House of Anansi Press
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Temporary Palaces
$22.99 Read more“A plainspoken, punk-rock hymn … This is a book that will pick you up off the floor of a mosh pit and wrap you in its arms.” –Sean Michaels
In the fevered summer of 2001, charismatic activist Rob a
- Author: Miller, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1487013000
- Language: English
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Definitely Thriving
$21.99 Add to cartThe heartening and hilarious story of a woman who doesn’t have it all figured out just yet.
After accidentally-on-purpose exploding her listless marriage by being discovered in bed with the next-door
- Author: Clare, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1487013930
- Language: English
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Seven Heavens Away
$21.99 Add to cartSometimes you walk two steps and find yourself
two alleys away, two gates away,
two hills away, two seas away,
two continents away,
or seven heavens away.In this taut and heartbreaking debut nove
- Author: Zaghal, Ashraf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1487013485
- Language: English
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A Love Affair with the Unknown: Leaning Into the Uncertainty of Modern Life
$22.99 Add to cartA refreshing look at the inevitability of uncertainty and how it can help make the hard parts of life more manageable.
“Gill–high level of comfort with uncertainty,” a producer once noted. But Gill D
- Author: Deacon, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1487013787
- Language: English
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Procession
$19.99 Add to cartprocession: a line of people moving in the same direction; a formal ceremony or celebration, as in a wedding, a funeral, a religious parade. Bestselling novelist and Governor General’s Award-winning p
- Author: Vermette, Katherena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1487013523
- Language: English
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Letters to Kafka
$21.99 Add to cartA sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesensk?’s torrid love affair with Franz Kafka.
In 1919, Milena Jesensk?, a clever and spirited twenty-
- Author: Estima, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1487013310
- Language: English
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John Candy: A Life in Comedy
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, the definitive biography of John Candy–a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy’s most beloved and enduring stars.
From his humble begin
- Author: Myers, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1487009526
- Language: English
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In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World
$21.99 Add to cartThe unlikely story of a bunch of small-town Canadian punks who conquered the global music industry.
After punk found commercial success in the ’90s, with bands like Green Day, the Offspring, and Blink
- Author: Bobkin, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1487012683
- Language: English
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The Jesuit Disruptor: A Personal Portrait of Pope Francis
$21.99 Add to cartA fresh look at a complex pope with a simple agenda: radically reforming the Catholic Church.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the consummate disruptor, disrupting archaic modes of church governance, disrupti
- Author: Higgins, Michael W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1487010052
- Language: English
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A Daughter’s Place
$21.99 Add to cartA sweeping historical romance inspired by the real-life daughter of Miguel de Cervantes, celebrated author of Don Quixote
Madrid, 1599. Following her mother’s sudden death, fifteen-year-old Isabel goe
- Author: Bátiz, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1487011865
- Language: English
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Soft as Bones: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartA poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing
In candid, incisive, and delicate prose, Chyana Marie Sage
- Author: Sage, Chyana Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1487013027
- Language: English
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Everything Is Fine Here
$20.99 Add to cartA beguiling coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people.
Eighteen-year-old Aine Kamara has been anticipating
- Author: Tushabe, Iryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1487013132
- Language: English
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North of Nowhere: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner
$28.99 Add to cart- NATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Hill Times 100 Best Book of 2024 –
The incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led
- Author: Wilson, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1487011482
- Language: English
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One Foot on the Platform: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Journey
$21.99 Add to cartThe final word from one of popular music’s greatest critics.
In the summer of 2020, acclaimed music critic and journalist Peter Goddard began work on a new book that would take readers on a journey ba
- Author: Goddard, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1487010435
- Language: English
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The Immortal Woman
$20.99 Add to cartA sweeping generational story of heartbreak, resilience, and yearning, revealing an insider’s view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.
Lemei, once a student Red
- Author: Chang, Su
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1487013175
- Language: English
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Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed
$21.99 Read moreA bold book of rage, hope, and challenge exposing how the political decisions of the 1980s continue to haunt us today.
In Dangerous Memory, renowned politician, author, and musician Charlie Angus unde
- Author: Angus, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1487012888
- Language: English
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What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time
$19.99 Add to cartEnough small talk. Let’s get right to it: Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation?
In contemporary society, much of o
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Williams, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1487013426
- Language: English
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In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life
$18.99 Add to cartIn a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and back a century as she seeks the truth behind a family secret. Why did her grandmother Ta
- Author: Ansari, Sadiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1487012373
- Language: English
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The Real World of Technology
$19.95 Read moreIn this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraord… [more below]
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Franklin, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 088784636X
- Language: English
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The 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the Shortlist
$19.99 Read moreThe universe makes a sound–is a sound.
In the core of this sound there’s a silence,
a silence that creates a sound, which is not its opposite,
but its inseparable soul. And this silence can also be- Series: Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
- Author: Scofield, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1487011806
- Language: English
