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The Dreamcatcher in the Wry
Price:
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496240149
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Tiffany Midge's hilarious and biting collection of essays, written during the COVID-19 pandemic, brims with satiric insight from a Native American perspective. The Dreamcatcher in the Wry entertains while it informs, gleaning wisdom from the incongruities of everyday life and turning over the colonizer's society and culture for some good old Native American roasting.
Green World
A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare
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CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781625347824
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
At twenty-three, Michelle Ephraim was failing at everything. The only child of reclusive Holocaust-survivor parents who were dismayed by her literary studies, she found herself dumped by her boyfriend...
Don?t!
Misadventures of a Sword Guy
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CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781645678786
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Page Street Publishing
This Won’t Help
Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781615199990
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: The Experiment
Part catharsis, part diagnosis, this divinely wry collection from New Yorker and McSweeney’s satirist Eli Grober will strike a chord with readers who are dismayed by the chaos of our times. None of it will help—but a few good laughs won’t hurt. Probably.
Jigsaw
A Puzzle in Ninety-Three Pieces
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CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781772015430
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Talonbooks
Celebrated humorist and short-story writer M.A.C. Farrant’s new non-fiction work comprises ninety-three puzzle pieces that mimic the actual practice of assembling a jigsaw puzzle. By turns whimsical,...
Finding Larkspur
A Return to Village Life
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771623704
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
Bestselling chronicler of village life Dan Needles (author of the Wingfield Farm stage plays) leads an insightful and laugh-out-loud tour through the quirks and customs of today’s Canadian small town. Modern...
East Side Story
Growing Up at the PNE
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CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781551529332
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
A sly, sentimental, and wickedly funny memoir about growing up at the local fair A ROBIN'S EGG BOOK The PNE (Pacific National Exhibition) is a Vancouver tradition, an annual fair started in 1910 that...
Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
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CA$26.00
ISBN: 9798986337524
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
"This guidebook provides excellent examples of deep questioning, critical engagement and the embracing of Judaism as an ongoing call for social justice." –Angela Y. DavisEdited by comedic performance...
Seeing Things
The Small Wonders of the World According to Writers, Artists and Others
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CA$36.00
ISBN: 9781739597627
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
A captivating compendium of everyday moments of surprise and joy from the Instagram pages of David Byrne, Jarvis Cocker, Nicole Eisenman, Garth Greenwell, William Kentridge and many moreA sunset. A...
The Wandering Womb
Essays in Search of Home
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CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781625347350
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
As a third-generation Jewish Texan, S. L. Wisenberg has always felt the ghost of Europe dogging her steps, making her feel uneasy in her body and in the world. She plays at hiding from the Nazis in...
The State You're In
Florida Men, Florida Women, and Other Wildlife
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780813068862
Pub Date: August 2022
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Jump into the wacky, wild world of Florida For more than 30 years, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Craig Pittman has chronicled the wildest stories Florida has to offer....
The Advice King Anthology
The Advice King Anthology
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780826504630
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
A curated collection of the best Advice King columns, with a new introduction by the Advice King and a foreword by Tracy Moore
The Great Indoorsman
Essays
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496230515
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
In these deeply funny and introspective essays, Andrew Farkas boldly surveys the "in-of-doors," where a higher degree of comfort can be found than out-of-doors, and discovers that our lives are controlled much more by fiction than by anything "real."
Robert's Hill (or The Time I Pooped My Snowsuit) and Other Christmas Stories
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781459750166
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Humorous and heartfelt Christmas stories that illuminate the everyday magic of the season. Being with family. Basking in tradition. Pooping your snowsuit. Each tale is meant to be read out-loud, maybe with some rum and eggnog. But if you’re out of eggnog, rum goes well with lots of things.
Things Are Against Us
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771964333
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: Biblioasis
A Toronto Public Library Fall 2021 Pick An Independent Best Book of 2021 “It’s somehow hard not to be optimistic in the hands of a writer...
Call Me Brenda
Dispatches from the World of Customer Service
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CA$6.50
ISBN: 9781648410550
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: Microcosm Publishing
Mary Beth works as a customer service representative, answering calls made to a giant corporation's 1-800 number. You know, the kind of calls you make when you're having a problem with your bill or...
The Dreamcatcher in the Wry
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496240149
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Green World
A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781625347824
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Don?t!
Misadventures of a Sword Guy
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781645678786
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Page Street Publishing
This Won’t Help
Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781615199990
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: The Experiment
Jigsaw
A Puzzle in Ninety-Three Pieces
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781772015430
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Talonbooks
Finding Larkspur
A Return to Village Life
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771623704
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
East Side Story
Growing Up at the PNE
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781551529332
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
CA$26.00
ISBN: 9798986337524
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Seeing Things
The Small Wonders of the World According to Writers, Artists and Others
CA$36.00
ISBN: 9781739597627
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
The Wandering Womb
Essays in Search of Home
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781625347350
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
The State You're In
Florida Men, Florida Women, and Other Wildlife
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780813068862
Pub Date: August 2022
Imprint: University Press of Florida
The Advice King Anthology
The Advice King Anthology
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780826504630
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
The Great Indoorsman
Essays
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496230515
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Robert's Hill (or The Time I Pooped My Snowsuit) and Other Christmas Stories
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781459750166
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Things Are Against Us
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771964333
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: Biblioasis
Call Me Brenda
Dispatches from the World of Customer Service
CA$6.50
ISBN: 9781648410550
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: Microcosm Publishing