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"Smart, beautifully written, and really, really, funny satire featuring Arthur Beauchamp." – The Globe and Mail
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Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Award
In this zany political thriller, the leader of the despotic Asian nation of Bhash…
"Smart, beautifully written, and really, really, funny satire featuring Arthur Beauchamp." – The Globe and Mail
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Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Award
In this zany political thriller, the leader of the despotic Asian nation of Bhash…
Not far away from here is a lake. You have to pay for access to its shores, but I know where there's a hole in the fence. The water will be icy, but it will still be in a liquid state. That's what I will do today. I will go through the hole…
Not far away from here is a lake. You have to pay for access to its shores, but I know where there's a hole in the fence. The water will be icy, but it will still be in a liquid state. That's what I will do today. I will go through the hole…
The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) navigates the unsettling, but necessary. When love of, and respect for, culture goes awry, it is our Indigenous women who bring us back to what is important. This novel is an interweaving of stories centred on a…
The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) navigates the unsettling, but necessary. When love of, and respect for, culture goes awry, it is our Indigenous women who bring us back to what is important. This novel is an interweaving of stories centred on a…
Houses are often considered the most haunted of places. In this book you'll meet some young people who live in haunted houses and you'll explore some of the spookiest spaces on the planet.
Houses are often considered the most haunted of places. In this book you'll meet some young people who live in haunted houses and you'll explore some of the spookiest spaces on the planet.
Живущая в глуши смотрительница заповедника Айно обнаруживает на берегу озера едва живого мужчину. Лингвист Томас только что прилетел в Финляндию, его похитили прямо из аэропорта, накачали парализующим веществом, раздели и бросили в воду.
Айно выхаж…
Живущая в глуши смотрительница заповедника Айно обнаруживает на берегу озера едва живого мужчину. Лингвист Томас только что прилетел в Финляндию, его похитили прямо из аэропорта, накачали парализующим веществом, раздели и бросили в воду.
Айно выхаж…
A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant collects the writing of Beth Brant, Mohawk lesbian poet, essayist, and activist. During her life, Brant's work gave voice to an often unacknowledged Two-Spirit identity, and today, her words represe…
A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant collects the writing of Beth Brant, Mohawk lesbian poet, essayist, and activist. During her life, Brant's work gave voice to an often unacknowledged Two-Spirit identity, and today, her words represe…
An updated and whimsical new take on what it means to be Canadian.
Featuring the Journey Prize-shortlisted story, «How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?»
When asked in an interview about the Shanghai Sharks, the team that shaped his formati…
An updated and whimsical new take on what it means to be Canadian.
Featuring the Journey Prize-shortlisted story, «How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?»
When asked in an interview about the Shanghai Sharks, the team that shaped his formati…
Move back through time into the alluring worlds of the Alchemists' Council
The anticipated second book in Cynthea Masson's series takes readers to Flaw Dimension, centuries before the events of book one. Rebel scribe Genevre, exploring secr…
Move back through time into the alluring worlds of the Alchemists' Council
The anticipated second book in Cynthea Masson's series takes readers to Flaw Dimension, centuries before the events of book one. Rebel scribe Genevre, exploring secr…
Writing at the top of her game, Sharon Butala returns to the short story in this astounding new collection. In Butala&#39;s world, the season of fury and wonder is the season of old age. The stories in this book are the stories of women who have …
Writing at the top of her game, Sharon Butala returns to the short story in this astounding new collection. In Butala&#39;s world, the season of fury and wonder is the season of old age. The stories in this book are the stories of women who have …
Действие почти всех романов Орхана Памука происходит в Стамбуле, городе загадочном и прекрасном, пережившем высочайший расцвет и печальные сумерки упадка. Подобная двойственность часто находит свое отражение в характерах и судьбах героев, неспособных…
Действие почти всех романов Орхана Памука происходит в Стамбуле, городе загадочном и прекрасном, пережившем высочайший расцвет и печальные сумерки упадка. Подобная двойственность часто находит свое отражение в характерах и судьбах героев, неспособных…
On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree – and that's where it all starts. This transgressive, darkly affecting love s…
On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree – and that's where it all starts. This transgressive, darkly affecting love s…
Finally, after 58 years The Body on Mount Royal is back in print, starring hard-drinking private dick, Russell Teed.From the back cover of the 1953 edition: Take a brutally beaten body, a lonely spot on Montreal&#39;s famous mountain, and a buxum…
Finally, after 58 years The Body on Mount Royal is back in print, starring hard-drinking private dick, Russell Teed.From the back cover of the 1953 edition: Take a brutally beaten body, a lonely spot on Montreal&#39;s famous mountain, and a buxum…
It is 2058, and the glaciers are gone. A catastrophic drought has hit the prairies. Willa Van Bruggen is desperately trying to keep her family goat farm afloat, hoping against hope that the new water pipeline arrives before the bill collectors do.
