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5-Minute Bedtime Stories
Price:
CA$71.95
ISBN: 9788857251493
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Fairy tales with unhappy endings inspire Gvardeitseva’s recent works on divorce and lost loveInspired by fairy tales, London-based artist Maria Gvardeitseva (born 1982) takes a pronounced political...
Karel Jaromír Erben & Jan Jedlicka: We Three Brothers
Price:
CA$73.00
ISBN: 9783969993019
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Updating and illustrating a tale retold by a Czech folkloristCzech artist Jan Jedlicka (born 1944) combines his illustrative photographs and drawings with the traditional Slavic tale We Three Brothers...
A Seal of Salvage
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781778530104
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Steeped in Newfoundland’s unique folklore and superstitions, A Seal of Salvage is a coming-of-age novel about unrequited love between adolescent boys that slips between history and mythology. Set...
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
Price:
CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781487012748
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
A haunting, magical novel about joy, grief, courage and transformation from the international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.
Nā Hoʻonanea o ka Manawa
Pleasurable Pastimes
Price:
CA$88.00
ISBN: 9780824892753
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
“He mea hoomanao no na hana oia au i hala, a he mea hoi e poina ole ai i na mamo o keia la a mau aku.” A memorial for the events of the past, and something to ensure that the children of today and...
Nā Hoʻonanea o ka Manawa
Pleasurable Pastimes
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824892760
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
“He mea hoomanao no na hana oia au i hala, a he mea hoi e poina ole ai i na mamo o keia la a mau aku.” A memorial for the events of the past, and something to ensure that the children of today and...
Young Claus
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780875658360
Pub Date: October 2023
Before Santa Claus was Santa Claus, he was a boy, and this is his story. Young Claus is an origin story and a fable for both adults and children, in the tradition of The Little Prince and The Last...
The Legend of Baraffo
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CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668415
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Book*hug
In Baraffo, a town gripped by revolutionary fervour, a boy named Mazzu grapples to understand the motivations of Babello, a man imprisoned for an act of arson. When Babello begins a hunger strike and...
On the Turtle's Back
Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren
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CA$31.95
ISBN: 9781978819146
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
On the Turtle's Back is the first collection of folklore from the Lenape people, New Jersey's native inhabitants. Originally compiled by anthropologist M. R. Harrington over a century ago, but never published until now, it shares the tribe's cherished tales about the world's creation, epic heroes, and ordinary human foibles.
On the Turtle's Back
Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren
Price:
CA$72.00
ISBN: 9781978819153
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
On the Turtle's Back is the first collection of folklore from the Lenape people, New Jersey's native inhabitants. Originally compiled by anthropologist M. R. Harrington over a century ago, but never published until now, it shares the tribe's cherished tales about the world's creation, epic heroes, and ordinary human foibles.
Women Wide Awake
Stories, Sculptures, and Poems from Sindhi Folklore
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781774151068
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Mawenzi House Publishers
Women Wide Awake is a collection of stories, poetry, and visual art exploring folklore from the region of Sindh, Pakistan.
Her Body Among Animals
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CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668385
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Book*hug
In this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture, and sci-fi, women challenge the boundaries placed on their bodies while living in a world “among animals,” where...
Ari and the Barley Queen
Price:
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771838351
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Guernica Editions
The title character Ari could have stepped out of a traditional folk tale straight into the day before yesterday. Son of a monstrous, unscrupulous mother and a faint-hearted father, he catches a glimpse...
Djeha, the North African Trickster
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781496847058
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
The first annotated English translation of sixty ancient folktales featuring an icon of the Maghreb
Statue
Price:
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771837989
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Guernica Editions
The devil, a ghost, a doppelganger, a selkie, a hobgoblin – these creatures appear in Marianne Micros’s Statue, a collection of tales which combine traditional and ancient elements with contemporary...
Tauhou
A Novel
Price:
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781487011697
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent.
5-Minute Bedtime Stories
CA$71.95
ISBN: 9788857251493
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Karel Jaromír Erben & Jan Jedlicka: We Three Brothers
CA$73.00
ISBN: 9783969993019
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
A Seal of Salvage
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781778530104
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Breakwater Books
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781487012748
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
A haunting, magical novel about joy, grief, courage and transformation from the international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.
Nā Hoʻonanea o ka Manawa
Pleasurable Pastimes
CA$88.00
ISBN: 9780824892753
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Nā Hoʻonanea o ka Manawa
Pleasurable Pastimes
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824892760
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Young Claus
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780875658360
Pub Date: October 2023
The Legend of Baraffo
CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668415
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Book*hug
On the Turtle's Back
Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren
CA$31.95
ISBN: 9781978819146
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
On the Turtle's Back
Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren
CA$72.00
ISBN: 9781978819153
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Women Wide Awake
Stories, Sculptures, and Poems from Sindhi Folklore
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781774151068
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Mawenzi House Publishers
Women Wide Awake is a collection of stories, poetry, and visual art exploring folklore from the region of Sindh, Pakistan.
Her Body Among Animals
CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668385
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Book*hug
Ari and the Barley Queen
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771838351
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Djeha, the North African Trickster
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781496847058
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Statue
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771837989
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Tauhou
A Novel
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781487011697
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent.