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Engaging, thought-provoking works that open the door to new perspectives, exploring the ideas, histories, and voices that shape our lives.

I Made a Promise I Could Not Keep: Speculative Essays
Author: David Homel
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDERBooks and their writers can get into some pretty murky territory when they set out into the world. Some writers, who might be completely reasonable people in the rest of thei...
Line Breaks: A Writing Life
Author: George Galt
After escaping from his ultra-conservative Montreal family, George Galt found ultimate success as a poet, non-fiction writer, and editor. As much about people as it is about the written word, ...
Seeking Asylum: Building a Shareable World
Author: Toula Drimonis
Human migration and the right to seek asylum from harm have been constants throughout the history of human existence. But only recently has Canada been forced to confront a global displacement cris...
The Storm of Progress: Climate Change, AI, and the Roots of Our Dangerous Ethical Myopia
Author: Wade Rowland
In a time of existential threats from climate change, computer-based superintelligences, AI-accelerated nuclear and biological warfare and more, we can no longer avoid some profound questions about...
How Did I Get Here? A Writer's Education
Author: David Homel
Award-winning author David Homel mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in these mediations on his youth in Chicago, his education, and the influences that led to his career as a writer.
Scar Tissue: Tracing Motherhood
Author: Sara Danièle Michaud
What makes a mother? More than any other relationship or identity, motherhood is both organic and constructed. Mothers are created by their children, and then simultaneously expanded and abbreviate...
Where They Stood: The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal
Author: Black Community Resource Centre
A collaborative work by young Black writers and the Black Community Resource Centre, Where They Stood examines history beyond racism and slavery to reveal the inspiring story of Montreal's English-...
An Opera in 3 Acts Starring Gino Quilico
Author: Connie Guzzo-McParland
When young Louis Quilico meets upcoming concert pianist Lina Pizzolongo, a personal and musical collaboration begins that sees Louis become one of the most accomplished baritones in the world. Thei...
We, the Others
Author: Toula Drimonis
Ungrateful, opportunistic, moochers, dangerous, incompatible with our values and our way of life…Every immigrant demographic has heard these descriptors at some point in their migration hist...
Can't Help Falling: A Long Road to Motherhood
Author: Tarah Schwartz
When Tarah Schwartz miscarried for the first time at almost 5 months, it was devastating. Determined to try again, more miscarriages would follow, threatening her stability and her relationships, a...
Lunging into the Underbrush: A Life Lived Backward
Author: David Homel
In 1970, David Homel escaped the American draft by moving to Paris. But a hiking accident in Spain led to a harrowing journey through botched surgeries, opiate addiction, the loneliness of a crippl...
Kerouac & Presley
Author: André Pronovost
Kerouac & Presley takes you on the road, guitar slung over your shoulder. Beginning in the Montreal neighbourhood where a teenage girl was brutally murdered in 1975, the International Year...
Working in the Bathtub: Conversations with the Immortal Dany Laferrière
Author: Adam Leith Gollner
Montreal writer Dany Laferrière became “Immortal” in 2015 when he was inducted into the Académie française, the highest accolade in all French literature. He was th...
A Woman of Her Time: Memories of My Mother
Author: Louise Dupré
In this memoir, the distinguished feminist author and poet Louise Dupré conjures up the tragedies and joys of her mother’s life--and does so not only in the personal context of the fam...
Home Sickness
Author: Chih-Ying Lay
Connecting is not easy, but proximity is unbearable. The characters in these brilliant and intense stories are longing for escape, but they inevitably find themselves homesick.Chih-Ying Lay, a Taiw...
Who Belongs in Quebec? Identity Politics in a Changing Society
Author: Raquel Fletcher
Are Quebecers less tolerant than other Canadians? Ongoing debate about secularism and religious symbols has led many observers to ask that very question. Premier François Legault denied that...
For Want of a Fir Tree: Ukraine Undone
Author: Frédérick Lavoie
How can a country at peace suddenly be plunged into war? What compels hitherto peaceable citizens to take up arms and kill one another? In For Want of a Fir Tree: Ukraine Undone, Fr&eacut...
