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Defy
$16.95Seventeen-year-old Darius lives in the city of Zalmon, where every Life Event is predetermined in accordance with the Book of Zalmon: where you’ll work, who you’ll marry, and at the end of it all, when you’ll die. Natural Deaths are to be avoided at all costs. Why risk the pain of a random demise when you can live out your remaining days at the Quiet End where you’ll be released peacefully?
But when Darius learns that his little sister, Mahlah, will be assigned an imminent Death Date on her thirteenth birthday, he infiltrates the system to save her. The search for the truth behind her assigned demise leads Darius to uncover a conspiracy that goes to the heart of their city — and to learn about a life of dignity and autonomy that lies beyond what the Book of Zalmon dictates.
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Delicate
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Deluded Your Sailors
$21.95In Deluded Your Sailors, the culture industry is a weapon, a victim, and an opportunity, depending on the perspective of two main figures: the unsteady but perceptive Nichole Wright, whose discovery of crucial documents threatens a government-funded tourism project, and the politely menacing, shape-shifting Reverend Elias Winslow. And in parallel storytelling: an early eighteenth-century girl, daughter of a nameless prostitute, winds up first as object of depraved pleasure, espionage agent and courier, and finally captain of a Salem trading vessel. Her desperately threaded disguise holds until her unacknowledged past crashes into her frail present. Trapped, and finally forced to reveal many things kept hidden, she refuses to be exploited any further. But her defiance exacts a terrible cost.
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Demi Lovato & Selena Gomez
$14.95Few celebrities have climbed the rungs of the entertainment industry as quickly as Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez.
Their rise to stardom was so brisk that some might describe them as overnight successes — twin Cinderella stories. But both girls have been working to realize their dreams since they were very young, when they met as castmates on Barney & Friends and became best friends. Accomplished actors, singers, musicians, and dancers, Demi and Selena have earned the admiration of millions of fans and have grown to be wildly successful young women. Demi, who started her career as the star of Camp Rock and starred in the new original Disney Channel show Sonny With a Chance, has now released five studio albums. Besides roles on Hannah Montana, The Suite Life, and Another Cinderella Story, Selena was best known for starring as Alex in the smash hit Wizards of Waverly Place, and now this versatile musician has recorded three albums with the band Selena Gomez & the Scene and released two solo studio albums. Ever wonder what these girls were like before they hit it big time? This guide tells their story before the fame and record deals.
Packed with tons of full-colour photos, Demi Lovato & Selena Gomez: The Complete Unofficial Story of the BFFs is the most comprehensive guide to these amazing Texan girls’ beginnings: what they were like growing up, their families, first roles, their hit shows and castmates, their famous best friends the Jonas Brothers, and how making music means so much to them. With special sections on Camp Rock, Wizards of Waverly Place, Sonny With a Chance, and the girls’ music, Demi Lovato & Selena Gomez takes you behind the bright lights and glamour to reveal the ordinary girls who have remained true to their roots — and to each other.
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Demon Lover, The
$16.95In this highly entertaining collection, Arnason employs all of his powers as a humorist and as a scholar intimate with North American and Icelandic mythology and culture. Whether set in a chilly Canadian city or an ancient Icelandic village, each story takes on an epic tone and suggests that there is a higher power hard at play, toying with people’s destiny for its own amusement. Arnason’s serpentine demon lover seduces and tempts women with his own style of forbidden fruit. His narrator considers the fate of lovers in an overturned canoe. And giants of incredible strength populate a remote and dying Icelandic village. Spanning worlds both mythological and real, the stories are recounted from an all-knowing–but not always all-revealing–perspective.
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Demons of Aquilonia, The
$22.95This is the story of Licia Giganteschi, for whom it takes half a lifetime to go back home, to a place she loves and hates at the same time. Licia grows up in the beautiful wilderness of a mountain village in Calabria, Italy. Born of terroni with aspirations for their children, she is raised by Grazia, an introverted mother, and Marco, a guest-worker in Germany. She spends her time between the Zimpoli farm of her revolutionary, eccentric grandfather, and the suffocating scrutiny of her father’s relatives in the village of Aquilonia. When the call to immigrate to Canada comes, for Licia, it is a welcome call. But she could not have foreseen that the curse of the Giganteschis, which she hears about for the first time during a schoolyard fight, will follow the family to Toronto and beyond. When Licia finally returns home and retraces the steps of those who loved her and those who hurt her, she understands how her mother’s life, and her own life, are intertwined with the mysterious women who were her mother’s only friends: her uncle’s mistress, a nun in a cave, and a witch who delivers babies. A mesmerizing novel of betrayal, loss, and multiple identities, The Demons of Aquilonia spans more than half a century, and takes place on two continents. The setting moves from the lush mountains and secret caves of Calabria during WWII, to Italy’s economic ruin and working class exodus to America in the ’50s and ’60s; from the gray skyscrapers and kaleidoscopic neighbourhoods of downtown Toronto, to Calabria of the 21st century, where old secrets never die… they simply become more shocking.
