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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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Aldershot 1945: The Novel
Bruce Allen Powe
Bruce Allen Powe
Over two nights of mayhem Canadian soldiers stream out of 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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Almost Meeting (The): and other stories
Henry Kreisel
Henry Kreisel
The short stories in Henry Kreisel’s The Almost Meeting written between 1954 and 1980 are explorations in cultural identity and human relationships that make readers hold their breath with anticipation until the final, finely crafted sentence.
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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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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 feel and the crown of her head.
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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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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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Chorus of Mushrooms
Hiromi Goto
Hiromi Goto
Chorus of Mushrooms heralds the 1994 debut of the acclaimed feminist, Hiromi Goto. Until then, the primary literary voice of Japanese Canadians was that of the people interned during World War II.
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Cleavage
Theanna Bischoff
Theanna Bischoff
Cleavage tracks the patchwork musings of Leah, who, at twenty-four years old and two years into a relationship, discovers she has breast cancer.
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Displaced Persons
Margie Taylor
Margie Taylor
The memory of a mysterious death brings Alex Cooper back to her home-town on the shores of Lake Superior to search for answers, but to uncover the truth Alex must first examine her own troubled past.
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Drowning Man
Dave Margoshes
Dave Margoshes
A surreal noir mystery set in a small British Columbia mountain town in 1970. Sweeny, an aging alcoholic reporter returned home from the skids of New York, works on an obituary bearing a name that is eerily familiar to him. With the unexpected help of a r
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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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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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Gerbil Mother
D.M. Bryan
D.M. Bryan
Gerbil, age zero, has a question: where do parents come from? Specifically, she wants to know about her mother. Who is this vessel in which she resides, and why does it seem like her mother isn’t up for the task of parenthood?
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Goat Lady's Daughter (The)
Rosella Leslie
Rosella Leslie
Florrie and Mag Larson live off the land in a rustic cabin on the edge of British Columbia’s coastal society. When the eccentric sisters unintentionally adopt an abandoned baby girl, their world is turned upside down.
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Grace Lake
Glen Huser
Glen Huser
A candid portrayal of a man who finds redemption when he confronts his past and faces the full tragedy of a life unlived—a life riddled with guilt over the suppression of his homosexuality.
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Icefields
Thomas Wharton
Thomas Wharton
Icefields is a story of adventure and discovery that unfolds amidst the stunning beauty of the Canadian Rockies.
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Incident at Willow Creek
Don Hunter
Don Hunter
As Liz Thomas desperately attempts to piece together reports on a life she never knew her mother had, she discovers a family secret so tragic that it was kept under lock-and-key for over sixty years of Canadian history.
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I’m Frankie Sterne
Dave Margoshes
Dave Margoshes
Covering a twenty-five year period, I’m Frankie Sterne is the story of one man’s growth to maturity during the 50s, 60s, and early 70s.
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Jumping Off
Laura Cutler
Laura Cutler
Who are the women that surround us? What’s going on inside the women that we pass on the street, talk to, work with, live with, grew up with, and even love? Laura J. Cutler’s new stories have some answers that may be surprising.
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Man Who Beat the Man (The)
F.B. André
F.B. André
A brilliant new collection of short stories. Many stories deal with displacement from one culture to another, while others look back at an isolated moment or event that somehow effects and alters the lives of the characters.
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Misshapen
Robert Budde
Robert Budde
One day in 1897, as the huge carnival big-top swooshed upward, a child came flying out of the folds of the tent and landed softly in the straw on the ground.
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Moon Honey
Suzette Mayr
Suzette Mayr
A funny, sexy tale of love affairs, magical transformation, and happy endings. The question is, can love be relied on to save the day?
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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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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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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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