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Universal Bureau of Copyrights Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Bertrand Laverdure 9781771660648 $14.99 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

From celebrated Quebecois author Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyrights , a bold, strange and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an enigmatic global corporation buys and sells the copyrights for all things on Earth, including real and fictional characters. Through this novel, which is part poetic narrative, part sci-fi-dystopian fantasy, readers become acquainted with the main character, a man who deconstructs himself as he navigates the mystifying passages of the story. Having no control... + Read More
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Series: The Alford Saga The Hero Electronic book text, EPUB Paul Almond 9781552443422 $9.99 FICTION Sep 16, 2014

Eric Alford, one of the brave but shell-shocked soldiers of WWI, sets out during Canada's Great Depression to find his British sweetheart. He ends up in Australia, where he finally wins ordination as a clergyman. After an emotionally fraught round the world trip, he arrives home in Quebec only to find his traumas growing worse. He continues to battle it as bravely as he did the enemy, causing heart-rending anguish to himself, his loving bride and his only son. Set in the turbulent twenties and thirties, this story of an earlier hero mirrors wit... + Read More
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A Migrant Heart Electronic book text, EPUB Denis Sampson 9781927535486 $8.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2014

A Migrant Heart is about departures and arrivals, uprooting and attachment, resettling and returning. Denis Sampson left Ireland as a student, leaving behind the farming countryside of his childhood, the city of Dublin where he was educated, and the history and culture of his native country. He arrived in the cosmopolitan city of Montreal and discovered he was not the only one in search of a new life; and then that search became his life. He also discovered many different ways to return to Ireland, until slowly, what was painfully forced apart ... + Read More
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Pain and Prejudice Electronic book text, EPUB Dr. Karen Messing PhD 9781771131483 $17.50 SCIENCE Sep 02, 2014

In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn’t help. Neither the refinery company nor the scientific community was interested in the scary results of her chromosome studies. Over the next decades Messing encounter... + Read More
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Bunny and Shark Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Alisha Piercy 9781771660624 $14.99 FICTION Sep 02, 2014

From award-winning author Alisha Piercy comes Bunny and Shark, a middle-aged coming-of-age story-cum-shark-adventure that reveals and celebrates women's power in the trenches. Plunging into the first thirteen days after the 'bastard' pushes his ex-Playboy wife 'Bunny' over a cliff in the Caribbean, Bunny and Shark is a fable about island survival, and the perils and potentials of being exiled from one's identity. Literally lost at sea, Bunny is fueled by the miracle of having been saved from sharks by a band of dolphins. And her continued survi... + Read More
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Series: Orca Currents Hate Mail Electronic book text, EPUB Monique Polak 9781459807785 $8.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 01, 2014

Inspired by real-life events, Hate Mail examines the transformative power of speaking out against prejudice. Jordie’s cousin Todd has moved back to Montreal and is attending Jordie’s high school. Todd has autism and requires an aide. Todd has not been welcomed in the school. He’s known as a freak, and even other parents seem to resent Todd’s special needs. Jordie does everything he can to distance himself from his cousin, fearful of what his friends might think. When he learns that Todd’s whole family is buckling under the pressure of a hateful... + Read More
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The Feel of the City Experiences of Urban Transformation Electronic book text, EPUB Nicolas Kenny 9781442669062 $35.95 SCIENCE Jun 09, 2014

At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use they made of public washrooms.The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the century... + Read More
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Hockey, PQ Canada's Game in Quebec's Popular Culture Electronic book text, EPUB Amy Ransom 9781442670020 $32.95 ART Jun 09, 2014

A wide-ranging study that examines everything from the blockbuster movie franchise Les Boys to the sovereigntist hip hop group Loco Locass, Hockey, PQ explores how Canada’s national sport has been used to signify a specific Québécois identity. Amy J. Ransom analyzes how Québécois writers, filmmakers, and musicians have appropriated symbols like the Montreal Forum, Maurice Richard, or the 1972 Summit Series to construct or critique images of the Québécois male.Close analyses of hockey-themed narratives consider the soap opera Lance et compte (‘H... + Read More
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Series: The Alford Saga The Gunner Electronic book text, EPUB Paul Almond 9781552443330 $9.99 FICTION May 04, 2014

