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Einstein’s Gift
$16.95A revolutionary chemist, Dr. Fritz Haber discovered too late that when his knowledge was put in the hands of the wrong people, millions would die; his efforts to serve humanity futile against political will, nationalism, and war. This updated edition of Vern Thiessen’s Governor General’s Literary Award–winning play about the collision of power and pride still resonates with verve and vigour.
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Ejaculations From the Charm Factory
$19.95Kissing and telling … You’ve heard about Sky Gilbert: he’s loved by fans of his novels, plays, poetry, and columns; hated by the Toronto Sun and by some members of the gay community. His alter ego Jane, a drag queen, was charged with not wearing a seat belt in a cab, took the case to trial, and won: “The judge said I was a reasonable person.” Gilbert’s theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, was almost closed by The City of Toronto for sponsoring S/M workshops in 1990, and yet he was awarded the Pauline McGibbon Award for directing in 1985, has directed two plays at the Shaw Festival, and had his work performed across North America. The Religious Right has campaigned against him, yet some men argue that his work has changed their lives. So, whatvs Gilbert all about, what makes him tick? Is he a drag queen? An award-winning artist? A complete slut? Or, maybe, all three? Many are going to be angered by this book, many more will be entertained. One guarantee: everyone is going to be reading Ejaculations from the Charm Factory to see if their names are in it. And yes, they are.… But there’s also a whole lot more.
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Ekpahak
$24.95Photography, sculpture, woven work, folk art, painting, found art, and more.
When Terry Graff and Alan Syliboy decided to investigate contemporary First Nations art in New Brunswick, they set out on a road trip. They visited the Mi’kmaq Nation communities and Wolastoqey Nation communities. The result was an exhibition and a book, a journal that captured the essence of the road trip through Graff’s words and Syliboy’s magnificent photographs.
The book captures their high-octane meeting with heavy metal musician Eric Miller; Robert Pictou’s model boats and surprising works of art; their poignant visit with John Seca Labillois, who conjured a drum from the trunk of a 600-year-old tree; Peter Augustine’s collection of antlers; the sacred site of the Sundance ceremony at Big Cove; and the story of the Brooks family’s efforts to repatriate the 200-year-old Grandfather Akwiten canoe. Ekpahak brings together a synthesis of cultural traditions and artistic practise that today serves as expressions of self-determination.
Photographie, sculpture, travail tissé, art populaire, peinture, art trouvé, et d’autant plus.
Lorsque Terry Graff et Alan Syliboy ont décidé d’enquêter sur l’art contemporain des Premières nations au Nouveau-Brunswick, ils ont entrepris un voyage sur la route. Ils ont visité les communautés de la nation Mi’kmaq et les communautés de la nation Wolastoqey. Le résultat a été une exposition et un livre, un journal qui a capturé l’essence du voyage sur la route à travers les mots de Graff et les magnifiques photographies de Syliboy.
Le livre capture leur rencontre à haut indice d’octane avec le musicien de heavy metal Eric Miller ; les maquettes de bateaux et les œuvres d’art surprenantes de Robert Pictou ; leur visite poignante avec John Seca Labillois, qui a évoqué un tambour du tronc d’un arbre vieux de 600 ans ; la collection de bois de Peter Augustine ; le site sacré de la cérémonie de Sundance à Big Cove ; et l’histoire des efforts de la famille Brooks pour rapatrier le canoë Akwiten, vieux de 200 ans. Ekpahak offre une synthèse des traditions culturelles et des pratiques artistiques qui servent aujourd’hui d’expressions d’autodétermination.
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El Ghourabaa
$21.95Seeking uncanny, fun, experimental, creepy, sarcastic, playful, vulgar, inventive, sexual, weird, sweet, and evocative works, editors Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch set out to collect Arab and Arabophone queer writing. The result is an anthology brimming with gems by emerging and established writers and an homage to the lineages and complexities of queer Arab life. Multi-genre, multi-generational, and global, El Ghourabaa is an enigma, a delight, and a contribution to an ongoing conversation and creative outpouring.
