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New Canadian Kid/Invisible Kids
$15.95New Canadian Kid is the story of Nick, a young boy from an imaginary country called Homeland who moves to Canada with his family. There, he is forced to grapple with his fears of a new culture and language, as well as hostile classmates who taunt him for being different. One of Canada’s most widely produced plays for young audiences, it’s been performed around the world. Invisible Kids centres on a group of children from a variety of ethnic backgrounds whose own camaraderie fails to instruct them on how to deal with the very adult issues of immigration and institutionalized racism when the sister of one of the children is prevented from joining her family in Canada because of immigrant quotas.In both plays the spirit of youth prevails over differences in colour and culture, promoting the message that in the end, kids are all the same inside.
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New Canadian Realisms
$25.00New Essays in Canadian Theatre Volume 2: New Canadian Realisms gathers writing by celebrated scholars and artists from both Canada and the US in order to explore what this much-debated genre might be doing for political performance in Canada today. Topics range from Hollywood’s influence on the look and feel of the contemporary Canadian “real,” to the power and the pitfalls of a “realism of redress” in intercultural Canadian theatre, to the apparently oxymoronic notion of “devised” realism, to the complexities of Indigenous realism(s). Together, this book’s authors suggest that Canada’s theatrical realisms are, like so much else among us, fractious, multiple, difficult, yet rife with potential.
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New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays
$29.95New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays collects works of contemporary theatre, each of which may be defined as “realist” through both a crucial link to the past and a zest for re-tooling old definitions. Grounded by Gwen Pharis Ringwood’s pioneering Still Stands the House, the anthology also features Trey Anthony’s ‘da Kink in my hair, Tara Beagan’s Miss Julie: Sheh’mah, Madeleine Blais-Dahlem’s sTain, Hillar Liitoja’s The Last Supper, selections from the Impromptu Splendor series by National Theatre of the World, Theatre Replacement’s BioBoxes, and Zuppa Theatre’s Penny Dreadful, as well as a series of text-specific introductions and a resource page for students and researchers. Designed to be read alongside NECT Vol. 2 but just as provocative on its own, this collection will be an ideal teaching tool for a wide array of Canadian theatre courses.
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New Icelanders
$17.95Part history, part journey into memory and myth, The New Icelanders is a collage of photos and remembrances exploring a singular segment of the North American Icelandic community–a people who, in 1875, left their island of glaciers and volcanoes to settle the farms, cities and towns of the Canadian and American midwest, establishing the Republic of New Iceland on the shores of Lake Winnipeg.
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New Land Same Sky
$22.95The Sino-Indian war has ended. The Chinese community in Calcutta (Kolkata), feeling threatened and facing discrimination, begins to look for ways to emigrate. By the seventies they are flocking to Canada legally or otherwise. Wen-Lung, a young man in his twenties, goes away on a tourist visa to Toronto where he marries Megan, a white Canadian woman, in order to obtain his legal papers. He leaves behind his pregnant wife, Maylei and a two-year old son. When Maylei arrives in Toronto a few years later, the union is far from ideal because Wen-Lung is still attached to Megan. To complicate matters further, Maylei meets her former lover Keith, an Anglo-Indian. When Maylei returns to India to see her aging parents, she finds herself caught in the midst of a race riot.
A touching story of modern exile and immigration, of the pain of leaving and the joy of freedom, set in Tangra, the leather district of Calcutta, and in Toronto’s neighbourhoods.
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New Life in Dark Seas
$16.00A quarter of a century old and youthful still, Brick Books offers this selection, as inclusive as we could make it, of the writers we have published through the years. Most of these writers are poets, since Brick Books specializes in poetry, but we’re pleased to flavour the mix with other forms like the historical prose of Greg Curnoe’s Deeds/Abstracts and the terpsichorean prose of Michael Ondaatje in Elimination Dance/La danse éliminatoire. If we do say so ourselves, New Life From Dark Seas is much more than the souvenir of a significant anniversary. It’s a feast for passionate poetry readers like the editors, those who like to stretch within and across the genre — from P.K. Page’s strict-form Holograms, to Dennis Lee’s free jazz verse in Riffs, to Michael Kenyon’s prose-poem fiction, Rack of Lamb, to Phil Hall’s leaping “language” /work poems, to … this could go on. Let it go on, dear reader, in you.
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New Magic Valley Fun Town
$17.95From the acclaimed playwright behind A Beautiful View, The Best Brothers, and This is What Happens Next comes a moving portrait about what we choose to forget and how we decide to move on.
Cape Bretoner Dougie hasn’t seen his childhood best friend Allen in thirty years. Based on what can be seen on Facebook, things have changed, but Dougie has no doubt they’ll easily reconnect when Allen comes to visit. With the added flair of Dougie’s ex-wife Cheryl and daughter Sandy, the group spends a night reminiscing, drinking, and dancing. But as the party progresses, shadows from Dougie and Allen’s past come out to play, bringing along tough questions that have to be answered.
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New Motor Queen City
$19.95Super Octane Girls get down tonite! Coach House Books has unleashed the omnibus edition of Patricia Seaman’s New Motor Queen City on an unsuspecting world.
Previously printed as a limited edition series of chapbooks, all eight chapters of New Motor Queen City are now available in one volume: The Further Adventures of Elvis, HardOn RoadKillers, Requiem for Pussy, Calling Dr. Feelgood, Love Runaway, Nice Guy Seeks Special Lady, Currency for the Otherworld, and Attack of the God of Joy.
Take your hint from the second law of thermodynamics: Hot gets cold, but cool is forever, baby. Get into New Motor Queen City now.
