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Living the Dream
$14.95Take a look inside the Best of Both Worlds.
Miley Cyrus, the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, persisted in auditioning for the Hannah Montana role even when she was consistently turned away. Nonetheless, Miley kept picking herself up, dusting herself off and trying again. And that persistence paid off. Miley was cast as Hannah – the TV pop superstar who is tries to balance her celebrity with a normal life as Miley Stewart, thus living a secret identity along the lines of Clark Kent and Superman – and Hannah instantly connected with the television audience, which turned the character and Miley herself into a sensation.
And since that debut, Hannah Montana grew into a sensation involving CDs that have sold in the millions, fashion and book lines, best-selling DVDs, sold out concert tours, a 3-D concert movie, and a full-length feature film.
Living the Dream tells the story of the auditions, the casting of Hannah Montana, and what was involved in creating the Stewart family. There are biographies of the principal cast members – Miley, Billy Ray, Emily Osment, Mitchel Musso, and more – and interviews with the creators of the show. There’s a look at the phenomena outside of the show: the CDs, the concert tours (including photos from fans), and the incredible amount of buzz from fans while they were waiting for the movie. An episode guide for the first two seasons reveals the story behind the start of the hit series, as well as things to watch for in each episode, and a news diary tracking the rise of the Miley/Hannah phenomenon. Plus, there’s more than a hundred full-colour photos.
For fans of the incredibly sweet Hannah Montana and those wanting the inside scoop on Miley Cyrus’ Disney star days, this is a book that will make them appreciate the show and the stars even more.
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Living the Edges
$29.95This collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. The women speak frankly about the societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social attitudes and physical and systemic inaccessibility. They bring to light the discrimination they experience through sexism, because they are women, and through ableism, because they have disabilities. For them, the personal is definitely political. Here, Canadian women discuss their lives in the areas of employment, body image, sexuality and family life, society’s attitudes, and physical, sexual and emotional abuse. While society traditionally views having a disability as “weakness” and that women are the “weaker” sex, this collection points to the strength, persistence and resilience of disabled women living the edges.
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Living Things
$16.95“Living Things thrives.” –George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Chronicle-HeraldWritten in the year after the birth of Matt Rader’s first daughter, Living Things honestly introduces the contradictions of the modern world: “how what we see in daylight is less than whole / and also more so.” Using words in lieu of sonar, these poems bounce off the ecology of “shabby saturated grasses” and “panther-eyed armies of salal,” and locate both author and reader within a literary genealogy. Matt Rader’s poetry brings subtle slowness to a chaotic, fast-paced environment. It is both celebration and documentation of this world and its relationship to all living things.
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Living Things
$22.95FINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD
This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction.
Munir, G, Ernesto, and Álex leave Madrid after graduation for a carefree summer of picking grapes in the south of France. But there’s no grape harvest, and they end up in a series of increasingly nightmarish factory-farming gigs, where workers start disappearing. Soon the youngmen find themselves far away from the world of books and ideas, immersed in an existence that is lawless, inhumane and increasingly menacing…
“Gorgeously labyrinthine.” – Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
“Startling, compulsive, and vibrant; Living Things reads like an ignition. The most honest thing I’ve read in a long time about being young and alive in a beautiful, horrible world.” – Dizz Tate, author of Brutes
“Living Things dips blithely in and out of genres and packs more ideas in its lean frame than seems possible. It’s a novel posing as a journal posing as a meditation on the function of the journal that playfully interrogates form and content in art, what it means to write, and what it means to care or not care about anything, or about everything. Munir Hachemi is a magician, and his marvellous book, deftly translated by Julia Sanches, defies adequate description.” – James Greer, author of Bad Eminence
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Livingsky
$22.00Going home is not always the best answer. Forced to leave behind her big city dreams, Merry Bell returns to Livingsky Saskatchewan to start over. Living with plenty of secrets, but no money, friends, or place to live during a prairie winter-all while trying to start her own PI business-proves to be more challenging than she imagined. With a first case that quickly turns more dangerous than it first appeared, Merry must deal with a dodgy client, the murder of the surgeon who performed her gender affirming surgery, and more than one mysterious stranger.
For the first time since his award-winning Russell Quant novels, Bidulka begins a new mystery series, continuing in his tradition of presenting under-represented characters and settings that immediately feel familiar and beloved, while tugging at heart strings and tickling your funny bone. Livingsky easily matches the beauty and tenderness of Going to Beautiful while delivering a page-turning mystery.
