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Man Facing West
$18.95Man Facing West presents a collection of fiction and nonfiction, sewn together with traces of autobiography. This collection is part of Don Gayton’s ongoing life journal, recounting moments of his boyhood in the United States and the Peace Corps, and detailing his opinions regarding the draft and the Vietnam War. Guiding these accounts are the forces of science and geology that have shaped Gayton’s career in Canada.
As his stories of scheming university students, prodding 19th century scientists, and geologists time-tunneling into the prehistoric past of the prairies appear, we are always aware of Gayton’s ability to transform science into magic.
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Man in the Red Suit, The
$21.95During the past 33 years, St. John’s businessman Bruce Templeton has devoted the month of December to visiting children and assisting Santa Claus. At school parties, country clubs, or in the critical-care unit of hospitals, young people ask him profound questions about Santa Claus and the true meaning of Christmas. Templeton has collected hundreds of stories and questions during more than 1000 visits – some of them curious, some happy, and some heartbreaking. In his memoir of three decades he shares some of the most unforgettable questions. Templeton always tries to bring hope and joy through his visits, but he often finds it is the children who change his life and the lives of those who assist him on these extraordinary journeys. For readers who enjoyed the bestselling Tuesdays With Morrie and Everything I Need To Know, I Learned from a Children’s Book, Bruce Templeton’s memoir will fill them with enough inspiration and joy to last an entire year.
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Man of Bone
$17.99Winner, Ottawa-Carleton Book Award
Shortlisted, Trillium Award
Man of Bone has a thriller’s taste for blood, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a heart-wrenching portrait of an ordinary Canadian jerked into third-world terrorism. Bill Burridge, his wife and their little son have moved to the “island paradise” of Santa Irene on Bill’s first diplomatic posting. At the short-staffed embassy, he is thrown, almost unbriefed, into work he scarcely understands. After less than two weeks, while driving alone on a “safe” highway to an afternoon of badminton in the country, he is snatched by revolutionaries.
Against his will, Burridge turns out under torture to be a “man of bone” who can’t give up and die. His ignorance and low status make him useless to his captors, but they can’t simply let him go. They continue to torture him until, distracted by other battles, they abandon him and his keeper in a mountain village. Suddenly one day helicopters rake the village with gunfire, and the whole situation turns upside down.
Alan Cumyn is well known for creating men with tender hearts and iron wills. Bill Burridge, angry at God for making him live, keeps his wits by remembering his and Maryse’s courtship and marriage and their life with young Patrick. Although he isolates this part of himself from his torturers, he and his beloved family discover when he returns to Ottawa, barely alive, that “living happily ever after” will be more complex than they could have imagined.
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Man on a Wheel
$24.95In Man on a Wheel, Scott Nolan pays homage to the poet Patrick O’Connell, who influenced and inspired him early in his musical career. As a songwriter, Nolan doesn’t simply set O’Connell’s words to music. By splicing O’Connell’s lines together in new ways, Nolan takes the words to new places. The resulting songs express O’Connell’s brilliant sensibility while resonating with that unique Scott Nolan sound.
The CD includes eight original songs and a bonus track of Patrick O’Connell reading “Boz and Molly (A Romance).” The accompanying book of lyrics is illustrated with Nolan’s visual art — paper collages that mirror the composition technique of the songs.
Award-winning Winnipeg poet Catherine Hunter’s engaging introduction explores the connections forged between these two artists and provides insight into their work.
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Man or Mango?
$22.95By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
Reclusive Eloïse lives with her cats and her cello in an English country cottage, privately building a case against men, women, the Queen, Nazi list-makers, fluorescent lighting, her ex-flatmate Howard, nuclear bombs, and toilet-roll-holder manufacturers. She has a real thing about giant pumpkin growers too. George is an American poet, recently arrived in the UK. Struggling to finish an epic poem on ice hockey, he plays a lot of pinball and gets chased around by his students. Lost, lonely, and in love, he and Eloïse really should be together, yet it seems they may never meet up…
But Man or Mango? is more than a lament for unrequited transatlantic romance. Funny and furious, it is a scathing, searing, rollicking and vertiginous reflection on life and love in a belligerent world.
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Man Reading “Woman Reading in Bath”
$15.95In Man Reading ?Woman Reading in Bath?, John Livingstone Clark creates a series of poetic meditations as responses to the work of Anne Szumigalski: specifically the poem entitled ?Woman Reading in Bath?, in the book that shares the same name. Clark?s inspiration for this project was a question posed by the elder poet several times in her last few years: ?Why do so many of my book titles have water in them?? For Clark, the poem ?Woman Reading in Bath? reflects a number of major themes in her work, and by writing individual poems in relation to single lines (occasionally a couplet), the `mythopoesis’ of her work could be opened up in a book of poetry.
