A note to US-based customers: All Lit Up is pausing print orders to the USA until further notice. Read more
All Books
All Books in this Collection
Showing 4465–4480 of 9489 results
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Marcel Pronovost
$22.95Marcel Pronovost
-
Marcel Pursued by the Hounds
$16.95An extended tour de force with no act or scene breaks, Marcel Pursued by the Hounds examines how our “innocent” childhood games and fantasies can come back to haunt us in adult life, full of the dangers and realities that were invisible to us as children. An extended dialogue between the characters Marcel (one of the main characters in Tremblay’s novel The First Quarter of the Moon) and Thérèse (one of the main characters in the novel Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel), illuminated by a chorus of the fates, it is Michel Tremblay’s toughest, most uncompromising play to date.
Cast of 4 women and 1 adolescent male.
-
March End Prill
$18.00�prill, n.1 A spinning top. prill, n.2� A small stream of running water; a rill. �prill, n.3� A girl, a lass. prill, n.4 In mining: (a piece of) rich copper ore remaining after separation and removal of low-grade material; more fully prill ore. Also: (a droplet of) copper occurring suspended in the molten slag in the process of smelting copper ore. prill, v.1 intr. To flow, spurt. prill, v.2 App. a transmission error for rill thrill or prik, prike prick. prill, v.3 1. trans. Metall. To add high-grade ore to (an ore sample) during assaying, so as to give the impression that the ore being assayed is of a higher quality. Obs. rare. 2. trans. To produce pellets of (a substance, esp. ammonium nitrate or other fertilizer) by forming the molten substance into droplets and allowing them to solidify while falling. Thus, March End Prill is a songline periplum that charts a way through our S.A.D. Zeitgeist to a thawing of the sources of speech and song.
-
March Roars
$24.95March roars in and Charlotte Frayne, P.I., receives a letter requesting her services to prevent “a grave miscarriage of justice.”
The sender, Miss Olivia Brodie, is an elderly resident in the Toronto House of Industry (the Poor House) who claims she witnessed two men on a nearby street, behaving in a suspicious manner. After learning that two Black teenagers have been charged with burglary on that same street, she is convinced the men she saw are the true culprits.
Separately, Charlotte is hired by a Mrs. Emmeline Larkin, a woman from the opposite end of society’s hierarchy, who says she is missing some precious jewelry. She fears the thief may be a member of her own social circle, possibly from the influential women’s club to which she belongs.
Investigating what seems at first like disparate cases takes Charlotte back to events from Toronto’s history, and she discovers a time when there was, indeed, grave injustice.
-
Margaret Atwood
$18.95Margaret Atwood’s writing, according to Davey, reveals not only an extraordinary facility with language, but also a deep mistrust of it as something shaped by an instrumental and largely male culture. Her language directs its readers to a hidden level of itself – unspoken, symbolic, gestural – and away from denotative meaning. In discussions of her poetry, fiction, short stories, and criticism, Davey offers a ‘glossary’ of recurrent Atwood images and symbols that can open this hidden level in nearly all of her writing.
-
Margaret Avison and Her Works
$9.95This volume explores the life and works of Margaret Avison. These studies of Canadian authors fulfill a real need in the study of Canadian literature. Each monograph is a separately bound study that contains a biography of the author, a description of the tradition and milieu that influenced the author, a survey of the criticism on the author, a comprehensive essay on all the author’s key works, and a detailed bibliography of primary and secondary works.
-
Margaret Lives in the Basement
$19.00Michelle Berry has one of the most darkly playful and unique voices in Canadian literature and her second collection of short stories, Margaret Lives in the Basement is no exception. At its heart are characters full of longing, trapped by circumstance and unable to reach out or connect with one another. Whether it’s Margaret in the basement and her neighbours above, or two couples working out their family melodramas over dinner, there is always the presence of others but rarely a connection between them. By twists and turns Berry subverts what we know to be normal and arrives at something, though strange, more real than we like to admit.
-
Margin of Interest
$22.95The essays in Margin of Interest showcase the rich history of poetry in the Canadian Maritimes, recognizing the drawbacks of regional frameworks while finding power and beauty in the literary traditions of writers who exist on the margins of Canadian poetry and culture.
-
Marguerite on Fire
$19.95“I was an adult the first time I heard that slavery had existed in Quebec.”
In 1740 New France, a young Indigenous woman named Marguerite Duplessis became the first enslaved person to challenge her captivity in a courtroom. Her story is significant, but why has she been relegated to the footnotes of history?
In Marguerite On Fire, a chorus of Marguerites erupts like a blazing volcano, reclaiming a defiant legacy buried beneath centuries of colonial violence and collective amnesia. A breathtaking blend of chorus, dance, court procedural, and documentary theatre, Émilie Monnet reappropriates fragments from the archives into a searing act of remembrance, resistance, and regeneration.
Illuminating the enduring legacies of colonialism today, this radiant tribute honours a trailblazing activist whose fight for freedom refuses to be extinguished.
-
Marine Wildlife of the Gros Morne National Park Region
$32.95A fjord on the west coast of Newfoundland, Bonne Bay finds itself surrounded by the lands of Gros Morne National Park – a Unesco World Heritage Site. Drawing on years of research conducted at The Bonne Bay Marine Station, author Joseph Wroblewski offers a comprehensive guide to this important marine ecosystem. With vivid photos, helpful illustrations, and clear descriptions to assist in the identification and understanding of each species, Marine Wildlife of Bonne Bay is both a practical guide and a prescient call for environmental stewardship to protect this most valuable habitat and its resources.
-
Marinetti Dines with the High Command
$20.00Marinetti Dines with the High Command is a work that dramatizes the turbulent life and times of F. T. Marinetti, founder of Futurism, the first global art movement. Marinetti’s artistic career raises enduring questions about art and politics because of his association with Fascism, and the second part of my work is an essay which explores the implications of this association. What makes Marinetti unique is that it is the first work that assesses Marinetti’s life in the context of a command performance he gave for the German High Command in January of 1934 — and the spectacular conclusion to that performance.