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Series: Love Hurries This Paperback Hamish Guthrie 9781988168678 $24.95 POETRY Nov 15, 2022

In this accomplished first collection, Hamish Guthrie is inspired by past people, places and experiences. The poet recollects travelling to his wife's hometown of Montana and back to the streets of Toronto where he grew up, and his childhood summers spent on a farm just outside of Guelph, where the wildlife opened up like a unique world unto itself.Ideas, phrases, and journal notes beg for further study and experimentation, culminating in shape that becomes a poem. These poems are also often a reply, directly or indirectly, to poems read.Love ... + Read More
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Series: The Loyal Daughter Paperback Nancy Lam 9781988168654 $24.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2022

The Loyal Daughter is a novel in stories, told from the perspective of mother, daughter, and granddaughter and spans the 1940s to modern day. A young woman in a village in Communist China finds herself scrapping her way through the crowded streets of Hong Kong. She immigrates to an isolated Northern Ontario city and finally settling in Toronto. When she finds herself stuck in a small apartment above a clothing store, with four kids, her mother, two siblings, and a husband who is never home, the promise of a new beginning fades. Filled with hear... + Read More
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Series: Pistachios in My Pocket Paperback Sareh Farmand 9781988168692 $24.95 POETRY Oct 25, 2022

Poet Sareh Farmand was born in Tehran at the start of the Islamic Revolution. In this brave first collection of poems and prose a narrative arc details her family's escape from Iran, detailing their time as immigrants in limbo, and finally, as Landed Immigrants in Canada. Using family anecdotes, memory, public documents, and images to outline her family's story, Pistachios in my Pocket moves from the personal to the universal by exploring the influences of migration, political strife, and cultural identity on humanity. Here is a new voice to th... + Read More
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Series: Something's Burning Paperback Janet Trull 9781988168685 $24.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2022

Following on the heels of her critically acclaimed first collection Hot Town and Other Stories an examination of relationships within communities continues in this new collection of short fiction, Something's Burning. The twenty-first century speeds ahead with fast-changing ideas about culture and identity, and a new choir of voices are telling their long-suppressed stories. Outdated belief systems are challenged. Society norms and hierarchies crumble. But fresh ideas cause tension between generations, sexes, races and neighbours. The populatio... + Read More
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Series: Overhead Trees Paperback Lucy Hemphill 9781988168289 $24.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2022

In this final installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Hemphill once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the forest and the quiet sentinels that root together everything. Hemphill's prose is extraordinary in its combination of self awareness yet unselfconscious honesty and skillful restraint, creating a sense of connection under the tangle of foliage and limb that ever-reach skyward. Masterfully illustrated by artist Michael Joyal, his evocative dendrolo... + Read More
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Series: An Artist's Journey Paperback Mizouni Bannani 9781772311761 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Oct 01, 2022

An Artist's Journey emphasises the values of loyalty and belonging to one's homeland, speaking to teens in an eloquent and beautiful language while raising contemporary issues of immigration and problems faced by expatriates, as well as the value of art and cultural integration. It is a captivating story told by an enlightened grandmother in the Hakawati style. She uses sound effects, masks and drawing tools while narrating the tale. Told from the perspective of small and colourful birds, the story is a miniature example of desired civic life ... + Read More
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Series: Le voyage de l'artiste Paperback Mizouni Bannani 9781772311785 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Nov 01, 2022

An Artist's Journey emphasises the values of loyalty and belonging to one's homeland, speaking to teens in an eloquent and beautiful language while raising contemporary issues of immigration and problems faced by expatriates, as well as the value of art and cultural integration. It is a captivating story told by an enlightened grandmother in the Hakawati style. She uses sound effects, masks and drawing tools while narrating the tale. Told from the perspective of small and colourful birds, the story is a miniature example of desired civic life ... + Read More
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Series: The Boy Who Saw the Colour of Air Paperback Abdo Wazen 9781772311808 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 15, 2022

