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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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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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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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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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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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Ethnicities: Plays from the New West
Various & Marty Chan, Padma Viswanathan, Jonathan Christenson & Joey Tremblay
Various & Marty Chan, Padma Viswanathan, Jonathan Christenson & Joey Tremblay
The three plays included this anthology all deal with intercultural issues in Canada with humour, wit and at times, heartbreak.
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From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden
Boyden speaks passionately, relating Aboriginal people in Canada to poor African Americans, Whites, and Hispanics in post-Katrina New Orleans. At the end of his lecture he presented a provocative manifesto to the audience.
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Man Who Beat the Man (The)
F.B. André
F.B. André
An accomplished and enthralling 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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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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Pacific Rim Letters
Roy Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
This never before published work is a travel diary, cultural manifesto and unique post-modern collection of personal meditations.
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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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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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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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