1.
Series:
Freethinker
The Life and Works of Éva Circé-Côté
Paperback
Andrée Lévesque
9781771133319
$34.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 16, 2017
Poet, playwright, and librarian, E´va Circe´-Co^te´ was a prolific journalist writing for progressive newspapers under a number of pseudonyms. As a feminist and a freethinker who fought for equality and secularism, she offers a non-conformist perspective on Quebec society and politics in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Freethinker is translated from the 2011 Clio prize winner, E´va Circe´-Co^te´, libre penseuse, 1871–1949.
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Series:
Queer Progress
From Homophobia to Homonationalism
Paperback
Tim McCaskell
9781771132787
$39.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 08, 2016
How did a social movement evolve from a small group of young radicals to the incorporation of LGBTQ communities into full citizenship on the model of Canadian multiculturalism? Tim McCaskell contextualizes his work in gay, queer, and AIDS activism in Toronto from 1974 to 2014 within the shift from the Keynesian welfare state of the 1970s to the neoliberal economy of the new millennium. A shift that saw sexuality —once tightly regulated by conservative institutions—become an economic driver of late capitalism, and sexual minorities celebrated...
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3.
Series:
Radical Ambition
The New Left in Toronto
Paperback
Peter Graham
9781771134231
$35.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 09, 2019
Writing for Maclean’s magazine in 1965, Peter Gzowski saw something different about the new generation of the left. They were not the agrarian radicals of old. They did not meet in union halls. Nor were they like the Beatniks that Gzowski had rubbed shoulders with in college. “The radicals of the New Left … differ from their predecessors not only in the degree of their protest but in its kind. They are a new breed.” Members of the New Left placed the ideals of self-determination and community at the core of their politics. As with all leftists...
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4.
Series:
Toronto’s Poor
A Rebellious History
Paperback
Bryan Palmer
9781771132817
$34.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 23, 2016
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how people without housing, people living in poverty, and unemployed people have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present. Written by a historian of the working class and a poor people’s activist, this is a rebellious book that links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resist...
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5.
Series:
In Memory of Memory
Paperback
Maria Stepanova
9781771666596
$25.00
FICTION
Mar 02, 2021
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeLonglisted for the National Book Awards: Translated Literature Longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford PrizeWinner of the 2018 Bolshaya Kniga AwardWinner of the 2019 NOS Literature Prize An exciting contemporary Russian writer explores terra incognita: the still-living margins of history. With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in R...
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6.
Series:
The Absence of Zero
Paperback
R. Kolewe
9781771667265
$28.00
POETRY
Nov 09, 2021
The Absence of Zero is a triumphantly-executed celebration of the long poem tradition. Consisting of 256 16-line quartets, and 34 free-form interruptions, this slow-moving haunting work is a beautiful example of thinking in language, a meditation that explores time and memory in both content and form. The 20th century is already more than 20 years past: The Absence of Zero is Kolewe's elegy to that era, and the disparate fragments of its ideas that continue to affect and disrupt our present.
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Series: Essential Prose Series
Against the Machine
Manifesto
Paperback
Brian Van Norman
9781771836951
$25.00
FICTION
Oct 01, 2021
Mel Buckworth, dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills so apparent in his children’s generation. He is galled by his daughter Dani’s university friend, Stanley Best, who is about to achieve fame in the fields of nano technology and artificial intelligence. As Mel desperately attempts to find equilibrium he estranges his family, leaves his wife and enlists the help of a greedy grad student. Will Baker teaches Mel the ...
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8.
Series: Essential Prose Series
Against the Machine
Luddites
Paperback
Brian Van Norman
9781771834797
$25.00
FICTION
Apr 01, 2020
At war against Napoleon near bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker leads the Luddites attacking mills and smashing machines. With increased assaults and even murder North England feels the grip of terrorism. Government agents attempt to suppress the rebellion. In 1812 there are more British troops in North England than fighting Napoleon in Europe. Against the Machine relates the story of the diverse characters caught in this conflict. It unveils the rank exploitation...
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9.
Series: Essential Prose Series
Call Me Stan
A Tragedy in Three Millennia
Paperback
K.R. Wilson
9781771835985
$29.95
FICTION
Dec 01, 2021
Long-listed for the 2022 Leacock Medal for Humour When King Priam's pregnant daughter was fleeing the sack of Troy, Stan was there. When Jesus of Nazareth was beaten and crucified, Stan was there - one cross over. Stan has been a Hittite warrior, a Roman legionnaire, a mercenary for the caravans of the Silk Road and a Great War German grunt. He’s been a toymaker in a time of plague, a reluctant rebel in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, and an information peddler in the cabarets of post-war Berlin. Stan doesn't die, and he doesn't know why. And now...
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10.