Growing up in a small Lebanese village, Bassim's blindness limits his engagement with the materials taught in his schools. Despite his family's love and support, his opportunities seem limited. At thirteen years old, Bassim leaves his village to join the Institute for the Blind in a Beirut suburb. There, he comes alive. He learns Braille and discovers talents he didn't know he had. Bassim is empowered by his newfound abilities to read and write. Thanks to his newly developed self-confidence, Bassim decides to take a risk and submit a short stor... + Read More
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Series: Le garçon qui a vu la couleur de l'air Paperback Abdo Wazen 9781772311839 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Nov 15, 2022

Growing up in a small Lebanese village, Bassim's blindness limits his engagement with the materials taught in his schools. Despite his family's love and support, his opportunities seem limited. At thirteen years old, Bassim leaves his village to join the Institute for the Blind in a Beirut suburb. There, he comes alive. He learns Braille and discovers talents he didn't know he had. Bassim is empowered by his newfound abilities to read and write. Thanks to his newly developed self-confidence, Bassim decides to take a risk and submit a short stor... + Read More
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Series: Modern Indigenous Voices Faller Paperback Jules Delorme 9781772311747 $19.95 POETRY Nov 15, 2022

Faller mixes Roshoman style storytelling with traditional stories to describe the meeting, or juxtapositions, of a few characters on a Reservation. All of these characters are damaged in one way or the other. Faller is not narrative so much as bursts and flashes. It is not about what happens as much as moments in time. The stories fall together rather than follow each other. Faller is dark and funny in places, less sane and rational than yearning. Haunted. Not like every other book, Faller is the first work by an old young Indigenous writer, no... + Read More
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Series: Morning Song's Grateful Garden Paperback Randy Morin 9781772311822 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Oct 15, 2022

Morning Song is a Cree girl who lives on a reserve. She does not like to eat vegetables because she thinks they are not important and do not taste good. One day, she goes on a walk and stumbles upon a magic garden where vegetables can talk. Morning Song meets carrots, cabbage, cucumbers, potatoes, pumpkins and other vegetables which explain her why each of them is an important part of a healthy diet. The book teaches children about importance of eating healthy, and living a happy and active lifestyle.
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Series: Outbreak Diaries March 2020 to Sept 2021 Paperback Jason Turner 9781927742495 $25.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Dec 01, 2022

Outbreak Diaries is an autobiographical series of diary style comics that take place from early in the COVID-19 Pandemic through to 2021 when vaccines were being widely distributed. The story is told from the perspective of a household where both members were working in essential services throughout the duration of the pandemic. This story presents first-person experiences from a frontline worker and his thoughts and impressions of the changes in the world, more specifically Vancouver. This memoir is very personal yet relatable.
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Series: Call Me Bill Paperback Lynette Richards 9781772620788 $18.00 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 - 16 Sep 13, 2022

A gorgeously illustrated historical graphic novel based on a real person who, defying gender expectations, left home in search of adventure and a more authentic life.It was April 1, 1873. In the middle of the night, Sarah Jane spotted flares off the coast of her island home. She woke her father, who quickly gathered their neighbours. Over the next several hours, rescuers pulled 429 traumatized survivors out of the wreckage of the SS Atlantic, a White Star Line passenger steamship. But 535 people didn't survive, including Bill, a sailor. However... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum25 CONDOLADY Paperback Elisabeth Belliveau 9781772620764 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 13, 2022

Everything changes, even when time stands stillElisabeth Belliveau spent two years in Amiskwaciwâskahikan / Edmonton social distancing in a 680-square foot condo. Fueled by increased espresso consumption, food delivery, and twenty-year-old Cindy Crawford workout videos, Belliveau attends endless online meetings and teaches so many virtual art classes that they all start to blend together. But even in pandemic times, life goes on, and Belliveau soon finds herself navigating much bigger challenges--like pregnancy and tenure.In CONDOLADY, award-wi... + Read More
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Series: Heartless Paperback Nina Bunjevac 9781772620801 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 15, 2023

