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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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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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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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Chance
Anne Metikosh
Anne Metikosh
Dragan was a Yugoslav peasant who flirted with the ideals of Communism and aspired to become a teacher. Instead, he became a slave in a German labour camp. Galina was an only child growing up in the harsh reality of Stalinist Russia.
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Edmonton on Location: River City Chronicles
Heather Zwicker
Heather Zwicker
An innovative collection of essays, memoirs, poems, and stories by acclaimed Edmontonians that describe the heartbeat of this vibrant city, from parks and back alleys to the High Level Bridge and North Saskatchewan River.
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Fallen Empires: Lost Theatres of Edmonton 1881–1914
John Orrell
John Orrell
Fallen Empires—from NeWest Press’ Landmark Edition Series—traces the development of Edmonton’s theatre community from its humble beginnings in meeting halls in 1881 to the flourishing scene of 1914.
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Hammerstone: A Biography of Hornby Island
Olivia Fletcher
Olivia Fletcher
Successful in its first edition, this is the long-awaited revised version of this popular tribute to Hornby Island. The creation of the island is revealed in beautiful prose and description.
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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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Kreisel Lecture Series #2: Old Lost Land of Newfoundland (The)
Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston discusses the myths and realities of his native Newfoundland. A master storyteller, Johnston peppers his lecture with impromptu asides, delighting his readers with true tales and well-spun yarns.
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Last Great Forest (The)
Larry Pratt & Ian Urquhart
Larry Pratt & Ian Urquhart
The story of the Alberta government’s decision to develop the Northern boreal forest and of the ensuing battles between multinational developers, environmentalists, Native groups, and sawmillers over the rights to exploit the timber resources.
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Long Trail (The): The Story of a Pioneer Family
Beulah Baldwin
Beulah Baldwin
This biographical account of the lives of the Freelands by their daughter begins with their 1913 winter trek to the hinterlands of Peace River from Edmonton to purchase a hotel sight unseen.
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Lyric/Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry
Doug Barbour & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Doug Barbour & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
The very best of Barbour’s criticism over the past two decades, Lyric/Anti-lyric is the latest addition to the Writer as Critic series, edited by Smaro Kamboureli.
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Magpie's Smile (A)
Eugene Meese
Eugene Meese
When the scalped remains of a Jane Doe are discovered within the rubble of a demolished house, Detective Jake Fry is assigned the task of hunting down Calgary’s most disturbed murderer.
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Metastasis and other plays
Gordon Pengilly
Gordon Pengilly
Delve into darkness with Metastasis and other plays, a new collection of Gordon Pengilly’s award-winning dramas that highlight the core of human tragedy, paranoia, and violence.
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Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
In 1993 Mary Kiyooka sat with her son Roy Kiyooka, one of Canada’s most important avant-garde painters, with a tape recorder. In her native Japanese, she shared with him the fascinating memories of her migration to Canada.
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Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic
Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Wiebe
A new edition of Rudy Wiebe’s 1989 book of essays, featuring two new essays and an afterword by Robert Kroetsch. This is the first book in the Landmark Editions Series.
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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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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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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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Weasel Tail
Michael Ross
Michael Ross
Intercultural issues in Canada's new West are met with humour, wit, and at times, heartbreak, in this collection of Joe Crowshoe's stories.
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Wheel Keeper (The)
Robert Pepper-Smith
Robert Pepper-Smith
From the late 1800s on, many peasants left southern Italy to work in the vineyards of British Columbia. The Wheel Keeper is the story of a child in a family of immigrants, and is about the ways children overcome fragmentation through ritual, identi
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Where We Buried the Sun: One Woman's Gulag Story
Alla Tumanov
Alla Tumanov
The memoir of a young woman who, in 1951 at the age of seventeen, was arrested for her involvement with an underground organization demanding alternatives to Stalinist rule and as a result, spent five years in the Soviet prison system.
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Wild Daisies in the Sand: Life in a Canadian Internment Camp
Tom Sando
Tom Sando
In 1942 Tom Sando was imprisoned in Canadian concentration camps for standing up for his right as a Japanese Canadian. This is his journal, and it relates Sando’s internment experience of loneliness, fear, and, eventually, friendship and hope.
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Wireless Room (The)
Shane Rhodes
Shane Rhodes
The Wireless Room is a stunning first collection of poems ranging from studies in western pastoral history through highflying evocations of the sub-atomic particles to deeply personal poems about and for parents.
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With Unfailing Dedication: Rural Teachers in the War Years
Elizabeth McLachlan
Elizabeth McLachlan
The sequel to With Unshakeable Persistence. McLachlan takes us into the next decade, relating with vivid, sometimes shocking detail, the experiences of prairie teachers during and after the second world war.
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