1.
Series: Essential Writers Series
Maria Campbell
Essays on Her Works
Paperback
Jolene Armstrong
9781550716481
$20.00
LITERARY CRITICISM
Oct 01, 2012
This essay collection gathers together writings on the works of Maria Campbell, feminist, activist, visionary, artist, mother, grandmother, and Métis elder. The book talks truthfully of Maria's journey as a writer, how her writing was infected with her experiences with marginalization and discrimination. And how she emerged on the other side having affirmed her identity.
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Series: Essential Writers Series
Africadian Atlantic
Essays on George Elliott Clarke
Paperback
Joseph Pivato
9781550716276
$25.00
LITERARY CRITICISM
Oct 01, 2012
This collection features essays on Nova Scotia-born poet, playwright and literary critic George Elliott Clarke. Instrtumental in promoting the writing of writers of African descent, Clarke's work has won awards including the Governor General's Award for poetry. He is also the recipient of seven honorary doctorates.
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Series:
Raising Frankenstein
Curatorial Education and Its Discontents
Paperback
Kitty Scott
9781894773324
$24.95
ART
Mar 01, 2011
Edited by Kitty Scott and including essays by Barbara Fischer, Teresa Gleadowe, Francesco Manacorda, Cuauhtémoc Medina, and Lourdes Morales; this book offers an overview of thinking on curatorial pedagogy, designed to elucidate, define and build on debates surrounding this subject.The five essays, complemented by a collective discussion, provide a set of cogent inquiries and analyses for all those, from students to practitioners, who concern themselves with the presentation and theorization of contemporary art. At its heart lies the single ques...
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Series: Gwen
Gwen in West Wind Calling
Paperback
Carolyn Pogue
9780986638879
$10.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 12
Aug 07, 2012
Thirteen year old Home Girl Gwen Peters has already had more adventures than most people. Orphaned at 11 and trained to be a servant, she travelled by ship to a new life in Canada. Her spunk, sense of humour and the memory of seeing a grand lady of the theatre, Mohawk performer E. Pauline Johnson, have kept her going. It's a good thing, because there are more challenges ahead. The first one comes after watching two coffins, father and son, lowered into the cold Brantford ground. Soon, Gwen becomes "pilot of the plains" as she and her mistress t...
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Series:
Martini with a Twist
Five Plays by Clem Martini
Paperback
Clem Martini
9781927063163
$19.95
DRAMA
Aug 15, 2012
Absurdity reigns in multiple award-winning author and playwright Clem Martini's newest collection of work, Martini with a Twist--five plays spanning two decades of Martini's career, from 1989 to 2009. A lonely elephant handler befriends the half-blind woman who drove through his yard, a severed head in a suitcase life support system is given a second chance at life, a quiet shut-in wrestles with the jealous ghost of his wife, a young woman with the ability to smell lies struggles to make new friends, and a mismatched pod of whales in the Pacifi...
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Series:
Blackbirds
Paperback
Garry Ryan
9781927063217
$19.95
FICTION
Oct 01, 2012
When young Sharon Lacey travels from Canada to England in the spring of 1940 in search of the father she never knew, she finds herself called upon to participate in a much larger and more dangerous mission. For at eighteen, she is a gifted flier in an England desperate for pilots to fend off the impending attack from Hitler's Luftwaffe. In the months that follow, Sharon will be tested in ways that will affect the rest of her life--should she survive.With Blackbirds, award-winning mystery novelist Garry Ryan turns his hand towards historical fic...
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Series:
My Modern Panic
Paperback
James Davidge
9781897411728
$14.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Age (years) from 14 - 18
Sep 15, 2012
Bestselling author James Davidge ('Thirteen Minutes,' 'Mathemagick and Mystiphysics,' 'The Driftwood Saga,' collaborates with a brilliant and diverse group of illustrators to produce a playful yet socially-concerned collection of comic and prose stories. What if the upper class of society started to collect and display the homeless as art? Could a sustainable farm be built on a defunct off-shore il rig by utilizing guidance and funding from a talking goldfish? Can Davidge reconcile with his own youthful sins of pulling the hair of a girl he lik...
