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History of Montréal
$19.95This book tells the fascinating story of Montreal, Canada, from prehistoric time through the 21st century. From the Iroquoian community of Hochelaga to the bustling economic metropolis that Montreal has become, this account describes the social, economic, political, and cultural forces and trends that have driven the city?s development, shedding light on the city’s French, British, and American influences. Outlining Montreal’s diverse ethnic and cultural origins and its strategic geographical position, this lively account shows how a small missionary colony founded in 1642 developed into a leading economic city and cultural center, the thriving cosmopolitan hub of French-speaking North America.
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History Through Our Eyes
$39.95History Through Our Eyes is a day-at-a-time look back at the 20th century through the lenses of Montreal’s news photographers. The 365 entries reflect such momentous events as the 1970 FLQ crisis and fads like Cabbage Patch Kids and the lambada craze.
The striking photographs are drawn from the archives of the Montreal Gazette, one of North America’s longest-publishing daily newspapers. They include iconic images from the Gazette as well as some photographs from the Montreal Herald, the Montreal Star and the Standard. While the photographs are the focus of this volume, the texts that accompany them tell the story of one of North America’s most fascinating and news-intensive cities.
History Through Our Eyes was launched as a daily feature in the Gazette at the beginning of 2019. It quickly became a reader favourite, and remains one of the popular initiatives introduced at that newspaper in the last 40 years.
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Historyonics
$9.99History is full of stories. Dig deep enough and you can find revolutionaries in the Dark Ages, hopeless romantics in the Age of Reason, and tragic heroes in the Cold War. In Cloudscape’s anthology of short history-themed comics, artists adapt past events that strike a chord with the modern world and even draw from their own family history inspiration.
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Hit the Ground Running
$19.99“Eric–Mom and Dad are gone. I don’t know what happened, but I’m going to find out.”Eric might not be getting along with his family–or anyone else, for that matter–but he’s pretty sure a boarding school in another country isn’t the answer. Skilled in parkour, running helps him deal. So be it, he decides. Do the time and get out. Flow like water. But when he gets a cryptic message from his brother telling him their parents have been abducted, and then his brother disappears, he realises they weren’t punishing him, they were hiding him. To find them, Eric has to discover the secrets of his parents’ research, but the conspiracy he uncovers threatens more than just his family. With help from unlikely new friends, a hack-first-ask-questions-later approach to computers, and a dangerous plan, he soon learns that some secrets don’t want to be found, and others have a way of revealing themselves at all the wrong times./
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Hitch
$16.95“Matthew Holmes brings us to the end of his rope with a nuanced precision… we are not tethered by what he hitches us to, for as he writes, generously, ‘the premise of tying’ is, yes and ever, ‘to untie.’”– Er�n Moure”A solid debut distinguished by Holmes’ far-ranging versatility.”– Steven HeightonHitch is the first collection from New Brunswick poet Matthew Holmes. With quiet wit, Holmes introduces us to a world of quirk: science is skewed, deer are hunted with alphabets, the Pope is a potato offered to a homeless woman, and a sailor comes to terms with tying the knot–one that can’t be untied. Opening with a series of poems based on historical figures such as Degas, Baer, Avogadro and Heisenberg, Hitch immerses the reader into a world of rich details–retelling past events and taking us in new directions.These poems revitalize the everyday, showing us the author’s view from his window, his commute and even his major appliances. Readers will be drawn to Matthew Holmes’ varied subject matter, colloquial language and captivating voice.In the title series, diagrams of knots and maritime themes are interlaced with reflections on love and partnership. Here the speaker becomes both the hitcher and the hitched, “learning this/ river/ with my fingers/ threading a hitch on each side.” Holmes’ work commands attention; even everyday objects and events such as fridges, dog shows and boots take on new significance.
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Hitting the Charts
$28.95Hitting the Charts
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Hoarse Legend
$15.95In Hoarse Legend, Corrado Paina plunges into the maelstrom of language and race to bring back an evocative report of what is found there. His poems are an incisive critique of a culture that fears difference, yet the cities he describes are splendid in their diversity. This work engages with contemporary multicultural city life and themes of personal and social identity from a refreshing, unsentimental perspective. Hoarse Legend is a wake-up call to see and celebrate the individuality around us.
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Hockey Abstract Presents… Stat Shot
$24.95Making advanced stats simple, practical, and fun for hockey fansAdvanced stats give hockey’s powerbrokers an edge, and now fans can get in on the action. Stat Shot is a fun and informative guide hockey fans can use to understand and enjoy what analytics says about team building, a player’s junior numbers, measuring faceoff success, recording save percentage, the most one-sided trades in history, and everything you ever wanted to know about shot-based metrics. Acting as an invaluable supplement to traditional analysis, Stat Shot can be used to test the validity of conventional wisdom, and to gain insight into what teams are doing behind the scenes — or maybe what they should be doing.Whether looking for a reference for leading-edge research and hard-to-find statistical data, or for passionate and engaging storytelling, Stat Shot belongs on every serious hockey fan’s bookshelf.
