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Finton Moon
$19.95Finton Moon is an unusual child who feels like an alien. A gentle soul growing up in the rough town of Darwin, Newfoundland, he lives with his strict Catholic mother and grandmother, lawless father and three older brothers. While his grandmother has him “right ready for the seminary,” Finton’s interest lies in books, nature and solitude. He is secretly in love with the unattainable Mary Connelly, while eschewing the attention of the equally misfit Alicia Dredge, who adores him from afar. In Finton’s life, there are monsters everywhere–including Bridie Battenhatch, the crone next door who harbours secrets about the Moon family she will share in exchange for the boy’s company–while all his heroes come from books and TV.
But Finton’s parents quickly discover that he is extraordinary–for he has been born with the ability to heal with his hands. As he grows older, his miraculous talent becomes more apparent and useful, even as it isolates him further from those around him. While Finton Moon wants nothing more than to belong, he lives in a world that sees him as other, and his greatest fear is that he will be trapped forever with these people who both misunderstand and abuse him.
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Fir Valley
$24.99The town of Fir Valley sits on the side of a mountain, nestled up against the forest. The town is shaken when a man is killed and his son disappears. While the community reacts to these events, the mystery is investigated and dark secrets from the town’s past come to light. There are strange things lurking in the woods.
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Fire Cider Rain
$22.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD
Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties
Fire Cider Rain is about the limits to which shared cultural and geographic histories can hold a family together. It follows the lives of three Chinese-Mauritian women on the course of dispersing, settling, and rooting over northern landscapes, and the brittle family bonds that tie them to one another and to their home country. Told from the perspective of the youngest of the three women, Fire Cider Rain follows the events leading up to and following the death of her grandmother, an ex-lighthouse keeper and matriarch whose fractured relationship with her own daughter haunts the narrator’s life in soft, painful aftershocks. As she navigates the cold cities and waterways of Southern Ontario, our narrator struggles with conflicting desires to run toward and flee from her island identity, which grows ever distant, ever more difficult to find her way back to.
At its core, Fire Cider Rain is a book about parent-child relationships as vessels for cultural identity, and the ways in which expressions of love and non-love within those relationships can rupture sense of place, self, and at times, a collective diaspora. Throughout the book, Ng Cheng Hin explores the geopolitics of island nations, the dilution of family histories over time, and the experience of water as a medium for the cyclical movement of island bodies, stories, and cultures. The Mauritian landscape and waterways of southern Ontario recur through the book as convergence points for its many themes.
“In this stunning debut, Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin weaves wondrous verse across geological spaces that extend from Mauritius to Canada. In this poetry, the Indian Ocean converses with northern landscapes to give voice to the (un)settling of diasporic women in search of rootedness. Water becomes a medium, a metaphor, a rhythm, a motif, and a metamorphosing figure through which memory, loss and mourning become bodies. Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s sweeping poetry is infused with dexterous and lavish verse that makes the reader want to live within the nuances of each line. Fire Cider Rain is a dazzling debut!” – Kama La Mackarel, author of ZOM-FAM
“Mauritian waters of memory migrate through ‘imperial decay’ and ‘calcic dust’ to the cold northern continent where Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s lustrous poetic telemetry manifests a lexical biogeography of uprootedness—her lyrical ‘I’ the connecting thread between past and future, between mother and moth, grandmother and cyclone, selia lover and terra nullius. Fire Cider Rain erupts as ebb and swell, distilling belonging and meaning in postcolonial drift, filling absence with terraqueous inquiry and salvaged wake.” – Jeffrey Yang, author of Line and Light
“In reading Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s poetry, I became immersed within a deep sense memory of why I came to love poetry in the first place. Her attunement to language and cadence vibrates, or as she writes ‘love – or recognition, catches in my throat and stings.’ Hers is a voice that can make nerve endings sing and one that speaks with such artful earnestness to the difficulties there are in a personal history. Ng Cheng Hin’s poetry is cousin to the spider’s web, which belies a kind of vulnerability through its delicate beauty, yet each of its strands contains an exceptional tensile strength.” – Liz Howard, author of Letters in a Bruised Cosmos
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Fire Monster
$29.95Would you return to the landscape you watched burn as a child, especially if you and everyone else believed that the manic, wind-fuelled, merciless fire was your fault?
