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Matadora
$21.95Set in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s, Matadora tells the story of Luna Caballero Garcia, an impoverished and intrepid servant attempting to make her name in the bullring at a time when it was illegal for a girl to do so. Matadora carries readers from bohemian artistic circles in Mexico City and Andalusia to Norman Bethune’s mobile blood transfusions on the Madrid front.
Against a backdrop of rising fascism and the Spanish Civil War, Elizabeth Ruth has created a powerful and compelling exploration of love, art, and politics, and an intelligent mirror for our times.
Boldly sensual, with a cast of unforgettable characters and a plot that will keep readers on the edge of their seats, Matadora is easily one of the most original books of the year.
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Matanzas
$18.95His psyche still reeling from having to kill a criminal in the line of duty, Calgary’s Detective Lane flies to Cuba to celebrate the wedding of his beloved niece. While there, though, he finds himself drafted by the local police into investigating the murder of a Canadian tourist.
Upon his return to Calgary, links between this incident and the deaths of local elderly pensioners start to make themselves known, drawing Lane and his partner Nigel Li further into a web of conspiracy, politics and big money.
Garry Ryan’s award-winning, best-selling mystery series continues with all the intrigue, good humour and mochaccinos that fans have come to expect.
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Match
$17.95Finalist for the 2012 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Robert Brand has given up on real women. Relationships just haven’t ever worked out well for him. He has, however, found a (somewhat problematic) solution, a new feminine ideal: the 110-pound sex doll he ordered over the internet.
Showing an uncanny access to the voice of the rejected, unimpressive, emotionally challenged modern male, Helen Guri’s debut collection explores Robert’s transition from lost and lonely to loved, if only by the increasingly acrobatic voices in his mind. Match‘s touching, whip-smart poems chart the limits of the mind/body relationship in decidedly virtual times. Does our hero’s lovesick, wry, self-searching and often self-annihilating gaze signal some catastrophic aversion to depth or a feverish (if unsettling) reassertion of the romantic impulse? Can anything good really happen when the object of one’s affection is, literally, an object? And if she looks like a human being, can you ever know for sure she isn’t one? Equal parts love story, social parody and radiant display of lyrical gymnastics, Match announces the arrival of a daring, forthright and stubbornly original new talent.
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Matérialité et perception dans l’art contemporain des provinces atlantiques
$19.95Matérialité et perception dans l’art contemporain des provinces atlantiques présente une quarantaine d’œuvres contemporaines réalisées par des artistes canadiens renommés de la région, notamment Freeman Patterson, Gerald Beaulieu, Dawn MacNutt et Alan Syliboy, mais aussi par des artistes émergents comme Emma Hassencahl-Perley, Ursula Johnson et Marie Fox. Leur pratique est ancrée dans des préoccupations actuelles : la fragilité des corps et du territoire, les interactions entre les humains et l’environnement, les relations entre les Autochtones et les colons ou encore les marqueurs identitaires internes et externes.
Les œuvres sélectionnées pour l’exposition et cette publication — bijoux, photographies, pagaies gravées ou installations vidéo — sont centrées sur la matérialité des objets eux-mêmes. Elles interpellent le spectateur et l’invitent à jeter un autre regard sur le contexte de leur création, à remettre en question ce qu’il voit et perçoit initialement.
L’essai de Tom Smart présente chaque œuvre dans son contexte, et traite du rôle du spectateur dans la création de sens et l’interprétation des objets d’art, tant individuellement qu’à titre d’éléments d’un ensemble global plus vaste.
Matérialité et perception dans l’art contemporain des provinces atlantiques accompagne l’exposition Marion McCain d’art de la région atlantique 2019 présentée à la Galerie d’art Beaverbrook.
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Materiality and Perception in Contemporary Atlantic Art
$19.95A fresh look at what is going on in the world of Atlantic Canadian art.
Materiality and Perception in Contemporary Atlantic Art showcases over forty contemporary works of art from Atlantic Canada, from established artists such as Freeman Patterson, Gerald Beaulieu, Dawn MacNutt, and Alan Syliboy to emerging artists such as Emma Hassencahl-Perley, Ursula Johnson, and Marie Fox. This is art engaged with contemporary conversations: the frailty of bodies and land, the interactions between people and environment, Indigenous – Settler relations, and the inner and outer markings of identity.
