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Series: Barnabas Bigfoot: Bone Eater Paperback Marty Chan 9781927068434 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 08 - 11 Sep 30, 2013
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Series: Lucia's Masks Paperback Wendy MacIntyre 9781927068441 $19.95 FICTION Sep 30, 2013
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Series: Urban Legend Paperback Jerry Levy 9781927068458 $18.95 FICTION Sep 30, 2013

Urban Legend, a street-smart and contemporary collection, is comprised of gritty, urban tales about troubled individuals attempting to mitigate loss by searching for their own personal antidote. These city-centric stories encompass a wide variety of cultures, characters from varying social strata, and earnest examinations of how individuals react when forced out of their comfort zone. In “Paris is a Woman”, we meet a man hoping that by escaping to liberating Paris, he will heal his uncontrollable emotions; however, he soon finds that it... + Read More
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Series: The Glorious Mysteries And Other Stories Paperback Audrey Whitson 9781927068472 $18.95 FICTION Aug 30, 2013

At the core of almost every story in Audrey Whitson’s collection is a female protagonist on a searching journey towards meaning and personal validity. Regardless of whether she is a small child on an Alberta farm, a middle-class woman in California or a nurse struggling with her faith, there is a constant and undeniable authenticity of voice that is arrestingly intimate. This palpable honesty enables the reader to feel fully involved in each character’s journey and cements their personalities in the mind. Spirituality and the protagonist... + Read More
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Series: The Deaf House Paperback Joanne Weber 9781927068489 $19.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Sep 30, 2013

The Deaf House is Joanne Weber’s life story. It highlights the work and passions of a woman who grew up deaf and became an advocate for the deaf. It is a story of pain, loss and defeat balanced with joy, gain, and victory. It is the true story of a deaf woman as much as it is the fable of a heroic quest where a woman overcomes the most profound obstacles to find herself. The author shows how deafness can be a brutal oppression of the mind as well as one of sound. Her torment of not knowing exactly where she should belong, or when to hal... + Read More
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Series: The Beggar King Paperback Michelle Barker 9781927068373 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Mar 15, 2013

He has no talent, they said; then how was it that he could unleash and wield such a powerful magic, and that he would be the one chosen by the Beggar King to claim the undermagic. Beware this door! Beware your soul! May this door never be opened, or the beggar shall be king. As Jordan Elliott stood before the brass door, he knew the risks. Beware the beggar who would be king! He knew of the “undermagic”, that ancient and dark source of power that had been locked away because prophets of old deemed it too unpredictable and destructive. Bu... + Read More
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Series: On Fire Paperback Dianne Linden 9781927068380 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Mar 15, 2013

Part comedy, part mystery, part allegory, On Fire is narrated alternately by two characters: Matti Iverly, a fourteen-year-old girl with Tourette Syndrome. In Matti’s case, her tics are primarily vocal. As she confides early in the book, "At school they called me Tourette’s Girl, like I came out of a phone booth wearing a costume and made funny noises for people’s entertainment. But I was a serious person, waiting for a serious purpose." When a young man with amnesia wonders out of the heart of wildfire country, Matti finds that purpose and ful... + Read More
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Series: Living with the Hawk Paperback Robert Currie 9781927068397 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Mar 15, 2013

Living with the Hawk explores the traumatic events in the life of Blair Russell, a high school football player who struggles to do what’s right in tough circumstances. Key characters are his brother, Blake, the team’s quarterback; Jordan Phelps, the star receiver, a kid with a need to control others; Paul Russell, his father, an Anglican priest; and Barb Russell, his mother. Blair is the subject of taunting and hazing, including physical intimidation on the football field by Jordan. His brother Blake used to stick up for him, but seems ambivale... + Read More
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Series: A Nose for Death Paperback Glynis Whiting 9781927068403 $18.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2013

Chemist Dr. Joan Parker has the ability to name more scents that just about any other person on the planet. She can distinguish cane sugar from beet sugar, burning pine from spruce, and a man on the make from a man on the take. Combining scents to create food flavors is her occupation and her passion. Her understanding of the effects of all of the senses on human emotion and behavior is her pass key. This ability also leads Joan "Nosey" Parker to the killer in A Nose for Death.At fifty, Joan is at a transitional time of life. She’s outspoken, s... + Read More
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Series: Sound Off a book of jazz Paperback Stephen Bett 9781927068410 $18.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2013

