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Just Pervs
$20.00Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards, Bisexual Fiction Category.
Two sex addicts meet and fall in love. A woman catches her husband cheating on her with their dog and escapes to her sister’s horse farm. Four friends—fellow pervs—grow up and drift apart, pining for each other in silence until one of them is murdered.
In Jess Taylor’s sophomore story collection, contemporary views of female sexuality are subverted, and women are given agency over their desires and bodies. Through these characters, sex is revealed to be many things at once: gross, shameful, exhilarating, hidden or open—and always complicated. Reminiscent of the works of Maggie Nelson, Mary Gaitskill and Chris Kraus, the stories in Just Pervs explore the strange oppression and illumination created by desire, the bewilderment of adolescence, and the barriers to intimacy both discovered within and imposed upon ourselves.
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Justice Belied
$29.95Written by practicing criminal defense lawyers, jurists, investigators, and specialized journalists, this book criticizes the whole initiative of international criminal justice and considers the idea that it must be abandoned in the name of justice. Has foreign policy trumped justice? How are equity, equality before the law, absence of selectivity, protection of witnesses, and enforcement affected? How are lives of citizens throughout the world changed by International Justice? Asking the burning questions about criminal justice as it is practiced at the International Criminal Court, the ad-hoc tribunals for Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, this account will appeal to those interested in politics, law, and human rights.
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Justice in Our Time
$29.95From 1942 to 1949, a group of innocent Canadians were uprooted from their homes and businesses on the west coast, dispossessed, and forced to disperse across Canada, merely on the basis of their Japanese ancestry. Some 4,000 were even exiled to wartorn Japan.
These injustices remained unresolved for nearly forty years. Then in the 1970s, a handful of Japanese Canadians began a movement to seek redress for these wrongs, through a negotiated settlement with the Government of Canada. What began as the dream of a few became a national movement that captured the attention of the entire Canadian public by the mid-1980s.
The Redress Settlement signed on September 22, 1988 by the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) and the Prime Minister of Canada was hailed as a major victory for human rights.
The substantial Redress Settlement negotiated by the National Association of Japanese Canadians offered:
Individual compensation to Japanese Canadians directly affected by the injustices
A community fund to assist in rebuilding the community that was destroyed
pPrdons for those wrongfully convicted under the War Measures Act
The offer of citizenship to those exiled and to their descendants
The establishment of a Canadian Race Relations Foundation to combat racismJustice in Our Time celebrates Japanese Canadian redress. From the historic injustices, through the redress movement, to the final events leading up to the settlement day on September 22, 1988—the dramatic story of redress is told through a rich interweaving of commentary, photographs, quotations, and historic documents.
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Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak
$21.95During the summers of 1991 through 1994 Victoria Jason and two companions–Fred Reffler and Don Starkell–set out to kayak from Churchill, Manitoba to Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea. When she set out in 1991, Victoria, already a grandmother of two, had been kayaking for only a year and was still recovering from the second of two strokes.
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Kafka’s Hat
$12.95In Patrice Martin’s ticklish tip of the hat to the writing of Franz Kafka, we follow the misadventures of a bureaucrat – aptly named “P.” (pun intended) – as he embarks on the illustrious task of collecting the titular headgear. “P.” expects that the accomplishment of this seemingly simple task will grant him both a professional and a personal promotion. But Martin’s eager protagonist has overlooked the systematic difficulty in modern bureaucracies – as well as in some of twentieth-century’s best fiction – of getting things done. And so Kafka’s hat is increasingly unreachable: express elevators get stuck between floors, rooms full of suitcases must be searched, unsympathetic bureaucrats must be confronted, and then there’s the rather unanticipated discovery of a fresh cadaver in the library … Naturally, “P.” knows that every hero has his coming-of-age trial to go through; trouble is, he’s no modern Ulysses.
