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Series: Black Women Under State Surveillance, Poverty, & the Violence of Social Assitance Paperback Idil Abdillahi 9781927886588 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 11, 2022

The lives and conditions of Black women are inseparable from, and inextricably linked to, all dimensions of social and political life. Black Women Under State centres on the realities of Black women, both in-process and theory, who are living at the intersections of race, poverty, surveillance, and social services. Abdillahi, who is uniquely positioned as a community organizer, practitioner, public intellectual, and scholar, engaged twenty women living at these life intersections in the greater Toronto area. The text undertakes a deep and stud... + Read More
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Series: Malleable Forms Selected Essays Paperback Meeka Walsh 9781927886601 $29.95 ART Apr 15, 2022

""Walsh's writings are stunning examples of how to look, how to feel, how to see." For 30 years Meeka Walsh has been the Editor of the Canadian art magazine, Border Crossings A selection of her much-admired essays published in each issue of that magazine have been selected for this substantial book. Noted international critic and art writer, Barry Schwabsky, has written an introductory essay. The persistent engagement of memory winds through the book and resonant is EM Forster?s dictum, "Only connect." Walsh makes her particular kind of conne... + Read More
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Series: Ndè S???? Wet?a?à Northern Indigenous Voices on Land, Life, & Art Paperback Kyla LeSage 9781927886625 $24.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 15, 2022

Nde? S???? Wet?a?a?: Northern Indigenous Voices on Land, Life & Artis a collection of essays, interviews, short stories, and poetry written by emerging and established northern Indigenous writers and artists. Centered on land, cultural practice and northern life, this ground-breaking collection shares wealth of Dene (Gwich?in, Sahtú, Dehcho, T???ch?, Saysi, Kaska, Dënes??iné, W?ìl?ìdeh) Inuit, Alutiiq, Inuvialuit, Métis, Nêhiyawak (Cree), Northern Tutchone, and Tanana Athabascan creative brilliance. Nde? S???? Wet?a?a? holds up the voices of wo... + Read More
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Series: Vanishing Signs Paperback Scott Scott 9781927886649 $24.00 ART Aug 31, 2022
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Series: Foxhunt Paperback Luke Francis Beirne 9781771862714 $24.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

1949: Milne Lowell, a Canadian writer, moves to London from Montreal to edit a magazine dedicated to cultural freedom. His colleagues include Marguerite Allard, a French-Canadian anarchist, Eric Felmore, an American novelist, and Carson Ward, a British poet. Initially, the group is enthusiastic about the championship of freedom; however, uncertainty grows as unsettling encounters begin to unfold and the peripheral violence of the Cold War closes in.Foxhunt is an atmospheric exploration of passivity, loyalty, and literature in times of political... + Read More
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Series: The Annie Linton, Gilles Bellechasse Mysteries Serving Life A Nurse Lintion, Detective Bellechasse Mystery Novel Paperback Richard King 9781771862721 $22.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

The third Nurse Annie Linton/Det. Sgt. Gilles Bellechasse Mystery. A mysterious doctor is wandering the halls of the Emergency Department of the Gursky Memorial Hospital, providing medication to patients suffering from dementia. Annie is suspicious of his motives and is determined to identify the man. Her search kicks into high gear when some of the dementia patients die unexpectedly. Gilles is assigned to investigate the murder of a doctor who is in charge of a research lab at the Gursky. A serial killer is stalking the streets of Montreal, ki... + Read More
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Series: The Ghost of Suzuko 1st edition Paperback Vincent Brault 9781771862769 $21.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2022

The Sumida River, the Tsukiji fish market, a stuffed bear head. A Montrealer in mourning returns to Tokyo, where he is haunted by the ghost of his dead lover. But when a turbulent new love enters his life will it be enough to put him on sure footing or will he forever be on shaky ground?
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Series: The Great Absquatulator Paperback Frank Mackey 9781771862738 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2022

