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Kornukopia
$11.99Jen Blaylock, David Annandale’s Canadian-Forces-soldier-gone-rogue, is back with a new globe spanning mission, a bigger arsenal and another head-spinning body count. When Blaylock discovers that the New York mob is paying crooked cops and anarchists to cause disturbances at an Ottawa anti-globalization rally, she sees a chance to rev up her war machine once again, and heads for the Big Apple.
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Kou-Skelowh/We are the People
$20.95A collection of original legends told in a strong rhythmic language, this new revised edition of Kou-Skelowh/We Are the People features the Okanagan language and uses stories to teach readers about the values of sharing, self-sacrifice and reverence for life in all forms.
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Kraken Bake
$16.95It\’s a great day for Greece when Perseus defeats the dreaded kraken. But victory begins to lose its lustre when the remains of the beast swamp the shores and fishing nets of the Aegean. Now after weeks of kraken cakes, kraken kabobs, kraken fritters, and kraken stew, everybody is getting decidedly sick of kraken – none more so than Chef Pelops.
\nIn response to the \”kraken crisis,\” the city of Athens announces the inaugural Bronze Chef competition. Normally, Pelops would jump at the chance to prove himself the best celebrity chef in Greece. The trouble is, the competition\’s secret ingredient is sure to be kraken – and, having once offended Poseidon, Pelops can\’t cook kraken to save his life.
\nTo make matters worse, a loathsome rival has vowed to win the contest by fair means or foul. Now, Pelops must overcome the sea god\’s curse to show once and for all that he is the better chef – a task made all the more difficult by the insufferable antics of a most unexpected relative…
\nKraken Bake, the sequel to the critically acclaimed Food for the Gods by Karen Dudley (a finalist for the Boney Blithe Award, The High Plains Awards, and the Aurora Awards) mirthfully re-imagines the world of ancient Greece with a modern spin.
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Krambambuli
$22.95Krambambuli is a memoir of the author’s childhood experiences during and subsequent to World War II. She documents three stages of displacement due to war: escaping destruction in Estonia, living as a refugee in Germany and Austria, and beginning a new life as an immigrant first in the United States, and later in Canada. Krambambuli is not meant to be a historical account. Rather, it offers a child’s perspective of the situations and people making up her early existence: her handsome and charming father, Isa, who sweeps into her life at intervals but provides no financial support; her disciplinarian mother, Ema, an optimist and extremely competent survivor who uses her creativity to make even a small rudimentary space attractive and homey; the hated Onu Gusti; and the many others who pass through this transitory time dominated by war. The book is a moving account of child’s experience in a camp for displaced persons and of growing up as a displaced child and daughter of a single mother in America. Totsu, the child, is terrorized by the war and the disruption and fears losing her mother’s love to a male lover and the possibility of being displaced by a half-sibling. She endures multiple new school and language situations and the added angst that being a displaced person can add to the life of a teenager. With such different personalities, she and her mother live their lives in both conflict, and in the knowledge that they are all each other has.
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Krishna, A Love Story
$21.95Krishna, A Love Story
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Kubrick Red: A Memoir
$18.00The Shining by Stanley Kubrick – that strange story in which a writer and his wife and young son with ESP stay in a mysterious hotel in low season – has been fascinating viewers since its release in 1980.
Simon Roy first saw the film when he was 10 and was mesmerized by a particular line: “How’d you like some ice cream, Doc?” He has since seen the movie at least 42 times, because “it encompasses the tragic symptoms of a deep-seated defect that has haunted [it] for generations.” The painstaking bond he has knitted with this story of evil has enabled him to absorb the disquieting traits of its “macabre lineage” and fully reveal its power over him. This is an unusual and astonishing book.In this truly remarkable debut, Simon Roy has produced a highly original, unsettling, and fascinating account. This essay will appeal not only to Kubrick fans but also to readers who are attuned to life’s hardships and mindful of the strength needed to overcome them.
Praise for Kubrick Red:
“Such is the off-centre, episodic nature of this book that it’s hard to find parallels elsewhere in literature.” (Vancouver Sun) -
Kuessipan
$17.95A fictionalized, meditative chronicle of life among the Innu in rural northeastern Quebec.
Kuessipan (“to you” in the Innu language) is an extraordinary, meditative novel about life among the Native Innu people in the wilds of northeastern Quebec. Naomi Fontaine, herself an Innu, wrote this novel (in French) at the age of twenty-three; with grace and perfect pitch, she depicts a community of nomadic hunters and fishers, and of hard-working mothers and their children, enduring a harsh, sometimes cruel reality with quiet dignity. Pervading the book is a palpable sense of place and time played out as a series of moments: elders who watch their kin grow up before their eyes; couples engaged in domestic crises, and young people undone by alcohol; caribou-skin drums that bring residents to their feet; and lives spent along a bay that reflects the beauty of the earth and the universal truth that life is a fleeting puzzle whose pieces must be put together before it can be fully lived.
