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Celia’s Song
$20.00Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her village, on the West coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu’Chahlnuth territory.
Celia is a seer who — despite being convinced she’s a little “off” — must heal her village with the assistance of her sister, her mother and father, and her nephews.
While mink is visiting, a double-headed sea serpent falls off the house front during a fierce storm. The old snake, ostracized from the village decades earlier, has left his terrible influence on Amos, a residential school survivor. The occurrence signals the unfolding of an ordeal that pulls Celia out of her reveries and into the tragedy of her cousin’s granddaughter.
Each one of Celia’s family becomes involved in creating a greater solution than merely attending to her cousin’s granddaughter.
Celia’s Song relates one Nuu’Chahlnuth family’s harrowing experiences over several generations, after the brutality, interference, and neglect resulting from contact with Europeans.
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Céline
$39.95An unprecedented look at Céline Dion in the spotlight and behind the scenes
Céline Dion is one of the most immediately recognized, widely respected, and successful performers in pop music history, having sold more than 200 million albums. This collection of over 600 previously unpublished photographs — from tender family moments and glimpses of Céline with other celebrities and stars to private backstage views and captivating scenes on the stage — gives fans unprecedented access to the woman with pop music’s most influential voice.
In the text accompanying the photos, brilliantly written by Diane Massicotte, Céline: Beyond the Image is also the story of Laurent Cayla, a photographer who struggles with alcohol and drugs and who leaves despair behind as he spends time with the vibrant Céline and René. Revealing the never-before-seen side of an international superstar, Céline: Beyond the Image also includes a foreword from Céline and René.
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Celluloid City
$24.95One summer’s day, a man is lured out of his garden for a private conversation. Ms. Teller, the daughter of his mentor, gives him the task of tracking down Modal, a suspect in the eyes of the Non-Crime Unit. The former agent (with a telltale “M” monogrammed on his pajamas) gives himself “the name of a famous detective” and sets out on his local odyssey, leaving his wife and daughter behind.
The agent’s first steps put him in touch with PQ, a disgraced police clerk, CM, an alluring harpsichordist, Dr. VK, a travelling psychiatrist, and Barbie, a surprisingly resourceful realtor. He takes up lodging with an eccentric family in their “complex” and soon finds himself spending time with an actress, a linguist, a transcriber, and a Shakespeare professor, all with something to share about Modal.
Still haunted by a botched operation and the memory of his fellow infiltrator, Esme, the agent persists in using the method detailed in Teller’s procedural guide, Scent of a Non-Crime. Yet his overidentification with Modal is the least of his worries as the anticipated conflict inches dangerously close to home. Scent of a Non-Crime is the third book Morse’s acclaimed ‘Tulpaverse’, preceded by Tulpa Mea Culpa and Retcon.
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Century
$21.95The fourth title in Biblioasis’ Renditions Series, Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle of the Seymour family that moves from Austria, America, and Africa to Edinburgh and Venice–back through Paris of the Belle Epoque and forward to Germany of 1923.
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Cephalopography 2.0
$20.00Cephalopography 2.0 is as much a passionate celebration of cephalopods in all their plurality and finery as it is a collection of poems exploring human identity and experience through the lens of these marine animals. Through experimental takes on traditional poetic forms such as ghazals, tankas and cinquains, as well as more contemporary forms, Rasiqra Revulva delves into ecopoetics and marine biology, creating unique and beautifully composed poems. Cephalopography 2.0 plunges into the depths of human experience to pull out diverse perspectives of how cephalopods and humanity are linked together in ways that stretch beyond the land and the sea.
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Certifiable
$16.95Toronto writer Pamela Mordecai is a well-known voice in poetry of the Caribbean diaspora. She has long been a popular anthologist, a mentor to other writers, a frequent contributor to literary journals, and a vital link between the literary worlds of Canada and Jamaica; Certifiable presents a maturing vision of women’s lives in both of her homes. Certifiable celebrates experience shot through with affection, family attachment, and madness.
The poems in the first section, “Just a Likl Loving,” explore the truths hidden beneath the ideal of love: love as comfort, love as currency, love as deathtrap. “Sister Sequence” embraces the fullness of sisterhood, from the conceptual “sister muse” as a power in the world to the ambivalent love among flesh-and-blood sisters. “Certifiable,” the final section, springs from intimacy with little and big madnesses.