In addition to Marshy and El Bechelany-Lynch, contributors include: Leila Marshy, Trish Salah, Olivia Tapiero, Maisie-Nour Symon Henry, Yehia Anas Sabaa, Nofel, Hoda Adra, Ralph Haddad, Seif Siddiq, Karim Kattan, Andrea Abi-Karam, Bazeed, George Abraham, Sarah O’Neal, Micaela Kaibni Raen, Nour Kamel, Barrak Alzaid, and Rabih Alameddine.
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El Terremoto
$18.95“Talks about today in a way that is fresh rather than forced.” —The Globe and Mail
Twenty years after the death of their parents, the three Jurado sisters struggle to keep family traditions alive in their East Vancouver home. Beneath the surface, old tensions and resentments fracture their bonds. Disconnected from their culture, loved ones, and even themselves, they drift through ennui, inertia, and might-have-beens. But when a massive earthquake literally shakes the ground beneath them, they are forced to confront their open wounds before everything collapses.
Inspired by Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Christine Quintana’s daring and inventive dramatic comedy reimagines the “well-made” play with a bold magical realism twist. An existential journey through the depths of love and longing, El Terremoto is a life-affirming intervention about how nothing matters—so everything matters.
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Electric Affinities
$14.95In Electric Affinities, Michael Pacey’s second collection, everyday household items become points of departure into wonder — a handsaw becomes a “bird hooded, strung with jesses, strops with its beak.” A cup becomes “a tool for gripping liquids.” Mirrors are “windows turned inside out, always concentrating, trying to memorize each detail,” and scissors are “perpetually plural, twin sisters fastened together.” While it is Pacey’s particular magic to discover the amazing alchemical properties of everyday objects, in Electrical Affinities he also illuminates the poetic “current” that connects them to larger questions of human nature, language and the environment.
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Electric Baths, The
$19.95A surprise return home triggers a chain of events, their strands weaving together a sinister web of dreams and reality, lies and truth, secrets and spells.
Jean-Michel Fortier?s chilling second novel features a cast of memorable characters, including Renée, who never dreams (or does she?), and the oft-widowed Bella, who signs her personal ads ?Come, and be prepared to stay forever.?
Following in the tradition of Fortier?s absurdist first novel, The Unknown Huntsman, this is a dark and offbeat tale about lost love, lost dreams, and one lost limb.
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Electricity Slides
$16.95Electricity Slides describes a disjointed, somewhat dystopian, slightly connected series of events, written in the Dadaist “cut-up” style of the 1950s. The book first started out as a series of performance art monologues written and performed live for a multidisciplinary exhibition put on by the Indigenous Peoples Artists Collective every year in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The stories alternate between a third-person narrative and the first-person narrative of the protagonist, who goes without a name throughout the book, but whom we discover is a military officer who has suffered an emotional breakdown during a battle and as a result speaks in a lyrical, poem-prose manner. Throughout the book, the reader is taken through a psychotropic funhouse-like journey, like a dream, where vignettes are connected only slightly, but keep the reader moving.
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Elementary Particles
$22.95Longlisted 2024 Raymond Souster Award
Part family history, part scientific exploration, Elementary Particles examines the world through the lens of a daughter grieving the loss of her beloved father.
Through keen, quiet observation, Sneha Madhavan-Reese’s evocative new collection takes us from the wide expanse of rural India to the minute map of Michigan we carry on the palms of our hands. These poems contemplate ancestral language, the wonder and uncertainty of scientific discovery, the resilience of a dung beetle, the fleeting existence of frost flowers on the Arctic Ocean.
The collection is full of familiar characters, from Rosa Parks to Seamus Heaney to Corporal Nathan Cirillo, anchoring it in specific moments in time and place, but has the universality that comes from exploring the complex relationship between a child and her immigrant parents, and in turn, a mother and her children. Elementary Particles examines the building blocks of a life — the personal, family, and planetary histories, transformations, and losses we all experience.
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Elephant in the Sky
$14.95A testament to the healing power of unconditional love.
Widely acclaimed for her emotionally powerful stories that capture the real lives of women, Heather A. Clark, bestselling author of Chai Tea Sunday, tackles the subject of childhood mental illness and the impact it has on a close family.