Nina Bunjevac's brilliant debut graphic novel returns in this expanded 10th Anniversary paperback edition.Featuring 30 pages of new material and powered by an expressive black and white drawing style, reminiscent of Robert Crumb and the meticulous pointillist technique of Drew Friedman, the dark undertone of Bunjevac's humour brings into light the range of socio-political issues her comics deal with, such as gender, nationalism or urban alienation, always from an ironic feminist perspective.In the decade since her ground-breaking first edition,... + Read More
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Series: Kwändǖr Paperback Cole Pauls 9781772620771 $25.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 15, 2022

Indigenous Voices Award winner Cole Pauls returns with a robust collection of stories that celebrate the cultural practices and experiences of Dene and Arctic peoples.Gathering Pauls's comics from magazines, comic festivals and zine making workshops, these comics are his most personal work yet. You'll learn stories about the author's family, racism and identity, Yukon history, winter activities, Southern Tutchone language lessons and cultural practices.Have you ever wanted to learn how to Knuckle Hop? or to acknowledge and respect the Indigenou... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum25 Sasha Strong Paperback Kim Edgar 9781772620740 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 13, 2022

Sometimes illness is invisibleWhat happens when you're still technically muscular and strong, but using your strength causes you extreme pain and fatigue? What happens when doctors ignore you because, on paper, you're perfectly healthy, even though you still feel terrible?Sasha Strong is a lighthearted comic about a strong, peppy young woman with a mysterious illness, by award-winning comic artist Kim Edgar.
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Series: Conundrum25 We Were Younger Once Paperback Kiona Callihoo Ligvoet 9781772620757 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 12, 2022

Kiona--or Kiwi, as her family calls her--grew up living with her moshom (grandpa) and a revolving door of relatives on scrip land. Affectionately called "the farm", Kiwi shares a small portion of her home-a spot where she played with her cousins, daydreamed about her future, listened to her families' stories across generations, and learned about the complexities of heartbreak.In We Were Younger Once, artist Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet follows a non-linear series of mini memories of growing up as a dirt kid on the prairies, the wistfulness of leavin... + Read More
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Series: Ojibwe History Series Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings Paperback Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch 9781928120353 $25.00 HISTORY Oct 01, 2022

Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings is the second book in a series by renowned Ojibwe storyteller Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, following on The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories (2019). Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings is a collection of traditional Ojibwe/Anishinaabe stories transliterated directly from Murdoch's oral storytelling. Part history, legend, and mythology, these are stories of tradition, magic and transformation, morality and object lessons, involving powerful spirit-beings in serpent form. The stories appear in both ... + Read More
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Series: Silence to Strength Writings and Reflections on the 60s Scoop Paperback Christine Smith 9781928120339 $18.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 19, 2022

From the 1960s through the 1980s the Canadian Children's Aid Society engaged in a large-scale program of removing First Nations children from their families and communities and adopting them out to non-Indigenous families. This systemic abduction of untold thousands of children came to be known as the Sixties Scoop. The lasting disruption from the loss of family and culture is only now starting to be spoken of publicly, as are stories of strength and survivance.In Silence to Strength: Writings and Reflections on the 60s Scoop, editor Christine ... + Read More
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Series: Leading the Pack 50 Years of Sudbury Wolves History Paperback Scott Miller 9781988989495 $29.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 24, 2022

This definitive history chronicles over fifty years of Sudbury Wolves history, incorporating both historical documents and interviews with players, staff and others closely involved with the franchise over the years. It covers the big wins, heartbreaking losses, rise of future National Hockey League stars, colourful personalities, and devoted fans who have played their part in shaping the history of the Sudbury Wolves. Illustrated with historical photos and modern images, Leading the Pack: 50 Years of Sudbury Wolves History celebrates one of No... + Read More
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Series: Pine Bugs and 303's Paperback Ernie Louttit 9781988989518 $22.95 FICTION Oct 22, 2022

