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Five Little Bitches
$20.00Five Little Bitches chronicles the rise and fall of the all-woman band, Wet Leather. Each of the women is plagued by her own unique demons, but their devotion to music and the punk lifestyle keeps them pushing on. As the band progresses, they tour Canadian, American and European towns and cities – and all the alleys, gutters, back stages, vans, hotel rooms, highways and airways in between.
Part punk rock travelogue, Five Little Bitches is full-throttle grit-lit. The novel is a testimony to a generation of grrrls in revolt.
Praise for Five Little Bitches:
“One glance at this book and you know: It ain’t Anne Tyler. … Five Little Bitches is funny, outrageous, and startlingly authentic … and she delivers what any reader wants – a novel that is vibrantly alive, never dull.” (Prairie Fire)
“a raw, punk energy courses through its veins” (Georgia Straight)
“… it captures the essence of a sub-culture. … The design of the text is as bold as its uncensored language. Every page is coloured with the chaos of punk rock shows, volatile relationships, pain, joy and humour and illustrated with gritty black lines, graffiti art, band posters, set lists and photos. … These are flawed, real women who are unapologetic. But as much as the characters of Five Little Bitches appear hell-bent on being abrasive, this thoroughly modern feminist novel ultimately succeeds because it portrays human vulnerability.” (BC BookWorld)
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Five Minutes to Curtain
$19.95Five Minutes to Curtain is a practical toolkit for teachers and/or community leaders who want to create original productions in collaboration with their students or group members. Providing multiple examples and anecdotes drawn from the author’s twenty years of experience, Five Minutes to Curtain is a guide for providing more meaningful and engaging theatrical experiences for participants and audiences alike.
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Five Red Sentries
$12.95Hendrickson’s debut collection Five Red Sentries feeds our explorer nature. Nothing is too big or too small to kindle curiosity. From imagining what it feels like to be a “sheet of rain” or an acrobat in outer space “spring-boarding from the edge of the earth” to musing about prairie landscapes (“wide open space/spreads like a blanket,”) Raye Hendrickson takes us on journeys that evoke deep and mysterious longings. She explores connections, and the depletion we feel when someone or something vital is lost to us (“death stole my grounding.”) She explores her own inner terrain, using the image of walking the railway track as a forum for “questions about green or stars or skinned knees.” Finally, Hendrickson celebrates the emergence of strength (“heat/rises, fills my legs and feet, propels/me to dance, to carry myself tall”) and the joy of embracing life (“green, the colour of yes.”)
“Raye Hendrickson’s poem “Marguerite Lake” with its sensual and tactile imagery . . . makes the reader feel as if he or she inhabits the same summer scene replete with algae lake, hot sun, and saskatoons ready to be picked. — gillian harding-russell
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Five Star Planet
$17.95This third volume in McFadden’s Terrafina Trilogywhich began with Gypsy Guitar and There’ll be Anotheris shaped by a wealth of poetic forms.
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Flame Out
$20.00A portrait of a violent father and an homage to poetry.
When Michael Delisle was a boy growing up in Montreal’s South Shore neighbourhood of Ville Jacques-Cartier, his “uncles” – in other words, his father’s friends – never said “gun” but rather “piece” or “rod” or more metonymically, “heater.” In Flame Out, the poet remembers his father, a crook turned Charismatic Christian, the violent man who came to speak only of Jesus, the hated man whom he had no choice but to love, in spite of it all. Delisle writes that “reading and writing poetry helped me stay the course.” Writing was the weapon he used do deal with a childhood that was difficult, to say the least, and to combat a father that he has called his Waterloo. But this novel is more than just about a settling of accounts between a parent and his offspring; Michael Delisle manages, through his writing, to grow into a love-hate relationship without destroying the father figure. This novel is thus both highly personal and an acknowledgement of the power found in the act of writing.
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Flashing Yellow
$18.95Light, humourous and poignant, this first novel is a coming-of-middle-age story for Shinny as she settles in to being an unlikely matriarch for her family.
