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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 2014 Red Cedar Book Award - Shortlisted 2014 Forest of Reading, Silver Birch Express - Shortlisted, Fiction 2013 Diamond Willow Award - Shortlisted 2013 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award - Shortlisted 2013 Saskatchewan Young Reader's Choice Award - Shortlisted 2013 White Ravens Award - Commended What do you do when the park next door is inhabited by 400-year-old creatures? Christopher has a problem. He has just moved to Toronto. He has a new school and no friends. But even worse, the park next door is creepy: voices whisper in the bushes, and something throws apples at his window and howls at the moon. But what? Gargoyles! Their names are Gargoth and Ambergine, and they need help. An evil thief called the Collector is after them and wants to lock them away in his dark mansion, forever. Befriending a gargoyle takes courage, but it's worth it. Once he does, Christopher suddenly has more friends than he ever imagined, including Katherine, a girl from his class who knows the gargoyles, as well. When the Collector steals Ambergine, it's up to Christopher and Katherine to get her back, as long as something else doesn't catch them along the way. This is the third book in the award-nominated Lost Gargoyle series. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Being totally scared of the ocean is no big deal when it means being on TV with the boy of your dreams right?Hannah Smart is the happiest shes ever been. Shes doing great in school, shes got her own spot on the Friday evening news, and shes desperately in love with the boy next door.But when Hannahs boss asks her to be part of a treasure-hunting reality show for teens, she instantly feels ill. For most kids, a high-seas adventure searching for treasure would sound amazing, but for Hannah, who suffers horribly from seasickness, its a total nightmare. When she finds out that her crush and the more perfect than perfect Piper Steele will both be there, she has no choice, and agrees to the trip. In true Hannah fashion, she comes up with a plan to overcome her fears once and for all.What she doesnt know is that Piper has a cunning plan as well, which means stormy seas for Hannah Smart.CCBCs Best Books for Kids & Teens (Spring 2017) Selection Hannah Smart is terrified of the ocean, but when the TV network wants her to participate in the same shipwreck treasure-hunting reality show as the boy shes crazy about and the girl he may have once kissed how can she say no? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Life is changing for Canadas Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory.In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, and they embark on a perilous journey home. But with winter closing in, will Red Wolf and Crooked Ear survive? And if they do, what will they find? This novel tells the story of Red Wolf, a young First Nations boy forced to move into a residential school and assume a new identity. Paralleling his story is that of Crooked Ear, an orphaned wolf pup he has befriended. Both must learn to survive in the white man's world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 101 true stories to surprise and delight Canadian music fans.Did you know that Serena Ryder played the quietest concert ever from the ocean floor during low tide at Fundy National Park? Or that Ill Never Smile Again, the hit that launched Frank Sinatras career, was written by Toronto pianist Ruth Lowe? What about Canadian R&B-singer Liberty Silver playing with the Wild Bunch and opening for Bob Marley at Madison Square Gardens when she was only twelve years old? Did you know that title of the Tragically Hip 1991 album Road Apples is not talking about apples?In 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts, author and historian David McPherson shares these and 98 other tales gathered from his more than twenty-five years working in the music industry. Music lovers and trivia buffs alike will enjoy perusing this collection of stories gathered from coast to coast to discover fun facts and hilarious tales from Canadas music industry. Did you know that Serena Ryder played the quietest concert ever on tidal sands and beat the rising tide? Did you know that Meryl Streep is a huge Blue Rodeo fan? Music lovers and trivia buffs alike will love this collection of stories, discovering fun facts and hilarious tales from Canadas music industry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This humorous and heartfelt collection of Christmas tales reflects on the best of the holiday: family, tradition, binge drinking, divorce, and poop. Roberts Hill (or The Time I Pooped My Snowsuit) and Other Christmas Stories is the perfect collection for Christmas in the real world. No talking snowman or cute woodland animal who saves Christmas (actually, there is a pigeon who steps in and saves the big day). This selection of heart-warming tales is about the true magic of the season: receiving the ultimate gift only to break it immediately; playing drinking games while watching a holiday special; getting divorced over what seemed like the perfect present. Roberts Hill even settles the debate on the greatest Christmas movie ever made (thats not it) and finally explains how the candy cane was invented (no one really knows, so why not make it up?). This collection will be enjoyed by everyone or, at least, anyone who still loves Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, misses the toys they had as a kid, and thinks pooping your snowsuit is funny. Humorous and heartfelt Christmas stories that illuminate the everyday magic of the season. Being with family. Basking in tradition. Pooping your snowsuit. Each tale is meant to be read out-loud, maybe with some rum and eggnog. But if youre out of eggnog, rum goes well with lots of things. