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Series: Watch How We Walk A Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Jennifer LoveGrove 9781770904699 $13.99 FICTION Oct 01, 2013

Captivating and heart-wrenching from start to finish When Emily was a little girl, all she wanted to be when she grew up was a Full-Time Pioneer; in her Jehovah’s Witness family, the only imaginable future is a life of knocking on doors and handing out Watchtower magazines. But Emily starts to challenge her upbringing. She becomes closer to her closeted uncle, Tyler, as her older sister, Lenora, hangs out with boys, wears makeup, and gets a startling new haircut. After Lenora disappears, everything changes for Emily, and as she deals with... + Read More
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Series: Waiting for the Man Electronic book text, EPUB Arjun Basu 9781770905160 $12.99 FICTION Aug 01, 2015

A surreal journey of a man who is searching for purpose and for happiness Joe, a 36-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York agency, feels disillusioned with his life. He starts dreaming of a mysterious man, seeing him on the street, and hearing his voice. Joe decides to listen to the Man and so he waits on his stoop, day and night, for instructions. A local reporter takes notice, and soon Joe has become a story, a media sensation, the centre of a storm. When the Man tells Joe to “go west,” he does, in search of meaning. Waiting f... + Read More
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Series: Boring Girls A Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Sara Taylor 9781770906860 $12.99 FICTION Apr 01, 2015

A visceral story of friendship, music, and bloody revenge Rachel feels like she doesn’t fit in — until she finds heavy metal and meets Fern, a kindred spirit. The two form their own band, but the metal scene turns out to be no different than the misogynist world they want to change. Violent encounters escalate, and the friends decide there’s only one way forward . . . A bloodstained journey into the dark heart of the music industry, Boring Girls traces Rachel’s deadly coming of age, Fern at her side. As the madness deepens, their ... + Read More
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Series: Cauchemar Electronic book text, EPUB Alexandra Grigorescu 9781770907195 $12.99 FICTION Mar 01, 2015

An eerie and romantic Southern gothic drama Gripping, fast-paced, gorgeously written, and with unforgettable characters, Cauchemar tells the story of 20-year-old Hannah, who finds herself living alone on the edge of a Louisianan swamp after her adopted mother and protector dies. Hannah falls in love with Callum, an easy-going boat captain and part-time musician, but after her mysterious birth mother, outcast as a witch and rumoured to commune with the dead, comes back into Hannah’s life, she must confront what she’s been hiding from — ... + Read More
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Series: A Free Man Electronic book text, EPUB Michel Basilières 9781770907164 $14.99 FICTION May 01, 2015

An unusual and remarkable dystopian novel A Free Man is a satirical tall tale presented as the drug and alcohol fuelled conversation of two old friends getting reacquainted over one night. It’s also a boy-meets-girl story of the worst kind and a time travel story about a future where the world is ruled by robots and humans are vermin. When timelines cross, the world as we know it bends . . . Skid Roe is completely self-absorbed and delusional. His struggle to exercise free will is constantly hampered by the physical manifestation ... + Read More
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Series: Interference Electronic book text, EPUB Michelle Berry 9781770906112 $14.99 FICTION Aug 01, 2014

From fall to spring, the inhabitants of Edgewood Drive in the small town of Parkville prove that the simplest lives can be intricate and complicated. The interwoven, layered narrative of Michelle Berry’s Interference moves between Senior Ladies Leisure League hockey, the unsure and awkward life of pre-teens and teens, suspected pedophilia, disfigurement, and cancer. In Interference, there is always someone watching, biding their time — and as this suspense builds the vivaciousness of a congenial neighbourhood, full of life and happiness as well... + Read More
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Series: Phoebe’s Way Electronic book text, EPUB Pamela Ditchoff 9781770906051 $11.99 FICTION Sep 01, 2014

