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The Moosehead Anthology 6
$14.95The Moosehead Anthology 6
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The Moosehead Anthology 9
$15.95The Moosehead Anthology 9
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The Morelli Thing
$20.00The unsolved murder of Fred Morelli, in Utica, New York, in 1947, comes to the fore more than 60 years later when 15-year-old Angel, hacker extraordinaire, has his guitar smashed by Victor Bocca, one of the original suspects in the murder. Angel hacks files that may point not only to Bocca’s involvement but also that of the mob. From there, mayhem breaks loose as assassins descend on Utica to silence Angel. In the midst of it is Angel’s adoptive father, Eliot Conte, who, along with his close friend Police Chief Antonio Robinson, must try to unravel the mystery of what is going on before more killings take place, including that of Angel himself.
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The Most Cunning Heart
$18.95In the early 1990s, Caitlin Maharg, grieving the loss of her parents, leaves everything she knows in Canada for Northern Ireland to pursue her love of poetry while living in a cottage by the Irish Sea. Feeling like a child again in a distant land still affected by the Troubles, she is haunted by the secrets her parents deaths unearthed. In her longing for emotional closeness, she befriends Andy Evans, a well-known poet with a roguish charm. Their attraction soon leads to a love affair. Flouting the paisley headscarf of respectability, she plunges into a relationship that gives her an entry to the literary world, but at a price. Filled with insights into grief, longing and creativity, The Most Cunning Heart is a novel about how a quiet heroine learns to navigate deception, love and loss.
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The Most Heartless Town in Canada
$20.00Myrtle is not one of those communities with a town historian or a roster of famous residents. Myrtle does, however, have a poultry plant, and looming above the plant are the eagles, massive birds that roost in trees and feast on entrails left by workers, creatures synonymous with power, freedom and might. The story starts with a newspaper photo taken in an obscure Nova Scotia town after the murder of eight bald eagles. The bizarre photo wins a contest and, over time, the unidentified girl in the foreground becomes, like Diane Arbus’s Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, infamous. Rita Van Loon decides, after seven painful years, to explain herself and the events surrounding the murders. The Most Heartless Town in Canada looks at media agendas, amateur sport, family dynamics, and the divide between rural and urban Canada.
Selected Praise:
“… McCluskey’s cast of characters ‘and it is quite large’ is anything but ordinary, especially when it comes to Pammy Pottie, Rita’s well-meaning but luckless swim coach, and her motley crew of swimmers. Myrtle is full of oddballs, which is lucky for us, because that, more than anything else, is what gives this novel its quirky charm.” (Quill and Quire)“The Most Heartless Town in Canada is explicitly about bearing false witness to a place and what that does to the people there. (It?s also extremely funny.) …” (The Globe and Mail)
“McCluskey’s complex small town terrific” (Winnipeg Free Press)
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The Mother of All Degrassi
$36.95When a young schoolteacher decides to teach her Grade 8 class about filmmaking and creates a documentary that ends up being broadcast internationally, she sets in motion a career of storytelling for an age group largely ignored by TV executives … and creates one of the most-loved television franchises of all timeIncludes fabulous behind-the-scenes photos and stories for Degrassi fansLinda Schuyler, co-creator and executive producer of the long-running Degrassi series, shares her personal stories about the grit and determination necessary to make it as a woman entrepreneur in the bourgeoning independent Canadian television industry of the early 1980s.After surviving a near-fatal car accident in 1968, Linda found her life continuing to veer in unexpected directions, ultimately leading her to use her innate abilities as an educator to become a successful storyteller and businesswoman.Linda’s deep fondness for teenagers has made her a champion for adolescents. In The Mother of All Degrassi, she shares her strong belief that television is all about the story, and a good story is all about making the political personal. Through anecdotes and introspection — and some great behind-the-scenes stories for Degrassi fans — Linda examines her philosophy to dream big, think small, meet life head-on, and always keep an open heart.