Stephen Bett’s 12th book, Sound Off: a book of jazz, is loosely, a "serial" poem, a book of 76 linked poems, each responding (himself as a jazz fan) to the work of 76 very current jazz musicians. These "jazzers", as he calls them, are not the old tried & true names we all know --- they fall, very roughly, into three general camps: the "sons of Miles" (Jarrett, Hancock, Corea, McLaughlin, Scofield, Shorter, etc.); the ECM artists (largely Norwegian, the very contemporary sound coming from jazz’s second centre these days) & very young (20-somethi... + Read More
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Series: She Draws the Rain Paperback Carole Chambers 9781927068427 $15.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2013

As an environmental activist and avid gardener Chambers has finely tuned her sensitivities to the magic and drama of nature. Her poetry uses this energy to describe the relationships that people have to the environment, to themselves and to each other. She Draws the Rain contains poems of both dream and vision in its exploration of the human condition. It also offers poems that are built on the science of knowing nature, knowing its rhythms, its seasons, its storms and the healing power it possesses. Chambers’ poems name the unnameable and scat... + Read More
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Series: Dibidalen Ten Stories Paperback Seán Virgo 9781927068069 $18.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2012

Seán Virgo knows the power of short fiction. He knows that the act of storytelling is hardwired into human consciousness and that the well-told story can appear in various shapes and sizes. The full force of Virgo’s writing energy in Dibidalen is directed by this knowledge. We see this clearly in the exquisite simplicity of the collection’s opening pieces, "Before Ago" and "Eggs in a Field" where he uses verse fable and folktale interchangeably forging the stories’ links to a preliterate oral culture. Other stories employ the power of allegory ... + Read More
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Series: Barnabas Bigfoot: A Hairy Tangle Paperback Marty Chan 9781927068052 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 4 - 6 Oct 01, 2012

As A Hairy Tangle, the second book in the Barnabas Bigfoot series, begins we pick up the action from Book One, A Close Shave. We are in the woods with Barnabas, Hannah and Ruth and Barnabas’ father has just fallen off a cliff. The three, now fast friends, know they must soldier on to rejoin their tribe and escape the hunting baldfaces. Throughout this book and the next, these three characters grow closer and closer. Barnabas and Hannah emerge as a possible “couple”, which is dealt with subtly and appropriately in the context of the ac... + Read More
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Series: A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden Writing from Prison Paperback Stephen Reid 9781927068038 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2012

Stephen Reid has grown old in prison and seen more than his share of its solitude, its vicious cycles, and its subculture relationships. He has participated in the economics of contraband, the incredible escapes, the intimacies of torture, the miscarriages of justice, and witnessed the innocent souls whose childhood destinies doomed them to prison life.He has learned that everything is bearable, that the painful separation of family, children, and friend is tolerable, and that sorrow must be kept close, buried in a secret garden of the self, if... + Read More
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Series: The Pious Robber Paperback Harriet Richards 9781927068182 $18.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2012

Central to Harriet Richard’ character-driven stories in The Pious Robber are girls and women who have captured the revelations and disclosures that life’s complications have offered to them. Some are bold and blunt women who know loneliness and loss and don’t suffer fools; others are girls brimming with vim and wit who see life changes clearly but cannot totally grasp their meanings. In "A Blue Felt Bird" the life-long bonds that girls form in friendship shape memory and tilt the emotions of retrospection even after death. How Richards’ ch... + Read More
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Series: Given Paperback Susan Musgrave 9781927068021 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2012

The characters from Susan Musgrave’s Cargo of Orchids are back in this brilliantly engaging novel. Rainy, the Mexican-American woman, and Frenchy, the African-American, along with Musgrave’s narrator X have returned and convincingly insist their story is not done. Once inmates on death row, now reunited and hanging out at an old house in a BC outport, they create a grand new afterlife adventure. As we are shuttled along an energetic storyline in an old hearse, through gated communities in Vancouver, to BC’s First Nations island outposts, we wit... + Read More
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Series: A Year At River Mountain Paperback Michael Kenyon 9781927068045 $19.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2012

