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Merriment
Price:
CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781737524533
Pub Date: March 2025
Imprint: Microcosm Publishing
Mack is having a hard time adjusting to life in New Jersey and the realization that she may never be able to afford to live in New York City ever again. It's hard for anyone to be happy these days though,...
May Our Joy Endure
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771966207
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Biblioasis
Winner of the 2023 Prix Médicis, Prix Décembre, and Prix Ringuet Céline Wachowski, internationally renowned architect and accidental digital-culture icon, finally unveils her plans for the Webuy...
Behind the Moon
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CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781772016383
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: Talonbooks
A new play from award-winning playwright and novelist Anosh Irani In a Mughlai restaurant in Toronto, a late-night visit from a mysterious stranger rattles the cage and shatters the peace. Now Ayub...
The Education of Aubrey McKee
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771965835
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Biblioasis
A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title A young writer finds his way in and out of love in late twentieth-century Toronto. The scene is Toronto, early 1990s, and at a house party Aubrey McKee falls...
Ethel and the Terrorist
A Translation of Ethel et le terroriste
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CA$14.95
ISBN: 9780776643212
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Ethel and the Terrorist (Prix France-Québec 1965) is the prophetic story of Paul, a young French Canadian terrorist, and Ethel whom he loves. These two young people, from parochial backgrounds and impoverished districts of Montreal, are swept into the nationalist-terrorist revolt as activists advocating for Quebec independence.
The Brawl
A Translation of La Bagarre
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CA$14.95
ISBN: 9780776644103
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Gérard Bessette’s first novel, La Bagarre (1958) recounts the story of a leftist Montreal student who abandons his studies as a gesture of solidarity for his fellow workers at the Montreal Transit Company.
Merriment
Price:
CA$32.99
ISBN: 9781737524540
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Microcosm Publishing
As many of us do, Mack is having a hard time coping with life in New Jersey. Watching her friends figure their lives out while she is stuck living at home, Mack is looking for any kind of lifeline out...
Once Upon an Effing Time
A Novel
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771623605
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
A quirky, thrilling, darkly-funny page-turner that explores the fuzzy lines between sanity and insanity, magic and reality, love and duty. It’s 1969. An eight-year-old girl, Elizabeth Squire, has...
Soft Serve
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781550819861
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Allison Graves’ edgy debut collection of short fiction scrutinizes unconventional and confused attachments between people and the reasons they last. The extraordinary becomes the ordinary as people...
Lump
Price:
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459751286
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
In a single day, Cat finds out that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably creepy. The culture of striving has caught up to her family — and Cat doesn’t handle it the way a middle-class mom is supposed to.
Tucked Away
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339278
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
It seems like a dream gig when Daphne gets the job offerlive in Montreal's Underground City for a full year and blog about the experience. The flip side of the city has all the creature comforts. The year will fly by. Except there's a catch. To collect her whopping bonus for sticking it out till day 365, Daphne must agree never to set so much as a toe outside the territory of the Underground City, submitting to an ankle monitor to keep her honest. Even if the conditions are hardcore, she doesn't have much choice. Out of work, and sole provider for a grandmother whose bank account is on life support, Daphne signs on the dotted line. And that?s when her life goes into freefall.
Inspired by Daphne, her grandmother comes up with an underground plan of her own, sheltering a family of illegal refugees in her basement. Daphne's initial fury...
Estates Large and Small
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771964623
Pub Date: August 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life. What decades of rent increases and declining...
Bystander
Price:
CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771667104
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Book*hug
"I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death." Peter Simons doesn’t spend much time at home in his apartment. Thanks to his job at a multinational company, he...
Wave Forms and Doom Scrolls
Stories
Price:
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781989496381
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
In this heart-twisting collection, Tysdal delves deep into the human experience, looking unflinchingly at the darkness of society, at suicide, at internet trolls, but the powerful empathy of his writing brings significance to even the most tragic moments. These stories have intricate and unexpected plots, filmic descriptions and crisp writing.
The Marriage of Rose Camilleri
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771623049
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
An illuminating portrait of an unconventional marriage by bestselling and critically acclaimed author Robert Hough. When Rose Camilleri and Scotty Larkin meet, neither expects to spend a lifetime together,...
Manhattan Meltdown
A Novella
Price:
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771836753
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Two men, no longer young, and friends from childhood, fly to NYC—each with a secret purpose unknown to the other. They arrive just as COVID-19 explodes across the city’s 5 boroughs. One of the men...
Merriment
CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781737524533
Pub Date: March 2025
Imprint: Microcosm Publishing
May Our Joy Endure
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771966207
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Biblioasis
Behind the Moon
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781772016383
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: Talonbooks
The Education of Aubrey McKee
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771965835
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Biblioasis
Ethel and the Terrorist
A Translation of Ethel et le terroriste
CA$14.95
ISBN: 9780776643212
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
The Brawl
A Translation of La Bagarre
CA$14.95
ISBN: 9780776644103
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Merriment
CA$32.99
ISBN: 9781737524540
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Microcosm Publishing
Once Upon an Effing Time
A Novel
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771623605
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
Soft Serve
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781550819861
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Lump
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459751286
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Tucked Away
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339278
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
It seems like a dream gig when Daphne gets the job offerlive in Montreal's Underground City for a full year and blog about the experience. The flip side of the city has all the creature comforts. The year will fly by. Except there's a catch. To collect her whopping bonus for sticking it out till day 365, Daphne must agree never to set so much as a toe outside the territory of the Underground City, submitting to an ankle monitor to keep her honest. Even if the conditions are hardcore, she doesn't have much choice. Out of work, and sole provider for a grandmother whose bank account is on life support, Daphne signs on the dotted line. And that?s when her life goes into freefall.
Inspired by Daphne, her grandmother comes up with an underground plan of her own, sheltering a family of illegal refugees in her basement. Daphne's initial fury...
Estates Large and Small
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771964623
Pub Date: August 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
Bystander
CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771667104
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Book*hug
Wave Forms and Doom Scrolls
Stories
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781989496381
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
The Marriage of Rose Camilleri
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771623049
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
Manhattan Meltdown
A Novella
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771836753
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Guernica Editions