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Denison Avenue
$32.95Shortlisted for 2024 Canada ReadsFinalist for the 2024 Carnegie Medals for Excellence through the American Library AssociationA moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian eldersBringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes (illustrations) and Christina Wong (text) follows the elderly Wong Cho Sum, who, living in Toronto’s gentrifying Chinatown–Kensington Market, begins to collect bottles and cans after the sudden loss of her husband as a way to fill her days and keep grief and loneliness at bay. In her long walks around the city, Cho Sum meets new friends, confronts classism and racism, and learns how to build a life as a widow in a neighborhood that is being destroyed and rebuilt, leaving elders like her behind.A poignant meditation on loss, aging, gentrification, and the barriers that Chinese Canadian seniors experience in big cities, Denison Avenue beautifully combines visual art, fiction, and the endangered Toisan dialect to create a book that is truly unforgettable.
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Dennis Cooley and His Works
$9.95This volume explores the life and works of Dennis Cooley. These studies of Canadian authors fulfill a real need in the study of Canadian literature. Each monograph is a separately bound study that contains a biography of the author, a description of the tradition and milieu that influenced the author, a survey of the criticism on the author, a comprehensive essay on all the author’s key works, and a detailed bibliography of primary and secondary works.
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Dennis Maruk
$29.95From feared NHL sniper to ship captain and bellhop — with hockey’s greatest ’stache
Only 20 men in NHL history have scored 60 or more goals in a single season: Gretzky, Lemieux, and Hull all hit the magical mark. And so did an undersized, take-no-prisoners centre named Dennis Maruk. When Maruk found the back of the net 60 times in 1981–82, he was the toast of Washington — he even dined with the president. A few short years later, he was out of the game. Maruk not only left the rink, his life did a complete 180. Instead of flying up the ice and in on goal, he was behind the wheel of a service ship in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of setting up teammates, he was setting up furniture for Goldie Hawn. He was never sent down to the farm as a rookie, but after the game he was a farmhand for John Oates. And instead of fighting in the corners, Dennis Maruk found himself fighting for his life.
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departures
$17.00The moon migrates, seasons cycle, and the body ebbs and flows. Drawing together the skeins of existence and his family’s nearness, Dennis Cooley’s departures joyously intermingles poetry and science. In the end, faced with his own mortality, Cooley fights back with great big clods of earthy humour and humility.
With departures Dennis Cooley coils and uncoils the language of our bodies, the subtle string of cells and letters which bind us to each other and to language. The writing of grief is never simple, never clear–it is a tangled ball of ribbon, sound and story. Here Cooley unwinds and unweaves, reknits and retangles but is never at a loss of words.
-Derek Beaulieu, Calgary Poet Laureate
In departures Dennis Cooley wants to drive you home, but the car is dead, dead like the hospital food and the routines we normally accept when faced with mortal illness. Cooley stays alive in his music, the singer, the jester, the dancer in broken lines–he rejects the routine, finds the right found words, and sloughs off the dead language, death itself.
-Maurice Mierau, author of Autobiographical Fictions
What a delight to discover new work from Canada’s preeminent literary trickster, Dennis Cooley. This gorgeous new book is a document of loss and leaving. But make no mistake, there is mind-bending wordplay and genre-defying experimentation in these pages too. Feelings, figures, and fonts collide in departures, Cooley’s best work in a long while.
-Jon Paul Fiorentino
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Depp
$19.95The truth behind Johnny Depp’s bad-boy image in this definitive biography.
Accidental actor? Bratty bad boy? Consummate craftsman? Take a little of each, and a whole lot more, and you’ve got Johnny Depp. Delectably dreamy, dramatically dynamic, and Depp-endably dedicated, this young actor is one of Hollywood’s most popular leading men. Depp takes us on a wild ride through Johnny’s life, its ups and its downs, its pinnacles and its depths. Join author Christopher Heard, an ardent fan and host of TV’s Reel to Real, as he follows Depp’s turbulent childhood in Kentucky, his leap into the limelight on TV’s 21 Jump Street, and, finally, his extraordinary success in some of his generation’s best films. Edward Scissorhands, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, Donnie Brasco, Ed Wood, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — no other actor his age has such an incredibly diverse résumé. Depp explores his roles in these films and his relationships with their directors. Heard also provides as context the details of Depp’s personal life — from his young marriage, through his years as tattooed Winona Ryder escort and as Kate Moss paramour to his fourteen years as a Paradis lover and becoming a proud Parisian papa. Scrutinizing Johnny’s shifts as media darling and tabloid target and sifting the truth from the trash in what’s been said about him, Depp is the definitive biography of one of this generation’s most important, most impassioned, and most independent stars.