Part intellectual mystery and part spiritual adventure, A Year At River Mountain tells the story of an aging actor from Vancouver who has immersed himself in monastic life in China and is now examining his past as an actor, husband, and father. As his Western consciousness grapples with Taoist philosophies and acupressure techniques, he assesses his life and records the struggles of transformation that accompany such thinking.The monastery’s Old Master has given the narrator permission to write the commentary he shares with us while raising the... + Read More
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Series: The Path To Ardroe Paperback John Lent 9781927068014 $19.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2012

The Path to Ardroe is an exploration of friendship and its limits, life changes, and the challenges and aspirations of writers. Peter Chisholm wrestles with his craft just as his writer friend Rick Connelly does; so too does the novice Melissa, the daughter of their friends Ronnie and Carol. Trapped by his own deceptions, Peter finds himself at forty-two without direction and so it seemed an eerie coincidence to him that unplanned events had conspired to place him in Lochinver, Scotland, developing his next novel and seeking out his former love... + Read More
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Series: The Sometimes Lake Paperback Sandy Bonny 9781897235997 $18.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2012

The stories in Sandy Bonny's collection The Sometimes Lake will transport readers from the Arctic Circle to Alberta's badlands, and from the waters of the Georgia Straight to the deep lasting space of the prairies. The characters that readers meet in these places will be oddly familiar or perhaps familiarly odd. There are children who live in the magical territory between their imagination and their parents' realities; road builders from China and Australia who know the ghostly secrets at road's end; men who shape their lives with the predictab... + Read More
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Series: Redcoats and Renegades Paperback Barry McDivitt 9781897235973 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 7 - 9 Mar 15, 2012

In the 1870s, a teenage criminal from New York makes history when he becomes the first person arrested by Canada's newly created national police force - the original RCMP. Following this encounter, he unwillingly accompanies the North West Mounted Police on their 1874 expedition into Canada's untamed and lawless west. At first the street-smart youth privately mocks his Mountie companions, but after sharing their hardships he comes to identify with them. The March West, as it became known, was quite well documented. The Mounties first commission... + Read More
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Series: Voiceless Paperback Caroline Wissing 9781897235980 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Mar 15, 2012

Voiceless is a coming-of-age novel with a twist: it features a teen runaway who has no speaking voice. Nicknamed Ghost, runaway teen Annabel's interaction with her world is limited to how well she can convey her wants and feelings to others, and how intuitive the other characters are in interpreting her expressions and gestures. Danger lurks in many places and she faces harrowing situations when she leaves her foster home with a tough and messed up boy and hitchhikes to the city. Once there, the danger intensifies as she confronts a rounder who... + Read More
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Series: The Weeping Chair Paperback Donald Ward 9781927068007 $18.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2012

Donald Ward's stories in The Weeping Chair are confidently layered with unexpected situations and characters whose faith in themselves provides the strength to confront whatever weird or challenging experience befalls them. While Ward's style is steeped in the traditional storytelling structures of Flannery O'Connor and P.G. Wodehouse, his highly imaginative settings and eccentric character profiles push the stories' energies into contemporary spheres of literary entertainment. His thematic pursuits usually deal with the human willingness to ca... + Read More
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Series: The Cast Stone Paperback Harold Johnson 9781897235898 $19.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2011

A dystopian novel in which a First Nations professor confronts and assesses the impact of the US annexation of Canada through an examination of personal values and First Nations social mores.
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Series: Leaving Berlin Paperback Britt Holmström 9781897235911 $18.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2011

Contemporary stories of women set against both European and Canadian environments. Bridging the psychological interior narrative with an acutely sensitive attention to language and atmosphere, Holmström's stories are measured and unhurried. At times they have a strong sense of journalism, at other times they evoke the intimacy of a diary.
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Series: The Maladjusted Paperback Derek Hayes 9781897235904 $18.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2011

