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Series: O Canada Crosswords O Canada Crosswords Book 22 Paperback Gwen Sjogren 9780889713574 $16.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 02, 2021

Over 250,000 O Canada Crosswords books sold in twenty years! O Canada Crosswords rides again with the twenty-second instalment of this popular series, which features large-sized puzzles split between Canadian and other themes. With over 20 per cent of the clues focusing on Canadiana, you’ll be chomping at the bit as author Gwen Sjogren harnesses her usual fodder of fresh themes and witty wordplay, including the following: National Pride – Inventive Ideas & Trivia Pursuit Music – Carols of the Belles & The Sounds of Music Puns – The Spies Hav... + Read More
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Series: Impact Women Writing After Concussion Paperback E. D. Morin 9781772125818 $26.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 07, 2021

In Impact, 21 women writers consider the effects of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the painstaking work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after a traumatic event. By sharing their complex and sometimes incomplete healing journeys, these women convey the magnitude of a disability which is often doubted, overlooked, and trivialized, in part because of its invisibility. Impact offers compassion and empathy to all readers and families healing from concussion and o... + Read More
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Series: This Strange Visible Air Essays on Aging and the Writing Life Paperback Sharon Butala 9781988298962 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 13, 2021

A collection of essays on women and aging from Canadian legend Sharon Butala "What I didn't have a clue about was that I was soon to be old, or what being old would mean to my dreams and desires. While dreading old age with every fibre, I was at the same time in full denial that it would ever happen to me, and so, was shocked down to the soles of my feet when it did." In this incisive collection, Sharon Butala reflects on the ways her life has changed as she's grown old. She knows that society fails the elderly massively, and so she tackles ag... + Read More
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Series: Along the Western Front Hardcover Leah Hennel 9781771602051 $40.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Mar 31, 2020

A stunning debut collection of photography focusing on contemporary cowboy culture and the modern ranching lifestyle throughout central and southern Alberta.Growing up in the city, Leah Hennel would spend summers with her cousins on a farm near Stettler, Alberta, about halfway between Calgary and Edmonton. The ranching and farming lifestyle intrigued and fascinated her from an early age, though she could already see that it was not an easy life to live. It’s always been hard work, but one of the glories of living it is that those who are able t... + Read More
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Series: Rough Paperback Robin van Eck 9781988754260 $19.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2020

"When the river jumps the banks, eating the city's downtown core as it goes, one man, homeless by choice, is forced to confront his past in order to save those he cares about. Visually rich and intense, Robin van Eck's debut novel provides a deep reflection on humanity- An eye-opening, haunting, and unforgettable read." Fran Kimmel, author of No Good Asking. It is 2013 and Calgary's Bow river is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend-an accident?Taking cover downtown that night, Sherme... + Read More
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Series: Pourin' Down Rain A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West 2nd edition Paperback Cheryl Foggo 9781550598339 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 24, 2020

The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary, a time when a Black family walking down the street still drew stares from everyone they passed. She grew up in the warm embrace of a community of extended family and friends, with roots in the Black migration of 1910 across the western provinces. But as an adolescent, Cheryl struggled against the negative attitudes towards Blackness she and her family encountered. She struggled agains... + Read More
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Series: Every River Poems Vistas of the West Poems and Visuals of Nature Hardcover Doris Daley 9781988824222 $31.95 POETRY Aug 15, 2019

Vistas of the West is a collection of poetry and visual art that celebrates the beauty and spirit of the Rocky Mountains, Western foothills, prairie landscapes, and the natural inhabitants of these beautiful environments. A special edition is available that includes a CD of poetry readings by featured poets and a limited edition print.
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Series: Indigenous Spirit of Nature Stories of Métis Women Tales My Kookum Told Me Paperback Bailey Oster 9781988824215 $38.95 HISTORY Aug 15, 2021

This book, and accompanying Vimeo documentary link (DVD available on request), is a collection of stories about culture, history, and nationhood as told by Métis women. The Métis are known by many names — Otipemisiwak, “the people who own ourselves;” Bois Brules, “Burnt Wood;” Apeetogosan, “half brother” by the Cree; “half-breed,” historically; and are also known as “rebels” and “traitors to Canada.” They are also known as the “Forgotten People.” Few really know their story. Many people may also think that Métis simply means “mixed,” but it doe... + Read More
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Series: Coast Mountain Foot 1st edition Paperback ryan fitzpatrick 9781772013597 $16.95 POETRY Jul 15, 2021

