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Series: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series Most of What Follows is True Places Imagined and Real Paperback Michael Crummey 9781772124576 $13.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 21, 2019

"In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business." In Most of What Follows Is True, Michael Crummey examines the complex relationship between fact and fiction, between the “real world” and the stories we tell to explain it. Drawing on his own experience appropriating historical characters to fictional ends, he brings forward important questions about how writers use history and real-life figures to animate fictional stories.... + Read More
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Series: Wayfarer Tiny Lights for Travellers Paperback Naomi K. Lewis 9781772124484 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 15, 2019

Why couldn’t I occupy the world as those model-looking women did, with their flowing hair, pulling their tiny bright suitcases as if to say, I just arrived from elsewhere, and I already belong here, and this sidewalk belongs to me? When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved Opa’s escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi Lewis decides to retrace his journey to freedom. Travelling alone from Amsterdam to Lyon, she discovers family secrets and her own narrative as a second-generati... + Read More
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Series: Wayfarer What You Take with You Wildfire, Family and the Road Home Paperback Therese Greenwood 9781772124491 $27.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2019

Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was shattered by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly escaping a fire that would rage for weeks, burn more than 85,000 hectares and force 80,000 people to flee.
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The Man Who Lived with a Giant Stories from Johnny Neyelle, Dene Elder Paperback Alana Fletcher 9781772124088 $27.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 11, 2019

Our parents always taught us well. They told us to look on the good side of life and to accept what has to happen. The Man Who Lived with a Giant is a collection of traditional and personal stories told by Johnny Neyelle, a Dene Elder from Déline, Northwest Territories. Johnny used storytelling to teach Dene youth and others to understand and celebrate Dene traditions and knowledge. Johnny’s voice makes his stories accessible to readers young and old, and his wisdom reinforces the right way to live: in harmony with people and places. Storytel... + Read More
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Series: Robert Kroetsch Series To float, to drown, to close up, to open Paperback E. Alex Pierce 9781772124538 $19.99 POETRY Feb 19, 2020

In this collection, E. Alex Pierce enters the territory of memory embedded in landscape where “language tied to the land” evokes the cadence of tidal rivers and creates a fluid world. She traces the fragmented childhood beginnings that lead to the formation of a young artist who moves from music, through theatre, to poetry. The passionate relationships and complex juxtapositions of art and performance that form an artist’s life find voice here in the symphonic structure of the long poem, the provocative individual prose poems, and the final str... + Read More
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Series: Robert Kroetsch Series Apostrophes VIII Nothing Is But You and I Paperback E.D. Blodgett 9781772124514 $21.99 POETRY Feb 07, 2019

The late sun falls slowly into the afternoon of your eyes, and there it pauses as one might pause to take a breath —from “Lost” Nothing Is But You and I, the breathtaking final volume in the Apostrophes series, reveals poet E.D. Blodgett at his most accomplished. Lyrical grace meets exquisite technique as Blodgett fathoms intimacy, knowledge, and being. The poems allow us to listen to one side of an intimate conversation; yet despite this inward focus, the speaker looks up and out at a larger world, inviting us into contemplations of loss, ti... + Read More
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Series: Robert Kroetsch Series There Are Not Enough Sad Songs Paperback Marita Dachsel 9781772124521 $21.99 POETRY Mar 29, 2019

There is beauty in the teacup like dresses requiring crinoline or beaded purses too small to carry anything but anger. — from “Inheritance” Marita Dachsel’s third poetry collection explores parenthood, love, and the grief of losing those both close and distant. In the tradition of Karen Solie and Suzanne Buffam, and with a touch of Canadian Gothic, Dachsel’s poetic skills unfold in a variety of brief and expansive forms. Authentic and controlled, full of complexity and disorder, her poems offer release despite their painful twists and topics. ... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Literature Collection Divided Highways Road Narrative and Nationhood in Canada Paperback Heather Macfarlane 9780776627731 $29.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 25, 2019

The road trip genre, well established in the literatures of Canada, is a natural outcome of the nation’s obsession with geography. Divided Highways examines road trip works by Anglophone, Québécois and Indigenous authors and these communities’ sense of place and nationhood. The road trip genre, well established in the literatures of Canada, is a natural outcome of the nation’s obsession with geography. Divided Highways examines road narratives by Anglo-Canadian, Québécois and Indigenous authors and the sense of place and nationhood in these com... + Read More
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Series: Contemporary Studies on the North Nitinikiau Innusi I Keep the Land Alive Paperback Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue 9780887558405 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 03, 2019

Labrador Innu cultural and environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue is well-known both within and far beyond the Innu Nation. The recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award and an honorary doctorate from Memorial University, she has been a subject of documentary films, books, and numerous articles. She led the Innu campaign against NATO’s low-level flying and bomb testing on Innu land during the 1980s and ’90s, and was a key respondent in a landmark legal case in which the judge held that the Innu had the “colour of right”... + Read More
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Series: First Voices, First Texts Honouring the Strength of Indian Women Plays, Stories, Poetry Paperback Vera Manuel 9780887558368 $24.95 DRAMA May 10, 2019

