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Christmas with Maud Lewis
$27.95Maud Lewis has become one of Canada’s favourite folk artists, and her buoyant winter pictures of nature, pets, farm animals, and people at work and play are among her most charming. Her hands were twisted with arthritis, but Maud earned her living by painting Christmas cards and pictures and selling them from her tiny, gaily painted one-room house beside the highway near Digby, Nova Scotia.
Originally issued in 1997 and now available in this updated edition, Christmas with Maud Lewis paints a portrait of how this spirited woman celebrated the season in her life and art. Maud’s vision of Christmas embraces skaters sliding every which way, passengers leaning over the box of a horse-drawn sleigh, smiling oxen in their best harness, and bluebirds beside their snow-covered house. The paintings in Christmas with Maud Lewis are from the large collection of the Woolaver family.
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Christopher Pratt
$40.00“When you revisit a place that matters to you for the first time in a long time it is a rich, spiritual experience, but if you then revisit such a place too frequently it loses some of its power. The power lies in the absences.” — Christopher Pratt
Widely considered to be one of Canada’s most prominent and celebrated painters, Christopher Pratt stands with other great artists — Alex Colville, Lawren P. Harris, Jean Paul Lemieux, and Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald — who influenced him and the way he represents the land. But Pratt’s greatest influence is perhaps the geography of his home province of Newfoundland.
The Places I Go focuses on Pratt’s paintings of the last decade, each revealing his observations of a place changing even as it endures. Beginning in 2005, Pratt started to travel by car to “everywhere I’ve ever been,” recording his travels in his “car books,” in his memory, and, ultimately, in his paintings.
The paintings that resulted from this journey are vintage Pratt. They are also acts of remembering, of recording, of becoming the observer of transformation. Standing on “the littoral,” looking toward the horizon, Pratt casts his eye on the perpetual presence of the ocean. Yet, his images — houses, spillways, bridges, and boats — also pay homage to the right angles of humanity. Buried in snow, at rest in a dock, they celebrate the built form.
This exquisite book, featuring essays by exhibition curator Mireille Eagan, archivist Larry Dohey, and Pratt himself, examines Pratt’s interest in and preoccupation with transformation, the act of remembering, and his abstractions of the ineffable.
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Chronicles of the Lost Years
$16.95Watson takes up his pen one last time to describe in a private memoir the true tale of Holmes’ adventures during his three-year absence from Baker Street, and provides a fictional explanation for many of the mysteries and inaccuracies found with the Sherlock Holmes collection of stories and novels.
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Chuck Farris and the Labyrinth Of Doom
$8.95Welcome to the second novel in the Chuck Farris Play-Station2 action and adventure series! In Chuck Farris and the Labyrinth of Doom, Digger and Jack are back in action, trying to destroy everything that Chuck and his friends, Josh Samson and Melody Shaw, protected in The Tower of Darkness. The Bug-Off lingers, the pasty blue flowers still grow on the bridge leading to the Demon of Runes. New video games have hit the stores, and Chuck’s already beating them. This time, he’s gearing up for the battle of his life. He’s ready. Let Digger and Jack attack, just let them. But when they do, Chuck’s in for a shock! The games have changed, and he doesn’t know how to play the right moves in the Tower of Darkness world. It seems all is lost. To make matters worse, Chuck must leave the Tower of Darkness and battle the creatures, demons, and rotting vegetation of a mutating maze: The Labyrinth of Doom. The rules keep changing, the corridors disappear before his eyes. Other things disappear. People disappear. Why? What on earth can Chuck do to save them all? The Chuck Farris action and adventure series is the first ever written about a real video game console that offers hot-breaking tips, strategies, and commentaries about Play-Station2, the hottest console in gaming history.