Alfred Thomas Wood was nothing and everything. A century before Ferdinand Demara, "The Great Impostor" of the 1961 Hollywood film of that name, Wood was the Great Absquatulator, a man who roved through the mid-19th century from Halifax, N.S., to New England, Liberia, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Montreal, the U.S. Mid-West and the South. He self-identified as an Oxford-educated preacher in Maine and Boston, then as a Cambridge-educated doctor of divinity in Liberia, despite the fact that neither of those universities admitted black students... + Read More
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Series: The Killer's Henchman Capitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster Paperback Stephen Gowans 9781771862745 $24.95 MEDICAL Jun 01, 2022

Summer 2021, the novel coronavirus is scything through populations worldwide. WHO Director-General announces the pandemic will end "when the world chooses to end it. We have all the tools we need: proven public health and social measures; rapid and accurate diagnostics; effective therapeutics including oxygen; and of course, powerful vaccines." The pandemic didn't end. The proven health and social measures Tedros mentioned, used by China, Vietnam, New Zealand and a few others to drive infections to zero, were ignored in favor of allowing the v... + Read More
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Series: The Plains of Abraham Battlefield 1759 and 1760 Paperback Hélène Quimper 9781771862752 $24.95 HISTORY Jun 01, 2022

The fate of North America was sealed on the Plains of Abraham in a battle that has gone down in history. France and England, historical enemies, faced off in September 1759 in the Capital of New France, Quebec. France then controlled large swaths of North America in three colonies with a total population of 80,000 people of European and mixed origin, while England's influence was limited to the much more populous Thirteen Colonies along the Atlantic seaboard. The story of that famous battle began much earlier. Tensions rose in early 18th-Centur... + Read More
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Series: Bystander Paperback Mike Steeves 9781771667104 $23.00 FICTION Apr 19, 2022

"I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death." Peter Simons doesn’t spend much time at home in his apartment. Thanks to his job at a multinational company, he is often flying around the world, enjoying a life of luxurious solitude in five-star hotels. So when he returns after being away for nine months and notices a strange smell coming from his neighbour’s apartment, he initially tries not to get involved, but when a body is discovered, Peter’s carefully cultivated detachment begins to crumble. And when new... + Read More
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Series: Cane Fire Paperback Shani Mootoo 9781771667418 $20.00 POETRY Mar 15, 2022

From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry. Throughout this evocative, sensual collection, akin to a poetic memoir, past and present are in conversation with each other as the narrator moves from Ireland to San Fernando, and finally to Canada. The reinterpretations and translation of this journey and its associated family history give meaning to the present. Through these deeply personal poems, and Mootoo's own artwork, we ... + Read More
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Series: A Convergence of Solitudes Paperback Anita Anand 9781771667449 $23.00 FICTION May 17, 2022

A story of identity, connection and forgiveness, A Convergence of Solitudes shares the lives of two families across Partition of India, Operation Babylift in Vietnam, and two referendums in Quebec.Sunil and Hima, teenage lovers, bravely defy taboos in pre-Partition India to come together as their country divides in two. They move across the world to Montreal and raise a family, but Sunil shows symptoms of schizophrenia, shattering their newfound peace. As a teenager, their daughter Rani becomes obsessed with Quebecois supergroup Sensibilité—and... + Read More
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Series: The Employees a workplace novel of the twenty-second century Paperback Olga Ravn 9781771667609 $20.00 FICTION Mar 08, 2022

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare. Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew become strangely and deeply attached to them, and start aching for the same t... + Read More
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Series: Good Mom on Paper Writers on Creativity and Motherhood Paperback Stacey May Fowles 9781771667470 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 03, 2022

The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt the creative process? How does it enhance it? Good Mom on Paper is a collection of twenty essays that goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. These texts disclose the often-invisible challenges of a literary life with little ones: the manuscript written with a baby sleepin... + Read More
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Series: Lunar Tides Paperback Shannon Webb-Campbell 9781771667388 $20.00 POETRY Apr 05, 2022

