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Between the Island and the Turtle
$21.95In the tumult of the pandemic, a writer hopes the quarantine might provide the space to finally complete a decades-old project on her travels throughout Latin America. But an unexpected disease suddenly clouds her eyes. Poetic, inventive, introspective, Between the Island and the Turtle follows the author’s shifts in vision from past to present, shedding light on what it is to witness suffering, questioning how literature might help us bear it.
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Between the Ropes
$22.95As wrestling dominated the pop culture airwaves in the late 90s, wrestlers like The Rock and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin became international cultural icons. But, by the turn of the millennium, wrestling began its downward descent. In early 2001, both WCW and ECW closed its doors and were bought out by WWE, whose fortunes hit the skids shortly after, despite their virtual monopoly. In 2002, a new group rose from the ashes of WCW and ECW — Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
Between the Ropes examines the last decade of pro wrestling, looking at its unprecedented popularity surge that transformed it into a legitimate billion-dollar business, and the decision-making follies that put WWE back down on the mat. It examines the upstart TNA, and its current position on the cusp of a national breakthrough. Fritz and Murray study the four organizations, their rise and fall from a business, storyline, and character standpoint. Also included from the authors’ show Between the Ropes are insights from major wrestling stars like The Rock, Hulk Hogan, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Ric Flair, Vince McMahon, Mick Foley, Bret Hart, Sting, Eric Bischoff, Chris Jericho, Rob Van Dam, and Shane Douglas.
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Between the Sheets
$16.95Marion, a working mother with a special-needs child, has discovered a devastating secret: her husband Curtis has been engaging in a torrid love affair with none other than their son’s young teacher, Teresa. Armed with love notes between Curtis and Teresa, Marion shows up to a parent-teacher interview to confront the woman who may be the thread that unravels her life. What ensues is a gripping and raw confrontation between two women, one fighting to protect her family, the other fighting for the family she always wanted.
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Beware the Grieving Warrior
$19.95In early 2003, Ontario’s deputy chief coroner ordered an inquest into the tragic deaths of two children due to post-operative complications in a Hamilton hospital. The cases may never have been reported were it not for John Lewis, a registered nurse, and father of 11-year-old Claire — one of the two children.
Beware the Grieving Warrior describes John’s fight, in the midst of immeasurable grief and sorrow, against hospital staff and administration who failed to acknowledge their neglect. By turns shocking and heartrending, infuriating and inspiring, this book offers a chilling first-hand account of the obstacles and resistance Lewis encountered as he wound through a hellish maze of bureaucracy, until he won his day in court. The story is intensely intimate and brutally honest. It is about the suffering that inevitably results — for patients, their families, and for the health care professionals involved — when the truth is withheld.
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Beyond Blue
$26.00A significant percentage of mothers experience depression, anxiety or other psychological impacts that go well beyond the “baby blues.”For many, their post-partum depression goes undiagnosed, often due to embarrassment, lack of access to resources and the stigma associated with trying to get help. Editors of Beyond Blue, Oga Nwobosi and Christina Myers met in a postpartum support group almost two decades ago. There, they found grief, joy, wisdom, and the lifelong connections that keep us afloat during the most difficult times.
In these deeply personal essays, twenty-six mothers from all walks of life share their diverse experiences with post-partum depression. Their stories include everything from an inability to make decisions and questioning your ability to be a good parent to paranoia and thoughts of self-harm. Ultimately, these stories offer a life raft to struggling new parents, and a community for those who will see their past experiences reflected, whether they happened last year or a generation ago. From heartbreak to hope, and from helplessness to healing, the stories in Beyond Blue shed light on the often invisible and unspoken experiences of postpartum mental health.
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Beyond Ego
$19.95It’s hard to get into the boardrooms and offices of some organizations because the egos of the leaders take up way too much space. And some say that’s good; it takes big egos to make things happens.