Focusing intently on the materiality of the objects themselves — from jewellery to photographs, from carved paddles to video installations — the works selected for this publication and the associated exhibition ask viewers to look again, challenging their initial perceptions about what they see and what they perceive about the context in which the work is made.
Tom Smart’s accompanying essay introduces each work and its context and discusses the role of the viewer in interpreting art objects and creating meaning, whether viewing works as discrete individual objects or as part of the larger, holistic whole.
Materiality and Perception in Contemporary Atlantic Art accompanies the 2019 Marion McCain Exhibition of Atlantic Art at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
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math for couples
$20.00In math for couples, we re-visit the past to discover our place in the contemporary world. A long-dead father watches his daughter work on her Mac, a woman converses with a photo of her young self. Adele Graf leads us on a journey that is rich and hopeful, evoking powerful nostalgia even if we’ve never been to the places described. When these poems release us back to our current lives, we feel restored to savour the warmth in a “glad red hat” and the love that arrives “still summer lush.”
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Matisse: The Only Blue
$20.00Matisse: The Only Blue interweaves scenes from the second half of artist Henri Matisse’s life in the south of France (1907-1954), with reflections on his artwork. The work explores: artistic creation and community, love and betrayal, landscape, home and exile, family, and war. It portrays an eclectic mix of artists, dancers, models, gallery owners, art patrons, friends and family members, struggling through the upheavals of the first half of Twentieth Century, culminating in the devastating realities of two world wars and the economic collapse wedged in between.
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Matronalia
$20.00A mother reveals a festering secret to her daughter after years of trying to conceal it. Since her daughter’s birth, she has been suffering from a disease that causes bizarre symptoms: sudden calcification, the growth and disintegration of extra ribs, coral splinters in the heart, unrelenting depression. As the mother examines the pathology of her disease, she offers her daughter fierce and harrowing advice on everything from sex to survival to love.
A mother is a recorder, a journal, an illimitable, constant aperture.
We are seers, voyeurs of the worst order.
Part ode, part prayer, and part manifesto, Matronalia interlaces ancestral legacies and personal tribulations to reveal what often remains unsaid from mother to daughter. The energy, intelligence and grace of the language and imagination is itself antidote to the dilemmas and shame they explore. Matronalia is, in essence, a confession that evolves into a love poem.
Go to art when you are lost, my darling.
Stand before something that breaks you.
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Matterhorn
$17.95Vibrant memoir with the author’s own paintings and images
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Mattress Makers
$20.95Shortlisted for the Guyana Prize, Best Overall Book of Poetry, 2023
Persaud’s new collection celebrates the music in the seemingly mundane. Imbued with a deeply philosophical consciousness, and the questioning spirit of the ancients, it engages in the pleasures of technology, while ever cognizant of its drawbacks in its assault on the personal. As always, with this poet, there is an Upanishadic, yogic, and quantum search for truth and the essence of reality–the ancient Indian concepts of multiplicity, multipresence, and simultaneous existences finding support in cutting-edge quantum physics. The poems therefore flip on themselves, move in a blink from place to place, from time to time, from existence to existence. They delve into ancestries and the movement and intertwining of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, cuisines, languages, loves and the passing of eras. Love and the exuberance in the world around–centered in the Florida land-(and sea-) scape–permeates this work.
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Maud Lewis
$40.00From black cats to iconic snowscapes, Maud Lewis paints our waking dreams.
One of Canada’s most beloved folk artists, Maud Lewis was famous in her lifetime for her brightly coloured and endearing paintings of rural Nova Scotia. Working from her tiny, road-side house in Marshalltown, she produced hundreds of small works that captured aspects of rapidly changing country life. Until now, the story of her difficult life has dominated the discussion of her art: her triumph over her physical disabilities and poverty, the harsh treatment she received at the hands of her family, and her alliance by chance with her husband Everett Lewis, who enabled her successful painting career over many decades.
