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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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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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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 to the end of 2001.
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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.
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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.
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The Collected Works of Pat Lowther
Christine Wiesenthal
Christine Wiesenthal
The Collected Works of Pat Lowther brings together, for the first time, the complete contents of the poetry editions published by Pat Lowther.
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The Darkening Archipelago
Stephen Legault
Stephen Legault
The Cole Blackwater environmental mystery series continues with a race to keep both human souls and natural ecosystems from falling into darkness.
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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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Touch
Gayleen Froese
Gayleen Froese
Anna Gareau has a secret. Unwanted visions of strangers’ lives haunt her when she touches certain objects. What she wants most is a normal life but Anna is far from normal.
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Trail of the Spirit: The Mysteries of Medicine Power Revealed
George Blondin
George Blondin
In this new collection of stories, Dene Elder George Blondin defines medicine power, a gift from the Creator for the Dene way of life.
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Transcanada Letters
Roy Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
A unique collection of personal meditations and intimate dialogues with close friends. This new edition, combined with Pacific Rim Letters shows Kiyooka’s process of writing and the artistic and literary communities he was involved with.
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Ugly Man (The)
Brad Fraser
Brad Fraser
A twisted reworking of Thomas Middleton’s revenge tragedy The Changeling.
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