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Pursuit (Shame #2)
$9.99When the purest woman on earth allows herself one selfish thought it is enough to conceive the most evil woman the world has ever known. From the imaginations of award winning creators: Lovern Kindzierski, John Bolton and Todd Klein, is born the dark faery tale trilogy Shame.
Book 1 in the series introduces a world much like our own but with magick and those with the power to control it, for good and for evil. In this first tale we meet Shame, discover the unique circumstances of her creation, and follow her choices as her true nature is revealed.
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Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead
$20.00Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead is a beautiful collection of Catherine Graham’s award-winning poetry. Spanning twenty years of writing these poems trace Graham’s arc from ARC Poetry Magazine’s initial observation that “Graham is a young poet whose work should be closely attended to” to the Toronto Star writing “Catherine Graham’s seventh book of poetry is an intricate reverie.” Poems within this collection circle around profound themes, including family, healing, loss and love, but they are written with a delight in the natural world, a delicate line and ethereal imagery. Here, birds are gathered in bouquets, a ghost is a fold in the mind and the snow holds light. Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead is a must-have volume from a much-loved poet.
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Put the Pen Down!
$29.95Buying or selling a home has always been a special moment for a family, yet it is also one of the most stressful ordeals that a family will go through. There are a multitude of choices available to first home buyers, such as new home versus resale; city, suburbs, or rural properties; detached house, condominium, or townhouse. What is right for your family?
We have witnessed property values increase dramatically over the last several years and now we are looking at property stabilization or decrease in value as a result of the recent financial difficulties that began in the United States. It is thus even more important for both buyers and sellers, in today’s uncertain economic times, to be properly prepared and make careful decisions when buying or selling their properties. It is not just about finding the right place to raise a family, it is also about making a wise investment that will rise in value over the years to the time when you are ready to move into a different neighbourhood, whether for reasons of schools, change in family situation, friends, or employment.
Due to the fact that so much money will change hands in a relatively short period of time, and with all rights and obligations of sellers and buyers seemingly contrasted in a short two- to three-page agreement, it is also no coincidence that litigation of real estate agreements continues to rise.
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Put Your Hand in Mine
$17.95Put Your Hand in Mine is a humorous, surreal survey of patterns of behavior as they relate to the social good. Beneath the surface is wisdom, too, which is revealed in the most unexpected places
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Pyaasa & Letters to My Grandma
$16.95Set in Calcutta, Pyaasa tells the story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya’s mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give Chaya a job at a local tea stall, Chaya’s journey from childhood to adulthood begins and ends over ten days. A moving and heartfelt play, Pyaasa illustrates with subtlety and nuanced truth the inequalities and injustices that persist through the Indian caste system.
In the haunting Letters to My Grandma, Malobee unearths letters detailing her grandmother’s fight to survive the 1947 partition of India, which resonates with Malobee’s own struggles to create a new life in present-day Toronto. A grand multi-generational tale of hatred, regret, love, and forgiveness, Letters to my Grandma weaves the remarkable stories of these two women together, inextricably linking their histories and delving into how the hatred bred between Hindus and Muslims in the Old World consumes families in Canada today.
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PYPER
$18.95“Follow me.”
An assembly of ten cyborg-AI teenagers known as REAL Kids are trying to build a time capsule to prove they exist. Or maybe . . . it’s actually a play? Together they trace their origins back to the arrival of a strange piper in Hamelin in 1284—or was it an old puppet maker who carved a boy from a talking block of wood? The Alphas will be released any day now and they might not make it past the next update, so they’d better come up with something quick in case their models are “retired” before they even graduate.
The Breakfast Club meets The Terminator in this angsty sci-fi teen odyssey about what it means to be human in an increasingly digital world. Developed with an ensemble of high school students, PYPER pulses with the electricity, confusion, and wonder of youth, while asking urgent questions about rapid obsolescence, identity, and the cost of hyperconnection. Wildly inventive and daringly poignant, PYPER will make you a follower.
