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  • This Time a Better Earth, by Ted Allan

    A Critical Edition

    by Ted Allan ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    A young Canadian marches over the Pyrenees and enters into history by joining the International Brigades—men and women from around the world who volunteered to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. This new edition of Ted Allan’s novel, This Time a Better Earth, reintroduces readers to the electrifying milieu of the Spanish Civil War and Madrid, which for a short time in the 1930s became ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Canada and the Spanish Civil War

    An Anthology

    Edited by Professor Bart Vautour, Emily Robins Sharpe ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired an outpouring of responses among Canadian cultural producers. Yet, the war and its influence on Canada literature have received little attention in histories of Canadian cultural production. This anthology attempts to remedy this gap and inspire future research into Canadian Spanish Civil War literature. The anthology brings together a selection of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • A Different Species of Breathing

    The Poetry of Sue Goyette

    by Sue Goyette, Erin Wunker ...
    Series series Laurier Poetry
    What can it look like for poetry to bear witness? What might it feel like for a poem to keep company? A Different Species of Breathing: The Poetry of Sue Goyette offers an introduction to the work of a poet whose writing attends to these large and connected questions.Goyette’s poetry experiments with (and pushes at the edges of) lyric poetry to explore webs of connection. Whether considering the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Truth About Facts

    by Bart Vautour ...
    The Truth About Facts makes intimate the seeming noise of information and facts by using the tradition of the alphabet book to get back to basics: to make room for wonder, devotion, and a reinvigorated role for poetry in both quick and methodological thought. Vautour leads his readers on an info-drenched, abecedarian jaunt that is both tongue-in-cheek and unquestionably earnest. Ranging from ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Public Poetics

    Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics

    Edited by Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason, Christl Verduyn ...
    Series series TransCanada
    Public Poetics is a collection of essays and poems that address some of the most pressing issues of the discipline in the twenty-first century. The collection brings together fifteen original essays addressing “publics,” “poetry,” and “poetics” from the situated space of Canada while simultaneously troubling the notion of the nation as a stable term. It asks hard questions about who and what count ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Meet Me on the Barricades

    by Charles Yale Harrison ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    Meet Me on the Barricades is Harrison’s most experimental work. The novel includes a series of fantasy sequences that culminate in a scene heavily indebted to the Nighttown episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses (the novel was published a year before James Thurber’s better-known short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”). The novel is also Harrison’s only foray into satire—an especially unexpected ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Indian Horse

    by Richard Wagamese ...
    New York Times 'Notable Book'Literary Hub 'Best Novel of the Decade'Globe and Mail 'Top 100 Books'Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys.With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese tr... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homage to Catalonia

    by George Orwell ...
    This is Orwell's memoir of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War - a groundbreaking work of dissident literature drawn from vivid personal experience.There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all...This is dissident literature drawn from vivid personal experience. Orwell volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War, was near-fatally wounded and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Congratulations, by the way

    Some Thoughts on Kindness

    by George Saunders ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Homage To Catalonia

    by George Orwell ...
    At the height of the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell served from 1936-1937 as a private for the POUM, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist party. Seriously wounded in action and betrayed by the Communist Party, Orwell and his wife, Eileen, narrowly escaped arrest and returned to England in early summer 1937. Homage to Catalonia is Orwell’s moving account of his ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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  • Spain In Our Hearts

    Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Hemingway and George Orwell: A tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed.For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Last Son of Tomorrow

    A Tor.Com Original

    by Greg van Eekhout ...
    Series series A Tor.Com Original
    What is there to do, when you have the power to do anything? John can fly, he can see through solid objects, he can take over the world and give it back again, but what he's looking for is something else…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD