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VII
$22.95Death is patiently waiting for the seventh book in a series he’s currently reading. But author Titus Caropin is stuck with a bad case of writer’s block and keeps pushing back the release date. He has run out of inspiration, and even karaoke can’t seem to bring the old magic back! But when Titus gets a visit from the Grim Reaper, who just wants an autograph, the pressure to finish his latest book becomes unbearable. A wordless meditation on death and the creative process, VII is existential slapstick at its best – showcasing both the fluid style and narrative ingenuity of first-time author Thomas Blais-Leblanc, who proves that the right picture can truly be worth a thousand words.
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Vile and Miserable
$22.95The indie comic classic that inspired the hit motion picture!
Lucius Vile is a demon condemned to work in a used car dealership-slash-bookstore. With coworkers who seemingly hate his guts, a therapist whose methods aren’t quite sound, an annoying new assistant named Daniel, and a sex life that could be kindly described as highly complicated, let’s just say things are getting a bit hectic for Lucius… But who cares, right? Because today, it’s Halloween, Lucius’s favorite day of the year.
Animated by an absurd and transgressive sense of humor, Vile and Miserable is raw, laugh-out-loud comedy of terrors for grown-ups.
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Village Dreams
$22.95In Village Dreams, Jay Quint merges his own existential crisis and writer’s block into a chronicle of the evolution of counterculture and the emergence of the world’s famous Gay Villages. These special enclaves, at once havens and ghettos, were at the heart of the willfully overlooked transition period between the collapse of the ’60s youth movements, and the rise of the “new urbanism” in the early ’70s. In reconjuring the zeitgeists of these mythic decades, the insights of the most influential critics, including Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, and many others, are placed side by side with those of “gay writers” like Edmund White (City Boy), Larry Kramer (Faggots), Andrew Holleran (Dancer from the Dance), and Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City).
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Vimy
$17.95France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they’ll be sent next: back home or back to the front. Along with a young nurse from Nova Scotia, they share their stories, reasons for fighting, and treasured memories. In Vimy, Governor General’s Literary Award–winner Vern Thiessen brings us a classic play that is not about war, but a reflection of the everyday lives of soldiers—their hopes and their dreams—and how actions can define individuals and nations.
In the brand-new piece Bluebirds, Thiessen brings to light the stories of three Canadian nurses who crossed oceans to take care of others in the war. Bonding over their duties and patients, the nurses keep up a positive atmosphere, even as the front line draws closer to their field hospital.
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Viola Desmond
$10.00Many Canadians know that Viola Desmond is the first Black, non-royal woman to be featured on Canadian currency. But fewer know the details of Viola Desmond’s life and legacy. In 1946, Desmond was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Her singular act of courage was a catalyst in the struggle for racial equality that eventually ended segregation in Nova Scotia.
Authors Graham Reynolds and Wanda Robson (Viola’s sister) look beyond the theatre incident and provide new insights into her life. They detail not only her act of courage in resisting the practice of racial segregation in Canada, but also her extraordinary achievement as a pioneer African Canadian businesswoman. In spite of the widespread racial barriers that existed in Canada during most of the twentieth century, Viola Desmond became the pre-eminent Black beauty culturist in Canada, establishing the first Black beauty studio in Halifax and the Desmond School of Beauty Culture. She also created her own line of beauty products.
Accessible, concise and timely, this book tells the incredible, important story of Viola Desmond, considered by many to be Canada’s Rosa Parks.
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Violence Against Women
$34.95This volume highlights some of the latest thinking in Canada on the issue of male violence against women. Articles examine the prevalence and nature of violence against women, violence and women’s health and structural forms of violence against women. Articles are grouped into three sections: The Prevalence and Nature of Violence Against Women; Violence and Women’s Health; and Structural Forms of Violence Against Women. Contributors to this volume include: Holly Johnson, Yasmin Jiwani, Aysan Sev’er, Emma D. LaRocque, Himani Bannerji, Jenny Horsman, June Larkin, Helene Moussa, Suzanne Lenon, Kim Pate and Elizabeth Sheehy among many others.
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Violet Quesnel
$9.95In this collection, the character of Violet Quesnel is the unifying thread, even though the stories take place in different times and places with different characters’ points of view,. Because Violet experiences bi-polar disorder, her existential anxiety is further complicated. She is aware of her outside world but has limited self-awareness. The portrait of Violet that emerges through her family and friends is one of a young woman who has faced down the denial, anger and depression of her bi-polarity, but from Violet herself we learn that she has bargained for her place in the world as a sister, daughter and mother.
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Viral Suite
$16.00‘Viral Suite’ explores our relationship with self, other, environment, space, and time. The sensual and the cerebral. How the we/here/now is evolving and mutating with each downloaded packet.
“Viral Suite” is a poetic, narrative-driven science lesson. The book is unapologetically cerebral, and it takes risks.” – Malahat Review
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Virga
$17.95Jennifer Houle?s second collection, Virga, is a departure?or perhaps, more accurately, a return to a distinctly feminine and feminist mythos. Witchy, sensuous, and urgent, the poems collected here are shot through with lore, love, and determination, reflecting the preoccupations of young?and not so young?womanhood
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Virtualis
$18.00Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal is a poetic investigation of melancholia and the baroque. As a collaborative reading of writers such as Walter Benjamin, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, David Dowker and Christine Stewart have created a series of linguistic interjections that run from the allegorical barricades of the baroque to the topological confound of the modern, incorporating (for example) Medusa and the Sphinx, aestivating snails and the alchemy of bees. Lush and extravagant, this is writing tuned in to the terrestrial spectacle.
