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Series: Uncle Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty Paperback Cheryl Thompson 9781552454107 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 16, 2021

From martyr to insult, how “Uncle Tom” has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what consequences for our society did Uncle Tom morph first into a servile old man and then to a racial epithet hurled at African American men deemed, by other Black people, to have betrayed their race? Uncle Tom, the eponymous figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s... + Read More
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Series: The Rock Paper Sex Series Rock Paper Sex Volume 2 Trigger Warning Paperback Kerri Cull 9781550819175 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 31, 2021

This follow-up to the bestselling Rock Paper Sex provides a space for the varied voices of individual sex workers, massage parlour owners, and community organizations, in a startling and compelling investigation of the industry. Rock Paper Sex Volume 2: Trigger Warning is timely, compassionate, and enlightening. The stories presented in this sequel offer a wide range of perspectives from the sex industry in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. As new voices are introduced and others from Rock Paper Sex are revisited, key themes related to sex... + Read More
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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: Montreal and the Bomb 1st edition Paperback Gilles Sabourin 9781771862653 $24.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2021

With war raging in Europe, the Allies worried about advances being made by Germans scientists. The British wanted to get a jump ahead of Hitler and the physicists working for the Third Reich. England was too close to the enemy, so they decided to secretly establish a nuclear research laboratory in Montreal. The best scientists moved to Montreal with two goals in mind: develop an ultra-powerful bomb and find a new source of energy. What started as cooperation with the Americans instead became a race to harness the energy of the atom when Washing... + Read More
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Series: Strangest Dream, The Canadian Communists, the Spy Trials, and the Cold War Paperback Merrily Weisbord 9781550655995 $22.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 02, 2022

Lauded as the most eloquent book about Canadian communists and written like drama, The Strangest Dream animates the history and life of militants from the 1930's to the 1956 Khruschev revelations about Stalin.Published originally in 1983, this Third Edition contains a new preface by the author, additional photographs, and previously unpublished letters.An antidote to recurrent anti-communist vitriol, The Strangest Dream evokes not only the struggle "to make a better world," but the warmth, generosity, songs, theatre, art, and exhilaration of pa... + Read More
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Series: Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids Quebec Inuit Fight for their Homeland Paperback Zebedee Nungak 9781550654684 $15.95 HISTORY May 15, 2017

For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace. In this concise, lively account, Zebedee Nungak relates the inside story of how the young Inuit and Cree "Davids" took action when Québec began construction on the giant James Bay hydro project. They fought in court and at the negotiation table for an accord that effectively became Canada's first land-claims agreement. Nungak's account is ... + Read More
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Series: The Empire A Trilogy of Modern Epics Paperback Susanna Fournier 9780369102751 $24.95 DRAMA Mar 15, 2022

Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom. The story starts in The Philosopher’s Wife. Deep in the North, a philosopher exiled for promoting his atheist work amidst a bloody religious war yearns to ignite a revolution, but his personal life has collapsed into chaos. What begins as a desperate attempt to cure his wife’s animalistic behaviour erupts into a power struggle between the sexes, unleas... + Read More
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Series: Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方 Paperback Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) 9780369103024 $20.95 DRAMA Mar 29, 2022

From the author of trace comes two adaptations that transport mythological stories from Ancient Greece to modern-day civilizations. Led by people of colour, these darkly comedic plays depict recognizable plights for justice. Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) highlights the repetition of hate and colonialism that occur in ancient myths through a mischievous lens. Since Iphigenia was rescued from the sacrificial altar, she has served as a high priestess to the goddess Artemis on Tauros, where she in turn is to sacrifice any foreigners wh... + Read More
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Series: The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius Paperback Colleen Murphy 9781927922774 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2021

The Society for the Destitute Present Titus Bouffonius presents five characters who shelter at the Society for the Destitute and who get a $500 grant from Arts Educational Outreach to put on a play. They decide to do Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus because it has the most murders, but as you might predict, this is not your average night of Shakespeare. Shocking, outrageous and stupidly funny, the characters often forget their lines, forget what play they are in, say whatever the hell they want to, or refuse to stay dead when they are killed. And... + Read More
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Series: Controlled Damage Paperback Andrea Scott 9781927922637 $15.95 DRAMA Oct 01, 2020

