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The Immortal Woman
Price:
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781487013172
Pub Date: April 2025
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
By turns wry and lyrical, a generational story of identity and freedom that reveals a rarely seen insider’s view of China’s contemporary history.
A Great Consolation
Survive! Survive! & Misery's Progress
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CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781772015065
Pub Date: March 2025
Imprint: Talonbooks
Survive! Survive! transports readers to September 1935, to glorious, tragic times in the colourful company of Ti-Lou and “the Duchess” Édouard, whose sparkling exchanges hide indissoluble pain;...
Not Even the Sound of a River
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771669139
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Book*hug
Not Even the Sound of a River is a profound and moving tale of love’s phantom pains as shared through the relationships between three generations of mothers and daughters. Hanna drives down the St....
Clearing Out
A Novel
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CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781517908942
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Winner of the Nadia Christensen Prize for translation from the American-Scandinavian FoundationIn a masterful blend of fiction and autobiography, a Norwegian novelist sends her character to the far...
The Best Way to Die
A Novel
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CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781998206261
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Sutherland House
Set in Thunder Bay, Ontario, this story follows the lives of four different families as they navigate the emotional complications of terminal illness, growing up, and death.We are introduced to Isla,...
Feast
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CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781772016406
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Talonbooks
Guillermo Verdecchia’s new play Feast follows a comfortable North American family as they contend with breakfast, family life, and the end of things as we know them. The family deals with the coming...
Hester In Sunlight
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CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554202102
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: New Star Books
Yes, that Hester — the fallen woman who bore the Scarlet Letter while raising her daughter on her own. She is looking back, across that clearing, and 150 years, at her fateful lover. Less a re-telling...
Barcelona Red Metallic
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781772603910
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Second Story Press
How do we respond to tragedy and what would we do to protect those we love from the consequences?
Dotted Lines
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771839051
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Abandoned as a child, Melanie Forsythe seeks stability and belonging after her mom’s boyfriend is left to raise her. Despite her raw deal, Melanie grows up to have a head on her shoulders and a strong...
Keep
A Novel
Price:
CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781487012427
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
A timely tale of ownership and loss, loneliness and connection, and a meditation on all the stuff in our lives.
Japa and Other Stories
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CA$35.95
ISBN: 9780820367279
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
These eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, highly developed thieves, misadventures, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor themselves...
Hides
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781778530241
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Hides is a novel of family and politics that distinguishes itself through its careful intermingling of seriousness and comedy, and its surreal but eerily plausible setting. As wildfires rage across...
We are Already Ghosts
Price:
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781773855271
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside cabin each summer. This annual vacation is at time to unwind and refresh, a time to relax away from the hustle and bustle of city life.We are Already...
Game of Giants
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781990601644
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Freehand Books
A novel about the unpredictability of parenthood, a journey into the unchartered territory that is having a child, especially when that child turns out to be different.Rose Drury has just learned that...
Harvesters
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781990601613
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Freehand Books
Set in Paris, an offbeat and sweet novel about family, loss and recovery, and the magic of memory.When Mira takes a trip to Paris with her nephew, Bernard, she expects to ride bicycles through the picturesque...
The Grandfathers
A Translation of Les grands-pères
Price:
CA$14.95
ISBN: 9780776635859
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
The Grandfathers is a reflection on the passage of generations in a rural community. Based on the life of the author's grandfather, the novel explores the mockery and sorrow of old age: in memories and poverty, in the beauty of yesteryear and its present mutilation.
The Immortal Woman
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781487013172
Pub Date: April 2025
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
By turns wry and lyrical, a generational story of identity and freedom that reveals a rarely seen insider’s view of China’s contemporary history.
A Great Consolation
Survive! Survive! & Misery's Progress
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781772015065
Pub Date: March 2025
Imprint: Talonbooks
Not Even the Sound of a River
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771669139
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Book*hug
Clearing Out
A Novel
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781517908942
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
The Best Way to Die
A Novel
CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781998206261
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Sutherland House
Feast
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781772016406
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Talonbooks
Hester In Sunlight
CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554202102
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: New Star Books
Barcelona Red Metallic
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781772603910
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Second Story Press
Dotted Lines
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771839051
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Keep
A Novel
CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781487012427
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
A timely tale of ownership and loss, loneliness and connection, and a meditation on all the stuff in our lives.
Japa and Other Stories
CA$35.95
ISBN: 9780820367279
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Hides
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781778530241
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Breakwater Books
We are Already Ghosts
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781773855271
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Game of Giants
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781990601644
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Freehand Books
Harvesters
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781990601613
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Freehand Books
The Grandfathers
A Translation of Les grands-pères
CA$14.95
ISBN: 9780776635859
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press