Pine Bugs and .303s is the story of two families in Northwestern Ontario. Elmer Wabason, a Cree man and Gilbert Bertrand, a white man grew up three miles apart. Until World War II they had never met. The town and the reserve are separated by the newly named Trans-Canada Highway. A fast-paced story uncovering the bond of soldiers, the strength of women, the impact of racism and resilience. The families endure disaster, deceit and corruption. They achieve many firsts even though the odds seem stacked against them at almost every turn. The search ... + Read More
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Series: Sisu's Winter War Paperback Liisa Kovala 9781988989471 $22.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2022

When memories threaten to disappear, past promises must be confronted.Meri Saari made a promise to her dying mother she would keep the family together, but she was too young to know how a war can pull people apart. As a teenager responsible for her siblings she finds herself following her father to the front lines during the Winter War when he goes missing in action. Forty years later, living in northern Ontario, Meri's past and present collide when she is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. Responsible for her granddaughter, and navigating... + Read More
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Series: Bloom / Until Paperback Nelson Ball 9781771262828 $18.00 POETRY Nov 15, 2022

Nelson Ball was a poet, publisher, and bookseller, the author of several dozen poetry collections during his lifetime. His partner of over four decades, Barbara Caruso, was a visual artist, publisher, and poet who never published a full book of poems. Bloom / Until comprises Caruso's first book, bringing together nearly all the linear poems she wrote, and Ball's final collection of new poems, gathering work from the last few years of his life, including his unfinished long poem "Palliative Care," about Barbara's final months. Two artists who la... + Read More
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Series: Essays in the face of uncertainies Paperback rob mclennan 9781771262835 $18.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 15, 2022

This suite of pandemic essays exist within those first one hundred days of original lockdown, marking time through moments, anxieties and the elasticity of time itself. What are days, weeks, months? In this stunning collection of deeply personal essays, Ottawa writer rob mclennan wanders through literature, parenting, family, the constant barrage of cable news and the slow loss of his widower father across the swirling, simultaneous anxieties and uncertainties of an increasing sense of isolation.
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Series: Ghost Walk Paperback Anton Pooles 9781771262842 $18.00 POETRY Nov 15, 2022

In Ghost Walk, Anton Pooles develops a mythology of self in order to give substance to his undetermined origins. He does so through the lens of parable in poems that present strange creatures and uncanny phenomena, positing that "all children know the orphanage is alive." Both spare and dreamlike, Ghost Walk is a poetic triumph that manifests identity through art.
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Series: Pronounced / Workable Paperback Candace de Taeye 9781771262644 $17.00 POETRY Nov 15, 2022

In Pronounced/Workable many of the poems draw from pre-hospital care medical protocols, standards and legislative acts as well as colloquial quotes of patients, literary reference, graffiti, signage and other texts. It hopes to mimic the fast paced collage and varied tonality that a 12 hour shift in the city produces. Food, opportunistic creatures, tragedy and apathy are recurring themes, as well as many Toronto-specific landmarks. Some later poems reflect on the medicalization of the poets own female body through the use of personal medical re... + Read More
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Series: A "Hammerhead" Jed Mystery, A, A Five Moves of Doom Paperback A.J. Devlin 9781774390559 $22.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2022

Hired by local mixed martial arts trainer Elijah Lennox to find a missing UFC Championship belt, pro-wrestler PI "Hammerhead" Jed must extract answers from the tight-knit MMA community. Still consuming his weight in banana milkshakes, Jed ventures into a world of jewel thieves, bodybuilders, eccentric yoga enthusiasts, and adorable baby goats. As he infiltrates an exclusive and unique no-holds-barred fight club, Jed might just find himself down for the count ...Five Moves of Doom is a high-altitude and high-attitude entry in A.J. Devlin's award... + Read More
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Series: Ghosts in a Photograph A Chronical Paperback Myrna Kostash 9781774390573 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2022

In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn of the twentieth century. Discovering a packet of family mementos, Kostash begins questioning what she knows about her extended families' pasts and whose narrative is allowed to prevail in Canada.This memoir, however, is not just a personal story, but a public one of immigration, partisan allegiance, and the stark differences in how two sets of familie... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry How to Hold a Pebble Paperback Jaspreet Singh 9781774390535 $20.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2022

