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Earshot
$15.95Doyle has a very funny problem: he hears too much. He can hear the most intimate details of the lives of everyone living in his apartment building. He can tell the temperature of a young neighbour’s bath water by the resonance of her pipes; he knows where the old lady’s lost teeth are by the way they rattle in their glass when her appliances turn on; he can hear letters of rejection slip from slackened fingers and settle to the ground like the crashing leaves of autumn.
Doyle blames his hyper-sensitive condition on a physical abnormality, on a birth defect in his ears. But we are not so sure. Paralysing Doyle with a cacophony of detail and minutiae, Earshot offers us the gift of a comic Hamlet—a perfectly dark comedy for the information age.
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Earth Alive
$24.95Earth Alive is a collection of thought-provoking essays, short pieces, and reviews that explore and uncover the intimate connections between humans and the Earth. Stan Rowe prompts us to think in revolutionary terms about developing a new world-view. Edited and with a preface by Don Kerr, and an afterword by Ted Mosquin.
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Earth and High Heaven
$19.95When Erika Drake, of the Westmount Drakes, met and fell in love with Marc Reiser, a Jew from northern Ontario, their respective worlds were turned upside down. Set against the backdrop of the first three years of the Second World War, Earth and High Heaven captured the hearts and minds of its generation and helped to shape the more diverse and inclusive culture we have today.
Published in 1944, this classic novel was very timely; it spoke of the prejudices of its time, when Gentiles and Jews did not mix in society. Earth and High Heaven was the most successful novel of its time, winning many awards and prizes, including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1945 (an award founded to reward books that exposed racism or explored the richness of human diversity). It was translated into eighteen languages and the film rights were purchased by Samuel Goldwyn for a remarkable $100,000. Earth and High Heaven was the first Canadian novel to top the New York Times bestseller list for the better part of a year.
When Erika Drake, of the Westmount Drakes, met and fell in love with Marc Reiser, a Jew from northern Ontario, their respective worlds were turned upside down. Set against the backdrop of the first three years of the Second World War, Earth and High Heaven captured the hearts and minds of its generation and helped to shape the more diverse and inclusive culture we have today. -
Earth-cool, and Dirty
$20.00Earth-cool, and Dirty iis a timely debut collection by Jacob Lee Bachinger, full of wisdom, and beautiful reflections on the state of humanity. It is a call to pay careful attention to the earth, to nurture it in the same way we attend to the people we love. In “My Son Asleep, Age 4,” he observes: “What no one told me,/what I’ve had to learn for myself:/to love this much is painful.”
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Earth’s Waters
$21.95Young, sea-loving Lily (né Harriette) is aptly nicknamed after a floating flower. A Bajan high school drop-out, she subsists passively in her grandmother’s house at the sufferance of a stern, fundamentalist task-mistress, one who malignly sees in Lily her lost, promiscuous, ‘wutless’ mother. Adrift, born into an ‘island paradise’ which offers few choices to her kind, she must nevertheless identify, then gain the grit and spiritual wherewithal to make them, if she’s to escape an out-of-control life of serial beatings at the hands of her first ‘man,’ the charismatic, brutal, and finally murderous Goldie (Colvin) Edwards. Through the counsel of her appalled friend Sophie and the wisdoms of a pair of beach Rastas encountered beside her beloved Caribbean, she slowly learns not only that she is, indeed, a lovely flower, but The Rock she must leave via the freedom of primal yet navigable waters, has been the stumbling block set before an unloved female self. With a brilliant ear for both dialogue and dialect, and a great gift for ensemble scenes, Canadian-Bajan novelist Nicole Blades plants us firmly on the soil, not of the tourists’, but of the natives’ contemporary Caribbean.