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Flatwillow Creek
$16.95In 1879, Louis Riel was elected chief of a band of Métis buffalo hunters who wintered at Flat Willow Creek in northwestern Montana Territory. At the time, he was in exile from his beloved province of Manitoba, which Riel had helped to create through the Manitoba Act of 1870. His exile had begun in August 1870 with the arrival of armed forces to the Red River colony, when he had fled to the United States fearing for his life. Riel was wanted for the murder of an Irish Protestant named Thomas Scott who had threatened to kill Riel, who a Métis government thus tried and executed, and who consequently was martyred in Upper Canada. Riel, fearing for his life – there was a five-thousand-collar price on his head – could not take his duly elected seat in Parliament. He was formally banished from Canada in January 1875 for a period of five years.
Riel’s exile was not only political but also social: single, far from home – his family and his people – he was unable to find employment, although talented and highly educated, because of his race. He left the eastern United States in early 1878 and headed for the final frontier in Montana.
The one thing Riel did, from the age of fourteen when he started school in Montreal until shortly before his execution, was write poetry. Unfortunately, historians have dismissed most of his poems as “little more than doggerel,” insisting on a comparison of his work with that of Keats, an unreasonable comparison for a poet trained in the formal French style. This cultural difference may have turned many poets away from Riel’s work. While working on another project, translator and editor Michael Barnholden came across a previously unknown text by Riel: a poem written in the Regina jail just before his execution. As both a poet and historian, Barnholden saw something more. A careful reading of Riel’s poetic work revealed to him not only the 481-line masterpiece “To Sir John A.” but a sequence of poems written between 1878 and 1883, a period when Riel lived the traditional life of a Métis buffalo hunter. It is in these poems that Riel commits to print the intellectual and spiritual development of the concept of a “New Nation” for the Métis people.
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Flavourville
$16.95After 40 weeks on the Gazette best-seller list, Lesley Chesterman’s guide to dining out in Montreal is back on the culinary map, in a completely updated and revised edition. With 50 new restaurants, Flavourville keeps pace with Montreal’s evolving restaurant scene. Chesterman continues to lead us on a gastronomic odyssey through more than 150 of the top restaurants in and around Montreal. Flavourville will tell you everything you need to know to enjoy your dining experience from start to finish, including each chef’s style of cuisine, favoured ingredients and the unique dishes that are not to be missed. And Chesterman doesn’t forget the details of mise-en-scène, including decor, the wine list, the level and quality of service, and — of course — the price range. On a budget, or not in the mood to dress for dinner? Browse through Flavourville’s special casual-dining section and choose from among 30 restaurants serving everything from gnocchi and smoked meat to sweetbreads with wild mushrooms and enchiladas verdes. Chesterman sketches the scene — the kind of crowd the place attracts, the ambience it creates, what makes it work. Montreal is one of the culinary capitals of North America and Flavourville will help you gain maximum enjoyment from the city’s vibrant dining-out scene. Whether you’’e interested in trying out the reputed high temples of gastronomy or the author’s top picks of the more casual places, Flavourville is the restaurant guide you need to make your experience memorable. Don’t dine without it.
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Flavourville: Lesley Chesterman’s Guide to Dining Out in Montreal
$16.95Flavourville
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Fleeting Years, The
$19.95Along with Froot Loop bracelets and emergency wads of Kleenex, a mother wears her sentiments on her sleeve. At times achingly poignant, at times wildly funny, a mother’s life is a nonstop, hair-greying, hand-wringing expression of selfless love. Hers is a heartbreaking, wonderful and surprisingly sticky task that leaves precious little time for Dr. Phil, and includes the service of an astonishing number of chicken nuggets.
Being a mommy is both the easiest, and the hardest, thing that most of us will ever do. Laura Pratt, mother of four, shares her thoughts on the undertaking with vignettes that will bring a pang of recognition to all parents: exciting visits from the tooth fairy, the wrenching struggle of working parents on their children’s first days with a sitter, the ongoing management of the legion bits of plastic that populate a child’s world, the complications of travelling with children (and the dilemma of travelling without them), and the constant challenge to live up to the expectations of a little being who thinks that you are the sun and the moon together.
And naturally, in due course, there is also a mother’s gradual, painful, inevitable displacement from the centre of her children’s universe.
For Pratt, chronicling her family’s experiences as her children have grown has been a way to keep the memories alive and close, reminding her of the value in every moment.
