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Driving Crazy to the Front Door
$25.95In Michael Foy’s debut collection, Driving Crazy to the Front Door, many of the stories are set in Surrey’s urban sprawl. The characters face a demolition of love, a type of destruction that forces them to rebuild and, if they can, recoup their losses.
Whether from a failed marriage, a dead mother, or a fatal car crash, each story has some hope and redemption. There is humour too, when three kids cram into a straw-filled chicken coop to hide from an angry farmer, lighting up more than cigarettes. Or you’ll find eighty-two-year-old Nora Allen escaping from the Florence Nightingale hospital, stealing a car, and ordering a Big Mac before continuing down the King George highway to her childhood home to search for her adopted son. Cooper Reynolds is an old widow who might remarry, but first, his estranged, druggie daughter comes home to save his life.
All fourteen stories shine some light on the darkness of the human condition, and in so doing, help us to better understand ourselves, our family, friends and maybe even our enemies. Driving Crazy to the Front Door takes us right up close to loss—not for self-pity or despair, but to offer hope, and reminds us of what it means to be human.
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Driving into the Sun
$25.95A road trip, a wedding, and a family crisis that tests two sisters’ love.
When Annie gets engaged to a woman she met online, she asks her sister Molly to travel across the country and help move herself and their elderly mother, who has been living with the effects of a traumatic brain injury, from Alberta to B.C. The estranged sisters must endure one another’s now unfamiliar company, their mother’s unpredictable moods and behaviours, and the memories and resentments resurrected through the long drive. And when their mother suddenly goes missing in the middle of nowhere, the truth of what caused her injuries more than twenty years ago threatens to destroy the sisters’ tenuous relationship forever.
Driving into the Sun is the fourth novel from award-winning writer Becca Babcock. It is a road trip story about a family irreparably changed and the journey that ultimately tests their capacity to love and to forgive the hurt and anger of their past.
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Drum King
$18.95Grace is an English professor in Toronto. She becomes involved with a younger man who claims to be from Buenos Aires. Eddy is a spinner of lovely tales, and even when Grace doubts his stories and begins to recognize that he is heavily involved in drug trafficking, she allows the deception to carry on. The Drum King is a sensually told, suspenseful novel that hooks the reader and pulls them into a world of complex characters and an engaging plot.”. . . intriguing, imaginative and, above all, a good read.”–The Globe and Mail
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Dry Shave
$12.95If you like your comic strip characters cute and cuddly, you?ll hate Dry Shave. Dry Shave cracks open a hardboiled world of laconic lowlifes, pugnacious palookas, shiftless grifters and demented dames?with a tip of the pork-pie hat to Robert Mitchum. As featured in Vancouver?s The Georgia Straight and Toronto?s eye weekly magazine, Rod Filbrandt?s wacky cast of noir characters is brought together in his first collected edition.
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
$24.95Finalist for the 2024 Quebec Writers Federation Fiction Award
Finalist for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2024 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
What are the best ways to support political struggles that aren’t your own? What are the fundamental principles of a utopia during war? Can we transcend the societal values we inherit? Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim is a remarkably original, literary page-turner that explores such pressing questions of our time.
A depressed writer visits a war zone. He knows it’s a bad idea, but his curiosity and obsession that his tax dollars help to pay for foreign wars draw him there. Amid the fighting, he stumbles into a small strip of land that’s being reimagined as a grassroots, feminist, egalitarian utopia. As he learns about the principles of the collective, he moves between a fragile sense of self and the ethical considerations of writing about what he experiences but cannot truly fathom. Meanwhile, women in his life—from this reimagined society and elsewhere—underscore truths hidden in plain sight.
In these pages, real-world politics mingle with profoundly inventive fabulations. This is an anti-war novel unlike any other, an intricate study of our complicity in violent global systems and a celebration of the hope that underpins the resistance against them.
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Drying the Bones
$18.95Alarming – edgy, often disturbing, and superbly written – these short stories illuminate the dark, troubled heart of human existence.A young girl escapes the bonds of her abusive adopted mother. A woman does not leave her rotting apartment for over a month. A widower passes through his wife’s garden for the first time. A cosmetician slowly destroys her family. Dark and compelling, Drying the Bones deftly explores the emotional lives of its characters with electrifying concision.These stories need not rely on a trend or a label for their success: startling and cleverly crafted, they distinguish Sonik as one of Canada’s finest up-and-coming writers in any category. She brandishes a unique ability to handle a surprisingly broad range of characters and settings, all with the same power to send shivers up your spine.
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Duatero
$23.95A searing far-future science fiction adventure about a lost human colony struggling to survive on an alien planet–no matter what the cost.
Majstro Falchilo Kredo has devoted his life to protecting the abandoned earth colony of Duatero from Malamiko the indigenous ecosystem that makes their crops fail and whose contamination turns humans into mindless monsters.
But Malimiko is changing becoming more dangerous more aware even as the ancient technology they use to combat it fails piece by precious piece. Kredo and his fellow soldiers must risk everything or see all they hold precious wiped away and forgotten.
Kredo is prepared to sacrifice himself–and anyone around him–to do his duty. But what if the price demanded is even higher?
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Duchess at Prayer
$9.95World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2026.
Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. World-famous cartoonist Seth selects and beautifully illustrates each book for this beloved series in his own inimitable way, bringing back these classic Christmas ghost stories for readers across North America.
Neglected by her absent husband, the beautiful Duchess Violante turns to prayer, and, seemingly, the company of the duke’s cousin. Suspicious of his wife, the duke returns unexpectedly one day and an argument breaks out which takes a dark turn—and leaves the memory of that day immortalized in the haunting face of a stone statue.
