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14 Tractors
Gerald Hill
Gerald Hill
In 14 Tractors, tractors pull versions of story, poetic form, landscape, light, and family history, offering themselves as vehicles for looking and remembering.
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Aberhart Summer (The)
Bruce Allen Powe
Bruce Allen Powe
NeWest is proud to publish the new edition of this classic novel first published in 1983.
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Aberhart Summer (The): a Play
Conni Massing
Conni Massing
Based on the novel, this is a dark coming of age story where desperation, secrets and tragedy affect the lives of the people in an Edmonton neighborhood during the Depression.
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Alberta
Robert Kroetsch
Robert Kroetsch
Captures the beauty of this province in this documentation of his Alberta experience—from dinosaur digs in the Badlands to the Calgary Stampede to the site of Big Bear’s prophetic vision.
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Alberta Politics Uncovered: Taking Back our Province
Mark Lisac
Mark Lisac
Looking at hard facts of Alberta's political dead end, and at the use of myths to distort reality. Veteran political observer Mark Lisac looks at some of the truths buried under the comforting cliches.
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Aldershot 1945: The Novel
Bruce Allen Powe
Bruce Allen Powe
Over two nights of mayhem, Canadian soldiers leave their crumbling barracks and trash the old garrison town of Aldershot, England. World War II in Europe is over, but the war in Aldershot has just begun.
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All of Baba’s Children
Myrna Kostash
Myrna Kostash
The story of one woman’s personal discovery of her Canadian-Ukrainian cultural origins and the impact of that invigorating discovery on her life.
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Almost Meeting (The): and other stories
Henry Kreisel
Henry Kreisel
The short stories in master storyteller Henry Kreisel’s The Almost Meeting, written between 1954 and 1980, are finely-crafted explorations in cultural identity and human relationships.
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Always Someone To Kill The Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson
Fred Flahiff
Fred Flahiff
The riveting portrait of a renowned Canadian writer shaped by her times, turbulent marriage, clarity of genius, and by her moral sense instilled by a Catholic upbringing.
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American Critic in Canada (An): The Literary Memoirs of Morton L
Morton L. Ross
Morton L. Ross
A tribute to Morton L. Ross, a well-loved professor and mentor. Includes a eulogy by Robert Kroetsch, and Ross' personal observations, critical essays, lectures, and articles.
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Any Other Woman: An uncommon biography
Monica Kidd
Monica Kidd
Monica Kidd, biologist, poet and award-winning journalist, travels to Slovakia and Alberta to unravel the mystery of her great-grandparents' lives.>>
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Aphelion
Jenna Butler
Jenna Butler
Aphelion is about distances, simultaneously belonging to two countries but being rooted in neither.
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Apocrypha
Stan Dragland & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Stan Dragland & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Shaped over two decades, this collection is a passionate meditation on the meeting of life and literature, and a text of rumination, invention, and rhapsody.
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Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest
Laurie Ricou
Laurie Ricou
The first book-length commentary examining the writing of the Pacific Northwest presented in an unconventional group of files" along with colour pictures."
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At the Zenith of the Empire
Stewart Lemoine
Stewart Lemoine
A deliciously funny, swirling speculative scenario of Sarah Bernhardt's historic 1913 visit to Edmonton and the active local live theatre scene of that time
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Back Roads
Ted Ferguson
Ted Ferguson
After collapsing from stress in a posh Vancouver restaurant, Ted Ferguson decides to abandon his workaholic lifestyle and move his family to the secluded back roads of northern Alberta, where electricity and indoor plumbing are a luxury.
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Baser Elements
Murray J. Malcolm
Murray J. Malcolm
Forensic consultant John Smith stumbles on to much more than toxicology when he agrees to help locate a woman’s missing son. As he analyzes the missing boy’s trail, Smith is led to a world of drugs and murder in Regina’s seedy underbelly.
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Better Than Life
Margaret Gunning
Margaret Gunning
A heart-warming and humorous novel about living life to the fullest and the joy and frustration of human relationships.
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Beyond Spite
R.F. Darion
R.F. Darion
Beginning with Tip of the Halo, Staff Sergeant Laurenson has been tracking down hard to find criminals. In Beyond Spite, there is a rapist on the loose in the small town of St. Michael, and Laurenson must find him before he finds his next victim.
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Big Rig 2: More Comic Tales from a Long Haul Trucker
Don McTavish
Don McTavish
McTavish’s second collection of stories, wisdom, and warnings about the trucking life.
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Big Rig: Comic Tales from a Long Haul Trucker
Don McTavish
Don McTavish
Big Rig takes us on some eye-opening, highly comical road trips, through the eyes of a driver and his fellow truckers over a forty year period.
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Bindery (The)
Shane Rhodes
Shane Rhodes
This third collection from award-winning poet Shane Rhodes takes off in full flight from where his other books left off. Tracing concurrent themes of travel, love, personal and collective history, all in a rich multifaceted style.
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Bix's Trumpet: and other stories
Dave Margoshes
Dave Margoshes
Dave Margoshes explores uncharted territory of the human heart in this thoroughly engaging new collection of short stories. Like a small boy fascinated with bugs and frogs, Margoshes holds his characters up to the light and lets them squirm.
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Blood Girls (The)
Meira Cook
Meira Cook
Days before Easter, a young girl starts bleeding from her palms, the soles of her feet and the crown of her head.Cook examines how lives are affected when the world reacts to the extraordinary with disdain and suspicion.
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Blood Relations and Other Plays
Sharon Pollock
Sharon Pollock
A brand new edition of the collection that established Sharon Pollock as a major Canadian playwright. Contains "Blood Relations," "One Tiger to a Hill," "Generations," and "Whiskey Six Cadenza.""
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Blue Feast
Shawna Lemay
Shawna Lemay
An eloquent collection of poems from award-winning Canadian wordsmith Shawna Lemay that examines motherhood, marriage, and the prosaic nature of everyday life.
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Body Traffic
Alex Domokos & Rita Toews
Alex Domokos & Rita Toews
Undercover officer Stan Boyko, relocated to Winnipeg after his cover is blown in Vancouver, thinks a new assignment in his hometown will mean time to recoup.
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Bone Cage (The)
Angie Abdou
Angie Abdou
Digger, an 85-kilo wrestler, and Sadie, a 26-year-old speed swimmer, stand on the verge of realizing every athlete’s dream - winning a gold medal at the Olympics.
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Bottom Line: The truth behind private health insurance in Canada
Diana Gibson & Colleen Fuller
Diana Gibson & Colleen Fuller
A study of the truth behind private health insurance by looking at the history of private insurance before Medicare and examining the myths and realities of health care in Canada.
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Breathing Water
Joan Crate
Joan Crate
The hauntingly told tale of a young mother who uses the stories told to her by her Native father to illuminate her alienation and struggle to find meaning in life as the wife of a man with whom she seems to have little in common.
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