Eric Alford's safe and romantic life on the peaceful Gaspe Coast is shattered by his decision to follow his elder brother John (the Pilgrim and The Chaplain) into the 1914-18 cataclysm of death and destruction known as the "Great War for Civilisation". By his thundering Howitzer, Gunner Alford assaults the Hun through every major Canadian battle of WWI: Ypres, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Hill 70, The Somme, and "The Hundred Days" that ended the conflict. A developing romance with a lovely Londoner is cut short by a German shell. Evacuated to a R... + Read More
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Is That a Fact? Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life Electronic book text, EPUB Joe Schwarcz 9781770905283 $13.99 SCIENCE May 01, 2014

An entertaining and digestible volume that demystifies science Eat this and live to 100. Don’t, and die. Today, hyperboles dominate the media, which makes parsing science from fiction an arduous task when deciding what to eat, what chemicals to avoid, and what’s best for the environment. In Is That a Fact?, bestselling author Dr. Joe Schwarcz carefully navigates through the storm of misinformation to help us separate fact from folly and shrewdness from foolishness. Are GMOs really harmful? Or could they help developing countries? Which “mirac... + Read More
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Guyana Electronic book text, EPUB Elise Turcotte 9781770563735 $10.95 FICTION Apr 30, 2014

Nominated for the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation All sorts of things can happen, no matter what road you take, and I never forget that. Death in particular can never be forgotten. Since Rudi’s death, I have tried to anticipate and dodge obstacles like an Olympic skier. My agile imagination glides between the little red flags with ease. Philippe’s imagination is both infnite and inflexible. It’s a dangerous combination. He stays planted on the ground while looking down over reality. Between us, we do a good job of imagini... + Read More
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A Second Chance Electronic book text, EPUB Felicia Mihali 9781927535448 $8.95 FICTION Apr 26, 2014

Adam is happily married when he has a stroke at the age of fifty, and his behaviour changes to that of a ten-year-old. What are his secrets? Are there any he should be sharing? His wife would like to know. A Second Chance reveals its secrets slowly. We can see how changed Adam is, but we also sense that we don’t know the whole story. The wife is loving, but there is a puzzling edge to her account of her days with Adam. It’s only as we come to the devastating conclusion that we learn what happened before Adam suffered his stroke. A novel about d... + Read More
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SOS Alternatives to Capitalism, 2nd edition Electronic book text, EPUB Richard Swift 9781771131575 $9.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 28, 2016

Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers’ greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism. People are crying out for an alternative but are continually told that one does not exist. In this fully updated new edition Richard Swift examines the past shortcomings and present health of not one but many other paths to changing the world, including socialism, social democracy, anarchism, ecology and degrowth. Combining the practical with t... + Read More
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Polyamorous Love Song Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Jacob Wren 9781771660372 $14.99 FICTION Apr 15, 2014

Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, readers will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live. With a diverse palette of vivid characters - from people who wear furry mascot costumes at all times, to a group of 'New Filmmakers' that devises increasingly unexpected sexual scenarios with complete strangers, to a secret society that concocts a virus that on... + Read More
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8:17 pm rue Darling Electronic book text, EPUB Bernard Emond 9781550718478 $9.99 FICTION Apr 15, 2014

Gérard is an alcoholic and former crime reporter, gone back to live in the impoverished Montreal neighbourhood where he grew up. One night, his shoelace comes undone, delaying his return home and saving his life when his apartment building mysteriously blows up. Six of his neighbours are dead, others are missing. Plunged into a personal crisis, Gérard sets off looking for answers. Who were his neighbours and why was he spared? Is this his last chance to redeem himself?
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Planet Heart How an Unhealthy Environment Leads to Heart Disease Electronic book text, EPUB François Reeves, M.D. 9781771000826 $16.95 SCIENCE Apr 14, 2014

Everyone knows that high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, smoking, stress, and a sedentary lifestyle are risk factors for cardiovascular disease. But few know that an unhealthy environment is also a critical risk factor for heart disease. In this incisive, authoritative, and accessible book, cardiologist Francois Reeves asks such questions as why North America experienced an explosion of cardiovascular disease in the mid-twentieth century, why China is suffering a surge of heart attacks, and why there are more heart attacks during ep... + Read More
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The Bells of Memory A Palestinian Boyhood in Jerusalem Electronic book text, EPUB Issa J. Boullata 9781927535400 $7.95 HISTORY Apr 05, 2014