Sixteen clever and insightful stories about people who fail to meet fundamental social or cultural expectations. Hayes' short stories are accessible, immediate, and convenient, and lend themselves to a contemporary, fast-paced audience.
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Series: The Source of Light Paperback David Richards 9781897235935 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Sep 15, 2011

The Source of Light profiles two seventeen-year-olds as they put on their detective mindsets and physical disguises to seek answers to serious questions such as Mike's mother's infidelity and Mike's father's involvement in industrial espionage. Set against the backdrop of a synchrotron, a football field-sized facility that uses light millions of times brighter than the sun to peer inside matter, the teen detectives soon begin to connect the world's most powerful microscope to nefarious black market schemes.
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Series: Barnabas Bigfoot Series A Close Shave Paperback Marty Chan 9781897235928 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 04 - 06 Sep 15, 2011

The first book in the Barnabas Bigfoot Series, A Close Shave introduces us to Barnabas, adolescent sasquatch, and his family and tribe in the woods of BC. Barnabas is a wonderfully engaging and genuine character, immediately relatable to preteens. He is experiencing the normal pangs of growing up: physical changes, pesky girls, embarrassing parents. On top of all that he experiences what for sasquatches is a dire handicap: small feet. He is determined to keep this terrible flaw a secret.
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Series: Our Kind of Work Paperback Dwayne Brenna 9781897235959 $18.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Jul 15, 2011

Twenty-fifth Street Theatre Players was established in 1972 as an artists' collective under the direction of the enigmatic Andreas Tahn. The company would proceed to incorporate in 1974 and become the first professional theatre company in Saskatoon and the legacy it would leave would be nationally acclaimed. But as Brenna details in this succinct genesis of the Theatre, how it managed its personality conflicts, confronted its obstacles of inadequate funding, and grappled with the shifting of its artistic vision makes this account of 25th Street... + Read More
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Series: Odd Ball Paperback Arthur John Stewart 9781897235881 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Apr 01, 2011

In a series of intimate monologues interspersed with dialogue and description, the lives of students at Central Middle School are exposed and explored. Four main characters emerge: Kevin, the likeable grade nine student who refuses to accept the "geek" label because, as he puts it: "Geeks don't talk to girls" and he has many girlfriends. Stephanie, the girl with the social conscience, realizes that Central's school life is deteriorating and she must do something "Big" to stop that from happening. Paula, whose home life has fallen into a state o... + Read More
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Series: In the Embrace of the Alligator Paperback Amanda Hale 9781897235874 $18.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 31, 2011

The woman is flying in small airplane and sees in the distance the great cumbrous mass of El Yunque, the flat-topped mesa that announces the historic town of Baracoa. She has likely heard the legend of the Honey River, where it is said that the person who bathes in its waters and gets married in Baracoa must stay there forever. She knows people in Baracoa. She is going to meet Onaldo, her Afro-Cuban lover, and she will become 'Katrina' to continue her private journals. In this series of linked fictions, unified by place and a cast of overlappin... + Read More
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Series: Nobody Cries at Bingo Electronic book text, EPUB Dawn Dumont 9781897235843 $15.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2012

Author and narrator Dawn Dumont paints a picture which goes beyond many cultural stereotypes. She talks about drinking and bingo and the toughness needed to deal with bullying by the other natives and also by her white peers. Readers see reserves in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan from the native point of view. There is a sense of how distanced these are, both literally and figuratively, from non-natives; yet, at the same time Dumont reveals how close-knit many families are, and she shows her readers that, despite cultural differences, natives a... + Read More
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Series: To the Edge of the Sea Paperback Anne McDonald 9781897235850 $19.95 FICTION Mar 31, 2011

Alex was in harmony with the water. He taught himself to swim, and liked working the sea off Prince Edward Island as his fisherman father did, but he always yearned for something more. His brother Reggie despised it all - the water that brought death, the seasickness, and he needed to breathe the air of farms. Reggie yearned for escape. Mercy Coles lived on the same island as Alex and Reggie, but lived in Charlottetown's society and yearned for experience. All three would get their wish, but coincidence would shape those wishes in profound way... + Read More
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Series: Walking Through Shadows Paperback Tara Manuel 9781897235867 $16.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 31, 2011