With poetic restraint and a documentary-like eye, Kuessipan is a remarkable and intimate portrait of a world that reads like no other.
Kuessipan is currently being developed into a French-language motion picture by director Myriam Verreault for Max Films Inc.
If you keep on going, there will be sand beneath your feet. You’ll taste the salty air. The sun will start to go down. The sky will put on a show. Let the waves give rhythm to your senses. You will be comforted. Just walk through those spruce trees. Then you’ll see the bay, the beach with its soft sand, the aluminum smelter, the islands, the river as wide as the sea. The ocean, where you came from.
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Kynship
$12.95The Everland, home of the Eld-Folk since time immemorial, a deep green world of ancient mystery and sacred shadow. A thousand years have passed since the world of Men and the world of the Folk collided in catastrophe. The wyr-powers of the Kyn and the other Folk have preserved their verdant homeland from the ravenous greed of Humanity since the Melding, but those powers are now under siege. As the hunger of Men turns once more to the Everland and its rich bounty, the leaders of the seven nations of the Folk gather in Sheynadwiin, the Kyn capital, to seek a way of surviving the growing storm.Born into a town dominated by the creeds of the accommodationist Shields, Tarsa’deshae, a headstrong Kyn warrior, awakens to the long-suppressed wyr-ways after an act of courage goes horribly awry. Exiled from the only home she’s ever known, and struggling to understand her new calling as a Wielder, Tarsa is swept into a dangerous world of political and spiritual intrigue, where the old ways of the Greenwalkers clash with those who would surrender to the new ways of Men. As the Everland faces the ever-encroaching threat of Humanity, the Redthorn warrior arrives at the Sevenfold Council in Sheynadwiin to help find a way to heal the ravages of her wounded world….
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$16.95A small flat sits unoccupied above Henry’s café. When a woman comes to rent the room, Henry’s world begins an unusual transformation. As they grow closer the city itself is affected, changed, and slowly dismantled. Unsure if he is a victim of his own senility, the chaos inches closer and Henry suspects it may have something to do with the woman upstairs and the stranger she is hiding from.
“A haunting novella.”—Bookgaga
“Read this magical tale for beauty, pure and simple.”—The Coast
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L’Affaire Tartuffe
$14.95It is 14 years since the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and 2 years before the American Revolution. The British garrison in Montreal is rehearsing Molière’s Tartuffe, hoping to impress the local ladies with their French effort. Matters are complicated by the Church, however, which had banned theatre productions in Québec since 1694, and is especially loathe to allow a production of the blasphemous Tartuffe. Political intrigue gets in the way too, as locals and officers get swept up the romance of the revolution to the south, plotting treason in Québec. And, naturally, there is love—alliances of the heart which respect no political, cultural or linguistic borders.
L’Affaire Tartuffe is inspired by historical fact: the first performance by anglophones in Québec was put on by British garrison officers stationed in Montreal. They chose to debut with Molière…and they performed in French. Ackerman weaves a riveting drama of cross-cultural love affairs, the stranglehold of Church and State, and the seditious plans to join the Yankees to the south.
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L’HÉRITIER
$26.95Dans la tradition des grandes séries mystères combinant histoire ancienne, sociétés secrètes et documents cachés, L’Héritier présente tous les éléments du thriller ésotérique classique mais fait exploser le genre en mêlant science et technologie de pointe. Le Saint-Graal n’est pas en Europe ni en Afrique mais bien en Amérique du Nord : il se trouve à Montréal. Il ne s’agit pas du sang du Christ, mais celui de l’empereur romain Constantin. La quête du précieux sang est menée par une dame de fer assistée de ses quatre protégés, ainsi que d’un génie de la technologie. Madame ne répond qu’à ce nom, et agit sous le couvert de l’Entreprise. Conspirations, arnaques, réassignation neuronale, piratage du web quantique, complices d’une beauté destructrice et programmable : pour Madame, la fin justifie les moyens. Mais Madame a un lourd passé et des ennemis mortels. Les têtes couronnées d’Europe n’entendent pas qu’on compromette leur notoriété et leur légitimité. Secondés par un groupe connu sous le nom des Séculiers, les conséquences de leurs contre-attaques seront catastrophiques. Au terme d’une quête aux quatre coins du monde, le sang de Constantin les obligera à accepter l’impossible: conclure une expérience ayant débuté il y a plus de 70,000 ans.
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L’ile perdue d’Atlantide
$12.95Dans cette suite du roman prime Un rebelle en sous-marin, la mer des mythes et des legendes invite le jeune sous-marinier Alfred Clement a reprendre la mer.