The distinguished Arabic scholar, author, and translator Issa J. Boullata grew up in a Palestinian family in the Jerusalem of the 1930s and 1940s, when Palestine was under the British Mandate. His memoir, The Bells of Memory, is delightful in its reflections on an idyllic youth and detailed in its recollections of family members, classmates and teachers, remembered scents and foods, the pleasures of reading, and his early experience of the working world. This is a love letter to a Jerusalem that was changed immeasurably by Al-Nakba, the Palesti... + Read More
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Waiting for the Man Electronic book text, EPUB Arjun Basu 9781770905160 $12.99 FICTION Aug 01, 2015

A surreal journey of a man who is searching for purpose and for happiness Joe, a 36-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York agency, feels disillusioned with his life. He starts dreaming of a mysterious man, seeing him on the street, and hearing his voice. Joe decides to listen to the Man and so he waits on his stoop, day and night, for instructions. A local reporter takes notice, and soon Joe has become a story, a media sensation, the centre of a storm. When the Man tells Joe to “go west,” he does, in search of meaning. Waiting f... + Read More
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The End of Pain How Diet and Nutrition Can Fight Chronic Inflammatory Disease Electronic book text, EPUB Jacqueline Lagacé 9781771640190 $19.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 27, 2014

After years of debilitating chronic pain from arthritis, Jacqueline Lagacé began following Dr. Jean Seignalet’s hypotoxic diet—which calls for the elimination of wheat, animal-source dairy products, and animal proteins cooked at high temperatures—and almost immediately experienced decreased pain. The End of Pain—translated from French and now available in English for the first time—tells Lagacé’s compelling story and explores how our bodies and our modern western diet are at war with each other. Lagacé also investigates the science behind Dr. S... + Read More
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The Prostate Everything You Need to Know About the Man Gland Electronic book text, EPUB Yosh Taguchi 9781927535363 $9.95 MEDICAL Mar 21, 2014

The mere mention of the prostate gland is enough to make men cringe. Long a taboo subject, the walnut-sized man gland can cause mental anguish, emotional aggravation, bitterness, and anger. The prostate often affects everything from sexual performance to male ego-strength. When it is working well, the man’s world is good, but when it is affected by change or disease, the male universe often collapses upon itself. In The Prostate, Dr. Taguchi tackles the most common prostate problems, treatments, and questions in down-to-earth language. If there... + Read More
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The Goat in the tree Electronic book text, EPUB Lorne Elliot 9781550718119 $9.99 FICTION Mar 15, 2014

Against the backdrop of Morocco and France, the hero of The Goat In The Tree travels in pursuit of both an audience for his stories and his next meal. Fictional travelogue, love story, and the misadventures of a teller of tales, Lorne Elliott sends his narrator tip-toeing around the uncomfortable edge of things, out to where stories bloom, and brings them back for us to enjoy.
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Straight Punch Electronic book text, EPUB Monique Polak 9781459803930 $9.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) exact 12 Mar 01, 2014

Tessa McPhail has a bad habit—tagging—that lands her at New Directions, an alternative school in Montreal’s toughest neighborhood. The school is far from Tessa’s home and full of troubled kids. To make matters worse, half of every school day is devoted to boxing. The other students think boxing is cool. Not Tessa, who cannot handle violence of any kind. But when a neighbor starts a petition to have New Directions closed down, Tessa discovers something worth fighting for, both in and out of the ring.
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Series: Ballet School Confidential Ballet School Confidential: The Complete 3-Book Bundle Love You, Hate You / I Forgot to Tell You / You're So Sweet Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Charis Marsh 9781459728851 $21.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Feb 12, 2014

Presenting the three titles in the Ballet School Confidential series, which follows a group of friends (and sometimes adversaries) during their time attending the Vancouver International Ballet Academy. Kaitlyn was the star at her old school, but the competition at VIBA is fierce and her reputation as a prodigy is threatened. About to turn 15 years old, Taylor is a bit of a scatterbrain. She’s got a lot of potential, but the teachers are frustrated with her lack of confidence, and her troubles at school aren’t helping. Alexandra has done everyt... + Read More
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MxT Electronic book text, EPUB Sina Queyras 9781770563759 $10.95 POETRY Feb 01, 2014

