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The Passenger Seat
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771966306
Pub Date: March 2025
Imprint: Biblioasis
A searing examination of male friendship and the broader social implications of masculinity in an age of toxic loneliness. In a small town in North America, two boys, or men, embark on a vaguely charted...
Kiss the Undertow
A Novel
Price:
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487012106
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
The disturbing story of a swimmer navigating the abuse of her body and mind as she trains for competition, exploring the nature of power and will.
Dear Haider
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771863407
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Baraka Books
Liz has always straddled two worlds: the Montreal Chinese immigrant community and the Quebecois society at large. Now studying physics, she is still grieving her childhood dream of becoming a concert pianist and is in a relationship that isn?t going anywhere. When offered a summer internship in Germany, Liz seizes the chance, hoping to leave everything behind.
Liz meets another intern, Haider, an Indian Muslim from Toronto. Liz and Haider fall in love. What started as a blissful summer love proves challenging when they return to Canada as both families disapprove. Extenuating circumstances lead to a breakup and Liz is shattered. In the throes of despair, she experiences an epiphany about the meaning of life and love.
The Rasmussen Papers
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771872539
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Thistledown Press
A delightfully cunning, sharply insightful novel about ambition and subterfuge from the author of the Giller-longlisted novel A Beauty.
Sufferance
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771838856
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Guernica Editions
From the author of the international bestseller The Quincunx Set in Eastern Europe during the Second World War. When his nation is invaded and occupied by a brutal enemy, a well-intentioned man persuades...
Play
Price:
CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668798
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Book*hug
You will talk about 2016. You will talk about The Lighted City. You will be brave and truthful. You will get to the bottom of what happened. Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable...
Arms & Legs
A Novel
Price:
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487012038
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
A taut and suspenseful domestic drama that explodes the comforting and constricting confines of marriage and early parenthood.
The Disappeared
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608012848
Pub Date: March 2024
The Disappeared traces a pair of casualties who emerge from the ashes of separate acts of political violence: a woman whose husband is missing in a terrorist attack, and a man who believes his sister...
Blue Notes
Price:
CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668675
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Book*hug
How much grief is too much? How far should we go to avoid pain? From the author of the international bestselling novel Agatha comes a literary medical thriller about loss, empathy, science, Big Pharma,...
By Such a Parting Light
A Novel
Price:
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9789766409388
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Disaster catapults three children into the care of their Caribbean grandparents, before another relative, elusive and perhaps unstable, makes a conflicting claim to guardianship. Balancing domestic calamity...
Double Karma
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770866836
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Cormorant Books
Burmese-American photographer Min Lin’s first trip to Burma in 1988, during an uprising, sends him on a journey of self-examination and stirs up a secret family history when he comes face-to-face with a Burmese army captain that looks just like him.
Lost Dogs
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770866690
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Cormorant Books
In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in the most unexpected ways as they search to create meaning and relationships in their lives.
What begins as a search for a lost dog propels a group of unconnected characters into a difficult journey of self-discovery.
Full Fadom Five
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771863124
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
Noah Lamarck's life is a mess. Laid off work as a librarian, with his estranged wife and child in need of money, he struggles to find a way forward. Noah is thrown an unexpected lifeline. When long lost evidence of Shakespeare's life is uncovered, an eccentric bibliophile hires Noah and graduate student Cecelia Lines, to investigate.
The more they delve into the playwright's life, the more they are drawn into each othe's; and despite their growing feelings for one another, their divided loyalties leave them increasingly at odds, and vulnerable to manipulations of their employer. So unfolds a drama of love, sex, family tensions, financial burdens, and obsessions. Noah and Cecelia must navigate to save themselves and Noah's family from ruin.
In Full Fadom Five , set in Cape Breton, Toronto and Shakespeare's London, the past is always present, and the characters always at the mercy of...