Not so, according to Art Horn, an executive coach who leads a sales force development company. Just listen to what the people who work for these big egos have to say: “John is a smart guy and knows what he’s doing, but his swollen ego keeps subverting what we’re trying to do as a department.“ Or “Mary needs to stop focusing on her own star qualities and actually help the people who report to her. We’re here to drive results, not admire her.”
In a step-by-step, practical manner, Beyond Ego shows leaders how to move beyond ego in their day-to-day leadership tasks, thereby achieving engaged, inspired, committed, and productive teams and businesses.
Horn teaches them to self-manage, by:
- setting aside personal judgments
- being sensitive to the cravings and needs of individual employees
- focusing not on blame but on the actions it will take to produce results
Influential leaders at their best, according to Horn, listen for commitment and pull it out of people, as required. And they role-model this level of commitment in their own lives.
When ego is taken out of the equation, leaders and employees are focused on their mission — unencumbered by the politics and fears that rule in most workplaces. Instead, productivity rules the day.
This inspiring book will have a powerful impact on organizations as leaders come to see that results truly are all that matter when everyone moves together — beyond ego.
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Beyond Even Faithful Legends: Selected Poems
$17.95This volume represents the most definitive and comprehensive selection of bissett’s writing from the 1960s and 1970s, in voices “erotik, politikul, humorous, lyrikul, sound-vizual, narrative, meditative, konkreet, collage, nd song-chants.”
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Beyond Measure
$22.95The art world of mid-16th century Italy comes to life through the eyes of a piebald slave stolen from her home and family in Africa.
Chiara, as she is eventually named, is sold to Paolo Pallavicino, an artist in service of Giuliano de Medici. When several unfortunate incidents occur, the artist’s wife believes her to be a curse and demands that she be sent away. From this starting point, Chiara works her way from painter to painter, observing the games the artists play on each other and the rivalries that fuel their artistic creations.
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Beyond Recall
$19.95An exquisite painter, intellectual, social activist and articulate lesbian feminist, Mary Meigs did not begin her writing career until age sixty. While her books are grounded in the particulars of her personal relationships, they are difficult to categorize. So luminous are they with her painter’s recognition of the dance of shades and hues of context, so unsparingly lucid is her intellect of analytical and mindful thought, so unsentimental and profoundly self-aware is her heart, that her books read like the most exquisitely crafted fiction a life embraced to the fullest, and with eyes wide open, can become in its written record.
Mary Meigs suffered a stroke in 1999. Undaunted and irrepressible, Meigs embraced her fate with both a penetrating curiosity and an utterly undiminished will to create. New, discrete forms of writing emerged: an incisively contemplative journal; a beautifully witty, illustrated fax correspondence between her cat Mike and Marie-Claire Blais’s cat Mouser; and a fascinating series of collaborative “free writing” sketches, beginning with a line or phrase, usually from a poem, on which the writer elaborated without moving pen from paper.
Lise Weil has constructed a celebratory gathering of these magical pieces in Beyond Recall, Meigs’s paean to the indomitable human spirit and its triumph over the infirmities and obstacles old age imposes on the human condition.
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Beyond Sangre Grande
$28.95Caribbean literature has always been exciting and diverse, including over the past decades some of the world’s most highly regarded writers. This new anthology, Beyond Sangre Grande, brings together a contemporary selection in English from some of the key writers now living in Canada, the US, and the UK, as well as various countries of the Caribbean. Reflecting a changing world, and admitting diverse cultural influences and generational differences, these writers maintain a distinct Caribbean-ness in their acute historical awareness and in the cadences and rhythms of their language. This collection represents a range of voices, from the established and celebrated–Derek Walcott, Sam Selvon, Austin Clarke, Olive Senior–to the newer and no less exciting–Ramabai Espinet, Nalo Hopkinson, Anson Gonzalez–that demonstrates the richness of Caribbean literature in new and exciting ways.
