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Easy Fix
$18.95Part rural conduit, part urban primer for the disenfranchised, Easy Fix explores cultural identity with both skepticism and compassion. It?s this symbiosis that distinguishes Blair Trewartha?s poetry, and leads him forward in ?an entire world with its ducks in a row.? Although he eschews easy answers, Trewartha remains honest and complicit, providing respite for the troubling obsessions that inform our lives. Easy Fix is a sharp, stylish, and sophisticated poetic debut by one of Canada?s best young poets.
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Easy Low-Carb Cooking
$24.95The updated third edition of the wildly successful and bestselling low-carb cookbook
In her quest for recipes that would provide variety and flavor while still adhering to the low-carbohydrate lifestyle that helped her and her husband lose a combined 80 pounds and achieve optimum health, experienced cook and gourmand Patricia Haakonson set about modifying old standards and inventing new delicacies to suit a low-carb plan. With over 300 delicious recipes — including breads, muffins, and desserts — and tips for using fresh herbs to enhance flavor and presentation, substitutes for sugar and flour, and the source of low-carb chocolate, Haakonson delivers on no-nonsense, quick meals ideal for holiday and every day.
This edition comprises winning submissions from readers, favorites from family and friends who have joined the low-carb revolution, and all of the recipes included in the companion title Slow Carb for Life, as well as offering
- menus suitable for individuals following any low-carb program
- simple and delicious low-carb recipes for every occasion
- total and net grams of carbohydrate, fat, fiber, and calories for every recipe
- easy-to-follow directions and helpful low-carb cooking tips
- suggestions for adjusting your own favorite recipes to suit the (s)low-carb lifestyle.
Easy Low-Carb Cooking has all the recipes and tips and tricks to sate your hunger and satisfy your dietary requirements while enjoying a healthy and energetic new lease on life.
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Easy Peasy
$12.00Easy Peasy assumes nothing, but ass you me severything! Part instruction manual for the comfortably literate, part picture book for the uncommitted spectator, these poems insist upon the simple beautiful error of words and the imaginative potential of miscommunion! If you enjoy spending time outdoors, eating chocolate bars, watching movies, drinking tea with friends, avoiding death, taking baths and understanding the world, then this book most definitely is not for your!
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Eat the Beetles!
$19.95“Provides a sturdy literary exoskeleton to the field of human insectivory . . . it entertains as it enlightens.” — Daniella Martin, author of Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet
Will eating insects change the world for the better?
Meet the beetles: there are millions and millions of them and many fewer of the rest of us — mammals, birds, and reptiles. Since before recorded history, humans have eaten insects. While many get squeamish at the idea, entomophagy — people eating insects — is a possible way to ensure a sustainable and secure food supply for the eight billion of us on the planet.
Once seen as the great enemy of human civilization, destroying our crops and spreading plagues, we now see insects as marvelous pollinators of our food crops and a potential source of commercial food supply. From upscale restaurants where black ants garnish raw salmon to grubs as pub snacks in Paris and Tokyo, from backyard cricket farming to high-tech businesses, Eat the Beetles! weaves these cultural, ecological, and evolutionary narratives to provide an accessible and humorous exploration of entomophagy.
“Waltner-Toews punctuates this serious subject with his quirky humor . . . Eat the Beetles! is an essential part of a growing buzz.” — Toronto Star
“An excellent read for those interested in multiple perspectives on the issue of entomophagy, digging deep into science and math with flair and irreverence.” — Scene Magazine
“When it comes to the future of insects as food for humans and livestock, Waltner-Toews walks the line between skepticism and optimism in an intelligent, witty, and provocative analysis.” — Jeffrey A. Lockwood, author of The Infested Mind
“Full of humor and science, this edible insect book is definitely a must-read!” —EntoMove Project
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Eat Your Heart Out
$19.95With unsentimental prose and ironic dialogue, Katie Boland brings to life a variety of characters who all have one thing in common—a need for something more. A literary debut by a refreshing new voice in fiction, the stories in Eat Your Heart Out are about the haunted and heartbroken, about dreamers, losers and love-lost souls. From a sixteen-year-old autistic savant who’s sleeping with his best friend’s mother, to a tattooed beauty coming to terms with an alcoholic parent, to a newspaper man forever changed by a tender drifter, to a grief counsellor trying to reconcile her own tragic loss, the stories examine the fragility of human relationships and why people love the way they do.
Bold, poignant and affecting, Eat Your Heart Out is a clear-eyed exploration of youth, life, love, sex, and death.
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Eaten Back to Life
$16.95A new essay collection by the Philip K. Dick of chips
In this series of thoughtful essays and stink-eyed observations, Jonah Campbell explores food and drink in the modern world, from pig heads and whisky to fine wine and French gastronomy, Nigella Lawson to David Cronenberg, with a trail of potato chips and stale chocolate bars along the way. In the tradition of writers like M. F. K. Fisher and David Foster Wallace, Eaten Back to Life renders in delirious prose the ecstasies and absurdities that lie beneath the daily business of feeding ourselves.
“This collection [is] a must for the reader who likes to play with their food, conceptually, as well as eat it.”—Montreal Review of Books
“If food writing today is becoming increasingly blog-like, then Campbell is leaving his self-focused compatriots in the dust.”—The Coast
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Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome
$19.95Eating Habits Of The Chronically Lonesome will leave you struck, yet, exhilarated. The exploration of starvation and consumption is at the core of each character; what does our hunger reveal about the state of our soft hearts? Ellen jumps rope on rooftops in the searing Korean sun. She has sworn off carbohydrates until she can find pants that fit. Damon resents his two dollar chow mein bought on a Montreal curb. There are half-eaten poutines on living room floors and greasy corn kernels stuck to chins. There are weak cocktails, cheap coffees, white plastic forks, and cigarettes. Everywhere.These interwoven stories are propulsive. They pull back the blast shield to reveal blinding interior voices; unrepentant and raw. Coles’ irreverent characters scorch, and strangely comfort us, as they struggle to process the permeable nature of their thoughts. Such are the sardonically complex and humourous Eating Habits Of The Chronically Lonesome.