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Duchess Ranch of Old John Ware, The
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duck eats yeast, quacks, explodes; man loses eye
$20.00Written as a vibrant discussion between Barwin and Necakov, this book-length poem takes us on a hypnagogic journey that examines many ways of seeing and experiencing the world. Although the work considers many themes, such as trauma, grief, anxiety, climate change, impending doom, war, illness, and cultural fragmentation, at its core, it argues for an unbridled creativity and beauty.
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Ducks, Newburyport
$28.95WINNER OF THE 2019 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2019 • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2019
“This book has its face pressed up against the pane of the present; its form mimics the way our minds move now toggling between tabs, between the needs of small children and aging parents, between news of ecological collapse and school shootings while somehow remembering to pay taxes and fold the laundry.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times
Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America’s ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, Open Carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son’s toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate, not even the Abominable Snowman? When are you allowed to start swearing?
With a torrent of consciousness and an intoxicating coziness, Ducks, Newburyport lays out a whole world for you to tramp around in, by turns frightening and funny. A heart-rending indictment of America’s barbarity, and a lament for the way we are blundering into environmental disaster, this book is both heresy―and a revolution in the novel.
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Duct-Taped Roses
$20.00In Duct-Taped Roses, Billeh Nickerson shares heartbreaks and offers odes and elegies in reflections on family, community, life, and loss.
As a bush pilot, Nickerson’s father would duct-tape his planes to keep them flying. The poignancy of his relationship with his father is celebrated here in the long poem “Skies.” Other poems reminisce about love and the complex resiliency of gay men.
Through his signature irreverence, honesty and wit, Nickerson explores what can be repaired, what must be celebrated, and what—inevitably—is lost to time.
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Duecentomila
$18.95Estranged teenage cousins Eli and Kat have recently met online and bonded over their queer identities, but they have a limited understanding of each other’s very different realities. In Italy, soft-spoken Eli is trying to find a way to come out as trans to his conservative Roman Catholic family. In Canada, strong-headed Kat is desperate for connection to a culture and place she’s never known.
Kat and her friend Hannah are the only ones who know that Eli is trans—not even his brother Matteo knows. And while her intentions are good, Kat’s decision to crowdfund a flight for Eli to attend Toronto Pride unknowingly outs him to the public, setting off a chain of events that leave the cousins and their loved ones reeling.
Full of poetry, laughter, and big questions, this touching story paints a portrait of what it’s like for young people wanting to reconcile what they’ve inherited with what feels right.
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Dumb-Show
$22.00?This is literature made from flesh, messy and bloody and exacting and haunting.?
Heather and Geoffrey ? twenty-something siblings ? become entangled in separate power struggles with a controversial professor, Dr. Barry Martin. His divisive views on masculinity have put him in the public spotlight in a way that?s created both public disgust and a private lust for proximity. As Geoffrey fumbles through grandiose academic desires, and Heather attempts to orient herself in a sea of male-inflicted indignities and conflicting impulses, the performances, and the absurdities, become unwieldy.
?Dumb-Show is Parker?s caricature of the male Academic ego where masculine fragility is peeled back to its oppressive roots against female apathy to a smorgasbord of Male Academic rituals: from aggressively boring anecdotes and criminally unfunny jokes to secondary and tertiary intellect and mansplaining par excellence. Parker?s Dumb-Show is a subversive satire of surviving Academia, and Dumb-Show is perhaps the first book that I can only describe as ?Academia Punk.? ? Khashayar Mohammadi, author of Me, You, Then Snow
?I have long admired Fawn Parker?s work. In Dumb-Show, Fawn Parker demonstrates the contradictions and complications of desire and disgust in a lustful, cynical Toronto that is both worthy of her Shakespearean inspiration and entirely her own. This is literature made from flesh, messy and bloody and exacting and haunting.? ? André Babyn, author of Evie of the Deepthorn
?Vivid and vicious, Fawn Parker?s Dumb-Show holds nothing back in its hilarious attack on modern academia. With a sharp eye for ironic detail and striking, smooth sentences, Dumb-Show stays with you long after it?s been put down.? ? Adnan Khan, author of There Has to Be a Knife
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Dungenessque
$14.95Of Petrushkin!, Ron Charach’s last book, The Globe & Mail wrote: “These poems remind us how effective narrative and anecdote can be in poetry. They owe more to Chekhov and I.B. Singer than to Yeats and Wallace Stevens. Charach’s use of language is not dazzling; it is unobtrusive and utilitarian because his goal—something rare nowadays—is to say something about the human condition. And he says it with a voice notable for its compassion and humour.”
In his new collection, Dungenessque, Charach builds on his strength as a storyteller, infusing his poems with the metaphoric intensity that characterized his first book, The Big Life Painting. One by one, the matrices of our identity—physical, sexual, relational and cultural—are shown to be as pitiable and as strangely noble as the bold character armour that conceals them. Dungenessque is a compelling study of pride, shame and redemption. With the insight of a practising therapist and the skill of a surgeon, Charach removes the outer shell that protects us from each other to explore those vulnerable areas in which the embattled self resides. Dungenessque is Charach’s sixth collection of poems.
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Dupe
$28.00Dupe goes under the hood of industrial capitalism where there is no deal, no compromise with capital, only complicity. The bearings, rods and shafts are running hot, the lubricant is breaking down, and shade–tree mechanic Jonathon Wilcke is fiddling with the timing chain. “More gas!” he shouts as flames leap from the carburetor. The dwell is finally set, Ford’s time management duplicator is idling rough yet the poems flow from the manifold.
Dupe takes up the formal concerns of Wilcke’s first book Pornograph and applies them to the body politic. The notion of musical notation guides the word on the page.