How do we scale up our imagination of the human? How does one live one's life in the Anthropocene?How to Hold a Pebble--Jaspreet Singh's second collection of poems--locates humans in the Anthropocene, while also warning against the danger of a single story. These pages present intimate engagements with memory, place, language, migration; with enchantment, uncanniness, uneven climate change and everyday decolonization; with entangled human/non-human relationships and deep anxieties about essential/non-essential economic activities. The poems exp... + Read More
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Series: There Are Wolves Here Too Paperback Niall Howell 9781774390597 $23.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2022

Spilt blood whets the appetite of a ravine at the heart of Haddington Springs, a bedroom community with a closet full of bones.It's 1997, and Robin and his two best friends, Steph and Dylan, are ready to dive into their first summer as teenagers. But when Catherine, a classmate's younger sister, disappears, Robin finds his carefree life of mall arcades, soccer, and slasher movies swapped out for one of paranoia, guilt, and confusion. While parents form search parties and police chase vaporous leads, Robin becomes convinced that there is a dark... + Read More
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Series: Tracking the Caribou Queen Memoir of a Settler Girlhood Paperback Margaret Macpherson 9781774390610 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 15, 2022

In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the '60s and '70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined microaggressions, and how her childhood was shaped by the colonialism and systemic racism that continues today. Macpherson's father, first a principal and later a federal government administrator, oversaw education in the NWT, including the high school Margaret attended with its attached hostel: a residential facility mostly housing Indigenous children.Ringing with da... + Read More
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Series: Closer, The Paperback Jason Smith 9781989689417 $24.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2022

After snorting up his first-overall pick money and wrapping his Ferrari around a telephone pole, Casey's baseball days are unambiguously over before they've even begun. That is, until the general manager of his hometown Toronto Blue Birds pays him a surprise visit, making an unlikely offer. The team is eager for Casey to sign, but on one condition: he is to be the personal catcher for the team's star closer, Phil Reardon, a seven-foot-tall lumberjack of a man with a bad attitude and even worse manners. The two form a pact: Reardon will help Cas... + Read More
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Series: Facing the Sweating Horse Paperback Calvin White 9781989689424 $19.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2022

Facing the Sweating Horse is a collection of poems written from the perspective that the foundation of life is connection and, thus, the purpose of life is to recognize that connection. Our connectedness resides in how we share each moment, whether we notice that moment or not. 'We' means not only our fellow humans--all with the same bodies and emotions and dreams--but all of our fellow species, and the rocks and the water, the air and the light, that grace our finite days. Both lithe and wise, Facing the Sweating Horse is to face life in its m... + Read More
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Series: Safety in Bear Country Paperback Heather Paul 9781989689394 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2022

By turns funny, savage, poetic and heartbreaking, Safety in Bear Country follows Serena, a recent graduate from art school who thought she'd have it all figured out and be making a comfortable living as an artist, but instead finds herself dumped by her boyfriend and back in her parents' basement in the backwater town she couldn't wait to leave. The year is 1994: miserable and lost in the dark forest of her early twenties, Serena takes a job with her small town's main employer, an institution for people with developmental disabilities. When one... + Read More
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Series: See You Later Maybe Never Paperback Lenore Rowntree 9781989689400 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2022

Her name is Vanessa and she's pissed off with getting old. Forced out of her high fashion job in Toronto, Vanessa freewheels into the rapid destruction of her long and comfortable marriage which in turn sends her on a comical retreat to a holistic campus on a far-flung island. There she grapples with being a single, childless woman closing in on sixty who only now realizes that she never finished breaking up with the wild bass player she met in Victoria decades earlier. Forced to confront her past, we see Vanessa as a twelve-year-old playing wi... + Read More
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Series: All the World's a Wonder Paperback Melia McClure 9781989274798 $25.00 FICTION Mar 15, 2023