Within this textual framework, Clark?s poems are dominated by the metaphor of a swimmer enveloped in a series of states and environments. The swimmer is a lonely man, but he accepts it as part of the rite of passage we must all make: moving from solid ground and social activity, to the beach with its visionary views, and finally the stage when one actually enters the water and moves out into a seemingly infinite ocean, beneath a tangibly infinite sky.
From the personal to the universal, this collection is an ode to the harmonics of mind, body, and spirit. Why always about water? Characters and Selves within all of us beg to know, the swimmer reciprocates: the body is sixty?five percent H2O; the water breaks at birth; and in the unconscious process of Individuation, we are ?drowning to life?.
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Man with a Seagull on His Head
$19.95Linked by an unlikely accident, four strangers characters grapple with loneliness, memory, and the mysteries of art.
Ray Eccles is a man who dislikes unpredictability and the messiness of social interaction, to such extent that his co-workers’ habit of gathering around the Xerox machine it’s his job to run makes even that regular task unbearable. When a misunderstanding leads to unexpected time off from work, Ray takes a day trip to nearby East Beach on what happens to be his fortieth birthday. As he gazes at the sea, a distant woman turns to face him—and a seagull falls from the sky, knocking him unconscious. He awakens compelled to paint her image, using whatever materials come to hand: jam, ketchup, even the walls of his home.
Enter George and Grace Zoob, collectors of Outsider Art, whose endorsement rockets Ray to fame in the art world and beyond. Soon even small-town newspapers are covering his work—which is how Jennifer, the woman on the beach, discovers she’s the sole subject of the paintings that have set the world on fire, leading her to wonder if a man she’s never met is the only person who has ever really seen her.
Lyrical, elegant and quietly profound, Harriet Paige’s Man With a Seagull on His Head captures the small, shared moments where our lives overlap, making artistry out of the everyday.
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Manam
$22.95Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, 2022
Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.
Léa is a teacher. She does not believe in silence and secrecy, and this is what she always tells her pupils. Silence isn’t a large part of the inheritance she received from her Téta, her beloved Armenian grandmother, who has just died at the age of one hundred and seven. Regularly over the years her large Armenian family would gather around Téta, and she would tell stories. But there is one story that she refused to tell. As soon as Léa brought it up, Téta quickly changed the subject. Now Léa wants to find out and understand the story of her ancestors. She goes to Turkey, and with the help of a Kurdish filmmaker and guide, visits her ancestral village, Manam. She learns that during the Armenian genocide at the beginning of the twentieth century, almost the entire population of Manam was killed or fled to exile in Syria. How did her grandmother and her family survive? Rima Elkouri, with great sensitivity paints the portrait of a family that wills itself to survive.
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Manhattan Meltdown
$20.00Two men, no longer young, and friends from childhood, fly to NYC—each with a secret purpose unknown to the other. They arrive just as COVID-19 explodes across the city’s 5 boroughs. One of the men (white) has come to Manhattan to confront a theater producer who has made a coercive offer to his wife. The other man (black, former All-American football star) plans to confront and take revenge on his white girlfriend from college days—who left him for a white man. As they pursue their goals they are caught up in the hunt for America’s most famous criminal. The black man, seeking revenge, makes a surprising turn. The white man, who has taken his confrontation with the theater producer to criminal length, may never leave Manhattan to return to his family. Manhattan Meltdown introduces a series of inter-connected characters who, ever as their lives are impacted by lethal disease, must continue to struggle with more conventional personal crises: uterine cancer, imperiled romantic relationships, and the deteriorations of advancing old age.
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Manitoba Butterflies
$39.00Manitoba Butterflies is one of the most unique and accessible field guides to feature Manitoba’s winged ambassador, the butterfly. Novices and experts alike will be engrossed with over 600 full colour photos featuring full colour life-size specimens as well as images of the entire butterfly lifecycle from egg to mature butterfly of over 100 butterfly species found in Manitoba. The combination of scientific fact and anecdotal information make for a thoroughly engaging way to learn about butterflies.
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Mankind & Other Stories of Women
$20.00Marianne Ackerman’s second collection of stories for Guernica puts the focus on women, their ascent into selfhood, the beauty and carnage of the their journey. Literary Montreal is the setting of two stories spun around an alpha poseur, George. Picking up from the Gothic shadows of Albert Fine in Holy Fools (Guernica, 2014), Ackerman follows the lives of an Ontario farm family marked by a bloody incident they struggle to understand. Four interlocking stories plumb the secrets of one man’s sister, ex-wife, friend and mother. Sardonic and often funny, these tales follow the byways of aspiration and self-deception, casting light on all.
