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Nora, veuve fraîchement installée à Toronto, croit trouver refuge dans un appartement trop bon marché. Mais Henry, son voisin et propriétaire, cache derrière son apparente bienveillance une obsession malsaine.

In her poems Sue Sorensen makes visits to the Village Vanguard jazz club in June 1961, to Freud's study in London, to the novelist Henry James. Working her allusive and spirited way inside books and paintings, she has acute meetings with musicians, photographers, fictional characters-and most of all herself.

Deux voix poétiques, un dialogue avec la nature en crise : Siteseeing capture l’essence des prairies canadiennes, entre villes étouffées et campagnes brûlées. Un recueil où l’observation fine du vivant devient un acte de résistance et d’espoir.

Ela Tahoe, a runaway turned deputy sheriff, is forced to contend with a Confederate invasion of her New Mexican town three months after the conclusion of the Civil War. Ela will need to confront her heritage and past with the Apache in order to get their aid to combat this Confederate threat, leading her to look at the world from the Native American perspective once again. Conceived as a tightly paced, gut wrenching western thriller, Ela fights tooth and nail to save the lives of her townspeople and most importantly, her son. The American Western Frontier is arguably one of the most widely misrepresented histories, rife with inaccuracies and stereotypes. Black Mi'kmaq and Anishinaabe author Tristan Jones powerfully and critically reimagines and reclaims a historical retelling of the Frontier with a focus on the historically missing Indigenous narrative. Illustrated by master sequential artist Alexander Bumbulut, The Forgotten Frontier should be on everyone's reading list.

Frank has made a killing trading wheat futures on Chicago's commodities exchange. But on October 29, 1929, Frank watches in the trading pit as his fortune is wiped out in a single day. Now, holed up in a shed on the Canadian Prairies, Frank wrestles with how to redeem himself and return home. The only opportunity in sight is selling Canadian whiskey to the Chicago mob. Frank faces setbacks at every turn, including a terrifying visit to the still in the tunnels under Moose Jaw. Meanwhile in Chicago, Frank's firm is looking for him. Was it suicide? Murder? Everyone's a suspect, from the managing partner to the mob-boss mayor. Terry Kirk's Pitfall is a gripping historical thriller and a stunning debut.

In her third full-length collection, acclaimed poet Angeline Schellenberg takes a "long, loving look at the real" (to borrow theologian Walter Burghardt's phrase). With her ear formed by Ignatian spirituality, her body sensitized by neurodivergence and trauma, Schellenberg listens to the world with humour, reverence, and above all, empathy. Weaving the sights and sounds we perceive with the questions we dare to ask, Mondegreen Riffs explores the intersection of sensation, meaning, and wonder. This groundbreaking collection intertwines three series: prose poetry on the social history of colour; poems impersonating musical instruments; and lyrical answers to odd online inquiries such as "If I eat myself, would I become twice as big or disappear completely?" Schellenberg invites us to embrace a holy uncertainty, and in doing so to "mishear the most beautiful things."

Set during the dramatic Red River Resistance of 1869-1870 and the birth of Manitoba. The novel is told through the perspective of a young Irish-Canadian journalist, Conor O'Dea. Under mysterious circumstances, after working for the assassinated politician D'Arcy McGee, O?Dea is sent West, and to Sir John A. Macdonald?s horror befriends Louis Riel. Macdonald never understood Louis Riel and never really tried to. The story also includes the little known Fenian attack in Manitoba. If Louis Riel had supported his fellow Catholics, it could have been what the lieutenant governor called "A rough time of it?" But he didn't. He supported Canada. Equal parts spy thriller and love triangle and, in a time of reconciliation, this poignant novel contributes to the complicated story of Canada. Henderson and Bouchard have managed the magnificent feat of starting a very important conversation about this great land for all of those who call it home.

Jane, chanteuse en crise, découvre une partie secrète de Willow Island après une lumpectomie. Ce qu’elle y trouve va bouleverser sa vie et révéler des vérités terrifiantes sur son entourage.

1841, Shanghai. Deux jeunes Juifs bagdadis, partis de rien, deviennent seigneurs de l’opium et défient les puissantes compagnies britanniques.

À travers le regard de Mark Smith, scientifique métis en deuil, The Glint of Light explore les fractures d’une Amérique déchirée par le racisme et la violence. Un roman poignant sur l’amour, la perte et la quête de sens dans un monde en crise.