This book, accompanied by an exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, will examine the aesthetic achievements of Maud Lewis’s paintings — her serial repetition of images and motifs and the dizzying variety that she brought to the problems of picture making. From her black cats and kittens, to her cart horses and oxen hauling logs, to her quayside scenes of ships in port and the Maritime landscape in all seasons, Maud Lewis made paintings that still delight in their optimism and buoyant vitality.
Featuring a comprehensive selection of paintings drawn from leading Maud Lewis collectors in Nova Scotia, Maud Lewis: Paintings for Sale offers a unique opportunity to experience the range and depth of her work.
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Mauve Desert
$19.95First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard’s classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writers alike.
This is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Desert, fifteen-year-old Mélanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother’s lover, Lorna, in their roadside Mauve Motel. In the second book, Maudes Laures reads Mauve Desert, becomes obsessed with it, and embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysterious author, characters and meaning. The third book – Mauve, the horizon – is Laures’s eventual translation of Mauve Desert. Like all good translations, it is both the same and revealingly different from the original.
Nicole Brossard’s writing is agile and inventive; from moment to moment gripping, exhilarating and erotic. Her language drifts and swells like sand dunes in a desert, cresting and accumulating into a landscape that shifts like wind and words; she translates the practice of translation, the pulse of desire.
‘With the appearance of Mauve Desert … Nicole Brossard reinforces her claim to be ranked among the few truly radical text-makers in North America.’
– The Toronto Star
‘In Mauve Desert, Nicole Brossard writes from the point of impact; from the collision between languages, between forms and ideas, between cultures and genders. Her effects too are the effects of collisions: brilliant sparks and white hot fragments, alarm and the possibility of danger, and a momentary light in which we glimpse the bizarrely distorted faces of strangers, which turn out after all to have been our own.’ – Margaret Atwood
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Max’s Folly
$20.00Max has been a freelance reporter dodging bullets in Latin America, a small-time newspaper editor who delights in infuriating his publisher and, finally, a flack for a communications company — the elephant’s graveyard for journalists. But none of this compares with the terrors of assisted living, so instead Max risks everything on something he’s kept secret until recently: his increasingly unreliable ability to travel in time. In turn laugh-out-loud and poignant, replete with dark humour, sarcasm, wise-cracking characters and satire, this debut novel is going to ring some bells and stir some pots.
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Maximillian’s Mistake
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Maxine
$19.95Imagine a new life. Maxine Carter suddenly finds herself searching for a fresh start—a way around her own gnawing fear of an untimely death and a wasted life. What she discovers is her neighbour’s nine-year-old son, Kyle. As Maxine becomes the boy’s constant companion and as Kyle deals with his parents’ increasing absence and with life as an outsider in a new city, he slowly manages to reinvent Maxine’s real and imaginative life. Smart, funny, and poignant, Claire Wilkshire’s impressive debut is a novel about overcoming personal fears in a world wracked by private loss and public anxiety, and about finding friendship in the most unlikely places.
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May Not Appear Exactly As Shown
$19.95To those who think they know him, Ryan Brassard appears to be your average guy — a guy with a 9 to 5 job who enjoys reading books, watching TV, dining out, and discussing politics and popular culture with his friends. However, your average guy doesn’t agree to watch his only sister commit suicide; he isn’t the secret proprietor of The Suicide Loft, a macabre, yet lucrative sanctuary for the suicidal-at-heart; he doesn’t treat his friends as though they were characters in a made-for-TV movie; and he isn’t obsessed with finding the right method to kill himself.
But this is the real Ryan Brassard.
And he’s far from average.
Fourteen months after watching the life drain out of his sister’s delicately sliced wrists, Ryan finds himself in Toronto, intent on using the city and some new friends to help him create the illusion he lives a normal life until deciding how he wants to die.As his obsession with suicide slowly devolves into a type of madness, making it increasingly difficult for him to trust his senses and maintain his façade of normalcy, Ryan discovers he’s not the only person keeping secrets, that each of his new friends also leads a double life.
Although the discovery catalyses intense bouts of revelation and remorse, Ryan is unable to begin his quest for restitution without first coming face to face with the disturbing realization that everything — and everyone — may not appear exactly as shown. Cronenberg meets Coupland in the exhilarating debut from this gifted new writer.