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A creepy collection of spooky short stories perfect for reading out loud any time you want the fun of a good fright.Boo! See, scared you already. This collection of short, spooky stories is perfect for reading out loud on Halloween night, at a sleepover, or around the campfire. Jeremy John takes you on a frightening trip to the past, where Wild West criminals meet the hangman and brave knights battle monsters in the forest, through to today, where young vampires find victims through dating apps and spirits possess smart speakers.Turn out the lights, grab a flashlight, hide under the blankets, and enjoy the fun frights of ghosts who feed on trick-or-treating kids, a pumpkin patch that hides a terrible secret, and who or what is buried in the grave of Mikey Dunbar. This collection of spooky stories is perfect for Halloween night, sleepovers, and campfires. A frightening trip to the past, where a hangman delivered, to today, where vampires use dating apps. Enjoy fun frights like the reason Sasquatch are rarely seen and what is buried in the grave of Mikey Dunbar. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Equal parts Harlequin romance, Gothic horror story and Camusian moral tale. GLOBE AND MAILFrom the bestselling author of Drunk Mom, comes a story of romantic obsession, mental illness, and self-discovery as one woman travels to a haunted quarantine island.Josephine is obsessed. Or possessed by unrequited love for a younger man who doesnt promise anything, but who gives her a taste of intimacy that puts her on the brink of losing her mind. Oscillating between her elusive lover and her older former partner, stuck in the hell that is working in a cubicle, and obliged to tend to her destructive, senile mother, Josephine is trapped. After a work assignment promises to deliver distraction, Josephine makes a decision to visit a former quarantine island in the Adriatic Sea, where she meets an enigmatic, beautiful man with a haunting story. Intimate and erotic, Possessed is a dark and funny story exploring sexual obsession, mental illness, and the supernatural.A RARE MACHINES BOOK Caught between a younger man that doesn't promise anything, her older former lover, and her senile mother, Josephine travels to a haunted quarantine island, where she meets an enigmatic, beatiful man with a haunting story. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Amanda Doucette pursues the connection between a reclusive artist and the wealthy surfer who turned up dead on a remote island in Vancouver Islands Pacific Rim in a wilderness-infused mystery perfect for fans of Jane Harper or Louise Penny.While exploring the rugged landscape of Vancouver Islands Pacific Rim, Amanda Doucette is drawn to a reclusive old artist known only as Luke, who lives off the grid on a remote island. His vivid paintings hint at a traumatic secret from his past that brings to mind her own struggles with PTSD, and she begins to bond with him.But when the body of a surfer washes up on the beach, Luke flees deep into the interior. What is the connection between Luke and the victim, and what does it have to do with Vietnam and a hippie commune from fifty years ago? Fearing Luke might do something desperate, Amanda searches for answers and races to find him before the police or the victims family get to him first. While planning a tour on rugged Vancouver Island, Amanda Doucette befriends a fiercely private old artist whose traumatic, tangled past catches up with him when the body of a surfer washes up on a beach near his retreat. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Detective Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results.Sneaks up on you with its grit and promise. National Post Its a week before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears into thin air with more than enough people wanting him dead. Officer Kala Stonechild, who has left her Northern Ontario detachment to join a specialized Ottawa crime unit, is tasked with returning Underwood home in time for the holidays. Stonechild is a lone wolf who is used to surviving by her wits. Her new boss, Detective Jacques Rouleau, has his hands full controlling her, his team, and an investigation that keeps threatening to go off track. Old betrayals and complicated family relationships brutally collide when love turns to hate and murder stalks a family.Finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Novel A week before Christmas, businessman Tom Underwood disappears with more than enough people wanting him dead. Kala Stonechild, a new member of the specialized Ottawa Police unit, is tasked with bringing him home for the holidays, but a killer has other plans. