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Singing Bone
$12.95Singing Bone strides across the boundaries of conventional cosmology to bring us a truly original vision of our world. Bitney takes us back through the genealogy of the imagination, revisiting and revising the ancient fireside legends of the human race in poems that explore the nature of creationthe space between sleep and dreaming, the music and geometry of the physical world, the spirit that never ceases to move us to sing as we tumble through time.
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Singing Me Home
$18.95Singing Me Home is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems which take the reader through an autobiographical journey and which feature facets of self as memoirist, teacher, musician, daughter of survivors of the Shoah. The poet aims in this collection to honour the gift of language she can channel, the way she would a resonant musical phrase she sings or writes. The poems situate the poet in different locales where she discovered that poetic potential, as Frost once said, can indeed lie in the randomness of events. And she hears an evolving female voice in the poetry, recognizes how her identity is intrinsically linked to her past, and how she has reconstructed that identity as an adaptive and constructive tool.
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Singing the Flowers Open
$14.95Singing the Flowers Open is Cooper’s tenth volume of poetry. Ranging from spare lyrics to translations from Lin Chu, this new collection confirms Cooper’s gift for language and his eye for natural detail. This is a graceful collection from a gifted craftsman.
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Singular Plurals
$20.00In Singular Plurals, Roland Prevost presents us with fictive — often surreal — images encapsulated in text that is layered in meaning, playful with language and polyphonous in tone. The poems explore the irregular spaces and tangential lines that separate and connect us, sometimes by gazing from a great distance, then zooming in for the close-up shot. A winner of the John Newlove Poetry Award and self-described explorer of here/now’s edge, Singular Plurals is his first full-length book of poetry.
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Sinkhole (or six ways to disappear)
$18.95“The more you take away, the bigger I become.”
As a stifling heat wave descends upon the city, a mischievous sinkhole cracks open in the back courtyard of an apartment building and fourteen-year-old Benita is the only one who seems alarmed; her other neighbours are too busy with problems of their own. DJ has to work a second job, Mabs can’t get her laundry to dry, Pete is trying to retire, and Roo is definitely hiding something. But as the sinkhole starts expanding and making mysterious noises, it becomes a problem too large to ignore.
A magical urban fairy tale woven through the lives of intergenerational community members, Adjani Poirier’s Sinkhole (or six ways to disappear) is an evocative coming-of-age story that delves deep into the human subconscious, the fear of disappearing, and the vitality of a vibrant working-class neighbourhood.
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Sinner’s Banquet
$23.95Miriam Toews meets the Cohen Brothers in this raucous “Mennonoir”, a spontaneous outburst of violence and wit. Set in a Mennonite town where surface piety and strict purity codes mask a criminal underworld both organized and petty, Luke Falk must navigate the complex world of shunning, outcasts, and crime as he returns home to the religious enclave of his upbringing. As tension builds, who can say what will happen next.
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Sins of the Daughter
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sinuous
$17.00Through the mind’s eye Lydia Kwa charts the path of the stranger in a new land, the immigrant seeking escape, and transformation from the suffering of the past. Sinuous is a journey toward self-realization and acknowledgest that through the fiery trials of life it is possible to find renewed strength and purpose for the future.
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Sir John’s Table
$19.95Winner, Taste Canada Gold Medal for Culinary Narrative
Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birth, Sir John’s Table is a refreshing look at Canada’s first prime minister.
Sir John’s Table traverses the colourful life of Macdonald, from his passage as a young Scottish boy in the steerage compartment aboard the Earl of Buckinghamshire to his new home in Kingston, Upper Canada. It traces his boyhood years of stealing fish and scarfing down fairy cakes into his adult life as a lawyer, husband, father, and eventual leader of the newly founded dominion of Canada. It was a journey that began with hardtack and suspicious-looking, watered-down stew amidst appallingly unsanitary conditions and culminated in grand dinners held in Macdonald’s honour.
In a breezy and engaging style, author Lindy Mechefske traces Macdonald’s life through some of the common foods of the day, from mutton, quince, and gooseberries to hare, cow heel, and ox cheek. Along the way, she reveals how to concoct the fried oysters served at the Charlottetown Conference and how a roast duck dinner saved the dominion.
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Siren Tattoo
$10.95An often challenging, sometimes harsh book of disparate poetic images, this triptych travels the full arc through desire, lust, loss, memory, anger, discovery, and celebration. From the distinctly urban to the emotionally uncompromising, these three women express, each in her own voice, a cry, a laugh, a scream-the hybrid of which culminates in the call for imprint: ‘A Siren Tattoo’.
