Biblioasis
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Baldwin, Styron, and Me
$17.95 Add to cartAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship.
In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s g
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #52
- Author: Abdelmoumen, M?likah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966262
- Language: English
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On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy
$15.95 Add to cartThe freedom to read is under attack.
From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social c
- Series: Field Notes #9
- Author: Wells, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966637
- Language: English
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Dark Like Under
$18.95 Add to cartAn Independent Best Book to Look Out For in 2025
At an elite secondary school in the English countryside, students and teachers cope with a sudden loss.
In the aftermath of a surprising death, students
- Author: Chadwick, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966653
- Language: English
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The Passenger Seat
$17.95 Add to cartA searing examination of male friendship and the broader social implications of masculinity in an age of toxic loneliness
Two teenagers leave their small town on a vaguely charted road trip through the
- Author: Khurana, Vijay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966300
- Language: English
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Heaven and Hell
$17.95 Add to cart“Stef?nsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy.”–Eileen Battersby, TLS
In a remote fishing village, a boy and his best friend spend the lonely hours on shore reading and talking about po
- Series: Trilogy about the Boy #1
- Author: Stef?nsson, J?n Kalman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966513
- Language: English
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Near Distance
$16.95 Add to cart“Stoltenberg’s elegant prose makes each scene . . . so engaging that it gives plot a bad name.”–John Self, Guardian
For her entire life, Karin has fled anything and anyone that tries to possess her. H
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #48
- Author: Stoltenberg, Hanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966432
- Language: English
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The Dishwasher
$16.95 Read moreWINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD – NOMINATED FOR CANADA READS – A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK – A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK TO READ FOR SUMMER 2019 – As heard on CBC’s The Sunday Ed… [more below]
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation
- Author: Larue, Stéphane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1771962690
- Language: English
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The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores
$7.95 Read moreA bookseller is the being who is most aware of the futility of a book, and of its importance.–Hector Yç–£over
Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked
- Author: Cook, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1771964650
- Language: English
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Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
$18.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bish
- Author: Hingston, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964154
- Language: English
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Estates Large and Small
$18.95 Read moreProfound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.
What decades of rent increases and declini
- Author: Robertson, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964626
- Language: English
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Forgotten Work
$14.95 Read moreA New York Times New & Noteworthy Book – Strange and affectionate, like Almost Famous penned by Shakespeare. A love letter to music in all its myriad iterations.–Kirkus Reviews – This book has no bus
- Author: Guriel, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1771963824
- Language: English
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Dreaming Home
$16.95 Read moreA Globe and Mail Best Spring Book – One of Lambda Literary Review‘s Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of June 2023 – A Southern Review Book to Celebrate in June 2023 – A 49th Shelf Best Book of 2023
A quee
- Author: Childs, Lucian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1771965495
- Language: English
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One Who Saw: A Ghost Story for Christmas
$6.95 Read moreOriginally published on Christmas in 1931 and widely regarded as A.M. Burrage’s masterpiece, “One Who Saw” tells the story of a wrtier enchanted by a spectre of a weeping woman. His obsession builds u
- Series: Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories
- Author: Burrage, A. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1771960663
- Language: English
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A Visit: A Ghost Story for Christmas
$0.00 Read moreWorld-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022.
Margaret visits the lavish home of her friend Carla Rhodes for the summer holidays. But when Carla’s brother arrives with a
- Series: Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories
- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1771965096
- Language: English
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May Our Joy Endure
$18.95 Add to cartA Walrus Best Book of Fall 2024 – Winner of the 2023 Prix M?dicis, Prix D?cembre, and Prix Ringuet
C?line Wachowski, internationally renowned architect and accidental digital-culture icon, unveils her
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #48
- Author: Lambert, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1771966203
- Language: English
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A Case of Matricide
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the next adventure of Inspector Gorski.
In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, a mysterious stranger stalks the stre
- Author: Burnet, Graeme MacRae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1771966475
- Language: English
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Sleep Is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters with the Uncanny
$15.95 Add to cartONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL
A poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and imagination.
In the summer of 1977, standing o
- Author: Barnes, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1771965126
- Language: English
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A Way to Be Happy
$16.95 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize
Short stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness.
On New Year’s Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to
- Author: Adderson, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 177196622X
- Language: English
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On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition
$12.95 Add to cart- The next instalment in a new series of short nonfiction books modeled after 18th century political pamphlets-compare with Penguin’s Great Idea series, but instead of reprints, these are original essay
- Series: Field Notes #2
- Author: Walcott, Rinaldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1771964073
- Language: English
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A Factotum in the Book Trade
$18.95 Add to cartThe bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’
- Author: Kociejowski, Marius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964561
- Language: English