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. South is a haunting and hallucinatory reimagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and an individuals quest for truth, agency, and understanding.B, a journalist, travels to the South of an unnamed desert country for a mysterious mission to write a report about the recent strikes on an offshore oil rig. From the beginning of his trip, he is faced with a cruel and broken landscape of drought and decay, superstitious believers of evil winds and spirits, and corrupt entities focused on manipulation and censorship. As he tries to defend himself against his unknown enemies, we learn about his fathers disappearance, his fading love with his wife, and his encounter with an unknown woman. A puzzle-like novel about totalitarianism, surveillance, alienation, and guilt that questions the forces that control us.A RARE MACHINES BOOK A journalist travels to the South on a mysterious mission to report on recent strikes in an offshore oil rig. Defending himself against unknown enemies, he spirals into a hallucinatory and haunting landscape. A mystical novel about totalitarianism, surveillance, alienation, and guilt that questions the nature of truth and forces that control us. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Two young men bringing up a small child in the middle of nowhere. Everything could be fine, but strangers start to meddle.For near a century the reclusive Bliss clan farmed the same land. Now its 1963 and everyones gone except teenage Cam, his older cousin Wes, and little Dorie. They buried Gran over a year ago. But Gramp is still with them, wrapped tight as a mummy in an old tarp in the cold room off the kitchen. Lifes better now without the old mans rants and terrors.There are problems with the land lease and the meddlesome, moralizing neighbours, and rumours are spreading in town that theres something not quite right about Cam and Wes, but theyre taking care of it all as best they can. Then the local Childrens Aid drops by to say Dorie needs schooling and proper parents, and its clear they cant hide their secrets any longer. Theyre on the road, heading north, with a body in the trunk. Wes knows a place, a cabin deep in the woods No matter what they do, gruesome casualties seem to follow them. It could be funny if it wasnt so nightmarish. And through it all, a tender secret love thrives, as they try to hold on to the family theyve built together.A RARE MACHINES BOOK All thats left of the Bliss clan is seventeen-year-old Cam, his older cousin Wes, and little Dorie, now that Gran passed and Gramps lies dead in the cold cellar. After Childrens Aid pays a visit to their secluded farm, the unlikely trio head north, a dead body wrapped in the trunk. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Insightful, nuanced, and entertaining, Dream Chasers might well be the best Inspector Green novel to date. Sherbrooke RecordInspector Green suspects a homicide relates to an elite teen hockey player in this gripping police procedural for fans of Louise Penny and Michael Connelly.A seventeen-year-old sets out to meet her secret lover by Ottawas Hogs Back Falls. Three days later, her body washes up in the shallows. The public fears a sexual predator is on the loose, but Inspector Green suspects a more personal connection. His search for answers draws him into the world of elite young athletes, drugs, and teenage sexuality. Then a social worker who knows too much disappears, and blood is found in the house of a star with NHL prospects. Unless Green can unravel the truth, how many others will pay the ultimate price for a young man's dreams? A teenager sets out to meet her lover by an Ottawa waterfall. Days later her body washes up in the shallows. The public fears a sexual predator is on the loose, while Inspector Green suspects a personal connection. His search for answers draws him into the world of elite young hockey players, drugs, and teen sexuality. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Tony Vicar is wrestling against the ordinary patterns his life has fallen into, until dark secrets and a dangerous woman from the past threaten to upend it all.After the devastating fire that nearly destroyed his hotel and pub, Tony Vicar has rebuilt both Hotel Valentine and The Vicars Knickers once again. But the glamour of being a barman has lost some of its lustre and the responsibility is incessant. Even a couple of famous television mediums determined to uncover the truth about the hotels mysterious ghost cant seem to stir Vicar from the unwelcome state of normality his life has settled into.But life in Tyee Lagoon has a way of veering away from normal, as proven when femme fatale Serena, unexpectedly freed of criminal charges, returns to town to steal back baby Frankie who she abandoned on Vicars doorstep two years before and hopefully ensnare Tony in the process. Serena hits a new high in outrageous and dangerous behaviour, allowing no one, especially not Tonys girlfriend Jacquie O, to get in her way.On the defensive, Vicar tries to protect his little family, while simultaneously attempting to stop the endless circles of his life and learn lessons about authenticity, caring, and the surprising power of his effect on others including his mother-in-law. After the recent turmoil, life in Tyee Lagoon has calmed down, as much as it ever does, and Tony Vicar faces his toughest challenge yet: the unglamorous, unwelcome state called "normality" as a business owner and parent. But when a dangerous femme fatale returns, Vicar must confront