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On a NASA Flight to Heaven
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780875658810
Pub Date: October 2024
Set throughout the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the stories in On a NASA Flight to Heaven explore the various ways in which the border fractures traditional narratives. Standing between North American...
Bad Houses
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781551529615
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
A boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humourous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Kelly Link From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel...
A Horse at the Window
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CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487012502
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
A genre-bending collection of dramatic monologues shining a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness.
Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770867499
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Cormorant Books
Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness is an iconoclastic romp through the end of the twentieth century. In this revised edition with three new stories, misfit characters find themselves adrift in an increasingly absurdist world, a world they must reinvent for themselves in order to find hope.
The Vicar Vortex
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CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459747319
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Tony Vicar is wrestling against the ordinary patterns his life has fallen into, until dark secrets and a dangerous woman from the past threaten to upend it all.After the devastating fire that nearly...
Anecdotes
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CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668446
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Book*hug
With dreamlike stories and dark humour, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the pressing realities of sexual violence, abuse, and environmental collapse.Absurdist flash fictions...
I'll Be
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771833028
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Guernica Editions
At the heart of I’ll Be resides a highly unreliable narrator. As he fumbles through his days, he breaks boundaries that are larger than the seemingly insignificant tasks at hand: the concept of space...
the book of webs
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CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781625347138
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Word spreads from one recovering self-inflicted eye surgery patient to the next of a mystical book capable of overturning the Burlingtonian empire. Captivating and devious, the book of webs is constructed...
Man or Mango?
A Lament
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771964951
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love. Reclusive...
The Vicar's Knickers
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CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781459747289
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Reluctant celebrity Tony Vicar discovers that opening his dream pub in the small town of Tyee Lagoon isn't without surprising challenges. With the unwelcome appearance of gossip journalist Richard X Dick and uncomfortable questions on the home front, Tony fears he might be cracking under the pressure.
My Volcano
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CA$23.95
ISBN: 9781551528731
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year The brilliant new novel from the fiercely talented author of Vanishing Monuments, shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. On the morning...
Dumb-Show
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CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781927886564
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: ARP Books
?This is literature made from flesh, messy and bloody and exacting and haunting.? Heather and Geoffrey ? twenty-something siblings ? become entangled in separate power struggles...
The Anarchist Banker
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771833325
Pub Date: October 2018
Imprint: Guernica Editions
A new Interpretation and a new English Translation with the original Portuguese Edition The story of The Anarchist Banker takes place in a Lisbon café where the narrator meets an old friend, now a...
Don't Tell Me What to Do
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CA$17.95
ISBN: 9781551527017
Pub Date: September 2017
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
An offbeat story collection about strange, imperfect people doing strange, imperfect things. In poet Dina Del Bucchia's debut story collection, an older woman becomes obsessed with the state of her...
The Heavy Bear
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781928088325
Pub Date: June 2017
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
What happens when a respectable middle-aged father, teacher and writer decides one day to abandon his ordinary routine and embark on an unexpected journey toward an unknowable fate, following the ghost of Buster Keaton and a vision of a bear?
RATS NEST
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CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781771662444
Pub Date: October 2016
Imprint: Book*hug
Mysterious and sometimes hallucinogenic, RATS NEST is a collection of short stories builds a narrative out of the complexity and dialectical uncertainty that many people feel about being alive in the...
On a NASA Flight to Heaven
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780875658810
Pub Date: October 2024
Bad Houses
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781551529615
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
A Horse at the Window
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487012502
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
A genre-bending collection of dramatic monologues shining a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness.
Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770867499
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Cormorant Books
The Vicar Vortex
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459747319
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Anecdotes
CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668446
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Book*hug
I'll Be
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771833028
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Guernica Editions
the book of webs
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781625347138
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Man or Mango?
A Lament
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771964951
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
The Vicar's Knickers
CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781459747289
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
My Volcano
CA$23.95
ISBN: 9781551528731
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Dumb-Show
CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781927886564
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: ARP Books
The Anarchist Banker
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771833325
Pub Date: October 2018
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Don't Tell Me What to Do
CA$17.95
ISBN: 9781551527017
Pub Date: September 2017
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
The Heavy Bear
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781928088325
Pub Date: June 2017
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
What happens when a respectable middle-aged father, teacher and writer decides one day to abandon his ordinary routine and embark on an unexpected journey toward an unknowable fate, following the ghost of Buster Keaton and a vision of a bear?
RATS NEST
CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781771662444
Pub Date: October 2016
Imprint: Book*hug