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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Long White Sickness, The Paperback Cecilia Frey 9781926708904 $22.95 FICTION May 30, 2013

On a remote lonely mountain, Constance skis toward her death and Harry Weinstein loses himself in an avalanche. Meanwhile, back in the city, Gully Jillson is the suspect in the investigation of a murder that has taken place in Constance's high-rise condo. The collision of this strange ménage a trois is at the heart of Cecelia Frey's latest novel of love and death, sex and life. Complicating matters for Constance in her pursuit of a recalcitrant and perfidious muse are the ongoing intrusions of Sgt. Rock, homicide detective with ulterior motives... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Peacock in the Snow Paperback Anubha Mehta 9781771335577 $22.95 FICTION Sep 20, 2018

Born to privilege and wed to her high school sweetheart Veer, a free spirited Maya feels trapped in a conventional upper class family with patriarchal expectations in India. Claustrophobic within the dark walls of the mansion she lives in with Veer, Maya starts living precariously through the threads of her curiosity. This curiosity leads Maya to unearth a dark family secret, a brutal ancestral murder which begins to haunt her and also affect her new marriage.To escape the malicious spirits lingering in the house, Maya and her family fly to a ... + Read More
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Series: Coming to Canada Paperback Starkie Mak 9781988168562 $21.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 25, 2021

With sensitivity and tenderness, Starkie Mak has captured a tale of the immigrant experience, from the eyes of a child. Masterfully rendered with careful homage paid the children's books that have touched the hearts of so many, Mak's brush strokes and calligraphy evoke the turbulent emotions and difficulties a child must surely experience when having their little world upended, only to have a much larger and foreign world unfold before them.In a heartbreaking parting, a child says goodbye to her family and is left with her imagination as guide.... + Read More
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Series: The Undertaking of Billy Buffone Paperback David Giuliano 9781988989334 $22.95 FICTION Apr 17, 2021

The Undertaking of Billy Buffone is a story about the trauma - immediate and ongoing, personal and collateral - inflicted by Rupert Churley, who preyed on boys in Twenty-Six Mile House, an isolated town in northern Ontario. The suicides, the conspiracy of silence, the secrets and the damage done to the boys, their friends and families, persist long after the murder of Scouter Churley.
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Series: The Wintermen Paperback Brit Griffin 9780995823556 $20.00 FICTION Sep 30, 2018

The Wintermen is a near-future western, with snow machines riding into town and a showdown in the snow. Johnny Slaught and his Algonquin buddy Chumboy Commando didn't set out to lead one of the most notorious bands of rebels in recent history. But after the world descended into climate change chaos, the government did some serious triage, forcing wide-scale evacuations and abandoning rural areas to the non-stop snow. Soon enough, Slaught is forced by circumstance to stand up the the muscle of TALOS Security Corporation, setting in motion a rebe... + Read More
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Series: Wintermen II, The Into the Deep Dark Paperback Brit Griffin 9781988989006 $22.95 FICTION Apr 30, 2018

The nightmare of an endless winter is the least of the problems for Johnny Slaught and his rag tag group of climate chaos refugees. They've been surviving in a frontier town abandoned by a government that has lost control -- but their world is about to be rocked by the greatest menace of all -- human greed. Into the Deep Dark is the second in Brit Griffin's eco-catastrophic adventure series the Wintermen. The north is full of ancient legends of violence, fear and madness that descended on isolated communities in the darkness of winter. For Jo... + Read More
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Series: The Wintermen III: At the End of the World Paperback Brit Griffin 9781988989242 $22.95 FICTION Oct 25, 2020

Life after climate catastrophe is a dystopian nightmare Brit Griffin's series The Wintermen wraps up as Johnny Slaught tangles with new Talos strongman Eton Love over who the future belongs to: the people and the land, or the same old capitalist profiteers. With a slim promise of spring on the horizon, megalomaniac Love is gearing up for a cut and run replay of business as usual, and that means grabbing the wealth that lies within the Wintermen's territory. But the forests, deep snows, and wolves, have a different idea about the fate of the nor... + Read More
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Series: Luc Vanier Series, The Dead of Winter, The Paperback Peter Kirby 9781927535318 $14.95 FICTION Sep 21, 2013

Inspector Luc Vanier is drinking his way through Christmas Eve when he is called out to investigate the murder of five homeless people. His investigation takes him 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, The Open Season Paperback Peter Kirby 9781927535783 $16.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2015

A Guatemalan journalist is kidnapped, and the only message from her kidnappers is the murder of her lawyer. In a race against time, Luc Vanier sets about reconstructing her life, through the sordid world of human trafficking, the secretive underbelly of a multinational mining corporation, and the hiding places of desperate refugees. When Vanier is brutally warned off the investigation, he throws away the rule book and goes after the villains with a vengeance.
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Series: White Out Paperback Martine Delvaux 9781773900018 $16.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