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Local Boy Makes Good
$24.95This book does more than collect three of John Gray’s musical plays in one volume. In his preface to each play, and in his charming and wide-ranging introduction, Gray takes this opportunity to offer his readers some startling insights into the process by which his plays have come about; into his ongoing concern that his audiences not experience his musicals as “art,” but as a way of recognizing something about their lives and the lives of those with whom they share their community, and into his own evolution as a playwright—how a boy from Truro, Nova Scotia, who got his start by failing music and playing in local bands named after fast American cars, stepped into the stage lights of Toronto, New York and London by daring to do something that everybody said wouldn’t work.
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Local Motion
$22.95Decisions about the things that matter most on a daily basis – our roads and schools and houses – happen at the city level. So, how do we influence these decisions? What motivates ordinary citizens to take action and improve their community? How do neighbours organize together? Does City Hall facilitate engagement, or stand in the way? Local Motion explores how we, as citizens, can make a positive change in our city.
Shifting from the ‘what’ of the previous uTOpia books to ‘how,’ Local Motion presents an in-depth analysis of civic engagement in Canada’s largest city. Essays by fourteen in-the-trenches journalists explain what makes one city, Toronto, tick and stall. They explore electoral reform, civic organizations, zoning, the ‘creative city,’ budgeting and guerrilla activism. They profile people and groups who’ve made things happen. They give practical advice on navigating bureaucracy and getting the media’s attention. Taken together, these in-depth essays and profiles paint a citizen-focused portrait of a city in transition, offering up myriad examples of how the people who live there help to make their city a better, more humane one.
The book features a foreword by Dionne Brand, illustrations by Marlena Zuber, and articles by Bert Archer, Denise Balkissoon, Hamutal Dotan, Jonathan Goldsbie, Kelly Grant, Edward Keenan, Jennifer Lewington, John Lorinc, Jason McBride, Dave Meslin, Christina Palassio, Catherine Porter, Mike Smith and Hannah Sung.
‘There is so much disappointment in conventional politics. But cities and neighbourhoods are spaces where transformation is still within reach; indeed, it happens every day. This original and inspiring book arms us with the practical tools we need to change our communities for the better, regardless of which politicians are in power. Read it and find out where the action is.’ – Naomi Klein
‘If our greatest asset as a city is our people, it stands to reason that, genuinely engaged, and liberated to think outside the box, the people of Toronto are the ones who can ensure that we build a city that is a model to the world. Local Motion is the “how to” book on building that great city. Over to us.’ – John Tory
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Locations of Grief
$22.00Exploring the landscapes of death and grief, this collection takes the reader through a series of essays, drawn together from twenty-four Canadian writers that reach across different ages, ethnicities and gender identities as they share their thoughts, struggles and journeys relating to death. Be it the meditation on the loss of a beloved dog who once solaced a departed parent, the tragic suicide of a stranger or the deep pain of losing a brother, Locations of Grief is defined by its range of essays exploring all the facets of mourning, and how the places in our lives can be irreversibly changed by the lingering presence of death.
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Lockers Are for Bearcats Only
$21.95The poems in Mallory Tater’s Lockers Are for Bearcats Only spill out from the confluence of grief and water. After losing one of her closest friends, the poet began swimming laps—part meditation, part therapy, part escapism—immersed in the depths of the public pool. There, she found herself haunted by the strange tension between fitness / surrender and memory / motion where ghosts of girlhood, catholicism, and addiction rose to the surface. These themes haunt Lockers Are for Bearcats Only – a tender, unguarded exploration of loss, embodiment, and the currents that carry us through life with and without those who shaped us.
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Loggerheads
$24.99“For a decade, the issue of forest and land use in British Columbia raged like a forest fire . . .”
Shamed by demonstrators as a “tree-killer,” Clayoquot Sound tree faller Bruce Hornidge faced soul-searing losses of identity and family livelihood. This gripping, irony-laden memoir of a life spent harvesting in the beauty of the forest deals frankly with the nearly invisible human fallout of the inevitable move away from a resource-based economy and the impact on one man’s psyche.
Hornidge recalls his career as a faller in the West Coast forestry industry from the unique and sometimes irreverent point of view of the many loggers in Ucluelet and Tofino whose forestry careers were cut short on the other side of the demonstrators’ picket lines amid government and company doublespeak.
Three decades after The War in the Woods, we think we know what happened, and we’ve been told why. Here’s what we were never told.
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Logos
$20.00Using the poetry of the people and the language of the streets, Gil Fagiani brings to life the world of addiction and treatment — with the tumultuous 1960s as background. Fagiani tells the story of Logos, a heroin treatment center in South Bronx — not as an outsider looking in but as one of the residents seeking a way to escape his own addiction. Both harsh and hard-hitting, Fagiani doesn’t hold back in presenting the bitter truths as well as the glimpses of hope shared not just by addicts but by all humans in times of crisis. Lessons that have served him well in life.
