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Gary: King of the Pickup Artists
$22.95He’s friendly. He’s responsible. And he can be funny. Sometimes. But Gary is no Casanova. He could be your co-worker. He could be your neighbor. But could he be your boyfriend? In order for that to happen, he’d have to ask you out – but that’s not going to happen any time soon. Because Gary isn’t the kind of guy who asks you out. He’s the kind of guy who sort of thinks that maybe he could possibly think about asking you out eventually. All that, however, is about to change. Maybe. Gary, King of the Pickup Artists is a refreshingly honest romantic comedy, charming and full of awkwardness – with a few Weezer songs and hockey references thrown in, for good measure.
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Gas Girls
$16.95Gigi and Lola live by one motto: love for gas, gas for cash, cash for living, living for love. Living in Zimbabwe’s depressed economy, both women live day-by-day, plying their trade with the truck drivers that stop at the border.
Gigi knows the limitations of her trade, while her young protege, Lola, looks for love in every man that comes her way. Lola’s brother, Chickn, ekes out his own living while keeping an ever-watchful eye for Gigi’s affections and Lola’s safety. But love is not a luxury these girls can afford. Through story, song, and play, Gigi and Lola inspire each other to find joy on the edges of survival.
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Gas Tank & Other Stories
$12.95From the author of Stupid Crimes, Krekshuns and Stand in Hell come more fictional wanderings. Gas Tank & Other Stories casts disparate characters into tumultuous scenes of moral terror, testing their courage, energy, and capacity to endure.
Praise for Gas Tank & Other Stories:
“Gas Tank & Other Stories isn’t just another work of gritty realism or a chronicle of beautiful losers. Bolen tempers the moral dissolution and despair of these stories with a unifying vision of survival and transcendence, of self-affirmation achieved through rage and struggle … These stories are testaments to individualism, chronicles of regular people raging against the social and economic machines they are caught within.” (Quill & Quire)
“Brutality, death and moral vacuums are the stuff of Dennis Bolen’s new collection of short stories and novellas. Bolen’s reputation to date rests largely on his ability to represent the underside of contemporary society with gritty, unflinching accuracy. Gas Tank & Other Stories will confirm this distinctive Bolen territory with its blend of understated grotesquerie and a social realist’s concern for human lives blighted by neglect, indifference and exploitation. Each piece in the collection focuses on the individual’s capacity to absorb threat and damage – physical, psychological, emotional – and still endure. But Bolen also shows how human capacity for resilience and survival is much darker and more ambivalent than our cultural myths of heroic suffering suggest.” (British Journal of Canadian Studies)
“A riveting read from start to finish.” (Dead Rats Press)
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Gaston Petit – The Kimono and the Cross
$22.95When most of us consider life in the priesthood, a cloistered, removed existence comes to mind. But Gaston Petit belies the stereotype. A widely travelled Dominican priest, Petit has earned an international reputation for his art, achieving renown in painting, stained glass, church design, silkscreen and wood block prints, sculpture and mural installation, with works in major museums and collections throughout the world. While he has been stationed in Japan since 1966, Petit retains strong Canadian roots, spending half the year on the north shore of his beloved St. Lawrence, and half the year in Tokyo. Petit seamlessly combines East and West, exploring the artistic and spiritual traditions in both. This is a fascinating portrait of an artist, a traveller, a seeker. Interviewer Linda Ghan takes Petit from his rural beginnings in Shawinigan to his peripatetic existence today, and we come to know a man whose grand curiosity brings joy and beauty into the world. Colour reproductions highlight some of Petit’s rich and varied oeuvre.
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Gatekeeper
$21.95The biography of a pioneer in the mixed martial arts (MMA) scene, this work takes readers through Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge’s entire career — from his rollercoaster formative years and his emergence as a world champion athlete to his role as a loving father struggling to find work.
With humble beginnings as an immigrant in a small city in Canada, Goodridge endured bullying as a child and honed his natural strength, athleticism, work ethic, and charisma while fighting on the streets and as a bouncer in clubs. Eventually learning to channel his rage into more productive outlets, Goodridge soon became a world-champion arm wrestler, a boxing champion, a lethal Ultimate Fighting Championship contender, and a renowned MMA warrior.
