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Haunch Paunch and Jowl
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CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781608012695
Pub Date: October 2024
Long out of print, Samuel Ornitz's Haunch, Paunch, & Jowl (1923) deserves the renewed attention it has received as a lost classic of modernist Jewish-American literature. The novel provides a panorama...
This Thing of Darkness
An Inspector Green Mystery
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CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459753907
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
After a controversial doctor’s violent death, Inspector Green unearths a long list of potential suspects in this gripping police procedural for fans of Louise Penny and Michael Connelly.In the seventh...
The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf
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CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781459753198
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
“A sumptuously written story about culinary ambition, restaurant-world vice, and the frailties of the heart.” — KEVIN CHONG, author of The Double Life of Benson YuRestaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary...
Rubble Children
Seven and a Half Stories
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CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781772127720
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: University of Alberta Press
In seven-and-a-half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuter’s Rubble Children tackles Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, all drenched in suburban wonder and dread.
That Business at Brody
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781998779345
Pub Date: June 2024
The assassination of Czar Alexander in 1881 unleashed a sequence of consequences which impelled, in the next two decades, the birth of Zionism and the proliferation of transatlantic migrations. Following...
A Plague of Cholera and Other Stories
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CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780815611646
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
With his intense, quickfire psychological fiction and consistent portrayal of characters’ subconscious minds, Jonah Rosenfeld is a standout among Yiddish authors of the early twentieth century. In...
Here Is Still Here
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781773901466
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Linda Leith Publishing
Isabel, raised in a family of post-war Jewish immigrants in Canada, embarks on a journey to find love, purpose and home, navigating between Montreal and Jerusalem. In Here Is Still Here, Sivan Slapak explores human connection and identity with compassion and wit, reminding us that no matter how far you go, you remain yourself.
In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771838658
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Guernica Editions
This flip book is comprised of two novellas:In Sickness and In Health - Lily had epilepsy as a child, so her most cherished goal has always been to be “normal”. By age 45 she has a “normal”...
Dream Chasers
An Inspector Green Mystery
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CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459753877
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
“Insightful, nuanced, and entertaining, Dream Chasers might well be the best Inspector Green novel to date.” — Sherbrooke RecordInspector Green suspects a homicide relates to an elite teen hockey...
Duck Island
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CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554202034
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
A young man returns to the town of his youth after a period spent on the road. Unable to rekindle a high school flame, Cal Bedrick, who is Jewish, soon meets a very nice Catholic girl, Frannie Sinkiewicz,...
The Most Amazing Department Store
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CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781738945245
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Sutherland House
Stepping onto the floor of Sunderland’s means stepping into a whole new world for two young women whose lives will never be the same again.After Lilly leaves her first husband, she takes a job at...
The Tears and Prayers of Fools
A Novel
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780815611592
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
This extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovich’s ?Litvak saga,? his tribute to Jewish life before the Holocaust. Set in a small Lithuanian town in the late nineteenth century, the story begins...
A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780815611585
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
When the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional...
Untethered
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770867017
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Cormorant Books
Twins Petal and Rose are raised by their Holocaust survivor-grandparents and their godfather in a loving but lacking, secular household. Upon graduation, the girls are gifted a summer trip to Israel where their lives take drastically different directions. Twenty years later, Petal, recent PhD, is called back to Toronto, where her sister has experienced a mental health crisis.
The Salt Line
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CA$29.99
ISBN: 9780921332909
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Crowsnest Books
Winner of the Brenner Prize (2015) and the Newman Prize (2016) "Few novels such as this have been written in literature in general and in Hebrew literature in particular." - The Brenner Prize Committee In...
In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me
Stories
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781952271786
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
For readers of Elena Ferrante, Nicole Krauss, and Carmen Maria Machado, In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me is a braided story collection that invokes the real, surreal, and mythic to explore the longings and loneliness of contemporary love.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781608012695
Pub Date: October 2024
This Thing of Darkness
An Inspector Green Mystery
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459753907
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf
CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781459753198
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Rubble Children
Seven and a Half Stories
CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781772127720
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: University of Alberta Press
That Business at Brody
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781998779345
Pub Date: June 2024
A Plague of Cholera and Other Stories
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780815611646
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Here Is Still Here
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781773901466
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Linda Leith Publishing
Isabel, raised in a family of post-war Jewish immigrants in Canada, embarks on a journey to find love, purpose and home, navigating between Montreal and Jerusalem. In Here Is Still Here, Sivan Slapak explores human connection and identity with compassion and wit, reminding us that no matter how far you go, you remain yourself.
In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771838658
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Dream Chasers
An Inspector Green Mystery
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459753877
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Duck Island
CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554202034
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
The Most Amazing Department Store
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781738945245
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Sutherland House
The Tears and Prayers of Fools
A Novel
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780815611592
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780815611585
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Untethered
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770867017
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Cormorant Books
The Salt Line
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9780921332909
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Crowsnest Books
In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me
Stories
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781952271786
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press