Controlled Damage explores the life of Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond and how her act of bravery in a Nova Scotia movie theatre in 1946 started a ripple effect that is still felt today. An ordinary woman forced to be extraordinary by an unyielding and racist world, Desmond never gave up -- despite the personal cost to her and those who loved her. Andrea Scott's highly theatrical examination of Desmond and her legacy traces the impact that she had on our culture, but also casts light on the slow progress of the fight for social justice... + Read More
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Series: bug Paperback Yolanda Bonnell 9781927922668 $15.95 DRAMA Oct 01, 2020

bug is a solo performance and artistic ceremony that highlights the ongoing effects of colonialism and intergenerational trauma experienced by Indigenous women, as well as a testimony to the women's resilience and strength. The Girl traces her life from surviving the foster care system to her struggles with addictions. She fights, hoping to break the cycle in order to give her daughter a different life than the one she had. The Mother sits in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, recounting memories of the daughter that was taken from her, and the str... + Read More
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Series: Orchard, The (After Chekhov) Paperback Sarena Parmar 9781927922606 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2020

Sarena Parmar's The Orchard (After Chekhov) is an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, told through the eyes of a Sikh farming family in the Okanagan Valley, Canada. Set in 1967, the play offers a fresh perspective on our history, and a subversive look at ethnicity within the classical western canon.Still grieving the loss of her youngest son, the matriarch of the Basran family returns home after five years abroad in India. But all is not well; the family she left behind is unravelling and their orchard has fallen into foreclosure.... + Read More
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Series: Interdependent Magic Disability Performance in Canada Paperback Jessica Watkin 9780369102867 $24.95 DRAMA Mar 15, 2022

Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts culture. The book features four plays as well as an interview with artist Niall McNeil. In Smudge by Alex Bulmer, a woman details her journey toward Blindness, mourning what she loses and discovering what her other senses provide. Access Me by Boys in Chairs Collective is a celebration of sex and Disability, providing an all-access safe space to... + Read More
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Series: Voices of a Generation Three Millennial Plays Paperback Michelle MacArthur 9780369102966 $24.95 DRAMA Feb 01, 2022

Voices of a Generation gathers three Canadian plays that crack open millennial stereotypes to reveal a generation’s complex and varied experiences. zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows Namid through multiple generations: as a survivor of abuse in a residential school in the 1960s, as a missing woman held in a suburban basement in the 1990s, and as the rebellious daughter of a tyrannical queen in a post-apocalyptic, matriarchal society. A comedy about loss in the era of truth and reconciliation, zahgidiwin/love uses a mash-up of theatrical ... + Read More
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Series: Text and Context The Operative Word Paperback Richard Greenblatt 9781927922736 $22.95 PERFORMING ARTS Apr 01, 2021

A handbook for script work and directing in the theatre, Text and Context: The Operative Word is essential reading for post-secondary students and young directors in the theatre, as well as an effective resource for other disciplines, including actors, designers, and production personnel. Part 1: Text describes the method of text investigation that Greenblatt has developed and employed over his four-and-a- half decade career, including a variety of exercises. It is a highly pragmatic and non-academic approach to discovering the essence of a scr... + Read More
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Series: Stars Need Counting Essays on Suicide Paperback Concetta Principe 9781774220238 $22.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 01, 2021

Stars Need Counting by Concetta Principe meditates on questions of suicide in the mode of A. Alvarez, when he says, in A Savage God, that there are no answers to these questions, because suicide is a ?closed world? ? so closed that it's not our place to judge or cast shame. These essays explore the quality of what is closed about this world, bring it close enough to scrape the shame off the act, and for both those who have passed and those who survive, offer peace.
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Series: Land of Many Shores Perspectives from a Diverse Newfoundland and Labrador Paperback Ainsley Hawthorn Ph.D. 9781550818963 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 30, 2021

Seeing through the eyes of others brings new perspective on the place we call home. In Land of Many Shores, writers share their perspectives about life in Newfoundland and Labrador from often- neglected viewpoints. In this collection, Indigenous people, cultural minorities, 2SLGBTQ+ people, people living with mental or physical disabilities, workers in the sex industry, people from a variety of faiths, people who have experienced incarceration, and other marginalized and under-represented voices are brought to the forefront, with personal, ... + Read More
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Series: Against Death 35 Essays on Living Paperback Elee Kraljii Gardiner 9781772141276 $22.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2019

