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All That Matters

By: Choy, Wayson

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Anchor Canada: June 2005

Seller ID: 49861

ISBN: 0385257775

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh, the Old One. It is 1926, and because of famine and civil war in China, they have left their village in Toishan province to become the new family of Third Uncle, a wealthy businessman whose own wife and son are dead. The place known as Gold Mountain is Vancouver, Canada, and Third Uncle needs help in his large Chinatown warehouse. Canada's 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act forces them, and many others, to use false documents, or ghost papers, to get past the 'immigration demons' and becom...
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If I Fall, If I Die

By: Christie, Michael

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Emblem Editions: September 2015

Seller ID: 27451

ISBN: 0771022425

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A sweet coming-of-age story . . . but Christie goes further, adding to the mix a Hardy Boys-style mystery about bootlegged alcohol, pet wolves that never forget a human scent, and generally shady goings-on in abandoned grain elevators . . . Compelling." --The Globe and Mail

Will has never been Outside, at least not that he can remember. For most of his young life he has lived happily Inside with his mother, Diane, a fiercely loving yet wildly eccentric agoraphobe who drowns in panic at the thought of opening the front door. Then, one day, Will ventures Outside clad in a pro...
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If I Fall, If I Die

By: Christie, Michael

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Emblem Editions: September 2015

Seller ID: 60485

ISBN: 0771022425

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Origin of Waves~Austin Clarke

By: Clarke, Austin

Price: $10.50

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: January 2003

Seller ID: 59853

ISBN: 0771021305

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Austin Clarke's luminous novel, written in vivid, hypnotic prose, reveals the dislocations of place and the nature of memory and the past. Two elderly Barbadian men, childhood friends who haven't seen each other in fifty years, collide in a snowstorm on a Toronto street. In the warmth of a nearby bar, through the afternoon and into the night, they relate stories, exchange opinions, and share memories of a past in Barbados when, as children, neither could conceive any other place existed for them. As these two men confess to each other their innermost truths, their exploits and their love affai...
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By: Clarke, Austin

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Thomas Allen Pub: September 2008

Seller ID: 61418

ISBN: 0887623530

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Winner of the 2009 Toronto Book Award

From the winner of the 2002 Giller Prize comes Austin Clarke's much anticipated new novel, More. At the news of her son's involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison collapses in her rented basement apartment. For four days and nights, she retreats into a vortex of memory, pain, and disappointment that unravels a riveting dissection of her life as a black immigrant to Toronto. Idora has lived in Canada for 25 years. She has struggled to make ends meet and her deadbeat husband Bertram has abandoned her for a better life in America...
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George And Rue

By: Clarke, George Elliott

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial: December 2005

Seller ID: 11026

ISBN: 0006485693

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

By all accounts, the bludgeoning murder in 1949 of a taxi driverby brothers George and Rufus Hamilton was a "slug-ugly" crime. Georgeand Rue were hanged for it. Repelled and intrigued by his ancestral cousins'deeds, George Elliott Clarke uncovered a story of violence, poverty and shame--astory that led first to the Governor General's Award-winning ExecutionPoems and culminated in Clarke's brilliant and darkly comic debut novel.

Named an editor's choice by The Bookseller inthe UK, George & Rue is a book about death that brims with fiercevitality and the se...
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The Antagonist

By: Coady, Lynn

Price: $13.95

Publisher: House of Anansi Press: September 2011

Seller ID: 55086

ISBN: 0887842968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Elizabeth & After

By: COHEN, MATT

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Knopf: January 1999

Seller ID: 27687

ISBN: 0676971709

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Getting Lucky

By: Cohen, Matt

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Vintage Canada: January 2001

Seller ID: 45605

ISBN: 0676973639

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With a clear-eyed affection for the wandering souls who populate the ten stories in Getting Lucky - as they cling to talismans like a cowboy shirt, a chenille bedspread and a 1953 classic Ford - Matt Cohen causes us to look at them, and the worlds they inhabit, in unexpected ways. In his darkly comic, wholly original manner, he moves and surprises us, makes us laugh, and reveals the many sides of his extraordinary imagination.
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Truth About Delilah Blue

By: Cohen, Tish

Price: $9.95

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers: June 2010

Seller ID: 21603

ISBN: 1554685869

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Delilah Blue Lovett has always been a bit of an outsider, ever since her father moved her from Toronto to L.A. when she was eight, claiming Delilah's mother no longer wanted to be part of their family. Twenty now and broke, but determined to be an artist like her errant mom, Delilah attends art class for free -- by modeling nude at the front of the room, a decision that lifts the veil from her once insular world.

While Delilah struggles to find her talent, her father, her only real companion, is beginning to exhibit telltale signs of early-onset Alzheimer's. And her mother, who Delilah alwa...
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Practical Jean

By: Cole, Trevor

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Emblem Editions: September 2011

Seller ID: 43120

ISBN: 077102326X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This eagerly awaited new novel from Trevor Cole combines the humour and sharp observations of contemporary life that he is known for with an irresistibly twisted premise, for fans of the quirkily macabre Six Feet Under and Dexter, and readers of Paul Quarrington, Miriam Toews, Jonathan Franzen, and, of course, Trevor Cole.