Toronto, été 1971. Quatre inconnus s’engagent dans une thérapie de groupe qui bascule dans le chaos, révélant leurs fragilités et leurs secrets. Un roman drôle et poignant sur la quête de soi et les tourments d’une époque en pleine mutation.

Moving Upstream invite à une immersion poétique au cœur des paysages et des récits ojibwé, où chaque vers révèle la beauté cachée du monde naturel.

Quand un poète en résidence découvre l’existence de son double, une enquête littéraire et métaphysique s’engage, entre identité, mystère et pandémie.

Dans un monde où les certitudes vacillent, Something's Burning explore les tensions entre générations, sexes et communautés. Janet Trull y peint avec justesse les conflits et les espoirs d'une époque en pleine mutation sociale.

In this debut collection of poetry, sparse text resonates and creates an impactful presence as the poet unpacks past trauma. Divided into four parts, this essential collection delves into the magic of resilience in finding one's way through past pains. The poet's words harness both shadow and light, the contrast creating new directions and perspectives.

Man in the Shadows is the prequel to Gordon Henderson's acclaimed historical epic, Out of the Shadows. Gripping and rich, Man in the Shadows builds on the complicated Canadian historical record and illuminates one of the most dramatic events in our history-the assassination of Canada's most eloquent Father of Confederation, and former Irish nationalist, Thomas D'Arcy McGee. As the fledgling country was forming, its security was threatened by the Fenian Brotherhood, a group of Irish republicans advocating a forcible takeover of Canada by the United States. They targeted McGee and had plans to do away with his friend Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. Man in the Shadows builds to a tipping point and captures the shocking reality of political and historical repetition that has become an immediate and integral topic of Canadian patriotism in the face of great threats.

As a young man, Daisuke enjoys the simple things, spending time with family, taking his little sister to the bakery for caramel pudding, and eating his favourite treat, taiyaki. He meets Sachiko and through acts of kindness, they fall in love. They hold hands and watch fireworks. However, war is coming. Daisuke and Sachiko are separated during a bombing of their prefecture. They vow to meet at their cherished taiyaki stand. Both are lost in the chaos and destruction. Daisuke is captured and taken as a prisoner of war to the United States. He is stripped of his name and his honour. Unable to return to Japan, he is disgraced by his own government and erased by his own family. Until now. In her singular voice and driven by the need to discover her own lineage and legacy, the author tells a story of family secrets, the ravages of war on children, and the undying love between young hearts. Based on her own Grandfather's harrowing tale, Remembering Taiyaki should be considered essential reading for all ages.

What if Mad Magazine had an unholy lovechild with Salvador Dali and that child was raised on heaping doses of psychedelia and biting political satire. Well, you wouldn't even be scratching the surface of Christian McPherson's Screaming at the Sky. One part graphic novel, told through an intimate, cerebral narrative and one part artistic madness that leaves one longing for more. You've discovered one of the most exciting visual experiences, a journey to the centre of a mind so funny, so honest, so utterly electrifying that one must ask; have you found your way here by chance?Enjoy it, there are very few "first" experiences in life. 

An elaborate cat-and-mouse game between lawman Edward Montgomery and criminal Fay Burgess, coloured with the personal history that the two have with each other as childhood friends and romantic partners. Ed and Fay's rivalry involves the vicious gangs of Enamy. The powerful debut from a rich new literary voice explores among the idea of soulmates as not just partners but as arch nemeses pondering why they cannot seem to let each other go. Deeply moving the city of Enamy is always surreal, but steadily develops into a campy, flair-driven world associated with film noir.

When Tom, an art house aficionado, returns to his hometown to attend a film studies conference, he discovers that his ex-girlfriend Esme has recently married their former prof, Cinny. Contact with the couple, gossip with his friend Nasim, and flirtation with a Hollywood bit player known as Lady Lex draw Tom into a noirish plot that may have Chabrol-ish consequences for his rival, and permanently distance him from his fiancée, a skilled harpsichordist named Ciana. As he navigates shifting islands of personal memory, Tom begins to wonder if life is not just a retcon (or the most contrived form of retroactive continuity). The price of admission includes an amateur opera matinee, a pub discourse on Godard-McBride Breathless Paradox, a giallo nightmare, and a hypnagogic hallucination inspired by a Tarkovsky retrospective, all threatened by the skintight spectre of the next superhero franchise.