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Dept of Monsterology
$19.99Officially, it’s the Department of Cryptozoology, Mythological Studies, Parapsychology and Fortean Phenomena. But to the rest of the students and staff at the Dunsany College, baffled by the cloak of secrecy that surrounds the Department and its affairs, it has another, more dismissive, name: the Department of Monsterology. Funded by the mysterious Hampton Foundation, the Department operates several field teams that roam the globe on extended research expeditions. Their brief: to investigate the dark and unexplored corners of our world – the places we’ve forgotten, lost or believe to be mythical. And to study those things that may still be lurking there…
The first story arc introduces us to ancient monsters from the depths of the ocean, crystaline creatures from the caves of Eastern Europe, undead armies from the catacombs of Northern China, and the Department’s deadliest rivals of all… The first trade paperback in this highly praised ongoing comic book series. Featuring the first 4 comic issues, the prologue comic strip (as seen in USA Today), plus a new origin story ‘The Trouble With Harry.’
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DEPT. OF MONSTEROLOGY
$19.90The second trade paperback in this highly praised comic book series is here. Gordon Rennie, PJ Holden, Steven Denton and Jim Campbell return to campus with the next instalment of cryptozoological adventure. Sabbaticals picks up after the events of Monsterology 101, with several team members pursuing their own agendas following their near miss with apocalyptic catastrophe in China and the South Pacific.
The Lamont Institute may have stumbled, but it takes more than death to stop their plans, and now they are aware of Samwi’s potential, she has become their quarry. Professor Tovar’s parasitic secret is leading him into the deep darkness, far from his colleagues, towards a fate that may have consequences far beyond ridding himself of his personal burden.
Michael Calvary takes Team Challenger on a sojourn to sunny Scotland to investigate the apparently haunted house featured on the Sabbaticals cover, whilst the remaining members of Team Carnacki take two grad students to a remote South American island to discover there is a lot more than dinosaurs out to eat them.
And of course, following Professor Booker’s revelation in Monsterology 101, he’s wasted no time getting started on his own personal quest through the now active portal.
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Depth Markers
$25.00This is the first volume of James D. Campbell’s provocative essays on Canadian and international artists, published over the last 10 years. Campbell writes with equal ease on both abstract and postmodern art and provides an indepth philosophical interrogation that is uniquely his own. This volume includes groundbreaking essays on such important artists as Betty Goodwin, John Heward, Roland Poulin, David Rabinowitch, Claude Tousignant, and many others. Anyone interested in the art of visual culture in Canada will want to consult Campbell’s wide-ranging essays.
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Derelict Bicycles
$18.00This first collection by Dale Tracy is the atmosphere that derelict bicycles breathe. Like weeds, ones we’ve built, they burgeon. These poems wonder what sort of a performance thinking is-they perform their own logical hysteria, that emotion that feels what the other emotions feel like. Unconventional but interested in convention, they turn the world in on itself until “[i]t’s almost like a curtain / has been pulled and it’s a different world. / A curtain has been pulled, but I can’t see the curtain.” Dale Tracy mines the intersection of the surreal and the philosophical, with a sprinkling of Samuel Beckett and a dash of Hélène Cixous. Tracy is a fresh, original voice in Canadian poetry, locking her startling surprises and beautiful enigmas in quiet but emphatic lines. Each poem in Derelict Bicycles takes things too far, to the edges of its own form
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DeRo
$34.95Dwayne De Rosario is one of MLS’s 25 Greatest Players
The autobiography of one of the best male soccer player to ever come out of Canada. Before Beckham, Kaká, Rooney, and Zlatan, DeRo was the godfather of Major League Soccer.
DeRo is the life story of one of the greatest athletes Canada has ever produced. Born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Dwayne De Rosario wasn’t expected to make it out of high school, let alone to the top of soccer world. As part of a family of five, growing up in a one-bedroom apartment, he had to work for everything he had and sometimes that meant doing things he realized he didn’t want to do. It was soccer that saved him from a life on the street.
For the first time, Dwayne shares many heartbreaking, life-altering stories from his mischievous childhood, an upbringing that made him the hungry, successful, superstar athlete he became. His strong Caribbean heritage shaped the person and the player the world knows as a four-time MLS Cup champion, seven-time MLS All-Star, Canadian national team captain, and record goal-scorer. He helped put Canadian soccer on the map, and it’s clear that pursuit of greatness didn’t come without struggle, both on and off the field. Now, DeRo hopes to inspire, and train, the next great Canadian soccer star.