Expansive and enveloping, Webb-Campbell's collection asks, "Who am I in relation to the moon?" These poems explore the primordial connections between love, grief, and water, structured within the lunar calendar. The poetics follow rhythms of the body, the tides, the moon, and long, deep familial relationships that are both personal and ancestral. Originating from Webb-Campbell's deep grief of losing her mother, Lunar Tides charts the arc to finding her again in the waves. Written from a mixed Mi'kmaq/settler perspective, this work also explores... + Read More
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Series: Plenitude Paperback Daniel Sarah Karasik 9781771667357 $20.00 POETRY Apr 07, 2022

A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state's boardroom walls. The insurrectionary tactics of mass social movements spread, like a secret handshake, from Chile to Hong Kong to Toronto. Shaped by Daniel Sarah Karasik's experience of grassroots social and political advocacy, these poems are an offering to those engaged in struggles for a better world—and an acknowledgement of the sometimes contradictory meanings of those struggles.... + Read More
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Series: Remnants Paperback Céline Huyghebaert 9781771667500 $23.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation Winner of the 2022 VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award Remnants is an exploration of our relationships with family and perception, told through a profound investigation of a father's life and sudden death. Employing various voices and hybrid forms—including dialogues, questionnaires, photographs, and dream documentation—Huyghebaert builds a fragmented picture of a father-daughter relationship that has been shaped by silences and missed opportunities.The reader attempts t... + Read More
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Series: Bear Bones & Feathers Paperback Louise B. Halfe 9781771315784 $20.00 POETRY May 15, 2022

In this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide. Employing Indigenous spirituality, black comedy, and the memories of her own childhood as healing arts, celebrated poet Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer finds an irrepressible source of strength and dignity in her people. Bear Bones and Feathers offers moving portraits of Halfe's grandmother (a medicine woman whose life straddled old and new worlds), her parents (both trapped i... + Read More
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Series: Horrible Dance Paperback Avery Lake 9781771315753 $21.95 POETRY Apr 30, 2022

2022 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist * 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry Finalist A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory. By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake's poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain with understated, expansive wisdom. Lake persistently returns us to the search for love that lies at the... + Read More
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Series: Hsin Paperback Nanci Lee 9781771315722 $21.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2022

Nanci Lee's debut explores 4th Century Su Hui's palindrome of longing. Hsin arises from an ancient Chinese ethical philosophy, less a set of moral standards than an appeal to tune. Heart-mind and nothingness are fair English translations of Hsin, but their tidiness risks losing some of the sharper, wider sides of absence and appetite. As a historical process, according to Hang Thaddeus T'ui-Chieh, Hsin frustrates, "the psychological fragmentation and compartmentalization of the West." Born to a Syrian father and a Chinese mother, who gave her u... + Read More
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Series: Orion Sweeping Paperback Anne Marie Todkill 9781771315692 $21.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2022

Anne Marie Todkill's debut recalibrates the anxiety of the present. It gives doubt a hearing, finding resilience in fragility and grace in unexpected places. The poems assembled in Orion Sweeping take nothing at face value. What are we to make of a radioactive souvenir, a shape-shifting dog, landscapes made strange by time? The speakers gathered here seek to set the record straight: a mink gives advice; a wolf disputes a rumour; a photographer zooms in on a kill; a military strategist gives lessons in peace. But the sum of the evidence is not b... + Read More
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Series: GWE Creative Non-Fiction All Creatures Weird and Dangerous Paperback Timm Otterson 9781771837088 $20.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

An improbable journey through the world of strange and mysterious creatures. All Creatures Weird and Dangerous describes the author’s experiences as a veterinarian drawn by chance to care for a variety of cryptozoological creatures. As a practicing veterinarian, the author is called upon, as if by strange forces, to care for a Chupacabra, Sasquatch, Lake Erie’s monster Bessie, mermaids and fairies in Newfoundland, and eventually a unicorn in the Highlands of Scotland. Drawing on his experiences as a wildlife rehabilitator and exotic-animal vete... + Read More
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Series: World Poetry Almost Love Paperback Pierre Lepori 9781771837354 $20.00 POETRY Jun 01, 2022