Early in his career, Goodridge used his incredible strength to become the National Amateur Heavyweight Boxing Champ of Canada after only ten months of training. In 1996, he entered the Ultimate Fighting Championships; after knocking out his opponent in under a minute with crushing elbows, he became an immediate mixed martial arts star all over the world. Known as a hardworking warrior who always fought the toughest competition, no matter what the circumstances, Goodridge took on the best heavyweights in the world for over a decade, including U.S. Olympic wrestlers Mark Coleman and Mark Schultz, and combat sport legends, such as Fedor Emelianenko and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. Today, Goodridge lives with the physical consequences of a life spent literally battling to pay the bills.
Filled with stories about backstage fights, steroid use, and fixed fights, this inspiring tell-all is a must-read for fight fans the world over.
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Gay for Pay
$18.95In Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay, two out-of-work gay actors teach straight men how to play the gay roles that lead to awards season glory. Blake and Clay may not be leading men, but they are leading these men to greatness by teaching them to go from straight to straight-up booked. Because representation matters, but Blake and Clay’s representation hasn’t called them in ages. Blake & Clay’s Gay Agenda invites you to the fabulous book launch for the world’s first how-to manual about the eternal conundrum that is gay living. Watch as Blake and Clay take the guesswork out of the queer experience and unite the community once and for all. Because if the gays can agree on one thing, it’s that they can’t agree on anything.
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Gay Monologues and Scenes
$25.00For those passionate about exercising their ability to experience (as actors) all aspects of the human condition.
With works by Salvatore Antonio, David Bateman, T. Berto, Ken Brand, Gavin Crawford, Julian Doucet, Paul Dunn, Blair Francey, Sky Gilbert, Jefferson Guzman, Peter Lynch, Michael Lewis MacLennan, Jordan Patterson, Sean Reycraft, David Roche, Edward Roy, Colin Thomas, and R.M. Vaughan. -
Gaza Before the Seventh
$24.95On the morning of October 7, 2023, Gaza erupted.
After sixteen years of Israeli blockade, Hamas breached the wall that had cut it off from the world to attack Israel. In the hours that followed, the Israeli army launched an assault on Gaza to “annihilate” Hamas. Since then, the death toll has reached tens of thousands. And tomorrow, nothing will remain of Gaza as we knew it.
Can one be nostalgic for what was unbearable? Guillaume Lavallée takes us with him to the heart of Gaza, a place where life was lived on borrowed time, a precarious existence, prodigiously human but forever bound to a conflict that had become the lifeblood of its children. It is to his own mother, whose memory is fading irrevocably, that he recounts, as well as to us, what Gaza was like, a place where the earth, the sky, and the sea had closed in, evoking the fire that engulfed it, but also the stubborn fire of hope that, just yesterday, refused to die.
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Gendered Islamophobia
$24.95Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, Non-fiction, 2023
This passionate book describes the author’s struggles as a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, who was born and raised in Tunisia, where she attended university before coming to Quebec, Canada as an immigrant. Mazigh describes her struggles against Islamophobia as it applies to women, especially those wearing hijab, who consistently get stereotyped as silent and compliant women dominated by their men. In great detail she describes this phenomenon, encountered in the streets and public spaces, in universities, and in the media, and she describes similar experiences of other women of different ethnic backgrounds across Canada, and its effects on the victims.
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Generation NeXXt
$16.95Finally, an anthology of scenes designed specifically for the young female actor. Sixteen female playwrights, some emerging (Jessy Arden, Alison McLean, Tricia Cooper), some established (Maureen Hunter, Margaret Sweatman, Yvette Nolan), join forces to ensure young female actors will no longer have to settle for drab scenes based in female stereotypes. Actors can practice their craft playing roles ranging from environmental terrorist to female chauvinist pig; from welfare recipient to single mother of a young Leonardo Da Vinci. Generation NeXXt not only delivers exciting roles that are gender- and age-appropriate, it offers a collection of scenes young women can really sink their teeth into.
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Generations
$55.00Over three generations, the Sobey family of Nova Scotia has demonstrated their discerning and enthusiastic commitment to Canadian art. Accompanying a major exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the prestigious Sobey Art Award, Generations tells the story of a visionary family and their engagement with Canadian and Indigenous art.
This sweeping survey encompasses works by the beloved leaders of Canadian 20th-century art — the Group of Seven, Tom Thomson, David Milne, and Emily Carr — as well as offering a rich display of works by Cornelius Krieghoff, the Quebec Impressionists, Automatiste painters Jean Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas, and Ukrainian Canadian artist William Kurelek, before moving onward to showcase leading contemporary artists. Among them are international artist Peter Doig, whose works draw on the legacies of Canadian art, and Indigenous artists Brenda Draney, Ursula Johnson, Kent Monkman, and Brian Jungen.