A playwright possessed by her muses, an actress desperate to succeed, and a doctor hauntedby a lost love. Three people cross time and space to meet through the playwright's bizarrecreative process: to create, the playwright must become her characters; to tell her tragic story,the actress must speak from the grave; to heal his harrowing past, the doctor must surrender tohis patient - the playwright.
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Series: Danceland Diary Paperback dee Hobsbawn-Smith 9781989274828 $22.00 FICTION Oct 18, 2022

Luka Dekker and her sister Connie are the inheritors of a secretive and disturbing family history going back three generations to the disappearance of their great-grandfather. Their troubledmother, Lark, also mysteriously disappeared; and their beloved grandmother, who raised thetwo girls, had a life haunted by a traumatic event that is only revealed after her death. The story unfolds against a backdrop of the drug-fueled Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and the horrific pig farm murders, the seductive beauty of rural Saskatchewan, and the glitte... + Read More
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Series: Murder at San Miguel Paperback Danee Wilson 9781989274767 $22.00 FICTION Sep 30, 2022

Archaeological illustrator, Beatrix Forster, accompanies her husband, retired archaeology professor, William Forster, to excavate the cemetery at San Miguel in Excelsis, an isolated medieval sanctuary in the mountains of northern Spain. Bill's former student, now a priest in Navarre, has enticed them out of comfortable retirement with the rumor that the infamous medieval knight and founder of the sanctuary, Teodosio de Goñi, may be buried at the church. Despite initial misgivings about working in Spain under the shadow of Franco's dictatorship,... + Read More
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Series: Loudest Bark, The Paperback Gail Schwartz 9781989996126 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 10 Sep 01, 2022

Samuel knows that their real name is Simone, but things at their house are too quiet to think about how to tell their parents. When Chloe the costume designer moves in across the street with a dog about to have puppies, life becomes bigger, more colourful, and louder. And so does Simone.Teacher resources available on publisher website: rebelmountainpress.com/the-loudest-bark-quel-jappements-teacher-resources
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Series: My Sister's Girlfriend Paperback Gail Schwartz 9781989996119 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Oct 15, 2022

Fifth grader Talia Cohen-Sullivan isn't sure how she feels about boys, crushes, and the love thing even though her best friend, Carmen, is already dreaming about kissing--and it's only September. Losing her mom to cancer a few years ago made Talia afraid of change, though she still has her big sister, Jade, to help her through hard times. But when she sees Jade kissing a girl, Talia is suddenly thrust into a world she doesn't understand and faces important decisions. With the help of her therapist, and Carmen, and Jade herself, Talia learns tha... + Read More
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Series: Gates of Westmeath, The, The Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers Paperback Jen Desmarais 9781990086311 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2022

When Kennedy Fairfield, a recent graduate (class of 2002) trying to find her purpose in life, or at least a job in her field, saves Jason Johnson, the leader of a secret Community of supernatural people called Aetherborn, from an attempted assassination, they embark on a whirlwind epic romance and adventure.For Kennedy to help Jason discover why people are disappearing in time to save her friends, they'll have to navigate teleporting assassins, grumpy wizards, gossiping hags, mafia robots, and secret military groups, all in the city of Westmeat... + Read More
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Series: Easter Pinkerton Easter Pinkerton and the Case of the Heretic Blood Paperback Evan May 9781990086335 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2022

The year is 1883, and Easter Pinkerton is one of the most secret agents in the Crown's service. The greatest constant in her life has been her duty to the realm: she knows its secrets, safeguards its interests, and kills its enemies. Pinkerton's world of shadows, lies, and hidden motives is a battlefield where she expects to find few surprises, but her latest investigation has uncovered something beyond a fresh nest of treason. The trade of blood for power is a familiar enough transaction, but not when that power includes raising the dead or ... + Read More
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Series: Singing Bones, The, The The Ground That Grows Roses Paperback Elizabeth Hirst 9781990086342 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2022

