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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 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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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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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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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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Cardinal Divide (The)
Stephen Legault
Stephen Legault
Cole Blackwater, environmental strategist and damaged human being, must prove an environmental fanatic innocent of murder to save Canada's magnificent Cardinal Divide from destruction.
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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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Crisp
R.W. Gray
R.W. Gray
Crisp confronts the unspeakable parts of memory, meditating on characters caught in isolation and struggling to make sense of grief, disappointment, and the occasional dinner party gone wrong.
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Darkening Archipelago (The)
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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Deadly Little List (A)
Kay Stewart & Chris Bullock
Kay Stewart & Chris Bullock
The body of a security guard for a wealthy and controversial land-developer, is found in a deserted cabin. A note and evidence found at the crime scene suggest suicide, but to Constable Danutia Dranchuk things just don’
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Diamond Grill 10th Anniversary Edition
Fred Wah
Fred Wah
An exciting new 10th anniversary edition of Fred Wah’s best-selling bio-fiction, with an all new afterword by the author. This story of family and identity, migration, and integration.
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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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Due West
Aritha van Herk
Aritha van Herk
Diverse, unpredictable, and bold, like the region itself, Due West showcases the best and brightest writing from Western Canada. It's a fascinating journey of discovery, vision and voice.
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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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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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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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Guilty Addictions
Garrett Wilson
Garrett Wilson
Unbelievable accounts of political corruption involving bribery and murder—and a race to stay alive for a Saskatchewan lawyer.
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Hummingbird Dance (A): A Detective Lane Mystery
Garry Ryan
Garry Ryan
Detectives Lane and Harper are back for the third installment of the Detective Lane Mystery Series in this gripping twister of a novel that baffles with its ever increasing body count and suspect list.
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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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