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You have been Referred
$24.95You have been referred!: My life in Applied Anthropology, is a career memoir spanning the period 1969 – 2014, and detailing the process whereby the author combined his philosophical grounding in both Anthropology and Law to find fulfillment in several Canadian non- governmental organizations (NGOs). The organizational structure of the book follows the development of a career thesis, its exploration in antithesis employment in for- profit corporations, and its ultimate success in the synthesis provided by NGOs. The format of the book is a creative mixture of stories and case studies involving characters who were influential at each stage of the author’s career development. The career arc of the book also follows the author’s development as son, husband, and father in family situations based in Vancouver and Calgary. Many of the chapters also trace the process of economic development in hinterland regions of northern Canada and the Kola Peninsula of north- western Russia. Indigenous people play numerous roles in the narrative arc of the book’s development. In particular, the Mowachaht, Blackfoot, Metis, Cree, and Gwich’in Dene cultures in Canada and the Russian Sami are featured in the book. The corporate cultures of the Calgary and Toronto oil patch are also contributors. The book concludes with a fictional celebration including all the characters.
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You Know Who You Are
$17.00Ian Williams writes challenging poetry. His poems address the crisis of young, black masculinity in cities, paint starkly urban portraits of life and break open stereotypes. Sly humour laces through this collection, and Williams is adept at playing with language to change meanings in unexpected ways. For him it’s easy to turn the word go into gone.
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You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations
$19.95Conceived as an archive of wisdom written by a disabled man for his children, You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations gives voice to the experience of living in an ableist society: “Why does it hurt when emotion spills out of a body? How does emotion spell ‘body’? What does it mean to be good? Why is the surplus of beauty everywhere? What is the password?” Weaving together reflections on fatherhood, Walt Whitman’s place in American history, art, and the lingering effects of past trauma, these ringing and raw poems theorize on the concept of shame, its intended purpose, and its effects for and on disabled body-minds.
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You Mean Everything
$6.95There are thousands upon thousands of love songs. There’s probably one for every happy and hurting heart, from Springsteen’s “If I should Fall Behind” to Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.” On their first album, acclaimed Atlanta band, Drivin’ N Cryin’ wrote a song about love. It wasn’t perfect. It didn’t want to be. Love isn’t perfect. Now, 30 years later, You Mean Everything is as relevant and tender as when the needle first touched wax. Never published in print, featuring illustrations by M. C. Joudrey, this little book offers the song’s poetic lyrics for all to hold and share. The perfect alternative to a greeting card.
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You Should Be Dancing
$21.95From behind the drumkit to the top of the charts: the backstage story of the Bee Gees
With worldwide sales of over 220 million records, the Bee Gees are the sixth-best-selling music artists in history. Dennis Bryon’s story of how he became the Bee Gees’ drummer during their peak period offers many never-before-told tales about such infectious hits as “Stayin’ Alive,” “How Deep Is Your Love,” and “Night Fever.” From Dennis’s beginnings in a Welsh band to his crucial role in the superstar group, You Should Be Dancing reveals unforgettable stories of his encounters with many famous musicians, including the Bee Gees themselves, Andy Gibb, Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, and Olivia Newton-John. Illustrated with Bee Gees photographs and ephemera, Bryon’s memoir takes Bee Gees fans and music enthusiasts alike on one of the wildest rides in pop history.
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You Still Look the Same
$16.95A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor.
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You Will Remember Me
$18.95Memory, personal, familial, and societal – is the central theme of this new play by Governor General’s Award-winning playwright François Archambault. Translated by Bobby Theodore, this work follows a family’s struggle with dementia. Edouard is a University professor and historian, a figure prominent in the public eye and a long-time sovereignist. He has been proud throughout his life of his prodigious memory. As memory fails, Edouard tests the ability of family members to care for him. The play also examines collective memory and the current state of affairs in Quebec. Edouard has been appearing on talk shows since his retirement, railing against the dumbing down of society and the adverse effects of technology. Archambault uses personal memory as a foil and metaphor to explore social memory, particularly reexamining moments from the history of the Parti Québécois. Subtle, moving, and funny, You Will Remember Me shows that living completely in the present moment is a nightmare. Harkening to the past, and memory are essential for the human condition.