Avec son fidele equipage compose d’un chien et d’une mouette, et avec son nouveau moteur diesel, Alfred traverse l’Atlantique et penetre en Mediterranee a la recherche de l’ile perdue d’Atlantide. Conseille par Ziegfried, genie et co-constructeur du sous-marin, de rester prudent et scientifique, Alfred doit aussi ecouter les paroles de Saba, enchanteresse de l’ile et mentor affectueux, pour se fier a ses premonitions lors de cette folle aventure en mer. D’un sauvetage audacieux de pecheurs noyes a une escarmouche entre des bateaux de la Garde cotiere canadienne et des chalutiers espagnols, en passant par l’evasion d’une mine marine de la Seconde Guerre mondiale qui explose et la poursuite de pirates maladroits, la quete d’Alfred le rapproche de plus en plus de l’ile mythique et mysterieusement perdue, jusqu’a ce qu’une nuit sans lune, il s’en trouve trop pres pour etre a l’aise. -
La Brigantessa
$22.95Winner of the 2019 IPPY Gold Medal for Historical Fiction; Finalist for the 2019 Northern Lit Award; Shortlisted for the 2019 Fred Kerner Book Award; Winner of the 2019 International Book Awards (Best Cover Design – Fiction)
La Brigantessa is based on true events in the aftermath of Italy’s 1861 Unification, a turbulent period known as “The Decade of Fire” (1860-1870), when scores of brigands rebelled against the harsh policies imposed by the new government, which in turn ordered the destruction of these outlaws and anyone harbouring them. Gabriella Falcone is a peasant girl who works for Don Simone, the parish priest. She is forced to flee her hamlet of Camini in Calabria in 1862 after stabbing Alfonso Fantin, a wealthy landowner who sexually assaulted her. Devastated to leave her fiancé Tonino, and knowing her fate will be life imprisonment at best if apprehended, she allows the priest to lead her through the harsh Aspromonte mountain range to seek refuge in an isolated monastery. They soon discover that Fantin has survived and is employing the forces of law to pursue Gabriella and bring her to justice. Gabriella and Don Simone continue their journey to seek yet another safe haven but soon fall into the hands of brigands. Gabriella is catapulted into a world she has only ever heard about in nervous whispers, a world where right and wrong, justice and vengeance take on new meanings, and where the boundaries between good and evil are blurred. Gabriella is drawn into the role of brigantessa and discovers that the convictions she once held dear no longer have a place in this wild, unlawful territory.
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La Chance des Irlandais
$22.95“La Chance des Irlandais,” est le premier volume d’une série qui s’intitule “Les Chroniques du Canal Lachine.” Ce roman suit les tribulations d’Eamon Jovanovski, un artiste en herbe de descendance irlandaise, qui se lie d’amitié à l’âge de seize ans avec un certain Tom Murphy, un autre Irlando-Montréalais. À partir de ce moment, la vie d’Eamon va être mise sans dessus dessous dû à son amitié pour ce dernier, qui vit dans un univers de sexe, de drogue et de punk rock. La descente de Tom vers les bas fonds va avoir une sombre influence sur Eamon qui ne cesse de l’aider à se remettre sur pied. Après quelque temps, Eamon et Tom vont s’exiler, chacun de leur côté, hors de Montréal et vont partir à la recherche de leur place en société ainsi que d’un sens à leurs vies respectives. Toutefois, quelques années plus tard, les deux vont de nouveau se retrouver attirés vers leur Sud-Ouest de Montréal, entre le Canal Lachine et l’Aqueduc. Mais durant tout ce processus, Eamon aura, et ce à plusieurs reprises, le cœur brisé, en partie à cause de son amitié pour Tom.
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La Maison Suspendue
$16.95A rich, emotional, sweeping drama of anger and sorrow spanning three generations. The family house in the country is the setting for the story of Victoire and her descendants through her husband and through her true love—who also happens to be her brother. It is Victoire’s anger at being forced away from the family home and her sorrow at being separated from her dreamy, impractical, fiddle playing brother that fuel the machinery of 80 years of family relationships.
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La Sagouine
$18.99The premise is deceptively simple: a dirt-poor charwoman and former prostitute leans on her mop and tells her life story. But what a story! As she reminisces and rants, telling stories about herself, her friends and neighbours, the priest and his church, and every other aspect of life in her village, she is actually telling the story of Acadie.
More than 30 years after its first publication in English, and five years since Wayne Grady completed this new translation, La Sagouine is available in this new, updated edition. Faithfully interpreting Antonine Maillet’s distinctive text, Wayne Grady brings out the cultural richness of the language as well as La Sagouine’s strength of character and irrepressible humour.
La Sagouine launched the careers of both Antonine Maillet and the actress Viola Léger. With sales of over 100,000 copies, it brought the existence of Acadian literature to a wide and admiring audience.