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Brilliant chronicle of great landscape artists and what they saw in Canada's Western Mountains…….This book is about the plethora of artistic responses to the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains, and Selkirk Mountains from 1809 to 2012, by mostly Canadian artists who were drawn to the region for a variety of reasons.....What did two centuries of artistic exploration in this area yield? Which works of art inspired by this uniquely Western landscape were created and how did they serve to create a distinct Western Canadian identity?......It is almo...
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Series:
Nicolai's Daughters
Paperback
Stella Leventoyannis Harvey
9781897109977
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 01, 2012
The Sarinopoulous family has survived a tragedy that history has forgotten. The family is marked by war, fear and shame that cannot be erased by the idle gossip used to pass the time in the small village of Diakofto on the edge of the Peloponnese. Alexia, a young Canadian lawyer compelled to fulfill her father’s dying wish to find the half-sister he kept from her, arrives in Diakofto to discover an extended family, a culture she knows nothing about, and a country in financial crisis. Looming over her visit and the one trip back to Greece her f...
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Series:
Swallow
Paperback
Theanna Bischoff
9781927063194
$19.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2012
You wake up, and your sister is dead.With an absent father and their mother constantly ill, sisters Darcy and Carly Nolan were forced to rely on each other growing up. While unpredictable Carly bounced around, her life's direction uncertain, Darcy fell in love, went to University, and moved to another province. When nineteen-year-old Carly unexpectedly kills herself, Darcy is left to carry the burden of their childhood memories forward alone. The pain of these memories overwhelms Darcy as she struggles to unravel her own feelings of guilt, and ...
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Series:
Road to Ruin
Paperback
Bob Prodor
9781897411735
$14.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Sep 15, 2012
Social paradoxes examined through the medium of a graphic novel…..'Road to Ruin' is the story of a group of ne'er-do-wells in the early 1960s with limited super-powers. Instead of dressing up as 1930s wrestlers and fighting crime, they decide to emulate their heroes, 'The Rat Pack,' by dressing stylishly and heading out on the road robbing banks and looting towns. They are 'The Bad Guys.' As the story progresses we see that, despite their rough exterior and their foolish infighting, the group is like a surrogate family who care deeply for each ...
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Series:
Not With a Bang
Paperback
Gail Sidonie Sobat
9781926794129
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 15 - 18
Oct 15, 2012
Jan is a 17 year-old kid in trouble with the law. Al is a feisty old coot. Paired together because Jan must serve community service hours at a seniors’ residence after pleading guilty to a marijuana possession offense, the two initially resent each other. Gradually, the curmudgeonly Al becomes mentor and father-figure to the young delinquent. Through the old man’s guidance and the boy's re-framing of a series of bad dreams, Jan begins to imagine other possibilities. He learns to value compassion and decency as part of successful human relat...
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Series:
Inspire Me Well
Finding motivation to take control of your health
Paperback
Sarah O’Hara
9781554830879
$19.95
HEALTH & FITNESS
Oct 15, 2012
What inspires people to live a healthy lifestyle? Is it to postpone their expiration date or is there something more? The benefits of a healthy lifestyle are countless; there is no debate there. Yet the majority of us continue to struggle with motivation and barriers to living healthily. There is a disconnect between knowledge and behaviour that is only getting worse. We propose a dash of inspiration. Inspire Me Well takes an in-depth look at what motivates behaviour change through stories of people who were inspired to make daily choices to pr...