Set in a fictional version of the real Main-à-Dieu, Nova Scotia, where a 1976 wildfire caused catastrophic devastation, The Fire Monster, tells the tale of a skilled oil sands worker who returns to the Cape Breton fishing village where, as a child, he was blamed for causing the fire that tore through the local community, consuming bush, trees, houses, boats, cars, animals and the century-old gothic church. At once a poetry collection, a story inspired by true events, and a visually stunning comic-book adventure, The Fire Monster is a mixed genre story for the ages that explores the aftermath of tragedy, the frayed bonds of friendship and family, and s redemptive power.
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Fire Never Dies
What is the purpose of art in the face of fascism? Can art serve the poor? And what is the personal cost of militancy?
In Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project, bestselling author and Electric Company Core Artist Carmen Aguirre explores the intersection of art and revolution through the life of Italian photographer and activist Tina Modotti.
Modotti’s story begins in 1920s Mexico City, where her art flourished and she encountered other icons of the day, including Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. However, after seven years she abandoned photography to join the antifascist cause, ultimately running the Red Aid Hospital during the Spanish Civil War. Through a dynamic blend of styles and theatrical forms, the play mirrors Modotti’s struggle to reconcile passion, creativity, and political conviction as it unfolds across twenty episodes, all recalled in Modotti’s final moments during a fatal heart attack in a taxi at age forty-five.
Cast of 7 diverse actors
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Firebird
$12.95Firebird explores a period in our history – one year in particular (1915-1916) – when a massive number of newcomers were deemed “enemy aliens,” arrested and put into internment camps set up all across Canada. Alex Kaminsky, a fourteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant boy, suffers burns to his hands and face when his uncle’s farmhouse burns down. Rescued by a neighbour, he is tended to by a backcountry midwife before being taken in by a local postmaster. Determined to search for his older brother, an itinerant farm worker (and talented artist) who has disappeared, Alex follows Marco’s trail from a Vegreville farm to Edmonton. From there he is on the run from officials to Calgary and finally Banff, where he finds his brother close to death in the Castle Mountain Internment Camp. In many ways it is a voyage of discovery for Alex, discovery of the hatred harboured by many for immigrants who once lived happy lives in what has become an enemy empire. But also the discovery of those with a strong sense of humanity who decry Marco’s treatment and go the extra mile to help the brothers. For readers who believe such internment camps began only with Japanese Canadians in WWII, Firebird will be an eye-opening experience.
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Fireboy
$22.99“I knew things were getting weird when I saw my best friend’s face in the campfire. I didn’t realize how weird until the campfire followed me home . . .”
Thirteen-year-old Samantha “Sam” MacReady is nervous about the start of Grade 8, especially science class, which isn’t too surprising: last year, her Grade 7 science class mysteriously disappeared on the way to a field trip she missed out on.
But when her best friend, Lorenzo—who no one has seen since he got on the bus with the rest of that class—suddenly appears in a campfire, she moves from nervous to freaked out. She teams up with Meg LeBlanc, the sole student survivor of what all adults refer to as “The Tragedy,” to uncover just what went on that day and why Lorenzo is now showing up in her back yard made entirely of flames.
What the two girls find out is far freakier and scarier than they ever imagined. Sam and Meg must use all their grit and intelligence to save the day and free their friends from magical enslavement . . . or fall victim to the very same fate.
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Firebrands
$21.95Philippe is a creature of habit now, a man of routine. Trapped in an uninspiring job, with a wife, two children, and an uneventful life in the suburbs of Montreal, his wild student days spent chasing neo-Nazis across Europe was a lifetime ago. Until a ghost from the past turns up on his doorstep. Old friend Robert Moranowitz convinces Philippe to return to his activist ways, leaving everything behind to hunt down a dangerous band of white supremacists.
But why are Philippe and Mora really after Hans Wolf? And how far are they prepared to go?
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Fireship
$25.95“I believe a book can be a labyrinth whose centre is the journey to itself,” writes Peter Sanger. “A concerto grosso, not a
singular declamation” And indeed in reading Sanger, individual books, like individual poems, may profitably be read as
layers in the strata of his oeuvre, each influenced by what was written before and influencing in turn what was to be
written next. Taken together, his books describe the long arc of his particular sensitivity to language and his ever-evolving sense of nature, culture and place. “All the poems in Fireship,” writes Sanger, “concern where we were,
where we are, where we will be.”