The Angels are back! Faced with their most precarious mission yet, the Angels have made a pact that nothing will stop them in their fight against the injustices facing a group of young women. United by a common goal and fuelled by their growing friendship, Jula, Kat, Reiko, and their eccentric queenpin, Waffles are beginning to understand just how much their fury is needed. Both tough and touching, Curb Angels features fearless female characters on a mission that crosses borders and challenges the status quo. In the face of exploitation and violence against women, the Angels carve their own path and leave well-deserved wreckage along the way. Featuring the powerhouse team Lisa Mendis and Nyala Ali in this tour-de-force sequel to the acclaimed smash hit Curb Angels volume 1.

What if shapeshifting aliens came to Earth, but instead of taking over they just fix all our problems? Matias might be living in a utopia, but being dumped still sucks. So he distracts himself with his work, taking the weekend overtime his new alien boss offers him. That's when he discovers that his shapeshifting boss, who's an alpha male during the week, is something quite different on the weekend...

The second book in the 'Shanghai Tetralogy' is City Rising: The Bend in the River: On the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ, the most powerful man in the world, the First Emperor bequeaths a talisman - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth of Shanghai for the next 2500 years - to his three trusted followers: the Bodyguard, his favourite Courtesan, and his Head Confucian. The warning from the First Emperor before he commits suicide is to watch for the White Ships on Water and so the progeny of the three who are entrusted with the Tusk do. Then, in 1841 they arrive - British Men of War ships. And opium. City Rising: The Bend in the River tells the story of two destitute Baghdadi Jews who become opium lords, their battles against the powerful British opium companies, and the boys' eventual love of the City at the Bend in the River - Shanghai.

PAUL DRIESSEN was born in 1940, just before The Netherlands were invaded by Nazi Germany and his family lived through the Nazi occupation of Holland. Growing up with parents who were arts and culture advocates, Driessen was surrounded by music, literature, and theatre. In 1967 he moved to London to work on the animated Beatles feature The Yellow Submarine. From its Canadian director, George Dunning, he discovered the National Film Board of Canada, an organisation known for its inventive animated shorts. An award-winning director/animator/cartoonist who is the recipient of more than 50 prizes, Driessen has created some of the most acclaimed animated films and books, including an Academy Award nomination for 3 Misses and lifetime achievement awards at both the Ottawa and Zagreb animation festivals. He is recognized worldwide as one of the greatest animators and cartoonists.

After serving two years in prison for breaking the neck of the man who assaulted his sister, Arden is released on bail. He lands a job working at Tuffy's, a restaurant and bar on the beach strip, alongside his former cellmate, Slip Winegarden. Things seem to be looking good for Arden, until it all starts to unravel... When Slip is caught crossing Viktor Khernov, Tuffy's owner, Arden witnesses the madman's revenge from close quarters. Arden's parole officer tells him to find another job or lose his parole status. Meanwhile, the detective investigating Slip's murder tightens the vice by ordering Arden to stay on the job and feed him information or face the same penalty. Amid Arden's ongoing drama, trying to stay cool, is Josie Marshall, widow of a detective found murdered in front of their beach strip home a few years ago - a murder Josie solved on her own (and told in Reynolds' previous novel Beach Strip). Josie thinks men can be handy sometimes, but she'd prefer they left her alone. Fat chance, especially after her relationship with Slip Winegarden becomes known. Soon she and Arden are trying to fend off Viktor Kernov and his muscled sidekick, as well as the homicide detective determined to solve Slip Winegarden's murder, all while drawn into a romance that neither of them saw coming but both appear unable to avoid. Gritty, violent, with a distinct noir flavour and a nod to Elmore Leonard, Beach Blonde reunites readers with Josie Marshall, the witty and resourceful heroine of Beach Strip.

Robert Pasternak (NAK) is a virtuoso of the sequential art form. An adept panelologist and painstaking craftsman. Despite a loyal and attentive following, awareness of his work is limited. In many ways, what may appear to be a constraint is part of the NAK mystery and lore. The abstract comics medium is highly complex and only vaguely understood. For NAK, it's merely a brushstroke. Yet, to define this artwork as abstract could be considered derivative. To the observer, NAK is ocular candy. Psychedelic sensuality. Delve into the NAK experience, an explorative expedition contained in this first published volume of his work. This creative journey will compositionally challenge and cerebrally stretch the current understanding of comics.

