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Enclosure Architect
A Novel
Price:
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781959000211
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
An indigent queer sculptor details the culmination and dissolution of her chosen family of artists, bohemians, and libertines in an American city engulfed in civil conflict.
The Indians Won
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CA$20.95
ISBN: 9780826366047
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
First published in 1970 and long out of print, The Indians Won is a stunning work of speculative fiction that imagines that, following the defeat of Custer and Benteen at the Little Bighorn in 1876,...
The Future
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771965606
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Biblioasis
Winner of Canada Reads 2024 • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • One of Tor.com's Can't Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall...
Letters to Little Comrade
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781989496626
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
Framed as an advice booklet, Letters to Little Comrade takes us on a dystopic journey that circles around Little Comrade’s attempts to find happiness and purpose in her life, whether by finding fulfilling work, finding love, by pleasing her parents or by leaving her country.
Dark All Day
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CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781459745858
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
In the third book of the Walking Shadows series, an Automatic is charged with murder and Roche and Allen must prove his innocence, because failure would mean the eradication of all Automatics in America in this alternate version of 1933.
An Illustrated History of Domestic Athropods
By Sir Evald Fitch Townsend
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608012466
Pub Date: October 2022
An Illustrated History of Domestic Arthropods is an artifact from an imagined world where humans are the only vertebrates and the rest of the animal.kingdom is populated by giant insects, arachnids,...
Magnetic Dogs
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771837491
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Magnetic Dogs is a collection of short stories that examines how displaced individuals – those who have been snatched out of their time and place – struggle to adapt and reinvent themselves in an...
Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
A Novel
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781588384690
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
The assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby robbed the nation of the closure it so desperately needed following the death of John F. Kennedy. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald asks what might have...
I, Gloria Grahame
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CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781459748286
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Shy, effeminate Professor Denton Moulton lives in his head, and in his head he is really a long-dead movie star — the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. His own sex life is nonexistent and he feels he hardly has a right to exist, let alone to tell anyone else’s stories. But Gloria’s sex life is scandalous.
Midnight
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CA$17.99
ISBN: 9781459745827
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Dodging the mafia, the cops, and the FBI, Elias Roche and Allen must find a killer with both a time limit and a looming war hanging over their heads.
Night Call
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CA$17.99
ISBN: 9781459745797
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: Dundurn Press
In a very different 1933, self-styled detective Elias Roche and his robot partner, Allen, immerse themselves in the criminal underworld to find the killer and hopefully prevent war on New York’s streets when a murder occurs that not only threatens both the police and the mafia but appears connected to Roche’s past.
Mina's Child
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771337212
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Mina's Child imagines a second generation springing from the "heroes"' in Bram Stoker's Dracula. In 1921, Mina and Jonathan Harker's daughter, Abree, a student at King's College, London, starts to question the extraordinary adventures her parents claim to have experienced in England and the Carpathians. Middle-aged Jonathan Harker is haunted by nightmares that Abree assumes to be about her brother, Quincey, killed in the Great War. As the Harkers follow the thread of their unease back to its source, they are haunted by memories of Lucy Westenra, fiancée to Arthur Holmwood, and the manner of Lucy's death. Having lost her brother, Quincey, in the Great War, Abree refuses to believe in a clear dividing line between good and evil. Abree suspects her parents' tales of glory hide a profound sense of guilt, particularly about the unexplained death of their friend, Lucy Westenra. The Harkers' maid, Jenny, it transpires, has reasons...
Rest is Silence
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781773101217
Pub Date: February 2019
Imprint: Goose Lane Editions
Winner, H.R. (Bill) Percy Novel PrizeFinalist, Amazon.ca First Novel AwardFinalist, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book AwardFinalist, Ottawa Book AwardIn the backwoods of Nova Scotia, a man has decided to withdraw...
The Holocaust Averted
An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967
Price:
CA$50.95
ISBN: 9780813572383
Pub Date: April 2017
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
In The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967, Jeffrey Gurock imagines what might have happened to the Jewish community in the United States if the Holocaust had never occurred and challenges readers to contemplate how the road to acceptance and empowerment for today's American Jews would have been harder than it actually was. As Gurock tells his tale, he concludes every chapter with a short section that describes what actually happened and, thus, further educates the reader.
Niagara Motel
Price:
CA$17.95
ISBN: 9781551526607
Pub Date: September 2016
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little's follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to unforgettable eleven-year-old Tucker Malone--the...
The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Its Circle
Price:
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9780977869602
Pub Date: September 2016
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
On the afternoon of August 28th, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited Coney Island’s famous Dreamland amusement park. A hundred years later, this lively, imaginative book examines his legacy in Coney Island,...
Enclosure Architect
A Novel
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781959000211
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
The Indians Won
CA$20.95
ISBN: 9780826366047
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
The Future
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771965606
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Biblioasis
Letters to Little Comrade
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781989496626
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
Framed as an advice booklet, Letters to Little Comrade takes us on a dystopic journey that circles around Little Comrade’s attempts to find happiness and purpose in her life, whether by finding fulfilling work, finding love, by pleasing her parents or by leaving her country.
Dark All Day
CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781459745858
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
An Illustrated History of Domestic Athropods
By Sir Evald Fitch Townsend
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608012466
Pub Date: October 2022
Magnetic Dogs
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771837491
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
A Novel
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781588384690
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
I, Gloria Grahame
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781459748286
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Midnight
CA$17.99
ISBN: 9781459745827
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Night Call
CA$17.99
ISBN: 9781459745797
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Mina's Child
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771337212
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Mina's Child imagines a second generation springing from the "heroes"' in Bram Stoker's Dracula. In 1921, Mina and Jonathan Harker's daughter, Abree, a student at King's College, London, starts to question the extraordinary adventures her parents claim to have experienced in England and the Carpathians. Middle-aged Jonathan Harker is haunted by nightmares that Abree assumes to be about her brother, Quincey, killed in the Great War. As the Harkers follow the thread of their unease back to its source, they are haunted by memories of Lucy Westenra, fiancée to Arthur Holmwood, and the manner of Lucy's death. Having lost her brother, Quincey, in the Great War, Abree refuses to believe in a clear dividing line between good and evil. Abree suspects her parents' tales of glory hide a profound sense of guilt, particularly about the unexplained death of their friend, Lucy Westenra. The Harkers' maid, Jenny, it transpires, has reasons...
Rest is Silence
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781773101217
Pub Date: February 2019
Imprint: Goose Lane Editions
The Holocaust Averted
An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967
CA$50.95
ISBN: 9780813572383
Pub Date: April 2017
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Niagara Motel
CA$17.95
ISBN: 9781551526607
Pub Date: September 2016
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Its Circle
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9780977869602
Pub Date: September 2016
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.