Featuring more than 200 full-colour images, Generations includes an introduction by McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy, essays by McMichael Executive Director Ian A.C. Dejardin, art historians Jocelyn Anderson, John Geoghegan, and Michèle Grandbois, and an interview with contemporary artist Kent Monkman.
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Générations
$55.00Générations raconte l’histoire des Sobey, famille visionnaire de la Nouvelle-Écosse qui, depuis trois générations, veille à la valorisation de l’art canadien et autochtone. L’ouvrage accompagne à merveille l’exposition majeure présentée au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
Générations met à l’honneur des monstres sacrés de l’art canadien du XXe siècle : le Groupe des Sept, Tom Thomson, David Milne, Emily Carr. L’ouvrage propose aussi un tour d’horizon de l’œuvre des impressionnistes du Québec, de Cornelius Krieghoff, des automatistes Riopelle et Borduas, et de William Kurelek, peintre canadien d’origine ukrainienne. Et c’est sans compter des artistes contemporains, dont Peter Doig, à l’expérience internationale souvent inspirée du patrimoine artistique canadien, et des artistes autochtones, tels Brenda Draney, Ursula Johnson, Kent Monkman et Brian Jungen.
Riche de plus de 200 illustrations couleur, Générations s’ouvre sur une introduction de Sarah Milroy, conservatrice principale de la collection McMichael, et à laquelle s’ajoutent des textes de Ian A.C. Dejardin, directeur général de la McMichael, ainsi que des historiens de l’art Michèle Grandbois, Jocelyn Anderson et John Geoghegan, en plus d’une entrevue avec Kent Monkman, artiste contemporain.
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Generator
$12.00In Generator, poet, musician and performance artist Ian Goodman explores the parameters of bardic cybernetics and robot love. Morphing forms of digital interface with traditional poetic structures, Goodman creates new media out of archaic lyric artifacts. Generator invites us to see the world through the reality-twisted lens of Goodman’s eye-pod goggle. The result is a poetics of sensitive observation for the seriously insane. Pretend robots develop fatal crushes on novella-collaborators through lavalife.com, pretend poets seduce potential lovers by imagining poetry out of existence, seagulls suffer from jet-fuel envy, and a comet-girl’s sneeze sends “a tsunami/ of dust bunnies towards Mercury.” Whether generating interplanetary ballads, cyber chat-room conversation poems or spam-filtered versions of Pale Fire, Goodman’s fearless approach to formal experimentation makes the world strange for us again. Ian Goodman is the 21st century’s answer to the Martian school of poetry.
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Genghis Con
$19.99Genghis Con is the story of guilt-ridden grifter, Alexis, who seeks redemption for herself and justice for her sister, Abigail, by taking part in a win or die rally race from England into the mountains of Mongolia. Along the way, she must team up with her erstwhile lover and fend off attacks from parties unknown, including one particularly ruthless gangster. Meanwhile, the spirit of a mysterious Mongol warrior haunts Alexis on her journey.
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Gentlemen of the Shade
$12.95Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternativeGus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.My Own Private Idaho — fragmented and saturated with colour and dirt and a painfully beautiful masculinity — also crept into popular media, and its influence can still be traced. R.E.M. Portlandia. Hipsterism. James Franco. Referencing the often-funny and sometimes-tragic cultural touchstones of the past 26 years, Gentlemen of the Shade sets the film as social bellwether for the many outsiders who were looking to join the right, or any, revolution.About the Pop Classics SeriesShort books that pack a big punch, Pop Classics offer intelligent, fun, and accessible arguments about why a particular pop phenomenon matters.
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Gently to Nagasaki
$24.95Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it is also an account of a remarkable life. As a child during WWII, Joy Kogawa was interned with her family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians by the Canadian government. Her acclaimed novel Obasan, based on that experience, brought her literary recognition and played a critical role in the movement for redress.
Kogawa knows what it means to be classified as the enemy, and she seeks urgently to get beyond false and dangerous distinctions of “us” and “them.” Interweaving the events of her own life with catastrophes like the bombing of Nagasaki and the massacre by the Japanese imperial army at Nanking, she wrestles with essential questions like good and evil, love and hate, rage and forgiveness, determined above all to arrive at her own truths. Poetic and unflinching, this is a long-awaited memoir from one of Canada’s most distinguished literary elders.