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Tomorrow is a Holiday
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CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554202089
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: New Star Books
In Tomorrow is a Holiday, Hamish Ballantyne resists the urge of revelation in favour of idiomatic observations. Divided in four parts, the last of which draws on translations of San Juan de la Cruz,...
The Goldberg Variations
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CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554202096
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: New Star Books
The Goldberg Variations takes as its organizing principle the idea of contingency – the world thrown into Being that the poet encounters – and variation, or Bach’s looping, recombinant system,...
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,...
Male Pregnancy in Reverse
A Tragedy in 5 Acts
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CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554202072
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
Male Pregnancy in Reverse, a long poem "in 5 Acts", transmutes a disturbing and sometimes horrifying experience --- albeit one which is only ever obliquely and allegorically described --- into a dazzling...
Misguided
My Jesus Freak Life In a Doomsday Cult
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CA$26.00
ISBN: 9781554202058
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
A unique first-hand account of a life spent in the Children of God, a/k/a The Family, a millenarian doomsday sex cult under the sway of a charismatic leader, David BergIn 1972, Perry Bulwer, a naive...
The Postmedia Effect
How Vulture Capitalism is Wrecking Our News
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CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781554201976
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
Even as their readers move on-line and their advertisers look elsewhere, daily newspapers continue to be our main source of information, shaping citizens' understanding of the world, and their reactions...
Naked Defiance
A Comedy of Menace
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CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554202003
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
Naked Defiance is the story of a turn-of-the-century radical art group and its charismatic leader, written by one of its members, Florian Moore (probably a pseudonym), and which lands on the desk of...
My Paddle's Keen and Bright
Summer Camp Stories
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CA$24.00
ISBN: 9781554201884
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
Parents began sending their kids off to summer camp more than a century ago, a tradition that continues strong in the face of transformative changes to society, and childhood. The history of summer...
Guilty of Everything
21st Anniversary Edition
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CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201914
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
It’s 1978 and a non-stop carnival of debauchery begins as the first shock of punk hits Vancouver. Now, in 2022, revisit John Armstrong’s pivotal memoir in the 21st anniversary edition of Guilty...
The Sky and the Patio
An Ecology of Home
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CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201945
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
In 25 engaging essays, Summerland writer Don Gayton fuses the personal with the ecological to portray the geography and the natural and human history of his adopted Okanagan Valley homeland. Draft...
After Villon
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CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554201877
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
After Villon, the new book from Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalist Roger Farr, is a book of contemporary verse translations and “queer variations” based on the work of 15th century poete maudit...
Gongo Dodan
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CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554201860
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
Gustave Morin has spent a life carving out a bold and courageous body of work that questions and expands the definition of poetry. The vision and the range of his work, including the books Clean Sails...
Miskwagoode
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CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554201846
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
Taken from the Anishinaabe for “woman wearing red,” Miskwagoode is an unsettling portrayal of unreconciled Indigenous experience under colonialism, past and present. Miskwagoode, the woman in the...
Bird Arsonist
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CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554201853
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
Written with four hands, by Tom Prime and the Giller Prize and Governor General's Award shortlisted Gary Barwin, Bird Arsonist is avant-garde, tragicomic poetry at its most arresting.They say the language...
Ghost Geographies
Fictions
Price:
CA$24.00
ISBN: 9781554201792
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: New Star Books
“Sharp to the point of being piercing, these tales are part of the best tradition of satirical literature.”—Horacio Castellanos Moya, author of SenselessnessA wry, propulsive, visceral collection...
Screen Captures
Film in the Age of Emergency
Price:
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781554201754
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: New Star Books
A spirited, far-sighted guide to politics, Star Wars, the Avengers, David Lynch, and the lost highways between them, for today's capitalist-realist age.“We've met before, haven't we?” The grand...
Tomorrow is a Holiday
CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554202089
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: New Star Books
The Goldberg Variations
CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554202096
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: New Star Books
Duck Island
CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554202034
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
Male Pregnancy in Reverse
A Tragedy in 5 Acts
CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554202072
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
Misguided
My Jesus Freak Life In a Doomsday Cult
CA$26.00
ISBN: 9781554202058
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
The Postmedia Effect
How Vulture Capitalism is Wrecking Our News
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781554201976
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
Naked Defiance
A Comedy of Menace
CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554202003
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
My Paddle's Keen and Bright
Summer Camp Stories
CA$24.00
ISBN: 9781554201884
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: New Star Books
Guilty of Everything
21st Anniversary Edition
CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201914
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
The Sky and the Patio
An Ecology of Home
CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201945
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
After Villon
CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554201877
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
Gongo Dodan
CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554201860
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
Miskwagoode
CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554201846
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
Bird Arsonist
CA$16.00
ISBN: 9781554201853
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: New Star Books
Ghost Geographies
Fictions
CA$24.00
ISBN: 9781554201792
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: New Star Books
Screen Captures
Film in the Age of Emergency
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781554201754
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: New Star Books