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Series:
Shore Girl, The
Paperback
Fran Kimmel
9781927063170
$19.95
FICTION
Sep 15, 2012
Rebee Shore's life is fragmented. She's forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Elizabeth. The Shore Girl follows Rebee from her toddler to her teen years as she grapples with her mother's fears and addictions, and her own desire for a normal life. Through a series of narrators--family, friends, teachers, strangers, and Rebee herself--her family's dark past, and the core of her mother's despair, are slowly revealed.The Shore Girl is a mosaic of Rebee: of her origins, of her past and ...
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Series:
Herbert Has Lots for a Buck
How 12 Small Prairie Towns Reinvented Themselves for the 21st Century
Paperback
Elizabeth McLachlan
9781927063231
$19.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 15, 2012
Canada in the twenty-first century is a place of growth and expansion. Cities like Vancouver and Toronto have become word class destinations for business and tourism. Meanwhile, smaller, less prominent communities face changes of different sorts, as residents depart for the opportunities present in our country's largest cities. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Canada's prairie provinces.Despite changes in population and the loss of such essential services as schools, post offices, and grain elevators, many of Canada's oldest prairie commun...
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Series:
Loneliness Machine, The
Paperback
Aaron Giovannone
9781554831074
$16.95
POETRY
Oct 25, 2013
Part meditation, part confession, part comedy bit, The Loneliness Machine—Aaron Giovannone’s first full-length collection of poetry—is a strikingly new rendition of the trope of the suffering artist that takes dramatic risks and rarely fails to charm.
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Series:
Twin Tongues
Paperback
Claire Lacey
9781926743424
$14.95
POETRY
Oct 15, 2013
Mining bilong dispela stori: Exploring the power imbalance between English and Tok Pisin, Twin Tongues transforms the English Language into a character who encounters her own foreignness in Papua New Guinea. This text struggles with the ethics of appropriation, language use and second language teaching, questioning the subjective position of the author, the teacher, the speaker of English. The poetry scrapes away the veneer of objectivity assumed by historical descriptions of Tok Pisin.Twin Tongues tests the flexibility of language, and asks, "...
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Series:
Jim Forgetting
Paperback
Col Cseke
9781897289914
$15.95
DRAMA
Sep 20, 2013
Jim Forgetting is an unflinching portrait of a year in the life of Jim and Donna, a middle-aged couple struggling with JimÕs early-onset AlzheimerÕs disease. While watching her husband slowly disappear, DonnaÕs patience and love is pushed to heartbreaking limits. She is left to ask: When love is composed of moments remembered and dreams shared, what happens to a marriage when memories fade and futures disappear? Jim Forgetting is an unforgettable story of one womanÕs heart-wrenching decision.
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Series:
Foxed
Paperback
Garry Ryan
9781927063408
$18.95
FICTION
Oct 01, 2013
After a long series of professional and personal upheavals, Detective Lane begins his latest adventure happy, at peace, and enjoying life with his partner Arthur, their children Christine and Matt, and his able new partner, RCMP officer Keely Saliba.But when the body of a young boy is unearthed ten years after he was reported missing, Lane's investigation into the crime puts him in conflict with a powerful and charismatic Calgary real estate developer and restaurateur--a cunning sociopath whose desire to suppress any threat to his empire will e...
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Series:
Blood
A Scientific Romance
Paperback
Meg Braem
9781770911710
$16.95
DRAMA
Sep 19, 2013
Twin sisters Poubelle and Angelique are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought home with Dr. Glass after their remarkable recovery, and quickly find themselves the subject of endless experiments. In a quest to study Poubelle and Angelique's undeniable bond, Dr. Glass's questionable practices are soon scrutinized by a young doctor who might be the twins' only hope for a normal life. Blood: A Scientific Romance probes the quest...
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Series:
Love at Last Sight
Paperback
Thea Bowering
9781927063347
$17.95
FICTION
Sep 15, 2013
"So I have always walked alleys alone, with my monster face, listening through a wall for the words that might cultivate me, that are contained within the homes of ex-lovers, the ones who caught a glimpse and ran away."In the neon-slick streets of Thea Bowering's imagination, monster girls and femme flâneurs roam, anthropologist's eyes on barroom denizens, disguising themselves in men's clothing and embarking on doomed love affairs. Old World meets New World as the cafés and piazzas of Europe's capitals intermingle with the dust and desolation ...
