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Condemned to Repeat
$16.00For anyone other than Randy Craig, a contract to do archival research and web development for Alberta’s famed Rutherford House should have been a quiet gig. But when she discovers an unsolved mystery linked to Rutherford House in the Alberta Archives and the bodies begin to pile up, Randy can’t help but wonder if her modern-day troubles are linked to the intrigues of the past.
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Confessions
$22.95Why do we keep secrets and why do we confess them? The nine tales in this collection, all told in the first person, are each spun around a well-kept secret, willingly or inadvertently confessed. Sometimes the secrets are at the core of the narrator’s life, other times they appear tangential. Regardless of the magnitude of its burden, the confession finds its way to the reader, through a story told perhaps over a cup of tea, in the pages of a journal or within the intimacy of the narrator’s mind. Would stories mean as much to us if they did not remind us of our own secrets and regrets, our stolen moments, our ecstatic failures and sad joys? The stories are confessions of intimate events or desires: marital infidelities, betrayal of friendship, crimes including murderous thoughts and actual acts of murder as well as the painful words of those who consider themselves superior directed at those of lesser financial means who perform necessary tasks for them. The narrators are women and men. They all remain active in their own lives dealing with what has been dealt to them. Most of the stories are set outside of North America, particularly in Turkey, so they have a fresh cultural aspect at the same time as they convey the commonality of human greed, betrayal and heartbreak. The author keeps a dark current running through the stories while at the same time relaying the ordinary, even a matter-of-factness, sometimes with a touch of humour or self-conscious irony. The reader is compelled to find out how a situation is resolved. Sometimes the results are tragic. Other times the events become an undercurrent or a road not taken in what is otherwise a satisfying life.
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Confidence
$19.95Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize.
Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
In Russell Smith?s darkly brilliant new collection of short stories Confidence, the reader will be introduced to ecstasy-taking PhD students; financial traders desperate for husbands; owners of failing sex stores; violent and unremovable tenants; aggressive raccoons; seedy massage parlours; experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day; wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clubs, crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. Every character has a secret of some kind.
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Configurations At Midnight
$12.00”Gustafson is one of those rare poets whose every book is better than the last.” (Quill & Quire). “A learned mind in the best sense of the term, teeming with an allusive awareness of history, art, music and literature wittily defining a world always dying.” (Toronto Star). “An exquisitely gracious sensibility.” (Books in Canada). “Resoundingly upbeat… Witty and erudite, full of allusions to music, art, history and literature, this collection crackles with energy.” (Montreal Gazette).
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Conflict
$18.00SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 RELIT AWARDConflict interweaves ghosts, bad communication, the uncanny and the archival, to create a collection of poems that break down remembrance into abandoned historic markers, jet fuel, keening, or teeth. What you are given (this is a gift) is an insistent refusal to silence or shift. In exchange, the reader must face the impossibility of erasure, a gritty resistance to mourn a fight. Conflict is a collection of red balloons that intersplices and interweaves through various forms of conflict that occur in language, motion, architecture, emotions; between individuals, systems, and mechanical silences.
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Conflict Is Not Abuse
$24.95Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction winner
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships, Schulman illuminates the ways in which cliques, communities, families, and religious, racial, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how Supremacy behaviour and Traumatized behaviour resemble each other, through a shared inability to tolerate difference.
This important and sure to be controversial book brings insight into contemporary and historical issues of personal, racial and geo-political difference, as tools of escalation towards injustice, exclusion and punishment, whether the objects of dehumanization are other individuals in our families or communities, African Americans at the hands of police, people with HIV, and Palestinians. Conflict Is Not Abuse is a searing rejection of the cultural phenomenon of blame, cruelty, and scapegoating, revealing how those in positions of power exacerbate and manipulate fear of the “other” to avoid facing themselves.
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Conflicted Scars
$22.95An indispensable guide to parents of hockey hopefuls
At a time of great change in hockey, Justin Davis exposes the dark underbelly of the journey from the minors to the big leagues
Hockey culture: it’s a commonly used phrase inside the game, glorifying sacrifice, toughness, loyalty, and a sense of identity. Justin Davis viewed this culture as something he was lucky enough to experience. After all, he’d won a Memorial Cup after leading the tournament in scoring, and he’d been drafted by the Washington Capitals. “In my mind,” he says, “I was the normal one.” Unfortunately, after stepping outside the game, he began to recognize the racism, sexual abuse and bullying that was so deeply ingrained in the sport. And then, as his own children grew into teenagers, the curtain was pulled back, the memories came rushing forward, and he was horrified: “Why was I naked in a bus bathroom for four hours with seven teammates? What happened to my brain, and why can’t I remember the simplest things? How did I end up living in a basement where the strangers upstairs were clearly engaged in domestic abuse?”
As it navigates the sport’s darkest corridors, Conflicted Scars shares the story of the common Canadian player and offers a guide for parents who need to know how and why a typical teenager with NHL dreams, from a small town, now lives anxiously, introvertedly, and battling emotional detachment.
