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Stephen Leacock
$15.95As the foremost literary humorist of his day, Stephen Leacock enjoyed a huge international success, and his comic works (especially Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town) still have the power to delight today’s readers. But Leacock was also a professor of political science and economics; he produced sixty-one works in various fields; he wrote more than ninety scholarly articles. In Stephen Leacock: The Sage of Orillia, James Doyle explores the life of this prominent and prolific writer.
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Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia, The
$21.95The Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia: A Mennonite Memoir invites the reader to embark on a journey that traces the paths of ancestral memory over the steppes of the Russian empire to the valleys of Canada’s Fraser River. Connie Braun’s narrative continues where Sandra Birdsell’s historical fiction Russlander has left off – back to the catastrophic events of twentieth-century Europe.
Braun intimately ushers us into the life of one extended Mennonite family, and in particular the life of her father and grandfather, living under the terror of Stalin, and later, under the military expansion of Hitler’s Nazi Lebensraum in the Ukraine. In the vein of Janice Kulyk Keefer’s memoir Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces, Braun gives voice to the narrative of dispossession.
In a memoir that is historically faithful to documents, letters, old photographs and personal testimony, Braun offers a lyrical second-generation witness to her family members and to all other Canadians who have suffered displacement in history’s disasters, and whose obscure stories must be told. In doing so, she honours the spirit of resilience embodied by the refugees who have created and transformed Canadian society.
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Stepping Out
$27.95The Paris of North America. So Montreal was known from the 1920s to the early 1950sa glamorous wide open city with a lively jazz and nightclub scene. In this pre-television era, people of all ages “stepped out” at night for fun and entertainment. They went to clubs to socialize, to see their favourite performers, to hear the latest music, to have dinner or enjoy a fancy cocktail, and especially to dance the night away. With rare photographs and memorabilia, Stepping Out captures the golden age of Montreal nightclubs between 1925 and 1955. Photographs of singers, dancers, and other entertainers capture the spirit that made Montreal swing after dark. Featuring * 70 archival images * Includes photographs of influential musicians and entertainers such as Oscar Peterson All materials are drawn from the Montreal jazz history collection in the Concordia University Archives. Nancy Marrelli is the Director of Archives at Concordia University, and is the author of Montreal Photo Album/Montréal: Un album de photos (Véhicule).
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Steveston
$16.95Ronsdale Press offers a new edition of Steveston, this much loved work by two of Canada’s finest poets and photographers. For this edition, Daphne Marlatt has written a new poem, never before published, to offer a postscript from 2001 on the original 1974 undertaking. At the publisher’s request, Robert Minden has returned to his photographic archive bringing 9 additional images of Steveston and New Denver to light.
In addition, Marlatt and Minden have rethought their decision to interleave poems and photos, and have, instead, created two separate but connected stories – poetry and pictures that evoke their own rhythms and then speak to each other of their connections. For the first time, Minden talks about their joint project of recreating Steveston, in verse and photos, as two overlapping but distinct “folios.”
For all the newness of this edition, Steveston retains its old magic: with Marlatt’s long lines recreating the ebb and flow of the Fraser River, the sense of the two artists outside the mainly Japanese-Canadian community, but also through their art evoking the multiple layers of community, the traces and erasures of presence. As Marlatt recalls, “There was something in Steveston which drew us, over and over again, and which our work attempted to enunciate – something under the backwater quiet, the river hum of comings and goings, the traffic of work, that was ‘shouting’ at us to tell it.”
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Sticking It Out
$26.95“A shattered-mirror insight into the bizarre world of hitting things with sticks.” — Neil Peart, bestselling author, lyricist and drummer for Rush
“By turns reflective and dramatic, poignant and hilarious, Sticking It Out offers an irresistible portrait of the artist as a young percussionist.” —San Francisco Chronicle
When Patti Niemi was ten years old, all the children in her school music class lined up to choose their instruments. Boy after boy chose drums, and girl after girl chose flute — that is, until it was Patti’s turn. From that point onward, Patti devoted her life to mastering the percussive arts. Cymbals, snare drum, marimba, timpani, chimes: she practiced them all, and in 1983, she entered Juilliard, the most prestigious music conservatory in in the world.
Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing New York City in the 1980s, Sticking It Out recounts Patti’s years mastering her craft and struggling to make it in a cutthroat race to a coveted job in an orchestra. Along the way, she has to compete with friends, face her own crippling anxiety, and confront the delicate, and sometimes perilous, balance of power between teachers and their students.
