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loving without being vulnrabul
$17.95Poems that tell stories on many different levels: through sound, visual images, political insights, non-narrative fusion and linguistic music.
accepting th radiant dances uv being
4 kleerances uv ko dependenseez n help
th selvs being plural storeez sound
vizual politikul non narrativ fuseyn
linguisteek mewsik letting go uv th
rashyunalizasyuns irrashyunalizaysyuns
blaming games they made me putting th
focus on wuns selvs irridescent tinkshurs
simultaneous shiftings th langwages 4
aims chill n th needs 4 health edukay
syun sochul programs n civil human rites
guaranteez 2 lift us n loving th reelee
nameless being within each diffrent n
same prson th lines defining n dissolving
th jade n gold fevr on th edg reseed
in th disapeering air mixes n arous
th senses th prfume hints n th tall
buildings tottr seegulls encirculing
th see fadid turquois wood frame hous
sew stung by salt spray th soul rocks
loving th nameless isnesses within
each prson being
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Low
$19.95Low is a novel about family, identity, illness, love and loss. Lyrical, personal prose draws readers into the world of Adriana Song. We feel our way through Low with her as she navigates lopsided friendships, failed romances and tries to to weather the storm that is her life.
“An empathetic coming-of-age story about the redemptive power of love.”—Globe and Mail
“Low is a genuine and gentle novel about family, identity, and the road to recovery.”—Quill & Quire
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Low Centre of Gravity
$18.00Low Centre of Gravity finds Michael Dennis in familiar territory. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. Dennis’ poems continue to be the narratives of movies you’d like to someday see. These poems ask the questions you’d really like answered, sauntering into the room and staking claim. The story-telling continues, the good, the bad and the sadly tragic. With Low Centre of Gravity Dennis remains “direct, curious, pissed off and honest”.
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Low Water Slack
$16.95In the language of the Fraser River fishermen, “low water slack” is that particular tide when everything slows down: the wind, the river, even the human heartbeat. It is a time to reflect, to count the stars in Orion’s belt, to listen for the slow creak of the heron’s wings. During low water slack, the challenges of life on the river give way to something much deeper, and the fishermen find themselves in a world so calm and beautiful that the very water beneath them seems a hushed breath.At once historical and intensely personal, Low Water Slack takes the reader into a vibrant world populated with such characters as a ghost of a nineteeth-century salmon canner and an 800-pound white sturgeon. Here are infamous moments of BC’s past (the Hell’s Gate disaster, the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War Two) alongside childhood memories of a first kiss and meditations on the future of West Coast fish stocks. And moving like a quick shadow throughout is the Pacific salmon itself, whose life cycle mirrors and guides the poet’s own exploration of mortality.
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Lowfield
$29.95Riley Fuller, a police officer sidelined by the devastating loss of three colleagues in a tragic shooting, seeks solace in rural Prince Edward Island as he lays claim to his family’s ancestral property-an ancient, dilapidated house known locally as Applegarth. Eager for a fresh start and relief from his traumatic past, Riley’s hopes are soon dashed as he uncovers the dark secrets hidden within the very walls of the Victorian-era mansion. Soon, he realizes that Applegarth is merely a harbinger of something far more sinister-a malevolent force lurking within the nearby abandoned village of Lowfield, its ominous presence intricately entwined with the rich history of PEI itself.
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Loyalty Management
$17.00Winner of the Toronto Book Award
One Book Toronto ? 2009
Like a sculptor finding the image trapped within the stone he carves, Glen Downie shapes shards of history and humanity into arresting poetry in Loyalty Management. Moving from the streets of Toronto, to the joys of fatherhood, to Chile’s “serrated edge”; Downie’s polished poems reveal hard truths, as well as moments of tenderness and wonder, with his abilities bounded only by the fragment of humanity to which he has turned his poet’s pen. This is a formidable collection from an established Toronto poet.
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Luba, Simply Luba
$15.95Luba Goy, an original member of CanadaÕs popular comedy troupe, Royal Canadian Air Farce, is one of this countryÕs most beloved comedic actors. In Luba, Simply Luba, we are invited into her colourful and astonishing life. From her Ukrainian childhood to high honours at Rideau Hall, Luba GoyÕs journey has been filled with both comedy and tragedy. This one-woman show features glimpses of Luba at various ages along with forty-plus other charactersÑincluding her family and friends, Canadian prime ministers and other famous personalities, and even a few animals.
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther, and the Art of the Reformation
$14.95Martin Luther’s amazing courage and intellect come to life against the backdrop of paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, possibly the greatest artist of the European Reformation. This is the second volume in Bayeux’s series entitled STORIES BEHIND THE ART.
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Lucia
$22.95A GLOBE & MAIL RECOMMENDED SUMMER 2021 READ
“A writer possessed of unusual indeed, extraordinary powers… Read [Lucia] with your eyes wide open.”—The Guardian
She is about thirty-three, speaks French fluently. . .[she] is gay, sweet and ironic, but she has bursts of anger over nothing when she is confined to a straightjacket, writes James Joyce in one of the few surviving documents concerning his daughter. A gifted dancer, Beckett’s lover, an aspiring writer—what little we know about Lucia Joyce effectively ends with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and subsequent hospitalization: after her death, her nephew Stephen, executor of the Joyce estate, burned her letters and medical records, erasing her not only from her father’s legacy, but from her own existence in the world as well.
