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Nine Dead Dogs
Murray J. Malcolm
Murray J. Malcolm
When several unexplained dog poisonings are reported in rural Saskatchewan, forensic consultant John Avery Smith is on the case. Is it a case of sabotage and revenge due to a long-running feud between two grumpy old men?
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Nothing but Brush Strokes: Selected Prose
Phyllis Webb & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Phyllis Webb & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
This collection chronicles Phyllis Webb's struggle with the creative process and her intense need to probe beneath the surface of things.
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Pacific Rim Letters
Roy Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
This never before published work is a travel diary, cultural manifesto and unique post-modern collection of personal meditations.
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Paddling South: Winnipeg to New Orleans by Canoe
Rick Ranson
Rick Ranson
In the Fall of 1969, Rick Ranson and John Van Landeghem, both barely out of high school, took on the might of the Red and Mississippi Rivers to paddle a canoe from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Paper Trail
Arleen Paré
Arleen Paré
Frances, a manager for a large corporation, finds her peace of mind unravelling as she becomes overwhelmed by the destructive bureaucratic nature of the work world she lives in. Frances starts to lose small body parts, hears mysterious Leider music boomin
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Plane Death
Anne M. Dooley
Anne M. Dooley
Elie Meade volunteers on a search-and-rescue team mobilized to find a missing geological exploration aircraft. When the plane is found, its pilot murdered, a high stakes quest for diamonds in the northern wilds of Saskatchewan begins.
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Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic
Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Wiebe
A new edition of Rudy Wiebe’s 1989 book of essays, featuring two new essays by Wiebe and an afterword by Robert Kroetsch. The first book in the Landmark Editions Series
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Poor Super Man: A Play With Captions
Brad Fraser
Brad Fraser
A celebrated gay painter returns to being a waiter to find love, friendship and his lost creativity.
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Queen's Park: A Detective Lane Mystery
Garry Ryan
Garry Ryan
Ordinarily Detective Lane has a knack for discovering the whereabouts of missing persons. But the city’s latest victim has disappeared without a trace. The first book in the Detective Lane mystery series is an intriguing look at the prejudices gay cops fa
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Readings from the Labyrinth
Daphne Marlatt & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Daphne Marlatt & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
From one of Canada's foremost poet/novelists and feminist critics–a collection of essays spanning over fifteen years.
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Return to the Drum: Teaching Among the Dene in Canada's North
Miggs Wynne Morris
Miggs Wynne Morris
Return to the Drum is the real life adventure of Miggs Morris, who, as a young teacher in 1965, accepts a position to live and teach in the Northwest Territories.
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Reunions are Deadly
D.M. Wyman
D.M. Wyman
Beth McKinney thought twenty years would be enough time to heal old high school wounds. She was wrong—reunions can be deadly.
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Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman's Journey Across Canada
Barbara Kingscote
Barbara Kingscote
In May 1949, at the age of twenty, Barbara Kingscote left her farm in Mascouche, Quebec, and set out for the Pacific Ocean on horseback. Barbara and her equine companion Zazy reached the West Coast just over a year later, after travelling 4,000 miles and
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River Time: Racing the Ghosts of the Klondike Rush
John Firth
John Firth
The gripping story of the 1997 race from Dyea, Alaska to Dawson City, that re-enacted the Gold Rush. John Firth went in search of the experience that his grandfather, one of the original stampeders, had on his quest for gold. Firth tells his own story alo
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Room with Five Walls (The): The Trials of Victor Hoffman
Byrna Barclay
Byrna Barclay
A play that tells the riveting story of one of Canada's most sense less mass murders: when Victor Hoffman, a paranoid schizophrenic, murdered nine members of the Peterson family in 1967 in Saskatchewan.
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Running Toward Home
Betty Jane Hegerat
Betty Jane Hegerat
Transferred between foster homes for most of his life, 12 year-old Corey Brinkman has developed a bad habit of running away.
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Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory
Laurie Ricou
Laurie Ricou
Salal is a unique book about a commonplace plant. Part travel narrative, part literary memoir, part “ethnography” of a plant that usually goes unnoticed, Laurie Ricou’s book traces the poetry and culture of salal.
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Scraping the Surface
Lyle Victor Albert
Lyle Victor Albert
Scraping the Surface contains three plays by Lyle Victor Albert: Cut", "Scraping the Surface" and "Objects in Mirror."
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Signature Event Cantext - The Writer as Critic Series: II
Stephen Scobie & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Stephen Scobie & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
These essays amount to a demonstration of the coherence and profundity of Derriean thought and its utility as a miethod of studying Canadian literature.
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Smoke in the Cockpit: The Flying Adventures of Don 'Smokey' Pa
H.J. Smith
H.J. Smith
Smoke in the Cockpit is Canadian aviation history at its best. Patry, raised in Western Canada, began flying professionally in 1937 over the uncharted mountainous territory of Alberta, BC, and the North West Territories. Destiny uncannily placed hi
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Snake in Fridge
Brad Fraser
Brad Fraser
Inspired by Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, Snake in Fridge examines the everyday lives of not so everyday characters.
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Snow Bodies: One Woman's Life on the Streets
Elizabeth Hudson
Elizabeth Hudson
The timely memoir of a troubled young woman who through drug dependence turns to a life of prostitution on the streets of Calgary and Vancouver.
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So this is the world and here I am in it
Di Brandt & Edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Di Brandt & Edited by Smaro Kamboureli
A stunning collection of creative essays by poet and critic Di Brandt. Written over a period of ten years, these essays circle around questions of exile and violence, eros and wildness, land and mentoring, home and language.
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Spaces in Between (The): Selected Poems, 1965-2001
Stephen Scobie
Stephen Scobie
A retrospective selection of poems by Governor General’s Award-winning poet Stephen Scobie. Arranged in chronological order from 1965 right up to the end of 2001, the poems in this collection concentrate on the traditional lyric form, with stand-alone sho
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Talon
Paulette Dubé
Paulette Dubé
Timothy Findley calls Dubé’s debut novel a stunning acheivement." The descendants of a French Canadian woman—Rubis Caillou Morin—discover the truth about healers and the unshakeable code of loyalty that rules their family through a diary passed down thr
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Teatro Trilogy (A): Selected Plays
Stewart Lemoine
Stewart Lemoine
With humour and a dash of irony, award-winning playwright Stewart Lemoine explores the quirks of human imagination and our capacity to believe the outrageous. In three plays, Shockers Delight", "Pith!" and "The Margin of the Sky", Lemoine's characte
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Thirst to Die For (A)
Ian Waddell
Ian Waddell
A timely and nail-biting mystery about corrupt politicians and water exports. MP Clayton Greene discovers that something fishy is happening to the water of BC, and a thrilling and fast-paced adventure ensues. Author Ian Waddell is a former MP from BC.
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This Way the Road
Nina Berkhout
Nina Berkhout
Inspired by working at the Royal Ontario Museum, gifted poet Nina Berkhout spins a catastrophic yet enduring tale of love set amidst the chaos of assembling a blindingly white museum display on the Hindenburg Zepplin.
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Those Who Know: Profiles of Alberta's Native Elders
Dianne Meili
Dianne Meili
A re-telling of Meili’s interviews with Alberta’s Native Elders.
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Tip of the Halo
R.F. Darion
R.F. Darion
The offices of the Catholic School Board in the fairly quiet community of St. Michael, near Edmonton, seem an unlikely locale for a murder investigation, but when the body of a senior administrator is found in the library, Staff Sergeant Dan Laurenson is
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