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Confluences 1
$24.95These essays by accomplished literary critics begin an examination of some of the most exciting new writing to emerge in Canada in the last four decades, following the postcolonial wave of immigration of the 1960s and 70s. Employing a variety of approaches and bringing together multiple concerns–ranging from the aesthetics of postmodernism to a re-examination of European colonialism; from the establishment and celebration of memory to a confrontation with racism; from the acceptance of exile to the uncovering of identities–this new body of writing collectively has redefined the idea of Canadian Literature, prompting the nation to look at itself anew.
Included in this volume are:
“Fielding Ondaatje: A Brief Look at the ‘Canadian’ Response’” –Aparna Halpé
“Caliban’s Voice: Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Poetic Response to Western Hegemonic Discourse” –H Nigel Thomas
“‘Beggaring the Nation’: Bodily Inscription and the Body Politic in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance” –James W Johnson
“Diasporic Violences, Uneasy Friendships, and Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa Child” –Christine Kim
“Austin Clarke’s Poetic Turn” –Leslie Sanders
“Balancing in Silence: On Rienzi Crusz’s Engagement with Myth” –Aparna Halpé
“Postcolonial Mothering in Anita Rau Badami’s Tamarind Mem” –Asma Sayed
“Trauma and Melancholia in H Nigel Thomas’s Behind the Face of Winter and No Safeguards” –Dannabang Kuwabong
“Cyril Dabydeen’s Amazing Corpus” –Frank Birbalsingh
“In Times of Upheaval: Cheran’s Poetic Trajectory” –Chelva Kanaganayakam
“South Asian Poetry in Canada: In Search of a Place” –Arun Prabha Mukherjee -
Confluences 2
$24.95The essays in this volume continue the examination, begun in Confluences 1, of the exciting new writing that has emerged in Canada in the past few decades. Employing a variety of approaches and addressing the many concerns engaging their author-subjects–memory, history, and concentric identities; the subordination of Indian women; the exploitation of Afro-Caribbean immigrants; the “nowarianism” of Indo-Caribbean Canadians; the legacy of Japanese internment during World War II; historical Black experience and meaningful aesthetics; Chinatown as geography, repository, and inspiration–this new body of writing collectively redefines and challenges the idea of Canadian Literature.
Included in this volume are:
“‘This dock is my dock’: Dionne Brand’s Room of Light” –Franca Bernabei
“Between (Hi)Story and Space: Wayson Choy’s Postmodern Chinatown” –Jason Wang
“Landscape and Diasporic Citizenship(s) in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge and Nuclear Seasons” –Dannabang Kuwabong
“Cecil Foster’s Sleep on, Beloved: Reflections on Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Existence in Toronto” –H Nigel Thomas
“Dismantled Domestics, Loneliness, and Creative Coping in Rabindranath Maharaj’s The Amazing Absorbing Boy” –Shoilee Khan
“‘The Multinational’s Song’: M G Vassanji’s Work in Canadian Context” –Laura Moss
“A Long Journey to Mercy: Joy Kogawa’s Gently to Nagasaki” –Irene Sywenky
“Gendered Violence and Feminist Interventions in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s The Selector of Souls” –Asma Sayed -
Confluences 3
$24.95The essays in this volume continue the examination, begun in Confluences 1 and continued in Confluences 2, of the exciting new writing that has emerged in Canada in the past few decades. Employing a variety of approaches and addressing the many concerns engaging their author-subjects–memory, history, and concentric identities; the subordination of women; and racism–this new body of writing collectively redefines and challenges the traditional idea of Canadian Literature.
Included in this volume are:
“W H Hudson’s English Argentina and Pablo Urbanyi’s Argentine Canada.” –Hugh Hazelton
“Racial Re/Profiling: The Plays of Andrew Moodie.” –Leslie Sanders
“Dannabang Kuwabong’s Caribbean Blues & Love’s Genealogy and Voices from Kibuli Country.” –Horace Goddard
“Haunting the Human: M. NourbeSe Philip’s Poetics of Un.” –Kate Siklosi
“Male Monstrosity or Failed Masculinities? Shani Mootoo’s Literary Oeuvre” –Juan M Salomé Villarini
“Pamela Mordecai’s Literary Transcultural Eschatology” –Dannabang Kuwabong
“Witnesses from the Silentiaries: Claire Harris’s Poetics of En(Dis)abling in dipped in shadow” –Dannabang Kuwabong
“Postcolonial Ecologies and Sustainable Living: Reading Jenna Butler’s Nonfiction” –Asma Sayed -
Confronting the Cuts
$13.95Confronting the Cuts: A Sourcebook for Women in Ontario examines the impacts of the 1990s’ dramatic spending cuts on women and their families across the province, as well as explores some of the ways women and women’s organizations have responded to the challenges presented by the economic climate of Mike Harris’s Ontario and its toll on lives of women and children in particular. For anyone seeking to understand current social policy reform and its impact on the lives of people everywhere, this book is a crucial sourcebook of policy critique, strategies, and personal narratives.
