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

Alternating between a woman’s childhood in a small town and as an adult in the city, this novel traces a Jehovah Witness family’s splintering belief system, their isolation, and the erosion of their relationships. As Emily becomes closer to her closeted Uncle Tyler, she begins to challenge her upbringing. Her questions about the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ insular lifestyle, rigid codes of conduct, and tenets of their faith haunt her older sister Lenora too. When Lenora disappears, everything changes and Emily becomes obsessed with taking on her siste... + 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 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 band’s succe... + 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 $13.99 USD 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 of his inner... + 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 tim... + 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 world... + 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 concerned... + 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

When 27-year-old image consultant Poppy Ross discovers that her handsome and seemingly devoted husband Parker is having an affair, she is dumbfounded. But before she has the chance to confront him, he is struck by lightning and when he regains consciousness, he has lost his short-term memoriesØ©ncluding those of the affair. Given a chance to erase history and possibly save her marriage, Poppy decides to remake herself in the mistressÓ³ image, so that Parker might never be tempted to stray again. Her quest to become his perfect woman has disastr... + Read More
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Series: Stuck in Downward Dog Electronic book text, EPUB Chantel Guertin 9781770904576 $10.99 FICTION Sep 01, 2013

Mara Brennan is about to unravel. Three days after 28th birthday, her boyfriend dumps her, leaving her with nothing but a basement apartment, a futon, and a pile of unpaid bills. On top of that, her job, working as a receptionist at a cosmetic surgery clinic, is a nightmare, her boss is a tyrant, and her friends have gotten ahead of her in the game of life. She realizes it's time for an identity makeover and devises the OM List, a personal pathway to perfection inspired by her best friends, Olivia and Mitz. Mara hilariously tries and fails at a... + Read More
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Series: The Sky Manifest Electronic book text, EPUB Brian Panhuyzen 9781770904545 $13.99 FICTION Oct 01, 2013

After suffering an unbearable loss, a man takes a road trip in an attempt to find solace and encounters beauty, brutality, and beguiling characters along the way in this darkly thrilling novel. Grieving the deaths of his wife and infant daughter, Nathan Soderquist decides to journey westward across the continent, documenting the ever-changing sky in brief entries of ravishing poetry. Desperately lonely and with nothing left to lose, he drives through vacant landscapes committing acts of violence, nobility, cowardice, and bravery, all the while ... + Read More
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Series: The Miracles of Ordinary Men Electronic book text, EPUB Amanda Leduc 9781770903944 $13.99 FICTION May 01, 2013

This is the story 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. Sam finds himself falling away from the world as he grows feathers from his back, while Lilah makes her own subtle and terrifying transformation as she seeks sexual penance under the harsh hand of her boss. 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 that they know... + Read More
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Series: Playing With Matches Electronic book text, EPUB Suri Rosen 9781770905931 $7.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 16 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, Raina’s... + Read More
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Series: The 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 Age (years) exact 9 Oct 01, 2013

As the Dead Kid Detective Agency embarks on its second (mis)adventure, October Schwartz and her five deadest friends are back, turning over metaphoric rocks and finding the centipedes underneath. In this latest volume, set against a backdrop of yuletide pandemonium, they discover dark supernatural forces at work in Sticksville and sleuth their way through a mystery involving a blizzard of suffragettes, ice skating disasters, anti-Asian sentiment, and the Titanic. Although the holiday season has descended upon the town like an eggnog rainstorm, ... + 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 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: The Rule of Thirds Electronic book text, EPUB Chantel Guertin 9781770904637 $8.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 Oct 01, 2013

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 her mandatory volunteering placement lands her at St. Christopher's Hospital, a place Pipp... + Read More
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Series: The Lake and the Library Electronic book text, EPUB S. M. Beiko 9781770903852 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 May 01, 2013

Wishing for something more than her adventureless life, 16-year-old Ash eagerly awaits the move she and her mother are taking from their dull, drab life in the prairie town of Treade. But as Ash counts the days, she finds her way into a mysterious, condemned building on the outskirts of townØ¯ne that has haunted her entire childhood with secrets and questions. What she finds inside is an untouched library, inhabited by an enchanting mute named Li. Brightened by LiÓ³ charm and his indulgence in her dreams, Ash becomes locked in a world of dusty ... + Read More
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Series: Project Superhero Electronic book text, EPUB E. Paul Zehr 9781770905900 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION 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 the S... + Read More
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Series: Ruined Abbey A Collins-Burke Mystery Electronic book text, EPUB Anne Emery 9781770906921 $13.99 FICTION May 01, 2015

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 under surveillance by the murdered cop’s partner and are caught in a tangle of buried family memories. From the bullet-rid... + Read More
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Series: A Collins-Burke Mystery Blood on a Saint Electronic book text, EPUB Anne Emery 9781770904125 $13.99 FICTION Nov 01, 2013