You will Remember Me opened in French in 2014 and was produced in English at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.
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You Would Have Done It Too
$22.95You know things are bad when you wished your only concern was sleepwalking off a balcony straight into a killer’s knife.
Felix’s college life is already a mess- failing classes, hiding his gay crush on his best friend, and keeping his bullies from discovering he dances with pizza boxes in his sleep. But now, those same bullies are dropping like flies, and contrary to campus opinion and the damning blood in his bathroom, Felix didn’t do it.
As the body count rises, someone seems to be shadowing his every move. If he says the wrong thing, trusts the wrong person, he might not be the only one who won’t make it to graduation.
Is someone framing him to make him their last victim, or are they trying to protect him from something even worse?
Discover the chilling twists in You Would Have Done It Too-where survival means questioning everyone, including yourself.
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You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off
$19.95“Lavery’s imagination is formidable, his surreal images striking, his insights sharp.” — Globe and Mail
“Lavery’s use of language and characterization is incredible.” — Scene Magazine
“When I was young, very young, I thought it would be a good idea to be a policeman. Because, I thought, if I fought crime really hard,by the time I got to be forty, forty-five maybe, there wouldn’t be any more crime.” Detective Inspector Paul-François Bastarache, despite his degrees in Criminology and Business Administration, and his devotion to a distinguished career, does not achieve his goal.
You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off deals with crimes that remain unsolved. Some are unpleasant and brutal, some of doubtful importance — others might even be considered useful. But most are ambiguous, difficult to reconstruct, and the result of misunderstandings or miscommunication.
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You’ll Pay For This
$19.95“If you’ve ever wondered why your city keeps cutting services while your taxes keep rising, this book is for you. With sharp analysis and a touch of humor, Mitch unpacks the financial realities behind failing infrastructure and declining city budgets. A powerful and much-needed wake-up call.” — Charles Marohn, Founder and President of Strong Towns
Cities provide valuable quality of life amenities like parks, pools and libraries. They’re also responsible for providing critical life-sustaining services, things like sanitation, public safety and clean drinking water. Vitally, they need to be able to do it not only today, but for generations to come. So how do we know if our city can afford to do this forever? And if not, what needs to change?
Most people have no idea what the answer is, or how to find it. But have no fear: help is on the way! Luckily, you can read this book while you wait for it to arrive.
Just kidding – you’re the help. (Or you will be after reading this book.)
You’ll Pay For This kicks off The City Project, a series edited by Emma and Michel Durand-Wood.
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You’re In Canada Now …
$21.95Evocative and superbly rakish, this collection is a generous diagnosis of the often offbeat worlds of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through the real-life adventures of Susan Musgrave. Equally at home recounting the lore of her outlaw husband, Stephen Reid, or interpreting the arcane rituals of her teenage girls, Musgrave brings to her literary essays that same invigorating freshness for which she has become known through her fiction and poetry. In settings ranging from the aching solitude of the Queen Charlotte Islands to the sweaty intensity of bandido apartments in Panama, Musgrave muses with her legendary wit and pastiche, while creating graffiti-like impressions of the writer’s essential take on those closest to her. One of Canada’s most publicized and popular writers, Susan Musgrave is unique, and this is the reader’s chance to get up close and personal.
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Young Adult’s Guide to the Canadian West, The
$17.95Young Adult’s Guide to the Canadian West, The
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Young Hunting
$19.95Taking inspiration from John Glassco’s Memoirs of Montparnasse, Young Hunting is both a story of discovery and transformation. While Toronto changes around him, from a puritanical British colonial outpost to a mixing bowl filled with colourful cultural components, a young boy emerges from his middle class childhood to become a flamboyant adolescent a questioning adult who refuses to accept conventional wisdom.
