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Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture
Barbara Godard & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Barbara Godard & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture is the first book to gather together essays by Barbara Godard, one of the leading and most prolific figures in the field of Canadian studies.
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Cardinal Divide (The)
Stephen Legault
Stephen Legault
Cole Blackwater, environmental strategist and damaged human being, must prove an environmental fanatic innocent of murder if his organization has any hope of saving Canada's magnificent Cardinal Divide from destruction.
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Chance
Anne Metikosh
Anne Metikosh
Dragan was a Yugoslav peasant who flirted with the ideals of Communism and aspired to become a teacher. Instead, he became a slave in a German labour camp. Galina was an only child growing up in the harsh reality of Stalinist Russia.
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Chorus of Mushrooms
Hiromi Goto
Hiromi Goto
Chorus of Mushrooms heralds the 1994 debut of the acclaimed feminist, Hiromi Goto. Until then, the primary literary voice of Japanese Canadians was that of the people interned during World War II.
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Cleavage
Theanna Bischoff
Theanna Bischoff
Cleavage tracks the patchwork musings of Leah, who, at twenty-four years old and two years into a relationship, discovers she has breast cancer.
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Crybaby!
Janice Williamson
Janice Williamson
In a dramatic arrangement of words and visuals, Crybaby! is the memoir of a woman dealing with intimations of incest, her infertility, and the suicide of her father.
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Deadly Little List (A)
Kay Stewart & Chris Bullock
Kay Stewart & Chris Bullock
The body of Joe Bertolucci, security guard for a wealthy and controversial land-developer, is found in a deserted cabin on Salt Spring Island. A note and evidence found at the crime scene suggest suicide, but to Constable Danutia Dranchuk things just don’
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Diamond Grill 10th Anniversary Edition
Fred Wah
Fred Wah
An exciting new edition of Fred Wah’s best-selling bio-fiction, on the 10th anniversary of its original publication, with an all new afterword by the author and the same pagination as the original publication. This story of family and identity, migration
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Displaced Persons
Margie Taylor
Margie Taylor
The memory of a mysterious death brings Alex Cooper back to her home-town on the shores of Lake Superior to search for answers, but to uncover the truth Alex must first examine her own troubled past.
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Doomed Bridegroom (The)
Myrna Kostash
Myrna Kostash
The Doomed Bridegroom narrates one woman’s attraction to rebel heroes, both real and imagined, in Canada, Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean.
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Drowning Man
Dave Margoshes
Dave Margoshes
A surreal noir mystery set in a small British Columbia mountain town in 1970. Sweeny, an aging alcoholic reporter returned home from the skids of New York, works on an obituary bearing a name that is eerily familiar to him. With the unexpected help of a r
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Earth Alive: Essays on Ecology
Stan Rowe
Stan Rowe
Earth Alive is a collection of thought-provoking essays, short pieces, and reviews that explore and uncover the intimate connections between humans and the Earth. Through a strong mix of proof and irony, respected ecologist Stan Rowe re-examines th
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Edmonton on Location: River City Chronicles
Heather Zwicker
Heather Zwicker
Edmonton on Location: River City Chronicles is an innovative collection of essays, memoirs, poems, and stories by acclaimed Edmontonians that describe the heartbeat of this vibrant city, from parks and back alleys to the High Level Bridge and North
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Elk in the House (An)
Beverly Lein
Beverly Lein
Have you ever walked into your living room to find an elk contentedly watching television? Meet Butter, human companion and elk extraordinaire at the Seventh Avenue Elk Ranch in Manning, Alberta. When ranchers Beverly and Carson Lein chose the unique occu
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Encounters
Michael Trussler
Michael Trussler
In this first collection of short fiction, Michael Trussler meticulously observes the human experience, painting a portrait of ordinary life as a collision between the bizarre and the prosaic. The characters in each tableau encounter their own strengths a
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Ethnicities: Plays from the New West
Various
Various
The three plays included this anthology all deal with intercultural issues in Canada with humour, wit and at times, heartbreak.
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Faking It: Critical Writing 1984-1999
Fred Wah & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Fred Wah & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
A critical scrapbook collected from fifteen years of writing. Contains essays, reviews, interviews, journals, notes, and poetic improvisations on contemporary poetry and identity.
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Fallen Empires: Lost Theatres of Edmonton 1881–1914
John Orrell
John Orrell
Fallen Empires—from NeWest Press’ Landmark Edition Series—traces the development of Edmonton’s theatre community from its humble beginnings in meeting halls in 1881 to the flourishing scene of 1914.
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Far Away Home (The)
Marci Denesiuk
Marci Denesiuk
In The Far Away Home, Marci Denesiuk’s dark and beautiful characters find themselves in astonishing places, united by their simple and desperate quest -- the quest for home.
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fluttertongue 4: adagio for the pressured surround
Steven Ross Smith
Steven Ross Smith
fluttertongue 4: adagio for the pressured surround is poetry at its most eloquent. In this long poem, Smith imagistically evokes birds and plants, physical torture, and human relationships as he delves into the meaning of words and ponders language itsel
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Fragmenting Body etc.
Doug Barbour
Doug Barbour
Innovative long poems by a well-known poet and critic, including an elegiac sequence for bpNichol, a poetic response to the art of Edmonton printmaker Liz Ingram, a poem written daily during the Gulf War, and the long title poem exploring aspects of what
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From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden
Boyden spoke passionately, relating Aboriginal people in Canada to poor African Americans, Whites, and Hispanics in post-Katrina New Orleans. At the end of his lecture he presented a provocative manifesto to the audience.
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Gerbil Mother
D.M. Bryan
D.M. Bryan
Gerbil, age zero, has a question: where do parents come from? Specifically, she wants to know about her mother. Who is this vessel in which she resides, and why does it seem like her mother isn’t up for the task of parenthood?
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Goat Lady's Daughter (The)
Rosella Leslie
Rosella Leslie
Florrie and Mag Larson live off the land in a rustic cabin on the edge of British Columbia’s coastal society. When the eccentric sisters unintentionally adopt an abandoned baby girl, their world is turned upside down.
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Gone But Not Forgotten: Tales of the Disappearing Grain Elevator
Elizabeth McLachlan
Elizabeth McLachlan
A series of biographical sketches and photographs that put a human face on the social and historical importance of grain elevators on the prairies.
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Grace Lake
Glen Huser
Glen Huser
A candid portrayal of a man who finds redemption when he confronts his past and faces the full tragedy of a life unlived—a life riddled with guilt over the suppression of his homosexuality.
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Guilty Addictions
Garrett Wilson
Garrett Wilson
Unbelievable accounts of political corruption involving bribery and murder—and a race to stay alive for a Saskatchewan lawyer.
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Hammerstone: A Biography of Hornby Island
Olivia Fletcher
Olivia Fletcher
Successful in its first edition, this is the long-awaited revised version of this popular tribute to Hornby Island. The creation of the island is revealed in beautiful prose and description.
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Healthy, Wealthy & Dead
Suzanne North
Suzanne North
A murder mystery at a trendy and luxurious health spa in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies.
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