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Mantis Dreams
$21.95Mantis Dreams: The Journal of Dr. Dexter Ripley is a crackling, searing satire that ridicules both political correctness and the restrictive world of academia. But Adam Pottle’s first novel is also a poignant and difficult glance into the world of a man battling a rare and debilitating disease. A wheelchair user living voluntarily in a care home, Dexter Ripley lashes out at all those around him-his behaviour so outrageous yet insightful that Ripley is curiously both repelling and fascinating. With a boisterous, propulsive voice, Dexter Ripley shares his insights on life as a care home resident, his relationships with his sister and her son, his career as a professor, and, despite his bitter nature, his goal of creating a philosophy based on positivity and imagination. Through the voice of this embittered man, Pottle creates a treatise that views disability as a philosophical position rather than a physical or mental condition.
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Manuel populaire de citoyenneté
$15.95In 2009, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government changed the official citizenship guide that is given to all recent immigrants. The new version contains a lot more military history and plenty of information about the monarchy, but little about valued public programs or our rich history of social justice movements. In short, the official guide outlines an exceptionally narrow, conservative view of Canadian politics and society.
Written from a Québécois perspective, Manuel populaire de citoyenneté : une réponse au conservatisme canadien is a companion to the People’s Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative Canada, in which a group of progressive scholars provide a lively, political, humane–and more honest–alternative to Stephen Harper’s vision of nation, citizenship, and identity.
En 2009, le gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper a modifié le guide officiel de la citoyenneté remis à tous les nouveaux immigrants. La nouvelle version fait une plus grande place à l’histoire militaire et présente beaucoup d’information sur la monarchie, mais fait très peu état de nos programmes publics importants et de l’histoire de nos mouvements pour la justice sociale. En un mot, le guide officiel du gouvernement présente une vision très étroite et conservatrice de la politique et de la société canadiennes.
Rédigé d’un point de vue québécois, le Manuel populaire de citoyenneté : une réponse au conservatisme canadien est la contrepartie française du People’s Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative Canada. Dans cet ouvrage, un groupe d’universitaires progressistes proposent non seulement une conception différente du pays, mais également une vision de la citoyenneté et de l’identité canadiennes plus dynamique, plus honnête, plus humaine que celle de Stephen Harper.
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Many Unpleasant Returns
$16.95Everyone at the Pleasant Inn is looking forward to a very merry Christmas. Oh, irascible proprietor Trevor Rudley has his usual complaints about Mrs. Blount’s non-traditional floral arrangements. And he’s sure he won’t like housekeeper Tiffany’s new beau, Dan Thornton, who’s a writer, of all things. But it’s Christmas. The guests are excitedly preparing the Christmas pageant and chef Gregoire is spoiling everyone with his delightful cuisine. There’s a snowstorm on the way, but Trevor and Margaret Rudley have everything under control. Surely nothing catastrophic could happen.
Bad things do happen, of course. Once the snow begins, it seems like it will never stop. Poor Margaret runs over a man lying in the road during a whiteout. Walter Sawchuck almost chokes when someone doctors his Mrs. Dash. And those disturbing little Santas begin to appear, each one representing a gruesome event in the Pleasant’s past. Then a dead body is found hanged in the coach house. As the snow continues to fall, paranoia at the Pleasant mounts. -
Maple City
$22.95In 1895, the bustling town of Chatham, Ontario—then 8,000 strong—celebrated cityhood some 100 years after the first European settlers put down roots where McGregor’s Creek meets the Thames River. Carefully curated from the surviving negatives of the Chatham Daily News and other collections of the Chatham-Kent Museum, Maple City uses photographs to tell the remarkable history of one of the oldest communities in Upper Canada. From its origins as a naval dockyard and its role as an Underground Railroad terminus to the sugar beet fields and the factories of Gray-Dort, this stunning visual history captures the men and women who built Chatham at work and at play, weathering the changes of life in Ontario’s industrial heartland. Meticulously researched and handsomely designed, Maple City: A Photo-History of Chatham, Ontario is a “must-have” book for all who call this city home, and local history lovers everywhere.
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Maple Leaf Moments
$19.95A fun collection of the one hundred most memorable, unlikely, unheard-of, and scandalous stories in the first century of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ history. Written by one of hockey’s greatest encyclopedic anecodotalists, Bob Duff ‘s new book is essential reading for every Maple Leaf fan, and hockey fans in general.