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Vishnu Dreams
$24.95Ven Begamudré’s latest work of fiction combines Hindu mythology with the story of a family. Through the veil of Vishnu’s unions with Lakshmi and his incarnation in the tale of Manu and the fish, the novel portrays a pair of siblings as they navigate 1960s North American culture under the weight of their emotionally abusive father and ambitious mother. By day Subhas and Durga master the logistics of junior highschool in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, while at night they watch the disintegration of their parents’ marriage.
Following the breakup, and in the wake of an unfortunate misunderstanding between the two siblings, Durga moves to Canada with their mother, while Subhas remains in the United States with their father. Now in her late teens and training as part of the Seaforth Highlanders reserve regiment in Vancouver, Durga struggles to find her way in a place she loves, while back in Pennsylvania, Subhas works a part-time job at a gas station during the oil crisis.
“About 1983 I made fictional sketches about a young woman named Jo who joined the army reserve as a clerk. Her best friends at a Vancouver high school included Meg, a vain debutante; Beth, a shy pianist with a terminal illness; and Amy, a hot-headed cowgirl from the interior of BC. They were sisters in spirit alone and none had the last name of March. Soon I forgot about these charactersmuch to the relief, no doubt, of Louisa May Alcott, whose novel Little Women had enchanted me during a visit to my home state in South India. Then, in the early 1990s, Carol Shields’ short story ‘Soup du Jour’ inspired me to write and publish a long story called “Indian Cookery,” which brought to life an army major named Durga Kumar Mackenzie. To avoid worrying about her upcoming tour of duty with UNPROFOR in the former Yugoslavia, Durga thinks about an affair that her married sister is having with an unmarried doctor. Finally, one day in the late 1990s, Durga tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘Ven, I never had a sister. I had a brother. Here’s what happened in our teens, when we moved from Canada to the States during the Vietnam War. Are you listening or what?’”
This book is a smyth-sewn paperback. The text is typeset in Rialto and printed offset on laid-finish paper making (estimated) 160 pages trimmed to 4.5 × 7 inches, bound into a paper cover and enfolded in an offset-printed jacket.
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Visible World, The
$16.95In language that is direct as the noon-day sun Toronto’s Poet Laureate, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco returns to the wilderness terrain of his Trillium nominated The Dark Time of Angels to ask difficult questions of an acutely examined life. The Visible World is a metaphysical journey through the landscape of a traitor heart with its primal urgencies and infinite capacity for wonder. It is Di Cicco’s great gift to be able to cut away the assumptions of the material world and show the fine grain of existence in all its contradictory splendour. Di Cicco, as Dennis Lee has written,’has blazed one of the moving, exemplary paths in contemporary poetry.’ The Visible World will show once again whyhe must be considered one of today’s essential poets.
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Visiting Fellow
$19.00Poor Wally. It’s the mid-1990s, and middle-aged history professor Wally Baxter is recently divorced and looking for love. No easy task in this age of hyper-political correctness. Wally’s mind boggles at the complicated set of romantic rules that have sprung up in the last 20 years, but he manages to stumble his way into a budding romance with the young widow Carolyn.
Seeking respite from his ever-mutable ex-wife, Wally decides to take his brand new paramour on a short-term sabbatical to the University of Tasmania. Only time will tell if hapless Wally Baxter can get his life and love in order in the land down under.
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Vita
$14.95Angst, seduction, escape and extinction control these many tales–a whisper in the ear convinces a lady to take the plunge, another to take up surfing, and a young man to jump in front of a moving train–and there is joy in settling a score with despised neighbours and a conspiracy under the California sun. Some sketches are laced with passion and loss–a son comes to know his mother from a series of letters following her death, while a face transplant changes a man’s life, but with it comes the unwanted pursuit of the donor’s wife–while others show murderous aspirations and an irrepressible desire for release. Always vital, Vita opens wide the windows into our many lives.
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Vixen
$20.00Winner of the 2024 Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Sandra Ridley’s latest book offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence.
Sparked by a haunting chance encounter with a fox, and told in six chapters of varying form, Vixen is as visceral as it is mysterious, sensuous as it is terrifying.
“Thicket” introduces us to stalking being akin to hunting; the similar threat of terror and—too often—a violent end. “Twitchcraft” locates the hunt in the home, the wild in the domestic, while “Season of the Haunt” explores the unrelenting nature of hunting. “Stricken” asks common questions that often implicitly justify such violence: Is the harassment ‘bad enough’ to allow us to label it criminal? Has all control been taken? Is the fear reasonable?
Vixen propels us to examine the nature of empathy, what it means to be a compassionate witness, and what happens when brutality is so ever-present that we become numb. This is a beautiful, difficult, wild tapestry of defiance and survival.
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VMT
$19.99The bloody brainchild of William Simpson, VMT represents his unfiltered vision for a real vampire story. The man who knows that vampires sure don’t sparkle, kill their own lunch, and are rarely troubled by teenage angst, has created a new vampire comic series that spills the blood on vampires today. Someone is stringing up blood drained corpses across the city, in what appear to be ritual killings, leaving the cops searching for answers before too many more bodies build up. Meanwhile, Sun, a young woman recently added to the ranks of the blood sucking undead, feeds her hunger and rage on the men she feels deserve her wrath. Along with the police, more than one legendary vampire has their sites set on her too. What is the goal of figures from our legends the Marquis De Sade’s and weaver of tales,bScheherazade? A tale of blood, monsters, and those that walk amongst them seeking to help us all.