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Take a culinary journey through Montreal with award-winning chef, author, and food critic Lesley Chesterman.

Start your day with irresistible breakfast and brunch options like Bostok, a French bakery classic where almond croissants meet French Toast. Tour the city’s vibrant market culture and follow Chesterman through traditions like apéro hour and après-ski. You’ll discover the ins and outs of entertaining Montreal-style, with multicultural offerings that reflect the city’s vibrant spirit and classic Quebecois dishes that are both accessible and irresistible.

Through luscious photos, witty notes, and over 90 soulful and easy-to-follow recipes, Chesterman explores Montreal’s unique influence on her life as one of Quebec’s most beloved chefs and restaurant critics, all with the spirit of a friend chatting across the kitchen table.

With an added list of her own personal city favorites—from bistros and wine bars to bakeries and cheesemongers—A Montreal Cook is both deeply personal and warmly welcoming, transporting readers and home cooks directly to the unique city of Montreal and its unforgettable cuisine.

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The heartland of Nouvelle France was the Saint-Lawrence Valley but it was never pure Catholic or francophone. Scottish and Irish soldiers fought on both sides of the Plains of Abraham. The first English school established after the Conquest was not in Quebec City or Montreal but in the Gaspésie. The first immigrant settlements in the Eastern Townships and the Ottawa Valley were established by English speakers. Then the 20th century saw an explosion of immigration that did not fit the French/English, Catholic/Protestant binary. The reality is far more interesting than Two Solitudes.  

These ‘immigrants’ — who come from different places and speak a variety of languages — are proud to be Quebecers. During the CAQ era of Bill 96, they were treated as a problem and a threat to Quebec. What We Choose To Forget gives a voice to ‘outsiders’ who have a lot to say about Quebec and their place in it! 

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As she emerges back into the world, she must relearn how to move, think, feel, and live in a changed body and mind. In this memoir, Alyssa chronicles the frustrating, absurd, uncanny process of re-entering her life as someone not quite the same as before.

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After being tracked by wolves and left behind in the forest as a child, after sleeping through a flame-spilling chimney fire, after regularly riding in vehicles driven by adults under the influence, and after physically fighting off one of her mother’s abusive partners, author Michelle Willms is both surprised and grateful she survived her northern childhood. Following the sudden death of her mother in 2001, Willms began writing about her and her family’s history to better understand how tragedy and the breakdown of trust impacted multiple generations, and to find healing.

Brave, engaging and electric, Northern Girls is a collection of true stories about the fractured legacy of growing up in rural northern Ontario. Exploring themes of generational trauma, parental addictions, and domestic violence, Willms confronts a past replete with both fragility and resilience.

Michelle Willms holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a Bachelor of Social Work from McMaster University, and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Her writing has appeared in multiple literary journals, as well as the anthology This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West (Baobab Press). She is the 2021/2022 recipient of the Norman L. Rothstein Memorial Scholarship, awarded by the Smith Family Foundation on the recommendation of the Department of Creative Writing. Michelle and her family live in Southern Ontario, Canada, as settlers on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Ojibway/Chippewa, and Haudenosaunee peoples.

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Crucial to this overthrow were the concerted international efforts to cover up or at least minimize the body count associated with the invasion, which marked the beginning of a long and ugly conflict that has stripped Congo of its sovereignty, its safety and its resources.

Rwanda’s 30-Year Assault on Congo traces the roots of Kagame’s campaign and the impunity granted by the United States and its allies. It explores the early US support to Kagame’s rebels from the 1980s to their seizure of power in Rwanda in 1994, via Uganda, Washington’s geopolitical lynchpin on the African continent.

The author examines the tactics Rwanda has used to infiltrate and subjugate Congo in a military campaign that has left millions of Congolese dead, created wealth for Rwandan oligarchs and enriched multinationals and international elites.

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No matter what screen you’re getting your news and information from, the barrage is constant, horrific and always urgent: Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Congo, climate change, ecological devastation, economic collapse, AI, toxic social media…and of course Donald Trump and all he represents.

Authoritarian leaders and genocidal regimes have always found numbness a desirable goal, as it narrows the possibilities for revolt. Shocked and awed into submission, we are at the mercy of tyrants, like captive animals in a zoo. What we see in zoo animals today may be a ghostly image of ourselves. In this lucid, trenchant book, Mark Abley explores the idea of numbness in today’s political context.

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With a Foreword by Ronnie Kasrils

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