Montaigne Medal Finalist, Eric Hoffer Awards Against Death is an anthology of creative non-fiction exploring the psychological shifts that occur when we prematurely or unexpectedly confront death. Against Death is a natural outgrowth of the editor's experience of surviving a vertebral artery dissection and stroke and the subsequent writing of a long poem memoir about the event. To be "against" something can mean two different things at the same time. "Against" can mean pressed up close to something, yet it can also signify refusal. T... + Read More
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Series: Glorious Birds A Celebratory Homage to Harold and Maude Paperback Heidi Greco 9781772141719 $18.00 PERFORMING ARTS Mar 15, 2021

Cinematic film, the art form that came into its own in the 20th Century, is not only familiar to all of us, but is likely the form that lodges most clearly in memory. Like music - and the music employed in a film - scenes come back, often carrying emotion as well as remembrance. One such film is Harold and Maude, the 1971 production that brought Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon to what are possibly their most memorable roles, and the film that locked so many Cat Stevens songs in mind. A cockeyed love story that stretches the definition of a May/Decemb... + Read More
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Series: Luminous Ink Writers on Writing in Canada Paperback Tessa McWatt 9781770865198 $29.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 30, 2018

Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an introduction by the editors, Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Tessa McWatt.Contributors include: Margaret AtwoodMichael OndaatjeMadeleine Thien,M G Vassanji,Lawrence HillPascale QuivigerNino RicciSheila FischmanHeather O’NeillCamilla GibbEden Robinso... + Read More
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Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre Digital Performance in Canada Paperback David Owen 9780369102515 $29.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 30, 2021

Especially necessary in a historical moment in which many theatre companies have been forced to move their work online, Digital Performance in Canada illuminates the influence and ubiquity of digital technology on performance practices in Canada. This collection of essays explores how digital technology forces us to reimagine our relationships to performance. Looking at the three categories of space, bodies, and relationships, this collection includes contributors Bruce Barton, Beth Kates, Chris Eaket, Alan Filewod, Peter Kuling, Pirkko Markula... + Read More
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Series: Big Reader Essays Paperback Susan Olding 9781988298818 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 01, 2021

A book about memory, loss, and a love of books from one of Canada's finest essayistsEver since childhood, Susan Olding has been a big reader, never without a book on the go. Not surprising, then, that she turns to the library to read her own life. From the dissolution of her marriage to the forging of a tentative relationship with her new partner's daughter, from discovering Toronto as a young undergrad to, years later, watching her mother slowly go blind: through every experience, Olding crafts exquisite, searingly honest essays about what it ... + Read More
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Series: No Crystal Stair Paperback Mairuth Sarsfield 9781773900919 $21.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2021

First published in 1993, No Crystal Stair is an absorbing story of urban struggle in the 1940s. Raising her three daughters alone, Marion discovers she can only find gainful employment if she passes as white. Set in the Montreal working class neighbourhood of Little Burgundy against the backdrop of an exciting cosmopolitan jazz scene?home of Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones, and Rockhead's Paradise?and the tense years of World War II, No Crystal Stair is both a tender story of friendship and community as well as an indictment of Canada's "soft" rac... + Read More
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Series: Lea Paperback Ariela Freedman 9781773901022 $24.95 FICTION Feb 12, 2022

How do you change the world? Meet Léa, polyglot, labour activist, farbrente feminist. Born to a large Jewish family and raised in a French Catholic town, Léa moves fluidly between languages and cultures. Her search for meaning and her instinct for justice place her at the centre of the great changes of the 20th century. From street fights in Berlin to protests in Montreal, she defies the expectations and limitations of women?s lives, wins historic victories for the union movement, and grapples with her own convictions. Based on the life of fam... + Read More
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Series: Once Removed Paperback Andrew Unger 9780888017093 $21.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

