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Empire of the Son
$16.95Empire of the Son is an original one-hander that blurs the boundaries between artistic disciplines and continents. It is a unique theatrical hybrid that combines cinematography with the raw immediacy of a performance piece intimately connected to real life in real time. Through a series of audio interviews, playwright Tetsuro Shigetmatsu discovers vast worlds contained within his emotionally remote father – from the ashes of World War II and Hiroshima to swinging London in the 1960s and work in broadcasting at the BBC. As the playwright learns about how his own father was once a son, he realizes all the ways in which he himself needs to step up and become a better dad. This funny, poignant story of one immigrant family and their intergenerational conflicts reminds us that no matter how far we journey out into the world to find ourselves – across decades and continents – we never stop being our parents’ children. It is the story of two generations of CBC broadcasters and the radio silence between them. Nominated for six Jessie Awards. Remount completely sold out in Vancouver and scheduled for productions across Canada in 2017.
Cast of 1 man.
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Emry’s Dream
$21.95A brief history of the oldest degree-granting drama department in the British Commonwealth and a lucid pictorial celebration of the
fabulous directors and actors who have graced its stagesThe University of Saskatchewan’s Greystone Theatre has the distinction of being the oldest degree-granting drama program in the British Commonwealth and its cultural history is both glamorous and intriguing. Emrys’ Dream: Greystone Theatre in Photographs and Words chronicles the social and historical forces of this landmark theatre and, through its use of still photographs and retrospective essays and interviews, is an important addition to the cultural history of Saskatchewan and the University. The archival black &white photographs together with a collection of essays and interviews featuring the work of Walter Mills, Henry Woolf, Ronald Mavor, Patrick O’Neill and others provide a sense of the political, social, and economic undercurrents that were present at the time of the production.
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Encampment
$24.95ONE OF THE GLOBE AND MAIL’S BEST BOOKS OF 2025
WINNER OF THE 2025 TORONTO BOOK AWARD
“Striking, elegant.” – Publishers Weekly, ★ STARRED Review
An activist priest provides sanctuary for an encampment of unhoused people in her churchyard
The housing crisis plaguing major urban centres has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022, some of them found their way to the yard beside the Anglican church in Toronto’s Kensington Market, where Maggie Helwig is the priest. They pitched tents, formed an encampment, and settled in. Known as an outspoken social justice activist, Helwig has spent the last three years getting to know the residents and fighting tooth and nail to allow them to stay, battling various authorities that want to clear the yard and keep the results of the housing crisis out of sight and out of mind.
Encampment tells the story of Helwig’s life-long activism as preparation for her fight to keep her churchyard open to people needing a home. More importantly, it introduces us to the Artist, to Jeff, and to Robin: their lives, their challenges, their humanity. It confronts our society’s callousness in allowing so many to go unhoused and demands, by bringing their stories to the fore, that we begin to respond with compassion and grace.
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Encyclopedia Gothica
$22.95From absinthe to zombies, it’s the Encyclopedia Gothica!
“Wickedly funny . . . Ideal for babybats and elder goths who’ll appreciate the wealth of reminders of the experiences that make up goth life” — NOW Magazine
“Ladouceur is a rare gem of a commenter that has the ability not only to laugh at herself, but to be able to get you to laugh at yourself, too.” — Houston Press
“Including illustrations from the talented Gary Pullin, Encyclopedia Gothica is the essential Goth reference whether you’re wondering who Sisters of Mercy are or what absinthe is (and why Marilyn Manson has his own brand of the green stuff).” — Geeks of Doom
“Ladouceur’s humor is a welcome rarity in an oft-misunderstood subculture.” — Maclean’s
A guidebook to the language of the most shadowy of subcultures, this work collects and defines more than 550 Gothic words and phrases. Compiled by an acclaimed Goth journalist and poet, this compendium provides insight into the unique vernacular of this fascinating community, describing in detail and with black humor the fashion, music, and lifestyle as well as sharing insider slang such as Babybat, Corp Goth, and the Gothic Two-Step. A Goth Band Family Tree and essential Goth listening, reading, and viewing recommendations are also included in this phantasmagorical work.
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End of the Ice Age, The
$19.95End of the Ice Age, The
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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.
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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.