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Blue Feast
Shawna Lemay
Shawna Lemay
An eloquent collection of poems from award-winning Canadian wordsmith Shawna Lemay that examines motherhood, marriage, and the prosaic nature of everyday life.
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Body Traffic
Alex Domokos & Rita Toews
Alex Domokos & Rita Toews
Undercover officer Stan Boyko, relocated to Winnipeg after his cover is blown in Vancouver, thinks a new assignment in his hometown will mean time to recoup.
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Bone Cage (The)
Angie Abdou
Angie Abdou
Digger, an 85-kilo wrestler, and Sadie, a 26-year-old speed swimmer, stand on the verge of realizing every athlete’s dream - winning a gold medal at the Olympics.
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Bottom Line: The truth behind private health insurance in Canada
Diana Gibson & Colleen Fuller
Diana Gibson & Colleen Fuller
A study of the truth behind private health insurance by looking at the history of private insurance before Medicare and examining the myths and realities of health care in Canada.
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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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Buried in the Silence
Connie Sampson
Connie Sampson
Journalist Connie Sampson examines the life and death of Leo LaChance, his brother David’s quest for the truth, and the story of the inquiry that followed Leo’s death.
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Canadian Literary Power
Frank Davey & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Frank Davey & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Frank Davey is both a participant and witness in his provocative examination of the nature of literary power as a part of general cultural and political relationships in contemporary and anglophone Canada.
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Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture
Barbara Godard & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Barbara Godard & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture is the first book to gather together essays by Barbara Godard, one of the leading and most prolific figures in the field of Canadian studies.
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Cardinal Divide (The)
Stephen Legault
Stephen Legault
Cole Blackwater, environmental strategist and damaged human being, must prove an environmental fanatic innocent of murder to save Canada's magnificent Cardinal Divide from destruction.
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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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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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Crisp
R.W. Gray
R.W. Gray
Crisp confronts the unspeakable parts of memory, meditating on characters caught in isolation and struggling to make sense of grief, disappointment, and the occasional dinner party gone wrong.
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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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Darkening Archipelago (The)
Stephen Legault
Stephen Legault
The Cole Blackwater environmental mystery series continues with a race to keep both human souls and natural ecosystems from falling into darkness.
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Deadly Little List (A)
Kay Stewart & Chris Bullock
Kay Stewart & Chris Bullock
The body of a security guard for a wealthy and controversial land-developer, is found in a deserted cabin. A note and evidence found at the crime scene suggest suicide, but to Constable Danutia Dranchuk things just don’
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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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Displaced Persons
Margie Taylor
Margie Taylor
The memory of a mysterious death brings Alex Cooper back to her home-town on the shores of Lake Superior to search for answers, but to uncover the truth Alex must first examine her own troubled past.
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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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Drowning Man
Dave Margoshes
Dave Margoshes
A surreal noir mystery set in a small British Columbia mountain town in 1970. Sweeny, an aging alcoholic reporter returned home from the skids of New York, works on an obituary bearing a name that is eerily familiar to him. With the unexpected help of a r
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Due West
Aritha van Herk
Aritha van Herk
Diverse, unpredictable, and bold, like the region itself, Due West showcases the best and brightest writing from Western Canada. It's a fascinating journey of discovery, vision and voice.
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Earth Alive: Essays on Ecology
Stan Rowe
Stan Rowe
A collection of thought-provoking essays, short pieces, and reviews that explore and uncover the intimate connections between humans and the Earth.
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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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Elk in the House (An)
Beverly Lein
Beverly Lein
When Beverly and Carson Lein, ranchers at the Seventh Avenue Elk ranch in Manning, chose the unique occupation of farming elk, they didn’t count on adopting and inevitably falling in love with one.
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