Phoebe’s Way is the story of a Saint John Ambulance therapy dog whose unsentimental lessons on aging propel this powerful work of fiction from author Pamela Ditchoff. Phoebe’s cross is carried throughout the rooms of Mersey House, a nursing home in Safe Harbour, Nova Scotia. Each chapter represents a station of the journey and an insight into the emotional weight born by the residents and those who care for them. Layered with symbolism in the precise and poetic language of Phoebe, this poignant story is for anyone who has felt the burden of... + Read More
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Series: The Bewdley Mayhem Hellmouths of Bewdley, Pontypool Changes Everything, Caesarea Electronic book text, EPUB Tony Burgess 9781770906242 $14.99 FICTION Sep 01, 2014

Three celebrated books — all of which harbour a twisted ambition to physically alter your imagination — together for the first time.The Hellmouths of Bewdley is a series of 16 stories hiding in a novel about a small town in Ontario’s cottage country. Navigating through drunk and dead men, prisons and suicides and mad doctors, these short stories act as a halfway house for literary delinquents.Pontypool Changes Everything is the terrifying story of a devastating virus. Caught through conversation, once it has you, it leads you into another w... + Read More
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Series: Elephant in the Sky A Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Heather Clark 9781770904927 $10.99 FICTION May 01, 2014

A testament to the healing power of unconditional love.Widely acclaimed for her emotionally powerful stories that capture the real lives of women, Heather A. Clark, bestselling author of Chai Tea Sunday, tackles the subject of childhood mental illness and the impact it has on a close family.The story begins from nine-year-old Nate’s point of view, etching the details of an unbalanced mind struggling to make sense of rampant thought patterns and heightened paranoia. Enter Ashley, Nate's mother, and a hardworking advertising executive concern... + Read More
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Series: The Colonial Hotel A Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Jonathan Bennett 9781770905191 $16.99 FICTION May 01, 2014

A lyrical, heartbreaking story of ardour and devastation In this powerful novel of love and family, a doctor named Paris follows a nurse to a country on the brink of civil war. When a confrontation does break out, they are swept up by rebel forces and separated. The nurse, Helen, is pregnant; she escapes, but Paris is left behind, imprisoned by rebels as war rages. A narrative of brutal power about parental bonds, forgiveness, and identity, The Colonial Hotel recasts for the 21st century the ancient story of Paris, Helen, and Oenone. While ... + Read More
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Series: Infidelity A Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Stacey May Fowles 9781770904330 $13.99 FICTION Oct 01, 2013

When being good isn’t enough . . .Ronnie, a hairdresser with a history of recklessness, feels stifled by the predictable, comfortable life laid out before her with her live-in boyfriend. Charlie is an anxiety-ridden award-winning writer, burdened by his literary success and familial responsibility, including a bread-winning wife and a child with autism. When the unlikely pair meets, a filmic affair begins on office desks and in Toronto hotel rooms, creating a false reality that offers solace in its secrets. Two very different people, trappe... + Read More
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Series: Love Struck Electronic book text, EPUB Chantel Guertin 9781770904422 $10.99 FICTION Sep 01, 2013

”Love Struck will have you laughing out loud and constantly hoping, ‘Please don’t do what I think you’re going to do.’” — ChickLitReviews.com When 27-year-old image consultant Poppy Ross discovers that her seemingly devoted husband Parker is having an affair, she is dumbfounded, but before she can confront him, he’s struck by lightning and loses his short-term memory — including that of the affair. Given a chance to erase history, Poppy remakes herself in the mistress’s image, but her quest to become his perfect woman has disastrous and h... + Read More
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Series: Stuck in Downward Dog Electronic book text, EPUB Chantel Guertin 9781770904576 $10.99 FICTION Sep 01, 2013

“Refreshingly realistic … as good as having Sunday brunch with a girlfriend.” — Winnipeg Free Press Mara Brennan is about to unravel. Three days after her 28th birthday, her boyfriend dumps her, leaving her with nothing but a basement apartment, a futon and a pile of unpaid bills. Mara realizes it’s time for an identity makeover. Navigating the dueling worlds of yoga and cosmetic surgery, gourmet dinners and Frankenberry cereal, etiquette handbooks and too-helpful loved ones, Stuck in Downward Dog is Chantel Guertin’s unforgettable comic ... + Read More
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Series: The Sky Manifest A Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Brian Panhuyzen 9781770904545 $13.99 FICTION Oct 01, 2013