Corporeal, homoerotic, reified and ethereal. Pierre Lepori’s Almost Love (Quasi Amore) contains forty-five short stanzas, reminiscent of a lyric tradition extending from the Greek elegiac poets, such as Sappho and Mimnermus, to the Italian poet, Sandro Penna. The poems revolve around the word “love” as compared to the precariousness of life and the incompleteness of language, thus generating new images in a poetry that is corporeal, homoerotic, reified and at the same time ethereal. As Lepori writes, “There are forms of love – both physical and... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Archer On the River of Time Paperback Carl Hare 9781771837071 $29.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2022

Fictional epic: three years in the life of Ray Archer. Archer portrays three years in the life of Ray Archer, a fictional Canadian actor/director dedicated to exploring performance styles with his diverse company. Following a Canada-wide tour of King Lear performed in mask, Archer takes his new epic history of Canada across the country and to Ireland, where a strange encounter changes his life in ways he could not imagine. Written in both modern and traditional poetic styles, Archer is Book Three of the epic trilogy On the River of Time, which ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Catch and Release Paperback Liana Cusmano 9781771837323 $20.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2022

About coming out and coming of age. In Catch and Release, twenty-one-year-old Lucca looks back on her childhood and adolescence as she comes to terms with both her sexual orientation and her mental illness. When she falls in love with the brilliant and beautiful Adèle, Lucca is forced to acknowledge not only that she is not and never has been straight, but also that her relationship with a teacher in high school was not as harmless as she might have thought.
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Series: Essential Translations Series Cock-A-Doodle-Doo Paperback Pan Bouyoucas 9781771837040 $20.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

What to do when your fictional sleuth refuses to die? A detective writer's attempts at writing his masterpiece. A very successful detective fiction writer, Leo Basilius, decides to bring his popular crime series to a close and take a sabbatical on the Greek island of Nysa where, as a young man, he wrote his first books - poetry and short stories. He returns there intending to write his master piece. The one he knows he has in him. Surrounded by his wife and new island friends, he settles in to write. But unexpectedly his main character, Detect... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Cut Road Paperback Brent van Staalduinen 9781771837255 $20.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2022

A rich mix of acclaimed and award-winning stories. Containing a rich mix of acclaimed and award-winning stories, Cut Road is a masterful exploration of the loss and scars that conflict always leaves behind. Where soldiers abandon too much of themselves in war zones, parents relinquish control of their children, and friends struggle with change and tragedy. From the working soul struggling with grief to the wounded veteran seeking redemption in a coffee shop to the sweaty tree-planter fleeing a burning forest, in this collection no one—least of... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Darkness at the Edge of Town Paperback Stan Rogal 9781771836975 $20.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

A ghostly tale of family ties and madness. A young man, Ray, returns to where he was born, Weyburn, SK, after several years traveling anonymously around the country. He’s recently been suffering from frightening nightmares and he feels they may have something to do with his past, especially within the walls of the abandoned former mental asylum where his father had worked and his mother had been a patient. Old loves, old wounds and old grievances are rekindled, made especially difficult by the fact that his brother is the town sheriff and is al... + Read More
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Series: Thrillers Don't Ask Paperback Gina Roitman 9781771837118 $25.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

Posing the question: who packed the baggage we carry from birth? Don’t Ask poses the question: who packed the suitcase we carry from birth? In this literary thriller, a woman agonizes over her mother’s suicide and is thrown into turmoil over her attraction to a German. Hannah Baran is 45, a successful Montreal real estate broker with a highly lucrative client who, like her parents, is a Holocaust survivor. Born in a German DP camp, she is the only child of Rokhl and the late Barak. One day, she arrives to take her mother to the doctor’s but Rok... + Read More
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Series: Essential Translations Series Flame Out Paperback Michael Delisle 9781771837019 $20.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

A portrait of a violent father and an homage to poetry. When Michael Delisle was a boy growing up in Montreal’s South Shore neighbourhood of Ville Jacques-Cartier, his "uncles" – in other words, his father's friends – never said "gun" but rather "piece" or "rod" or more metonymically, "heater." In Flame Out, the poet remembers his father, a crook turned Charismatic Christian, the violent man who came to speak only of Jesus, the hated man whom he had no choice but to love, in spite of it all. Delisle writes that “reading and writing poetry help... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Gigglepuss Paperback Carlie Blume 9781771837002 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2022