Winner of the 2014 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry MxT, or ‘Memory x Time,’ is one of the formulas acclaimed poet Sina Queyras posits as a way to measure grief. These poems mourn the dead by turning memories over and over like an old coin, by invoking other poets, by appropriating the language of technology, of instruction, of diagram, of electrical engineering, and of elegy itself. Devastating, cheeky, allusive, hallucinatory: this is Queyras at her most powerful. 'Like the central conceptual apparatus, Queyras is smart and insightful in her work ... + Read More
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Millions for a Song Electronic book text, EPUB André Vanasse 9781552443552 $9.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Jan 15, 2014

Millions for a Song is the story of Alex, a Quebec teenager and his rock band, The Nexxtep, made up of Alex and his friends: creative genius and lead guitarist Bruno, hot, feisty singer Melanie, and quiet-except-when drumming Jean-Francois. Alex and Melanie are close, very close, but friend-close not boyfriend/girlfriend close, despite the love/hate swings to their relationship. One day, the friends cross paths with a true rock star whose chance remark will come back to haunt them. "Be careful. The music business is full of sharks." But firs... + Read More
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Dany Laferriere : Essays on His Works Electronic book text, EPUB Lee Skallerup Bessette 9781550717426 $9.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Dec 01, 2013

This collection of essays looks at the body of work of Quebec writer Dany Laferrière, including his notorious first novel, Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer, through a variety of critical and analytic lenses. Issues such as identity, privilege, memory, exile and return are examined in relation to his writing. Among the contributors are: Ng'ang'a wa Muchiri, Gabrielle Parker, Lucy Brisley, Lynn Penrod, Amy J. Ransom, and Lee Skallerup Bessette.
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Who’s Afraid of the Black Blocs? Electronic book text, EPUB Francis Dupuis-Déri 9781771130387 $15.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 25, 2013

Faces masked, dressed in black, and forcefully attacking the symbols of capitalism, Black Blocs have been transformed into an anti-globalization media spectacle. But the popular image of the window-smashing thug hides a complex reality. Francis Dupuis-Déri outlines the origin of this phenomenon, its dynamics, and its goals, arguing that the use of violence always takes place in an ethical and strategic context. Translated into English for the first time and completely revised and updated to include the most recent Black Bloc actions at pr... + Read More
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Series: The Alford Saga The Chaplain Electronic book text, EPUB Paul Almond 9781552443231 $7.99 FICTION Nov 15, 2013

The Prime Minister gives permission for John Alford to board a tramp steamer crammed with a thousand young enlistees bound for adventure in the Boer War. They steam across a stormy Atlantic into a year of dusty, disease-ridden battles in South Africa - the first engagement by Canadian Forces on foreign soil. He and his courageous comrades endure freezing night-long marches and thirst-ridden days as they mount dangerous attacks on Boer commandoes under a blazing sun, turning the tide of war in the great battle of Paardeberg Drift. He falls in lo... + Read More
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Series: The Alford Saga The Deserter Electronic book text, EPUB Paul Almond 9781552443194 $9.99 FICTION Nov 15, 2013

Imagine you’re in a swaying hammock on a British man-o’war around 1800, riding out a harsh spring storm in a deserted estuary. Behind those high red cliffs lie a hundred miles of uncharted wilderness, populated only by ferocious indigenous peoples. If you jump ship and are caught, you will be branded a deserter — subject to death by one thousand lashes. What can you bring to help you survive? Within minutes, the ice-strewn waters will freeze your body and claim your soul. Even if this were your one chance for a life in the New World, would you jump?
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Series: The Alford Saga The Pilgrim Electronic book text, EPUB Paul Almond 9781552443224 $14.99 FICTION Nov 15, 2013

In 1896, young rector Jack Alford is sent to the implacable, granite shores of Labrador on the vast St. Lawrence River. Hazards imperil his life as he travels this harsh 450-mile coastline by boat and dogsled, to visit his far-flung parishioners. Jack also manages to rescue a cook from the crew of a schooner to keep him company on his travels.
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Series: The Alford Saga The Pioneer Electronic book text, EPUB Paul Almond 9781552243213 $9.99 FICTION Nov 15, 2013