A dark and riveting journey of one man in a broken world With nothing left to lose, Nathan Soderquist is moving west; his wife is dead, his infant daughter too, all because of a kiss and a snowstorm and his failure to prevent distant consequences. In his desperate isolation, he commits acts of violence, cowardice, nobility, and bravery as he passes through vacant landscapes and encounters beguiling characters. A road accident leaves his body broken, and his convalescence plumbs the depths of addiction. Relentless in his need to bridge epi... + Read More
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Series: The Miracles of Ordinary Men Electronic book text, EPUB Amanda Leduc 9781770903944 $13.95 FICTION May 01, 2013

Amanda Leduc’s stunning novel is the tale of two unlikely dreamers: Sam, a man who wakes up one day to find himself growing wings, and Lilah, a woman who has lost her brother to the streets of Vancouver. As Sam finds himself falling away from the world as he grows feathers from his back, Lilah seeks sexual penance under the harsh hand of her boss, her own transformation subtle and terrifying. Sam and Lilah fall deeper into their separate spiritual paths, and the two hurtle closer and closer to a dark, unknown destiny — one that changes all ... + Read More
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Series: Playing With Matches Electronic book text, EPUB Suri Rosen 9781770905931 $7.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 13 - 17 Sep 01, 2014

When 16-year-old Raina Resnick is expelled from her Manhattan private school, she’s sent to live with her strict aunt — but Raina feels like she’s persona non grata no matter where she goes. Her sister, Leah, blames her for her broken engagement, and she’s a social pariah at her new school. In the tight-knit Jewish community, Raina finds she is good at one thing: matchmaking! As the anonymous “Match- Maven,” Raina sets up hopeless singles desperate to find the One. A cross between Jane Austen’s Emma, Dear Abby, and Yenta the matchmaker, Rai... + Read More
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Series: Dead Kid Detective Agency Dial M for Morna The Dead Kid Detective Agency #2 Electronic book text, EPUB Evan Munday 9781770904187 $8.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 9 - 13 Oct 01, 2013

The anticipated second volume in Munday’s Silver Birch-nominated series October Schwartz and her five deadest friends are back. The holiday season has descended upon the town of Sticksville like an eggnog rainstorm, but October has no time for candy canes or mistletoe. She’s busy dealing with an oddly pleasant new history teacher, her living friends’ new roles as high-school radio DJs, and two (!) new mysteries that need solving before the new year. October and her ghost friends are hot on the trail of the person (or persons) responsible ... + Read More
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Series: A Pippa Greene Novel Depth of Field A Pippa Greene Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Chantel Guertin 9781770905962 $6.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 13 - 16 Aug 01, 2014

Two weeks in New York City should be the time of Pippa’s life: she’s attending the prestigious Tisch Photography Camp. But what should be 14 unforgettable days of bliss turns into chaos when her one and only nemesis, Ben Baxter, proves to be surprisingly more complex than she could’ve ever imagined, and her Tisch mentor, a renowned photographer, seems to have a lot more to do with her parents’ past than anyone wants her to know. Is Pippa out of her depth?Picking up where she left off in The Rule of Thirds, Pippa Greene returns in Depth of... + Read More
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Series: A Pippa Greene Novel The Rule of Thirds A Pippa Greene Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Chantel Guertin 9781770904637 $8.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 13 - 17 Oct 01, 2013

A fresh voice in YA fiction brings a charming heroine to life in this series debut Sixteen-year-old Pippa Greene never goes anywhere without her camera. She and her best friend/supermodel-in-training Dace long ago mapped out their life plan: Pippa will be the noted fashion photographer, and Dace the cover girl. But ever since last spring, things have changed for Pippa — and her junior year at Spalding High proves to have its own set of challenges. Not only is Vantage Point, the statewide photography competition, in three short weeks, but ... + Read More
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Series: The Lake and the Library Electronic book text, EPUB S.M. Beiko 9781770903852 $10.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 14 - 18 May 01, 2013