There are always invisible connections between people in a smaller community. There are always loyalties and betrayals. In Walking Through Shadows a clutch of these citizens are singled out for attention. What we discover is both disturbing and yet morbidly fascinating. We meet the apparently mute Butterfly Girl who can only find her voice and beauty in the bed of the town's seedy old drunk. We meet posers like The White Prince, the town's revered administrator whose dark sexual fantasies leave him vulnerable to a beautiful young man who loathe... + Read More
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Series: Man Facing West Paperback Don Gayton 9781897235799 $18.95 FICTION Sep 29, 2010

Man Facing West presents a collection of fiction and nonfiction, sewn together with traces of autobiography. This collection is part of Don Gayton's ongoing life journal, recounting moments of his boyhood in the United States and the Peace Corps, and detailing his opinions regarding the draft and the Vietnam War. Guiding these accounts are the forces of science and geology that have shaped Gayton's career in Canada. As his stories of scheming university students, prodding 19th century scientists, and geologists time-tunneling into the prehistor... + Read More
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Series: Memoir of a Good Death Paperback Anne Sorbie 9781897235812 $19.95 FICTION Sep 29, 2010

This is a story of family, of death, and of the art of living. It is also the story of the ties that bind a mother to a daughter and the dynamics that govern their love. Shaped as a memoir, shared by Sarah Flett and her daughter Rhegan, the narrative begins with the death of Sarah's husband and builds in complexity with the untimely and sudden death of Rhegan. Are life and death at their core intertwined? As Rhegan speaks from beyond the grave, her life is revealed in unexpected ways to her mother. And as Rhegan reconstructs her past and her me... + Read More
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Series: A Girl Called Tennyson Paperback Joan Givner 9781897235836 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 29, 2010

Anne "Tenn" Tennyson Miller's adventure begins during an ordinary ferry trip, but reality soon melts away as Tenn is transported to the fantasy land of Greensward. When she arrives in Greensward, Tenn is elected to rescue her new friend, Una, who has been spirited away to a nearby country occupied by evil forces determined to destroy the harmony of Greensward. Before she sets out on her dangerous mission she is trained by the wise woman, Bethan, who understands the enemy's weaknesses and offers Tenn resources and information that can help her o... + Read More
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Series: Flyways Paperback Devin Krukoff 9781897235775 $19.95 FICTION Sep 23, 2010

Through a protracted series of vignettes, Krukoff transforms Flyways into an interconnected, psychologically intense novel. Exploring the concept of Six Degrees of Separation, the work dramatizes people's unseen connections to others while they encounter their own problems awaiting an impending snowstorm. Each vignette opens with a sometimes poetic, sometimes scientific description of a specific bird carefully chosen to help establish details of the characters' situations, providing a "bird's eye view" of the human world. With scenarios ranging... + Read More
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Series: Mennonites Don't Dance Paperback Darcie Friesen Hossack 9781897235782 $18.95 FICTION Sep 21, 2010

This vibrant collection of short fictions explores how families work, how they are torn apart, and, in spite of differences and struggles, brought back together. Darcie Friesen Hossack's stories in Mennonites Don't Dance offer an honest, detailed look into the experiences of children - both young and adult - and their parents and grandparents, exploring generational ties, sins, penance and redemption. Taking place primarily on the Canadian prairies, the families in these stories are confronted by the conflict between tradition and change - one ... + Read More
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Series: The Mystery of the Cyber Bully Paperback Marty Chan 9781897235829 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 21, 2010

How do you find a bully who lurks on the Internet and lashes out at helpless victims? Intrepid kid detectives Marty, Remi, and Trina must answer that question if they're to stop a cyber bully targeting their classmates. In their toughest case yet, the sleuths must follow the electronic trail to their enemy, but the cyber bully outsmarts them at every turn, leaving the trio to wonder if they've met their match. When a ploy to expose the culprit goes wrong, Marty does the unthinkable and loses his best friend Remi's trust. Not only does Marty hav... + Read More
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Series: Raising Orion Paperback Lesley Choyce 9781897235805 $19.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2010