Never departing in tone and timbre from a somewhat amicable and farcical, obstinately absurd storytelling style, Kafka’s Hat assembles a pleasant labyrinth of intertextual references, which make room for the diverse imaginary worlds of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Paul Auster. Living in a different city, wearing new clothes, but still immersed in the part-tragic and part-comical ambience of Franz Kafka’s best existentialist literature, Patrice Martin’s “P.” is the compelling alter ego of a not-so-distant “Joseph K.” – still contemporary, still relevant.
Invoking some of modern literature’s most meaningful authors, Martin’s prose playfully reminds us that we do not create new work without reintroducing past fictions inside our present desires.
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Kahn and Engelmann
$21.95Kahn and Engelmann
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Kai’s Tea Eggs
$21.95An endearing and beautifully illustrated children’s book about learning to embrace our heritage and celebrating what makes us unique.
Multicultural Day is coming up at school, and Kai is nervous about sharing her family’s Chinese food with her classmates. Kai’s mother is excited about making some special dishes, but Kai doesn’t like feeling different from everyone else.
Upset, she runs off on her own and meets Ming the dragon, who takes her on a magical journey to explore different parts of Chinese culture – especially all the delicious food! With Ming’s help, Kai learns about her family roots and how to celebrate all that makes her unique.
Kai’s Tea Eggs is a charming story for anyone who, like Kai, has felt the frustration of trying to fit in before finally learning to appreciate who they are.
Ages 3 to 7.
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Kaidenberg’s Best Sons
$20.00Kaidenberg’s Best Sons is an enthralling portrait of a community starting over in a new land. In a series of linked stories, author Jason Heit explores the lives and fortunes of people bound together by tradition, heritage and history, yet riven by envy, greed and lust. When a community of Eastern European settlers in North Dakota learn that there is promising farmland available in the newly established province of Saskatchewan they load their wagons and head north. Along with their furnishings, they also pack up their resentments, desires and ambitions and bring them to a new, unsettled land. Heit deftly captures both the promise of a new start in a new land and the long shadow of the past that is cast over the characters as they rebuild their lives.
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Kainchee Lagaa & Jhooti
$22.95In these disruptive and dangerous plays, Bilal Baig dismantles the white saviour complex and bulldozes the fourth wall, offering up two subversive tales told by unreliable narrators.
In Kainchee Lagaa, two estranged siblings intertwine across space and time. Billo, a tandoori-chicken-loving sex worker, dreams of a different life while her paranoid brother Arsalan obsessively reconstructs their family’s traumatic past. But as memory and myth clash during a long-awaited reunion, nothing is certain, and no one is innocent. In Jhooti, a trans woman carrying a plastic bag of her belongings pleads for protection from an unseen threat. As she beguiles the audience with poetry and Bollywood numbers, the masks fall away and her story spirals into a thrilling web of deception.
Together these explosive dramas revel in brown trans women who are duplicitous, cunning, and complex. Toying with the audience at every turn, Jhooti & Kainchee Lagaa is an urgent theatrical intervention that promises to leave no one unscathed.
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Kalamkari & Cordillera
$18.95This collection “spattered diversely by the trades that we live by” as Pablo Neruda puts it, reflects the variety of influences that have shaped the poet’s craft. Kalamkari (from the Persian for “pen craft”) refers to the hand-painted and block-printed textiles of South India where the poet grew up, and this section of the collection contains poems combining memories of her childhood with contemporary realities especially those affecting the lives of Indian girls and women. Harsh realities of women’s daily lives force the poet to look at the darker side of a country she loves and yet, like the old woman in the Aesop’s fable, she discovers “there is wonder even in the dregs.” Cordillera (from the Spanish for “mountain chain”) contains poems inspired by the poetry of Pablo Neruda and the country of Chile where he grew up in the shadow of the Andes. Because they were written at the fraught juncture between expectation and exile, appearance and reality, youth and age, memory and truth, these are at once poems of place and deeply personal. India and Chile share much in common including a turbulent colonial past, the challenges of poverty and climate, and a passionate commitment to craft. Imagery and attention to form, shared by Neruda, forge strong links between the two halves of the collection. Both the journeys we do not get to take and the journeys we do not get to keep teach us what it means to be human in relation to others and our chosen craft. By recounting the truth of her experience in both solitude and solidarity, the poet explores the cost of yearning and illuminates some of the perils and pleasures faced by women the world over.