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Earthbound
$24.95Phil wakes up in the middle of a cemetery, only to discover he’s been dead for a few months. He is now what you would normally call a “zombie”, although the term does feel slightly derogatory to him. And now that he’s back among the living, everyone seems to have gotten on with their own lives – including his now ex-girlfriend, who has recently started dating someone else. Phil’s best friend ____ lets him sleep, unaware that Phil had an affair with his girlfriend while he was still alive. Earthbound starts out as a comedy, as its zombie protagonist tries to make sense of his strange predicament. But it gradually turns to darker territories, exploring themes such as friendship, trust and infidelity through the prism of its original premise. Nominated for the ACBD Québec Award and the Marc-Olivier Lavertu Award. Winner of the Réal-Fillion Award.
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Earthbound: Short Stories
$18.95With surgical precision and understated humour, in Earthbound Kenneth Radu once again demonstrates his remarkable ability to portray ordinary people in sometimes extraordinary circumstances. Whether it’s the story of an old woman who has given birth, or a professor grieving over the death of his child, or a porn shop owner fighting off the financial predations of his brother, or a wheel-chair bound woman terrified by a voyeur, these stories collectively dramatize the conflict between personal wishes and the hard facts of reality. As the title story suggests, what we dream or think about ourselves may well be pulled down to earth, sometimes with a thud, by the gravitational energy of emotion, relationships, unexpected events and inescapable truth. As in his previous collection, Sex in Russia, the stories in Earthbound, are all are imbued with Radu’s subtle irony, deft descriptions, acute insight, and compassion for his characters.
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Earthen
$22.95The characters in the short stories of Earthen are all in need of guidance: mothers, widows and wives, grandmas and grandpas, teachers, lovers, and the young. They find messages in the earth and rock beneath their feet, the mountains and atmosphere above, or the creatures surrounding them: birds and animals, plants and trees. The natural world insists on a relationship with both characters and readers of Earthen, in stories ranging from realism to fable to speculative fiction.
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Earthkeeping
$24.95The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other.
In nine sections, Earthkeeping ruminates on the necessity of love and earthkeeping, on forage fish and robinsongs, and on the stewardship of our ecological landscape. Offering an antidote to the world’s anxiety about climate change, plastic pollution, and biodiversity loss, Saunders writes with a deep connection to the natural world and his signature humane zest for life. Lovingly illustrated with Saunders’s own drawings, the result is a joyful, personal, and deeply attentive stroll through an enchanted land of blue and green.
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Earworm
$18.95Earworm, the second book from acclaimed poet Nick Thran, expertly combines wicked cleverness, adept craftsmanship and a uniquely insightful perspective in an entertaining yet substantial tour de force. Building on the success of his debut, Thran has enhanced his compelling pop culture rhythms and distinctive voice with bolder formal experimentation and greater poetic maturity. This eclectic collection takes in topics ranging from cartoons to Caravaggio to cicadas, expressed in a comparable variety of poetic forms. Despite this diversity, the book is unified by its perfectly balanced blend of thoughtful observation laced with Thran’s characteristically whimsical sense of humour. Earworm is also interspersed with several poems inspired by works of art in a variety of media. Whether he’s reinterpreting Picasso’s Blue Period, encapsulating a moment from The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, or lending a narrative to one of Dennis Oppenheim’s conceptual sculptures, Thran is able to distill the essence of the original while adding a fresh twist.
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Earworm
$18.95Have you ever had a voice lodged in your memory that won’t go away? Clawing at your skin, bones, and nerves until it’s all you can think about? For Homa, an Iranian refugee living in Canada with her son Pendar, this is her daily torment. Haunted by the trauma of torture under the oppressive Islamic regime, Homa channels her pain into activism as an outspoken podcaster, fiercely condemning the human-rights violations in Iran. But her freedom is tested when she discovers that the father of Pendar’s new girlfriend is a devout Islamist and requests she wear a hijab in his presence. As the voices in her mind grow louder, Homa fears the nightmares from her past have followed her right to her doorstep.
In Earworm, provocateur Mohammad Yaghoubi delivers a brilliant thriller that interrogates the fragile promises of political asylum and resonates not just with Iranian immigrants, but with all who have fled persecution in their homeland only to encounter their oppressors once again in their new country. Created in solidarity with the 2022 international Woman, Life, Freedom demonstrations that originated in Iran, this confrontational, clever, and suspenseful drama burrows deep under your skin and lingers long after its shocking conclusion.
