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Your Changing Face
$20.00Al is in his early sixties, retired from business, happily married. He meets a much younger woman, Courtney, whom he befriends. His immediate difficulty is to define the friendship: His wife, Kimberly, regards the friendship with Courtney as inimical to their marriage. Kimberly insists that Al chooses between her and Courtney. He must confront the issue of what constitutes love; and whether and how much he loves the two women, and in what different ways. Al ends his friendship with Courtney but feels badly about it – he thinks that he has behaved poorly, and that he has let her down. Kimberly is deeply angry, but he slowly recovers her trust, and they resume their erstwhile happy marriage.
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Your Friendly Neighbourhood Criminal
$16.00Your Friendly Neighbourhood Criminal
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Your Guide to the Perfect Smile
$79.95Your Guide to the Perfect Smile is a visual feast that celebrates the beauty of the human smile and shows you how you can work with your dentist to find your perfect smile. The book is equal parts dentistry and fashion, explaining the design principles behind beauty in general and smiles in particular. Covering the ten principles of smile design, the book advises you on how to work with your dentist to get that beautiful smile you so richly deserve.
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Your Last Day on Earth
$15.00Carla Hartsfield sings praises to the unusual: a rose blooming in December; an angel dancing on a cardiologist’s scanner; Glenn Gould playing Brahms at Angelo’s Garage. But these are common occurrences in Your Last Day on Earth, the everyday world and the metaphysical realm sharing the same ecstatic poem. Hartsfield transforms the contents of her psyche into music that we can all hear, the kind that replays for days in the dark, dreamy parts of our selves.
“She was here inside the purple-eyed daisies
and honeysuckle lining the fence —arriving seconds after visiting the moon,
her starched, white dresscascading from frothy clouds —
but even more white like the lightthat is said to emanate from reverence.
— from “Nightshine”
“Carla Hartsfield is, like a figure in one of these vivid poems, ‘a charming pyromaniac.’ Under her magnifying glass, the world bristles into smoke: the ‘starched hexagons’ of Queen Anne’s Lace ‘quiver with cocaine bloom’ and water drops become ‘diamonds’ on the speaker’s skin when she plays Bach naked after a shower. Sometimes these fires liberate, sometimes they celebrate, sometimes they memorialize, and always they transform.” – Stephanie Bolster
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Your Secrets Sleep With Me
$18.95Toronto’s CN Tower has fallen into the lake. The city is crowded with refugees from the US. Michael and Ruth Racco’s dad has, in a rash of road rage, perpetrated the Backhoe Massacre. And, in the middle of it all, little Jimmy Hardcastle has, in the fountain of a suburban mall, walked on water.
As helicopters chop the air over Toronto and a paranoid America slides into fascism, kids from south of the border collide with kids from north of the border and, over lattes, ruminate on new possibilities.
Your Secrets Sleep With Me is a frenetic, ruthlessly hilarious critique of power and politics. Brilliant, absurd, incisive and fun, this caffeinated novel will take you on a doomed search for the place where you end and everything else begins. But you will not be alone. Shhh. Don’t worry. Your secrets sleep with us.
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Your Show Here
$19.95A man used to make shows. A lot of shows. Shows for himself to do. He made them with his friend. The man used to call the shows ghost stories because they were often about dead people. The man’s friend didn’t believe in ghosts, but he knew that lots of people did. He knew the man did. The friend didn’t really care what the man talked about as long as the man was telling the truth. Anyway, the man’s friend died. And so here we are.
A comedy about grief, rage, disappointment, and embarrassment; a drama about an airport parking lot and an absent concierge; and a primer on making your own solo show, Your Show Here is one of the Daniel MacIvor’s most intimate works and the last in a series of solo performances inspired by his creative relationship with Daniel Brooks.