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Sisterhood of the Squared Circle
$24.95A behind-the-scenes look at over a century of female wrestling, with profiles and photos, documenting the rise of women’s wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event“Sisterhood of the Squared Circle is absolutely a must read for most fans . . .” Wrestle Book ReviewFrom the carnival circuit of the late 1800s to today’s main events, this book offers a look at the business of women’s wrestling with its backstage politics, real-life grudges, and incredible personalities. With more than one hundred profiles, you’ll learn about the careers of many well-known trailblazers and stars of today, including Mildred Burke, the Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young, Penny Banner, Wendi Richter, Trish Stratus, Chyna, Lita, Charlotte, Sasha Banks, and Bayley.With rare photographs and an exploration of women’s wrestling worldwide — including chapters on Japan, Mexico, England, and Australia — Sisterhood of the Squared Circle is a priceless contribution to the history of professional wrestling.
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Sistering
$19.95The second novel by award-winning novelist Jennifer Quist is a black comedy of birth, death, love, marriage, mothers-in-law–and five sassy sisters. When Suzanne’s role as the perfect daughter-in-law ends in a deadly accident, she panics, makes a monumentally bad decision, and upends her world. The bond with her sisters is the strongest force Suzanne knows, and it may be the one that can keep her from ruin. Quist’s new novel is a hilarious, spine-chilling, satisfying, and original. A romp.
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Sisters
$16.95Sisters is a tough, uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. While the play chronicles in graphic detail the by now well documented agenda of cultural genocide which motivated the establishment of Native residential schools in Canada, the daring triumph of this play is that it reveals the far less well documented cultural infrastructure and values of the society which created those schools—the church and the state of white, colonial, paternalist Canada.
Cast of 4 women and 2 men.
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Sisters of Grass
$18.95In her vibrant first novel, Sisters of Grass, Theresa Kishkan weaves a tapestry of the senses through the touchstones of a young woman’s life. Anna is preparing an exhibit of textiles reflecting life in central British Columbia a century ago. In a forgotten corner of a museum, she discovers a dusty cardboard box containing the century-old personal effects of a Nicola valley woman. Fascinated by the artifacts, she reconstructs the story of their owner, Margaret Stuart. Margaret, the daughter of a Native mother and a Scottish-American father, she tries to fit into both worlds. She’s taught photography by a visiting Columbia University anthropology student that she falls in love with.
With strong, poetic language, Kishkan makes the past reverberate through the present in a richly patterned work celebrating the complexities and joys of life and the sustaining connections of family.
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Sisters of the Spruce
$26.00World War One is in high gear. Fourteen-year-old Khya Terada moves with her family to a remote, misty inlet on Haida Gwaii, then the Queen Charlotte Islands, in northern British Columbia, known for its Sitka spruces. The Canadian government has passed an act to expedite logging of these majestic trees, desperately needed for the Allies’ aircrafts in Europe. At a camp on the inlet, Khya’s father, Sannosuke—a talented, daring logger with twenty years of experience since immigrating from Japan—assumes a position of leadership among the Japanese and Chinese workers.
But the arrival of a group of white loggers, eager to assert their authority, throws off balance the precarious life that Khya and her family have begun to establish. When a quarrel between Sannosuke and a white man known as “the Captain” escalates, leading to the betrayal of her older sister, Izzy, and humiliation for the family, Khya embarks on a perilous journey with her one friend—a half-Chinese sex worker, on the lam for her own reasons—to track down the man and force him to take responsibility. Yet nothing in the forest is as it appears. Can they save Izzy from ruination and find justice without condemning her to a life of danger, or exposing themselves to the violence of an angry, power-hungry man?
Drawing on inspiration from her ancestors’ stories and experiences, Shimotakahara weaves an entrancing tale of female adventure, friendship, and survival.
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Sisu’s Winter War
$22.95When memories threaten to disappear, past promises must be confronted.
Meri Saari made a promise to her dying mother she would keep the family together, but she was too young to know how a war can pull people apart. As a teenager responsible for her siblings she finds herself following her father to the front lines during the Winter War when he goes missing in action. Forty years later, living in northern Ontario, Meri’s past and present collide when she is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. Responsible for her granddaughter, and navigating a strained relationship with her daughter Linnea, Meri is haunted by the people of her past and by the promises she failed to keep. As she struggles against her inevitable decline, she knows her losses are amassing: her home, her health, and her memories. Meri embarks on one last journey in search of the man she had to give up, and before it’s too late. Before everything disappears.