Exposing and reworking the dark corners of past traumas. Gigglepuss delves into a past pock marked with loss, broken family dynamics, and the looming shadow of familial mental illness. These poems touch on sexual abuse, lost relationships, the influence of pop culture, and the intensity of motherhood set against the at times humorous backdrop of stark self-awareness, irony and even absurdity. Bucking against a patriarchal society, this collection is a provocative, reflective and at times confrontational portrayal of our human need for connectio... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series The Hands Paperback Marty Gervais 9781771837286 $20.00 POETRY Jun 01, 2022

A paean to iconic personalities Moving, intriguing, and exquisite, this collection is a paean to the iconic personalities Marty Gervais has met and written about during his career as both a poet and a journalist and includes poems about such diverse characters as Muhammad Ali, Mother Teresa, Benjamin Spock, Norman Mailer, Karen Kain and Thomas Merton. Each poem narrows the focus to one little detail about them, a slice of a memoir but in poetic form.
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Series: First Poets Series A History of Touch Paperback Erin Vance 9781771837217 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2022

Bearing witness to women in history. A History of Touching is a poetry collection about women in folklore and history who were ill, disabled, or otherwise labelled ‘hysteric.’ The work bears witness to the lives of women with varying experiences, such as a woman whose epilepsy was mistaken for demonic possession, Sarah Winchester’s grief, Mary Roff and her love of leeches, and the “witch”, Biddy Early. There is a poem about Bridget Cleary, who upon displaying her independence was burned to death by her husband, believing her to be a changeling.... + Read More
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Series: Essential Essays Series In the Writers' Words Conversations with Twelve Canadian Poets, Volume II Paperback Laurence Hutchman 9781771836166 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 01, 2022

Interviews with ten Great Canadian poets. In The Writers' Words Volume 2 is a collection of interviews of ten significant contemporary Canadian poets: Brian Bartlett, Roo Borson, George Elliott Clarke, Travis Lane, John B. Lee, Daniel Lockhart, Bruce Meyer, A.F. Moritz, Sue Sinclair, and Colleen Thibaudeau. In this book, the writers speak in-depth about the importance of personal events in their lives, their aesthetics, the social and geographical contexts, historical background, the influence of other writers and the evolution of their poetry ... + Read More
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Series: Speculative Fiction Lucy and Bonbon Paperback Don LePan 9781771837187 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2022

Probing the question: "Are we ready to accept a human-ape hybrid in our midst?" What if humans were able to reproduce with other great apes? What would the hybrid offspring look like? Act like? Think like? And how would humans respond? Would such creatures be allowed to live among us? Or would they be put under a microscope in a zoo or research facility? Lucinda Gerson is an outspoken, free-spirited working-class single mother. Lively and unpredictable, she’s the sort of person you might call “one of a kind.” Her child Bonbon is quite literally... + Read More
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Series: World Prose Made in Hawaii Paperback Cedric Yamanaka 9781771837224 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2022

Celebrating life in America's fiftieth State A father in Hawaii takes his troubled son fishing, unable to tell him the sad news he must share. A woman is lost at sea during a reef walk and sends her family into turmoil. An unlikely relationship develops between a Realtor and an Ultimate Fighting Champion. These are just some of the sad, funny and memorable characters found in the Made in Hawaii short story collection.
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Series: Essential Prose Series Momma's Got the Blues Paperback David Sherman 9781771837149 $25.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

Celebrating the joys of pop music and the musicians who live to play it; while taking an insider’s look at what the digital age has done to the artist, the business and the sound. The golden days of MaryAnne’s singing career, of sold-out concert halls and hit records have given way to shabby rooms and paltry CD sales, battered by YouTube and streaming. But, MaryAnne, nearing 60, refuses to retire. When her party-animal single daughter becomes pregnant, MaryAnne rebels against becoming a grandmother and putting her dwindling career aside to help... + Read More
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Series: GWE Creative Non-Fiction My Whirlwind Lives Navigating Decades of Storms - a Memoir & Manifesto Paperback Dee Knight 9781771837200 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2022

