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Goat Lady's Daughter (The)
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. Read more...

Gone But Not Forgotten: Tales of the Disappearing Grain Elevator
Elizabeth McLachlan

A series of biographical sketches and photographs that put a human face on the social and historical importance of grain elevators on the prairies. Read more...

Grace Lake
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. Read more...

Guilty Addictions
Garrett Wilson

Unbelievable accounts of political corruption involving bribery and murder—and a race to stay alive for a Saskatchewan lawyer. Read more...

Hammerstone: A Biography of Hornby Island
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. Read more...

Harvest and Other Plays
Ken Cameron

The past infiltrates the present and real life exists alongside the world of the imagination in this collection of three groundbreaking plays by Calgary-based writer Ken Cameron. Read more...

Healthy, Wealthy & Dead
Suzanne North

A murder mystery at a trendy and luxurious health spa in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. Read more...

Holding Pattern
Shane Rhodes

From the author of The Wireless Room comes Holding Pattern, a brand new collection of poetry. In this collection, Rhodes explores the boundaries between poetry and fiction through a selection of lyrical poems and two long poems. Read more...

Home Place: Essays on Ecology
Stan Rowe

This is a new edition of Stan Rowe’s popular collection of essays that focus on the idea that the Earth is our "Home Place." The new edition contains an introduction by Wes Jackson of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas." Read more...

House of Spells
Robert Pepper-Smith

Hummingbird Dance (A): A Detective Lane Mystery
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. Read more...

Hungry Spirit (The): Selected Plays and Prose
Elsie Park Gowan

In this collection spanning twenty years of her writing, Park Gowan explores such issues as child care, women's rights, and others. Read more...

Icefields
Thomas Wharton

Icefields is a story of adventure and discovery that unfolds amidst the stunning beauty of the Canadian Rockies. Read more...

In Visible Ink: crypto-frictions
Aritha van Herk & edited by Smaro Kamboureli

Aritha van Herk explores other texts, other bodies, other moments arising from the otheredness of the writer in the uneasy position of critic. Read more...

Incident at Willow Creek
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. Read more...

I’m Frankie Sterne
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. Read more...

Jumping Off
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. Read more...

Knocking on the Moonlit Door: Reflections on Journeys to Europe
Margaret Thompson

A collection of beautifully written personal essays that explore travel both to distant places and within the mind. Read more...

Kreisel Lecture Series #2: Old Lost Land of Newfoundland (The)
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. Read more...

Landscapes of the Heart: Narratives of Nature and Self
Michael Aleksiuk & Thomas Nelson

What impact does nature have on our personal well-being and how does our interaction with the environment shape who we are and how we connect with our world? Read more...

Last Great Forest (The)
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. Read more...

Letters From Deadman's Cay
Nina Berkhout

A fictional account of an actual experience that took place on an out-island in The Bahamas. Through a collection of first-person prose poems arranged in a narrative, the author of the letters describes the feelings of isolation she endured on a small, re Read more...

Listening to Trees
A.K. Hellum

Combining personal experience with fact, Listening to Trees tells the story of a man’s lifelong journey to salvage today’s declining forests. Read more...

Long Trail (The): The Story of a Pioneer Family
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. Read more...

Lucky Elephant Restaurant (The): A Detective Lane Mystery
Garry Ryan

When the young daughter of popular radio talk show host Bobbie Reddie disappears along with Bobbie’s ex-husband, Detectives Lane and Harper are on the case. Haunted by flashbacks from a previous missing child case, Lane once again takes to the streets of Read more...

Lyric/Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry
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. Read more...

Magpie's Smile (A)
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. Read more...

Malabarista
Garry Ryan