This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact and devastating legacy of Canada’s Indian residential schools, Vera Manuel wrote about it as part... + Read More
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Hell and Damnation A Sinner's Guide to Eternal Torment Paperback Marq de Villiers 9780889775848 $24.95 RELIGION Mar 02, 2019

In Hell and Damnation, bestselling author Marq de Villiers takes readers on a journey into the strange richness of the human imaginings of hell, deep into time and across many faiths, back into early Egypt and the 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh. This urbane, funny, and deeply researched guide ventures well beyond the Nine Circles of Dante’s Hell and the many medieval Christian visions into the hellish descriptions in Islam, Buddhism, Jewish legend, Japanese traditions, and more.
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Series: The Regina Collection American Refugees Turning to Canada for Freedom Hardcover Rita Shelton Deverell 9780889776258 $21.95 HISTORY May 11, 2019

When it became clear that Donald Trump would become the new US president on election night in 2016, the website for Citizenship and Immigration Canada crashed. It was overwhelmed by Americans afraid that the United States would once again enter a period of intolerance and military aggression. In American Refugees, Rita Deverell shows that from the Revolutionary War to the Underground Railroad through to McCarthyism and Vietnam, Americans have fled to Canada in times of crisis. Many still flee. All have sought better lives, while helping to shap... + Read More
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Series: Writers on Writing Voice Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness Paperback Adam Pottle 9780889775930 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2019

In Voice, Adam Pottle explores the crucial role deafness has played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a unique perspective on a writer’s development. Born deaf in both ears, Pottle recounts what it was like growing up in a world of muted sound, and how his deafness has influenced virtually everything about his writing, from his use of language to character and plot choices. Salty, bold, and relentlessly honest, Voice makes us think about writing in entirely new ways and expands our understanding of deafness and the gif... + Read More
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Series: The Regina Collection The Organist Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind Hardcover Mark Abley 9780889775817 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 18, 2019

Harry Abley was a nightmare of a father: depressive, self-absorbed, unpredictable, emotionally unstable. He was also a dream of a father: gentle, courageous, artistically gifted. Mark Abley, his only child, grew up in the shadow of music and mental illness. How he came to terms with this divided legacy, and how he learned to be a man in the absence of a traditional masculine role model, are central to this beautifully written memoir. This extraordinary story will speak to all those who love music, who struggle with depression, or who wrestle w... + Read More
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The Unexpected Cop Indian Ernie on a Life of Leadership Paperback Ernie Louttit 9780889775992 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 26, 2019

“From his small community in northern Ontario to the military and the Saskatoon Police Service, Ernie Louttit has made an incredible journey helping others and protecting Canadians. Known as ‘Indian Ernie’ in Saskatoon’s inner-city, he has been both hated and revered by the Indigenous peoples he has served. He has played roles of both protector and enforcer. In this moving account, Ernie tells an insightful story that illuminates his personal journey.” —Doug Cuthand, author of Askiwina: A Cree World Bestselling author Ernie Louttit helped put... + Read More
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Black Writers Matter Paperback Whitney French 9780889776166 $27.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 02, 2019

"Black Writers? African, Bluesy, Classical, Disrespectful, Erudite, Fiery, Groovy, Haunting, Inspiring, Jazzy, Knowing, Liberating, Militant, Nervy, Optimistic, Pugnacious, Quixotic, Rambunctious, Seductive, Truculent, Urgent, Vivacious, Wicked, X-ray sharp, Yearning, Zesty. And so, they matter!" —George Elliott Clarke An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writers Matter offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose. A... + Read More
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Clearing the Plains Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life Paperback James Daschuk 9780889776227 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 02, 2019

Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream." It was a dream... + Read More
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No Surrender The Land Remains Indigenous Paperback Sheldon Krasowski 9780889775961 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 02, 2019

Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners and Indigenous chiefs, but newly uncovered eyewitness accounts show that the Canadian government had a strategic plan to deceive over the “surrender clause” and land sharing.According to Sheldon Krasowski’s research, Canada understood that the Cree, Anishnabeg, Saulteaux, Assiniboine, Siksika, Pii... + Read More
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Series: Oskana Poetry & Poetics Forty-One Pages On Poetry, Language, and Wilderness Paperback John Steffler 9780889775879 $21.95 POETRY Mar 16, 2019

In this series of elegant and wide-ranging meditations on language, wilderness, poetry, and technocracy, John Steffler takes us on a guided tour of one poet’s mental workshop. His focus is vividly personal, shaped by his interests and experience, and at the same time universal. What is it to be human? Steffler is not afraid to be provocative, but he is also compassionately alert to moral, political, and cultural complexity. This is a book that will convince you that poetry can indeed make a great deal happen.
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Finding Father Stories from Mennonite Daughters Paperback Mary Ann Loewen 9780889775909 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 11, 2019

Finding Father is a collection of stories about Mennonite fathers by their daughters. Written by well-known and first-time writers, these stories illuminate the often close and sometimes troubling relationships that exist between one of humanity’s most precious bonds. From battles over relationships and sexuality, to debates over chores and church, these stories also hold the shared intimacies of driving side by side with dad, laughing, and headed down the road.