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Eavesdroppers, The
$20.95When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for ‘listeners’ to work on an unconventional project, he anticipates that his team of eavesdroppers will discover previously untapped insights into public opinion.
But as five eager listeners begin eavesdropping in the cafes, dentist waiting rooms, public toilets, tube trains and launderettes of London, discreetly noting the details of unguarded conversations, Bill starts to notice subtle changes in their behaviour and realises he has underestimated the compulsive nature of his group. His anxiety is compounded after he receives a series of anonymous letters warning him of the dangers of his experiment.
As the group becomes increasingly intertwined in their subjects’ lives, eavesdropping descends into obsession and Bill has to find a way to rein in his increasingly unruly team before they are beyond help.
Informed by conversations collected over three years, The Eavesdroppers, by award-winning author Rosie Chard, is a dark, yet wryly humorous tale of present-day Londoners, living in a constant state of noise and crowds and eavesdroppers.
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Echo Chamber
$19.95>p> Echo Chamber is a follow-up on Norman and Leggo’s Hearing Echoes, which was a collection of poetry that moved between two strong voices?a man and a woman?focusing
on family relationships in all their intersections and differences.
Echo Chamber releases following the death of co-author Carl Leggo and serves as a love
letter to him from surviving author, Renee Norman, remembering his love and their previous
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Echo Gods and Silent Mountains
$18.95A poetic journal looks at life in a war-torn country
After two years spent in the Kurdish North of Iraq, Patrick Woodcock has returned with his eighth collection of poetry, Echo Gods and Silent Mountains.
Resisting both summary gestures and grief tourism, these poems form a sustained poetic journal of both Woodcock’s own experiences and those of the Iraqis who befriended him, as it paints a picture of the birth of a new Kurdish state. With poems that are at once deadly serious and poignantly humorous, Echo Gods and Silent Mountains is the work of a poet who cannot live or create without uprooting himself to our world’s most misunderstood and misrepresented regions.
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Echo Lane
$22.00Patsy Keane survived her childhood, and some days that’s all that matters. As the child of an alcoholic mother, Patsy is not prone to nostalgia. She lives in a world of her own creation, where Beverly Keane’s maternal shortcomings are just a bad memory. It would be a perfect world if Patsy wasn’t eternally haunted by the memory of what really happened on the day her sister Kathleen went missing–and by the foolish lie she told that day. She’s lived with it for forty-two years.
Since that terrible time, Patsy has distanced herself from everyone and everything in her past. She is now a well-respected teacher in Calgary, the proud owner of a vintage home, and the occasional companion of a lovely man who seems content to keep their relationship casual. It’s a stable life–until a mysterious woman shows up at her door claiming to be Nora Stone, a childhood friend of Kathleen’s. Nora further claims to have information about Kathleen’s fate, facts she acquired in a manner that defies belief. As Patsy tries to figure out whether Nora is real, real but crazy, or something even more sinister, the rest of her carefully compartmentalized life begins to come apart, one well built piece at a time.
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Echo Soundings
$19.95Echo Soundings
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Echo-Mirror
$20.00The long-awaited collection by much-loved dub poet Klyde Broox, Echo-Mirror is a tour of his poetry over the decades. Filled with a rich voice and song, the poems within this collection are meant to be heard as much as read, but still resound on the page. Broox takes aim at the need to write in English, at inequality and at other injustices, with sharp images and strong rhythms, but also writes movingly of family and those lost along the way. The poems in the collection question the status quo, they celebrate Black voices and they are a call to action. These are poems that leap off the page into the reader’s heart.
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Echoes from the Other Land
$22.95These haunting stories beautifully evoke the oppressive lives of modern women in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Anis, a computer programmer, is at the end of her rope, putting up with the bullying criticism of a no-good, unemployed lout of a husband; Azar is a young divorcee, and the only person she can talk to is Reza; but she can see him only late at night when “they” are not around; Sharmin has Down’s syndrome and hopelessly loves Azad; he loves Kazhal, beautiful and blessed; but Kazhal is married off and is divorced at twenty and now awaits a hopeless future . . . For these and other characters the weight of traditional attitudes, the harassment of the religious establishment make for a frustrating, confining, and sometimes unlivable existence.
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Echoes in Silence
$12.95In his first collection of poetry, this well-known editor, historian, and critic takes memory as his overarching subject. Echoes in Silence explores Keith’s memories of England, of his wartime childhood, or words, language, and God, and of Proust, the quintessential spokesman of memory.
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Echoes of Growing Up Italian
$22.95What you will find in Echoes of Growing up Italian are accounts of the immigrant experience as told through the eyes of women. The Italian diaspora is one of the most significant of the 20th century, with a far-reaching impact in the Americas, Australia and Northern Europe. The Italian immigration narrative is a universal one. The stories in this book of the Italian woman in North America and how she learned to survive as she lived with two cultures in her heart and home. This collection provides the reader with a candid glimpse into the lives of fifteen women from across North America: some were born and raised in Italy while some have only been there on holidays; some are mothers and grandmothers and some are single; some only know a few words of Italian, while others are fluent, but we all have a discerning perspective on what it means to live with two cultures.