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End of the Story, The
$19.95The year is 1976. The protagonists are women, writers, guerilla fighters, friends. And as they explore the contradictions of political commitment, and move toward the most shocking reversal in Latin American literature, their story emerges as one of the great narratives of the twentieth century—and The End of the Story as the definitive novel of Argentina’s Dirty War.
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End Times
$22.95End Times is an astounding debut collection of stories about evangelical culture, ideological polarization, and the messiness and mysteries of humanity.
A Vancouver mother convinces her opioid-addicted son to attend church, and sparks her own personal emergency. A jet-setting consultant tries to help a rural fundamentalist teen, while her own secular life unravels in Toronto, Davos, and beyond. An atheist doctor attempts to expose a hipster megachurch pastor as a closeted hypocrite.
At a time when the end feels nigh for many, End Times brings together an expansive cast of the devout and the dissenting, the elderly and the young, immigrants, elites, the burned-out, and the lonely, exploring our hidden anxieties and longings.
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End-of-Summer Surprise Stack: Poetry Bundle
$40.00Get THREE surprise books for $40! Perfect for readers who trust the universe (or us) to pick their next favourite read.
This bundle includes three poetry collections published by independent Canadian presses and made right here in Canada.
Shipping is $10 flat to anywhere in Canada.
Available until September 21, or until bundles run out!
(This item is final sale unless damaged upon delivery.)
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End-of-Summer Surprise Stack: Short Story Bundle
$40.00Get THREE surprise books for $40! Perfect for readers who trust the universe (or us) to pick their next favourite read.
This bundle includes three short story collections published by independent Canadian presses and made right here in Canada.
Shipping is $10 flat to anywhere in Canada.
(This item is final sale unless damaged upon delivery.)
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End-of-Summer Surprise Stack: The Wild Card!
$40.00Get THREE surprise books for $40! Perfect for readers who trust the universe (or us) to pick their next favourite read.
This bundle include three books from a mix of genres published by independent Canadian presses and made right here in Canada.
Shipping is $10 flat to anywhere in Canada.
Available until September 21, or until bundles run out!
(This item is final sale unless damaged upon delivery.)
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End-of-Summer Surprise Stack: True Stories Bundle!
$40.00Get THREE surprise books for $40! Perfect for readers who trust the universe (or us) to pick their next favourite read.
This bundle include three non-fiction books (essays and/or memoirs) published by independent Canadian presses and made right here in Canada.
Shipping is $10 flat to anywhere in Canada.
Available until September 21, or until bundles run out!
(This item is final sale unless damaged upon delivery.)
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Endangered Species
$8.95The poems in Endangered Species examine the human animal in a state of siege, from technology out of control to the nature of aging.
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Endgames
$17.95Poems that explore our contemporary world, reality, psychoanalysis, and relationships
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Ending with Music
$15.00Maurice Mierau tackles big subjects — sex, senility, war, suicide — without a ponderous bone in his body. His approach to poetry is amazingly vital, with a strong pop sensibility and a wry sense of humour. These poems are ripe with the atmosphere of a Wim Wenders film, with a little Isaac Bashevis Singer sprinkled in — an unforgettable mix of horror and fable. Jarringly beautiful at times, Ending with Music offers a vivid sense of person and place, encompassing Rilke, the rural Mennonite past, and the atrocities in Srebrenica.
when the executioner struck off the man’s head something flew
off his face so he put up his hands
(no one saw what it was or why he put his hands up but some
said they saw a black hen he tried whisking away and
others said it was a demon with shears
dancing and glinting in the sun) but everybody soon saw
the executioner’s nose drop off which was
definitely God.
– from “Revenge Stories”“Mierau’s poems are full of movement … They launch narratives with spin, invite silence, then linger on the ear.” – Carol Shields
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Engagement Calendar
$18.95The poems in this collection are a voyage of self-discovery. They are poems of disclosure, of exposure, of allowing one’s self to be vulnerable, of telling truths. The poet touches upon myriad themes such as bird-watching, illness, accidents–but through all of these, she examines the complexity of human feeling and relationships. These relationships can be familial or romantic, and as such, poems explore the poet’s relationship with her mother and sister as well as with her husband and, at times, her children. Engagement Calendar documents a personal journey through many decades; it is a book about the territory of family life, and it speaks to the many experiences that make up an individual’s life with rich insights, humour and the occasional cynicism that comes from having seen so much.
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England is mine
$16.95Todd Swift’s seventh collection of poems takes on the foreign coolness, tone, and lingo of London in the present, while the poet’s Montreal past arrives in waves of defiance, solace, and reverie. In poems that demonstrate Swift’s abilities as a poet, on the one hand, to out-move The Movement (out bicycle-clip Larkin) and to revive the British Revival on the other, this collection pushes old, droll Mr. Poetic Persona to the brink of discovering an urgent, idealistic, youthful self within. Public, intimate, clever, and heartbreakingly sad, England is Mine reveals a poet at the height of his engagement with the lyric idiom.
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English is Not a Magic Language
$17.95From award-winning translator Sheila Fischman comes a new novel by bestselling Quebec author and Canada Reads finalist Jacques Poulin, English Is Not a Magic Language. A follow-up to the author’s critically acclaimed 2006 novel, Translation Is a Love Affair (Archipelago Books), here we meet reader-for-hire Francis, the little brother of novelist Jack Waterman, whom longtime Poulin fans will remember from previous works as the author’s loose alter ego. One call and Francis will arrive at your door in his Mini Cooper, ready to read. He’s partial to works about the Natives, the fur trade, and the immense territory the French once held in North America. His principal client is Limoilou, a young woman from Quebec City who still bears the scars she slashed into her wrists at the end of Translation Is a Love Affair, who finds great solace in his reading voice. Altogether, Francis’s ordinary life in the shadows of his better-known brother could almost be described as happy. But what is he to make of a missed rendezvous with a mysterious woman? And why have the Mounties suddenly started following him in front of the Plains of Abraham, where New France fell to the British?
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English Lessons and Other Stories
$18.99Winner, CBC Canadian Literary Award and Friends of American Writers Award
The new reader’s guide edition of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s literary debut features the fifteen stories from the original collection, an interview with the author, an original afterword, and her suggested reading list. When Shauna Singh Baldwin’s debut collection was first published in 1996, it took readers by storm. Reviewers discovered a new voice; listeners tuned in to the stories on CBC Radio. Since then, Baldwin has written two award-winning novels and, in 2007, a second story collection, We Are Not in Pakistan. Dramatizing the lives of Indian women from 1919 to the present, from India to North America, Shauna Singh Baldwin travels from the intimate sphere of family to the wasteland of office and university.
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English Stories, The
$19.95English Stories, The
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Enid Strange
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Enjoy It While It Hurts
$17.00Winner of the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry
Enjoy It While It Hurts is an edifying miscellany of quarrelsome quips, holiday oddities, benevolent advice, curious thoughts and comically apocalyptic melancholia. This delightful collection of light verse and nonsense poetry written and illustrated by the award-winning, multitalented JonArno Lawson keeps alive the traditions of Edward Gorey, Shel Silverstein and Hilaire Belloc. Erudite, witty and wholly original, Lawson’s wordplay is serious business.