1.
Series: Food and Cooking
Basilicata Secrets
A Culinary Journey
Paperback
Anita Aloisio
9781771836845
$29.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 2021
Anita Aloisio uncovers culinary secrets as she travels the Basilicata region of Italy. Along the way, she meets villagers, renowned chefs and amateur cooks who offer to recreate and share specialty dishes and recipes. Anita and her team witness how the very soul of the southern Italian way of being is reflected in every dish. They are touched not only by the smells and sounds emanating from the kitchens, but by the authentic dedication and passion the chefs and cooks demonstrate. Each segment of this travel journal encapsulates a deeply-rooted ...
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2.
Series: Singing Bones, The, The
Distant Early Warning
Paperback
Elizabeth Hirst
9781987963939
$20.00
FICTION
Apr 15, 2021
Canada is in crisis. Climate change has taken hold, and amid the flooding and the super storms, the dead begin crawling out of the ground at night, screaming out strange gibberish songs that entrance anyone who hears them. The north quickly becomes a wild west, without the west. Denny's life changes forever one day when she sees her dad on TV, dead and screaming. Denny gives up her job, buys supplies, and heads out with her dad's dog, Geoff, to discover the truth behind his death, but truth always comes with a cost. What Denny discovers in the ...
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3.
Series: Essential Poets Series
Not in Vain You've Sent Me Light
Paperback
Cora Siré
9781771836111
$20.00
POETRY
May 01, 2021
Not in Vain You’ve Sent Me Light begins with a provocative, sometimes humorous exposé of two lovers and their collisions and triumphs, and evolves into a high-voltage portrait gallery, depicting heroes and artists, scientists and politicians, mothers and their conflicted daughters. Cora Siré draws on a multi-dimensional palette to deepen her exploration of identity, displacement and the cosmic powers of love and art.
4.
Series: SWG - Saskatchewan Writers Guild
apart
a year of pandemic poetry and prose
Paperback
Dave Margoshes
9780968845172
$24.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Jul 07, 2021
apart paints a vivid portrait of life in a pandemic, when "normal" is a thing of the past and anxiety is a faithful companion. Some of the writing is sad, even heart-breaking, a few pieces are funny and light-hearted, but many provide som much-needed comfort and imagination in a turbulent time. The writing is thoughtful, carefully observed, and insightful. And running through all the pieces, like a silver thread in a tapestry, is a note of optimism.
5.
Series:
Go Down Odawa Way
Paperback
Daniel Lockhart
9781928120315
$17.95
POETRY
Dec 31, 2021
Go Down Odawa Way is a poetry collection that explores the physical, historical, and cultural spaces that make up the southwestern traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy. This is the region currently inhabited by southwestern Ontario and southeastern Michigan. Individual poems and sections of this collection explore the documented villages, history, and mythologies of the Odawa, Ojibway, Huron/Wendat, and Pottawatomi nations that were lost to the process of colonization and relocation. The project speaks to the history of the regi...
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6.
Series:
Crimson Quays
Paperback
Igor Hofbauer
9788894582901
$20.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Sep 15, 2021
We're all just animals after all. Before the beekeeper arrived, the Crimson Quays was just a well-appointed tourist trap: a luxury travel resort replete with swimming pools, musical performances, and amusement park rides. However, the resort's crowning glory--the very feature that drew the beekeeper to the island in the first place--was the zoo. Although the beekeeper, a biologist by trade, was tasked with the construction of the zoo, he was rarely spotted at resort events. Instead, he spent his evenings chasing other zoological pursuits--speci...
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7.
Series:
These are the Stories
Memories of a 60s Scoop Survivor
Paperback
Christine Smith
9781928120278
$22.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Dec 31, 2021
These are the Stories is a memoir presented in short chapters, comprising the life of a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith reveals her experiences in the child welfare system and her journey towards healing in various stages of her life. As an adult, she was able to reconnect with her birth mother. Though her mother passed shortly afterwards, that reconnection allowed the author to finally feel "complete, whole, and home." The memoir details some of the author's travels across Canada as she eventually made a connectio...
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