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The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden
Philippa Dowding (Dundurn Press) From Dundurn Press:This morning, I woke up on the ceiling … So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she...
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Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk
Sam Sutherland (ECW Press) From ECW Press:read more
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Gustave
Remy Simard and Pierre Pratt, illustrator, Shelley Tanaka, translator (Groundwood Books) From Groundwood Books:A little mouse and his friend, Gustave, go out to play one afternoon in this darkly comic...
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Fifteen Dogs
André Alexis and Evan Munday, illustrator (Coach House Books) From Coach House Books:And so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a...
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Nerve Squall
Sylvia Legris (Coach House Books) From Coach House Books:Nerve Squall is a field guide like no other, a surreal handbook to a landscape at the crossroads of meteorology and neurology, where the...
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A More Perfect [
Jimmy McInnes (BookThug) From BookThug:Taking as its source text Barack Obama’s campaign speech from March 18, 2008, A More Perfect [ by Jimmy McInnes acts as a poetic translation of the rhetorical...
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Kapusta
Erin Mouré (House of Anansi) From House of Anansi Press:In Kapusta, Moure performs silence on the page and aloud, writing "gesture" and "voice" to explore the relation between responsibility and place,...
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Wrapped In Plastic: Twin Peaks
Andy Burns (ECW Press) From ECW Press:In 1990, avant garde filmmaker David Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet) and acclaimed television writer Mark Frost (Hill Street Blues) teamed...
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Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
Lisa Robertson (Coach House Books) From Coach House Books:read more
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Congotronic
Shane Book (House of Anansi) From House of Anansi:The second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.At once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s Congotronic takes the...
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Dear Leader
Damian Rogers (Coach House Books) From Coach House Books:I'm ill-equipped for this. I sit by a fake fireplacethat frames a real flame. I've been crossed by two crows today.read more
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Darkmarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You
Misha Glenny (House of Anansi) From House of Anansi:The benefits of living in a digital, globalised society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer's nightmare and...
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All Monsters Must Die
Magnus Bärtås and Fredrik Ekman, Translated by Saskia Vogel (House of Anansi) From House of Anansi:In 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is founded by General Kim Il-sung.In 1978, North...
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Staying Human During Residency Training: How to Survive and Thrive After...
Dr. Allan D. Peterkin (University of Toronto Press) From University of Toronto Press:The ultimate survival guide for medical students, interns, residents and fellows, Staying Human during Residency...
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Sweet Lechery
Jeet Heer (Porcupine's Quill) From Porcupine's Quill:In Sweet Lechery, cultural journalist Jeet Heer offers a quirky collection of literary criticism that touches on a wide range of contemporary...
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A Free Man
Michel Basilières (ECW Press) From ECW Press:An unusual and remarkable dystopian novelA Free Man is a satirical tall tale presented as the drug and alcohol fuelled conversation of two old friends...
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Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something
Paul Vermeersch (ECW Press) From ECW Press:Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on...
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Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
Neil Peart (ECW Press) From ECW Press:Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world...
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Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects
Catherine Graham (Wolsak & Wynn) From Wolsak & Wynn:In her fifth collection of poetry, Catherine Graham breaks into rich, new territory. Long recognized for the easy grace and strange beauty of...
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How Do You Read to a Rabbit?
Andrea Wayne von Konigslow (Annick Press) From Annick Press:Have you ever tried reading to an alligator?Probably not. After all, he would most likely eat your book. How about a bat? Maybe that's not...
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