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The Monument Cycles
$16.95The Monument Cycles investigates our relation to monuments and works of public art, ranging from memorials to cenotaphs, expressing our desire to capture the fleeting and intangible. Speaking specifically to the city of Vancouver, these poems focus explicitly on the impoverished Downtown Eastside, exploring the narrator’s experiences working in the poorest postal code in Canada.
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The Mood Embosser
$16.95Louis Cabri’s first collection of poetry, The Mood Embosser, presents a series of impressions of 1990s social history as it manifested in the lingering traces of everyday life. Chunks of found language from advertising, TV, popular music and sports pop up throughout the work. Despite the deliberate disjointedness of the poetic style, large sections of this book will seem oddly familiar because Cabri is mixing and rebroadcasting the language that surrounds us in the same way that a DJ spins turntables to make dance club mixes.
Cabri’s styles range from doggerel to visual poems, from long lines to ‘composition by field’, where words are scattered across the page. Every one of them is absolutely captivating – you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll reconsider your politics.
In The Mood Embosser, Louis Cabri writes toward chance’s margin – the home of the things we don’t know – with a pointed humour. This book pokes and prods among the detritus of culture, recycling scraps in order to build politically and aesthetically challenging sculptures from the words that others have casually thrown away.
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The Moon King
$14.95***BEST BOOKS FOR KIDS AND TEENS 2020, PICTURE BOOKS***When the magical Moon King tips over the night, it spills across the land and sea, and he seeks the help of animals big and small to collect the stars and return them to the sky. In this beautifully illustrated bedtime story, Cara Kansala weaves an enchanting fable destined to become a children’s classic—the perfect way to welcome the night and celebrate the wonder of dreams. -
The Moosehead Anthology 8
$14.95The Moosehead Anthology 8
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The Moosehead Anthology 11
$18.95Dingers includes daring and often thrilling new writing from some of the 21st century’s best prose and poetry writers, such as: Robert Allen, George Bowering, Paul Beer, James Crosbie, Anastasia Jones, David Tabakow, Andy Brown, Ryan Arnold, Arjun Basu, Timothy Morris, Jason Camlot, Alessandro Porco, Mary Milgram, Ian McGillis, Nata Belza, Kevin Connolly, Taylor Brown-Evans, Matt Donovan, Dave Bidini, Greg Santos, and Steven Hayward.
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The Moosehead Anthology 12
$18.95This collection is the first anthology of Irish-Canadian literature ever to appear, and brings together a representative selection of Irish-Canadian writing drawn both from neglected early sources and from the exciting range of Irish-Canadian writing in more recent and contemporary Canadian literature. The first section of the anthology provides writing that taken together provides real insight into the lives, attitudes, and concerns of the early generations of Irish Canada. Rare accounts of the reception in Quebec of the distressed famine orphans of the late 1840s, fiction from immigrants written on the Canadian Northwest, poetry, including selections by the great Irish-Canadian statesman Thomas D’Arcy McGee, and autobiographical accounts by Irish travelers, missionaries and Irish-Canadian soldiers who served in the Crimea, in India, during the Fenian raids, and in the Northwest during the Riel rebellions. The latter section of A Message to Eire anthologizes the works of the descendents of the earlier Irish settlers, and documents the exciting and important contribution of Irish-Canada to the literary history of the country. Including works by both 20th-century and contemporary Irish-Canadian authors from Quebec, the Atlantic provinces, and from further west, the anthology aims at providing an excellent representative sample of Irish-Canadians to Canadian and world literature.
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The Moosehead Anthology 5
$12.95The Moosehead Anthology 5
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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.