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Kalila
$19.95Shortlisted, George Bugnet Award for Fiction
Kalila chronicles the lives of Maggie and Brodie, whose joy collides with devastation when their daughter’s birth also heralds the news of her congenital heart condition. In this startlingly inventive novel, Rosemary Nixon braids light and darkness into a narrative chain pulled exquisitely taut.
Through Maggie and Brodie’s shifting viewpoints, the isolating impenetrability of hospital life, the mediation of physics, music, and family, Nixon propels the reader into unmapped emotional terrain where a shell-shocked family grapples with the horror, joy, and mystery of impermanence. The result is a spellbinding tale, provocative for the emotions and the intellect.
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Karaikhola Flows
$20.96This collection of poetry recounts stories of Himalayan villages where education brings major inter-generational changes, promising freedom for women. Many of the poems centre on women’s lives, bodies, and the ways in which they are free to encounter the land, or held back from it, while recognizing the different ways women are regarded, from goddesses to mothers hungry for literacy. The book delves into the hardships of lives in secluded rural areas, including such elements as child marriages, girl-trafficking, and the decade-long terror of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. It further recognizes the sense of belonging while moving between places, and how one approaches, understands, and honours the land in which one lives. Karaikhola Flows is an attempt at cultural exchange with Canadian readers that speaks to all who move between places, who come from cultures that respect the land, and who respect women and their lived experiences.
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Karenin Sings the Blues
$19.95Karenin Sings the Blues is a meditation sparked by the actors in Tolstoy’s 19th-century masterpiece, Anna Karenina. Entering this famous saga of derailed love, McCartney explores the repercussions and unintended consequences of Anna and Vronsky’s passion. Here, Anna Karenina’s cuckolded husband “sings the blues,” but Count Vronsky, too, bemoans his disappointed expectations.
McCartney imagines the anxieties of Anna’s children, the self-absorption of busybodies and in-laws, the ambivalence of servants and friends sucked into Anna’s romantic vortex. Set at the height of the industrial age, the roar of the train and the pounding rhythm and flying soot of the steam locomotive epitomize the vigour of McCartney’s poems. The same vigour and clear vision characterize the “California” poems, which deal with McCartney’s youth in urban southern California. Domestic chaos amid cultural inanity creates turmoil and fear. How is it possible to love a distant mother, a father off somewhere with a third or fourth wife, a wounded and angry brother, a terminally ill sister consuming everything? How is it possible not to? How can an adolescent know the difference between self-preservation and self-destruction? These concerns continue into adulthood and motherhood in “Persuasion,” the third section of Karenin Sings the Blues.
Accessible and always forthright, McCartney combines plain-speaking revelations about family and domestic life with literary criticism and witty cultural play.
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Karyotype
$20.00A remarkable debut that expresses a humanism grounded in physiology. At the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the Taklamakan Desert. Karyotype’s poems range from the title sequence, which explores the DNA and woven textiles of this woman and her vanished people (a karyotype is the characteristic chromosome complement of a species), to the firebombing of the National Library of Sarajevo, from an abecedarian hymn on the International Red Cross “Book of Belongings” to the experience of watching the televised invasion of Iraq in the dark of a Montreal night. The Beauty of Loulan becomes a symbol of the ephemerality of human genetic and cultural texts, and of our chances for survival. And then there was Liu Baiqiang
sentenced to 18 years for “Counter-Revolutionary Incitement”
who attached words to the legs of locusts Tyranny! Long Live Freedom! and flung them over the walls
of his prison, into the air.