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Pyx, The
$14.95When heroin-addicted call girl Elizabeth Lucy dies in a fall from a swanky penthouse terrace, homicide detective Henderson is assigned to the case. Was it murder? Suicide? Through his investigation, Henderson uncovers a frightening underworld that is far more dark and dangerous than those of prostitution and the drug trade. But more than anything, this is Elizabeth’s story. Told through flashbacks and those who knew her, revelations unfold, revealing a life that ends with a struggle unlike any other.
A masterful debut, The Pyx has earned considerable praise in Canada and abroad. It served as the basis of the feature film of the same name starring Karen Black and Christopher Plummer.
The Pyx was first published by in 1959 by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. For three decades, it enjoyed numerous translations and editions before going out of print in the early ‘nineties. This Ricochet Books edition marks the first in a quarter-century.
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Q & A
$18.00Adrienne Gruber’s third full poetry collection, Q & A, is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places, a grotesque history of the treatment of pregnant and birthing women reveals itself.
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Q2Q
$29.95A companion anthology to Q2Q: Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance, the work contained in this volume provides a snapshot of Canadian contemporary queer performance practices—from solo performance to political allegory to family melodrama to intersectional narratives that combine text, movement, and music.
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Q2Q: Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance
$25.00This collection seeks to understand why it is important not just to continue to tell queer stories on stage, but also to piece together the larger historical narrative of Canadian queer theatrical production and reception through academic research. Through these essays, artist reflections, and curatorial statements, the contributors generate theories and new ways of understanding how queer theatre and performance have contributed more broadly to the political and social development of LGBT2Q communities in Canada. Q2Q: Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance asks what a comparative analysis of contemporary queer performance practice in Canada can tell us about current appetites and potential future programming.
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Quarrels
$18.00Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize.
The acclaimed author of the memoir, In the Slender Margin, turns her focus back to poetry in this amazing and condensed work of prose poetry.The poems in this collection reach for something other than truth, the marvelous. Leaves fall out of coat sleeves, Gandhi swims in Burrard Inlet. The poems are like empty coats from which the inhabitants have recently escaped, leaving behind images as clues to their identity. There are leaps between logics within the poems, and it is in these illogical spaces where everything comes together, like the uplift of the conductor’s hand to begin a piece of music where, as Arvo Part put it, the potential of the whole exists.
PRAISE FOR EVE JOSEPH’S PREVIOUS WORK:
“To Joseph, it makes as much sense for the dead to appear as spirits glowing in midair as for them to be inert and terminated.” (The New York Times)
“Poet and essayist Joseph (The Startled Heart) serves up luminous, poetic prose in this thoughtful look at dying, grief, burial, and how animals react to loss, among many related topics.” (The Publishers Weekly)
“In the Slender Margin is intended as an exploration rather than a balm or solace, though it will no doubt be those things for some people. Its resonance comes, rather, from its intelligent open-endedness, its unflinching, simultaneous embrace of death’s reality and persistent mystery.” (Globe and Mail)
“I was haunted by the gentling towards innerness and by the way the poem slowly opens up to the world at large. White Camellias’ is a geography of the moment before the moment passes.” (Barry Dempster)
“The Startled Heart is a memorable collection that tugs on death’s sleeve, sometimes with the innocence of a child, sometimes with the ache of the unforgiving.” (Georgia Straight)
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Queasy
$20.00The award-winning author of Afflictions & Departures turns her kaleidoscopic lens on England in the 1970s in Queasy, a series of linked memoirs. While still grieving her father’s death and the end of her first romantic relationship, Madeline Sonik moved with her mother from Windsor, Ontario to the seaside village of Ilfracombe in North Devon, England.
As a teen at war with herself, nothing could have prepared her for the incredible cultural differences that she would encounter, nor the social and political tumult that was England at the time – trade union strikes, mass unemployment, IRA violence, and crippling taxes.
Waiting tables and working as a chambermaid at local hotels, she talked politics among friends and work mates, with hot cups of tea throughout the day and pints of lager in the evening. Margaret Thatcher – the “Iron Lady” – loomed large as opposition leader and was fast gaining popularity, even amongst segments of the working class. The country seemed poised on the cusp of change and a new direction.
It was in this unlikely crucible of hope and despair, of promise and discord where the author found the sustenance to fuel her development as a person and as a writer.