To tell the story of a life redacted, Alex Pheby assumes not Lucia Joyce’s lost voice, but the perspectives of the men around her, layering a series of narratives about those on the edges of her life to create a portrait of the lost woman in silhouette. As much a critique of male violence and the long history of misogyny in women’s health, an in-absentia illustration of the fate of inconvenient women as the story of a single life, Lucia is an ethical and empathetic creative act and a moving in memoriam to a woman whose experiences we can only imagine.
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Lucia’s Masks
$19.95Lucia’s Masks
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Lucky Bruce
$29.95Lucky Bruce
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Lucky Elephant Restaurant, The
$10.95When the young daughter of popular radio talk show host Bobbie Reddie disappears along with Bobbie’s ex-husband, Detectives Lane and Harper are on the case. Haunted by flashbacks from a previous missing child case, Lane once again takes to the streets of Calgary looking for answers.
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Lucky Lady & Le Chien
$18.95Jay returns to his northern Ontario hometown, seeking reconciliation with a father, a family, and a life he left seven years ago. The world he returns to is one of anger and violence, a world raw with hurt, and love. Winner of the 1988 Governor General’s Literary Award, Jean Marc Dalpé’s Le Chien is a modern tragedy set in the desolation and beauty of the North about the fine line between love and hate, and the impossibility of burying the past.
Despite their dreams of wealth, fame, and success, Bernie and his friends are going nowhere fast. When a horse-racing scheme presents itself, the group decides to gamble their meagre savings, intertwining their lives with the fortunes of a horse. Lucky Lady is an exhilarating comedy, published here for the first time in English.
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Lucy and Bonbon
$20.00Probing the question: “Are we ready to accept a human-ape hybrid in our midst?”
What if humans were able to reproduce with other great apes? What would the hybrid offspring look like? Act like? Think like? And how would humans respond? Would such creatures be allowed to live among us? Or would they be put under a microscope in a zoo or research facility? Lucinda Gerson is an outspoken, free-spirited working-class single mother. Lively and unpredictable, she’s the sort of person you might call “one of a kind.” Her child Bonbon is quite literally one of a kind. When Lucinda spends the money she has inherited from an uncle on a trip to visit her anthropologist sister in the Congo, she comes back pregnant. Lucy and Bonbon is the story of mother and child, and of the controversy that swirls around them over the course of the child’s first fourteen years. It is a story of freedom and captivity, of love and friendship, of borders and of border crossings, and of what it means to be a human animal.
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Lucy Jarvis
$45.00Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book Award
Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionWriting early in 1962, Lucy Jarvis said she felt “just at the threshold of beginning.” Jarvis had studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in the 1920s, later becoming part of the social realist movement, committed to an art “of the people”.
In 1941, Jarvis co-founded the UNB Art Centre with Pegi Nicol MacLeod, and together, they turned it into a place of creative effervescence. Passionate and single-minded, Jarvis threw herself into everything that she did and the results were nothing short of astounding. In a few short years, she and MacLeod had transformed their environment.
Yet, it wasn’t until the early 1960s that the unstoppable Jarvis set out on her own. She left the art centre and headed for Paris. In four extended stays during the 1960s, she immersed herself completely, living in French, attending the open studios, and connecting with other artists.
Her retreats to Pembroke Dyke near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, during the summer months allowed her to digest her experiences, and her art took on new life. The influences of both impressionism and post-impressionism emerged in her work, and her paintings became more boldly colourful, freer — more completely her own.
Lucy Jarvis: Even Stones Have Life is the first examination of Jarvis’s considerable body of work — what she painted, how she rendered it, and how her art permeated her life and her life permeated her art.
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Ludwig & Mae
$19.95La Litière (1994), Rappel (1995) and Ressusciter (1996), published together here in English translation as Embedded, Apocalypse, and Resurrection respectively, make up a trilogy of plays featuring Gen-Xers Ludwig and Mae. Ludwig, trained as an engineer, hasn’t been able to find work since graduating some time ago. The fact that he is sardonic, philosophically inclined and suicidal hasn’t helped in this regard. Mae, on the other hand, is an actress who has never been out of work. Caught in a perverse relationship, she plays into Ludwig’s constant mind games until one day she decides she’s had enough. Embedded establishes their twisted Strindbergian relationship, while introducing the Philosopher-cum-Chinese Delivery Guy—the absurdist character who acts as a catalyst for the simmering emotional crisis about to explode. Apocalypse is a monodrama in which Ludwig stages his own suicidal ceremonial (along with unlikely allegorical characters such as a Pope, Giacometti’s Cow and a Leather-Clad Muse). Resurrection is Mae’s testimonial, where she confronts and reconciles herself with Ludwig’s death, breaks the cycle of their co-dependency, and finally comes into her own.
Together, these plays literally “stage” the internalized and therefore repressed failure of the search for an authentic life in art: the decorative nihilism of the post-modern ethos. Taking us on a cathartic journey from despair to exhilaration—at times perilous, comic, edgy and passionate—Ludwig & Mae releases its audiences from the artificial dark of the theatre into the liberating light of day, radiant with a new understanding: life does not imitate art, life makes art.
This trilogy established Louis Patrick Leroux as a leading figure of the Franco-Ontarian artistic renaissance of the 1990s. Rappel Apocalypse, in particular, was quickly identified as a turning point from what had become a stultifying, identity-driven literary tradition, to a burgeoning of artistic freedom and formal exploration.