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Butterflies in Bucaramanga
Tanna Patterson-Z
Tanna Patterson-Z
This fictionalized account of the 1998 kidnapping of a mining executive by Colombian renegades guides readers deep into the physical and political terrain of a beautiful but dangerous country.
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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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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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Dance, Gladys, Dance
Cassie Stocks
Cassie Stocks
A sparkling comic fable—with a supernatural twist—of dreams abandoned and reclaimed.
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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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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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Drift Child
Rosella Leslie
Rosella Leslie
When extraordinary circumstances force lifelong free spirit Emma Phillips to take care of three traumatized, newly orphaned children, she finds motherhood may in fact be her true calling.
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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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Encounters
Michael Trussler
Michael Trussler
In this first collection of short fiction, Michael Trussler meticulously observes the human experience, painting a portrait of ordinary life as a collision between the bizarre and the prosaic. The characters in each tableau encounter their own strengths a
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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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Extensions
Myrna Dey
Myrna Dey
In her debut novel, Myrna Dey skillfully moves back and forth between two time periods and two memorably resourceful female heroines.
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Faking It: Critical Writing 1984-1999
Fred Wah & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Fred Wah & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
A critical scrapbook collected from fifteen years of writing. Contains essays, reviews, interviews, journals, notes, and poetic improvisations on contemporary poetry and identity.
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Fallen Empires: Lost Theatres of Edmonton 1881–1914
John Orrell
John Orrell
Fallen Empires—from NeWest Press’ Landmark Edition Series—traces the development of Edmonton’s theatre community from its humble beginnings in meeting halls in 1881 to the flourishing scene of 1914.
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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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Fishing for Bacon
Michael Davie
Michael Davie
My name’s Bacon Sobelowski, and I’m trying to find my someone. But I think it might all come down to timing, and if that’s true then I’m in trouble.
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fluttertongue 4: adagio for the pressured surround
Steven Ross Smith
Steven Ross Smith
fluttertongue 4: adagio for the pressured surround is poetry at its most eloquent. In this long poem, Smith imagistically evokes birds and plants, physical torture, and human relationships as he delves into the meaning of words and ponders language itsel
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Frog Lake Reader (The)
Myrna Kostash
Myrna Kostash
Non-fiction author Myrna Kostash merges the past and the present in The Frog Lake Reader, offering a new perspective on the tragic events surrounding the Frog Lake Massacre of 1885.
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From Ice to Ashes
Jessica Simon
Jessica Simon
When a terrorist infiltration overtakes the Yukon Arctic Ultra — the most challenging human-powered race in the world — Auxiliary RCMP Markus Fanger leads a heart-stopping manhunt.
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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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