The Fleeting Years is the perfect Mother’s Day gift—any day of the year.
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Fleming’s Army
$29.95The book’s history context is the period of the mid-1800s, when railway technology projects were viewed as making (or breaking) a community – ‘making’ if the railway came to ‘our’ town, or hamlet, or even passed near our field – ‘breaking’ if it did not, for our community would surely suffer, wither, maybe even die if passed by. The new technology was still in its infancy, with much ‘learning as we go’, and it was expected that the railway would bring prosperity to its developers, cash to its contractors, fame (and re-election) to its politicians . and perhaps a little, or lots, of silver over the palms of those who supported the railway’s establishment, rights-of-way choices, and it civil engineers. The building of the Intercolonial Railway opened the opportunity for all kinds of excitement, greasing of palms, and outright fraud involving those who paid the bills to those who did (and often didn’t) do overseeing of the construction work. Once completed, the Intercolonial Railway became a vital transit corridor, carrying thousands of people and tons of merchandise, with ICR eventually becoming one of the key components of Canadian National Railways.
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Flesh
$20.00Flesh – a composite of poems perceived, evoked, discovered, moving between and among sensory boundaries as they eschew forward, backward or around exterior life to interior. Here Flesh of person, nature, language, spaces meet separate and become one. Flesh as surfaces, layers, textures, beings with sense memory perceptions of an unforgiving Flesh that scars and the forgiving Flesh that rebuilds itself.
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Flesh and Other Fragments of Love
$16.95When Pierre and Simone planned a vacation to the Irish coast, they were hoping to revive their failing marriage. What they weren’t expecting was to stumble upon the body of Mary, a drowned woman, during a walk along the beach. It’s not long before curiosity and obsession take over, and the couple begin to piece together Mary’s history using both facts and their imaginations. As her story comes alive, Mary’s presence insinuates itself into Pierre and Simone’s lives, resurrecting their memories and regrets. Now they must struggle more than ever to revisit the past in order to write their own story.
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Flicker
$14.95Call it what you will—the short-short story, the prose poem, micro-fiction—this unusual form has recently come to the public consciousness via the Governor General’s Awards. Now accomplished poet, anthologist and novelist Rob Budde, who calls them “flickers,” uses the form to convey glimpses of narrative and character, or story, through the intense personal imagery of poetry.
Flicker is made up of short prose pieces, many with the emotional intensity of lyric poems. While a narrative arc penetrates the pieces and binds many of them together, the tightly constructed language and profoundly personal imagery tell another story, the emotional heartbeat that lives beneath language. A young man’s summer in the bush becomes a dark, frightening and mysterious meditation on the meaning of wood. The old man for whom he works is seen through the narrator’s eyes becoming a gnarled relic of the forest, the tree as human.
These stories of youth and experience lure the reader in through plot and characterization using the subjective immediacy of poetry, creating what might one day be called “the flicker effect.”
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Flicker & Hawk
$8.95With Flicker and Hawk Friesen expands the scope of his highly praised earlier works. These are poems from the gut and heart, occasionally underlined by other voices, dealing with themes of mortality, love, marriage, and spiritual explorations.
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Flightpaths
$18.00On the 120th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s birth and the 80th anniversary of her disappearance, award-winning poet, Heidi Greco revitalizes what we know about the iconic aviator through uplifting and historically mesmerizing verse. If most people were asked what they know about Amelia Earhart, they’d probably respond with something like “Wasn’t she that pilot who went missing when she tried to fly around the world?”
Although that much is true, Earhart was so much more. She was a feminist at a time when women were just beginning to make inroads towards equality. She was a best-selling author who made appearances and speeches that inspired many. In addition, she was a pacifist, a poet, a punster – the list could go on. She was ahead of her time in so many ways, right down to the no-nonsense clothes she wore (many of them fashioned after her own designs).
To this day, her disappearance is enshrouded in mystery, with many questions remaining. Was she on a secret mission, spying for her country? Was she captured by the Japanese and held in a prison camp? Or did she and her navigator simply crash and die?
The poems in this collection, presented as if written by Earhart herself, consider some of the many theories that attempt to explain her disappearance. Through logbook entries, recollections and letters, the work explores some of the various flightpaths she may have taken.