Satisfying poems about dissatisfaction: whip-smart and wit-sharp.  More Info

Longlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, "Lemon" is the story of a teenaged girl with the numbers against her.  More Info

Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book! Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. What he can't understand is people and why they're poisoning the planet around him. Shouldn't everyone be losing sleep over the fact that so... More Info

A hilariously deadpan, wincingly funny take on one office innocent's workplace coming-of-age.  More Info

The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it's winter, but the kid makes good lemonade, even if his friend Mullen thinks it ought to be sweeter. They don't talk much with the other ten-year-olds - most of the others are Dead Kids anyway. Except for Jenny Tierney,... More Info

With Canada / US relations in the proverbial toilet (American Standard, of course), Stephen Cain’s third book blenderizes ‘pop’ culture, politics and poetry to befuddle the border. From the Howl-like opening rant about the militarism of the US to the satirical ‘History of Canada,’ this... More Info

A poetic debut that ventures into historical and imagined space both, with musings on Lenin, power and identity.  More Info

David spends his days as an underworked copy writer for an ad agency and his nights lost in old war movies, fantasizing about his strange teenage cousin and revisiting his father's suicide. His dreary life is upended when he finds himself at the mysterious Chaos Farm, a lavish wilderness retreat... More Info

Acclaimed poet, mentored by John Ashbery, explores the West's violent collision with the Arab world.  More Info

A welfare cheque floats down the river, a cowboy spreads the Word of the Lord and crotches tick like clocks: the world of Spare Parts is unpredictable, evocative and vividly distorted. Its initial appearance, in 1981, caused a stir; at a time when linear narrative was the m.o. of feminist writing,... More Info

"Full Frontal T.O." examines how the architecture of the city's streetscape looks, lives, and changes over time.  More Info

Non-profits are big business. According to a recent Johns Hopkins report, third-sector institutions in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Japan, the U.S. and Canada have been growing at an average rate that is twice the growth rate of their GDPs. Canada is home to the second largest non-profit workforce... More Info

An argument over a black rose begins this mischievous novel about anarchism, fire-breathing, murder, money, backhoe wars and family secrets.  More Info

An award-winning and haunting meditation on aging and self-determination.  More Info

Unicorns, Ethiopian food, a Wonder Woman drag queen: Monoceros offers a funny, heartbreaking look at the tragedy of teen suicide.  More Info

Albert Camus meets Chamillionaire in these incendiary pop-culture-infused stories.  More Info

As a blizzard buries the ground, it uncovers the resentments, hopes, and aches of a small town in northeastern Arkansas. Julie ?nds herself, at forty-six, unexpectedly expectant. Her husband, Charlie, has ended his affair with Wilson, but he's found a new and unusual kind of intimacy--with a calf.... More Info

A darkly funny novel about family: the blood kind, the accidental kind, and the kind you rediscover on reality TV.  More Info

If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn't food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, food-security... More Info

The brave ride streetcars to jobs early in the morning, have traffic accidents, rob banks. The brave have children, relationships, mortgages. The brave never write these things down in notebooks. The brave die and they are dead. First published in 1985, when Daniel Jones was just twenty-six,The... More Info

Can a breakup break you apart? In Self-Titled, Geoffrey Brown stares into a mirror and writes what he sees, what he thinks, what he feels. The result? A self-portrait that's at once comic and psychotic, a complex consciousness captured in crystalline prose. Memories, manias, miasmas – Brown... More Info

Filled with millennial dread and suburban oddity, this novel parties (or worries) like it's 1999.  More Info

Acclaimed poet's debut novel explores loss and the legacy of childhood grief, as five siblings prepare for one sister's death.  More Info

"Haven is fiercely protective of her little brother, Chase, spiriting him away when their father's temper is about to flare again. She hides the bread so he'll have something to eat and she teaches him how to make himself invisible, how to read the signs. But when that's no longer enough to keep... More Info