–from “On the ordering of chaotic bodies of poetry” “Karyotype is for me a crucial text in the work of re-imagining what it is to be human… I am grateful, as well as inspired, to find an artwork performing this essential task.” –Don McKay/ -
Kaspoit!
$20.00Kaspoit! puts speculative illustration to the most profuse series of crimes ever to take place on Canadian soil. Set in the lower mainland of Vancouver, the time is now – criminals are brazen, cops are cynical – and no one is trying to solve the disappearance of dozens of women.
Throughout, the novel conveys a savage, dystopian depiction of a netherworld teeming with gangland crime, sexual exploitation, betrayal and murder. The language is neologistic – jarring and vulgar – creating an atmosphere dense with bloodchilling dread, hurtling the reader through sinister, malevolent scenes with a velocity rarely seen in contemporary fiction.
Praise for Kaspoit!:
“… After William Pickton was arrested, media and activist groups had a field day speculating about why women were going missing from the Downtown Eastside for years before the Vancouver Police or RCMP appeared to notice. That’s the question Bolen tries to answer in Kaspoit! It’s a novel about perception and agendas, about how what we see, and what we think we know, are determined by what we’re looking for. … Bolen’s stripped-to-the-frame, dialogue-driven story will be as shocking to CanLit-conditioned sensibilities as a slap in the face with a bag of cold nails.” (John Moore, BC BookWorld)
“Kaspoit! is either a sublime literary work of near genius or is one of the most wretched wallows in the dark mire of the soul ever published. … Reader beware, Kaspoit! is not for the easily upset, but, if you can handle it, you’ll soon realize you’re reading a work of stark brilliance. … The story itself is so compelling that the reader returns to the book, though repelled by it. Finally, the conspiracy it posits is startling compared to the vague news coverage that the infamous pig farm case received.”(Les Wiseman, The Ottawa Citizen)
“a tour de force of thug-life horror, the book is a fictionalized account of what might have gone on at a certain Port Coquitlam pig farm where the DNA of 32 women was found during a massive forensic investigation. If you’ve ever felt that the publication ban on Robert Pickton’s speedy trial and conviction smelled strongly of cover-up, this is for you.” (Alex Varty, The Georgia Straight)
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Käthe Kollwitz
$40.00Käthe Kollwitz is revered in her home country, Germany, and around the world for her drawings, prints, and sculptures. Over the course of a five decade career, which included two world wars, Kollwitz’s subject matter focused on the lives and hardships of marginalized women. Given the turmoil and suffering of women and children around the world today, her powerful images resonate with an uncanny timeliness.
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was a leading 20th century German artist known for her drawings, prints (woodcuts, etchings, and lithographs), and sculptures. At a time when opportunities for women were limited, her achievements were extraordinary, especially as a printmaker in a field dominated by men. Over her long career, Kollwitz tackled difficult subjects and became an advocate for women’s rights and for the poor. She created prints and posters that protest war, poverty, hunger, and child mortality. Today, she is recognized as a strong, empathetic voice at the intersection between art and activism.
Kollwitz is often linked to the German Expressionists, but her bold and distinctive figural style and strong socialist convictions set her apart from any clearly defined art movement. Her art was a reflection of her own experiences, which included the tragic loss of her son Peter in World War I. In addition to self-portraits, themes in her work relate to the lives and suffering of poor women, the intimate relationships between mothers and children, humanitarian and social justice issues, and her ongoing dialogue with death.
This extraordinary publication examines the richness and depth of Kollwitz’s work with more than 100 colour reproductions of her prints, drawings, and sculptures, drawn from the comprehensive collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Also included are essays by Brenda Rix on Kollwitz’s life and her preoccupation with self-portraiture and an essay by the donor Dr. Brian McCrindle on building the Kollwitz collection.