The rhythms and rhymes of the creole soundscape crackle through Certifiable. Mordecai’s deft hand wordplay flows through and beyond standard English and the Creole continuum to reveal the characters in Certifiable and record their experiences.
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Ch’askin
$9.95Ch’askin is the great thunderbird whose appearance heralds rumbling thunder, a darkening sky and flashes of lightning — as well as good luck for the people of the Sechelt Nation. This compelling book recounts how this enormous and awe-inspiring bird — who looks like a golden eagle except much, much larger — aided and protected the members of the Sechelt villages for many years in many ways. From helping Chief Spelmu’lh, the father of the Sechelt Nation, build both the first longhouse and the many villages of his people, to delivering goats and grizzly bears for the hungry people to eat and creating islands from pebbles for the tired Sechelt hunters to rest, the story of Ch’askin is a story of protection, friendship and respect for fellow living beings.
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Chai Tea Sunday
$14.95Explore the true resilience of the heart and our raw determination to find goodness in a world fraught with adversity
One woman’s courage in the face of personal tragedy is at the heart of Heather A. Clark’s debut novel. Thirty-three-year-old Nicky Fowler thought her whole life was mapped out — a rewarding career as a third grade teacher, an adoring husband, and the perfect house in the suburbs — but complicated fertility issues lead to a devastating tragedy. Nicky’s marriage crumbles and she’s left unable to cope with her now-changed life.
When Nicky accepts a volunteer teaching position at an orphanage in Kenya, she finds that life there is unlike the world she’s known. Drought has brought famine, violence is everywhere, and the jaded orphanage director takes out her hatred on the parentless children.
But Nicky finds strength in Mama Bu, her host mother, who provides wisdom and perspective over cups of chai, Kenya’s signature drink. Nicky comes to realize that she must do much more than teach the orphans — she must save them.
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Chainsaw Earle
$14.95“Chainsaw Earle” is an original and highly amusing song written by Wayne Chaulk and Kevin Blackmore of the band Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers. A popular request wherever the group performs, the tune is featured in at least four videos on youtube.com. Wayne claims the song is based on a guy in his home town who was “absolutely fixated on the chainsaw” and loved the smell of oil fumes and the damage it could do to a tree. “Chainsaw Earle” was finished in 1990 while the two musicians were driving along the South Shore of Nova Scotia and can be found on the band’s album entitled “The Miracle Cure.”
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Chalk
$18.00Winner of the 38th Annual 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest
“You” and L, a mysterious third gender runaway, hit the road on a mission to find the meaning of life. Traveling by plane, bus and car, You run into trouble with the cops, mourn a family tragedy, smoke hundreds of cigarettes, attend a retirement party, come to terms with a broken heart, and discover that all roads lead back to where You started – in the flowers drawn by two little girls in coloured chalk on the sidewalk.
Selected Praise:
The book’s central conceit, that modern society is injurious to human relationships and honest communication, is well expressed. The use of chalk drawing as a motif for the difficulties of emotional honesty is effective, especially at the very end of the work, where rain threatens to blur and erase any attempt at expression through the drawings. Pulling the reader in, the immediacy of Diaczuk’s narrative is compelling and stands out alongside some of his stylistic inventions as the best thing about this book, gritty realism running against the desire for connection, the failure to understand and communicate at odds with the need for self-expression.” (Vancouver Sun)
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Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers
$24.95In June 1964, courageous young civil rights workers risked their lives in the face of violence, intimidation, illegal arrests, and racism to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. With a firsthand account of the details and thoughtful descriptions of key people on the front lines, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles McLaurin, John Harris, Irene McGruder, and many more, author Jim Dann brings that historic period back to life. He places those 15 months in Mississippi?known as Freedom Summer?in the overall history of the struggle of African Americans for freedom, equality, and democratic rights in the South, the country, and throughout the world. Fraught with lessons drawn from those experiences, Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers is a valuable contribution to understanding and advancing civil rights struggles in addition to being a fascinating and engrossing story of a pivotal moment in the mid-20th-century United States.