The riveting Alford Saga continues with James Alford, the Deserter, battling old age and ferocious winters, but even more crippling, the departure of his son and only heir, Young Jim, who sets out on snowshoes for Montreal, seven hundred miles away. Arriving at last in Montreal, Jim is driven by starvation into a back-breaking job constructing the Victoria Bridge. Jim finds lodgings with an Irish widow in Griffintown, and falls in love. After being deceived in this romance, he rejects the bitter realities of urban life and returns to the Old Ho... + Read More
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Series: The Alford Saga The Survivor Electronic book text, EPUB Paul Almond 9781552443200 $9.99 FICTION Nov 15, 2013

Thomas Manning, branded a deserter from the British Navy, is forced to change his name to James Alford to avoid the death penalty. Determined to forge a new life on the Gaspé Peninsula, he struggles to survive the harsh landscape and win the hand of Catherine Garrett. After working in harsh sub-zero woods, he saves the life of an orphan working in a sawmill, and so gains crucial lumber to build a homestead out of intractable wilderness. But first he must battle murderous brigands to rescue a starving bull calf he hopes will be the first of the ... + Read More
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Combat Doctor Life and Death Stories from Kandahar's Military Hospital Electronic book text, EPUB Marc Dauphin 9781459719286 $8.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 28, 2013

An emergency room doctor recounts harrowing stories about his time at a combat hospital in Kandahar. Combat Doctor presents the stories of the victims of the War in Afghanistan, as told by the last Canadian Officer Commanding at the Kandahar Role 3 Multinational Hospital. In 2009, Marc Dauphin, an experienced emergency-room physician, served a full tour at the combat hospital in Kandahar. During his time there, he dealt with injuries more horrific than he had ever seen during his civilian experience. He and the Role 3 Hospital’s international... + Read More
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Series: A Granville Island Mystery Granville Island Mysteries 2-Book Bundle Depth of Field / Overexposed Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Blair 9781459724037 $14.99 FICTION Oct 21, 2013

Presenting two novels in the Granville Island series by Michael Blair. Commercial photographer Tom McCall sees a lot of Vancouver in his job, but he sees more than he’d like to when murderers strike. Witty and fast-paced, these stories make Canada’s largest Western city as much a character as the criminals lurking therein. In Depth of Field, McCall’s business partner is killed, and in Overexposed a corpse shows up at McCall’s own home."Blair has a great eye for the small details of place, and his view of Vancouver is a delight. McCall and the g... + Read More
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Series: Luc Vanier Series The Dead of Winter Electronic book text, EPUB Peter Kirby 9781927535325 $8.95 FICTION Oct 12, 2013

Inspector Luc Vanier is drinking his way through Christmas Eve when he is called out to investigage the murder of five homeless people. His investigation takes hin into the backrooms of the Catholic Church, the boardrooms of Montreal’s business elite and the soup kitchens and back alleys of street life in winter.
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Series: Luc Vanier Series Vigilante Season Electronic book text, EPUB Peter Kirby 9781927535240 $8.95 FICTION Oct 12, 2013

Inspector Luc Vanier is back, and Montreal's Hochelaga district is in the throes of gentrification. Its drug dealers and prostitutes are disappearing, and Vanier, investigating the brutal death of one, suspects the neighbourhood cleanup may involve murdering the unwanted. The local Police Commander sees only declining crime rates and his improving career prospects, and is willing to go easy on a local militia group that’s expanding its influence. When Vanier is suspended for brutality, he’s on his own. He continues to probe the dark side of pro... + Read More
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Series: Board Books This Little Hamster Electronic book text, EPUB Kass Reich 9781459804128 $8.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 2 Oct 01, 2013

This follow-up to Kass Reich's bestselling debut, Hamsters Holding Hands, is a charming introduction to basic colors that will fascinate little ones. This Little Hamster is a spirited playful board book for babies and toddlers. Rhyming couplets and cheerful illustrations will capture the interest of both child and adult readers.
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Series: Young Adult Novels Audacious Electronic book text, EPUB Gabrielle Prendergast 9781459802667 $9.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Oct 01, 2013