In his first two, GG-shortlisted novels, Trevor Cole proved himself a master of drawing us into the shadowy side of human nature with sharp observation and warm wit. In Practical Jean, he goes a step further: this is a darkly humourous and revelatory...
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The Lizard Cage

By: Connelly, Karen

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Vintage Canada: March 2007

Seller ID: 7272

ISBN: 0679313281

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Set during Burma's military dictatorship of the mid--1990s, Karen Connelly's exquisitely written and harshly realistic debut novel is a hymn to human resilience and love.

In the sealed-off world of a vast Burmese prison known as the cage, Teza languishes in solitary confinement seven years into a twenty-year sentence. Arrested in 1988 for his involvement in mass protests, he is the nation's most celebrated songwriter whose resonant words and powerful voice pose an ongoing threat to the state. Forced to catch lizards to supplement his meager rations, Teza finds emotional and spiritua...
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The Lizard Cage

By: Connelly, Karen

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Vintage Canada: March 2007

Seller ID: 63047

ISBN: 0679313281

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Set during Burma's military dictatorship of the mid--1990s, Karen Connelly's exquisitely written and harshly realistic debut novel is a hymn to human resilience and love.

Voice-over

By: Corbeil, Carole

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Stoddart: January 1992

Seller ID: 56642

ISBN: 0773725725

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the Wings

By: Corbeil, Carole

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Stoddart Pub: September 1999

Seller ID: 59072

ISBN: 0773759972

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the Wings is a passionate and lyrical exploration of how art informs life -- how a script as ancient as Hamlet can haunt those who set about to revive and relive it. In this rich exploration of love, life, death, and the theater world, language that was written 400 years ago pushes like a glacier through one actor's psyche and sets his past in motion. A play is never just a play; it is the story of what happens to actors while making the play come alive.
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Grizzly Lies: A Mystery Novel

By: Coughlan, Eileen

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Sumach Press: May 2005

Seller ID: 26085

ISBN: 1894549414

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hellie MacConnell retreats from Toronto to the town of Banff, Alberta, where life is peaceful and nature abounds. But when her landlord turns up dead and Hellie's bear-loving neighbour Arthur Elliott disappears, Hellie finds herself at the heart of a murder investigation. Is Arthur a dangerous extremist who will do anything to protect his bears?
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Eleanor Rigby

By: Coupland, Douglas

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Vintage Canada: October 2005

Seller ID: 11280

ISBN: 0679313389

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"The Liz Dunns of this world tend to get married, and then twenty-three months after their wedding and the birth of their first child they establish sensible lower maintenance hairdos that last them forever. Liz Dunns take classes in croissant baking, and would rather chew on soccer balls than deny their children muesli... I am a traitor to my name."

Liz Dunn is one of the world's lonely people. She's in her late thirties and has a boring cubicle job at a communications company, doing work that is only slightly more bearable than the time she spends alone in her depressingly sterile box of...
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Girlfriend in a Coma

By: Coupland, Douglas

Price: $6.95

Publisher: HarperPerennial: July 1998

Seller ID: 39322

ISBN: 0006551270

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Girls, memory, parenting, millennial fear -- all served Coupland-style. Karen, an attractive, popular student, goes into a coma one night in 1979. Whilst in it, she gives birth to a healthy baby daughter; once out of it, a mere eighteen years later, she finds herself, Rip van Winkle-like, a middle-aged mother whose friends have all gone through all the normal marital, social and political traumas and back again... This tragicomedy shows Coupland in his most mature form yet, writing with all his customary powers of acute observation, but turning his attention away from the surface of modern lif...
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Hey Nostradamus!

By: Coupland, Douglas

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Highbridge Audio: June 2003

Seller ID: 41272

ISBN: 1565118103

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: Used - Good

In 1988, a catastrophic episode of teen violence shatters a suburban community. HEY NOSTRADAMUS follows the aftermath in various voices across two decades: the teenage victims whose ordinary preoccupations with sex and spirituality will never evolve past that moment; the parents whose exposure to their children's underground world threatens their deepest convictions; and those who come to know the survivors only later in life, unable to fully realize what really transpired. HEY NOSTRADAMUS wrestles with religion and nihilism, sorrow and acceptance. It will take you to a place you didn't know e...
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JPod

By: Coupland, Douglas

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Bloomsbury: January 2006

Seller ID: 54241

ISBN: 0679314245

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Coupland's forthcoming novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose names start with J are bureaucratically marooned in jPod. jPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.
The six workers daily confront the forces that define our era: global piracy, boneheaded marketing staff, people smuggling, the rise of China, marijuana grow ops, Jeff Probst, and the ashes of the 1990s financial tech dream. jPod's universe is amoral and shameless. ...
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Category: Canadian Fiction