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London Free Press: From the Vault
$39.95Spanning the first one hundred years of the newspaper (1849–1950), London Free Press: From the Vault is chock full of photographs from the London Free Press archives, with fascinating and fun chapter introductions by local historian Jennifer Grainger.
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London: 150 Cultural Moments
$22.95London has long been a centre of government, law, and industry for South-western Ontario, but the Forest City has also been centre-stage to many other national and international cultural happenings. Music fans might have heard about Johnny Cash’s famous proposal to June Carter at a local performance, but how many people know that it was local DJ Dick Williams who debuted The Beatles to North American audiences, kickstarting Beatlemania? Or that The Rolling Stones started a riot at the arena Treasure Island Gardens? Literature lovers might know that Alice Munro published her first short story in Folio at UWO, but did you know that legendary American poet Walt Whitman visited the London Insane Asylum in 1880? If you’re a Londoner, you probably searched the comics for Ting’s “Luke Worm,” but did you know that famed painter Paul Peel couldn’t sell a painting in his hometown, and went broke? Film buffs know that London is the hometown of some familiar Hollywood faces (Hume Cronyn, Kate Nelligan, Victor Garber, Paul Haggis, Ryan Gosling, and Rachel McAdams), but did you know that Canada’s first full-colour feature film was made here?
London: 150 Cultural Moments is full of… well… 150 such fascinating, fun, and unforgettable—if not always well-known—moments, which will make you look at the city of London and its history a little bit differently.
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Loneliness of Angels, The
$16.95The 1980s obsession with self found the perfect mark in Bianca Wolfe. For ten years she followed the decade’s simple creed: Always take more than you need. She has a stack of by-lines in prestigious international magazines, a studio in the most desirable part of town, an acclaimed concert pianist lover, and the freedom to travel on a whim. But as she faces the nineties, Bianca wants more: A perfect body. A perfect soul. A routine assignment at the controversial New Morning Centre spa and health clinic, run by a charismatic director who promises miracles to the faithful, turns into a quest that strips Bianca of her facade, and reveals to her who she truly is. Bianca is, naturally, skeptical about the miracle cures claimed by the former patients the Centre has suggested she interview, and she soon discovers that there is more to the story than she had anticipated. In order to get the real story she decides to go through the program as a patient, and submits herself to the care of the Centre’s director, one Petrarch, whose past activities are, to say the least, suspect. By turns funny, painful and philosophical, The Loneliness of Angels is a fascinating window on North American life in the late 20th century.
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Lonely Boys
$27.95What can be done about the friendships that are bound to break your heart?After a year of radio silence, Ella bursts back into the lives of her former roommates, Jen and Lucie. Her intentions seem simple enough: she wants to mend fences and regain their trust. But it won’t be that easy. Lonely Boys is a story of friendship, sisterhood and self-affirmation. It captures life at twenty-something as three young women navigate the challenges of work, sex and romantic relationships, all the while trying to hold on to the connection they share despite the hurt it carries.
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Lonesome Hero
$19.95Meet Tyrone Lock: born of farmers’ stock; overeducated, underemployed. An inveterate pick-nose and clandestine squeezer of Revels in the supermarket. Disaffected in a way that Adrian Mole would recognize (though as Tyrone takes pains to point out, he’s hardly a tortured artist; his BA was in Economics). Inexplicably involved with the lovely, pampered Miss Athena Till.
The young couple are preparing for their first trip abroad: the obligatory horizon-widening sojourn in Europe, the Land of the Forefathers and the Wellspring of Culture.
Except that this is an excursion that Tyrone would do anything to get out of. His horizons are plenty broad, thank you very much, and he’d rather spend his days taking walks with his dog, fly-fishing without a hook, and composing such melodious odes to his native land as: O Beaver Creek, In the Foothills of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, I would sooner have you, Than a bunch of crappy marble fountains.
First published in 1974 and now released for the first time in paperback, Lonesome Hero is a comic classic, the award-winning smartass novel that launched a spectacular writing career.
This new revised edition restores scenes deleted from the original and also features an introduction by the inimitable Mark Anthony Jarman and an afterword by the author, who reflects how glad he is, looking back at his first novel, that Lonesome Hero still manages to embody the ironies of the era, the fact that we often understood perfectly how cartoonish we were. The early ’70s was about avoiding work at all costs and trying to live amusingly during all one’s waking hours: about how weirdly far we would go to accomplish that.