More Singers have risen, and they're about to unleash chaos.Denny has put her father to rest, solved the mystery of the screamers and become a national hero. On the surface, she is living a dream, but her problems are far from over. In order to end the screamer crisis, she and Verity will need to find more singers to help calm the restless dead, but so far none have been found.Meanwhile, in downtown Hamilton, a traumatized teen named Tessa and Lorian, an out-of-luck musician, discover singing through a friend's death, but as they use their powe... + Read More
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Series: Shadow Empires Human A Shadow Empires Book improved edition Paperback S. M. Carriere 9781990086328 $20.00 FICTION Oct 15, 2022

At the behest of the vampiric Shadow Council, Aleksandar Svetoslav, Prince of his House, moves to America to re-establish their foothold there. It was a territory lost when opportunistic vampire hunters laid waste to the hedonistic House Üstrel. He did not expect to find the assets of House Üstrel in such shambles. Nor did he expect that this tedious mission would lead to the beautiful police officer Alicia Wilde, who resurrects feelings in him that he had long thought dead. He certainly did not anticipate her partner, Detective Stephen Brody, ... + Read More
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Series: Nothing Without Us Nothing Without Us Too Paperback Cait Gordon 9781990086304 $25.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2022

Nothing Without Us Too follows the theme of Nothing Without Us (a 2020 Prix Aurora Award finalist), featuring more stories by authors who are disabled, d/Deaf or hard-of-hearing, Blind or visually impaired, neurodivergent, Spoonie, and/or who manage mental illness. The lived experiences of their protagonists are found across many demographics--such as race, culture, financial status, religion, gender, age, and/or sexual orientation. We want to present these stories because diversity is reality, and it belongs in literary and genre fiction.So, w... + Read More
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Series: Heart's Hydrography Paperback Sally Ito 9780888017598 $18.00 POETRY Oct 05, 2022

In her fourth book of poetry, Sally Ito traverses the complex channels and tributaries of a heart mapped by the ineffable pull of family and faith. In Ito's careful hands, this same heart becomes ocean and cathedral, a hallowed space in which poetic organ-song crystalizes into poems resonant with hope, love, doubt, and longing. Heart's Hydrography charts the vital ebb and flow between the personal and the divine.
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Series: Turnstone Selects Marshburning Paperback David Arnason 9780888017437 $17.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2023

Reissued in a magnificent new edition, Marshburning is David Aranson's masterful long poem binding his Icelandic roots to the shore of Lake Winnipeg. First published in 1980, this classic is the latest edition in the Turnstone Selects series, highlighting important works that hold both mass and academic interest.
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Series: Monumental Manitoba Roadside Attractions and More! Paperback Meghan Kjartanson 9780888016652 $27.50 TRAVEL Apr 15, 2023

From Flintabbaty Flonatin to Gimli's mighty Viking, the Glenboro camel to Morden's monstrous mosasaur, Meghan Kjartanson sets out to follow the stories of Manitoba's statues. Featuring over 60 sites of interest, Kjartanson charts an all-ages adventure tracking prairie giants, roadside attractions, and important landmarks, including fire hydrants and golf balls, sturgeons and sunflowers, and, of course, Manitoba's provincial "bird"--the mosquito. Explore the diverse characters and communities at the centre of Canada with this info-packed guide o... + Read More
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Series: Postmodern Weather Report Paperback Kristian Enright 9780888016973 $21.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2023

In today's world, space is at a premium to accommodate humans, nature, and ideas, but what, exactly, occupies the vast psychic space of the Prairie landscape? In Postmodern Weather Report, Kristian Enright expertly weaves critical theory with playful poetics to suffuse this space with reflections on science, semantics, pop culture, philosophy, and a blossoming emergence into new cultural awareness for a contemporary age.
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Series: Stealing John Hancock Paperback H & A Christensen 9780888017628 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2022

John "JP" Hancock's day just got a whole lot worse. After a nasty breakup and being scammed into an acting job that doesn't exist, JP suddenly finds himself the unwitting victim of an identity theft that has police detective Nya Grey hot on his heels for multimillion-dollar real estate fraud he didn't commit. With the police closing in, JP finds an unlikely ally in the Vindicator, a secretive and brilliant hacker who agrees to help clear his name by whatever means necessary. But there's more to the story than meets the eye, and they soon find t... + Read More
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Series: When the Sky Comes Looking For You Short Trips Down the Thunder Road Paperback Chadwick Ginther 9780888017659 $21.00 FICTION Oct 19, 2022

