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Blackmail and murder in Old Quebec! Quebec City crime reporter Mary Roberts is about to leave her desk for the day when she receives word that a woman has been struck down in the centre of town. The victim is René e Brancourt. A former pin-up, she' d once been a big star, treading the boards at the Comé die-Franç aise, until her lover, Robert Marchand, plunged over Montmorency Falls. René e's inability to accept his death led her to be institu...

Whether investigating a gruesome triple-murder, a fairy tale marriage gone horribly wrong, or a brilliant con artist, Michael Lista has proven himself one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation. In his belief that crime reporting thrives the closer it moves to " the human scale" -- where every uncovered secret reveals the truth of our obligations to each other-- Lista builds his compulsively readable narratives from details (fake fl...

In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, colonialism and its legacy, racism and social justice, authenticity, and the enduring power of friendship. Taking its title from one of Kingston's oldest markets, Redemption Ground introduces us to a vivid cast of characters and remembers moments ...

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In Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness, his new and essential collection of essays, George Elliott Clarke exposes the various ways in which the Canadian imagination demonizes, excludes, and oppresses Blackness. Clarke's range is extraordinary: he canvasses African-Canadian writers who have tracked Black invisibility, highlights the racist bias of our true crime writing, reveals the whitewashing of African-Canadian perspectives in universiti...

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Twenty-nine-year-old Daniel is an under-employed internet artist who's struggling as much with money and inspiration as he is in his relationship with Grace. Against a backdrop of a digital economy that rewards online platforms instead of content creators, with climate-change anxiety hanging palpably in the air, the resolutely contemporary Morissette immerses readers into a vagabond year of modern love, as Daniel and Grace navigate their aspir...

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A career-focused woman finds her life taken off course by an unexpected pregnancy. A troubled doctor abandons her family on her daughter's birthday, the three-tiered pastel layer cake in the passenger seat beside her. A young mother must contend with how to explain her husband's suicide to their child. In her first story collection, Lesley Trites digs bravely into the dilemmas faced by contemporary women who must be everything to everyone. Wri...

Montreal is an old city with many archives - corporate, religious, government, university, municipal, and others. This title features photographs from each of their collections that in some unique way reflected the history and style of Montreal. It gives us a tiny glimpse into the rich heritage of treasures from Montreal archives.

Taking its inspiration from Melville's famous line "If man will strike, strike through the mask, " Based on Actual Events punches through the surface of visible things, grabbing wild at the drifting actual. Calling himself a "a realist in fabulist clothing", Robert Moore gives us a book-length sequence of sleek, fiercely comic, colloquial poems whose aphoristic storytelling is pegged to a nostalgia for sublimity. His project is to find new fra...

This is a one-of-a-kind collection of contemporary poems, previously unpublished, gathered from all corners of the English-speaking world. The international editorial board ensures the present volume's cosmopolitan palette and the blind selection process guarantees that selections have been made according to poetic caliber alone. Véhicule Press's Signal Editions is proud to offer the third volume in the Global Poetry Anthology series -- a rich...

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