Raising Orion tells the tale of an eccentric, timeless woman, Molly, a second-hand bookshop owner, and her childhood as the daughter of the last lighthouse keeper of Devil's Island at the mouth of the Halifax Harbour. At its core, Raising Orion is a novel of discovery, and a chronicle of intense individualism where to believe you can set the stars in the sky will make it so. Molly is an enigmatic person, powerful over her own destiny. She is at the centre of an eclectic, unlikely group of people - customers of her bookstore that have become her... + Read More
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Series: The Kayak Paperback Debbie Spring 9781897235713 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Mar 11, 2010

Being involved in sports took Teresa’s mind off some of the demands that teens typically face, but after she was hit by a car while jogging, she realized that fate can strike at any time and that what happens next defines you.Living her life in a wheelchair limits Teresa’s choices profoundly. Smothered by her overbearing parents, she finds personal power, peace, and independence only by kayaking. On the water she is in control of her life, capable, connected. In her kayak her anger, disappointment, and embarrassment give way to confidence, and ... + Read More
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Series: Draco's Child Paperback Sharon Plumb 9781897235706 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Mar 11, 2010

In this young adult fantasy novel, teenage Varia lives in a settlement of transplanted humans who have escaped a polluted Earth to live on a distant planet.With half of their group missing and their crops failing, the settlers accept the help of Specto, the star child, a powerful entity who offers them survival — at a price. Varia is horrified by the strange transformation affecting the star child’s followers, but she has no idea what to do until she discovers a dragon’s egg.With a fully-grown dragon, Varia will be able to find the lost settler... + Read More
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Series: Monkeyface Chronicles Paperback Richard Scarsbrook 9781897235768 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Mar 11, 2010

Philip Skyler learned early in his life that his face would get him into trouble and there was nothing he could do about it. Born with an extreme facial deformity, he became the object of attention. Though medical scientists named his condition Van der Woude syndrome, his classmates, especially the bullies, just called him "Monkeyface". Monkeyface Chronicles is his sweet story of revenge.Philip’s aphorism-toting grandfather used to say, "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect," and Philip Skyler is about to embark o... + Read More
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Series: Never Going Back Paperback Antonia Banyard 9781897235690 $16.95 FICTION Mar 11, 2010

When the anniversary of a suicide reunites five former friends who haven’t seen each other for ten years, each is forced to confront secrets from the past — secrets that lock their present lives in limbo. Through the perspectives of Siobhan, Evan and Lance, layers of the past peel away to expose connections to the central trauma of their shared lives.Never Going Back is set in a small town in the BC interior, where potheads, loggers, environmentalists, conspiracy theorists, and aging hippies provide a vibrant backdrop to the da... + Read More
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Series: When the World Is Not Our Home Paperback Susan Musgrave 9781897235676 $16.95 POETRY Sep 28, 2009

When the World is Not Our Home includes nearly fifty poems by one of Canada's most distinctive literary voices. Selected from titles published between 1985 and 2000, these poems illustrate an agile poet sifting the everyday through a fine mythical screen. They reveal a woman with multiple roles, and her emergence as a highly sought-after Canadian poet. Known for her rebellious voice, Musgrave knots sensual with mischief, girlhood with ritual, and parental with horrific. Cacophonous imagery engages through an exquisite language and what it descr... + Read More
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Series: Einstein Dog Paperback Craig Spence 9781897235652 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 21, 2009

Bertrand Smith is a lucky kid: his dad works in animal research at Triumph University in Langley, BC, and Bertrand is always welcome to drop by the laboratory. He and his best friend Ariel take full advantage, because Professor Smith is working on a truly unique project: Sequenced Mental Accelerated Research Trials. Based on genetic selection and training, this experiment attempts to increase canine intelligence to approximate that of a human child?s. Bertrand and Ariel are thrilled about the project, and the site of the university becomes a ro... + Read More
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Series: His Sweet Favour Paperback Diane Tucker 9781897235645 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 21, 2009