Timothy Heppner is a frustrated ghostwriter struggling to make ends meet in Edenfeld, a small Mennonite community bulldozing its way towards modernity--if it's old, it has to go!A member of the Preservation Society but desperate to keep his job with the mayor's Parks and "Wreck" department, Timothy finds himself in an awkward position when he is hired to write an updated version of the town's history book. Fuelled by warring loyalties, the threat of personal bankruptcy, and a good deal of fried bologna, Timothy must find his own voice to tell t... + Read More
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Series: Still Me A Golf Tragedy in 18 Parts Paperback Jeffrey John Eyamie 9780888017130 $21.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Golf is the only way I know to control time. It happens in the millisecond of that focused backswing, right before the violence of intention.When I escape time, I escape memory. In that way, golf is an alchemy. A magick. I am a practicing magician.When James Khoury discovers that his prized golf memorabilia from some of Canada's best golf courses has been destroyed, he journeys back through memories of being on the fairway, his struggles with gnawing ineptitude, and a troubled relationship with his wife and son.Slowly, his memory precipitates t... + Read More
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Series: Wan Paperback Dawn Promislow 9781988298993 $24.95 FICTION May 01, 2022

A Miramichi Reader Best Fiction of 2022"Wan is a masterpiece. This beautiful, painterly, sublime, and sonically exquisite novel by Dawn Promislow is a work of utter genius." - Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of All the Broken ThingsNarrated in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, Wan is the story of Jacqueline, a privileged artist in 1970s South Africa. After an anti-apartheid activist comes to hide in her garden house, Jacqueline's carefully constructed life begins to unravel. Written in gorgeous and spare prose, this exquisite debut ... + Read More
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Series: The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour Paperback Dawn Dumont 9781988298870 $24.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2021

Shortlisted for the Leacock Medal for HumourThe hilarious story of an unlikely group of Indigenous dancers who find themselves thrown together on a performance tour of Europe The Tour is all prepared. The Prairie Chicken dance troupe is all set for a fifteen-day trek through Europe, performing at festivals and cultural events. But then the performers all come down with the flu. And John Greyeyes, a retired cowboy who hasn't danced in fifteen years, finds himself abruptly thrust into the position of leading a hastily-assembled group of replacem... + Read More
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Series: Avenue of Champions Paperback Conor Kerr 9780889714182 $21.95 FICTION Oct 23, 2021

Daniel is a young Métis man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergenerational trauma and systemic racism. Facing obstacles of his own at every turn, he observes and learns from the lived realities of his family members, friends, teachers and lovers. He finds hope in the inherent connection of Indigenous Peopls to the land, and the permanence of culture, language and ceremony in the face of displacement. Set in Edmonton, this story considers Indigenous youth in relation to the urban constructs and colonial spaces in ... + Read More
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Series: I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through Paperback Jack Hannan 9781773900957 $19.95 FICTION Aug 01, 2021

A photographer takes pictures of his wife. She watches him look. What do they see and how does that change over the years? I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through is about what keeps people together??and what can pull them apart. As Tomas and Marie cross the country and each other?s lives, they discover what it means to be fully human. A story of passion, love, aging, dark secrets, and the sadness of loss.
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Series: After Realism 24 Stories for the 21st Century Paperback André Forget 9781550655964 $22.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century is the first anthology to represent the generation of millennial writers now making their mark. Diverse, sophisticated, and ambitious in scope, the short stories in this ground-breaking book are an essential starting point for anyone interested in daring alternatives to the realist tradition that dominated 20th century English-language fiction. After Realism offers twenty-five distinctive talents who are pushing against the boundaries of the "real" in aesthetically and politically charged ways--for... + Read More
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Series: Home Sickness Paperback Chih-Ying Lay 9781773900445 $21.95 FICTION Feb 14, 2020

Connecting is not easy, but proximity is unbearable. The characters in these ten stories are longing for escape and attempt to leave home, but inevitably and perhaps ironically find themselves homesick. Chih-Ying Lay, a Montreal-based expatriate from Taiwan familiar with both homesickness and home sickness, probes our desperate need for home, often matched with an equally desperate need to get away from it. Lay?s characters are outsiders, whether queer, indigenous, unloved or lost, and each discovers that home is not the sanctuary it was meant ... + Read More
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Series: Through the Labyrinths of the Mind Paperback Bevan Thomas 9781927742204 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 01, 2022

All over the world, millions of people experience a wide range of mental health issues - depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, and more. Sadly, their struggles are often ignored and misunderstood, even mocked. Through the Labyrinths of the Mind is a graphic novel anthology from Cloudscape Comics that gives these issues a voice, presenting 11 stories about mental health from a wide range of comic creators.
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Series: Shelterbelts Paperback Jonathan Dyck 9781772620689 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 01, 2022