In the seventh book of the deftly written Collins-Burke Mystery Series, Father Brennan BurkeÓ³ patience is pushed to the limit when a young woman announces to the world that the Virgin Mary has appeared to her in the churchyard, and hordes of pilgrims, souvenir hawkers, and reporters converge on the scene. But, as unwelcome as these guests may be, they pale in comparison to yet another aggravation in Father BurkeÓ³ life, a controversial talk show host who clashes with Burke upon arriving in town. Events take a darker turn when a body is found a... + 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 $13.99 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 case Beaucha... + Read More
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Series: Cipher 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 find... + 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 Nov 01, 2013

Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo and his team are called to a high school in the heart of Ontario's tobacco country, where unexplained deaths from liver failure are creating panic. The team begins to suspect a link with contaminated, cut-price cigarettes manufactured on nearby Grand Basin Indian Reserve led by the Badger, the multimillionaire kingpin of the illicit Native tobacco trade. First-responders from the local fire department become the epidemic's next victims, and when Zol confronts the Badger, he is rebuffed by the leader's lust fo... + 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 $10.99 FICTION May 01, 2013

A young snowboarder turns up dead on the Blackcomb Glacier. The local police are calling it suicide, but the victim's mother, a U.S. senator, is not convinced. At the senator's request, the FBI sends in undercover agent Clare Vengel to infiltrate the world of ski bums and snow bunnies and find out what happened to Sacha. Clare soon discovers that not only was the victim involved in an LSD smuggling ring, but also the uncooperative top cop in town is in cahoots with the smugglers. With her cover dangerously close to being blown Clare must solve ... + 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 of Gab... + 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, is naïve and playful even when examining fear expressed as discrimination or the ways restlessness transitions into an inertia spelling cultural dea... + 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 $13.99 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 language... + 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 quick ... + 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 aural power.
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Series: Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis Electronic book text, EPUB Robin Richardson 9781770904361 $13.99 POETRY Sep 01, 2013

In her second collection of poetry, Robin Richardson charts a path through a surreal otherworld that is at once carnal and aerial, fine-grained and crude. With her unique and engaging voice that mixes pop culture, archaic mysticism, and inventiveness with lyric forms, these poems play with reality and fantasy, distorting perception, and are universal and personal at once.
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Series: Previously Feared Darkness Electronic book text, EPUB Robert Priest 9781770904484 $13.99 POETRY Sep 01, 2013

Picking up and pulling at the vibrant threads of Robert Priest's last book of poems, Reading the Bible Backward, this collection explores new themes while spanning multiple strands of thought. One strand leads, with unabashed candor and elegance, through the authorÓ³ love life; another, through fields of praise; a third experiments with automated metaphors and delivers a challenging new selection of mash-ups that Priest calls meme splices. A fourth thread rekindles the authorÓ³ love of the prose poem to produce a suite of strange tales, bizarre... + Read More
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Series: The Ends of the Earth Electronic book text, EPUB Jacqueline Turner 9781770903708 $13.99 POETRY Apr 01, 2013

A poetic guide for Armageddon, this poetry collection moves through technological disasters, environmental nightmares, and broken relationships to find love cast away at the end of days. The urban settings are counterbalanced with the idea of escape, deserted islands, and ocean solitudes. In this assemblage of playful, challenging, and beautiful poems, Jacqueline Turner uses the interrobang's question mark combined with an exclamation point, the excited question's a symbol of our times to move the work through a host of genres. Like notes washe... + Read More
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Series: Letter from Brooklyn Electronic book text, EPUB Jacob Scheier 9781770903883 $13.99 POETRY Apr 01, 2013

Having lived part time in Brooklyn for the past several years, Jacob Scheier's new poems are solidly rooted in Jewish New York life and examine love, loss, history, identity, protest, and popular culture. At the heart of Letter from Brooklyn is the notion that people understand who they are by where they have been. 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. Wheth... + 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 a 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 instead bring her a peac... + 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 the world of t... + 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 passiona... + 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 Netel... + 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 engag... + 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 $15.99 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, letter... + 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 Coletta McLean 9781770903647 $13.99 TRAVEL Apr 01, 2013

An Italian Canadian woman recounts her annual summer trips with her husband to her ancestral village of Supino, Italy, in this heartwarming hybrid of travel guide and memoir. Written with humor and heart, it describes her process of adjusting to life in her father's hometown, as well as the eccentricities of its people. Supino's colorful landscapes and citizens make for vivid stories, from pizzerias in sheep pastures and fish restaurants hidden in the woods to village-wide celebrations of figs, watermelon, azaleas, and artichokes. The book goes... + Read More
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Series: Gambatte Generations of Perseverance and Politics, a Memoir Electronic book text, EPUB David Tsubouchi 9781770903739 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2013

A touching autobiography, this remarkable story reveals that at the heart of David Tsubouchi's life is the spirit of gambatte, a Japanese word meaning to do oneÓ³ best and never give up. The book chronicles his unusual career path from actor and lumber yard worker to dedicated law school student and politician. Tsubouchi's story begins with the acceptance his family strove for amid the imprisonment of Japanese Canadians and the confiscation of their property, possessions, and businesses by the Mackenzie King Liberal government in 1941. Taught t... + Read More