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  • At Sea in a Sieve

    A Novel

    Longlisted for the 2026 Giller PrizeA sharp and moving portrait of Ray — judge, single parent, and tightly leashed woman whose survival strategies seem suddenly to be coming apartRay, a single mother and superior court judge, pounds a punching bag in her basement to manage her anger. She has concluded that life must be lived tightly leashed or chaos will move in. Her prime directive is to protect ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Misconduct of the Heart

    A Novel

    Toronto Book Award Winner Cordelia Strube is back with another caustic, subversive, and darkly humorous bookStevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy’s, a small chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Planet Reese

    Reese Larkin is desperate to find the perfect mattress. His job is in jeopardy and he's been forced to separate from his wife and children, but he believes that if he can find the ultimate sleep system his life will begin anew.In her seventh novel, Cordelia Strube grabs readers by the neuroses with a dark but wickedly fun story about a former Greenpeace activist forced to turn marketeer who ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Barking Dog

    “Told with such humour and suspense that it’s hard to put down . . . A rare achievement, an unstintingly honest, hilarious, and dreadful delight.” — Globe and MailGreer Pentland is having a challenging year. Her teenaged son, Sam, is on trial for the murder of two senior citizens, a crime allegedly committed while he was sleepwalking. Greer is also battling breast cancer, a disease that has left ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alex & Zee

    “Vivid and fresh and finely crafted, this is a book that will strike a chord with anyone who has loved, lived, or wondered how we manage, in the face of our fragility, to carry on.” — Nino RicciThis is the story of Zee, an aimless ex-lawyer who has turned his inability to make a decision into a fine art, and his wife, Alex, a practical and hard-working social worker who feels her biological clock ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lemon

    Lemon has three mothers: a biological one she's never met, her adopted father's suicidal ex, and Drew, a school principal who hasn’t left the house since she was stabbed by a student. She has one deadbeat dad, one young cancer-riddled protégé, and two friends, the school tramp and a depressed poetFiguring the numbers are against her, Lemon just can’t be bothered trying to fit in. She spurns ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light

    A Novel

    From the acclaimed author of Lemon comes a clever and heartbreaking new novel of love and revelationHarriet is 11 going on 30. Her mixed-media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of insufficiently grown-up grown-ups who surround her. She plans to run away to Algonquin Park, hole up in a cabin like Tom Thomson and paint trees; and so, to ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exhilarating Prose

    COGNITIONS, CONTEMPLATIONS, INSIGHTS, INTROSPECTIONS, LUCUBRATIONS, MEDITATIONS, MUSINGS, PROGNOSTICATIONS, REFLECTIONS, REVERIES & RUMINATIONS ON THE PROCESS OF WRITING

    This smartly illustrated literary miscellanea will pique the interest of English prose enthusiasts anywhere. From “Dead Language – the Speaks” (e.g. ad-speak, etc.) to “Re-writing – Again?” and “Rules – Must We Obey?” authors Healey and Strube scrutinize prose in its various forms to reflect on what constitutes distinctive writing, and why. Included are samples of timeless fiction, astute quotes ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milosz

    Milo doesn't quite have it all together. His acting career has stalled. His girlfriend dumped him. His miserable father has vanished, and people keep moving into his house. When Robertson, the autistic eleven-year-old next door – the only person Milo really likes – gets bullied, Milo is finally spurred to action. Milo being Milo, that doesn't really go his way either, and soon people are winding ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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    On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light

    A Novel

    Unabridged

    11 hours 19 min

    Harriet is 11 going on 30. Her mixed-media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of insufficiently grown-up grown-ups who surround her. She plans to run away to Algonquin Park, hole up in a cabin like Tom Thomson and paint trees; and so, to fund her escape, she runs errands for the seniors who inhabit the Shangrila, the decrepit apartment ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    At Sea in a Sieve

    A Novel

    Narrated by Ellen Dubin ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 25 min

    A sharp and moving portrait of Ray — judge, single parent, and tightly leashed woman whose survival strategies seem suddenly to be coming apartRay, a single mother and superior court judge, pounds a punching bag in her basement to manage her anger. She has concluded that life must be lived tightly leashed or chaos will move in. Her prime directive is to protect her daughter, Armada, from life’s ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Misconduct of the Heart

    A Novel

    Narrated by Eve Passeltiner ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 48 min

    Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy’s, a small-chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind geriatric dog she inherits, and a damaged five-year-old who landed on her doorstep and might just be her ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD