In October 2012, lovers William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill moved into a former barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood and turned it into an art space called Videofag. Over the next four years Videofag became a hub for...
Ontario--Toronto
- Auteur:Tannahill, Ellis, WilliamSommaire:
- Auteur:Bow, JamesSommaire:
Presenting the three titles in the Unwritten fantasy series. This series sends friends Rosemary and Peter on magical and time-travelling adventures. In The Unwritten Girl, they find themselves on a life-or-death quest to rescue Rosemary...
- Auteur:Douville, BruceSommaire:
In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975. Focusing primarily on Toronto, he examines the impact that left-wing student radicalism had on...
- Auteur:Filey, MikeSommaire:
Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area. Indeed , despite the fiscal challenges facing it, the TTC...
- Auteur:Young, Phyllis BrettSommaire:
The arrival, one sunny morning, of pale green wall-to-wall carpeting for the living room is the crowning jewel in Karen Whitney's long-anticipated transformation of her house into a beautiful home, renovated to the exacting standards of...
- Auteur:McFetridge, JohnSommaire:
Includes the novels Dirty Sweet, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, and Swap
Road rage or a premeditated killing? Dirty Sweet is a fast-paced crime story that follows each character to a surprising end....
- Auteur:Bunch, Adam, Micallef, ShawnSommaire:
Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If these streets could talk… With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with...
- Auteur:Degan, AliceSommaire:
On a back alley in Toronto’s Kensington Market, above the Heaven and Earth Bakery, there’s an apartment with a room for rent. The rent is negotiable. The location varies. Humans need not apply. For Nick, who calls 7C home, real life can...
- Auteur:Cotter, CharisSommaire:
In 1960s Toronto, two girls retreat to their attics to escape the loneliness and isolation of their lives. Polly lives in a house bursting at the seams with people, while Rose is often left alone by her busy parents. Soon they discover...
- Auteur:Lynes, JeanetteSommaire:
It’s 1954 and young Sadie Wilder gets her big break at last – a chance to babysit for the posh Bannister family whose regular babysitter, Wanda Keeler, is down with the mumps. Sadie is certain she can deal with any obstacle, but little...
- Auteur:Quinn, PhilipSommaire:
The Skeleton Dance takes place on the mean, formerly clean streets of Toronto before the century ticked over into the new millennium. This graphic novel artfully depicts the human casualties and debris piled up around the downtown bank...
- Auteur:Blackburn McBride, RobinSommaire:
The Shining Fragments is a family saga about the Irish in Canada that explores the ramifications of abandonment, obsession, love, memory, and visionary power. Spanning the years 1882-1904, it follows Joseph Conlon from his early...
- Auteur:Sullivan, Andrew F.Sommaire:
"This impressively bleak vision of the near future is as grotesquely amusing as it is grim." - Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW "A gripping tour-de-force torn from tomorrow's headlines." - David Demchuk, author...
- Auteur:Donoghue, EmmaSommaire:
Sumac Lottery is the fifth of seven kids in her (Very) large, (Extremely) unruly family. With four parents, a parrot, a dog, a rat and two cats, the sprawling Victorian house they call Camelottery is already quite full (in the best...
- Auteur:Gunraj, AndreaSommaire:
Partially inspired by the real-life experiences of a former resident of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, The Lost Sister bravely explores the topics of child abuse, neglect, and abduction against a complex interplay of gender...
- Auteur:Torontonian, UnknownSommaire:
Watch out, Sarah Palin -- here comes Rob Ford! Love him or hate him, Rob Ford and his public (mis)statements are endlessly entertaining, often antagonizing, and always outrageous. For the first time ever, here are more than 100 of the...
- Auteur:Messud, ClaireSommaire:
"A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person. She struggles to provide her son Radek...
- Auteur:Wright, EricSommaire:
Joe Barley, full-time English professor and part-time private detective, is given a simple case: to track Jason Tyler and find proof of his adultery. But as he’s investigating, Barley stumbles across the story of a missing manuscript...
- Auteur:Bowen, Leah SimoneSommaire:
"I bore him fourteen children and he had me down here faster than lightning." In 1887, women were property and could be imprisoned for any reason. Jail was considered a place for the criminal, the disabled, the mentally ill,...
- Auteur:Medaglia, LinaSommaire:
A mesmerizing novel of betrayal, loss, and multiple identities, this is the story of Licia Giganteschi, for whom it takes half a lifetime to go back home, to a place she loves and hates at the same time. Licia grows up in the beautiful...