| 2010 NEW TITLES | |
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Blood
is Blood Endre Farkas & Carolyn Marie Souaid A collaborative book-length poem for two voices, dealing with the bloodshed in the Middle East. A powerful encounter between two poets, from diametrically-opposed backgrounds, whose cultural and personal lives intersect, clash and confront the truths and fictions that have become the destructive reality of Jews and Arabs trying to co-exist in the Middle East. |
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Out
of Grief, Singing Charlene Diehl Out of Grief, Singing is an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn. |
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Solitaria |
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It
is Just That Your House is So Far Away Steve Noyes Poignant and ironic, and searchingly funny, It is Just That Your House is So Far Away delivers a Beijing love story and a vision of 1990s China on the edge of globalism. |
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Blue
Wherever Barry Dempster Whether Barry Dempster is writing about woodpeckers, river rocks or coyotes, a vista or the tunnel of a microscope, Blue Wherever is a book about living here and now, eyes wide open. |
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Catchment
Area Jena Schmitt Streams from history, literature, art and current events converge in Jena Schmittıs debut collection, an exploration of the internal and external forces that mold our personal and cultural topographies. |
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Things
That Go Bump, Volume 2, Plays for Young Audiences Kit Brennan, editor These six recent Canadian plays for elementary school age audiences is a companion volume to 2009's Things That Go Bump, Volume 1. |
| 2009 TITLES | |
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Things
That Go Bump, Volume 1, Plays for Young Adults Kit Brennan, editor These five recent Canadian plays for young adult audiences address real and current issues. An interview with each playwright follows the script. |
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Front
Porch Mannequins Rebekkah Adams Alice, Lily and Nan spend their afternoons drinking Joy Juice on Alice's porch with her mannequin Delane.Each is more eccentric than the next, each trying to escape her own demons. |
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Pleasantly
Dead Judith Alguire Trevor and Margaret Rudley have had their share of misfortunes at The Pleasant Inn, the cherished Ontario cottage-country hotel they've owned for 25 years. And this season has begun with a rather disturbing discovery as well.a dead body in the wine cellar. |
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Our
Extraordinary Monsters Vanessa Moeller Our Extrardinary Monsters is Vanessa Moeller's debut poetry collection, which uses language(s) to build a written architecture where meaning(s) reside(s). The work resembles M.C. Escher's lithographs of impossible spaces, but ones created from language and memories where investigations of self, identity and voice occur, where dichotomies exist and where correspondence are created, sent, delivered and read. |
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Slide Barbara Myers In Slide Barbara Myers plays with the eternal present, the nunc stans, taking us through time and space, over three continents, where people, places, and events continue to co-exist in memory and in the body. |
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Imaginary
Maps |
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Passenger
Flight |
| 2008 TITLES | |
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Butter
Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School Denise Roig Butter Cream is the chronicle of an intense year of learning and tasting, dramas at the stove and in the locker room. It's about fights, friendship and competition, fallen cakes and rising dougs. And sometimes, unexpectedly, it's about the sheer joy of baking. |
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Marrying
Hungary Linda Leith When the 18-year-old daughter of Irish Communists meets a debonair young refugee from Hungary, she knows little about his country. But what she does know is so appealing that she knows she never really stood a chance of marrying anyone other than a Hungarian. |
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The
Checkout Girl |
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Paper
Oranges Carolyn Marie Souaid Paper Oranges is a poetic response to Vladimir and Estragon, Beckett's infamous pair who pin their hopes on salvation that never arrives. It explores the notion of human existence as an extended wait characterized by quiet desperation, loneliness, suffering, and the search for self. |
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Blood
Mother Su Croll How is a woman supposed to express the strange miracle of mothering without falling into hopeless cliché? Blood Mother answers with remarkable originality in poems that never background the frustrations of motherhood while celebrating the rapturous pleasures that many women are summoned to in giving birth to their children and our families. |
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Some
Days I Think I Know Things Rhonda Douglas In this contemporary retelling of the story of Cassandra, Rhonda Douglas explores what "truth" really means and asks what Homer's iconic young prophetress might have to say to anyone wise enough to pay heed toher in the 21st century. |
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Character
Actor Scott Randall In his sophomore collection Scott Randall finds the perfect pitch story after story, getting right to the heart of ordinary characters not the brilliantly burning stars, but the kind of people we see all around us every day. |
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Blue:
The Derek Jarman Poems Keith Garebian Keith Garebian splices together an engaging book-length portrait of a filmmaker, visual artist, poet, sexual rebel, and gardener who double-dared the conventions of art, desire, and filmmaking. In this life-affirming, cinematic, at turns randy and elegiac verse-biography, Keith Garebian celebrates Derek Jarman, one of the world's truly unforgettable and rebellious spirits. |
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Away Andrea MacPherson Andrea MacPherson takes us on a grand tour of Europe, where the vast legacy of human history combines with her own ancestral origins to make a mark on her. MacPherson is a traveller always aware of how her perceptionsand her selfare being shaped. In this book of quiet beauty and careful observation, MacPherson seeks to re-invent the travel poem on her own terms. |