Reluctant amateur detective, Reverend Charles Lauchlan, departs the prairie city of Winnipeg and travels abroad to Scotland with his fiancé Maggie on a bicycle tour of the Highlands. Two near fatal accidents put members of the tour on edge and, to make matters worse, a shadowy figure seems to be observing their every move. Stuck in the remote Highland countryside, the group is thrown back on their own resources. While Charles and Maggie are trying to decipher what these strange events mean, they make another grisly discovery. It's murder most foul and we're not just talking about Scottish weather. So Many Windings is the second in a three-book series that began with Put on an Armour of Light (winner of the Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction). Deftly wrought, meticulously researched, and scintillating with charm and period prose, Macdonald weaves a winding, cross-country tale that will require all of the detective's ingenuity and test the measure of his resolve.

When a deranged loner kills twenty-six people in a Pennsylvania schoolyard, the country is stunned and devastated. Among those catatonic with grief is Jo Matheson, an organic farmer who has lost her goddaughter in the shooting. Sam Jackson, an egotistical right-wing TV talking head, has sliding ratings and faces imminent cancellation. He arrives in Pennsylvania and during a rant, he blames the parents of the dead children. He intends the tirade to be his last salvo but, incredibly, his ratings climb, while Jo watches from her farmhouse in upstate New York, incensed. Sam rides the wave, shouting that it's time to take the country back from the left-wing weaklings who don't have the courage to protect their children. When he is asked to run for Congress, he accepts and amplifies his message. Watching these developments in horror, Jo finally decides that there actually is something she can do. She kidnaps Sam's ten-year-old daughter. The Goliath Run audiobook is read by Heidi Lange.

The Mother Goose Letters comprises the annotated correspondence between Mother Goose and her cohorts in Britain concerning migration to the Canadian Prairies. The letters reveal both her attempts to wheedle her fellow nursery rhyme characters to settle in the Prairies with her and their mixed responses to her plans. Responding to a cease and desist command from No. 10 Downing St., M. Goose categorically makes her case for the out-migration and re-migration of her stories. She supposes they will continue to live if she gives them leave to change as time, place, and experience dictate. She is, after all, a runaway Mother Goose. In print for the first time, The Mother Goose Letters presents scrupulously collated research in the form of hitherto unseen letters and previously unknown revisions of the best-known Mother Goose nursery rhymes and fairy tales. These collected works are used as the framework whereby a story of modern day immigration can be told.

Poet Sareh Farmand was born in Tehran at the start of the Islamic Revolution. In this brave first collection of poems and prose a narrative arc details her family's escape from Iran, detailing their time as immigrants in limbo, and finally, as Landed Immigrants in Canada. Using family anecdotes, memory, public documents, and images to outline her family's story, Pistachios in my Pocket moves from the personal to the universal by exploring the influences of migration, political strife, and cultural identity on humanity. Here is a new voice to the conversation on global citizenship and multiculturalism, as themes of loss, home, and belonging are explored in a new way through a wide socio-political lens and personal accounts of a family's unique, yet universal experiences. Ultimately, bringing forward the many ways immigrants are haunted after fleeing for safety and what it means to be Canadian.

In this final installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Hemphill once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the forest and the quiet sentinels that root together everything. Hemphill's prose is extraordinary in its combination of self awareness yet unselfconscious honesty and skillful restraint, creating a sense of connection under the tangle of foliage and limb that ever-reach skyward. Masterfully illustrated by artist Michael Joyal, his evocative dendrological drawings contribute to the overall sensory and transcendent experience.

Summer 1936, Wilkes County, North Carolina during the great depression. The Flagg family resides in the middle of the Appalachia – one of the hardest hit areas in the country. As the depression drags on the Flagg family watch their molasses business decimated. Jedediah, the family patriarch and his sons Morgan and Ezra struggle to produce a few meager gallons a week. That is until their sister Ava arrives home and takes control of the family business and starts running moonshine. Ava bails out ex-con Bobby Barlow and tells him he is working for the Flagg family now. With threats mounting from rival clans and the local cops breathing down Bobby's neck, he and Ava devise a plan to play them all, one against the other. They don't necessarily do it by legal means but that doesn't bother them. To live outside the law, you must be honest.