Sixteen-year-old Raphaelle says the wrong thing, antagonizes the wrong people and has the wrong attitude. She can't do anything right except draw, but she draws the wrong pictures. When her father moves the family to a small prairie city, Raphaelle wants to make a new start. Reborn as "Ella," she tries to fit in at her new school. She's drawn to Samir, a Muslim boy in her art class, and expresses her confused feelings in explicit art. When a classmate texts a photo of Ella's art to a younger friend, the fallout spreads throughout Ella's life, t... + Read More
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The Girls of Piazza d'Amore Electronic book text, EPUB Connie Guzzo-McParland 9781927535202 $7.95 FICTION Sep 14, 2013

A quintessential Calabrian love story. The Girls of Piazza d’Amore traces the lives of three village girls and the forces that lead them to leave home for a new life across the ocean. Set in southern Italy in the 1950s, Connie Guzzo-McParland’s short novel walks us through the piazza and the narrow alleys of her own childhood, imaginatively recreating an entire world as seen through the eyes of a young girl who accompanies her friends on their evening passeggiate to the spring water fountain and carries their love notes to the boys they love. ... + Read More
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Canada's Other Game Basketball from Naismith to Nash Electronic book text, EPUB Brian I. Daly 9781459706354 $8.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 09, 2013

The story of Canada’s other game from its invention by a Canadian to its current struggle for popularity. Basketball, the only major world sport undeniably invented by a Canadian, has ironically failed to win Canadians’ hearts more than a century after its creation. James Naismith’s brainchild is a popular recreational pastime in his homeland, but players with bigger dreams had better take their talents south of the border. Canadian hoops has languished in the seemingly eternal shadow of hockey, with its cannibalization of air time, advertising... + Read More
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Needs Improvement Electronic book text, EPUB Jon Paul Fiorentino 9781770563575 $10.95 POETRY Sep 06, 2013

Whether misreading sixth?grade pedagogical materials or offering visual schematics for reading Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Jon Paul Fiorentino'?s sixth poetry collection asks us to reconsider our engagement with received information —?? but does so with a wink during detention, a dodgeball to the gut during recess. 'Needs Improvement is as a book of a new logic making its way from witty statements to slow moving alyric villanelles, achieving brilliantly a contemporary sense of streaming among words, places and "no self." Whether this fe... + Read More
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Series: A Joe Shoe Mystery Joe Shoe 2-Book Bundle The Dells / A Hard Winter Rain Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Blair 9781459723481 $14.99 FICTION Sep 02, 2013

This double edition of the Joe Shoe Mystery series presents Michael Blair’s The Dells and A Hard Winter Rain.
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Hamsters Holding Hands Electronic book text, EPUB Kass Reich 9781459806207 $8.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 2 Sep 01, 2013

Hamsters Holding Hands is an engaging, fun board book targeted toward very young learners. Each page features a different number of playful hamsters accompanied by rhyming text. The illustrations are bright and graphic with lots of humorous details to keep both child and adult engaged. A counting book that takes readers from one to ten, Hamsters Holding Hands is a delight to share with any young child.
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Series: Young Adult Novels So Much It Hurts Electronic book text, EPUB Monique Polak 9781459801387 $9.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Sep 01, 2013

Iris is an aspiring actress, so when Mick, a well-known visiting Aussie director, takes an interest in her, she's flattered. He's fourteen years older, attractive, smart, charming and sexy—in other words, nothing like her hapless ex-boyfriend, Tommy. But when Iris and Mick start a secret relationship, she soon witnesses Mick's darker side, and his temper frightens her. Before long, she becomes the target of his rage, but she makes endless excuses for him. Isolated and often in pain, Iris struggles to continue going to school, where she is prepa... + Read More
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Today, Maybe Electronic book text, EPUB Dominique Demers PhD 9781459806429 $14.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 5 Sep 01, 2013

