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Edmonton on Location: River City Chronicles
Heather Zwicker
Heather Zwicker
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 Saskatchewan River.
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Elk in the House (An)
Beverly Lein
Beverly Lein
When Beverly and Carson Lein, ranchers at the Seventh Avenue Elk ranch in Manning, chose the unique occupation of farming elk, they didn’t count on adopting and inevitably falling in love with one.
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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 & Marty Chan, Padma Viswanathan, Jonathan Christenson & Joey Tremblay
Various & Marty Chan, Padma Viswanathan, Jonathan Christenson & Joey Tremblay
The three plays included this anthology all deal with intercultural issues in Canada with humour, wit and at times, heartbreak.
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Extensions
Myrna Dey
Myrna Dey
In her debut novel, Myrna Dey skillfully moves back and forth between two time periods and two memorably resourceful female heroines.
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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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Fishing for Bacon
Michael Davie
Michael Davie
My name’s Bacon Sobelowski, and I’m trying to find my someone. But I think it might all come down to timing, and if that’s true then I’m in trouble.
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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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Frog Lake Reader (The)
Myrna Kostash
Myrna Kostash
Non-fiction author Myrna Kostash merges the past and the present in The Frog Lake Reader, offering a new perspective on the tragic events surrounding the Frog Lake Massacre of 1885.
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From Ice to Ashes
Jessica Simon
Jessica Simon
When a terrorist infiltration overtakes the Yukon Arctic Ultra — the most challenging human-powered race in the world — Auxiliary RCMP Markus Fanger leads a heart-stopping manhunt.
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From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden
Boyden speaks 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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Gangson
Andy Weaver
Andy Weaver
A collection of experimental poetry dealing with violence and its impact on the growth of society and culture from the author of Were the Bees.
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