Progress isn't always a straight line. When a non-denominational megachurch opens on the edges of a rural Mennonite community, a quiet--but longstanding battle--begins to reveal itself. For years, the traditionalists in the community have held fast to the values and beliefs they grew up with, while other community members have begun raising important questions about LGBTQ+ inclusion, Indigenous land rights, and the Mennonite legacy of pacifism. Through a series of vignettes, Shelterbelts explores the perspectives, experiences and limitations o... + Read More
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Series: Losing Shepherd Paperback Paul Headrick 9781773240961 $22.95 FICTION Feb 15, 2022

Canadian literary star Gordon Bridge is delighted with his celebrity, his famiy, and his bond with fellow writer Taylor Shepherd, whom he has been friends with since they were teenagers. Bridge publishes a highly critical review of Shepherd's much-lauded new novel, showing off how his commitment to writing trumps social conventions. After his friend confronts him, however, he realizes that his pan is a catastrophe of self-deception: he has attacked a masterpiece. The review destroys the friendship, and Bridge's world starts to crumble.Afflicted... + Read More
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Series: Landmark Edition Icefields Landmark Edition Paperback Thomas Wharton 9781774390368 $23.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2021

In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of sunlight illuminates the ice in front of him and Byrne sees something in the blue-green radiance that will forever link him to the ancient glacier. In this moment, his life's purpose becomes uncovering the mystery of the icefield that almost was his tomb. Along the way, he encounters similarly fixated individuals, each ... + Read More
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Series: Celia's Song Paperback Lee Maracle 9781770864511 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her village, on the West coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu’Chahlnuth territory. Celia is a seer who — despite being convinced she’s a little “off” — must heal her village with the assistance of her sister, her mother and father, and her nephews. While mink is visiting, a double-headed sea serpent falls off the house front during a fierce storm. The old snake, ostracized from the village decades earlier, has left his terrible influence on Amos, a residen... + Read More
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Series: Maker 1st edition Paperback Jim Upton 9781771862592 $24.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2021

Nicole Fortin is on the cusp of realizing a long-held dream when her life takes a sudden turn. Instead of participating in the Olympic Games, she finds herself struggling to master the challenging physical demands of her job in an aerospace plant and win the confidence of her male colleagues. As her involvement in union activity deepens, she is drawn into the centre of a bitter labour battle that pits her workmates against their employer. In the midst of this escalating confrontation, incidents from Nicole?s past threaten to destroy her credibi... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Daria Paperback Irene Marques 9781771338417 $22.95 FICTION Jun 24, 2021

When a young woman is subjected to a violent attack, the impact of colonialism, patriarchy, and who we choose to love are thrown into sharp relief. Daria is an immigrant woman living in Toronto, and as she begins to tell her story, the reader is pulled into different worlds, travelling to various timeframes and locations in an unending awe-inspiring Matryoshka play, where one story leads to another and another and another. The novel explores the stories of multiple characters?the Indo-Portuguese-Canadian sexual predator; the idealist and resili... + Read More
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Series: Exit Strategies Paperback Meg Todd 9781773240947 $19.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 15, 2021

The 14 stories in Exit Strategies explore the subtleties of memory and storytelling, masterfully creating the universal picture from the quotidian details. These stories do not shy away from difficult truths: a former actuary with a head injury which has robbed her of her mental acuity takes a job caring for a defiant farmer who is facing the decline of his body and his property; an elderly Belgian woman refuses to continue a road trip in BC when her soon-to-be-Canadian son and his dollhouse-obsessed girlfriend stop to help a stranded motorist;... + Read More
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Series: Permanent Tourists Paperback Genni Gunn 9781773240800 $19.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 01, 2020

The stories in Permanent Tourists feature displaced characters loosely connected through a support group, all of them dealing with loss precipitated by an elusive father, husband or lover, by a wife's death, a lost child, sibling rivalries. Tourists in their own lives, these characters are often paralysed by emotional inertia and are fleeing to evade their responsibilities, their failed relationships, their own shortcomings. Within the unfamiliar, their problems resurface and they're forced to confront and re-examine them. Permanent Tourists pr... + Read More
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Series: Personal Attention Roleplay Paperback H. Felix Chau Bradley 9781777485214 $18.95 FICTION Nov 23, 2021