Today, Maybe is a story about a little girl who is waiting for someone, a friend. She doesn't yet know who it will be. In a series of surprising and humorous encounters, several well-known characters of children's literature arrive at her door. But none of them are the one she is waiting for, and she graciously sends them all away. With her bird to keep her company and hope filling her heart, weeks and then months pass as she waits and waits. When there is a scratch at the door one night, certainty fills the little girl's heart, and she opens t... + Read More
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Fear of a Black Nation Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal 1st edition Electronic book text, EPUB David Austin 9781771130110 $23.95 HISTORY May 27, 2013

In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean—people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. Within months of the Congress, a Black-led protest at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) exploded on the front pages of newspapers acr... + Read More
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The Devil and the Detective Electronic book text, EPUB John Goldbach 9781770563353 $11.95 FICTION Mar 27, 2013

Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a young woman whose older husband has been found with a knife in his chest. Murder, corruption, and betrayal ensue as he's drawn into the dark underworld of his client, but hapless Robert and his sidekick, a flower-delivery guy, can't stop drinking, smoking, and philosophizing long enough to keep up. Imagine The Big Sleep via Fernando Pessoa, with a side of Buster Keaton. 'Goldbach's touch is light and his narrative momentum i... + Read More
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White Piano Electronic book text, EPUB Nicole Brossard 9781770563452 $10.95 POETRY Feb 21, 2013

language I'll say yes from the top of my rib cage language will you come out and unearth the salt the certitude Between the verbs quivering and streaming, White Piano unfolds its variations like musical scores. A play of resonance between pronouns and persons, freely percussive between prose and poetry, and narrating a constellation of questions, White Piano offers readers a 'language that cultivates its own craters of fire and savoir-vie.' 'At once achingly aware of mortality and hell-bound in its determination to press forward, change, and gr... + Read More
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Literature and Painting In Quebec From Imagery to Identity Electronic book text, EPUB William J. Berg 9781442698307 $39.95 ART Feb 04, 2013

This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province. William J. Berg traces recurrent images and themes within these creations through the most significant periods in the development of a Quebecois identity that was threatened initially by the wilderness and indigenous populations, and later by the dominance of British and Americ... + Read More
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Mad Dogs, Midgets and Screw Jobs The Untold Story of how Montreal Shaped the World of Wrestling Electronic book text, EPUB Patric Laprade 9781770902961 $14.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Feb 01, 2013

A fascinating history of one of the hottest wrestling territories of all time Montreal was the proving ground for some of the biggest names in wrestling, including Andre the Giant, Abdullah the Butcher, and the infamous Mad Dog Vachon; it was the site of the first midget battle ever; and made famous worldwide for the infamous Survivor Series screw job that saw Vince McMahon, the Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels, and Bret Hart create the “attitude” that reshaped the business. Mad Dogs, Midgets and Screw Jobs is the ultimate guide to Montreal’... + Read More
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Series: Ballet School Confidential I Forgot to Tell You Ballet School Confidential Electronic book text, EPUB Charis Marsh 9781459704329 $8.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Jan 05, 2013

The students of VIBA face a new ballet, potential scholarships, and increasing drama within the academy. The students of Vancouver International Ballet Academy are preparing to perform the ballet Coppelia. A ballet about dolls, love, and trickery, Coppelia doesn’t have a moral, and neither do the rehearsals. If Taylor, Julian, Alexandra, and Kaitlyn don’t rise to meet the challenges this ballet is putting them through, they might not make it on stage. The dancers might be fully alive, but they have more than enough real-life drama to keep them ... + Read More
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The Stalinist's Wife Electronic book text, EPUB France Théoret 9781550716313 $9.99 FICTION Jan 01, 2013

Louise Aubert leaves Mathieu Lord when he joins the Stalinist party. Fifteen years later, she writes a letter in which she dares express her vision of their common history, marked by authoritarianism, mental cruelty and the absence of sharing in the name of love. In the story that follows this letter, Louise recalls each sequence of her break with Mathieu and exposes the duplicity of the intellectual avant-garde. She also describes how she re-entered society freed from censorship and how she finds the inner strength to speak the truth. La Femme... + Read More
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And the Birds Rained Down Electronic book text, EPUB Jocelyne Saucier 9781770563339 $11.95 FICTION Oct 04, 2012