White Out is at first glance a woman?s invention, over and over again, of the man who chose not to be her father, leaving his young lover pregnant. Yet, arcing from late-1960s Quebec to the present, it is also the story of a young woman, and a generation of young women, caught between Catholicism and free love. Martine Delvaux?s aching take on her own origin story is a book about words lost in a lifetime of storms, about truth and fiction, a book about how something as seemingly commonplace as parentage can undermine everything?confidence, rela... + Read More
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Series: Back Roads Paperback Ted Ferguson 9781897126219 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 15, 2008

After collapsing from stress in a posh Vancouver restaurant, Ted Ferguson decides to abandon his workaholic lifestyle and move his family to the secluded back roads of Northern Alberta, where electricity and indoor plumbing are a luxury and surviving another winter is a blessing. With his wife and young son in tow, Ted rebuilds his life surrounded by a close-knit community while encountering, among other unique characters, a vengeful dentist, a barefoot farmer living in a hillside dugout, and a store clerk who could very well be Canada's most d... + Read More
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Series: Seal Intestine Raincoat Paperback Rosie Chard 9781897126448 $19.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2009

After a severe winter storm and extended power failure, thousands become trapped in their homes during one of the coldest weeks of the year. For one small group of people, thrown together by catastrophe, a state of anxiety and claustrophobia follows as they discover no precautions have been made for a disaster of this magnitude. When the dark and cold continues, endurance turns to despair and plans for survival begin to emerge as Fred, a fifteen-year-old boy from England, is forced to take charge in unpredictable ways. Alongside its bleak portr... + Read More
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Series: Restless White Fields Paperback Barbara Langhorst 9781897126790 $14.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2012

On May 26, 1991, Barbara Langhorst's father shot and killed her mother, then turned the gun on himself.Restless White Fields asks: how do you rebuild a life? In this unsentimental collection of poems, Barbara Langhorst revisits personal horrors few of us can imagine, with startling imagery that rends even as it heals.
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Series: A Chris Ryder Thriller Killer Trail, The Paperback D.B. Carew 9781927063521 $15.95 FICTION May 15, 2014

When Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder spots an abandoned cell phone during his afternoon jog, the innocent discovery drags him into the psychotic games of Ray Owens, a former patient at the centre of a high-profile kidnapping and murder case. Now, if Ryder is to survive, he must examine the darkness in his own soul as he walks the killer trail.Shortlisted for the 2013 Debut Dagger Award by the Crime Writers Association, D.B. Carew's first novel is a gripping thriller that approaches crime with a clinical precision.
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Series: Fifty Percent of Mountaineering is Uphill The Life of Canadian Mountain Rescue Pioneer Willi Pfisterer Paperback Susanna Pfisterer 9781926455600 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 15, 2016

Winner of the 2017 Alberta Readers' Choice Award! is the enthralling true story of Jasper's Willi Pfisterer, a legend in the field of mountaineering and safety in the Rocky Mountains. For more than thirty years, Willi was an integral part of Jasper's alpine landscape, guiding climbers up to the highest peaks, and rescuing them from perilous situations. Originally from Austria, this mountain man came to Canada in the 1950s to assail the Rockies, and stayed to become an integral part of mountain safety in Western Canada and the Yukon.His daughter... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series Melting Queen, The Paperback Bruce Cinnamon 9781988732503 $20.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2019

Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize--Literary Fiction Category!Shortlisted for Best Speculative Fiction at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Shortlisted for Best Book Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Second Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen--a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who mus... + Read More
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Series: Arctic Smoke Paperback Randy Schroeder 9781988732701 $20.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2019

Shortlisted for Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, ageing punk Lor Kowalski is unsure of his sanity. He is haunted by hallucinogens and harbingers, strung out on broken stories that he cannot piece together into a lucid whole. Forced to join his old band from a life he'd rather forget, he is dragged north under the spell of a mysterious ad for an Arctic festival tour. As the band members unspool across the surreal snowscapes and frozen wastelands, rogue CSIS agents are hot on their... + Read More
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Series: Little Russia Paperback Francis Desharnais 9782924049587 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 30, 2020

Guyenne is a small village north-east of Amos. Unlike other communities in Abitibi, Guyenne is a cooperative: 50% of all the money its inhabitants make goes to developing the colony. People in the vicinity have a nickname for it: they call it "Little Russia." Inspired by the story of his grandparents, who lived in Guyenne from 1948 to 1968, Little Russia sees author Francis Desharnais delving into his own family's past to explore Quebec's rural heritage through the lens of both grassroots socialism and early feminism. An intimate story of epic ... + Read More
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Series: Night Work The Sawchuk Poems Paperback Randall Maggs 9781771314947 $20.00 POETRY Jan 15, 2018

A new edition of a hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the "intense, moody, contradictory" character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies. Denied the leap and dash up the ice, what goalies know is side to side, an inwardness of monk and cell. They scrape. They sweep. Their eyes are elsewhere as they contemplate their narrow place. Like saints, they pray for nothing, which brings grace. Off-days, what they want is space. They sit apart in bars. They know the length of streets in twenty cities. But it's their saving sense of irony ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Pineapple Kisses in Iqaluit Paperback Felicia Mihali 9781771835886 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2021

Ten years after her picture on a magazine cover made her nationally famous as The Darling of Kandahar, Irina moves up North hoping that new experiences would allow old wounds to finally heal. Yet, in the land of darkness and polar bears, she learns that there really is no place to hide from herself. When she meets Constable Liam O’Connor, her past comes out to challenge her once again.
21.
Series: They Call Me Chief Warriors on Ice Paperback Don Marks 9781897289341 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 31, 2008

They Call Me Chief tells the fascinating stories of native athletes who overcame tremendous obstacles to star in the National Hockey League. From Fred Sasakamoose (Chief Running Deer on Skates), the first Indian to play in the NHL who overcame the abuse of Canada's residential school system, to Reggie Leach (The Riverton Rifle) whose battle with the bottle kept him out of the Hockey Hall of Fame, They Call Me Chief chronicles the journeys of North America's most famous "warriors on ice" as they battle racism, culture shock, isolation and other ... + Read More
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Series: Forgotten Heroes WinnipegÕs Hockey Heritage Paperback Richard Brignall 9781897289655 $24.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 06, 2011

Ladies and Gentlemen, lace up your skates. In these pages find the origins of Canadian hockey and the birth of internation hockey. This book is about hockey all over North America and is a tribute to our widely forgotten heroes, because remember, hockey began here, in Manitoba. From amateur sport to pros, we couldnÕt be prouder of our heritage. Richard Brignall has chronicled this incredible history. He draws a picture of Êthe pioneer Manitoban and Canadian athlete from before the turn of the century Êto when the game caught fire everywhere.Let... + Read More
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Series: Behind the Face of Winter Paperback H Nigel Thomas 9780920661956 $22.95 FICTION Jan 01, 2001

A coming-of-age novel set in a Montreal in which immigrant youth totter on the edge of self-destruction and oblivion, in the face of brutal and racist police, an insensitive education system, and few prospects for the future. Thomas's language is spare, and his crackling dialogue and use of patois can compare with the best in Caribbean literature.
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Series: Adrift Paperback Loren Edizel 9781894770736 $22.95 FICTION Oct 31, 2011

John arrives in a Montreal airport with a suitcase in hand. We do not know where he is from, or who he is. The novel sets out to explore his identity by following his daily movements and intimate thoughts, as well as his connections to those coming into contact with him. He writes his own reflections and impressions in a notebook which he carries with him at all times. The story unfolds through non-linear narrative connections that flow across city blocks, continents and oceans, and meander in and out of characters' minds, dealing with question... + Read More
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Series: Rudley Mysteries, The Many Unpleasant Returns A Rudley Mystery 1st edition Paperback Judith Alguire 9781927426579 $16.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

Everyone at the Pleasant Inn is looking forward to a very merry Christmas. Oh, irascible proprietor Trevor Rudley has his usual complaints about Mrs. Blount's non-traditional floral arrangements. And he’s sure he won’t like housekeeper Tiffany’s new beau, Dan Thornton, who's a writer, of all things. But it’s Christmas. The guests are excitedly preparing the Christmas pageant and chef Gregoire is spoiling everyone with his delightful cuisine. There's a snowstorm on the way, but Trevor and Margaret Rudley have everything under control. Surely not... + Read More
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Series: A Maples Mystery Cat Between, The 1st edition Paperback Louise Carson 9781773240497 $16.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

Trying to beat the mid-winter blahs by snowshoeing and cross country skiing when she?s not teaching art history at a local college (or being driven crazy by her numerous cats, cooped up in her rambling old country home), Gerry Coneybear thinks she has her busy life under control. That is, until she rescues her neighbour?s injured cat. Then a body pops up where she?d least expect it. And she even knows the victim ? slightly. From gossiping with friends to discussing events while baking at home with her housekeeper Prudence, Gerry manages to pick... + Read More
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Series: A Roxanne Calloway Mystery And We Shall Have Snow Paperback Raye Anderson 9781773240664 $17.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Aug 01, 2020

New to the RCMP's Major Crimes Unit, Corporal Roxanne Calloway is keen to make her mark. She's young and ambitious. But when she's called from the big city to tiny Cullen Village to lead the investigation into the death of the talented but devious star of the local music scene--discovered frozen and dismembered at the local dump--she finds much to contend with. The close-knit community does not give up its secrets willingly. Barely has she begun her investigation when another very dead, very frozen body disturbs the rural peace. In the summer ... + Read More
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Series: Let Go 1st edition Paperback Mark Huebner 9780889844391 $26.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 31, 2021

A story of travail and triumph, Mark Huebner's wordless novel Let Go follows a laid-off ad man struggling to carry the deadweight of his past as he labours through a blizzard toward an unknown future.