A quest to turn the tide after decades of storms. Our recent storms didn’t start in 2020 or 2016. They started decades ago in the 1960s – a whirlwind of threatened nuclear catastrophe, then police dogs and rednecks terrorizing civil rights marchers down south, then Vietnamese children fleeing from napalm flames. Then draft notices to go to Vietnam to “fight commies.” A small town boy started by supporting rightist Goldwater against the “peace candidate” Johnson, but rapidly changed in the face of the civil rights and anti-war movements, and sta... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series The Narrow Cabinet A Zombie Chronicle Paperback Asa Boxer 9781771837170 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2022

From old school dispensation to Zombie apocalypse: on change, loss and rapid transformations. The Narrow Cabinet is a book about change, loss and the struggle to understand what the hell is going on in a world experiencing such rapid transformations. The movement is from (a) an old dispensation of tough minded, rugged living and surviving troubled times through (b) a narcissistic sinkhole of complacency leading ultimately to (c) a zombie apocalypse. That is the general trajectory, but the work itself complicates the tropes. The old dispensation... + Read More
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Series: World Prose The Opposition Paperback Todd Gitlin 9781771837361 $25.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2022

On civil rights and America's 1960s New Left movement. Set during America’s 1960s New Left movement, The Opposition tells the story of twenty-something young men and women linked by a fierce desire to change the world who become involved in the civil rights and anti-war movements, when under the pressure of Vietnam, and America, unraveling, their web of passion and pain reaches a breaking point. Four women and four men meet in a Midwestern college town in 1963. As racist violence surges in the Deep South, they are seized by the civil rights mov... + Read More
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Series: GWE Creative Non-Fiction Printmaker's Daughter, Painter's Wife Paperback Nina Barragan 9781771837293 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2022

Deconstructing the fundamentals of identity. This work of fusion moves beyond memoir to become a juggling act of reality and imagination. The narrative travels through melded panoramas of past and present, this country, the others, certainties and doubts. Inserts of fiction—revealing ties between life and writing—enhance the journey.
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Series: World Prose The World Through Your Eyes Paperback Valeria Camerino 9781771836920 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2022

A story of three loves and a journey of self-discovery. After years spent living in the Middle East, Sofia, an Italian freelance journalist, moves back to England, determined to leave her past behind and build a new life for herself and her daughter in Leeds. On a night out on the town, she meets an enigmatic Iranian man whom she is immediately drawn to, as he reminds her of her Omani ex-husband At first, she seems to have many things in common with him: from a difficult childhood and a rebellious personality, to a disdain for social norms and ... + Read More
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Series: Any Girl Paperback Caroline van Rooyen 9781774150634 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Apr 15, 2022

That she can stop a rapist never occurs to July Abraham until she falls over a classmate, Andie, in the gardens at Mark's party. Finding Andie shatters the lie that silenced July. Now she knows this man attacks any girl because he can; people back away from him; bow down to him, even the cops leave him alone. In the cold of that dark garden, with Andie unconscious in her arms, July resolves to stop him. She does not have wheels, friends, a fortified castle, or an AK-47. She cannot wage war. But she does know what parts of him look like, she ca... + Read More
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Series: de book of Joseph Paperback Pamela Mordecai 9781774150726 $20.95 POETRY Jun 01, 2022

Finalist for the OCM Bocas Prize, Poetry, 2023 de book of Joseph, the third book in Mordecai's epic trilogy about the lives of Jesus, his mother, Mary, and his foster father, the tekton of Nazareth, is a dazzling retelling in Jamaican Creole of the story of Joseph's life--his first marriage, his magical meeting with Mary, and his role in the birth and raising of Jesus. Mordecai creates a cast of spirited characters who surround a down-to-earth Jesus, Mary and Joseph as they contend with the intrigue around Herod's determination to assassinate t... + Read More
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Series: In the Bowl of My Eye Paperback Keith Garebian 9781774150696 $20.95 POETRY May 01, 2022