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Chameleon (Days)
$19.95What happens when the narrator is removed from a story? When the author’s real life is fictionalized instead, so that creator and creation relate on the same existential ground with no middleman? Chameleon (Days) is such an experiment in storytelling, a literary novel that explores an author’s psychotic break as he prepares to write an idea he has apparently stolen, one prompted by the discovery of a secondary character in his walk-in closet. A fictional day-to-day narrative structured around the search for Kashif, a feared and hunted terrorist labeled the Chameleon for the many facial surgeries he has incurred to disguise his identity, Chameleon (Days) bridges its author’s life to the evolution of Kashif’s story creating a fiction “while life happens,” which often manifests itself in interference, inspiration, and the perils of letting your character know who his creator is.
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Chameleon and Other Stories
$17.95“The leopard may not be able to change its spots, but the chameleon sure can.” In Chameleon & Other Stories, Bill Schermbrucker takes as his central metaphor a creature who changes its colour to reflect and blend in with the environment, just as human beings are sometimes asked to change their colour to reflect and blend in, to protect themselves and to adapt—and cannot; a creature who sits there, very still, eyes looking in separate directions, bearing witness to movement and change. Chameleon & Other Stories is a book about constants; and a book about change. Bill Schermbrucker writes: “You can’t forget your roots. The events and people of my childhood and young adult years are constantly present to me. I hear their voices and, at the most unexpected times, I’m suddenly thrown back to the land itself.” Set in Kenya, the book is a collection of eight short stories which are told from the point of view of Alistair, a young man who is growing up during the time of Mau Mau and subsequent independence. With his strong, clear memory of the past and the country in which he himself grew up, Schermbrucker presents a multi-layered portrait of character, place and time in Chameleon & Other Stories. He writes: “Accent, like clothing style, may change; but memory does not vanish. It doesn’t even fade. It gets more intense and brighter. Partly this comes from isolation… With nobody around to confirm, deny or enlarge on what I say, the sound of my own stories becomes terribly authentic in my head. People sometimes ask me if the stories are autobiographical. The answer is: ‘No, no— much clearer!’” Chameleon & Other Stories is Bill Schermbrucker’s first, very intriguing, very assured book of short stories.
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Champ
$6.95Part chronicle, part meditation, this witty and unusual collection of poems deals with the life and professional career of Tommy Burns, the Canadian who became Heavyweight Champion of the world.
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Chance
$24.95Dragan was a Yugoslav peasant who flirted with the ideals of Communism and aspired to become a teacher. Instead, he became a slave in a German labour camp. Galina was an only child growing up in the harsh reality of Stalinist Russia. She survived the siege of Leningrad only to be exiled and enslaved in her turn. Chance is the true story of two ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times. Displaced by war and the vagaries of politics, Dragan and Galina met and married in the chaos that followed the conflict. For them, survival was not a question of heroes and victims but simply a matter of chance.
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Chandelier
$22.95Award-winning poet David O’Meara captures one family’s precarious balance between misery and hope in his debut novel.
Twenty-year-old Georgia is reeling from severe depression after the death of her best friend when she arrives in South Korea. Everyone teaching English is there for one of two reasons—adventure or escape—and she quickly falls in with a group of other foreigners. She eases into a life of late-night bars, riotous student protests and surfing until some unexpected news forces her to face the problems she has left behind.
Hugo Walser is bound for Barcelona to publicly confront the man he’s convinced is presenting a keynote speech about Hugo’s controversial failure as an architect. Determined to drink away his pain until the big event, Hugo rambles through the city, distracted by thoughts of how he’s failed his family. When the police call to investigate the disappearance of his ex-wife, Sarah Trimble, Hugo turns his attention to all he stands to lose.
Meanwhile, Sarah, a high-end real estate agent, has been duped out of her life savings by a con man. En route to sell her last asset, the neglected family cottage in Gatineau, she’s derailed when her car is caught in a flash flood. Alone and desperate, she seizes one last chance to right a wrong.
Following a modern family’s dysfunction, Chandelier is a three-part portrait of a young adult and her divorced parents as they navigate profound loss and disappointment and the crux between despair and optimism.