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Beyond the Legal Limit
$24.95On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June 2013, performer and singer Pat Henman, was driving home on the highway with her 19-year-old daughter, Maia, when they were struck head-on by a drunk driver. Pat and Maia’s injuries were too complicated and life-threatening for the small hospital in Cranbrook, and they were flown to Calgary. Pat was revived four times, and her family was told to prepare for the worst. Maia had multiple breaks of all four limbs and the doctors had to induce her into a coma for more than a week. Both women spent months in the hospital recovering and undergoing major surgery. Pat had nineteen surgeries in the first week alone and Maia, a first-year university student, was left permanently disabled. This was the beginning of a long and painful struggle for their entire family.
But as Pat and Maia were rehabilitating and trying to adapt to new routines, the family’s life became engulfed in the confusing world of insurance settlements, a criminal trial against the impaired driver, and a broken legal system. Pat writes candidly about the accident and their family’s ongoing struggle in a powerful memoir demanding justice not just for her family, but for all victims.
Among the grief and anguish is a story of resilience, and recovery. Pat, with damaged vocal chords from the breathing tubes and a permanent broken shoulder with limited range, was told she was unlikely to perform again. But with determination and retraining in her late fifties, she has slowly returned to her passion–the stage. This is a story that reveals how love, community support and the compassion of many, including strangers, can be the path to survival.
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Bhopal
$16.95Bhopal, 1984. With the presence of the Carbide International pesticide factory, the city begins to claw its way out of endemic poverty. But what is to be made of the deformed babies born to women living near the factory? And the poison gas explosion that will leave three thousand people dead in just a few minutes—and will kill tens of thousands more in the years to come. How could have this happened?
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Bi-gishkoziitwin Biidaanzhed Biidaabang (Ojibwe Edition)
$16.95In this Ojibwa translation of “Rising with a Distant Dawn” by David Groulx, the author and the translator present a powerful and moving poetry collection which stretches across the boundaries of skin colour, language, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ordinary Aboriginal Canadians. The poems embrace anguish, pride, and hope. They come from the woodlands and the plains, they speak of love, of war, and of the known and the mysterious, they strike with wisdom, joy, and sadness, bringing us closer than ever before to the heart of urban Aboriginal life.
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Bibliography of Canadiana Published in Great Britain, 1519-1763
$170.00HONOURABLE MENTION: The Alcuin Citation for Excellence in Book Design
The chronological arrangement of approximately 865 titles and editions in this comprehensive bibliography of printed works published in Great Britain to 1763 (the Treaty of Paris) includes books, pamphlets, maps, broadsides, and broadsheets which concern in some way any part of the present area of Canada. Each entry includes a bibliographic description, a statement of format, pertinent references to other catalogues or bibliographies, notes about the work, and locations of known copies in Canadian libraries.
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Bibliography of McClelland and Stewart Ltd. Imprints, 1909-1985
$75.00A Bibliography of McClelland and Stewart Ltd. Imprints, 1909–1985 contains bibliographic records of all books and other materials published by McClelland and Stewart publishing company from 1909, when the first books were published, to 1985, when Jack McClelland ceased to be associated with the company. Carl Spadoni and Judith Donnelly have included all manner of books in this compilation: fiction, poetry, drama, biography, history, and other non-fiction, as well as textbooks at all levels. A good portion of the company’s books in the pre-World War II period were imported from the United States and England; the compilers have therefore listed not only Canadian books, but also works by non-Canadian writers in Canadian issues.
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Bicycle Thieves
$18.95A masterwork from one of Canada’s most important poets
Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele’s Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through elegy and acts of translation of text and of self.
The collection opens with a kind of hymn to life on the planet, sung from the peak of that urban island, Montreal — an attempt to see beyond death. The book moves into a sequence of poems described by Sharon Thesen as the poet “envisioning the passage of time under the ‘full and waning’ moon of Mount Royal’s beacon cross, recalling her Italian immigrant parents in Toronto and her current life in Montreal [. . .] a sort of Decameron.”
Thesen’s description is apt for the collection as a whole, which moves into the poet’s autobiography — in search of catharsis through literature — and pays tributes to poets who have been part of the literary landscape di Michele now inhabits. Bicycle Thieves is poetry as time machine, transcending the borders between life and death, language and culture.