Some Unfinished Business
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770866737
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: Cormorant Books
Gripping and evocative, Some Unfinished Business tells the story of a young man who is determined to prevail through anti-Soviet resistance in occupied Lithuania, imprisonment in the Gulag, and the icy hands of bureaucracy that attempt to thwart his love for a woman with a mysterious past — all while chasing the back of the man who dared him to dream in the first place.
Goddess
Price:
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487011116
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
An entrancing novel about an exclusive wellness retreat on a remote Greek island hosted by a celebrity guru who is more than meets the eye.
Hunger Heart
Price:
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781771667722
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Book*hug
A few days ago, Karen was a writer and translator immersed in Copenhagen’s creative scene, madly in love with her partner. Now she’s a patient in a psychiatric facility. Hunger Heart is a sensual,...
The Passenger Seat
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771966306
Pub Date: March 2025
Imprint: Biblioasis
Kiss the Undertow
A Novel
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487012106
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
The disturbing story of a swimmer navigating the abuse of her body and mind as she trains for competition, exploring the nature of power and will.
Dear Haider
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771863407
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Baraka Books
Liz has always straddled two worlds: the Montreal Chinese immigrant community and the Quebecois society at large. Now studying physics, she is still grieving her childhood dream of becoming a concert pianist and is in a relationship that isn?t going anywhere. When offered a summer internship in Germany, Liz seizes the chance, hoping to leave everything behind.
Liz meets another intern, Haider, an Indian Muslim from Toronto. Liz and Haider fall in love. What started as a blissful summer love proves challenging when they return to Canada as both families disapprove. Extenuating circumstances lead to a breakup and Liz is shattered. In the throes of despair, she experiences an epiphany about the meaning of life and love.
The Rasmussen Papers
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771872539
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Thistledown Press
A delightfully cunning, sharply insightful novel about ambition and subterfuge from the author of the Giller-longlisted novel A Beauty.
Sufferance
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771838856
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Play
CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668798
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Book*hug
Arms & Legs
A Novel
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487012038
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
A taut and suspenseful domestic drama that explodes the comforting and constricting confines of marriage and early parenthood.
The Disappeared
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608012848
Pub Date: March 2024
Blue Notes
CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668675
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Book*hug
By Such a Parting Light
A Novel
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9789766409388
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Double Karma
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770866836
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Cormorant Books
Lost Dogs
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770866690
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Cormorant Books
In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in the most unexpected ways as they search to create meaning and relationships in their lives.
What begins as a search for a lost dog propels a group of unconnected characters into a difficult journey of self-discovery.
Full Fadom Five
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771863124
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
Noah Lamarck's life is a mess. Laid off work as a librarian, with his estranged wife and child in need of money, he struggles to find a way forward. Noah is thrown an unexpected lifeline. When long lost evidence of Shakespeare's life is uncovered, an eccentric bibliophile hires Noah and graduate student Cecelia Lines, to investigate.
The more they delve into the playwright's life, the more they are drawn into each othe's; and despite their growing feelings for one another, their divided loyalties leave them increasingly at odds, and vulnerable to manipulations of their employer. So unfolds a drama of love, sex, family tensions, financial burdens, and obsessions. Noah and Cecelia must navigate to save themselves and Noah's family from ruin.
In Full Fadom Five , set in Cape Breton, Toronto and Shakespeare's London, the past is always present, and the characters always at the mercy of...
Some Unfinished Business
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770866737
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: Cormorant Books
Gripping and evocative, Some Unfinished Business tells the story of a young man who is determined to prevail through anti-Soviet resistance in occupied Lithuania, imprisonment in the Gulag, and the icy hands of bureaucracy that attempt to thwart his love for a woman with a mysterious past — all while chasing the back of the man who dared him to dream in the first place.
Goddess
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487011116
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
An entrancing novel about an exclusive wellness retreat on a remote Greek island hosted by a celebrity guru who is more than meets the eye.
Hunger Heart
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781771667722
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Book*hug