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  • Western Taxidermy

    by Barb Howard ...
    Roadkill stuffed and presented as art, an OB/GYN appointment gone horribly wrong, and government spies with a weakness for salmon bagels and Timmy Ho’s. Tender, satirical, and occasionally absurd, Barb Howard’s new story collection Western Taxidermy is a perfect introduction to one of Western Canada’s most high-spirited literary voices. In these sixteen stories, Howard effortlessly balances wry ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Still Doing Life

    22 Lifers, 25 Years Later

    Side-by-side, time-lapse photos and interviews, separated by twenty-five years, of people serving life sentences in prison, by the bestselling author of The Little Book of Restorative Justice"Shows the remarkable resilience of people sentenced to die in prison and raises profound questions about a system of punishment that has no means of recognizing the potential of people to change." —Marc ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Still Doing Life

    22 Lifers, 25 Years Later

    Side-by-side, time-lapse photos and interviews, separated by twenty-five years, of people serving life sentences in prison, by the bestselling author of The Little Book of Restorative Justice“Shows the remarkable resilience of people sentenced to die in prison and raises profound questions about a system of punishment that has no means of recognizing the potential of people to change.” —Marc Mauer ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Happy Sands

    by Barb Howard ...
    Series Book 20 - Brave & Brilliant
    Ginny Johnson, her husband Martin, and their two kids, Alistair and Ruby, spend a week at Happy Sands Resort every summer. And it’s always perfect. Mostly perfect. It could be perfect. Probably.This year, Ginny’s expectations are dashed again as Martin spends all his time sleeping, eight-year-old Ruby turns anything and everything into a competition, and teenage Alistair avoids the sun and his ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Embedded on the Home Front

    Where Military and Civilian Lives Converge

    Edited by Joan Dixon, Barb Howard ...
    Home front. It’s hard to separate that word from war. In the First and Second World Wars, the home front was a clear entity and location: if you weren’t on the frontlines, you were on the home front. But during current times of peacekeeping, peacemaking and armed interventions, the notion of home front seems to comprise only those who are in some way directly affected by the military: family and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Tailings of Warren Peace

    by Stephen Law ...
    A corrupt mining company, repossessed gravestones, a man’s fractured past, mysterious notes posted to lampposts and murder deep in the highlands of Guatemala. In Tailings of Warren Peace, Stephen Law effortlessly weaves these elements into a powerful story of love and memory, exploring how the past haunts us and how solidarity can save us all. Mysterious, passionate and powerful, Tailings of ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

    An Anatomy of a Book Burning

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Series series Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Devil You Know

    by Jenn Farrell ...
    The Devil You Know is the follow-up volume to Farrell’s critically acclaimed debut collection, Sugar Bush & Other Stories. These stories deal with sex, love, work, birth, and death in alternately moving, shocking, funny, and at times devastating ways. Whether these characters are facing the death of a parent, bad love choices, the possibility of unwanted pregnancy, the rupture of friendships, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Modern and Normal

    by Karen Solie ...
    Shortlisted for the 2006 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and longlisted for the 2006 ReLit Awards. A Globe 100 title in 2005.Evade your eye. Try to see as others dowhat is desired or refused. What went wrong.Or right, then wrong. Objectively, what hangs.Pull yourself together. Years are neither kindnor cruel. You drag on. The girl is gone.Consider that it might be time to call ina professional. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Branded by the Pink Triangle

    A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Baggage

    by Jill Sooley ...
    ACCLAIMED NEWFOUNDLAND AUTHOR Jill Sooley’s second novel, Baggage, examines the step family. Drawing on humour and heart¬break, as she did in Widows of Paradise Bay, this story unfolds from the perspectives of three women – Marie, mother and stepmother; Floss, Marie’s daughter who grew up in a broken home and must deal with her mother’s second marriage; and Lolly, the rebellious step¬daughter and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Missing Matisse

    by Jan Rehner ...
    Who is the mysterious woman in the Matisse drawing, Woman in a Blouse, Dreaming? What secrets is she hiding? Chloe Rea grew up with the Matisse sketch and believes the woman in the famous Rumanian blouse is her grandmother. But the sketch now belongs to Adam Jensen, who inherited it after his brother’s sudden death in the south of France. Now Chloe wants the sketch back, but someone else is ... Read more

    $8.69 USD