Come along for another trip down Thunder Road. Since Ted Callan's fateful encounter with a roomful of Dwarves his world has exploded with Gods and monsters, Giants, Witches, and more.When the Sky Comes Looking for You expands upon the Thunder Road trilogy with a series of short stories, both loved and brand new, from acclaimed author Chadwick Ginther.
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Series: Black and Blue Jazz Stories Paperback Stanley Péan 9781550656114 $21.95 MUSIC Oct 14, 2022

Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the misunderstandings that have surrounded the music. How could French existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre have mixed up Afro-Canadian songwriter Shelton Brooks with the Jewish-American belter Sophie Tucker? What is the real story behind the searing classic "Strange Fruit" made immortal by Billie ... + Read More
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Series: Durable Goods Paperback James Pollock 9781550656107 $19.95 POETRY Sep 14, 2022

Durable Goods is a book of a sharply imagined poems about everyday technology. Writing in the Dinggedicht or thing-poem tradition of poets like Rilke, Ponge, and Marianne Moore, James Pollock calls to surprising life everything from microwaves to kettles, sprinklers to umbrellas, with a precision both unerring and effortless. By conjuring the essential spirit of each object, the poet reveals the tools and appliances that surround us as both sympathetic reflections of ourselves--our fear, love, rage, hope and grief--and strange beings with inner... + Read More
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Series: A House Without Spirits Paperback David Homel 9781550656060 $21.95 FICTION Oct 07, 2022

When Paul is hired to write a monograph of the Montreal photographer John Marchuk, he assumes he'll be able to turn over the eccentric project in a matter of weeks. Little does he know that over the next few months his visits with Marchuk, in a house stuffed with boxes stacked floor to ceiling with his life's archive, will expose an emptiness in his own home. In this ninth novel, David Homel delivers some of his most memorable characters to date - reclusive artists, disaffected life partners, wandering ghosts, cult-affiliated nuns - in a contem... + Read More
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Series: Letters From Montreal Tales of an Exceptional City Paperback Madi Haslam 9781550656084 $16.95 HUMOR Sep 21, 2022

Letters From Montreal: An Anthology documents the experiences of Montrealers past and present, creating a portrait of the storied city unlike any other. Drawn from the celebrated column in Maisonneuve magazine, this anthology features Canadian writers documenting a quintessential part of local life. Narrated with the intimacy of journal entries, each letter bridges the playful and profound. In early dispatches, Melissa Bull ditches a boyfriend over pétanque in Parc Laurier; Sean Michaels watches Arcade Fire lose Battle of the Bands; Deborah Ost... + Read More
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Series: Whiteout How Canada Cancels Blackness Paperback George Elliott Clarke 9781550656077 $24.95 HISTORY Jun 08, 2023

In Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness, his new and essential collection of essays, George Elliott Clarke exposes the various ways in which the Canadian imagination demonizes, excludes, and oppresses Blackness. Clarke's range is extraordinary: he canvasses African-Canadian writers who have tracked Black invisibility, highlights the racist bias of our true crime writing, reveals the whitewashing of African-Canadian perspectives in universities, and excoriates the political failure to reckon with the tragedy of Africville, the once-thriving, "... + Read More
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Series: Wolf Sonnets Paperback R. LaRose 9781550656091 $19.95 POETRY Oct 26, 2022

In his commanding poetry debut, Wolf Sonnets, R. P. LaRose undoes the sonnet's classical constraints, retooling the form for current political circumstances. Packed with family lore, these poems reflect on how deeply we can trust the terms we use to construct our identity. A proud citizen of the Métis Nation, LaRose even questions his right to identify as such: "I was made in someone else's home," he writes. Wolf Sonnets is verse obsessed with names, infinity, numbers, categories, and interconnectedness. Depicting his ancestors as wolves--symbo... + Read More