what he truly wants from life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Reclaim control of your workday with a proven time-saving method.Life is busier than ever before. We are working longer hours to keep up with longer to-do lists. Yet were experiencing more stress and seem to fall further and further behind. Our so-called leisure time is punctuated with interruptions, constantly pulling us back to work. We are led to believe we can prioritize our way out of this, but prioritization is broken.In Workday Warrior, productivity expert Ann Gomez presents a fresh approach that smashes todays time challenges: too many priorities, too many interruptions, and too much complexity. We dont need more willpower, discipline, or hours in our day. Instead, we need a straightforward approach to help us reclaim our time and upgrade our work habits. We need to concentrate our priori ties, protect our time, and simplify our work to amplify our results. This book will help you become a Workday Warrior. Find more time in your day, play at a higher level, and feel more in control of your time. Your work (and life!) will never be the same. Productivity expert Ann Gomez has a simple, time-saving method to regain control of your workday. If you crave more time in your day, this compelling and practical book is your solution. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When she finds out, all within a few days, that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably repulsive, she responds by running away from her marriage and her life a life that, on the outside, looks like middle-class success. Her actions send waves of chaos through the lives of multiple characters, including a struggling house cleaner, a rich and charismatic yoga guru, and even an ailing dog. What follows is a dark comedy about marriage, motherhood, privilege, and power.A RARE MACHINES BOOK In a single day, Cat finds out that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably creepy. The culture of striving has caught up to her family and Cat doesnt handle it the way a middle-class mom is supposed to. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Johanne Durocher fights to free her daughter and four grandchildren from a nightmarish life of abuse and poverty in Saudi Arabia.In 2001, Nathalie Morin was just seventeen when she met Saeed, a Saudi man who claimed to be studying in Montreal. She fell in love with him and then became pregnant, but soon afterward Saeed was deported back to his country of origin. Nathalie decided to join him in Saudi Arabia with her baby, Samir, confident that she would be able to return to Canada whenever she wanted. But a trap was closing around her: her partner turned out to be violent and authoritarian.According to Saudi law, Nathalie was considered married and thus under Saeeds legal authority. All too often she was shut away in her own house, a place of hellish poverty. In 2005, Johanne Durocher, Nathalies mother, began her struggle to get Nathalie back home to Canada with her four children: Samir, Abdullah, Sarah, and Fowaz. While Nathalie is allowed to return on her own, her children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without their fathers consent. And Nathalie will not leave without them.Johanne has left no stone unturned in her efforts to fight her daughters case: she has approached governments, embassies, NGOs, media, politicians, and more. Although her hopes have been raised several times, nothing has led to bringing her family home.This book tells the story of her fight. Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalies abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the year following her mothers death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a new flame and a past partner.It's the west end of Toronto, the apartments are small, and everybody is twenty-seven and making some kind of art. In the wake of her mothers death, Sophie pays rent by making stained glass mosaics for rich people and plays house with her childhood friend and sometimes-lover, the beautiful boy Alex. Both are from Newfoundland but move easily in this world of crowded patios and DIY movie shoots. When Sophie meets the glamorous poet Maggie, who is the downtown product of a hundred cool queer bars, she falls into a bewildered infatuation, but secrets emerge that threaten to crumble the foundation of her relationship with Alex and Maggie both.Moving from bohemian Toronto to an arts colony in a castle in France and then back to Newfoundland, Mudflowers examines the impact of family that one is born into and family one chooses, exploring new and unconventional intimacies.A RARE MACHINES BOOK In the wake of her mothers death, Sophie navigates a complicated dynamic between her oldest love, Alex, and newest love, Maggie. Dynamics unfold in surprising ways, leading Sophie back to her home in Newfoundland to reconcile her past and her future. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BEST BOOKS OF 2022Freedman grips right out of the gate with dual timeline narratives that weave together more and more tightly until they meld into a mind-bending twist of a climax. LORETH ANNE WHITE, bestselling author of The Patients SecretIn a riveting psychological thriller for readers of Lisa Unger and Karin Slaughter, Graces healing solitude is shattered when she becomes a suspect in a gruesome series of murders. Grace DeRoche escaped the fundamentalist Mormon compound of Brigham and worked to prosecute its leaders. But when loyalists, including her own family, commit mass suicide to avoid jail, Grace retreats into solitude. Racked with guilt and suffering from dissociative identity disorder brought on by childhood abuse, Graces life is fragmented and full of blind spots. Dissociative triggers are everywhere, and she never knows when an alter personality will take the reins.When other Brigham escapees die under suspicious circumstances, Graces tenuous hold on reality crumbles. Notes left at each scene quote scripture and accuse the deceased of committing sins so grievous that atonement can only be achieved through the spilling of blood. As evidence mounts against her and one of her alter personalities becomes the prime suspect, Grace must determine if shes a murderer or the next victim. Grace DeRoche suffers from dissociative identity disorder after escaping childhood abuse at the hands of the Fundamentalist Mormon Church. When other escapees die under suspicious circumstances, one of her alter personalities is the prime suspect. As evidence mounts against her, Grace must determine if shes a murderer or the next victim. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In an alternate 1933, a sleuth and his robot partner are caught in the middle of a legal battle that will decide the fate of the worlds machine population.Carlson does a good job populating his gritty, split-level world with dodgy mobsters, deadly dames, and killer machines. Publishers Weekly, for Night Call Two months after an investigation that nearly put Elias Roche behind bars, the former cop turned mob enforcer has endeavoured to separate himself from his past by going straight. Now working as a private investigator, his attempts to build himself a quiet life have so far been promising. However, while Manhattans Lower City is in the midst of a reignited mob war, Elias is faced with finding a man who doesnt want to be found, absolving a machine of a murder charge, and discovering a network of secrets that keeps the world turning, almost literally. Reuniting with his old Automatic partner, Allen, and reporter-turned-hitman Simone, Elias must search for the truth amid a web of conspiracy and lies. While failure would result in the eradication of all Automatics in America and cripple the megacorporation that hired him to investigate, success could uncover truths no one is ready to face: truths about the city, Allens past, and which side they are all truly fighting for. In the third book of the Walking Shadows series, an Automatic is charged with murder and Roche and Allen must prove his innocence, because failure would mean the eradication of all Automatics in America in this alternate version of 1933. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Timely and tantalizing, C.S. OCinneide masterfully blends domestic suspense with a touch of black magic in this bewitching thriller Erin Ruddy, author of Tell Me My NameAfter losing her young son in a tragic accident, Eve struggles to protect the one child she has left, a teenage daughter who just might be pure evil.The dark side of magic is where the Ragman dwells. Nobody knows that better than Eve. Desperate for a child, she called on that cunning conjurer eighteen years ago. Her daughter, Abbey, was the result.After Abbeys younger brother dies in a fall, Eve fears the worst about her daughter. Five years later, she still battles her guilt and grief over what happened the day she lost her son. Her husband, Richard, doesnt understand. He doesnt know the truth about Abbey; and besides, he has secrets of his own to keep.But when terrible things begin to happen to those who get in Abbeys way, Eve must overcome her own pain and loss and find the strength to deal with what she fears most a teenage daughter she can no longer control and a past that could come back to haunt her in the most monstrous of ways. Eve lost her young son in a tragic accident, and now she struggles to protect the one child she has left: a teenage daughter who may be pure evil. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Back in the low-income neighbourhood where she was raised, a young woman rediscovers the importance of community, home, and finding ones voice.Just before the demolition of her childhood home in east Toronto, Delia Ellis returns to retrieve her beloved diary. Using it as a compass, she rediscovers life as a precocious teen growing up in the nineties.Delias writings reveal her anxieties following a move to Don Mount Court, a Toronto government housing complex, where she struggles to navigate life with an overprotective Jamaican mother and her fathers inept replacement, Neville the nuisance. Delias troubles compound when she enlists her naive younger sister in a scheme to reunite their parents and recapture the idealistic life she yearns for.Yet, through the lens of adulthood, Delias entries take a wrecking ball to the perception of her parents love story shed long built up in her mind, uncovering a childs internalization of a failed marriage, poverty, and a mother come undone. A troubled Delia Ellis returns to her old neighbourhood, Don Mount Court, to retrieve a beloved childhood diary. While the entries uncover significant revelations around her mothers past, it is Delias return home that leads to a true understanding of the circumstances that forged her identity. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A job as a heritage interpreter at a remote gold rush site propels an insecure and anxious twenty-four-year-old to find what she truly desires from life.By turns deadpan and wryly candid, Teed has a keen observational eye and a talent for characterization. An excellent debut. ANDRE FORGET, author of In the City of PigsUnsure of her next steps after graduation, twenty-something Josie Teed accepts a position at Barkerville, a remote heritage site in British Columbia showcasing the nineteenth-century gold rush. She lives in the adjacent village of Wells, population 250. There is no cell reception and the grocery store is an hour away. Once a thriving gold mining community in the 1930s, Wells has become a haven for white Gen-X artists and flower children, struggling actors-turned-heritage-interpreters, and transient miners.Eager to move on from a masters thesis that left her questioning her passion for history, Josie dives headlong into her new job and life in a small town. Faced with the prospect of remaining long-term, she must decide if she will fight to carve a place for herself in Wellss idiosyncratic community. What follows is the story of a young woman trying to find connection and purpose in the twenty-first century while living in a village seemingly frozen in the past. A young woman leaves the city for a remote mountain town to work in an immersive gold rush heritage site where she becomes embroiled in local culture while navigating her own place in the rapidly evolving twenty-first-century world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Suite as Sugar is a testimony to the unseen forces, always vigilant, ever ready, imbuing the characters in this collection with both resilience and trauma.From Winnipeg winterscapes to Torontos condo culture, from Havanas haunted streets to Trinidads calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, reflecting legacies of abandonment and loss. The veil between the living and the dead is obscured, chaos becomes panacea, and characters take drastic measures into their own hands.Survivors of all kinds seek strategy and solace: a group of homeless people organize an occupation of vacant condos, a new resident to a disturbing neighbourhood tries to make sense of madness, a dog investigates the sudden disappearance of his owner. The five intertwined vignettes in the title story are set in a Caribbean country where the spectre of the sugar plantation haunts everyone. Tying this collection together is the casual brutality of our everyday lives, whether seen through the eyes of animal, spirit, or human being.A RARE MACHINES BOOK From Winnipeg winterscapes to Torontos condo culture, from Havanas haunted streets to Trinidads calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, in settings where the veil between the living and the dead is obscured. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A powerful memoir about how one woman resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry.Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a high-powered CEO, demands a divorce. Then an online mob of rivals comes for her career.Wavering between despair and determination, she must fight for her son, rebuild her career, and salvage her self-worth using her superpowers: heart, humour, and an uncanny ability to pair wine and food.Natalie questions her insider role in the slick marketing that encourages women to drink too much while she battles the wine worlds veiled misogyny. Facing the worst vintage of her life, she reconnects with the vineyards that once brought her joy, the friends who sustain her, and her own belief in second chances.This true coming-of-middle-age story is about transforming your life and finding love along the way. A world-famous wine writers quest to clear her name after an onslaught of sexist online attacks and find love after the sudden crumbling of her twenty-year marriage. Natalie MacLeans experience reveals truths about online mobbing and the male dominance at the heart of the wine industry. This an inspiring story of resilience and hope. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The diary of a woman longing for community in a crowded downtown in pandemic times, when casual intimacies are forbidden.The novelist Rebecca Rosenblum lives in St. James Town, Toronto the most densely populated square kilometre in all of Canada. When the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns arrive, shes cut off from colleagues, friends, and family, and not allowed to go near neighbours. As the world constricts, Rebecca keeps a weird and worried diary online a love letter both to the outside world that she misses so desperately, and the little world inside St. James Town that she can see from home. As Rebecca watches and wonders from inside her box in the sky, her diary entries mix an account of a tough time in a tough place with joyful goofiness and moments of unexpected compassion. We all lived our own pandemics. For writer Rebecca Rosenblum, the pandemic meant watching and considering the city she loves. From milestones such as crying when the parks closed to the little moments with strangers on the street and with loved ones across the six-foot divide, Rebecca wondered, worried, and wrote it down. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.