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Chuck Farris and the Tower of Darkness
$8.95Thirteen-year-old Chuck Farris is a video game hotshot. He knows every trick of every game worth playing. Chuck has conquered them all. The one thing Chuck can’t conquer is town bully Digger McGraw. One day, Chuck comes home with a black eye and two broken toes. Unable to play sports, he is bored sick. That’s when his mom brings home a PlayStation2 with five hot new games. Chuck beats the first game no problem. But the next day in math class, something strange happens. Chuck turns into the video game superhero! And so it goes. Every time Chuck beats a game, he turns into its real-life superhero. At first, it’s great to be able to scare the school bully half to death. But being a video game superhero gets Chuck into trouble too — with his mother, his teachers, the principal, the basketball coach. It’s hard to tame a superhero. When you’ve got power, you wanna use it! Chuck Farris and the Tower of Darkness is an adventure-packed novel — the first ever written about a real video game console — that offers hot-breaking tips about Sony’s PlayStation2. The first PlayStation, which sold 75 million units worldwide, is the hottest console in gaming history. PlayStation2 sold out as a pre-released item in most major stores in North America. Close to a million units sold within two days of the early Japanese release. The Tower of Darkness is the first in a new series. Stay tuned for Chuck Farris’s next adventure…
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Cinema of the Present
$17.95What if the cinema of the present were a Möbius strip of language, a montage of statements and questions sutured together and gradually accumulating colour? Would the seams afford a new sensibility around the pronoun ‘you’? Would the precise words of philosophy, fashion, books, architecture and history animate a new vision, gestural and oblique? Is the kinetic pronoun cinema?
These and other questions are answered in the new long poem from acclaimed poet and essayist Lisa Robertson. The book is available with four different back covers, designed by artists Hadley + Maxwell.
Praise for Lisa Robertson:
‘Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy. . . . Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt. . . . She wields languageexpertly, even beautifully.’ —The New York Times
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Cipher
$17.95A high school football star who chooses a tour of duty in Afghanistan over a potentially lucrative career in the pros. A woman whose career as a nine-ball champion was cut short at the Nationals. A motorcycle accident that leaves a boy in a wheelchair. A gun containing a single bullet. Fires destroying homes throughout Regina. An elusive best friend who makes an incredible and awful sacrifice.
And Ruby Yee’s spicy black bean balls.
All of these factors come together when Curtis Mays, football star and local hero, returns home unexpectedly to find his city mourning the death of a little girl — the granddaughter of Saskatchewan’s wealthiest man. As he begins to piece together what has happened, and how his actions may have helped cause it, he realizes that you can try to outrun the past, but you can never escape it.
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Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief
$19.95In childhood, the world seems vast, mysterious and unsettling as we attempt to meaningfully locate ourselves in its midst, and what belonging we find in adulthood is often but a veneer covering that irresoluble desire to understand “the desperate invocations of your little wanting heart.” In his poems, Tim Bowling writes with unapologetic honesty about our complex consciousness of the world and of the increasingly disconnected state of human experience, seeking always to snag on something elemental “something in the forest / and the selfa hunger / like a barbed hook in the jaw of the salmon.”
Finalist for the 2015 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize.
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Circadia
$4.95Circadia
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Circle Tour
$18.95Circle Tour, Eva Tihanyi?s ninth poetry collection, seeks and celebrates beauty in the face of despondency. Its three sectionsOuter Circle, Inner Circle, Centredraw us in as we move from the “outside” world of politics, culture, and art to the “inside” world of relationships with family, friends, and lovers, to the “core” world of the self.
The book begins with a stark announcement of hope: “If you?re reading this, / you?re still here.” It then moves to engagement with (among other things) the pandemic, feminism, and artists such as Marina Abramovic while reinforcing the healing power of Nature throughout our experiences with external, beyond-our-control circumstances. In the more personal second section, Tihanyi writes about loss through death; the continuing influence of her grandmother; the end of one love moving into a new, more profound love; the importance of friends, reminding us that “each day we must be / lucid with mutiny against despair.” The final section focuses on the selfnot just the poet’s own but the universal human Self. It confronts the process of aging and its attendant contemplations, and once again reminds us of how Nature and art can help us in our “continuous becoming.”
The poems in Circle Tour invite a sequential reading as the book gathers force as it spirals upward. It takes us on a powerful journey that ends with the ultimate affirmation that leads us full circle to our present moment: “Enough on this day / to be enormously alive.”
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Circle, The
$15.95It’s a high-school garage party. Amanda is a genius. Ily is a drug dealer. Kit is a runaway. Mutt is a mess. Will is a shit disturber. Daniel doesn’t know what he’s doing there. Everyone’s a bit too drunk and a bit too stoned and a bit uncomfortable in their own skin. It’s an explosive combination, but it’s better than being alone on a Friday night in suburbia. Youth is a dangerous time. Everyone’s just looking for a place to belong. How far will things stretch without breaking? This remarkable debut by Calgary playwright Geoffrey Simon Brown is an explosive SOS from an orphaned generation desperately looking for a place to belong.
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Circling Beacons
$20.00Circling Beacons is recognized as Blanco’s masterpiece, thanks to the fact that it introduced a new tone in Mexican poetry. The carefully structured architecture of the book does not oppose, but rather plays with the spontaneity of its masterful images. Poems inspired by surrealism, symbolism, Zen and English metaphysical poets, it is distinguished, above all, by the lessons learned in classical Chinese poetry. Blanco shows himself to be a true master of language in Circling Beacons by creating multiple layers of imagery and interpretations on each individual poem and the collection as a whole.
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Circuitry of Veins
$9.95circuitry of veins explores the relationships between women and their bodies, their families and society. Legris captures, like a photographer, the art of poetry, the essence of language, and the emotive powers of words set side by side in ink.”…reaches a kind of almost classical perfection.”–Prairie Fire”A beautifully written and politically layered exploration.”–Feminist Bookstore News”Frightening, funny, breathtaking–poems that haunt you.”–Betsy Warland
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Circumstances Alter Photographs
$35.00On Friday, April 24, 1885, Captain James Peters took the world’s first battlefield photographs under fire at the battle of Fish Creek in the Canadian Northwest Territory of Saskatchewan. As Captain of the Royal Canadian Artillery’s “A” Battery—part of the North West Field Force—he subsequently managed to expose over seventy glass plates for the duration of the battles at Duck Lake and Batoche as well, many of them again during combat with the enemy, both on the ground and on horseback. In addition to his photographic documentation of the “Northwest Rebellion” he was also a war correspondent for the Quebec Morning Chronicle. His regular dispatches, together with his images, serve as a pioneering addition to the history of war correspondents and are presented here for the first time in their entirety.
This watershed in the documentation of history was created by photographic technology, advanced to the point where “naturalist” or “detective” cameras, which came on the market in 1883, could be carried slung over the shoulder. Their faster shutter speed now allowed for hand-held photography. These cameras used coated plates that did not require preparation and could be stored for later development. Suddenly, the only restriction on any photographer was access to the action.
Neglected for over 120 years, these images literally shine new light on the War of 1885—particularly the second part of the campaign against the Indians under Big Bear, Poundmaker and Miserable Man. They are frankly astonishing in both their eerily haunting visual impact and as much by the mere fact that they even still exist.
Documenting the moment when the eighteen-year-old country of Canada turned away from becoming a Métis Nation by declaring war on its own people, this book refutes much of the revisionist history in John Ralston Saul’s A Fair Country.
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Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo
$26.95Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo lifts the curtain on carnivals in America. Here is the history of the North American side show at circuses and carnivals, along with the stories of freaks and other side show acts in other venues such as dime museums, store front shows, in vaudeville, on movie theatre stages — and even at touring whale shows. This follow-up to Seeing is Believing (ECW, 2002) tells the story of the carnival in words and pictures.
The book follows the development of the circus side show with interviews and stories from side show workers that explain the role of freaks, working acts, managers, and talkers — and explores how important grift was to circuses and how it became located inside the side show.
From circus transportation to highlights of the construction of the big top, to Lentini the three-legged man, Siamese twins, and the folks with an extra body growing right out of them, Stencell gives us an incredible and very real perspective on the circus in words and photos.
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Circus Maximus
$17.95Michaelangelo, Titian, Bernini – The Vatican’s Gallery of Maps, the Capella Paolina – La Pietà, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, The Calling of St. Matthew. Tour these and dozens of other Italian landmarks with the poems of Circus Maximus, David Starkey’s garrulous new guide to Rome, whose subjects shuffle from the Sistine Chapel to “The Ugliest Jesus in the History of Western Art.”