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We Were the Bullfighters
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CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781459753600
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
“A window into Canada's role in the making of Ernest Hemingway in clear, clean prose.” — Lee Gowan, author of The Beautiful PlaceSent to cover bank robber Red Ryan’s daring prison break, a young...
Valid
Dystopian Autofiction
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CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487011130
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
A work of queer autofiction and a speculative look at our dark future, Valid is the story of a trans woman who leads her own revolution.
Memorial Days
Vietnam Stories, 1973-2022
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781682831793
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Texas Tech University Press
A retrospective collection of one veteran's fifty years of Vietnam short stories
Wait Softly Brother
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CA$24.00
ISBN: 9781989496664
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
From lost siblings to the horrors of war to tales of selkie wives, Wait Softly Brother is filled with questions about memory, reality and the truths hidden in family lore.
Broken Fiction
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339452
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Broken Fiction is a collection of short autofictional stories and poems that both offer solace and depict anguish at the collision of memory, loss, and grief. This kind of story-making negotiates a recognition and acceptance of hard truths without resorting to easy resolution.
The pieces in this volume are playful and fierce. The narrator's willingness to give attention to where love works or goes wrong, or to the moments when suffering cannot be veiled by a positive attitudeeven as the comic or absurd overwhelms the tragic and humiliatingtakes us to places that inhabit both memory and fiction. Photographs break the fiction and pull the reader into the inevitable forces of time and loss and death.
Broken Fiction invites readers to consider a way throughand sometimes aroundillness and love, pain and joy, and gives a droplet of hope in nature's comedy of errors and coincidence.
Stories from the Sheriff's Daughter
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780875658346
Pub Date: April 2023
Stories From the Sheriff's Daughter is a beautifully written short novel that follows the life of a nine-year-old girl who moves to a small-town Texas county jail when her dairy farmer father is elected...
The Orangeman, Second Edition
The Life and Times of Ogle Gowan, Second Edition
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780228011804
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from Ireland who brought the Orange Order to central Canada, to explore the migration and prejudice that shaped Canadian politics. This lively novel shows that while one never knows everything about a historical person, sometimes the right thing to do is speculate sensibly.
At Face Value, Second Edition
The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780228011798
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
At Face Value spins the tale of John White, a trusty Tory backbencher in Canada’s post-Confederation Parliament who was unusually sympathetic to women and Indigenous communities. Hewing closely to the archival record, it nevertheless diverges on one crucial point, reimagining White as a woman named Eliza McCormack.
What Remains of Elsie Jane
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CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459750845
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A single mother has just lost her soulmate, who has died unexpectedly. She tries to date too soon, confused by her grief, and she starts to unravel. Is she really capable of time travel, or is she going a little nuts?
Pray for the Wanderer
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781851322770
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Pray for the Wanderer, usually regarded by critics as Kate O'Brien's response to the banning of Mary Lavelle in Ireland, is much more than a discourse on culture and censorship. It explores the emotional...
In Praise of Disobedience
Clare of Assisi, A Novel
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CA$31.95
ISBN: 9781978833920
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
An author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. As she becomes captivated by this subversive figure, the author tells the inspirational story of Saint Claire, a visionary who liberated herself from the chains of materialism and patriarchy.
In Praise of Disobedience
Clare of Assisi, A Novel
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CA$79.00
ISBN: 9781978833937
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
An author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. As she becomes captivated by this subversive figure, the author tells the inspirational story of Saint Claire, a visionary who liberated herself from the chains of materialism and patriarchy.
Providence (ebook)
A Novel
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CA$9.95
ISBN: 9780888397409
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: Hancock House
Providence, the first in the McBride Chronicles series, describes the sweeping story of two parallel lives ? Jane Hopkins, an orphaned young girl from England and Gideon McBride, the son of a poor fisherman from Scotland - who separately travel to the New World in search of a better life. Their individual stories contain hardship, adventure, intrigue, deception and lies but, above all, a great love as they each find their way to survive in an unforgiving world ? Jane through music and a desperate need for the foundations of a happy family life, and Gideon through a desire to escape from a lifestyle he was expected to embrace. The beginning of the McBride family dynasty starts in Victoria, British Columbia?s capital city, and is set against a backdrop of the Province?s vivid history ? from the days of the first gold rush along the mighty Fraser River, the incorporation...
Prize for the Fire
A Novel
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780806190723
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
While skillfully portraying a significant historical figure-one of the first female writers known to have composed in the English language-Prize for the Fire renders the inner life of Anne Askew with a depth and immediacy that transcends time.
Scenes from the Underground
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CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781487010751
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
I have just heard for the first time the expression “to make soup”: it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs of everyone huddled in the club toilet stall, opened MD, ketamine, old dry speed, crushed e pills, to make big lines that will let us forget the past forty-eight hours that have been so difficult.
Radek
A Novel
Price:
CA$18.48
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781583679555
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: New York University Press
A first-ever English translation which reveals the inner voice of a brilliant Bolshevik politician during the first global revolution Through this dramatic history by Stefan Heym,...
We Were the Bullfighters
CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781459753600
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Valid
Dystopian Autofiction
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487011130
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
A work of queer autofiction and a speculative look at our dark future, Valid is the story of a trans woman who leads her own revolution.
Memorial Days
Vietnam Stories, 1973-2022
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781682831793
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Texas Tech University Press
Wait Softly Brother
CA$24.00
ISBN: 9781989496664
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
From lost siblings to the horrors of war to tales of selkie wives, Wait Softly Brother is filled with questions about memory, reality and the truths hidden in family lore.
Broken Fiction
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339452
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Broken Fiction is a collection of short autofictional stories and poems that both offer solace and depict anguish at the collision of memory, loss, and grief. This kind of story-making negotiates a recognition and acceptance of hard truths without resorting to easy resolution.
The pieces in this volume are playful and fierce. The narrator's willingness to give attention to where love works or goes wrong, or to the moments when suffering cannot be veiled by a positive attitudeeven as the comic or absurd overwhelms the tragic and humiliatingtakes us to places that inhabit both memory and fiction. Photographs break the fiction and pull the reader into the inevitable forces of time and loss and death.
Broken Fiction invites readers to consider a way throughand sometimes aroundillness and love, pain and joy, and gives a droplet of hope in nature's comedy of errors and coincidence.
Stories from the Sheriff's Daughter
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780875658346
Pub Date: April 2023
The Orangeman, Second Edition
The Life and Times of Ogle Gowan, Second Edition
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780228011804
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
At Face Value, Second Edition
The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780228011798
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
What Remains of Elsie Jane
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459750845
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Pray for the Wanderer
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781851322770
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
In Praise of Disobedience
Clare of Assisi, A Novel
CA$31.95
ISBN: 9781978833920
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
In Praise of Disobedience
Clare of Assisi, A Novel
CA$79.00
ISBN: 9781978833937
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Providence (ebook)
A Novel
CA$9.95
ISBN: 9780888397409
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: Hancock House
Prize for the Fire
A Novel
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780806190723
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Scenes from the Underground
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781487010751
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
I have just heard for the first time the expression “to make soup”: it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs of everyone huddled in the club toilet stall, opened MD, ketamine, old dry speed, crushed e pills, to make big lines that will let us forget the past forty-eight hours that have been so difficult.
Radek
A Novel
CA$18.48 CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781583679555
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: New York University Press