Bringing us inside a world that most of us never get to see, Patti’s vivid memoir is “an eye-opening tale of demanding teachers, grueling practice schedules, severe performance anxiety and bias against ‘girl drummers’ — a funny, poignant first-person account of the fierce commitment it takes to succeed in classical music” (San Jose Mercury News).
“One of the funniest-ever classical-music books . . . and certainly among the best written.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Sticks & Stones
$15.95The publication of Sticks & Stones, George Bowering’s first book of poems, has been one of Canada’s great literary mysteries for almost three decades. Rumoured to have been published by the Rattlesnake Press in 1962, yet only ever found in the darkened vaults of secretive bibliophiles in the form of imperfectly collated, incomplete press proofs, sans cover, several poems and original drawings by Gordon Payne, this book has remained hidden from public view while Bowering’s literary career blossomed. Here, for the first time, is the complete unabridged publication of Sticks & Stones, including all the poems, with the original drawings by Gordon Payne and the preface by Robert Creeley in place. Roy Miki, author of the definitive critical bibliography of George Bowering, A Record of Writing, has provided an endnote which takes the reader through the literary detective work that resulted in the strange circumstance of the publication of this first edition. This first official publication of Sticks & Stones, 27 years after the fact, is a celebration of a writer at the height of his career, and a tribute to the enduring quality of his work.
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Sticks and Stones
$14.95The University of Alberta’s English Department is caught up in a maelstrom of poison-pen letters, graffiti and misogyny. Miranda Craig seems to be both target and investigator, wreaking havoc on her new-found relationship with one of Edmonton’s finest. “Janice MacDonald’s intelligence and insight into human behaviour make her one of the most promising new writers on the Canadian mystery scene.”– Gail Bowen”Spellbinding … Janice MacDonald populates academe with real characters and puts the humanity back in the Humanities.”–W.P. Kinsella
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Stifling Folds of Love
$18.95When a former school teacher`s wealthy ex-lovers begin dying of apparent heart attacks, Commissaire Claude Néon begins an investigation. Although she warns, advises, and tries to help, Inspector Aliette Nouvelle cannot prevent her commissaire from falling into trouble Â? first as a suspect, then a likely next victim, finally as a pawn to bring a resolution.
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Stigmata
$19.95Stigmata is about bodies caught in the crosscurrents of sexual deviancy and religion. Its poems are ruinous encounters between traumatic and historical memory; they transfigure the cult of the wound into a mystic frenzy of sex, grief, and noise. Stigmata draws inspiration from a broad archive of texts and practices: apophatic theology, body horror, gardening, queer theory, classic films, poststructuralism, and bad sex. Together its poems form a counterhistory of the wound, an experiment in fractured memoir and misplaced anatomy that weaponizes the confessional mode, wrenching it from self-narration to approach a violence that breaks language and bodies apart. Taking a cue from New Narrative writing, Stigmata fuses the “high” to the “low” – the “sacred” of theory and theology to the “profane” of leaking and lust. The result is a treacherous adventure, helped along by a bitter sense of humour, to the limits of faith and body.
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still
$16.95still is about alienated interiority. It begins with a body, with materiality that slowly morphs, extends, spills, and oozes non-linearity. A self-withdrawn, hidden presence: silent inactivity, affective and extractive capitalism, surveillance and commodification of behaviour, non-participation, withdrawn complicity, non-subjectivity and refusing a gaze, paralysis in time of crisis, what non-doing does. still proposes an alternative to action, a way to un-be or to cease, a way to be the wrench in the cogs of the machine, a way to jam the signal by refusing receptivity. This book disclaims language, writes without writing, divests in itself, is non-living for unlife. This book begins and ends in emptiness.
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Still
$22.00Still is the story of Kayla, who lives and works on the streets of Kelowna, Canada, and of Little Zoe, a woman working in the sex trade who is missing. Set in a vibrant and diverse community of people living unhoused, the novel explores sex work, street life, the opioid crisis, what it means to survive, and what it means to find a home?especially in one?s self.
As Kayla?whose past is darker than she tells?searches for her missing friend, she also uncovers much about her own life. The novel delves into both the pain and resiliency of childhood, with flashbacks to Kayla’s past with horses and how she came to be on the streets. Kayla also becomes friends with an outreach volunteer struggling with postpartum depression, alcohol abuse, and bipolar?yet who yearns to rekindle her passion for photography and share it with Kayla.
The book considers what home means, how picture-perfect lives are not always what they seem, how different forms of community are possible, and how we can tell the stories that are ourselves. It asks what it means to be missing and what we can?and cannot?go back to. Ultimately, Still is a story of community, friendship, resilience, and hope.