Grade twelve students Favour, Leith, Brady, Maryruth, and Rick are best friends. They all love to act and are eager for their final high school production. Before it begins, however, Leith rattles the group?s harmony. He stumbles on five light?emanating figures, who have a message for him: together they must start a theatre company. Leith?s vision develops into an obsession and, for some of the group, reality falters into delusion. After auditions the cast list is posted and its effects reach beyond the stage. Favour gives in to Leith?s longtim... + Read More
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Series: Nothing Sacred Paperback Lori Hahnel 9781897235638 $16.95 FICTION Sep 21, 2009

Through tragically satirical stories, author Lori Hahnel tears down everything that western iconoclasm has set up as hallowed: romantic relationships, the fate of good people, the happy ending. In Nothing Sacred, women encounter violence, depression, and heartbreak, but they persevere to tailor new lives from what remains after the dust settles. Personalities, in these snapshot fictions, evoke comparisons with superstars, as suggested by a woman relating her boyfriends to '60s icons: ?kind of a dirty?blond hiker Paul McCartney? and ?with his gl... + Read More
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Series: The Wolsenburg Clock Paperback Jay Ruzesky 9781897235621 $18.95 FICTION Aug 27, 2009

As Second World War bombs terrorize a small Austrian city near the Italian border, a man wants desperately to save a 600?year?old astronomical clock found there. The clock has been constructed and refurbished by a series of gifted individuals dedicated to producing the finest timepiece of their age. The man learns of the remarkable engineers who furtively added details that reflected their own private stories.At the cusp of the fourteenth century, Wildrik Kiening was inspired to build the sophisticated clock for the newly consecrated cathedral ... + Read More
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Series: My Sweet Curiosity Paperback Amanda Hale 9781897235614 $19.95 FICTION Jun 08, 2009

My Sweet Curiosity tells the story of Natalya, a young medical student, too smart for her own good, who twists an already complicated genetic background rooted in the Romanov family into an impossible fantasy of reproductive technology which ultimately reveals its own strange truth. Talya falls in love with Dai Ling, a cello student of extraordinary talent, and daughter of Jia Song Xiang, doctor of traditional Chinese medicine.Set in modern day Toronto, the story ventures into Renaissance Europe, looking over the shoulder of Andreas Vesalius as... + Read More
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Series: The Beautiful Children Paperback Michael Kenyon 9781897235478 $18.95 FICTION Mar 23, 2009

A man wakes up in a hospital with one word in his head: Sapporo. He dimly recalls this as the place where he was raised, and it becomes his name and identity. Like an immigrant without language or memory he relies on his young son as guide and interpreter, but soon drifts away into what some might see as madness.In Sapporo's floating world, he is also Prospero, summoning the ancestors and channeling the lost dreams that gave way to the modern industrial era.His son, meanwhile, has escaped to the city's underworld. His laconic account of the ana... + Read More
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Series: The Serpent's Veil Paperback Maggi Feehan 9781897235560 $18.95 FICTION Mar 10, 2009

Spanning three continents and the ten years leading up to the close of the nineteenth century, The Serpent?s Veil follows the personal journeys? of Constance Stubbington and Ank Maguire who grapple with what haunts them: the impact of colonialism, the death of family members, and the intuitive gifts that shape them.Constance, a bold woman who severs her father?s rigid ideas with a sharp tongue, is thrown from a horse and wakes in Guy?s Hospital in London, England. The hospital staff is tight?lipped about her father?s whereabouts and the medical... + Read More
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Series: Return To Bone Tree Hill Paperback Kristin Butcher 9781897235584 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Mar 04, 2009

Did Jessica murder one of her playmates, a troubled boy named Charlie, when she was twelve years old? Disturbed by a recurring dream and needing to clear her conscience, Jessica returns to Victoria, British Columbia, her hometown and the site of the possible crime. There she catches up with her longtime best friend, Jilly, who confirms that Charlie did in fact go missing the week that Jessica?s family relocated to Australia. But a memory?erasing bout of meningitis at the time of the incident means Jessica doesn?t recall the questioning police o... + Read More
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Series: Something To Hang On To Paperback Beverley Brenna 9781897235577 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 Mar 04, 2009