As well as his many prose projects, Gaspereau Press has been publishing Sanger’s poetry since 2002, issuing two full-length
collectionsAiken Drum and John Stokes’ Horse. While these volumes remain in print, Sanger’s first two
collections, published elsewhere, have essentially disappeared from viewThe America Reel (1983) and Earth
Moth (1991). With the blessing of their original publishers, Gaspereau Press is marking Peter Sanger’s seventieth
birthday in 2013 by reissuing his first two poetry books in a single volume, collecting with them 24 previously unpublished
poems which predate them. The volume also includes a new essay entitled “Log-slate.”
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Firesmoke
$20.95Sheniz Janmohamed’s second collection continues the poet’s journey, tracing the inception and annihilation of sacred fire. In a series of highly evocative, personal poems, Firesmoke explores the meaning of truth and the self, finding them both in form and emptiness. In her unorthodox, broadminded quest for understanding, Sheniz evokes the teachings of Sufism, acknowledges the restorative power of the Mother Goddess and honours the alchemy of nature. Life and death do not exist without each other, just as fire produces both ash and smoke, one falling to the ground, the other rising into space.
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Firewalk
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Fireweed and Bracken
$19.95Highlighting the tension between insiders and outsiders, and set against a sinister backdrop, Fireweed and Bracken follows the life of Effie Cambridge who, awkward and searching, leaves her complicated life in Ontario to work as a high school teacher in Charlottetown, PEI, where she makes friends, courts rejection, finds love, and struggles to come to terms with not only herself but with the life she is attempting to build in a place she doesn’t belong. Drawing on an inner strength and the humour to explore the pleasures and challenges of living in a modern pastoral idyll, Effie comes to understand something of her value in the world and the ramifications of systemic exclusion.
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Firmament
$27.95Bruce Johnson’s debut novel, Firmament, offers a fictional meditation on the real life community of Caplin Cove, Newfoundland. Resisting the sentimental or documentary approaches common to many Newfoundland novels, Johnson braids songs, folk-tales, scripture, dreams, diaries and poems together into an expressionist work, one where the grit of the mundane intersects with the mystery of human memory and dreams. At its heart is a preoccupation with the strange relationship among humans, the place they inhabit and time.
‘Firmament binds together thirteen stories,’ writes Johnson ‘spanning 200 years within a single cove in rural Newfoundland. Each of the stories, and all of the characters, attempt to come to terms with the nature of time and how it defines us as human. Each tale begins with a word taken from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, from which I build the text. I choose words that I feel encompass aspects of the Newfoundland psyche. I tried to craft a text that avoided some pitfalls I see in many stories set here, namely stereotypical Newfoundland characterizations and overly sentimental views of the past. I am not interested in realism that documents a particular people or place, as much as creating a small world were the grit of the mundane can intersect with the mystery of human memories and dreams. Every moment in the novel exists in the present tense. There are also many different types of narratives braided into these stories, including songs, folk-tales, scripture, dreams, diaries, photographs and poems.’
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First Comes Love
$16.95In First Comes Love, Pino Coluccio takes family matters, high school angst, dead end jobs, and enduring love and turns them into poetry as catchy as a pop song. These are the kind of poems that recognize our human foibles and comment on them with humour and pathos. First Comes Love is a book that can win over readers who have forgotten that poetry can be funny as well as true.
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First Few Feet in a World of Wolves, The
$24.95The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves chronicles the fictionalization of the year the author spent teaching in Aupaluk (a remote Inuit community on the Ungava Coast of Nunavik). The second outlines, and explores, the history of oppression experienced by the more than five hundred Indigenous nations across northern Turtle Island at the hands of the Canadian government since the Royal Proclamation.
Told through the voice of Nomad, who finds himself very much at odds with the land itself. Nomad slowly learns how to reconnect with his fractured history as he embraces and is embraced by the Elders and his own students. Told is crisp, spare prose, this debut novel brings forward a powerful new indigenous voice to the literary landscape.
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First Gear
$22.95A powerful story of childhood physical, emotional and sexual abuse unrolls as the author, at age 50 and living with Multiple Sclerosis, rides her 2009 Harley-Davidson — named Thelma D. — from Ottawa to Winnipeg and back, with detours to northern Ontario and a detour into Quebec. During her ride through the stunning landscape of the Canadian Shield, she shares stories of her childhood growing up in the 1970s in the Ottawa Valley with her three brothers, a violent father and an alcoholic mother. Told with a frank openness and humour, First Gear is ultimately a story of courage, survival, and recovery.