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14 Tractors
Gerald Hill
Gerald Hill
In 14 Tractors, tractors pull versions of story, poetic form, landscape, light, and family history, offering themselves as vehicles for looking and remembering.
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2009 Fall Catalogue
NeWest Press
NeWest Press
From type to byte: the NeWest Catalogue takes the digital leap
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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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Alberta Politics Uncovered: Taking Back our Province
Mark Lisac
Mark Lisac
Looking at hard facts of Alberta's political dead end, and at the use of myths to distort reality. Veteran political observer Mark Lisac looks at some of the truths buried under the comforting cliches.
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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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All of Baba’s Children
Myrna Kostash
Myrna Kostash
The story of one woman’s personal discovery of her Canadian-Ukrainian cultural origins and the impact of that invigorating discovery on her life.
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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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Always Someone To Kill The Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson
Fred Flahiff
Fred Flahiff
The riveting portrait of a renowned Canadian writer shaped by her times, turbulent marriage, clarity of genius, and by her moral sense instilled by a Catholic upbringing.
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American Critic in Canada (An): The Literary Memoirs of Morton L
Morton L. Ross
Morton L. Ross
A tribute to Morton L. Ross, a well-loved professor and mentor. Includes a eulogy by Robert Kroetsch, and Ross' personal observations, critical essays, lectures, and articles.
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Any Other Woman: An uncommon biography
Monica Kidd
Monica Kidd
Monica Kidd, biologist, poet and award-winning journalist, travels to Slovakia and Alberta to unravel the mystery of her great-grandparents' lives.>>
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Aphelion
Jenna Butler
Jenna Butler
Aphelion is about distances, simultaneously belonging to two countries but being rooted in neither.
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Apocrypha
Stan Dragland & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Stan Dragland & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Shaped over two decades, this collection is a passionate meditation on the meeting of life and literature, and a text of rumination, invention, and rhapsody.
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Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest
Laurie Ricou
Laurie Ricou
The first book-length commentary examining the writing of the Pacific Northwest presented in an unconventional group of files" along with colour pictures."
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Arrhythmia
Alice Zorn
Alice Zorn
Set in a Montreal hospital at the turn of the millennium, Alice Zorn's first novel is a study in love, infidelity, obsession and betrayal.
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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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