In Something to Hang On To award?winning author Beverley Brenna constructs a diverse cast of quirky and honest young teens in tough times. In varied settings characters battle through adversity: a fear of heights, family violence, the physical cage of Down syndrome, ossifying muscular dystrophy, the artistic world of autism, and even a toe caught in the vacuum.In these positive fictions, teens find ways to overcome their obstacles by capturing lasting resolutions from within. In ?Foil Butterflies? a creative boy with a rare form of autism escap... + Read More
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Series: Making A Difference Reflections From Political Life Paperback Eric Cline 9781897235454 $16.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 10, 2008

Saskatchewan's long-time NDP politician, Eric Cline, delivers the political and personal in Making a Difference: Reflections from Political Life. This memoir positively depicts Saskatchewan political life by sketching Cline's early experience as a nineteen-year-old ?paper candidate? for the NDP, and the several years he spent as a legal advisor, before detailing his sixteen-year run as an elected official. Serving in a variety of high-profile positions, Cline's name pervaded provincial media and politics as much as it often rankled the oppositi... + Read More
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Series: The Well and Other Stories Paperback Nick Faragher 9781897235485 $16.95 FICTION Sep 04, 2008

Nick Faragher?s psychologically quirky and sometimes darkly engrossing fictions plunge the reader into the edgy minds of distracted characters. Set in Greece, Italy, the French Alps and Vancouver?s Stanley Park, Faragher?s stories achieve a cosmopolitan flair while remaining distinctly Canadian. Faragher?s debut deftly combines sharp?witted narration, psychological twists, and an assembly of maladjusted characters whose dark desires governs their fates. The Well & Other Stories offers a safe vantage point to vicariously witness these dramas and... + Read More
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Series: Carnival Glass Paperback Bonnie Dunlop 9781897235461 $16.95 FICTION Sep 04, 2008

Carnival Glass, Bonnie Dunlop?s new fiction collection, is an examination of the infirmity of human relationships ? marriages, brotherhood, friendships, parent?child relations hindered by negligence and death ? and how strange providence can send a sane and settled person entirely off the rails. These stories honour how we love and take care of each other, and how, inevitably, we fail each other too.Dunlop?s settings ? dusty ranches, near?ghost towns of Southwest Saskatchewan, infinite beaches of Tofino, BC, small prairie cities in the 60s and ... + Read More
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Series: Wild Talent A Novel of the Supernatural Paperback Eileen Kernaghan 9781897235409 $15.95 FICTION Reading age from 13 - adult Sep 04, 2008

Wild Talent: a Novel of the Supernatural is the strange tale of Jeannie Guthrie, a sixteen-year-old Scottish farm worker, who possesses a frightening talent. Believing that she has unintentionally killed her ne'er-do-well cousin, her fear of being sentenced as a witch propels her to flee her home to London. There, Guthrie is befriended by the free-spirited and adventurous Alexandra David, and introduced to Madame Helena Blavatsky's famous salon where she begins to understand the source of her strange powers.With detailed action sequences Kernag... + Read More
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Series: The Old Familiar Paperback Alix Hawley 9781897235492 $17.95 FICTION Aug 26, 2008

In The Old Familiar are stories about the art of everyday shock: Hawley?s characters think they know other people or themselves until the unforeseen surfaces. Whether subtle or dramatic, these moments of clarity make them question their thinking. Dark, witty, and tightly written, The Old Familiar will surprise even the reader familiar with crusty undersides of middle?class lives, and the bizarre obsessions that harbour there. Hawley?s trademark of controlled tension and psychological scrutiny is at times diabolically funny as it is emotionally ... + Read More
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Series: Charlie Muskrat Paperback Harold Johnson 9781897235447 $18.95 FICTION Apr 02, 2008

And there he was - Charlie Muskrat, out of moose meat for the winter and committed to getting some, who finds himself in Prince Albert with a 30/30 Winchester under the seat of his truck, Thunder, half a tank of gas, half a thermos of coffee, lots of Cheezies and a desire to drive south. What follows is that trip. Accompanied off and on by the phantom hitchhikers from history - the mythical ones like the Trickster, Wesakicak, Greek gods, writers, philosophers and politicians, Charlie motors along to the backdrop of Johnny Cash gospel songs and ... + Read More