Wishing for something out of Alice in Wonderland, something beyond her adventureless life, 16-year-old Ash is counting down the days until she and her mother move away from their prairie hometown of Treade. It’s Ash’s summer of goodbyes until, after a turn of fate, she finds her way into the mysterious, condemned building on the outskirts of town — one that has haunted her entire childhood with secrets and questions. What she finds inside — or what finds her — is an untouched library, inhabited by an enchanting mute named Li. Brightened b... + Read More
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Series: Project Superhero Electronic book text, EPUB Paul Zehr 9781770905900 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 8 - 12 Sep 01, 2014

Join 13-year-old Jessie as she keeps a diary of her class’s yearlong research project on superheroes, which culminates in the Superhero Slam: a head-to-head debate battle! It’s shy, comics-obsessed Jessie’s dream come true . . . and worst nightmare. She decides to champion Batgirl, a regular person (albeit with major talent and training under her utility belt), and soon Jessie wonders what it would take to be Batgirl. Will she prove to her best friends, Cade and Audrey, that she’s more than a sidekick? Can she take down archenemy Dylan at t... + Read More
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Series: A Collins-Burke Mystery Ruined Abbey A Collins-Burke Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Anne Emery 9781770906921 $13.99 FICTION May 01, 2015

From Arthur Ellis Award–winning author Anne Emery comes a “winning mystery [that stands] on its own.” — Booklist It’s 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-Burke series, Father Brennan Burke is home in New York when news of his sister’s arrest in London sends him flying across the ocean. The family troubles deepen when Brennan’s cousin Conn is charged with the murder of a Special Branch detective and suspected in a terrorist plot against Westminster Abbey. The Burkes come unde... + Read More
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Series: A Collins-Burke Mystery Blood on a Saint A Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Anne Emery 9781770904125 $13.99 FICTION Oct 31, 2013

Award Winning mystery author Anne Emery returns with another installment in the Collins-Burke mystery series “The writing bustles with energy, and with smart, wry dialogue and astute observations about crime and religion.” — Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Father Brennan Burke’s patience is tested to the limit when a young woman announces to the world that the Virgin Mary has appeared to her in his churchyard, and hordes of pilgrims, souvenir hawkers, and reporters converge on the scene. But, as unwelcome as these guests may be, they pale... + Read More
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Series: The Drop Zone A T.J. Peterson Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Bob Kroll 9781770907256 $11.99 FICTION May 01, 2015

A dark and suspenseful debut Detective T.J. Peterson has a problem, and it’s not just how much he’s drinking or the daily, silent, tormenting video calls from his estranged daughter. A Catholic priest has been bludgeoned to death in church, apparently by a symbol of his faith, and an unidentified woman’s body had been found. He’s barely holding it together. When a deranged teenager, a possible witness, crosses his path, he is propelled into a sleazy, violent world of underage prostitution, sexual abuse, and human trafficking as he pursues a me... + Read More
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Series: An Arthur Beauchamp Novel Sing a Worried Song An Arthur Beauchamp Novel Electronic book text, EPUB William Deverell 9781770907287 $19.99 FICTION Apr 01, 2015

The sixth novel in the acclaimed Arthur Beauchamp series Everything is going well for Arthur Beauchamp in his early middle age. Life is so good for the top-notch defence lawyer that, in a moment of career restlessness, he decides to switch sides, just the once, and prosecute a young man charged with murdering a clown. Beauchamp is confident he can prove Randolph Skyler is guilty. Confident, but still worried and surprisingly blind to how precarious the evidence is — and, worse, to the fissures opening in his personal life. It’s a ... + Read More
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Series: Cipher A Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB John Jantunen 9781770906150 $13.99 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

A high school football star who chooses a tour of duty in Afghanistan over a potentially lucrative career in the pros. A woman whose career as a nine-ball champion was cut short at the Nationals. A motorcycle accident that leaves a boy in a wheelchair. A gun containing a single bullet. Fires destroying homes throughout Regina. An elusive best friend who makes an incredible and awful sacrifice.And Ruby Yee’s spicy black bean balls.All of these factors come together when Curtis Mays, football star and local hero, returns home unexpectedly to ... + Read More
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Series: Black Rock An Eddie Dougherty Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB John McFetridge 9781770904897 $10.99 FICTION May 01, 2014