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East Coast Keto 2
$34.95Just when you thought it was impossible to find ketogenic meals that the whole family can enjoy, Bobbi Pike and her husband, Geoff, return with another generous serving of low-carb keto dishes that will have even the most finicky eater in the family asking for seconds.With over 100 new keto recipes, East Coast Keto 2 will teach you how to enjoy all the foods you love—ketofied! From show-stopping appetizers and entrees to delicious fat bombs and mouthwatering desserts, Bobbi and Geoff help you simplify your keto lifestyle the East Coast way. With tips, lessons, quick facts, and traditional meals made healthy, East Coast Keto 2 offers all the flavours you love with zero guilt. -
East of Berlin
$16.95Standing outside his father’s study in Paraguay, Rudi is smoking cigarettes, trying to work up the courage to go in. It has been seven years since he stood in that same spot; seven years since he left his family and their history behind him. As a teenager, Rudi discovered that his father was a doctor at Auschwitz. Trying to reconcile his inherited guilt, Rudi lashed out against his family and his friends, and eventually fled to Germany. While there, he follows in his father’s footsteps by studying medicine, and falls in love with Sarah, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Questioning redemption, love, guilt, and the sins of the father, East of Berlin is a tour de force that follows Rudi’s emotional upheaval as he comes to terms with a frightening past that was never his own.
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East/West
$18.95Let’s say you want to know which famous Canadian poet lived in the Waverley Hotel for seven years, constantly changing rooms in fear of RCMP bugs. Or you live at 44 Walmer and want to know what on earth they were thinking with those balconies. Or you want to know what’s behind (or underneath!) that giant O hanging over Harbord at Spadina. These things were troubling us, too, so we assembled East/West: A Guide to Where People Live in Downtown Toronto.
East/West is a guided tour of old stories and fresh perspectives on the architecture and planning of housing and urban development in central Toronto – including both success stories and perennial problems. With specially prepared maps and over 120 photos, and essays – written by 65 of our best architects, historians and planners – exploring the history and development of neighbourhoods and of the individual buildings within them, East/West is a portrait of Toronto like no other.
East/West is not your average city guide. It’ll take you down alleyways you’ve never heard of, show you buildings you’ve never seen, offer you that bit of history you’ve never been able to access. It tells you how Toronto has tried to house the homeless over the years, how the waterfront evolved (or devolved, depending on how you look at it), and the character of different neighbourhoods has changed. FromAnnex abodes to Rosedale residences, this book will introduce you to a Toronto you only thought you knew.
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Easter Pinkerton and the Case of the Heretic Blood
$20.00The year is 1883, and Easter Pinkerton is one of the most secret agents in the Crown’s service. The greatest constant in her life has been her duty to the realm: she knows its secrets, safeguards its interests, and kills its enemies. Pinkerton’s world of shadows, lies, and hidden motives is a battlefield where she expects to find few surprises, but her latest investigation has uncovered something beyond a fresh nest of treason. The trade of blood for power is a familiar enough transaction, but not when that power includes raising the dead or death, delivered invisibly at a distance. Pinkerton will have to prepare to fight enemies she could not have imagined, rely upon allies she would never have contemplated, and above all, decide where her duty truly lies. The threat is one that she would have once insisted was imaginary, and so Pinkerton may have to consider an alternative she would have likewise declared to be impossible, and become a traitor herself.
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Eastport
$90.00The first in-depth study of a community’s architecture along the eastern coast of Maine. Thaddeus Holownia took more than a thousand large-format photographs for this project, including interiors and exteriors of buildings, wider streetscape and landscape views, and a whole series of portraits of trees. The result is a magnificent book of photographs, accompanied by essays by architectural historian John Leroux and an introduction by Hugh French. This casebound, Smyth-sewn, large-format volume features 175 duotone stochastic reproductions.