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Browse by Category Women's Literature
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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Collected Works of Pat Lowther (The)
Christine Wiesenthal
Christine Wiesenthal
The Collected Works of Pat Lowther brings together, for the first time, the complete contents of the poetry editions published by Pat Lowther.
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Crybaby!
Janice Williamson
Janice Williamson
In a dramatic arrangement of words and visuals, Crybaby! is the memoir of a woman dealing with intimations of incest, her infertility, and the suicide of her father.
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Doomed Bridegroom (The)
Myrna Kostash
Myrna Kostash
The Doomed Bridegroom narrates one woman’s attraction to rebel heroes, both real and imagined, in Canada, Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean.
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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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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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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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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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Snow Bodies: One Woman's Life on the Streets
Elizabeth Hudson
Elizabeth Hudson
The timely memoir of a troubled young woman who through drug dependence turns to a life of prostitution on the streets of Calgary and Vancouver.
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West Wind North Chatter
Deanna Kent-McDonald
Deanna Kent-McDonald
Pouring all your savings into opening the first trendy internet café in Grande Prairie may seem like a risky venture, but to Emily Reeves it was the perfect way to start anew.
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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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Whipstock
Barb Howard
Barb Howard
Whipstock is a humorous tall tale exploring the literal, metaphorical and narrative links between pregnancy and Alberta's petroleum industry.
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White Lies (for my mother)
Liza Potvin
Liza Potvin
Based on fifteen years of her own journal entries, the author explores her scattered memories of being sexually abused by her father and grandfather and the impact of this abuse upon her relationship with her mother.
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Widows (The)
Suzette Mayr
Suzette Mayr
Daring to defy a world that believes old women should not be seen or heard, three women steal a barrel from a travelling show and plan to go over Niagara Falls.
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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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With Unshakeable Persistence: Rural Teachers of the Depression
Elizabeth McLachlan
Elizabeth McLachlan
A compilation of individual stories based on the author’s interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers.
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Writing the Circle: Native Women of Western Canada. An Anthology
Jeanne Perreault & Sylvia Vance
Jeanne Perreault & Sylvia Vance
This anthology of stories, poetry, essays, and biographical pieces from western and northwestern Canadian Native women makes available seldom-heard voices.
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