An artfully told police procedural set in an explosive era in recent history Montreal 1970. The “Vampire Killer” has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University, and houses in Westmount. Riots break out at the St. Jean Baptiste parade and at Sir George Williams University. James Cross and Pierre Laporte are kidnapped and the Canadian army moves onto the streets of Montreal. A young beat cop working out of Station Ten finds himself almost alone hunting the serial killer, as the rest of ... + Read More
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Series: Ride the Lightning A Crime Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Dieter Kalteis 9781770905078 $10.99 FICTION Apr 01, 2014

A fast, powerful read full of action, twists, and dark humour Bounty hunter Karl Morgen goes after Miro Knotts on a skipped bond, finding the dope dealer wrapped around an underaged girl at a rave in Seattle. Dragging Miro in the hard way gets Karl’s license revoked, while Miro gets off with a suspended sentence. Finished in Seattle, Karl finds work as a process server in Vancouver. To Karl, it’s the kind of place where people settle things with middle fingers instead of guns, the kind of place a guy could get used to. He meets PJ Addie, the ... + Read More
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Series: The Buffalo Job A Wilson Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Mike Knowles 9781770905108 $9.99 FICTION Jun 01, 2014

Mob enforcer Wilson returns for the fifth installment of this taut, gritty crime series Wilson should have just walked away when three men came looking for a way to boost a valuable piece of art. But the heist was more than just a job for Wilson; it was a chance to get off the sidelines and back in the game. The art came off the wall, the alarm screamed thief, and Wilson walked away clean. But it turned out that job was an interview for an even bigger heist. A dangerous man wants Wilson to get him something more valuable than a painting. Pro... + Read More
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Series: A Steve Nastos Mystery The Filthy Few A Steve Nastos Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Richard Cain 9781770904606 $11.99 FICTION Oct 31, 2013

A cinematic, fast-paced, and thrilling crime caper Whether cops or gang bangers, every organization has its filthy few, the people willing and able to do anything to forward their cause. Rookie police officers David Morrison and Jake Radix are determined to advance their careers in the drug squad by any means necessary. No longer on the force, Karen Grant is now working as a journalist and one of her two sources has just been murdered in what police have written off as a drug deal gone bad. When Grant and witness Ann Falconer become hun... + Read More
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Series: A Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery Up in Smoke A Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Ross Pennie 9781770904668 $10.99 FICTION Oct 31, 2013

Suspense and corruption light up the third Dr. Zol Szabo offering Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo and his team are called to a panic-stricken high school in the heart of Ontario’s tobacco country, where teens are dying from liver failure. The team suspects a link with contaminated, cut-price cigarettes manufactured on nearby Grand Basin Indian Reserve. When Zol confronts The Badger, the multi-millionaire kingpin of the illicit Native tobacco trade, he is ordered to shut down his investigation when rebuffed by high-level government aut... + Read More
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Series: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel Death’s Last Run A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel Electronic book text, EPUB Robin Spano 9781770903524 $10.95 FICTION May 01, 2013

A young snowboarder is found dead on the Blackcomb Glacier, and Whistler police want to close the case as suicide. The victim’s mother, a U.S. senator, says her daughter would not, and did not, kill herself. At her request, the FBI sends in an undercover agent — Clare Vengel — to find out who might have killed Sacha and why. Dropped into a world of partying with ski bums and snow bunnies, Clare soon discovers that Sacha was involved in an LSD smuggling ring. Worse: the top cop in Whistler is in cahoots with the smugglers, and Clare’s cover ... + Read More
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Series: A Peter Cammon Mystery The Drowned Man A Peter Cammon Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB David Whellams 9781770903678 $10.95 FICTION May 01, 2013