A CBC Canada Reads 2015 Selection Finalist for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English Translation Deep in a Northern Ontario forest live Tom and Charlie, two octogenarians determined to live out the rest of their lives on their own terms: free of all ties and responsibilities, their only connection to civilization two pot farmers who bring them whatever they can't eke out for themselves. But their solitude is disrupted by the arrival of two women. The first is a photographer searching for survivors of a series of cata... + Read More
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Series: Singles Clerks of the Passage Electronic book text, EPUB Abou Farman 9780987831781 $7.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 12, 2012

Migration stories, says Abou Farman, are often told through the personal struggles and travails of the migrant, the great voyager figure of our most recent centuries, the harbinger of hybridity, the metaphor for risk, sacrifice, toil, abuse, inhumanity. And humanity. These are the stories (both horrific and redemptive) that we hear about in the news, in taxis and airports, in bars and corner coffee shops. They are both real and existential, shared, denied, argued about, internalized. Seldom are the threads of such narratives woven together and... + Read More
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The Apple House Electronic book text, MobiPocket Gillian Campbell 9781926972886 $9.99 FICTION Sep 04, 2012

Anglophone Imogene Jackson grew up in an English suburb on the uneasy edge of a francophone world. At the age of nineteen she quit college to marry a shoemaker from the close-knit French village of Saint-Ange-du-Lac. For ten years she has lived with her husband, Thomas, above his family's historic shoe shop, immersed in village life. When Thomas dies in a car accident, she is shattered and her hard-won mastery of the French language deserts her. Isolated and grief-stricken, she retreats to her childhood home. There she discovers that a petty dr... + Read More
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Series: Orca Currents Pyro Electronic book text, EPUB Monique Polak 9781459802315 $8.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 01, 2012

Ever since he was small, Franklin has been soothed by fire. Staring into the flames helps Franklin forget his problems. And right now, he's got a lot to forget. Franklin's mother has left the family home to be with her hairdresser boyfriend. Franklin's father, the mayor of Montreal West, is too busy worrying about his public image to do anything about the family. As a rash of local fires competes with upcoming elections for media attention, Franklin's father has to work hard to keep the public happy. And Franklin has to reconsider his romance w... + Read More
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Are We On Yet? Insider Secrets on How to be Interviewed (and other essential media skills) Electronic book text, EPUB Tommy Schnurmacher 9780987831798 $8.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Aug 25, 2012

The book you hold in your hand – or the e-book that you have just downloaded – is short and concise. Are We On Yet? is an insider’s look at what the interviewer – any interviewer – REALLY wants. And it comes with the author’s personal money-back guarantee –detailed in Chapter 20.
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Series: Ballet School Confidential You're So Sweet Ballet School Confidential Electronic book text, EPUB Charis Marsh 9781459704190 $8.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Aug 11, 2012

As the second semester at the Vancouver International Ballet Academy approaches, how will four maturing dancers face the new challenges that await them? The Vancouver International Ballet Academy has opened its doors after the winter break, and everyone is back! Julian is finding it difficult to concentrate on dance because of his family; his teachers think he could be great if he could just focus. Kaitlyn believes she’s the best dancer, but her body type is getting in the way of her (and her mother’s) dance ambitions, tempting her to lie. Ale... + Read More
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Final Table A Winning Poker Approach from a WSOP Champion Electronic book text, EPUB Jonathan Duhamel 9781770903173 $12.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Sep 01, 2012

A poker champ shares the story behind his biggest win What makes a World Series of Poker Main Event champion? Is it knowledge of math or psychology? Is it the ability to determine other players’ hands? In Jonathan Duhamel’s Final Table, discover what it takes to win $8.9 million in one tournament. Duhamel takes readers through crucial game moments and traces his strategic thinking. Should he go all-in? Should he fold? What is the right balance between risk and caution? Duhamel reveals the specific qualities winning poker players need. ... + Read More
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The Darling of Kandahar Electronic book text, EPUB Felicia Mihali 9780987831712 $7.95 FICTION May 05, 2012

In 2007, a Canadian soldier stationed in Kandahar sent a letter to Maclean's magazine thanking the editors for the cover of their annual University Student Edition, which featured a young Canadian woman of Romanian descent, who had become the new pin-up girl for the soldier and his comrades. Headlines flashed "The Darling of Kandahar," inspiring Romanian-Canadian writer Felicia Mihali’s first novel in English.