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Hockey Card Stories
$19.95Hockey Card Stories reveals what was really going on in your favourite old hockey cards through the eyes of the players depicted on them. Some of the cards are definitely worth a few bucks, some a few cents — but every story told here is priceless. Sportsnet’s Ken Reid presents the cards you loved and the airbrushed monstrosities that made you howl, the cards that have been packed away in boxes forever, and others you can’t believe ever existed. Whether it’s a case of mistaken identity or simply a great old photo, a fantastic 1970s haircut and ’stache, a wicked awesome goalie mask or a future Hall of Famer’s off-season fashion sense, a wide variety of players — from superstars like Bobby Orr, Denis Potvin, and Phil Esposito to the likes of Bill Armstrong who played only one game in the NHL — chime in on one of their most famous cards.
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Hockey Card Stories 2
$19.95A follow-up to the 2014 national bestseller Hockey Card Stories, Ken Reid’s new offering presents 59 more stories about your favorite hockey cards from the players themselves. Hockey Card Stories 2 will take you all the way back to the 1960s and right up to the Hockey Card Boom of the 1990s. How did Eric Lindros handle being at the center of the 1990s rookie-card craze? Ever wonder why one tough guy’s Upper Deck card looks more like a High School yearbook picture than a sports card? Of course, once again, there are glorious mullets, errors, and broken noses. There’s even the story of how a rhinoceros and a Hall of Famer ended up on a card together. And as a special bonus, Ken Reid reveals the story behind the chase for his greatest hockey card.
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Hold Me Now
$21.95One Friday, Vancouver lawyer Paul Brenner has dinner with his son, Daniel. They talk about work, health, money, and music, and part ways. The following evening, Paul receives the phone call that is every parent’s worst nightmare: Daniel has been killed in Stanley Park.
Hold Me Now is an unflinching portrayal of a father’s grief, as Paul learns how very different the new world–a world without his son–will be for him. The investigation of Daniel’s murder, the trial, and the sentencing of the killer test Paul’s faith in the legal system. As both the media and public protest the overt role homophobia played in Daniel’s death, Paul struggles to cope, and begins to form reckless and dangerous habits. But with the love of two people in his life who sustain him–his mother, Jean, and his daughter, Elizabeth–he begins to comprehend an incomprehensible tragedy, and forgive an unforgiveable crime.
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Hold Your Tongue
$22.95Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run-ins with local Mennonites, his job working a honey wagon, and struck by visions of Métis history and secrets of his family’s past, Richard confronts his desires to leave town, even as he learns to embrace his heritage.
Evoking an oral storytelling epic that weaves together one family’s complex history, Hold Your Tongueasks what it means to be Métis and francophone. Recalling the work of Katherena Vermette and Joshua Whitehead, Matthew Tétreault’s debut novel shines with a poignant, but playful character-driven meditation on the struggles of holding onto “la langue,” and marks the emergence of an important new voice.
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Holden After and Before
$24.95Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief: a stunning book that traces Tara McGuire’s excavation and documentation of the life path of her son Holden, a graffiti artist who died of an accidental opioid overdose at the age of twenty-one. Beginning with Holden’s death and leaping through time and space, McGuire employs fact, investigation, memory, fantasy, and even fabrication in her search for understanding not only of her son’s tragic death, but also of his beautiful life. She navigates and writes across the many blank spaces to form a story of discovery and humanity, examining themes of grief, pain, mental illness, trauma, creative expression, identity, and deep, unending love inside just one of the thousands of deaths that have occurred as a result of the opioid crisis.
With poignant honesty and a heart laid bare, Holden After and Before is a beautiful and moving elegy to a son lost to overdose.
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Holler
$16.95In her follow-up to 2008’s Flutter, former big-city-dweller Alice Burdick explores nature and the small town, taking a cue from children learning their voices: ‘All I see are trucks, / trucks and ducks.’ With a blend of playful narrative and an Ashberyesque collage approach, Burdick paints a portrait of our world as one of continuous wonder, and full of relationshipsÑbetween people, and between people and thingsÑthat never die but continually transform, even in death.
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Hollow Water
$16.95Hollow Water is a follow-up to Sarsfield’s popular Running with the Caribou and is told in the same intimate style that made his first book a popular seller.
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Hollyburn
$24.95This is the first book to be published on the rich and diverse history of Hollyburn, the forested, mountainous area above West Vancouver. Numerous photographs, most of which are published here for the first time, provide a visual appeal which evokes the spirit of earlier times. The history takes us from the First Nations people who used Hollyburn’s natural resources in their culture for hundreds of years through the 1870s when loggers began attacking the slopes, to be followed in the early twentieth century by skiers and other outdoor enthusiasts. World class skiers, especially ski jumpers, honed their skills here in the 1930s and 1940s. Many built cabins, creating a community of weekend refugees from the growing urban clutter that still exists. For much of the postwar period, activity has focussed on Hollyburn’s Cypress area, whose position as the downhill venue of choice for the North Shore won it the right to stage freestyle skiing and snow boarding in the 2010 Winter Olympics. The resurgence of interest in cross-country skiing and snowshoeing has made the original Hollyburn area one of the most popular locales for these activities in North America. Hollyburn’s combination of natural beauty and proximity to a large urban centre has provided a stage where many of the dialogues that have shaped our priorities for the environment have been played out. Struggles among those with different visions for the use of this land continue today.