expand as ... + Read More
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Series: Strait of Anian, The Paperback Rhonda Waterfall 9781989689325 $19.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2022

Adopted by a family in Vancouver as a Vietnam War orphan, Dannie Cooper dreams of finding her biological parents. Days after 9/11, she receives an email from a Vietnam veteran in Port Angeles, Washington, who claims to be her father. With the lure of a genetic father overwhelming, Dannie drops everything to go in search of him in an America reeling from a terrorist attack and on the brink of a new, undefined war. There she finds Bruce Huckman, a stoic ex-logger dying from cancer caused by Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam. Dannie wants to believ... + Read More
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Series: Bodies in Trouble Paperback Diane Carley 9781989274736 $22.00 FICTION May 27, 2022

Forced intimacies, dead dogs, errant balloons, a troubled chef's encounter with ethereal Swedish lesbians, all form this remarkable short story collection, Bodies in Trouble, depicting characters coping with faltering relationships, simmering violence, and light-drenched visions. Stories of damaged daughters and abandoned sons, of near-crashes, lost loves, and late nights steeped in regret. Lurking within these tales is the glimmer of hope from a brave choice, a bold action, the recalibration of a dangerous path.
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Series: Glimmer Paperback Steven Smith 9781989274705 $22.00 FICTION May 27, 2022

Glimmer is an incredibly off-beat and unconventional collection about the human experience - in long short stories alternating with twelve 'experimental one sentence novels'. The stories are diverse, and deal with strange and surreal relationships.
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Series: Go Paperback Shelley Leedahl 9781989274675 $20.00 POETRY Apr 26, 2022

With awe and wonder leading the way, Leedahl's poems chronicle a journey that speaks of resilience, of joy experienced in simple things, and of the solace in discovering--finally, and late in life--exactly where one belongs. Leedahl's fifth poetry collection lyrically documents major life transitions and reveals how loneliness--the other contemporary epidemic--compels one to keep moving. .
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Series: I am Everything In Between Paperback Sydney Sunderland 9781989996065 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Mar 15, 2022

Sometimes it's not as simple as being a boy or a girl. I Am Everything In Between highlights kids who may not fit into stereotypical gender ideals, and celebrates how they do identify by sending positive messages about gender identity. This book teaches children that regardless of biological gender, it's OK to feel like a boy, or a girl, or even both! The illustrations include bright and bold examples of boys that like to play dress up and wear makeup, girls that like to play sports and get dirty, and kids that want to grow up to be astronauts!... + Read More
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Series: Sangeet and the Missing Beat Paperback Kiranjot Kaur 9781989996058 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 10 Mar 15, 2022

Sangeet loves music, and she's good at composing it, too. Her favourite instrument is the tabla. One day, Sangeet hears all kinds of noises everywhere and together, they have the most incredible beat. But when she tries to play it on her tabla--something is missing! Will Sangeet be able to find her Missing Beat? Teacher resources available on publisher website: rebelmountainpress.com/sangeet-and-the-missing-beat-teacher-resources
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Series: Ballet Is Not For Muslim Girls Paperback Mariam Pal 9781990086205 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2022

From biryani to borscht, the food was always fabulous in Canada's only Polish-Pakistani family. Mariam S. Pal's memoir, Ballet is not for Muslim Girls, is set in this remarkable Victoria B.C. household in the 60s and 70s. Growing up, Mariam struggled to navigate three cultures: her Pakistani father's, her Polish-Canadian mother's and Canada's, where Mariam was born and raised. Mariam wanted to be a Canadian girl. A "normal" first name would have been a good start. At school they called her Marilyn, Marian - anything but Mariam. Hers was the... + Read More
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Series: Erin Rines Burning We Will Die, A Paperback Betty Guenette 9781990086236 $20.00 FICTION Apr 15, 2022

Nurses traditionally care for bodies; they don't find murdered ones. Erin Rine, a gutsy, thirty-year-old nurse, inadvertently steps into murder when she trips over her patient's body. With her headstrong Aries personality, a black belt in taekwondo, and only fearing the unpredictable bear population in her Northern Ontario woodland districts, Erin gets caught up in the investigation with the help of her best friend, an elderly neighbour who provides astrological influences, eerily apt psychic warnings.Burned in prior relationships, Erin is disc... + Read More
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Series: Maverick Heart Cycle, The, The Ghost Light Burn Paperback Stephen Graham King 9781990086229 $20.00 FICTION Apr 15, 2022