A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother. A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships--with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals-on-wheels recipient. A queer metal band's summer tour unravels amid the sticky heat of the Northeastern US. A codependent listicle writer becomes obsessed with a Japanese ASMR channel.The stories in Personal Attention Roleplay are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and th... + Read More
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Series: Natural History of Transition, A Paperback Callum Angus 9781999058876 $18.95 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow as tall as buildings, turn into mountains, unravel hometown mysteries, and give birth to cocoons. Portland-based author Callum Angus infuses his work with a mix of alternative history, horror, and a reality heavily dosed with magic.
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Series: Ezra's Ghosts Stories Paperback Darcy Tamayose 9781774390474 $20.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2022

Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra's Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, as well as a deep understanding of grief and what it makes of us. Within these pages a scholar writes home from the Ryukyu islands, not knowing that his hometown will soon face a deadly calamity of its own. Another seeker of truth is trapped in Ezra after her violent death, and must watch how her family--and her killer--alter in her absence. The oldest man in town, an immigrant who came to Ca... + Read More
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Series: The Pain Tree Paperback Olive Senior 9781770864344 $22.95 FICTION Sep 26, 2015

The Pain Tree tells stories that speak to all aspects of Jamaican life. Among the characters we hear from are: poor folk making the best of past hardships (“Coal”); rich folk plotting future selfishness (“The Goodness of My Heart”); an old man, familiar with darkness, who discovers in foreign capitalism a force even he cannot control (“Boxed-In”); a young girl, uprooted to a new country, forced to shoulder her mother’s unspoken burdens in addition to her own (“Lollipop”). Bookending these are two powerful stories about the inextricability of ho... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Under a Kabul Sky Short Fiction by Afghan Women Paperback Elaine Kennedy 9781771339155 $22.95 FICTION Jan 21, 2022

Finalist, International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction.These twelve short stories dive deep into imaginary worlds where everyday life is marked and marred by war. They speak of wounded love, captured women, confinement, talismans, borders, wolves. They give expression to the voices of Afghan women who would like to change the fate of people like Nâzboo, Khorshid, Hamid and so many others.Originally published by Éditions Le Soupirail in 2019, this collection was the first volume of short stories by Afghan women to appear in France. This ed... + Read More
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Series: Prison of Dreams His Sacred Army Paperback B Devakanthan 9781774150382 $22.95 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

The KANAVUCCHIRAI quintet develop the context of Sri Lanka's tragic civil war. As the youth in the island village of Nainativu realize that their education and prospects are being curtailed by an increasingly Sinhala majoritarian nationalist government, they begin to rise up in opposition. Volumes 1 and 2, through its main characters, the young woman Rajalakshmi and her betrothed, Suthan, described the growth of the armed struggle from the 1980s onwards as the young people sail to Tamil Nadu in India to join the resistance. Volumes 3 and 4 ret... + Read More
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Series: Toronto, I Love You Paperback Didier Leclair 9781774150665 $22.95 FICTION May 15, 2022

Translated from French by Elaine Kennedy. Raymond Dossougbé flees the misery of his hometown in Benin and arrives in Toronto, which as soon as he arrives charms him. He sees the city as a place of freedom and light, a sanctuary where he, like so many others, can begin anew. He is thrilled by its fast, organized pace, and by its vastness and diversity of peoples. Without prejudices or preconceptions, he allows himself to be fraternized by both the white and the black segments of society. He sees deep poverty, extreme wealth, and racism, and als... + Read More
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Series: Pond and Beyond, The Paperback Audrey Lute 9781988168586 $32.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 15, 2022

Just beneath the water's surface exists a fragile and delicate ecosystem, yet is a place often overlooked and taken for granted. The Pond and Beyond explores the tiny worlds right beneath our feet and the beautiful creatures that inhabit them. This sensitive and poignant book calls out our arrogance as the dominant species and the risks of continuing to ignore the complex environments and social systems thriving right alongside our own.
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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: Indigenous Toronto Stories That Carry This Place Paperback Denise Bolduc 9781552454152 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 13, 2021

WINNER OF THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARDRich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and presentBeneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, and, too often, silenced. Few of its current inhabitants know that Toronto has seen twelve thousand years of uninterrupted Indigenous presence and nationhood in this region, along with a vibrant culture and history that thrives to this day.With contributions by Indigenous Elders, scholars, journalists, artists, ... + Read More
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Series: Ojibwe History Series Trail of Nenaboozhoo, The and Other Creation Stories Paperback Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch 9781928120193 $25.00 HISTORY Dec 31, 2019