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Conjugation
$20.00I am sitting outside at dawn on Otty Lake, where I live, in the woods. The light is coming over the trees, and each morning the poem is written as if right while it is being read…
The lyric weaving of honesty about the self-toward revelation & transformation.
My poetics has widened, here, to include more space, more primitive sounds and glyphs, less metaphor, less anecdote, more tangential conjugating…
My poetics, in its growing inclusiveness, is not sad but hopeful.
The term “conjugation” refers to more than the obvious grammatical movement of pronouns through time (I am / you are / they will be). For, in Biology, it also refers to the transfer of information between cells. And Conjugation, the new collection of poetry from award-winning poet Phil Hall, sees an open realm where individual letters inside a word are each rolling through their possibilities, from A to Z. Thereby, the language in this collection travels into and out of itself, as Hall says, “escaping my ego, while revealing, word by slightly different word, my deeper connections and disconnections to things—to what used to be called poetry’s ‘subjects.’”
As much care was taken with the writing of this collection as the shaping of the poems themselves. Replete with images of the natural world and in some cases, the mechanisms that transform it-horses, leaping fish, trees, canals and locks—Conjugation signals a return to the nature/nurture elements that have wound their way through his earlier collections, but also a versed ode to the discouragement that many Canadians have felt about the progression of their country and government over the past number of years.
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Connect the Scotts
$11.95Is the fourth time a charm for October and her ghost detective friends? While investigating the cause of the long-dead Tabetha Scott’s death way back in the 1860s, October and the Dead Kids discover that Sticksville, Ontario, served as an endpoint for the Underground Railroad, the secret network by which enslaved people escaped to free states and Canada. But October Schwartz finds herself with more detective work than she can handle after some new musically inclined chums are incriminated in a robbery at a school concert.
Fraudulent occult psychics, funeral home ambushes, band wars, the spooky Sticksville fairgrounds, and a history of prejudice all converge in a climactic conclusion that hints a secret society might be behind all manner of catastrophes in October Schwartz’s not-so-boring little town.
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Connecting the Continents
$19.95In July of 1866, the village Heart’s Content on the east coast of Newfoundland attracted the attention of Canada and the entire world. A submarine telegraph cable had been stretched across the Atlantic Ocean from Valentia, Ireland, to this little fishing community. One of the first telegraphs was exchanged between Queen Victoria in England and President Buchanan in the United States. With the help of an elite group of operators, messages could now be sent between North America and Europe in minutes instead of ten days by ship. And Heart’s Content had earned its place in the history of communications.
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Connection at Newcombe
$20.00Newcombe is too small to qualify for a rail station. So begins a campaign against time and government to guarantee the survival of their community in post-war Northern Ontario.
It’s 1920. The Great War is over and the troops are on their way home to reclaim their old lives. But before he can return to his days as a lawyer, Major Callum Bannatyne has one more mission: to ensure The Canadian National Railway builds its newest expansion through his hometown of Newcombe.
The only problem? Newcombe’s population is too small for it to qualify for a station. And so begins a small town’s campaign against time and government to recruit their ringers and guarantee the survival of their community in post-war Northern Ontario.
But not everyone is on board with duping the government and Cal’s plan is undermined at every turn, whether due to the machinations of the local Reverend’s zealous son, or the bullying of belligerent furrier Randall Evershed. Even Fergus, Cal’s own father, who suffers with dementia, inadvertently jeopardizes the plan when he attacks one of Newcombe’s conspirators during one of his fogs.
But if living in the Canadian wilderness has taught the people of Newcombe anything, it’s how to be resourceful in the face of adversity.
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Conscious De-Stress Guide
$21.95Are you feeling worn out? Overextended? Stressed out? You’re not alone – we all get stressed and overwhelmed at times … but how do we know when it has gone too far?
As we face a global stress-test of epic proportions, this sense of destabilization and uncertainty is causing increasingly higher stress levels.
A psychotherapist for more than twenty years, Lise Leblanc has learned that most us of us are looking for shortcuts. We want the quick-fix solutions. We want the drive-through version, and we want change NOW, but change will not likely happen overnight. Like so many others, you have to learn how to be patient with yourself and Lise has carefully constructed a step-by-step, practical approach to help you understand your stress, assess your mental and emotional state, recognize your self-care needs, find helpful resources, and communicate productively during challenging times.
This book includes:
- -concrete examples
- -real-life stories
- -useful exercises
- -reflective questions
- -insights and strategies
Although this book cannot take your stress away, Conscious De-Stress Guide will provide you with deep insights and effective strategies. It will answer many of your questions while guiding you to achieve an optimum state of wellness. Consider it your toolbox to manage stress.
This book is the ideal companion to other books in the “Wish I Knew” series.