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We've teamed up with Red Panda Press, Raincoast Books, and Small
Press Distribution to bring
you a selection of undiscovered
and first-time authors, small
and independent publishers, and
wonderful books you may otherwise
never have had a chance to
read.
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R. M. McLeod
A positively brilliant children's paperback now brought to the international
book trade by Black Beck Books. This is the first adventure
of the British schoolboy - Charlie Braithwaite, set
in the witch and goblin-infested Underworld of the English Lake District.
Unmissable, great holiday read for the kids, great present.
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R.M. McLeod
The second extraordinary adventure of the British schoolboy - Charlie Braithwaite. This time the young hero has to travel backwards in time to the year 1940 where an evil warlock is determined to aid Britain's dark and sinister arch-enemies; by so doing attempting to alter the course of history and dramatically change the world as we know it. Great holiday read for the young at heart.
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Jan Lars Jensen
A few months after selling his first book to a major American publisher, Jan Lars Jensen woke in a psychiatric ward bed, only to find the imaginative ideas that had inspired his fiction now roamed through waking nightmares. Gripping and unsettling, darkly humorous and deeply moving, Nervous
System is the memoir of a novelist who almost let his imagination get the best of him.
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Jennifer Moxley
First published as two separate chapbooks in 1995 and 1996, Often Capital explores
the tensions between political commitment and personal desire. Moxley draws
in part on the love letters of the Polish radical Rosa Luxemburg in searching
out a habitable space for resistance. Moxley employs techniques of collage
and juxtaposition as well as narration to sound her subject. Yet the lean,
sonorous lines that result leap out of any categorical dichotomies.
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Peter Steele
A doctor and climber, Peter Steele jumped at the offer to become chief medical officer for the 1971 International Everest Expedition. He didn’t expect the series of disasters that included a near-epidemic, a walkout and a grisly death. Dr. Steele tells his story with daring honesty, giving an unparalleled insight into the challenging world of mountaineering.
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Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie's poems, fiction, and essays have won him an international
following since his first book, The Business of Fancydancing, was
published to great acclaim in 1992. Smoke Signals, the film he adapted
from one of his stories and coproduced, enlarged his audience still further.
Alexie's honors include awards from the NEA, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest
Foundation, and a citation as One
of the 20 Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40 from GRANTA magazine.
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Colin McAdam
The time is the seventies. The place is Ottawa, a developing city ready for the taking. Two men from very different backgrounds take up the challenge: Jerry McGuinty, plasterer turned builder, a simple, self-made man; and Simon Struthers, whose inherited wealth and position cannot fill the hollowness he feels inside. As the men’s careers and successes run parallel, we see how love is suffocated by work and how individuals are crushed by greed and “progress.”
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Chris Abani
"These poems reveal a prodigious imagination, which is enlivened
by sardonic wit and an inexhaustible capacity for irony and empathy. Daring
to span a historical continuum that takes us as far back as the rituals of
Christ suffering, through the tragic history of the Mayans of Mexico, to
the starkly modern concerns of contemporary life, these poems find beauty
and grace in the most painful things. Abani's line has a sharp precision
that turns a scream into a line of memorable lyric music without losing
the emotion and force."--Kwame Dawes, author of Midland.
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Steven Galloway
The narrator of this unforgettable novel is Paul Woodward. And Paul’s best friend is Finnie Walsh, a fellow hockey fanatic and the only good kid in a long line of delinquent brothers. Finnie’s family is stinking rich, but Paul’s is not—Paul’s father works the nightshift at the local mill, owned by Finnie’s father. One fateful day the boys noisily prepare for their first season of hockey in the Woodward driveway, keeping Paul’s father awake when he should be sleeping. This triggers a chain of world-altering events. Galloway proves that childhood innocence, while not exactly bliss, can be amusing and more than mildly instructional.
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Chuck Rosenthal
The true story of the seduction of a young
athlete by his basketball coach. In 1964, Chuck Rosenthal was
a thirteen year old boy whose greatest dream was to make his
grade school basketball team. Never Let Me Go tells
the true story of how a college professor, who coached grade
school basketball as his hobby, became the man who held that
dream in his hands; became Rosenthal's coach and eventually
his mentor; how he made Rosenthal his boy, his confidant, and
eventually his lover, and how that teenager, trapped in the
cycle of loyalty, betrayal, denial, secrecy, and sexual abuse,
found the inner resources to escape and take the first steps
toward adulthood.
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Doug Beardsley (Ed.)
From the Forum to the backyard rink, the Original Six to the expansion teams, heroes to has-beens, the 30 tales in this collection are a glorious celebration of hockey.
In the three periods between first word and last, accomplished writers
such as Morley Callaghan, Hugh MacLennan, Audrey Thomas, Wayne Johnston,
Paul Quarrington and more show us familiar—and unforgettable—characters who are forever haunted by the sounds, smells, roughness, rhythm and romance of hockey.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated from the German by Alfred de Zayas, this is the first complete
translation of the Larenopfer into English. Bilingual edition. This translation
of the Larenopfer, or offerings to the household god Lar, are songs that
Rilke sings to his hometown Prague and to his beloved Bohemia, short poems
on the parks, fountains, churches, bridges and palaces of Prague, as well
as Rabbi Low's legends, the Jewish cemetary, the Thirty Years' War and, of
course, young love. This cycle of 90 poems offers a unique view into turn-of-the-century
Prague, possessing not only literary merit but also of considerable sociological
and historical interest.
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