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Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking
$21.95Sadie McCarney’s Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking is a buoyant second collection that playfully navigates the turbulent waters of life with mental illness and neurodivergence. In much of the book, history and science are treated the way they are often viewed by a brain in mental turmoil: places and events get switched around, facts get rewritten, and the fantastical reigns supreme. Through poems ranging from didactic (the horrible “self-care” advice received by the poet when she was struggling most) to historical fiction (patients in an asylum in 1800s England), to the quirky and unexpectedly fantastical (a rainbow carpool unicorn, a young child’s timeline reversing each morning, and an everything bagel that includes competing theories of time), McCarney digs deep into the muck of her own lived experience. She resurfaces with, if not gold, at least an old time capsule and a few treasured hunks of bone. Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking highlights the sometimes dubious (but always jubilant) inner workings of a mentally unwell brain at play — especially within the context of a larger society that frequently seeks to tamp down this weird and rare form of magic.
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Yours Forever, Marie-Lou
$16.95They say hindsight is 20/20. They’re not wrong. Ten years after their parents’ death in a car accident, now-grown sisters Carmen and Manon are together for one of their rare visits – and one of them is finally ready to confront their shared tragedy. Carmen is a boisterous country-and-western singer who has left her home, and all her past, in the dust. Manon lives a more sheltered life, closely aligned with the traditions of religious Quebec, which are now – in the mid-1970s – only beginning to come apart at the seams. Carmen is convinced it’s time for Manon to end the years of mourning, while Manon is insulted that Carmen seems to have responded so unfeelingly to such a horror. Each sister has kept the memory of their parents alive in her own way. In fact – here they are, in living memory: Marie-Louise and Lèopold, the girls’ parents, are on stage simultaneously. Just beyond the ken of their daughters, they live out their final day. As the two daughters struggle to reconcile the events preceding the fatal crash, and as their parents play out the culmination of their sodden marriage, we discover there is more to the memory of that fatal day than meets the eye. And yet, can the blame really be laid at the feet of one person? Or can a whole socio-cultural paradigm that twist its subjects into unbearable contortions and trap them in fear and submission, be at fault?
Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
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Z
$14.95Z: A Meditation on Oppression, Desire and Freedom is an astonishing first stage play by the internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet Anne Szumigalski which explores the relationship between captive and captor and the terrible sacrifices human beings must make to survive. When the concentration camps were opened at the end of World War II, Anne Szumigalski worked with the survivors as a translator for the British Red Cross. ?It made me look at life,? she says, ?in a completely different way.? In Z, Szumigalski translates that profound and disturbing experience into an amazing theatrical event?a blend of drama, poetry and dance.
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Zaatari
$45.00Winner, IPPY Award Gold Medal (Cookbook – Specialty)
“The recipes in Zaatari are glorious. Passed down the generations from mother to daughter, cooking keeps the people of Zaatari camp connected to the towns and villages of the Syria they fled.” — Claudia Roden
On the Jordanian-Syrian border lies Zaatari Camp, the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world. Opened in 2012 to provide new arrivals with emergency relief, the camp quickly became a locus of Syrian culture and tradition. In this thriving community of over 80,000 people, the residents of Zaatari combine ingenuity and imagination to ensure that the glorious culinary traditions at the heart of Syrian culture continue to be observed and celebrated.
In this immersive culinary tour, Karen E. Fisher along with individual residents of the camp guide us through life at Zaatari, sharing its stories, its art, and its food. Authentically styled and stunningly photographed dishes accompany a vast array of recipes prepared by the camp’s residents for family dinners and community celebrations — and now for others to enjoy at home.
Both an introduction to Zaatari Camp and a robust cookbook, Zaatari: Culinary Traditions of the World’s Largest Syrian Refugee Camp offers an intimate encounter with Syrian food practices and traditions as they have been handed down through generations.
All royalties from sales of the book are being forwarded to Zaatari Camp.
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Zadie’s Shoes
$14.95The stakes don’t get any higher than this! Benjamin is a compulsive gambler who’s just lost the money for his girlfriend Ruth’s trip to an alternative cancer clinic in Mexico. He has 72 hours to find the cash, and his options are running out. In desperation, Benjamin finds himself in a synagogue, where he meets a prophet named Eli who gives him rabbinical adviceand a hot tip on a racehorse. The thrill of the race is only the beginning of this hilarious and touching journey that contemplates the nature of luck, and the power of faith.
