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Some People’s Children
$22.95***2022 WRITERS’ ALLIANCE OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR FICTION AWARD: FINALIST***
***2021 THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD: SHORTLIST***
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***2020 THE MIRAMICHI READER‘S THE VERY BEST! FICTION AWARD: BRONZE***
***49TH SHELF EDITOR’S PICK***
Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically. But as she grows older, she learns that many people in her small, rural town believe her father is Cecil Jesso, the local drug dealer—a man both feared and ridiculed. Weaving through a maze of gossip, community, and the complications of family, Some People’s Children is a revealing and liberating novel about the way others look at us and the power of self-discovery.
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Some Unfinished Business
$24.95“Some Unfinished Business is a powerful, moving, and page-turning examination of loyalty, betrayal, retribution and ultimately, love, written by an acclaimed author at the height of his powers.”
— Gary Barwin, Governor General’s- and Giller-shortlisted author of Yiddish for Pirates and Nothing the Same, Everything HauntedIs love more compelling than justice? A wife pleads for love. Her husband longs for revenge.
Gripping and evocative, Some Unfinished Business tells the story of a young man who is determined to prevail through anti-Soviet resistance in occupied Lithuania, imprisonment in the Gulag, and the icy hands of bureaucracy that attempt to thwart his love for a woman with a mysterious past — all while chasing the back of the man who dared him to dream in the first place.
At fourteen, Martin Averka met a teacher from the city who inspired him to seek out the wide world beyond his small village of Lyn Lake. Years later, having lived under the tyranny of an autocratic system populated by cowards and bullies and seeking revenge, he breaks into the Pažaislis Monastery Asylum to confront face-to-face the man from his youth who betrayed his friends and colleagues a decade before.
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Someone Else
$16.95Lately Cathy, a middle-aged comedian, has found very little to laugh about. Everything seems either tragic or frustrating, especially her eighteen-year marriage to Peter, a doctor at a local community clinic. Their list of complaints about one another grows day by day, and their teenage daughter is rarely anything but a handful. Despite a once solid and happy marriage, the couple has hit a snag that even counselling can’t repair. While Cathy falls further into a creative slump, Peter starts to fall for April, a troubled young patient who helps him open up. The two are unrecognizable to each other and themselves, and as they navigate middle age they push each other further apart. Can they negotiate their changing relationship and learn to be comfortable with who they’ve become?
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Someone Like You
$18.95Isabelle and Kirsten have been ride-or-die besties since undergrad, particularly throughout Kirsten’s toxic situationship with her ex-SSB (Stupid Shitty Boyfriend). When Isabelle helps ghostwrite Kirsten’s dating-app messages to woo a better match, Kirsten gets first-date jitters and asks Isabelle to meet him instead. But as Isabelle becomes totally smitten with the charming prairie-boy heartthrob Harjit, her role as supportive wingwoman suddenly gets complicated. Like falling-for-your-best-friend’s-date complicated.
An ingenious millennial spin on Cyrano de Bergerac set in vibrant East Vancouver, Someone Like You delivers all the swoon-worthy joy of your favourite early-2000s rom-coms while unpacking fatphobia, racism, and desirability politics in today’s dating landscape. With acerbic wit and passionate prose of Shakespearean proportions, this heartfelt play is a love letter to anyone who’s ever been picked last to slow dance and a profound musing on what it means to be the main character of your own story.
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Someone Somewhere
$27.95In his debut story collection, Dana Mills writes with unsentimental clarity of contemporary rural life, of the roughneck world of back shifts and manual work, of dissolving prospects and of the overwhelming circumstances which one sometimes seems simply born to. Yet these stories are also shot through with the strange beauty and hope which such complicated entanglements with others and such conflicted relationships with the place we inhabit can engender.
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Something About the Animal
$19.95Something About the Animal
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Something Burned Along the Southern Border
$16.95The poems in Robert Earl Stewart’s debut collection, Something Burned Along the Southern Border, are both thoughtful and audacious. They have something to say about coyotes that go on a crime spree in the city, about how Detroit looks from across the river on a hazy day, about carnivorous insects holding clandestine bake sales, about a lonely man chopping a pineapple at dusk. They blur the line between the surreal and the everyday, reminding us that there is always something extraordinary in our ordinary lives, and if we can only learn to recognize it, we can revel in it.
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Something Drastic
$16.95Something Drastic is a first-rate comedy wrapped in a clever story starring eccentrics galore. When her boyfriend dumps her, Lenore writes long letters to him while her own life takes her on a roller coaster of emotions and events.
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Something Drastic: A Novel
$19.95Earl Qume’s poisoned mind has altered his reality and transformed his surroundings into omnipresent threats. After his wife kicks him out and he finds himself on the run from the law, he escapes the concrete confines of Toronto to find refuge in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. There he joins a group of travelers, led by a peculiar wilderness guide named Wolfgang Yellowbird, who takes them on a journey deep into the winter-scape of a massive and glorious wilderness. As Earl’s mind calms and his body begins to heal, astronomical forces pulverize the outside world. And with humanity being wiped out by the billions, Earl finds friendship, love and salvation. Sometimes it takes something drastic to reset the course.