The story begins from nine-year-old Nate’s point of view, etching the details of an unbalanced mind struggling to make sense of rampant thought patterns and heightened paranoia. Enter Ashley, Nate’s mother, and a hardworking advertising executive concerned that she’s not giving her family enough of her time — especially now that she senses something might be wrong with her son. As the story moves deftly back and forth between the two perspectives, the narrative converges to reveal one family’s journey of discovery as they strive to find balance in their lives.
Based on a true story, Elephant in the Sky articulates a complicated, real-life subject with grace, wisdom and sensitivity, and beautifully explores the distance a mother will go to protect her child.
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Elephant Street
$14.95Elephant Street offers a series of poetic responses to the vulnerability of the human urbanite in the 21st century.
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Elephants in the Room
$22.99Betty Jane Hegerat is a master of the “domestic” short story, taking place in familiar settings and populated with familiar characters.
She brings a touch of freshness to the tale of a father meeting his adult daughter for the first time, a son taking his elderly mother to a parade for Queen Elizabeth, a foster mother being visited by one of her few “bad apples,” and the rest of the fourteen stories of Elephants in the Room.
Narrated by characters diverse in gender and age, from young children to octogenarians, these stories deal with awkward interactions, multi-layered relationships, and tensions that are off the page.
In these tales, the conflicts reside not with mean bosses, heartless landlords, or crushing debt but rather with the subtle dance, sometimes funny, often heartbreaking, of real families seeking happiness and understanding.
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Elevator in Sài Gòn
$23.00From the acclaimed author of Chinatown comes a personal and political journey through Hanoi, Sài Gòn, Paris, Pyongyang, and Seoul. Elevator in Sài Gòn is part detective story, part historical romance, part postcolonial ghost story, and a biting satire of life in a communist state.
A Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Sài Gòn for her estranged mother’s funeral. Her brother had recently built a new house there and staged a grotesquely lavish ceremony for their mother to inaugurate what was rumoured to be the first elevator in a private home in the country. But shortly after the ceremony, in the middle of the night, their mother dies after mysteriously falling down the elevator shaft.
Following the funeral, the daughter becomes increasingly fascinated with her mother’s past and begins to investigate and track a mysterious figure who emerges from her notebook named Paul Polotsky. Like an amateur sleuth, she trails Polotsky through the streets of Paris as he goes about his usual routines. Meanwhile, she zigzags across France and Asia, trying to find clues to the spiralling, deepening questions her mother left behind unanswered—and perhaps unanswerable.
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Eleven Huskies
$24.95Peter Bannerman, veterinarian and amateur detective, deserves a summer vacation. Peter and his family head to a remote fishing lodge in northern Manitoba for a canoeing trip with his champion sniffer dog, Pippin. But a series of incidents color their plans. The lodge’s sled team of huskies has been poisoned and, at the same time, a floatplane crashes into the lake, killing the pilot and both passengers. While Peter works to save the huskies, it is discovered that the plane crash wasn’t an accident. It was murder.It’s been a hot and dry summer, and one morning the Bannerman family wakes up to find a forest fire spreading quickly. They manage to dodge the conflagration, making it back to the lodge before it becomes cut off from the outside world. Peter soon figures out that the murderer, who probably also poisoned the huskies, must be among the other guests or staff trapped with them at the lodge. The power fails. The now-enormous fire draws nearer. Can Peter discover the culprit in time?
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Eli Mandel and His Works
$9.95This volume explores the life and works of Eli Mandel. 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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Elimination Dance
$10.00Instructions: An elimination dance begins with a crowded dance floor. At a signal, the band stops playing and the announcer reads an elimination, say, “Any lover who has gone into a flower shop on Valentine’s Day and asked for clitoris when he meant clematis.” Any dancer answering this description must sit down, and his partner is also disqualified. The process continues (e.g. “Any person who has burst into tears at the Liquor Control Board”) until a single couple remains. And now, the post-Meech Lake edition. Brick Books reaches out to Quebec: “Tout amant qui, à la Saint-Valentin, est entré dans une boutique de fleuriste et a demandé pour un clitoris au lieu d’une clématile.”