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Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings
$25.00Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings is the second book in a series by renowned Ojibwe storyteller Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, following on The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories (2019). Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings is a collection of traditional Ojibwe/Anishinaabe stories transliterated directly from Murdoch’s oral storytelling. Part history, legend, and mythology, these are stories of tradition, magic and transformation, morality and object lessons, involving powerful spirit-beings in serpent form. The stories appear in both English and Anishinaabemowin, with translations by Patricia BigGeorge. Murdoch’s traditional-style Ojibwe artwork provides beautiful illustrations throughout.
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Service on the Skeena
$28.95The previously untold story of a remarkable British Columbian
His name was Horace Wrinch. It was 1880. He was 14 years old, a farmer’s boy from England travelling on his own to Quebec. Twenty years later, a qualified doctor and surgeon, he arrived in Hazelton on the Skeena River in northern British Columbia as a Canadian citizen. At this time the northern interior of the province had no qualified doctors, no surgeons and no hospitals. In 1904 Horace built the first hospital in the northern interior. Over the next thirty-six years he became widely respected as a doctor and surgeon, hospital administrator, medical missionary, Methodist minister, magistrate, farmer, community leader and progressive politician. Ever innovative, he instituted a form of health insurance for the Hazelton community as early as 1908. Upon his death in 1939, he was called “the most influential and best liked man that ever blessed this district with his presence.” -
Serving Elizabeth
$15.95Serving Elizabeth begins in Kenya in 1952, during the fateful royal visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. Mercy, a restaurant owner, is approached to cook for the royal couple. Though she could use the money, she is a staunch anti-monarchist. She vows to stick to her principles, but her daughter, Faith, keeps trying to convince her to take the job. In London in 2015, in the production offices of a series about Queen Elizabeth, a Kenyan-Canadian film student, Tia, serves as an intern on the project. It’s a perfect fit for her as she has been a fan of princesses her whole life. But when she reads the Kenya episode, she starts to understand that fairy tales and real life are very different things. Serving Elizabeth is a funny, fresh, and topical play about colonialism, monarchy, and who is serving whom — or what.
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Serving Life
$22.95The third Nurse Annie Linton/Det. Sgt. Gilles Bellechasse Mystery.
A mysterious doctor is wandering the halls of the Emergency Department of the Gursky Memorial Hospital, providing medication to patients suffering from dementia. Annie is suspicious of his motives and is determined to identify the man. Her search kicks into high gear when some of the dementia patients die unexpectedly. Gilles is assigned to investigate the murder of a doctor who is in charge of a research lab at the Gursky. A serial killer is stalking the streets of Montreal, killing people apparently at random. Gilles and Annie team up to uncover the clues that link all the crimes and ultimately to solve them.
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Setting Lake Sun, The
$14.95The Setting Lake Sun is the first appearance of Léveillé’s work in English, published simultaneously with the original French version, Le Soleil du lac qui se couche (Les Éditions du Blé)
The Setting Lake Sun, J.R. Léveillé’s first novel set in his native Manitoba, describes the unforgettable encounter of Angèle, an aspiring young Métis architect, with Ueno Takami, an older Japanese poet. The story begins when they meet at an art gallery in Winnipeg, a city surprisingly rich both physically, in its architecture, and culturally, with its mix of heritage and customs brought by people who have emigrated there from all over the world. From Winnipeg Angèle and Ueno head north through the wilds to Thompson. Narrated by Angèle, who is remembering her feelings of excitement, surprise and wonder at the discoveries inspired by the Japanese artist, The Setting Lake Sun is as much a love story as a spiritual journey, a celebration of life in all its incompleteness, imperfection, and impermanence.
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Seven Floors Down
$19.95Seven Floors Down follows the lives of Ryder and Kendall through bouts of homicide and homelessness, beginning when Ryder gets out of jail and crashes with his alcoholic friend who, on the verge of being evicted, remains infuriated with an ex-cop who owes him thousands. Kendall is a raconteur who entertains with countless stories, often while lying supine on the floor, and Ryder decides to help his friend recover his money. But then there’s an accidental killing and Ryder leaves Toronto on a bus for Vancouver where he lives in the downtown east side, goes through a job and a few women–including one with a crack habit–which of course ends badly. And then the police get involved.
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Seven Into Even
$16.95?Seven Into Even reworks Edmund Spenser’s ?The Faerie Queene? in counterpoint to the seven deadly sins, and brings these vast references through a mesh of contemporary settings and issues in a series of poetic installations. The number seven works as an organizing principle: the book struggles with narrative and its constraints, questioning the development of characters as a poetic device, and reflecting on itself as it builds.
?Seven Into Even? is prose poetry at light speed, intermingled with the luscious slowness of short line leaps. Its seven sections explore the geographical spaciousness and local landscapes of Canada. Jacqueline Turner walks her poems through the handful of streets that make up Vancouver’s Horseshoe Bay, to the Ship & Anchor in Calgary, and invites them to notice the way the sidewalks curve and cars stop for pedestrians — even if they’re jaywalking. Her characters are unsure and ambivalent — and yet confident enough to highlight the fallacies of knowledge, reality, and truth.