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Something of Me
$19.95In this lively autobiography, popular historian Paul O’Neill looks back on his salad days in the 1940s and early 50s. O’Neill’s childhood in the small outport of Bay de Verde was filled with ‘outharbour delights’ while his star-struck teen years were spent in wartime St. John’s, a city he grew to love like no other. At nineteen O’Neill left Newfoundland to train as an actor in New York, after which he toured all over America as part of a professional troupe. From there, he went to England, scrambling to make a living on stage and screen and having the time of his life. At twenty-three, he returned to Canada’s newest province for a visit, but instead landed what turned out to be a lifelong job writing and producing television programs for CBC. This charming and enthusiastic memoir brings back the music, the movies and the mores of that era.
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Something That Helps
$24.95From acclaimed Norwegian writer Mona Høvring comes an intimate and stirring coming-of-age and sexual awakening story of a young woman following her own path to destruction and reconciliation.
Laura is in her late teens, living in a small coastal town in Western Norway, the summer before her final year of school. Haunted by the death of her mother by suicide, she has a strained relationship with her fisherman father and feels the absence of her brother and closest friend, both of whom have moved away. Equal parts lonely and bewildered, a lack of guidance has made her independent, determined, and vulnerable.
When Laura meets the older, more experienced Vivian Koller, the encounter sets in motion a series of events that will come to define her and her future. Crucial influences converge, pushing the simultaneously childish and adult protagonist into dark places—and eventually toward the start of a new life.
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Something To Hang On To
$12.95In Something to Hang On To awardwinning author Beverley Brenna constructs a diverse cast of quirky and honest young teens in tough times. In varied settings characters battle through adversity: a fear of heights, family violence, the physical cage of Down syndrome, ossifying muscular dystrophy, the artistic world of autism, and even a toe caught in the vacuum.
In these positive fictions, teens find ways to overcome their obstacles by capturing lasting resolutions from within. In Foil Butterflies a creative boy with a rare form of autism escapes to his tree house to write poetry and personify gum wrappers. Set in precolonial Canada, Gift of the Old Wives is a story about a young Cree girl with a unique gift, which allows her to predict an impending Blackfoot attack on her tribe. In Finding Your Voice an exceptional and unconditional friendship is made between an insular foster child and a girl immobilized by muscular dystrophy. In One of the Guys Brenna employs rare writing mechanics in a first person narration of a boogey boarding teen boy who finds solace in ocean waves.
By using effective problem solving to overcome the seemingly impossible, these characters become encouraging examples for all teens to look within for resolve and to reach out to others in need. The twelve stories that comprise Something to Hang On To vary in time, place, and voice offering pathos as well as zany humour, creating maximum appeal for their reading audience.
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Something to Madden the Moon
$8.95In Something to Madden the Moon, a child’s world surfaces in images drenched with the water of new life.
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Something, Not Nothing
$27.95Finalist, Will Eisner Award; Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction; Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes
A poignant and beautifully illustrated graphic memoir about love and loss and navigating a new life
In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt’s partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a rapid decline at the end of her life. About a month after Donimo’s death, Sarah began making comics again as a way to deal with her profound sense of grief and loss. The comics started as small sketches but quickly transformed into something totally unfamiliar to her. Abstract images, textures, poetic text, layers of watercolour, ink, and coloured pencil – for Sarah, the journey through grief was impossible to convey without bold formal experimentation. She spent two years creating these comics.
The result is Something, Not Nothing, an extraordinary book that delicately articulates the vagaries of grief and the sweet remembrances of enduring love. Moving and impressionistic, Something, Not Nothing shows that alongside grief, there is room for peace, joy, and new beginnings.
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Something’s Burning
$24.95Following on the heels of her critically acclaimed first collection Hot Town and Other Stories, an examination of relationships within communities continues in this new collection of short fiction, Something’s Burning. The twenty-first century speeds ahead with fast-changing ideas about culture and identity, and a new choir of voices are telling their long-suppressed stories. Outdated belief systems are challenged. Society norms and hierarchies crumble. But fresh ideas cause tension between generations, sexes, races and neighbours. The population is at odds about the revised script. Is it the end of misogyny, or the end of men? Is it the end of social injustice or the end of loyalty? Is it the end of discrimination or the end of common sense? Some characters in these stories are oblivious to social change. Some are committed to stopping it. Some are invested in promoting their agendas at all cost. The bumper stickers on pick up trucks in the Foodland parking lot warn you that conflict awaits in the cereal aisle. The spacious landscapes where these stories take place are big enough for many opinions, but small enough to fall back on nostalgic principles. They represent the spectrum of joy and loss, and the author’s enduring love for those who can find a balance between them.
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sometimes, forest
$19.95Set in the coastal temperate rainforest, the poems in sometimes, forest alternatively rail at and desire a beloved who is sometimes forest, sometimes lover, friend, mother, or the absent aspect the speaker yearns for in herself. The forest, though, continues foresting, existing as a space of its own, independent of the speaker’s wants or needs, simultaneously a place of refuge and a place of harm or mistake where bodies periodically appear and disappear. Returning day after day to the same woods, the speaker notices minute seasonal changes and considers her own internal changes, too.
Meanwhile, fires, heat domes, and landslides mirror the hormonal heat and biological surges compelling these urgent conversations. Considering how networks of lateral support mitigate and challenge hierarchical, individualistic structures, sometimes, forest develops a theory of hylofeminism (“hylo” from the Greek meaning “woods” or “forest matter”) that attends to a deep, communal connection with nature as a relational way of being with the self and the more-than-human world.