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Paperback | $22.95 Possess the Air: Fascism, Freedom, and the Fate of Mussolini's Rome History Untold Lives #3 Biblioasis Taras Grescoe

Sep 24, 2019 Plunging readers into Fascist Rome at the height of Mussolini’s power, Possess the Air tells the story of three people who defied Italy’s authoritarian despot by opposing the rising tide of populism and xenophobia. Two 280 pages Canadian archeologists, Gilbert Bagnani and his wife Mary Stewart Houston, maddened the self-styled Caesar, 5.50" x 8.50" x 0.00" determined to dispel his claims that Rome was—and always would be—rightful master of the Mediterranean, while poet and aviator Lauro de Bosis, firstborn of an Italian aristocrat and a New Englander, transformed himself into a modern Icarus, amazing the world as he risked his life in the skies bring the dictator down. An inspiring story of resistance, risk, and sacrifice, Taras Grescoe’s portrait of heroes past is an essential 9781771963237 biography for our time.

Paperback | $26.95 Ducks, Newburyport Fiction Biblioasis Lucy Ellmann An Observer 2019 Fiction Pick A 2019 Herald Scotland Book to Watch For A Publishers Weekly Big Book of Sep 10, 2019 Winter Institute 14 Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction 728 pages and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what 6.00" x 9.00" x 1.63" Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what’s happening at the factory farm down the interstate—not to mention what was done to the land’s first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts are as comfortably familiar as they are heartrendingly honest, Ducks, Newburyport is a fearless indictment of our contemporary moment. 9781771963077

Paperback | $21.95 Here I Am! Fiction Biblioasis Pauline Holdstock

Sep 24, 2019 Sometimes I forget that MyMum is dead. But that is probably better than remembering. When Frankie’s mother dies, the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station, and ask the officers to ring his 256 pages father—and so begins Giller-nominated Pauline Holdstock’s eighth novel. Narrated in turns by Frankie, who 5.25" x 8.25" x 0.00" likes cheese, numbers, the sea when it’s pink and “smooth like counting,” and being alone when he feels bad, and a cast of characters that includes his Gran and his father, Here I Am! is a mesmerizing story about innocence lost and found. 9781771963091

Paperback | $19.95 Death and the Seaside Fiction Biblioasis Alison Moore Nearing thirty, with an abandoned degree and half-hearted dreams of becoming a writer, Bonnie Falls finally Oct 8, 2019 moves out of her parents’ home and into a shabby flat. When her enigmatic landlady takes an interest in her— 192 pages and one of her unfinished stories—Bonnie’s aspirations are rekindled, and she’s quickly persuaded by the older 5.00" x 7.75" x 0.00" woman’s suggestion that they go on holiday to a seaside town like the one in the story. A tense exploration of power and vulnerability, obsession and manipulation, Death and the Seaside is a masterpiece of form and gripping psychological novel about the stories that we tell ourselves.

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Paperback | $21.95 Dead Heat Fiction Biblioasis International Translation #29 Biblioasis Benedek Totth, Ildiko Noemi Nagy

Nov 5, 2019 In a nameless Hungarian town, teenagers on a competitive swim team occupy their after-training hours with hard drinking and fast cars, hash cigarettes and marathons of Grand Theft Auto, the meaningless sex and late- 256 pages night exploits of a world defined by self-gratification and all its attendant recklessness. Invisible to their parents 5.00" x 8.00" x 0.56" and subject to the whims of an abusive coach, the crucible of competition pushes them again and again into dangerous choices. When a deadly accident leaves them second-guessing one another, they’re driven even deeper into violence. Brilliantly translated into breakneck English by Ildikó Noémi Nagy, Dead Heat is a blistering debut and an unforgettable story about young men coming of age in an abandoned generation. 9781771963015

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Paperback | $22.95 If You Hear Me Fiction Biblioasis International Translation #28 Biblioasis Pascale Quiviger , Lazer Lederhendler

Sep 10, 2019 Sliding doors open and close automatically, exit to the left, entrance to the right. Beyond it, cars go by, and pedestrians and cyclists. A large park behaves as if nothing has happened. The mirage of a world intact. In an 396 pages instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the 5.25" x 8.25" x 0.00" comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son Bertrand—but despite their devoted efforts, there’s no crossing the ineffable divide between consciousness and the mysterious world David now inhabits. A moving story of love and mourning, elegantly translated by Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me asks what it means to be alive and how we learn to accept the unacceptable. 9781771962711

Paperback | $8.95 The Apple Tree Fiction Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Biblioasis Daphne du Maurier, Seth

Oct 15, 2019 A widower has a secret he’ll admit only to himself: Midge’s death from pneumonia comes as a relief. Yet now that he’s free of her hectoring demeanor, somehow he still feels her presence. Does he feel guilty? Or does that 72 pages weather-beaten apple tree in the orchard bear an uncanny resemblance to her hunched and beaten posture? 4.00" x 6.00" x 0.00"

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Paperback | $8.95 The Old Nurse's Story Fiction Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Biblioasis Elizabeth Gaskell, Seth

Oct 15, 2019 After her parents pass away, young Rosamond is raised by her nurse in the ancestral home of her aunt, Miss Furnivall. One day the two uncover an exceptionally beautiful old portrait? A relative, distant or close? And is 72 pages that the strange sound of a distant organ, or simply the wind? 4.00" x 6.00" x 0.00"

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Paperback | $8.95 The Sundial Fiction Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Biblioasis R H Malden, Seth

Oct 15, 2019 When he returns to England from the Civil Service, a man takes up residence in an old country home. Enchanted by midsummer days in the garden, he decides to install a sundial. As he waits for it to be delivered, 48 pages the days grow shorter and his dreams grow dark—and when the sundial finally arrives, it isn’t alone. 4.00" x 6.00" x 0.00"

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Paperback | $22.95 Best Canadian Essays 2019 Literary Collections Best Canadian Biblioasis Emily Donaldson

Nov 19, 2019 The eleventh installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. Culled from leading Canadian magazines and journals, Best Canadian Essays 2019 280 pages contains award-winning and award-nominated nonfiction articles that are topical and engaging and have their 5.25" x 8.25" x 0.00" finger on the pulse of our contemporary psyches.

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Paperback | $22.95 Best Canadian Poetry in English 2019 Poetry Best Canadian Biblioasis Rob Taylor , Anita Lahey , Amanda Jernigan

Oct 22, 2019 The 2019 edition of Canada's go-to yearly anthology, guest edited by Rob Taylor, ushers readers into the heart of the vibrant Canadian poetry scene. The Best Canadian Poetry Series annually features the fifty finest 136 pages Canadian poems published in periodicals during the previous year. A must-read for anyone with a stake in 5.50" x 8.50" x 0.00" contemporary Canadian literature, or with curiosity about poetry and its engagement with the world today.

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Paperback | $22.95 Best Canadian Stories 2019 Literary Collections Best Canadian Biblioasis Caroline Adderson

Nov 19, 2019 Now in its 49th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, 280 pages Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, , Norman Levine, , , Leon Rooke, 5.25" x 8.25" x 0.00" , Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. Selected by guest editor Caroline Adderson, the 2019 edition draws together both newer and established writers to shape an engaging and luminous mosaic of writing in this country today—a continuation of not only a 9781771963275 series, but a legacy in Canadian letters.

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