In this second mystery featuring Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, the veteran detective is called out of retirement once again. His assignment appears simple: travel to Canada to retrieve the body of a murdered Scotland Yard colleague. But Peter cannot resist delving into the oddities of the crime. His colleague was brutally attacked, run down by a car, and then dumped in a canal, yet the probable motive for the murder is bizarre: the theft of three letters from the U.S. Civil War era, one of them signed by the assassin John Wilkes Booth. Haun... + Read More
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Series: The Pemmican Eaters Electronic book text, EPUB Marilyn Dumont 9781770907225 $14.99 POETRY Apr 01, 2015

A picture of the Riel Resistance from one of Canada’s preeminent Métis poets With a title derived from John A. Macdonald’s moniker for the Métis, The Pemmican Eaters explores Marilyn Dumont’s sense of history as the dynamic present. Combining free verse and metered poems, her latest collection aims to recreate a palpable sense of the Riel Resistance period and evoke the geographical, linguistic/cultural, and political situation of Batoche during this time through the eyes of those who experienced the battles, as well as through the eyes o... + Read More
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Series: Cut-up Apologetic Electronic book text, EPUB Jamie Sharpe 9781770907133 $14.99 POETRY Apr 01, 2015

Up-and-coming poet Jamie Sharpe presents a finely tuned second collection Cut-up Apologetic, Sharpe’s second collection, explores aging in a world where youth is terrible and something we desperately want back. These are poems about failing to leave our mark while marks are left on us — about the collective insatiability of emptying surroundings in an attempt to fill ourselves. At the same time, Cut-up Apologetic is naïve and playful even when examining fear expressed as discrimination or the ways restlessness transitions into an ... + Read More
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Series: Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something Electronic book text, EPUB Paul Vermeersch 9781770906303 $14.99 POETRY Oct 01, 2014

Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on written language and the end of civilization. It combines centos, glosas, erasures, text collage, and other forms to imagine a post-apocalyptic literature built, or rebuilt, from the rubble of the texts that came before.
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Series: Intimate Letters The Invisible World Is in Decline, Book VII Electronic book text, EPUB Bruce Whiteman 9781770906181 $14.99 POETRY Oct 01, 2014

Intimate Letters comprises the seventh book of an ongoing long poem in prose called The Invisible World Is in Decline. Its title borrows from a string quartet by Leo Jánacek, a profoundly emotional piece written late in the composer’s life when he had fallen in love with a younger woman. It also points towards the intimacy of letters themselves, the visible pieces that make up language. This collection begins with love poems, then moves to a section (“Wretched in This Alone”) dominated by loss. The “Invisible Ghazals” which follow take lang... + Read More
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Series: Failure to Thrive Electronic book text, EPUB Suzannah Showler 9781770905313 $13.99 POETRY Apr 01, 2014

Poetry of ambivalence, humour, and doubt that belies a kind of optimism Dumpster fires outside discount stores and rotting whale carcasses; optical illusions and memento mori—all “coming to you direct, / by way of this Rube Goldberg machine.” Failure to Thrive zigzags through excess, taking in the big picture through the lens of a pinhole camera. These poems ask us to lean into our senses, to “spend time loitering, slipping coins into attention’s slots, / anticipating the next big pay-off.” Hip and cerebral, this witty collection is as... + Read More
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Series: Designated Mourner Electronic book text, EPUB Catherine Owen 9781770905344 $13.99 POETRY Apr 01, 2014

A moving, lyrical, and original collection from an award-winning poet Designated Mourner is a collection of elegies for an unconventional spouse and artistic collaborator, lost to addiction at a young age. These poems keen on the page, tracing tenderness and sorrow while raging against his night. Well crafted and intimate, Designated Mourner engages with a range of forms. It is timely as grief is a misunderstood and often shunned emotion in North American society, as is drug addiction. The poems allow emotion while never losing their au... + Read More
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Series: Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis Electronic book text, EPUB Robin Richardson 9781770904361 $13.99 POETRY Sep 01, 2013