Nenaboozhoo, the creator spirit-being of Ojibway legend, gave the people many gifts. This collection of oral stories presents legends of Nenaboozhoo along with other creation stories that tell of the adventures of numerous beloved animal spirits. The Trail of Nenaboozhoo is a book of art and storytelling that preserve the legends of the Anishinaabe people. Each story is accompanied by strikingly beautiful illustrations by revered Indigenous artists Isaac Murdoch and Christi Belcourt.
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Series: The Lover, the Lake Paperback Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau 9781988298849 $21.95 FICTION May 01, 2021

A spellbinding novel celebrating Indigenous sensuality; the first erotic novel written by an Indigenous woman in FrenchWhen it was first published in Quebec, The Lover, The Lake was heralded as the first erotic novel written by an Indigenous woman in French. Today, as it is translated into English for the first time, author Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau would rather call it a celebration of sensuality, another first. At a time when Indigenous peoples were being dispossessed of their land and history as well as their relationship to the body, the... + Read More
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Series: My Indian My Indian Paperback Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe 9781550818789 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 14 Apr 30, 2021

***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – LONGLIST*** ***2022-2023 HACKMATACK AWARD: ENGLISH FICTION – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 IPPY AWARDS: MULTICULTURAL FICTION: JUV/YA – SILVER*** In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who could lead him across Newfoundland in search of the last remaining Beothuk camps on the island. In his journals, Cormack refers to his guide only as “My Indian.” Now, almost two hundred years later, Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Nei... + 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: Standoff Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It Paperback Bruce McIvor 9780889714205 $21.95 LAW Nov 13, 2021

Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada’s “reconciliation project” has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it. Widely known as a passionate advocate for Indigenous rights, McIvor reports from the front lines of legal and political disputes that have gripped the nation. From Wet’suwet’en opposition to a pipeline in northern British... + Read More
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Series: In Our Own Aboriginal Voice 2 A collection of Indigenous authors & artists in Canada Paperback Michael Calvert 9780994730299 $18.95 FICTION Dec 31, 2019

In Our Own Aboriginal Voice 2 is a powerful collection of short fiction, non-fiction, personal essay, poetry, and original Indigenous artwork by Indigenous authors and artists from across Canada. Featuring the work of established authors such as the late Connie Fife, and up-and-coming Aboriginal authors to watch out for (according to CBC Books) Joanne Arnott, Michelle Sylliboy, and Dennis Saddleman, as well as emerging writers from across Canada who shine a light on the lives of Indigenous Peoples living in Canada. The Indigenous selection com... + Read More
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Series: In|Appropriate Paperback Kim Davids Mandar 9781774220085 $22.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Aug 01, 2020

In|Appropriate is a collection of interviews conducted by Kim Davids Mandar with Canadian authors, exploring how they work through questions of difference, identity, and appropriation in their writing. The interviews address a definition of appropriation that goes beyond race and culture, extending also to gender, sexuality, ability, age, and other categories of difference. They ask how writers work to represent an increasingly diverse and complex culture in ways that avoid falling into appropriation. The interviews intend, not to court controv... + Read More
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Series: Breathing the Page Reading the Act of Writing Paperback Betsy Warland 9781897151785 $20.00 SELF-HELP Jun 01, 2010

Twelve years in the making, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing is a must-read for students of creative writing. This collection is comprised of two sets of twelve essays each. "Materials" reflects on the history and animate nature of the objects we use in the act of writing, from computers, to pens and pencils, right down to paper. Warland subverts our assumptions about these 'tools' by making the case that our materials are also our collaborators. 'Concepts' investigates, names, and addresses the powerful forces at work beneath the... + Read More
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Series: Tongues On Longing and Belonging through Language Paperback Ayelet Tsabari 9781771667142 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 26, 2021

In this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used as both bridge and weapon. Some explore the way power and privilege affect language learning, especially the shame and exclusion often felt by non-native English speakers in a white, settler, colonial nation. Some confront the pain of losing a mother tongue or an ancestral language along with the loss of community and highlight the empowerment that comes with reclamation.... + Read More