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Series:
Love Letters of the Angels of Death
Paperback
Jennifer Quist
9781927535158
$16.95
FICTION
Aug 04, 2013
A breathtaking literary debut, Love Letters of the Angels of Death begins as a young couple discover the remains of his mother in her mobile home. The rest of the family fall back, leaving them to reckon with the messy, unexpected death. By the time the burial is over, they understand this will always be their role: to liaise with death on behalf of people they love. They are living angels of death. All the major events in their lives - births, medical emergencies, a move to a northern boomtown, the theft of a veteran's headstone - are viewed ...
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Series:
Long White Sickness, The
Paperback
Cecilia Frey
9781926708904
$22.95
FICTION
May 30, 2013
On a remote lonely mountain, Constance skis toward her death and Harry Weinstein loses himself in an avalanche. Meanwhile, back in the city, Gully Jillson is the suspect in the investigation of a murder that has taken place in Constance's high-rise condo. The collision of this strange ménage a trois is at the heart of Cecelia Frey's latest novel of love and death, sex and life. Complicating matters for Constance in her pursuit of a recalcitrant and perfidious muse are the ongoing intrusions of Sgt. Rock, homicide detective with ulterior motives...
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Series:
Unknown Actor
Paperback
Jason Christie
9781554831012
$16.95
POETRY
Apr 30, 2013
When poetry meets theatre in the mind of Jason Christie, a smashing performance results! Then as the curtains close, Christie sneaks off the stage, through the scenery, and out into the wilds of the Internet — and straight into the footlights and teleprompters of human experience. Like a method actor in character long after the credits have rolled, off set, off his rocker, Christie runs wild from Goethe’s Faust to Burton’s, through 1984 and B movies from the ’80s and back again. Beneath his offerings to the actor — questionable acting lessons, ...
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Series:
Everything Is So Political
A Collection of Short Fiction by Canadian Writers
Paperback
Sandra McIntyre
9781552665497
$19.95
FICTION
May 15, 2013
The stories within Everything Is So Political explore the intersection between politics and the contemporary short story. From the overt to the subtle, this collection tackles a broad range of topics and themes, from women’s rights and Aboriginal culture to environmentalism, terrorism and totalitarianism. This is one of the few Canadian anthologies that focuses on political fiction, and it does so in a very powerful and artful way, flying in the face of readers, writers and critics alike who claim that writing with a political agenda occurs at ...
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Series:
Devil's Breath, The
The Story of the Hillcrest Mine Disaster of 1914
Paperback
Steve Hanon
9781927063293
$24.95
HISTORY
May 15, 2013
On a warm spring day in June of 1914, two hundred and thirty-five men went down into the depths of the Hillcrest mine found in Alberta's Crowsnest Pass. Only forty-six would make it out alive. The largest coal-mining disaster in Canadian history, the fateful tale of the Hillcrest Mine is finally captured in startling detail by Stephen Hanon. A deft examination of the coal mining industry in an Alberta just on the cusp of the Great War, The Devil's Breath is a startling recollection of heroism and human courage in the face of overwhelming calami...
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Series:
Seldom Seen Road
Paperback
Jenna Butler
9781927063316
$14.95
POETRY
Apr 01, 2013
Seldom Seen Road is a collection of sharply observed and understated poems about the land and its people, specifically those who have made it grow. Bare bones, full of wit, insight, and fine imagery, they make up a book carefully constructed around a striking vision of the Prairies and its slowly disappearing history. Butler illuminates an oft-hidden world of strong women spanning two centuries, focusing the most powerful sequence of the book, "Lepidopterists", on them. These poems find their place in a tradition of prairie poetry that owes muc...
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