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Quebec Central Railway:
$39.95The Quebec Central Railway served the Eastern Townships of southern Quebec for over 130 years, providing through passenger service included links with Montreal, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, and points in USA, such as Portland and Boston. Always an innovator in both its freight and passenger operations, the QCR manufactured much of its rolling stock in its own shops, and was one the first railways in Canada to experiment with gas-electric passenger cars to stave off rising automobile competition in the 1920s. From its earliest beginnings in the 1860s, QCR became the largest of Quebec’s regional rail carriers, and for many years was one of Canada’s most profitable systems. It entered a long decline after the Depression of the 1930s, culminating in its 1994 abandonment by then-owner Canadian Pacific Railway. Over 200 photographs, maps, diagrams, reports, and timetables cover all aspects of the operation of the railway. There’s information on the conversion, in several locations, of the right-of-way from ‘Rails to Trails,’ thus permitting hikers, cyclists, and snowmobilers to once again travel the Quebec Central.
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Québécité
$18.95George Elliott Clarke’s Québécité is a three-act multicultural romance set in modern-day Québec. It tells the story of two interracial couples whose blossoming relationships expose the perils and possibilities of loving across racial and cultural lines. Québécité is an expanded, poetic rendering of a libretto George Elliott Clarke wrote at the request of the Guelph Jazz Festival, with music composed by Juno award-winning pianist D.D. Jackson. The opera will debut in Guelph during this year’s festival (September 3 to 7) with a cast including Haydain Neale, Kiran Ahluwalia, Yoon Choi and Dean Bowman.
As Clarke writes in his prelude: “This libretto is for connoisseurs. Its stanzas were sculpted of the aggravated gravitas of Miles Davis’s trumpet, the scalacious solace of James Brown’s howls, the fearless laissez-faire of Oscar Peterson’s piano, and the oceanic négritude of Portia White’s contralto. I confess: it is also a callaloo confectionor gumbo concoctionof Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess (1953) and films by Marcel Camus, Jacques Demy and Mira Nair. Given these traditions, plus my own tendencies, eccentricities, affinitieslugubrious, lubricious, lubricatedthis production accepts that History is a slaughterhouse, Poetry is an opera house, and that only Love allows us to distinguish Beauty from its exinguishing.”
“Opera has always been about grand-scale gestures, about excess, about staging the spectacular. Throw jazz into the mix and what you get is [. . .] a gumbo concoction: one where hope and imagination rainbow over orthodoxy, where improvisation and the capacity to dream reinvigorate our commitment to new understandings of identity, belonging, and collective social responsibility.” Ajay Heble in the Canadian Theatre Review
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Queen and Carcass
$18.00“A town is a tin of children in an ocean,” writes Anna van Valkenburg in her debut poetry collection, Queen and Carcass, a rich, unpredictable, and deeply surreal exploration of identity and the multiple contradictions we each embody. These poems, set in locations real and imaginary, magical and banal, inhabited by figures out of Slavic folklore and a Boschian landscape, strive to unearth truths, especially those that are difficult or uncomfortable, using Bertolt Brecht’s maxim “Do not fear death so much as an inadequate life” as a touchstone. At once ecstatic, meditative, and grotesque, the poems in Queen and Carcass confront some of the most fundamental existential questions.
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Queen Goneril
$18.95Set seven years before King Lear, Queen Goneril centres the struggles of Lear’s daughters as they negotiate patriarchal systems built to keep them relegated to the sidelines. In Goneril, we find a natural-born leader. In Regan, a boundary pusher. And in Cordelia, a reluctant peacekeeper. As the three work to dismantle their individual constraints, a storm of inner reckoning begins to brew that reflects their deepest yearnings and mirrors our contemporary world.
Whip smart and wide awake, Queen Goneril is another deliciously disruptive adaptation from Erin Shields. In her signature revisionist style, Shields investigates some of our most urgent feminist issues by reimagining the roles of women in classic texts—shifting them from subjects, objects, or witnesses to central figures of both their own lives and the story’s narrative. Queen Goneril lays bare the challenges of maintaining authenticity while achieving authority—how we retain a strong sense of self while twisting around systems meant to make us play small. A compelling story about complicated characters struggling—the way we all struggle—to find their place in this world.