The scale of Turner’s project is both daunting and paradoxical. Like Spenser, she considers the differences between appearance and reality, probing them for resonance. She records the noises that emanate beyond the surface of things, building intensities through the thrill and push of language as it rushes across the page. By playfully mixing genres, this book undoes the distinction between high and low art with an exciting series of linguistic collisions.
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Seven Oaks Reader, The
$26.95Finalist for the Wildrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction at the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards!The long rivalry between the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company for control of the fur trade in Canada’s northwest came to an explosive climax on June 19th, 1816, at the so-called Battle of Seven Oaks. Armed buffalo hunters—Indigenous allies of the Nor-Westers—confronted armed colonists of the HBC’s Selkirk settlement near the forks of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in today’s Winnipeg. This “battle” would prove to be a formative event for Métis self-determination as well as laying down a legacy for settlers to come.The Seven Oaks Reader offers a comprehensive retelling of one of Canada’s most interesting historical periods, the Fur Trade Wars. As in the companion volume, The Frog Lake Reader, Kostash incorporates period accounts and journals, histories, memoirs, songs and fictional retellings, from a wide range of sources, offering readers an engaging and exciting way back into still-controversial historical events.
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Seven Stories About Tammy
$14.95“Seven Stories About Tammy by Elizabeth McCracken, paints a portrait of a complicated family with the concision of a short story and the depth of a novel, and makes it look easy.”—Celeste NgMorris Harkin brings his new girlfriend Tammy to meet his family. She is not at all who they expected. But who, really, is Tammy? Across seven vignettes, in Elizabeth McCracken’s witty and tender fashion, we see Tammy through the eyes of the Harkin family throughout the years, and a picture of an insecure and unhappy family emerges.
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Seventeen Odes
$3.95A collection of 17 Horatian odes, the beautifully crafted and eloquent chapbook Seventeen Odes testifies to Patrick White’s development as a poet.
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Seventy-Two Seasons
$22.95Finding profound moments in the natural world, M.A.C. Farrant offers an antidote to the distractions and pressures of modern life.
Inspired by the Japanese practice of celebrating one feature in nature every five days, creating seventy-two seasons instead of four, Farrant embarks on a yearlong mission to focuses her attention on the small spellbinding changes around her. With her signature humour, she skilfully blends observations, meditations, literary references, memoir, essay-ettes and arcane facts as she explores the natural world. From homely weeds to majestic trees and the animals that cross her path, Farrant shares her deep noticing of the changes of the seasons and along the way we learn with her how to slow down and experience the world with awe and wonder. -
Sewing Room, The
$15.95In The Sewing Room Carla Funk reveals deftly observed insights into childhood and time, matrimony and spirituality, representation and recollection.
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Sex Change and the City
$21.95Sex Change and the City features personal essays, critical analysis, comics, poetry, artwork, games, and steamy short stories by 45 fabulous LGBTQ+ contributors. This all-queer, mostly-trans anthology includes thoughtful meditations on the shame of secret relationships, the grief of losing a family member, the confusion of young adulthood, and the rage of middle age—as well as multiple pieces of Steve/Aidan slashfic, tales from a tense Sex and the City bus tour, and behind-the-scenes stories from an And Just Like That… production assistant. Plus: Mad Libs, M.A.S.H., AIM chat logs, a personality quiz, puppy girls, and something called “Mr. Big’s Phalloplasty Emporium.”
Published by Girl Dad Press and available in Canada from Metonymy Press.
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Sex in Russia
$18.95Sex in Russia is comprised of mostly new and a few award-winning stories that still resonate over the years. Adroitly combining accessibility and subtlety, understated wit and restrained emotion with a predilection for the slightly off-centred, the collection explores a range of human experiences locally and internationally. From a gifted student of science embarrassed by his parents, to a musician who loses his son to a different kind of music, to an old woman reluctant to leave her Chinese prison, Radu’s stories often begin with a seemingly minor detail or event and travel from there to the heart of disaffection, despair, hope, and unusual forms of recovery and understanding. Original in concept and challenging ordinary expectations, the stories maintain a firm hold on traditional narrative structures. Sex in Russia continues Radu’s venture into new territories of personal experience and emotional drama, maintaining an undercurrent of surprising, sometimes satirical humour throughout.
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Sex in the ’80s
$18.95“Context is everything.”
Eileen and Rudy haven’t seen each other since the 1980s, but now the high-profile architects are reunited in a glass-walled Toronto office tower on the eve of a high-stakes competition. Straining to keep things professional, they can’t seem to shake thorny questions from their shared sexual past—questions about consent, culpability, and brutalism. Before long, they spiral into a sparring match over what really happened, who should have known better, and who is truly to blame. All under the watchful eyes of their plucky twentysomething assistants who are navigating a sexy investigation of their own.
A salacious and whip-smart new comedy, Kate Hennig’s Sex in the ’80s playfully examines how time, context, and memory shape our perceptions of sexual ethics and past wrongdoings. Sparking a necessary exchange between generations, this witty workplace romp weighs in on how things change and how things stay the same.
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Sex Work Activism in Canada
$30.00Serving as a history as well as a rare and valuable reference, Sex Work Activism in Canadabrings together the narratives, histories, expertise, and teachings of sex work activists across the country. Through texts and testimonials from the grass-roots level it explores the past and present work of sex work activists and advocates in our own words.