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Zegaajimo
$28.00You never know what’s hunting you, while you’re hunting it…
Eleven of the deadliest writers from across Turtle Island have crafted stories for you calculated to chill, thrill, and kindle your worst imaginings. Zegaajimo brings together tales of monsters and the macabre, terrifying transformations, strange places and unexpected wonders. These stories warn of billionaires with hidden intentions, spark vigilance for ominous figures that might appear on doorsteps, and caution you to let the river keep what belongs to it.
But these stories of supernatural settings and dreadful deeds are more than speculative fiction, they are also reminders that monsters are already in our midst, that the known can be just as frightening as the unknown, and that the slightest mistakes can have dire consequences. Read these tales alone to yourself, or better yet share them with friends—especially around a fire on a dark winter’s night, when all you can hear is the cracking of branches, and the wind in the trees is as cold as your sweat.
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Zeppelin
$18.95In Blaise Moritz’s second collection, Zeppelin, we are passengers in the long-range ghost ship that is our new millennial culture. The time before technology recedes in our wake—the past an amazing clutter, if only as deep as early modern things—and looking forward, our impressions phase constantly. We travel far, seeing much that is strange, but it seems more enervating than thrilling, always subordinate to the constant narrative of crisis. In our weariness, we wish to reach apocalypse and post-apocalypse where we might recover some simplicity, but instead are left at loose ends, dwelling on all that has been lost, forgotten, defeated, none of which will even settle down into tragic symbols: at any time anything might be revived as nostalgia or as the improbable font of saving innovation.And yet there is time and experience enough on our journey to arrive at the real once more, to rediscover the terrain, both natural and constructed, and know again that it preceded our maps. Time enough to return to the simplicity that is never lost within us, the redemptive powers of our childhood delight in what might still be a great gleaming ship built from our imaginations and the hope borne in the songs we sing en route.
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Zero Avenue
$17.95“If you like your crime hard and fast, Kalteis is for you.” — The Globe and Mail
Set to the cranking beat and amphetamine buzz of Vancouver’s early punk scene, Zero Avenue follows Frankie Del Rey, a talented and rising punk star who runs just enough dope on the side to pay the bills and keep her band, Waves of Nausea, together. The trouble is she’s running it for Marty Sayles, a powerful drug dealer who controls the Eastside with a fist.
When Frankie strikes up a relationship with Johnny Falco, the owner of one of the only Vancouver clubs willing to give punk a chance, she finds out he’s having his own money problems just keeping Falco’s Nest open. Desperate to keep his club, Johnny raids one of the pot fields Marty Sayles has growing out past Surrey, along Zero Avenue on the U.S. border. He gets away with a pickup load and pays back everybody he owes. Arnie Binz, bass player for Waves of Nausea, finds out about it and decides that was easy enough. But he gets caught by Marty’s crew.
Johnny and Frankie set out to find the missing Arnie, but Marty Sayles is pissed and looking for who ripped off his other field — a trail that leads to Johnny and Frankie.
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Zero Kelvin
$17.95Present-day astronomy, vast, complex, is looking through darkness to distant objects and times. Yet its discoveries aren’t exclusively scientific: from Pluto’s moons to Curiosity Rovers, the sky remains a place where math meets myth. Now, in Zero Kelvin, Richard Norman’s poetry probes the new heavens that are being generated daily by astronomical research.
Theology
Objects crossing or approaching the orbit of Neptune … are given mythological names associated with the underworld. – “How Minor Planets Are Named,” International Astronomy Union
[…]
Theology, the study of dark matter,
conclusively has proven
the well of hell is zero Kelvin.Movement ceases,
molecules foetally curl into themselves.
And at the lowest circle of our galaxya black hole squats.
O wondrous Goatse of another realm!
Radio source,mass of four million suns,
beams out pure revelation.
Cults worship at its altar.The faithful pray:
Do not leave your house –
sit quietly and listen.An LED illuminates
the ether in the vitrine.
And models show the diodes rapidly recedingand the backlit screen expanding,
and the transudation,
and something dug up from deep withinthat will not act and will not leave,
a thing that makes a truce with space,
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Zeroed Out
$26.95Zeroed Out