Wi…
It is 2058, and the glaciers are gone. A catastrophic drought has hit the prairies. Willa Van Bruggen is desperately trying to keep her family goat farm afloat, hoping against hope that the new water pipeline arrives before the bill collectors do.
Wi…
The bonds between women are hard to break. Tomboy Joan Ogden just wants to move to London, study medicine,
and live with Elizabeth. But her mother has other ideas. She wants her to remain at home, and stay away from a career, men, and especially wome…
The bonds between women are hard to break. Tomboy Joan Ogden just wants to move to London, study medicine,
and live with Elizabeth. But her mother has other ideas. She wants her to remain at home, and stay away from a career, men, and especially wome…
A woman must emerge from the virtual world she’s created to confront her flesh-and-blood past and family.
Growing up with a menacing drunk for a father and a grief-stricken mother, a girl spends her 1980s childhood staring at the television to escape…
A woman must emerge from the virtual world she’s created to confront her flesh-and-blood past and family.
Growing up with a menacing drunk for a father and a grief-stricken mother, a girl spends her 1980s childhood staring at the television to escape…
Действие разворачивается в маленьком городке на самом севере Швеции. Пять юных девушек встречаются в читательском клубе, обсуждая любимые книги. Однако напряжение нарастает, ведь все девушки влюблены в одного парня по имени Викинг. После очередного к…
Действие разворачивается в маленьком городке на самом севере Швеции. Пять юных девушек встречаются в читательском клубе, обсуждая любимые книги. Однако напряжение нарастает, ведь все девушки влюблены в одного парня по имени Викинг. После очередного к…
Henry «Biggie» Abbott is the son of one of Finch, Iowa's most famous athletes. His father was a baseball legend and his step-dad is a close second. At an obese 300+ pounds though, Biggie himself prefers classroom success to sports. As a perfecti…
Henry «Biggie» Abbott is the son of one of Finch, Iowa's most famous athletes. His father was a baseball legend and his step-dad is a close second. At an obese 300+ pounds though, Biggie himself prefers classroom success to sports. As a perfecti…
"WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fic…
"WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fic…
Ghost stories from Canada's most haunted city, including tales from iconic sites such as the Empress hotel, Hatley Castle, and Ross Bay Cemetery.
Beautiful, charming Victoria is world renowned for its seaside attractions, flourishing gardens, an…
Ghost stories from Canada's most haunted city, including tales from iconic sites such as the Empress hotel, Hatley Castle, and Ross Bay Cemetery.
Beautiful, charming Victoria is world renowned for its seaside attractions, flourishing gardens, an…
Is it possible that there are family pets so loyal they return even after death? Some people report experiencing the sensation of a cat rubbing up against a pant leg after their favorite feline has gone to its reward. Or what of the long-standing tal…
Is it possible that there are family pets so loyal they return even after death? Some people report experiencing the sensation of a cat rubbing up against a pant leg after their favorite feline has gone to its reward. Or what of the long-standing tal…