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The Mount Royal Tunnel
$29.95An illustrated history of the electrified railway tunnel and station complex still serving Montreal, this story had its start in the pre-World War I railway building boom, when Canadian Northern Railway set out to provide Canadians with competition to the Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk railways. Since those competitors had already established entries into Montreal from the east, west, and south, CNoR decided that entering downtown from the north, even though a four-mile tunnel through Mount Royal would be required. The Mount Royal Tunnel describes the building of CNoRís huge complex that became todayís Central Station, and the site for downtown Montrealís massive complex: Place Ville Marie, Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Place Bonaventure, CN headquarters, and other large office buildings. The clean-running electric locomotives hauled trainloads of commuters to the CNoRís ‘Model City’ development and other suburbs to Montrealís northwest, with change-overs made to steam locomotives (later diesels) to take inter-city trains to Ottawa, Toronto, and the western provinces. Anthony Cleggís book describes, in detail, how the tunnel was constructed and equipped for electrical powering of trains ö what the trains that ran were like, and where they went ö how the post-World War I period caused government takeover of CNoR, becoming Canadian National Railways ö insights on how the increasing traffic led to new multiple-unit self-propelled commuter trains ö the decline in inter-city traffic, and how that led to the line being completely reconstituted as a commuter line ö with CNR finally exiting the commuter operations entirely, turning them over to the municipal AMT, who completely reengineered and modernized the lineís electrification, infrastructure, and power substation facilities. Over 120 photos illustrate the construction of the tunnel, the line, and the Central Station complex. Locomotives and passenger cars, including various multiple-unit cars and trailers, as well as line cars, are featured. Maps and selected equipment diagrams are included.
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The Mountain Man of Letters
$22.95Howard O’Hagan was one of the first native-born westerners to make a mark on Canadian literature. The purpose of this collection of essays on the works of O’Hagan, edited by Sergiy Yakovenko, is not only to refresh scholarship on his best known work, Tay John, but also to break the vicious circle of ignoring O’Hagan’s other works—his later novel The School-Marm Tree (1977) and his short stories and sketches, collected in Wilderness Men (1958) and The Woman Who Got on at Jasper Station and Other Stories (1963). This volume offers two original articles on The School-Marm Tree, by Renée Hulan and Carl Watts, and Albert Braz’s profound study of O’Hagan’s Wilderness Men. Among the other contributors: Joseph Pivato, D.M.R. Bentley, Kylee-Anne Hingston, Jack Robinson, Sergiy Yakovenko, and something from Howard O’Hagan himself.
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The Mountain Road
$5.95An early collection from the founder of Canadian Literature containing poems divided into four collections, excluding the preface and epilogue poems, named Bestiary, Mythology, Homage, and Anima.
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The Mountains of Kong
$22.95Splendid and surprising prose poems from one of Norway’s most imaginative poets
The sixty-one prose poems collected in The Mountains of Kong find magic in the little absurdities of everyday life and are populated by an unpredictable cast that includes kings and codfish and elephants, a couple looking for a surrogate for their tears, and a lemming on the run.
Presented here in both English translations and their original Nynorsk, and with an introduction by acclaimed poet Stuart Ross, Straumsvåg’s poems are a new kind of map that will deliver you to places you’ve never imagined.
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The Mountie at Niagara Falls & Other Brief Stories
$18.00The Mountie at Niagara Falls is an astonishingly absurd and humorous collection of brief stories from Toronto author Salvatore Difalco. Ranging in length from fifty to seven hundred words, these vital and sudden fictional forays transport the reader to worlds both big and small: a land where green goats roam, voodoo dolls inflict crushing migraine headaches, a typographer from South Porcupine kills a potential love affair with a discussion of sans serif type, a benevolent judge imparts clemency on an admittedly violent man, and the road of experience turns this way and that for a truffle-snuffing boar and a talking cat.
These brief tales are alternately fantastic, humorous, menacing, contemplative, absurd, hallucinatory, violent, confessional, and always provocative.
Illustrations by Francesco Gallé.
Praise for Mountie at Niagara Falls & Other Brief Stories:
“A master of the miniature, Sal Difalco’s micro-fictions achieve a wry resonance that longer efforts often miss. They are simultaneously concrete and whimsical, ranging from a woman with the head of a fish, to ballroom dancing lessons, to a pair of thieves in Brian Mulroney masks. Each story is as sharp as a slap. An eloquent and exciting read.” (Grant Buday, author of Dragonflies and Rootbound)
“Salvatore Difalco’s stories are small miracles: fresh, literate, startling, and a bit off-kilter, like something seen in a dream or out of the corner of your eye.” (Stephen Osborne, Geist)
“Salvatore Difalco’s The Mountie at Niagara Falls (Anvil, 2010) has more stories in it than I can count. More than 100 in 142 pages. They are intense narrative chunks, full of incident, frequently spliced with zingers and twists, emboldened with absurdity, on occasion sad. It’s the full-meal deal, rapid fire. I don’t know what to compare it to, except John Lennon and Spike Milligan.” (Underground Book Club, Michael Bryson’s blog)
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The Moustache
$16.95George Bowering and Greg Curnoe became friends in London, Ontario, in 1966. Bowering was a 30-year-old poet and university student and Curnoe was a 29-year-old painter who had dropped out of art school in Toronto to return to his place of birth. Their art was in its youth, their eyes and ears were wide open and their stomachs could withstand pots and pots of strong, black coffee. For 26 years they grew up parallel, inside each other’s work. Greg Curnoe was killed on his bicycle late in 1992, struck down in the middle of his bright career.
This memoir was begun in London, Ontario, on November 20, 1992.
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The Mouth of the South
$22.95What went wrong with WCW? An omnipresent megaphone and maniacal, high-pitched giggle are the only clues that fans of pro-wrestling need to identify perhaps the most successful and internationally recognizable in-ring manager of all time: Jimmy “The Mouth of the South” Hart.
In The Mouth of the South, discover the many faces of America’s beloved entertainer. Hart found fame early in the music biz with The Gentrys’ hit song “Keep on Dancing.” In the 70s, a second big break changed his life. Memphis wrestling gave birth to a new Jimmy Hart — wrestling’s most loved — and at times hated — manager.
Ever since, he has been at the center of pro-wrestling’s most crucial historical developments. Hart showed Jim Carrey the ropes in his portrayal of Andy Kaufman’s famous wrestling scene. Other than Jerry Lawler and Kaufman himself, only Hart knew what was going to transpire live on Letterman — an “unscripted” physical confrontation that shocked America.
Hart was also there when Vince McMahon’s WWF revolutionized wrestling and made it a pop culture phenomenon. Hulk Hogan, The Honky Tonk Man, Bret Hart: The Mouth of the South was in their corner. With priceless behind-the-scenes photos from Hart’s personal collection, this memoir will establish itself as an indispensable chronicle of what might be America’s true pastime. -
The Mulai
$24.95Interstellar via Invisible Cities: spec-fic translated from Spanish imagines life on another planet.
An archeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community: a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth.
Over centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead, and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable. As the archeologist records his attempts to understand their world – a strange negative of our own – questions of translation, meaning-making, and the ultimate precarity of civilization come to the fore.
Drawing on Borges, Le Guin, and Calvino, The Mulai is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemi’s singularly playful and eclectic style.
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The Murder of Halland
$18.95When Halland is found murdered almost right outside his door, his widow, Bess, is of course the prime suspect. She isn’t worried about that, though, but about the daughter she abandoned years ago. As the police investigate, the slightly cantankerous Bess instead follows a trail of her own regrets and misapprehensions.
Atmospheric and haunted by the uncanny, The Murder of Halland is anything but your typical whodunnit. It won Denmark’s most important literary prize, Den Danske Banks Litteraturpris, and its English translation was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Prize.
‘[Juul’s] writing is sparse, ascetic, and exquisite … a beautifully wrought narrative about reclamation, letting go, and moving on.’
– Publishers Weekly
‘Anything but a standard crime novel. The mystery at its heart is the mystery we are to each other.’
–The Economist
‘The Murder of Halland … is cooler and more calculated than any old Killing, and wrong-foots till it reveals the real mystery.’
– Ali Smith, author of How to Be Both
‘Written with deft poetic precision, the compact scenes keep you turning pages breathlessly to get to the heart of the mystery and to the mystery of the narrator. The Murderof Halland is beautifully realized – an instant Nordic noir classic – and also beautifully translated by Martin Aitken.’
– Thomas E. Kennedy, author of The Copenhagen Quartet
‘Juul’s novella is a spare, elegant jewel … Terse and enigmatic, this novel is a classic to be savoured again and again.’
– Maclean’s
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The Murder of Medicine Bear
$27.95The Murder of Medicine Bear is the story of an Alberta river and of the people who live near its banks. In her most ambitious work to date, Haley interweaves the lives of three generations of natives and whites. Both communities reside in the shadow of an ever-looming mega-project which threatens to dam the river and either save or destroy a way of life, depending on your perspective. At the centre of the novel is the unexpected reunion of an eccentric young band chief, Tim Steen, with his sister, Marina, from whom he was estranged as a child after the brutal murder of their mother. Moving forward and backward in time, Haley paints a compassionate portrait of reservation life and of the complex, sometimes tragic interrelationships between whites and natives.