Series: Essential Prose Series
Cardinal Divide
Paperback
Nina Newington
9781771834421
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
A father comes out to his daughter as a woman. Or at least, he was once a woman. It's complicated. Funny. Painful. Eventually joyful. Meanwhile the daughter, who was adopted, has her own identity issues. At the Aboriginal addictions treatment centre where she works, everyone assumes she is Indigenous. But is she? How can she find out? Cardinal Divide explores the hunger for certainty and the mutability of identity, whether of gender, race or sexuality. Authenticity isn't simple. Acting as somebody else is simultaneously a way to deceive and to ...
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11.
Series:
Look After Her
Paperback
Hannah Brown
9781771336734
$22.95
FICTION
Sep 30, 2019
Finalist for the 2019 Foreword Indie Award for General Fiction.Upon the death of their art-loving parents, thirteen and fourteen year old Jewish sisters are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister's forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna. Once in England, however, Hedy discovers her younger sister Susannah longs to be independent-- and in Italy. But in 1938, despite the safety they each have found ...
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12.
Series:
Paper Stones
Paperback
Laurie Ray Hill
9781771337854
$22.95
FICTION
Nov 19, 2020
From the moment she holds her baby niece, Rose is on a mission. Terrified that her baby niece will fall victim to the sexual abuse rampant in the family, Rose tells us in her own warm, funny, down-to-earth voice, how she reluctantly agrees to join a therapy group, hoping she can find out how to prevent disaster and see that baby Jenny grows up unharmed. In the group, she meets new friends who will become like family: Josie, who "sees" the future; Tammy, with a suspicious bruise on her neck; good and steady Marg, whose father is threatening to b...
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13.
Series:
Tamarind Sky
Paperback
Thelma Wheatley
9781771337335
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 15, 2020
When British immigrant Selena Jones marries Aidan Gilmor, a Sinhalese-Eurasian -- part British -- from Sri Lanka in the 1960s in Toronto, a passionate clash of culture ensues. Selena's mother in Wales is horrified when Selena brings Aidan home to Wales for the wedding. Back in Toronto, Selena faces further prejudice and disapproval of her "mixed marriage," despite Pierre Elliott Trudeau's new "multiculturalism," which was being encouraged but also resented. She is shocked not only by the reaction of neighbours but by the teachers at the all-Whi...
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Series:
Book of Faith, The
Paperback
Elaine Kalman Naves
9781927535745
$19.95
FICTION
Jun 15, 2015
Mordecai Richler meets Jane Austen in The Book of Faith. Faith, Rhoda, and Erica, affectionately known the Three Graces, are members of a liberal Jewish congregation in contemporary Montreal. Rabbi Nate wants a grand new synagogue; Marty, the congregation's treasurer, harbours a raunchy secret; and Melly is a hard-nosed Holocaust survivor with an agenda. Award-winning author Elaine Kalman Naves?s debut novel is a delicious send-up of synagogue politics. It is also a paean to friendship.
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Series:
Sicilian Wife, The
Paperback
Caterina Edwards
9781927535608
$19.95
FICTION
Dec 18, 2014
Fulvia, a Mafia Princess, must be a dutiful daughter or the family will be dishonoured. She escapes and makes a new life in Canada, but then is betrayed and her husband murdered on the Sicilian coast. The police Chief investigating the case is Marisa, who confronts a station house of skeptical men as well as Fulvia?s uncle, the boss of bosses. Interweaving folk tales, classical allusions, and recent Italian history with the conventions of the detective story, Caterina Edwards uses the literary noir to question the very possibility of justice an...
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16.
Series:
True Believers
Paperback
Michael Blair
9781927535646
$16.95
FICTION
Dec 18, 2014
Business is slow for Burlington, Vermont, private investigator John ?Hack? Loomis, so when Loomis?s assistant Connie Noble asks him to look into the disappearance of her friend Belle Ryerson, Loomis agrees. Belle went missing after attending a meeting of a local UFO group run by a charismatic psychiatrist who treats people who believe they?ve been abducted by aliens, and also by a disarmingly beautiful woman who claims to be in contact with an alien mother ship. As Loomis?s investigation takes him and Connie to the edge of the lunatic fringe an...
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17.
Series: AfriCANthology
AfriCANthology
Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets
Paperback
A. Gregory Frankson
9781990086090
$25.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Feb 01, 2022
Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by Greg Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspects of navigating their unique personal, professional, and artistic path...
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18.
Series:
Family Way, The
Paperback
Christopher DiRaddo
9781550655650
$22.95
FICTION
Apr 21, 2021
The year Paul turns forty, his friends Wendy and Eve ask him to help them get pregnant. Nothing about the process feels natural to him. But for a gay man of a certain age, making a family still means finding your own way through a world with few ready answers. The eighteen-month journey reveals many insights about Paul's past and present, from his strained relationship to his father, his overprotective relationship with his partner Michael, and the many friends around him whom he considers his family.