The Toronto of the ’40s and ’50s is often painted as the epitome of dull convention — but this was clearly not Martin Hunter’s experience. The child of eastern Ontario farmers, he was exposed to fundamentalist Presbyterian values; yet at the same time he was connecting with a number of remarkable artists who profoundly influenced the course of his young life. In Young Hunting, the dichotomy is personified by Hunter’s two closest friends: Dick, who would become an Academy Award-winning animator; and Jimmy, who would go on to become the minister of Canada’s largest Presbyterian church. The pull of each of these influences was strong, and each helped define both Hunter’s youth and developing view of life. Along the way, he soaked up vast and varied experience: as an actor in a children’s theatre company; a boarder at an evangelical summer camp; a messenger delivering samples on Queen Street; an officer cadet in the Royal Canadian Navy; a student at Oxbridge-inspired Trinity College; and as a labourer at both a mining camp in the Yukon and a paper mill in Quebec. And while, as Young Hunting explains, Martin Hunter “thoroughly enjoyed the often ludicrous pretension of these various institutions,” it was not until he escaped to fulfill his “dreams of high culture” that he gained true perspective on his life’s journey — discovering that Europe’s vaunted old world cultural superiority was just as hollow as the institutions of his homeland.
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Youpi en vacances
$12.95Translation into French of Ronsdale’s picture book Mouse Vacation. This will be
Book 4 of the series Youpi, la souris dans ma poche.
Dans ce quatrieme volume de la serie de livres ” Youpi, la souris dans ma poche,” Youpi et son ami humain Jean discutent de la destination de leur prochaine aventure.
Jean suggere une promenade dans la foret ou une visite au musee, mais ces activites sont trop ennuyeuses pour Youpi et sa soif d’aventure. Lorsque Youpi propose des vacances grandioses a New York, a Paris, en Egypte ou en Inde, Jean repond que ces endroits coutent trop cher et qu’ils devront faire des compromis. Finalement, Youpi et Jean embarquent pour un voyage de nuit en bus vers un port maritime afin de voir les grands voiliers, et Youpi est captivee par ces “fantomes du passe.” Andrea Torrey Balsara donne vie a la Tour Eiffel, au Taj Mahal, aux grandes pyramides et a d’autres lieux exotiques grace a 32 pages d’illustrations brillantes en pleine couleur. -
Youpi et ses bonbons
$12.95Youpi et ses bonbons est le deuxieme volume de la serie “Youpi, la souris dans ma poche.”
Youpi est un aventurier insatiable, et, lorsque son grand ami Jean lui propose d’aller laver leur linge a la laverie, Youpi trouve cela trop ennuyeux et tente de l’en dissuader en lui suggerant de jouer aux quilles. En vain. Youpi arrive a la laverie en pleine deprime et tombe nez a nez avec sa premiere machine a bonbons. Enthousiasme par sa decouverte, Youpi est deconcerte une seconde fois lorsque Jean lui explique qu’il n’a que quelques pieces pour la lessive. Refusant d’abandonner, Youpi fait une reconnaissance minutieuse sous les machines a laver jusqu’a ce qu’il trouve une piece de 25 cents. Mais la machine avare conspire contre la souris en quete de tresor, lui vole sa piece et refuse de liberer ses bonbons. Refusant d’accepter la defaite, Youpi convainc Jean de faire basculer la machine jusqu’a ce que son tresor sucre se repande en abondance. Aucune aventure n’est trop petite pour une souris qui a un prodigieux appetit de vivre. -
Your Absence Is Darkness
$26.95A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland’s most beloved novelists.
A man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside, not knowing who he is, why he’s there or how he arrived, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze, and a generation earlier, a farmer’s wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger, and a rock musician, plagued by cosmic loneliness, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices, made and avoided, that cascade between them, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart.
Incandescent and elemental, hope-filled and humane, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality, music, and the strange salve of time, and a spellbinding saga of death, desire, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love.