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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, reaching the West Coast just over a year later.
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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.
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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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Ruins & Relics
Alice Zorn
Alice Zorn
Alice Zorn’s remarkable debut collection of short stories displays talismans of personal history and transforms them into extraordinary stories about relationships between partners, family, friends, and strangers.
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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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Santa Rosa
Wendy McGrath
Wendy McGrath
A poetic prose novella in which a child observes the disappearance of her neighbourhood mirrored in the disintegration of her parents' marriage.
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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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Seal Intestine Raincoat
Rosie Chard
Rosie Chard
A cautionary tale for our times, Chard's debut novel offers a bleak portrayal of socio-economic collapse resulting from an unsustainable way of life.
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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
A Canadian aviation history at its best. Raised in Western Canada, Patry began flying professionally in 1937 over the uncharted mountainous territory of Alberta, BC, and the North West Territories.
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Smoked: A Detective Lane Mystery
Garry Ryan
Garry Ryan
Detective Lane returns for a fourth time in Smoked, Garry Ryan’s darkest mystery to date.
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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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