Written over the span of a decade and a half, Coast Mountain Foot keens its ear to the energies that connect cities, refracting the gesture of George Bowering’s 1968 classic Rocky Mountain Foot. Occasioned by fitzpatrick’s own move from Calgary to Vancouver in 2011, the book writes through the messy perspectives of the two cities as they bleed into one another – the energy in one city’s streets suddenly appearing in the other – and engages with the urban and its intimacies through careful listening. The book’s interlaced serial poetics is ancho... + Read More
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Series: Bogart Creek Bogart Creek 2 Paperback Derek Evernden 9781988903903 $19.99 HUMOR Nov 18, 2020

Collecting even more of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden's laugh out loud funny, single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. Similar in style to The Far Side, Bogart Creek is a perfect book for washroom reading.
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Series: Robert Kroetsch Series You Look Good for Your Age An Anthology Paperback Rona Altrows 9781772125320 $26.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 03, 2021

“I returned to the same respiratory therapist for my annual checkup. I told her that her words to me, ‘You look good for your age,’ had inspired a book. ‘Wow!’ she said. ‘You wrote a whole book about that?’ ‘Twenty-nine kick-ass writers wrote it,’ I said. She gave me a thumbs up.” From the Preface This is a book about women and ageism. There are twenty-nine contributing writers, ranging in age from their forties to their nineties. Through essays, short stories, and poetry, they share their distinct opinions, impressions, and speculations on ag... + Read More
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Series: Railway Nation Tales of Canadian Pacific, the World's Greatest Travel System Paperback David Laurence Jones 9781772033496 $34.95 TRANSPORTATION Nov 03, 2020

A riveting, visually engaging collection of vignettes highlighting the rich heritage of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Since its founding in 1881, Canadian Pacific has made an indelible mark on the lives of Canadians. Most commonly associated with its iconic railway, at its height CP also ran hotels, steamships, and an airline, and had myriad involvements in immigration, irrigation, resource development, war contributions, and international trade. It has been said that no other single corporation has shaped Canadian national identity as much as ... + Read More
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Series: The Little Prairie Book of Berries Recipes for Saskatoons, Sea Buckthorn, Haskap Berries and More Paperback Sheryl Normandeau 9781771513425 $25.00 COOKING Nov 02, 2021

A National Post Best Cookbook of 2021A celebration of some of the lesser-known berries local to the prairie region, including sea buckthorn, haskap, saskatoons, currants, sour cherries, and chokecherries.This little cookbook is all about the berries and small fruits grown in prairie gardens, gathered from U-pick farms, and foraged in the wild. Home cook and accomplished gardener Sheryl Normandeau presents 65 recipes for everything from meat, poultry, and fish dishes, vegetable and grain dishes, to desserts, baked goods, beverages, and preserves... + Read More
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Series: Elbow A River in the Life of the City 2nd edition Paperback John Gilpin 9781550597202 $19.95 HISTORY Aug 01, 2017

Experience Calgary’s history through the story of its “other” river. In this revised and updated edition, John Gilpin delivers the definitive history of the Elbow River and the vital role it has always played in the lives of Calgarians. Drawing upon a rich archive of historical documents, photos, and maps, Gilpin takes readers on a sweeping journey through Calgary’s past, from the founding of Fort Calgary to the creation of the Glenmore Reservoir, which unlocked the city’s potential for growth. Along the way, you’ll meet many of the mavericks w... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry Response of Weeds, The A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies Paperback Bertrand Bickersteth 9781988732794 $18.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

Winner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award!Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for PoetryWinner of a 2021 High Plains Book Award for First Book!Finalist for the 2020 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!A 2020 CBC Poetry Book of the Year!Finalist for a 2021 High Plains Book Award for PoetryBertrand Bickersteth's debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. The Response of Weeds offers a much-needed window on often ov... + Read More
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Series: Sustainability Matters Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada’s Petro-City Paperback Noel Keough 9781773852485 $34.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 15, 2021

Calgary, Alberta is a culturally diverse urban metropolis. Sprawling and car-dependent, fast-growing and affluent, it is dominated by the fossil fuel industry. For 30 years, Calgary has struggled to turn sustainability rhetoric into reality.Sustainability Matters is the story of Calgary’s setbacks and successes on the path toward sustainability. Chronicling two decades of public conversations, political debate, urban policy and planning, and scholarly discovery, it is both a fascinating case study and an accessible introduction to the theory an... + Read More
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Series: ISSN Unlocking 1st edition Paperback Amy LeBlanc 9781773851396 $19.99 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

Louise Till, mother of two, has inherited her father's hardware store after her parents' unexpected deaths. She begins to cut copies of her customers' keys for herself, each one a talisman against grief and the terrible guilt she feels at not having realized that her parents were desperately unhappy.Louise could use the keys, but she doesn't. Not until her life is overturned, again, when her marriage falls apart. Lou gives in to temptation, letting herself into Euphemia Rosenbaum's home. What follows is a tale of blackmail, break-ins, an unsolv... + Read More