Taximan
Author: Stanley Péan
In the taxi rides you're about to take, you'll be in the company of some classic drivers and their perspicacious and sharp-eyed passenger, the writer and broadcaster Stanley Péan. Veteran tr...
Nan Goldin: The Warrior Medusa
Author: Martine Delvaux. Translator David Homel
In her new book, Nan Goldin: The Warrior Medusa, the feminist author Martine Delvaux links her own experience as a writer with that of the American photographer and installation artist Nan Gol...
Women and Power The Case for Parity
Author: Pascale Navarro
An LLP Singles EssayIt is already passé to ask if parity is important for today’s Canada. What’s needed now is to ask how we can make sure more women run for office and that they...
Counterterrorism and Identities: Canadian Viewpoints
Author: Jack Jedwab
The importance of analyzing public perceptions regarding national security cannot be underestimated when identifying counterterrorism approaches. Increasingly, maintaining public safety is consider...
Canada Lives Here: The Case for Public Broadcasting
Author: Wade Rowland
Canada Lives Here tells the tumultuous story of public broadcasting in Canada, from its inception in 1933 to the CBC’s current, controversial attempts to adapt to collapsing revenues and...
Sea Winter Salmon: Chronicles of the St. John River
Author: Mari Hill Harpur, with Eileen Regan McCormack
Sea Winter Salmon is about a great salmon river, the St. John River on the Lower North Shore of Quebec, and its most important visitor, the illustrious Atlantic salmon. It was the Canadian and...
The Wrecking Ball
Author: Terry Mosher (Aislin)
The Wrecking Ball is a collection of Aislin’s recent favourite cartoons. All of the choice political material is here: Pauline Marois as Miley Cyrus, the Parti Québécois&rs...
A Migrant Heart
Author: Denis Sampson
A Migrant Heart is about departures and arrivals, uprooting and attachment, resettling and returning. Denis Sampson left Ireland as a student, leaving behind the farming countryside of his chi...
The Bells of Memory: A Palestinian Boyhood in Jerusalem
Author: Issa J. Boullata
An LLP Singles essayIssa J. Boullata grew up in a Palestinian family in the Jerusalem of the 1930s and 1940s, when Palestine was under the British Mandate. His memoir, The Bells of Memory, is ...
The Prostate: Everything You Need to Know About the Man Gland
Author: Dr. Yosh Taguchi
The mere mention of the prostate gland is enough to make men cringe. Long a taboo subject, the walnut-sized man gland can cause mental anguish, emotional aggravation, bitterness, and anger. The pro...
A Green Reef: The Impact of Climate Change
Author: Stephen Henighan
An LLP Singles essayThe impact of climate change on our physical environment can be difficult for us to understand or imagine. Moving from a memoir of a journey, through an abundant yet fragile nat...
Saving the CBC: Balancing Profit and Public Service
Author: Wade Rowland
An LLP Singles essayDo we want a public broadcaster? A trenchant analysis of the threat to our national broadcaster and a solution for radical change. Rowland draws on over thirty years experi...
Clerks of the Passage
Author: Abou Farman
An LLP Singles essayMigration stories, says Abou Farman, are often told through the personal struggles and travails of the migrant, "the great voyager figure of our most recent centuries, the harbi...
Are We On Yet? Insider Secrets on How to be Interviewed (and other essential media skills)
Author: Tommy Schnurmacher
“Forget radio. Forget TV. Forget who is the interviewer and who is the interviewee. All you have to do is pretend that the interviewer is someone who is sitting next to you on the plane. ...
Caricature Cartoon Canada
Author: Terry Mosher (editor)
This title is now out of print.Caricature Cartoon Canada is “the best of the best”: a brilliant collection of personal favourites from Canada’s best cartoonists, published in...
Was It Good For You?
Author: Terry Mosher (Aislin)
Was It Good For You? It was really good for Aislin! This a collection comprises Aislin’s favourites drawn over the last three years. It is his 45th book. He is aiming for fifty.  Mo...
Keeping the Public in Public Education
Author: Rick Salutin
An LLP Singles essayIs there anything public schools do that no other form of education can? Only this: Simply by being what they are, they can teach kids about the society they live in. That's bec...

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