‘Seaman juxtaposes the rhetoric of society with its crass, crude underbelly; the text is always surprising not in the least because of the shocking stitching of American cultural icons, crude language, … drug culture and promiscuous sex with hard-core feminist theory and writerly dilemmas.’
– Beehive Magazine
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New Tab
$19.95Set in Montreal, New Tab spans a year in the life of a twenty-six year old videogame designer as he attempts to reset his life, in the process chronicling with humor disillusion, boredom, self-destruction, Facebook chats, Concordia University, bilingualism, good parties, bad parties, a backyard cinema, social anxiety and running a possibly illegal DIY venue.
Written in a simple yet bold and astonishing style, New Tab is a profoundly intimate tale of self-reinvention and ambiguous relationships. A sharp, funny, modern novel from one of the most unique new writers in Canada.
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New Theatre
$17.95New Theatre stages a lively foray into spaces geographical and utopian that calls into question the process and nature of meaning. Steudel’s coolly cerebral ‘Birch’ sequence about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s later life muses on power and identity, but is balanced by an intimate autobiographical long poem that gives quieter, equally surprising shorter pieces room to spike and bloom in this assured debut.
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New Under the Sun
$21.00Needing a change, Shannon Carew takes a job in the National Parks system in Newfoundland and Labrador. The journey brings her life full circle, returning her to the birthplace she abandoned years before. As she makes new connections, and unearths old ones, Shannon learns the land holds many memories, stories of Maritime Archaic, the Vikings, the Basques, the Beothuk, and the Europeans who came after.
New Under the Sun is the work of a master storyteller.
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New-Fangled Rose
$22.00Finalist, Pamela Paige Porter Poetry Prize
Like a rose blooming out of season, the poems in Sue Sinclair’s newest collection are unexpected, unforgettably beautiful, and an unwavering gesture toward the slow emergency of climate crisis. With the lyrical brilliance and keen eye trained on beauty that’s characteristic of Sinclair, New-Fangled Rose reaches toward the light with reverent hands, photosynthesizing it into poems that are deft, musical, and unquestionably alive.
These poems cast a wide gaze over a fragile world, offering vibrant elegies to luna moths and crab apples, fireflies and trilliums. They examine what it is to build relationships in a world that feels increasingly precarious, like at any moment, something may end; like at any moment, something may begin.
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Newfoundland
$18.95Celebrated photographer Dennis Minty returns with another vivid collection of images that capture the spirit of his island home. With his knowledge of place and photographic vision, Minty reveals the island’s rugged majesty in every season of the year. Newfoundland: An Island Apart travels from the colourful streets of St. John’s to the vibrant communities “around the bay” — with some hidden gems in between — to present some of the most captivating and spectacular images of this extraordinary island in the North Atlantic.
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Newfoundland Knits for Little Ones
$29.95Inspired by an island culture, designed for children
Not long ago, knitwear made up a large proportion of daily wear Newfoundland and Labrador—including how we dressed children for the cold North Atlantic weather.
Newfoundland Knits for Little Ones is a tribute to that knitting tradition. Inspired by garments and styles of the past, these patterns take a modern approach to Newfoundland and Labrador knitting, creating beautiful and functional knits that today’s kids will love to wear. From cabled overalls to cozy sweaters, a whimsical pixie hat to a sweet eyelet dress, this collection is made for adventurous kids and busy days.
Each of the 15 patterns in this collection incorporates traditional elements in a contemporary style with the needs of babies, toddlers, and children at heart. Adult sizing is included for mittens, slippers, and hats, so the whole family can stay cute and cozy together.
This book includes:
- 15 detailed patterns with charts, written descriptions, proposed sizing, and suggested yarns.
- Upsizing mittens, slippers, and hats patterns for adults.
- 60 full-colour photos, including kids at play in their knitwear.
- Tips to keep in mind when knitting for babies and children.
- A special techniques section to ensure knitting success.
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NEWS
$24.95In this collection of short humourous essays originally written for the popular media, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Drew Hayden Taylor sends his readers fascinating and exotic postcards from his globetrotting adventures, always on the lookout for the NEWS about aboriginal peoples around the world. Organized around the thematics suggested by the four cardinal directions central to the Ojibwa peoples—East for beginnings and youth; South for journeys both physical and spiritual; West for maturity and responsibility; and North for contemplation and wisdom; these communiqués are sent not so much to instruct as they are to delight.
Never without a healthy dose of irony, humour and often unabashed laughter, these “postcards” offer their readers unexpected insights into the intense and often hilarious complexities of our new multicultural reality. Throughout his travels, Taylor has discovered that the four cardinal points are central to most First Nations’ teachings concerning the landscape and how to live on it to survive, build families and communities, create cultures and develop notions of spirituality and identity. This is not, however, a seamless or even necessarily recognizable paradigm from place to place throughout North America, and there is plenty of room for doubt, misunderstandings and unintentional social faux pas even among and between aboriginal peoples themselves. One of the great discoveries of this collection is that each of our First Nations boasts its own traditions—go a hundred miles in any direction and you are no longer on certain ground with respect to the meanings, attributes, even the colours definitive of these cardinal points of the social compass.
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News & Smoke
$17.95News & Smoke includes selections from all six of Thesen’s previous books (of which only Aurora remains in print); unpublished poems from the fifteen year period of the late 70s to the mid 90s; as well as some work previously published only in magazines. All of the work is imbued with a spare, meticulous rigour, creating lines of a clear, pale light, punctuated by bursts of intense, flowering, staining colour-“odd graces of beauty, in whatever form, that make things real again.”