?Evocative and unforgettable, Still holds a light up to the street life we so often neglect, showing us the people, their dreams, their challenges, and their humanity with compassion and hope. Yet it celebrates so much more, such as friendship and self-empowerment?The story is told with a vivid and poetic style that stays with you long after you put down the book.?? Munira Hussein, Africa Writing Prize shortlisted author of A Curve of Darkness, Unfit for Society, and Highland Cactus
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Still • Falling and The Code
$18.95Still • Falling and The Code explore contemporary social issues today’s teens face in their daily lives: anxiety and depression, the complexities of gender dynamics, and the challenges that arise when the lines between friendship and romance are blurred. A realistic, honest, and bitingly funny look at the difference between so-called teen angst and mental illness, Still • Falling (which includes an adaptation for a male actor) follows Nina as she tries to come to terms with what it means to struggle with anxiety, depression, and self-harm and to rise above them with as much strength, and as few scars, as possible.
In The Code, grade-eleven student Moira becomes a hero when she stages a school-wide protest after her school’s principal implements a dress code for school dances. But when the principal responds by cancelling the spring dance, Moira’s followers viciously turn on her. With humour and nuance, The Code challenges audiences to hold themselves accountable for their words and actions and consider what’s at stake when lines are crossed.
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Still Crying for Help
$24.95Still Crying for Help
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Still Hungry
$14.95Still Hungry, Alisa Gordaneer’s new collection of poetry, is a sumptuous read. A gracious host, the poet serves her readers poems with delectable titles like “Artichoke,” “Plum Jam,” “Ganache,” “Pollo Con Chili” and “Raspberry Pie,” but this is no poetic cookbook. Divided into four sections according to the basic sensations of taste — salty, sour, bitter and sweet — these poems are elegant meditations on how food so often shapes the crucial moments in our lives — moments of sexual intimacy, love, friendship, betrayal and rebirth. Still Hungry also addresses concerns about food production and distribution. In “Slaughterhouse” Gordaneer explores the treatment of the animals raised for meat. In “Market/Place (Detroit),” she writes about her journey to a desolate farmers’ market in Detroit in the midst of a snowstorm.
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Still Hunting
$19.95Picking up where his first memoir, Young Hunting, left off, Martin Hunter writes of his return to Toronto in the 1960s. He marries his teenage sweetheart, goes to work for the family paper company, fathers three children, and settles into a bourgeois lifestyle. But not for long.
His flamboyant brother-in-law moves in with his gay lover, and the Swinging Sixties arrive in Rosedale with wild parties. Hunter writes a play about Toronto’s changing social dynamic that’s considered racy but wins an award. The University of Toronto offers him a position as playwright-in-residence, and there he consorts with the likes of Robertson Davies and Marshall McLuhan.
Still Hunting takes readers on Hunter’s adventures in Europe and the Middle East, reveals his stories of working in the theatre, and shares tales of his spirited friends, colleagues, and loved ones. From Greek shipping tycoons to up-and-coming actors to the Maharaja of Jaipur and filmmaker James Ivory, this memoir of a life well lived is full of unforgettable characters — chief among them Martin Hunter.
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Still Laughing
$29.95The universal mark of good satire is still to make audiences laugh at the worst traits in human nature. Here, in his own words, is how Morris Panych updated these three great comedy classics from a century ago: The Government Inspector is peopled with the most duplicitous, under-handed and shifty characters ever to appear in literature; yet, they are funny. “I made the lead character Khlestakov and his companion Osip former members of an acting troupe, to open up the fourth wall of the theatre. Inspired by Gogol himself, who has the characters speak to the audience directly in the last scene, this is not really a post-modern indulgence, but part of a long theatrical tradition of direct audience address.
“There are certain literary subjects that hardly change over time; sex isn’t one of them. Take Viagra and cosmetic surgery, for example. These are fertile subjects for absurd comedy particular to our time. With Hotel Peccadillo, I wanted to play up, but also comment on the notion of hypocrisy as it relates to infidelity—the play was written a hundred years ago, without the hind-sight of Feydeau’s own death from syphilis. To that end, I made the author the landlord of his bordello—to include him in the farce, to heighten the irony.
“In changing Schnitzler’s The Amorous Adventures of Anatol from a 1902 Austrian play to a 2007 Canadian one, the most important decision I made was to have all the female characters played by one actress. Because of this, the audience becomes complicit in a casting trick: knowing that for Anatol, all women are the same. While it’s a truism that much as people appear to change throughout history, their essential human nature does not, in this play Anatol becomes the only victim of our elaborate theatrical illusion.”