As the Gate Project expands, building stable, artificial wormholes in orbit around ever more worlds in the Pan Galactum, its hunger for construction materials grows exponentially. But the discovery of the dead binary planets, Sound and Fury, may finally sate the project's hunger ten times over.In the shadow of massive, shattered Fury comes an interstellar travelling theatre, bringing with it an old friend of the Maverick Heart crew. One with a nose for trouble who soon discovers a conspiracy of embezzlement, greed, and corporate apathy too deep... + Read More
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Series: Kerfuffle A novel that speaks spoof to power Paperback Dorothy Ellen Palmer 9781990086212 $20.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

Welcome to Blakkat Theatre, home of the improv comedy troupe Kerfuffle!Please permit us to introduce our Cast of Players:NELLIE WOLFE: age 28, recent orphan, pregnant disabled avenger and sword thiefANDY MCLEAN: age 21, redhead, devoted bike rider and aspiring AnarchistCONSTANZIA FORGIONE: age 28, reluctant waitress, emerging gay poet and Nellie's BFFCALVAIRE PERSONNE: age 29, PHD candidate, brother to a living sister and a dead twinSHERMAN SILVERSTEIN: turning 30, father, maker of Jesus Toast, married, for nowYOU, OUR AUDIENCE-PARTICIPANT: at ... + Read More
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Series: Dating Coach Mysteries Killer Match, A Paperback Joan Donaldson-Yarmey 9781990086243 $20.00 FICTION Apr 15, 2022

Jenna Hamilton is a dating coach and the co-owner of a bookstore, with Adam Owens, in the Net Loft on Granville Island in Vancouver. When her best friend, hairdresser Hillary, is a bystander in a car crash that kills her co-worker Bruno, Jenna is there to provide emotional support. But soon, Bruno's condo is trashed, along with the salon where he used to work with Hillary.As Jenna tries to make sense of what is happening, she makes some shocking discoveries about Bruno's life, and realizes the facade he had presented to those around him was an ... + Read More
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Series: Stonehouse Originals Cashmere Comes from Goats Paperback S. Portico Bowman 9781988754376 $22.00 FICTION May 01, 2022

Was it the death of her dog, Bloom, or was she just tired of her routine as a dentist? Or perhaps her depression was the result of her (mostly) unrequited love for her former piano teacher, Bruno? As Robin contemplates a sabbatical to see puffins in Newfoundland, a fateful google search puts everything on hold. When she *accidentally* finds Bruno's grown son-or a younger double-living in France with a woman Bruno knew briefly many many years ago, Robin has a choice: stay in Canada and monitor her distant father's suspected dementia, or accept B... + Read More
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Series: Stonehouse Originals Going to Beautiful Paperback Anthony Bidulka 9781988754352 $22.00 FICTION May 01, 2022

International chef Jake Hardy has it all. Celebrity, thriving career, plenty of friends, a happy family and faithful dog. Until one day when a tragic accident tears it all apart. Struggling to recover, Hardy finds himself in a strange new world--a snow-swept prairie town that time forgot--a place where nothing makes sense. Cold is beautiful. Simple is complex. And doubts begin to surface about whether Jake's tragedy was truly an accident after all. As the sun sets in the Land of Living Skies, Hardy and his glamourous, seventy-eight-year-old tra... + Read More
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Series: Stonehouse Originals Letters to Singapore Paperback Kelly Kaur 9781988754390 $22.00 FICTION May 01, 2022

Growing up in Singapore, Simran always knew what was expected of her: to learn how to be a good mother and wife. The only problem? Simran has no interest in any of this. After a close escape (almost at the altar!), Simran earns a reprieve to attend the University of Calgary in Canada. Letters exchanged back home to her mother, sister and friends reveal that no matter which path women take, traditional or independent, life is fraught with conflict, hilarity and peril. Simran's experience as a brave and hopeful young woman and a new Canadian will... + Read More
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Series: Stonehouse Originals Snake in the Raspberry Patch, A Paperback Joanne Jackson 9781988754413 $22.00 FICTION May 01, 2022

It is the summer of 1971 and Liz takes care of her four sisters while waiting to meet the fifth Murphy child: a boy. And yet, something is not right. Adults tensely whisper in small groups, heads shaking. Her younger sister, Rose seems more annoying, always flashing her camera and jotting notes in her her notepad. The truth is worse than anyone could imagine: an entire family slaughtered in their home nearby, even the children. The small rural community reels in the aftermath. No one seems to know who did it or why. For Liz, these events compli... + Read More