In his ninth collection of poetry, Keith Garebian pays attention to inner and outer realities of place and psyche, turning conventional landscape poetry inside-out. Focusing on the Lakeshore Road area of Mississauga/Etobicoke, Garebian explores small and large things, creating a space in which inner and outer landscapes meet, resulting in a striking poetic vessel of cognition, perception, and sensitivity. Meditatively alert, these poems open up perceptions of a sentient world within a specific geography, history, and sociology, while providing ... + Read More
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Series: Toronto, I Love You Paperback Didier Leclair 9781774150665 $22.95 FICTION May 15, 2022

Translated from French by Elaine Kennedy. Raymond Dossougbé flees the misery of his hometown in Benin and arrives in Toronto, which as soon as he arrives charms him. He sees the city as a place of freedom and light, a sanctuary where he, like so many others, can begin anew. He is thrilled by its fast, organized pace, and by its vastness and diversity of peoples. Without prejudices or preconceptions, he allows himself to be fraternized by both the white and the black segments of society. He sees deep poverty, extreme wealth, and racism, and als... + Read More
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Series: Allodynia Paperback Nisa Malli 9781990293061 $19.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2022

Rooted in the indescribability and disembodiment of pain, Nisa Malli?s Allodynia looks outward to space and the future of humankind, as well as inward to the body. In ?Pain Log?, a suite of body-horror poems, she explores illness as a haunting or possession: ?At home, my stitches / undid themselves, fevers pet me // like a dog, my eyes opened / backwards. Sleep ghosted me // more than usual.? In ?Ships?s Log,? a near-future speculative suite of poems, Malli turns to themes of alienness, artificial intelligence, and the impossibility of translat... + Read More
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Series: Grappling Hook Paperback Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang 9781990293030 $19.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2022

Taking its title from Tomas Tranströmer, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang?s Grappling Hook sifts the debris of the twenty-first century for insights into identity, desire, and the everyday struggles inherent to motherhood. In doing so, she presents vivid portraits of the joys and perils of marriage, the evolving fight for social justice in a world divided by inequity, and the uncertain future thats?s left for children of the digital age. Grappling Hook is an impressive display of Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang?s considerable poetic gifts, and a love letter to those w... + Read More
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Series: The Most Cunning Heart Paperback Catherine Graham 9781990293122 $18.95 FICTION May 01, 2022

In the early 1990?s, Caitlin Maharg, grieving the loss of her parents, leaves everything she knows in Canada for Northern Ireland to pursue her love of poetry while living in a cottage by the Irish Sea. Feeling like a child again in a distant land still affected by the Troubles, she is haunted by the secrets her parents? deaths unearthed. In her longing for emotional closeness, she befriends Andy Evans, a well-known poet with a roguish charm. Their attraction soon leads to a love affair. Flouting the paisley headscarf of respectability, she plu... + Read More
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Series: Nightlight Paperback David Barrick 9781990293092 $19.95 POETRY May 01, 2022

Patterned on a series of dream states, David Barrick?s Nightlight delves into the surreal nature of the human imagination, even at its most unconscious. Whether Barrick?s poems explore the sensory world of a classic horror film, an Alex Colville painting, or an afterhours jazz gig, his inquisitiveness leads to invention, and invention to discovery. Where else could an amateur fossil hunt become a primeval experience, or a lawnmower, a cow, and newlyweds float together midair? Nightlight taps into the emotional undercurrents of these moments, un... + Read More
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Series: The Sunday Book Paperback Michael Trussler 9781990293153 $19.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 01, 2022

In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on the meaning of the Holocaust in the twenty-first century to confronting the complexities of being a parent in the Anthropocene, Trussler?s interconnected essays are united by his lived experience with a rare learning disability. The Sunday Book freshly engages with fundamental existential problems such as free will and contingency, all the while providing an original take on our contemporary moment.
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Series: Blow Wind Paperback Daniel Macdonald 9780369103635 $18.95 DRAMA Sep 27, 2022

