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Oh, Serafina!
A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781978835740
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Newly translated into English, Giuseppe Berto's 1973 novel Oh, Serafina! is a whimsical fable of ecology, lunacy, and love. One of the first environmentally-conscious works of Italian literature, it questions the destructive effects of industrial capitalism, the many forms spirituality might take, and the ways our society defines madness.
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.
Citizens of Light
A Novel
Price:
CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781990071058
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Brindle & Glass
?Sam Shelstad has a funny, lively, engaging, peculiar mind?charming and surprising.? ?Sheila Heti, bestselling author of Motherhood and Pure ColourThis debut novel set in southern Ontario captures call-centre...
The Strange Grave of Mikey Dunbar
and Other Stories to Make You Poop Your Pants
Price:
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781459751071
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
This collection of spooky stories is perfect for Halloween night, sleepovers, and campfires. A frightening trip to the past, where a hangman delivered, to today, where vampires use dating apps. Enjoy fun frights like the reason Sasquatch are rarely seen and what is buried in the grave of Mikey Dunbar.
No One Knows about Us
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781550819502
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Breakwater Books
***ALISTAIR MACLEOD PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION: SHORTLIST*** Award-winning author Bridget Canning returns with an incisive and unsettling collection that considers what it means to be good—or to be a...
Poguemahone
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781771964739
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia...
Little Brudders of Miséricorde
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990160080
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: Tidewater Press
Two unlikely friends navigate a world of saints and sinners, and crimes both real and imagined. Spence is lost—the brief optimism of his early retirement and bold move from Vancouver to Montréal...
The Swells
Price:
CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781487009694
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.
As You Were
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771964432
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Biblioasis
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize • Winner of the 2021 Kate O'Brien Award • Winner of the 2021 Dalkey Emerging Writer Award Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer...
Running Trees
Stories
Price:
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781773101699
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: Goose Lane Editions
Finalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Fiction) and Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short FictionA striking original, deftly humorous collection of stories that considers the quest for truth: how we come to...
Grave Dancing on Two Left Feet
Price:
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781771836128
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Guernica Editions
At times a comedy of terrors, pitting the severe pogrom pain of one side of our narrator’s family against the other’s imagined holocaust horrors in a contest of who suffered more, the consequences...
Business
Price:
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459747050
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Paul Wint quits his dead-end gig composing greeting cards and falls in with Hornsmith, an ailing con on his last score. Soon Paul’s world is about angry acrobats, shady narcs, greedy surgeons, killer gangsters, and punk singers at the end of their tether.
Mirror Lake
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781487005832
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
A brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death.
The Comic
Price:
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771834827
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: Guernica Editions
A bored part-time college English instructor who teaches a class called "Humour in Classical Novels" to students who really don't care decides to try his hand at stand-up comedy, which takes him from...
How To Tell If Your Frog Is Dead
Price:
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771833646
Pub Date: October 2019
Imprint: Guernica Editions
A tour guide leads a Valentine's Day-themed ghost walk, visiting the sites of horrific, yet romantic, deaths. A homicide cop solves tough cases using tips from his plants. Scientists discover a new...
Shot Rock
Price:
CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781554201532
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: New Star Books
When the smell of October's raked leaves gives way to that of morning frost, a mature Winnipeg man's fancy turns to thoughts of curling. But this fall Blackie Timmerman has been hogging stones off the...
Oh, Serafina!
A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781978835740
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
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.
Citizens of Light
A Novel
CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781990071058
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Brindle & Glass
The Strange Grave of Mikey Dunbar
and Other Stories to Make You Poop Your Pants
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781459751071
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
No One Knows about Us
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781550819502
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Poguemahone
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781771964739
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
Little Brudders of Miséricorde
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990160080
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: Tidewater Press
The Swells
CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781487009694
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.
As You Were
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771964432
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Biblioasis
Running Trees
Stories
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781773101699
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: Goose Lane Editions
Grave Dancing on Two Left Feet
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781771836128
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Business
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459747050
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Mirror Lake
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781487005832
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
The Comic
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771834827
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: Guernica Editions
How To Tell If Your Frog Is Dead
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771833646
Pub Date: October 2019
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Shot Rock
CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781554201532
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: New Star Books