Sexy, irreverent, and inventive Lovesick Stormtroopers, dowsing Girl Guides, movie stars, pool hustlers, and the mad queen Ranavalona … With Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis, Robin Richardson charts a path through a surreal otherworld that is at once carnal and aerial, fine-grained and crude. Yearning, unapologetic women who delight in the monsters they’ve created make these poems “a shield made of braids, / bassinet of broadswords,” and “a ghost-like choir where a love affair / becomes a pulp-book, plotted perfectly to end.”
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Series: Previously Feared Darkness Electronic book text, EPUB Robert Priest 9781770904484 $13.99 POETRY Sep 01, 2013

Daring new verse from one of Canada’s most-established poets Previously Feared Darkness picks up and pulls at the vibrant threads of Robert Priest’s last collection, Reading the Bible Backwards. One strand leads, with unabashed candour and elegance, through the author’s love life; another, through fields of praise; a third experiments with automated metaphors and delivers a challenging new selection of mashups that Priest calls meme splices. A fourth thread rekindles the author’s love of the prose poem to produce a suite of strange tales,... + Read More
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Series: The Ends of the Earth Electronic book text, EPUB Jacqueline Turner 9781770903708 $13.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2013

The Ends of the Earth moves through technological disasters, environmental nightmares, and broken relationships to find love cast away at the end of days. Its urban settings are counterbalanced with the idea of escape, deserted islands, and ocean solitudes. In this collection of playful, challenging, and beautiful poems, Jacqueline Turner uses the interrobang — a question mark combined with an exclamation point, the excited question — as a symbol of our times to move the work through a host of genres. Like notes washed ashore in bottles, ... + Read More
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Series: Letter from Brooklyn Electronic book text, EPUB Jacob Scheier 9781770903883 $13.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2013

In Letter from Brooklyn, Jacob Scheier examines love, loss, history, identity, protest, and popular culture. At the heart of his new poems is the notion that we understand who we are by where we have been. Here, a confessional voice digs deep into a radical Jewish heritage rooted in New York City. Everything is at once political and poetic, inseparable from intimate experience and personal heartbreak. Scheier moves from the inner worlds of grief and love to form a poetic dialectic between the familial and the historical. Whether eating in... + Read More
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Series: Love in the Elephant Tent How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me Home Electronic book text, EPUB Kathleen Cremonesi 9781770907317 $20.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2015

If you live life without a net, what happens when you fall? Kathleen Cremonesi knew early on she wanted to be different. Determined to avoid following in her mother’s footsteps to an ill-fated marriage, Kathleen left Oregon in her early 20s to travel across Europe. On a whim, this former administrative assistant with wanderlust took a job as a dancer in an Italian circus and, working her way up, became an ostrich-riding, shark-taming showgirl. Kathleen bonds with the exotic animals that could strike and kill at any moment, but ins... + Read More
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Series: What Was I Thinking? The Autobiography of an Idea and Other Essays Electronic book text, EPUB Rick Salutin 9781770907348 $17.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2015

A lifetime of engagement with religion, philosophy, and activism in a series of fascinating reflections. Brilliant, fractious, mordantly funny, playwright/novelist/essayist Rick Salutin has been Canadian journalism’s agent provocateur for over three decades. Whether needling governments and politicians, holding public policy to account, or decrying the shortfalls of activist thought and action, he has been one of the most outspoken commentators of his generation. In What Was I Thinking?, Salutin reveals his curiosity about both th... + Read More
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Series: Far and Near On Days Like These Electronic book text, EPUB Neil Peart 9781770906730 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2014

Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volume in this series, Far and Away, combined words and images to form an intimate, insightful narrative that won many readers.Now Far and Near brings together reflections from another three years of an artist’s life as he celebrates seasons, landscapes, and characters, travels roads and trails, receives honors, climbs mountains, composes and performs music. With pass... + Read More
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Series: Life Real Loud John Lefebvre, Neteller and the Revolution in Online Gambling Electronic book text, EPUB Bill Reynolds 9781770905726 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2014

At age 50, when some people start planning for retirement, John Lefebvre hit the digital motherlode. Neteller, a tiny Canadian internet start-up that processed payments between players and online gambling arenas, rocketed into the stock market. In its early years, Neteller had been a cowboy operation, narrowly averting disaster in creative ways. Co-founder Lefebvre, a gregarious hippie lawyer from Calgary, Alberta, had toked his way through his practice for decades, aspiring all the while to be a professional musician.With the profit from N... + Read More
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Series: Coming Ashore A Memoir Electronic book text, EPUB Catherine Gildiner 9781770906334 $13.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2014