After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. Instead of finding comfort in “home,” Sarah learns nothing is how she remembers it, and with Kathleen’s growing dementia, nothing will ever be the same again. Two of Sarah’s older siblings, Jolene and Steven, are more focused on the future ownership of the farm and are planning a supper that could help influence that decision. But Sarah turns he... + Read More
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Series: Every Day She Rose Paperback Andrea Scott 9780369103383 $18.95 DRAMA May 31, 2022

After the Black Lives Matter protest at the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade, two friends find their racial and queer politics aren’t as aligned as they thought, and the playwrights behind them must figure out how to write about the fallout. Cathy Ann, a straight Black woman, and her roommate Mark, a gay white man, came home from the parade with such differing views of what happened and how it affected their own communities. Cathy Ann agrees with the protest that the police presence at the parade doesn’t make her feel safe, while Mark felt safer with... + Read More
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Series: Everybody Just [email protected] the F#ck Down Paperback Robert Chafe 9780369103475 $18.95 DRAMA Jun 07, 2022

After an unexpected night in a Regina hospital emergency room, Robert Chafe can’t shake the burning question of whether he’s Tennessee Williams or Dorothy Zbornak. Are his symptoms a harbinger of a terrifying undiagnosed condition, or is it all just in his head? Frenetic, tender, and sometimes scary, Everybody Just [email protected] the F#ck Down is a stumbling folly about the aging body, mid-life anxiety, and what it means to live when you can’t know what’s next.
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Series: Lady Sunrise Paperback Marjorie Chan 9780369103543 $18.95 DRAMA Jun 28, 2022

From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city’s Asian Canadian community. Lady Sunrise introduces us to six women who are risking everything, all motivated by the need for more money and the freedom it could buy, whether it’s the allure of expensive items and real estate to substitute what’s been lost or the safety of not being in abusive debt to anyone else just to survive. This heartbreaking examination of... + Read More
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Series: Let's Run Away Paperback Daniel MacIvor 9780369103413 $18.95 DRAMA May 10, 2022

Peter is putting on a show. He’s a bit stressed. In the show, he will read from a manuscript. It’s a large manuscript, but don’t worry, he’s only going to read the parts about him, and there aren’t many. It’s a memoir written by someone who abandoned him twice—once as a baby and once when he was a young man of thirteen. This person has figured prominently in Peter’s life for over fifty years now, but judging by the memoir, he has not figured so much in theirs. So perhaps it’s going to be a very short show? Again, don’t worry, Peter has other sk... + Read More
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Series: a million billion pieces Paperback David James Brock 9780369103352 $18.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 15 - 18 Mar 29, 2022

It’s time to make every moment count. Sixteen-year-olds Pria and Theo—or as they know each other online, the aspiring opera singer PriaSoprano and outer-space aficionado Eagle19—have decided to have sex. There’s just one catch… they both have life-threatening genetic disorders that may cause them to explode from one another’s touch. But they won’t know what will happen until they try. Sick of being told what to do their whole lives, they rebel against their reality and meet at a motel. But while Pria is more or less accepting of her fate, Theo... + Read More
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Series: Post-Democracy Paperback Hannah Moscovitch 9780369103666 $18.95 DRAMA Jan 24, 2023

Welcome to the world of the one per cent, the corporate elite, the C-suite, the kingmakers. A world managed by payoffs, press releases, NDAs, and company policies. What happens to morality in this world when its people have limitless power? When a CEO and his highest executives are on an international business trip to secure a major deal, a sex scandal between employees is unearthed on the news. As the pressure to complete the deal mounts, more damaging secrets come to the surface, endangering the CEO’s company, family, and legacy. In this se... + Read More
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Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre Power Moves Dance, Culture, Politics Paperback Seika Boye 9780369103697 $34.95 PERFORMING ARTS Nov 28, 2023

This collection of essays focuses how dance and movement engage and enact political questions around agency, mobility, pedagogy, and resistance. Committed to crossing disciplinary boundaries, Power Moves looks to movement knowledge for its radical insights and critical forms of public intervention and pedagogy. The writers of this collection examine cultural and social patterns in action in the studio, on the stage, and from the street, and in doing so give voice to fresh perspectives from Canadian dance and performance studies on social, poli... + Read More