Picking up her story in the late ’60s at age 21, Cathy Gildiner whisks the reader through five years and three countries, beginning when she is a poetry student at Oxford. Her education extended beyond the classroom to London’s swinging Carnaby Street, the mountains of Wales, and a posh country estate.After Oxford, Cathy returns to Cleveland, Ohio, which was still reeling from the Hough Ghetto Riots. Not one to shy away from a challenge, she teaches at a high school where police escort teachers through the parking lot. There, she tries to e... + Read More
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Series: So Long, Marianne A Love Story — includes rare material by Leonard Cohen Electronic book text, EPUB Kari Hesthamar 9781770905016 $18.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2014

The story of the enigmatic beauty who captured the hearts of two extraordinary men At 22, Marianne Ihlen travelled to the Greek island of Hydra with writer Axel Jensen. While Axel wrote, Marianne kept house, until Axel abandoned her and their newborn son for another woman. One day while Marianne was shopping in a little grocery store, in walked a man who asked her to join him and some friends outside at their table. He introduced himself as Leonard Cohen, then a little-known Canadian poet. Complemented by previously unpublished poems, ... + Read More
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Series: Stories About Storytellers Publishing W.O. Mitchell, Mavis Gallant, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, Pierre Trudeau, Hugh MacLennan, Barry Broadfoot, Jack Hodgins, Peter C. Newman, Brian Mulroney, Terry Fallis, Morley Callaghan, Alistair MacLeod, and many more … 2nd edition Electronic book text, EPUB Douglas Gibson 9781770905375 $14.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2014

Now available in paperback, with a new chapter and reading guide Douglas Gibson, the editor behind Canada’s greatest literary talents, is a terrific storyteller himself. Through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that rarely gets told, from Jack Hodgins’ Vancouver Island to Harold Horwood’s Labrador, from Alice Munro’s Ontario to James Houston’s Arctic. Doug Gibson takes us on an unforgettable literary tour of Canada, going behind the scenes and between the covers, and opening up his own story vault for... + Read More
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Series: Clearly Now, the Rain A Memoir of Love and Other Trips Electronic book text, EPUB Eli Hastings 9781770902930 $13.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2013

A deeply personal rumination on the existential explanations for the desperation and sadness experienced by those suffering from addiction and mental disorder, this nuanced memoir brings to life the troubled, decade-long relationship between Eli Hastings and his friend Serala. At family events, Serala wore saris and ate delicately from plates of curry. But elsewhere, she wore a lip ring, designer shades, and a cowboy hat; would regularly drink frat boys under the table; would sleep less than five hours a week; and would place herself in dangero... + Read More
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Series: Summers in Supino Becoming Italian Electronic book text, EPUB Maria McLean 9781770903647 $13.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2013

Every summer Maria and her husband, Bob, went to their little house in the Italian village of Supino, and every year it was a new adventure. Only in Supino would you find a pizzeria in a sheep pasture, a seafood restaurant hidden in the woods, or an electrical cord draped from one balcony to the next so neighbours could share power. In Supino, they celebrate the first figs of the season; host watermelon, azalea, and artichoke festivals; and take pleasure in the magical view of the stars in the summer sky. Written with humour and heart, Su... + Read More
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Series: Gambatte Generations of Perseverance and Politics, A Memoir Electronic book text, EPUB David Tsubouchi 9781770903739 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2013

”Gambatte” means do your best and never give up, and that spirit is at the heart of David Tsubouchi’s life story. This memoir of the former Ontario cabinet minister begins as his family strives for acceptance amid the imprisonment of Canadians of Japanese descent and the confiscation of their property, possessions, and businesses by the Mackenzie King Liberal government in 1941. Despite growing up on the outside looking in, Tsubouchi never felt disadvantaged because he had a good family and was taught to persevere. Gambatte outlines his unu... + Read More