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From one of Canada's foremost poet/novelists and feminist criticsa collection of essays spanning over fifteen years.

It is the summer of 1935, while young Doug Sayers is spending the summer going to movies and sneaking cigarettes and his friend Babe Roothe is discovering women, William Aberhart and the Social Credit Party are promising twenty-five dollars a month for everyone in Alberta. Babe's mysterious death is the first in a chain of bizarre events, freak thunderstorms, and political intrigue. Through the memories of an adult Doug -- a veteran of both th...

Frank Davey is both 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 anglo-phone Canada.

In a flash, everything changes. After a group of radical environmentalists breaks into the house of a prominent oil company executive and holds him and his family hostage, the stage is set for a popular movement to coalesce around the incident. They call themselves "Tarstoppers", and by occupying Calgary's parks and public areas they hope to shut down the oilsands. But even the most cynical of their number couldn't anticipate what happened nex...

By turns tender and rough-hewn, and always structurally inventive, the poems in Wendy's McGrath's new collection show a writer reaching the height of her creative powers. Whether evoking the vulgar give-and-take of a men's poker night, fleeting moments of connection between mothers and sons, afternoons spent in overgrown backyard gardens, or wondrous childhood trips to the drive-in, McGrath's feel for the bygone details of working-class life i...

As a long, hot Saskatchewan summer dawns, Darby Swank's life is forever changed when she finds her beloved aunt floating dead in a lake. All at once, her blinders are lifted and she sees the country lifestyle she's always known in a whole new way, with hidden pain and anguish lurking behind familiar faces, and violence forever threatening to burst forth, like brushfire smouldering and dormant under the muskeg. With her first novel, Lisa Guenth...

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.

Inspired by working at the Royal Ontario Museum, gifted poet Nina Berkhout spins a catastrophic yet enduring tale of love set amidst the chaos of assembling a blindingly white museum display on the Hindenburg Zeppelin. Composed in poetic verse, 'This Way the Road' masterfully interweaves the tumultuous relationship of Helen and Jules with glistening fragments of Greek mythology and modern history. A truly captivating collection, 'This Way the ...

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The first book-length commentary on twentieth-century Pacific Northwest writing, The Arbutus/Madrone Files explores the dynamics of the Pacific Northwest. Ricou's varied meditations on the region are dropped into thirteen files -- for example, the Island File, Salmon File, Woodswords File, Sasquatch File, and inevitably, the Rain File. Throughout, resonant quotations, poetry, song lyrics, and art from the region demonstrate and enhance Ricou's...

The true story of how Rick Ranson and his friend John Van Landeghem, both barely out of high school, took on the might of the Red and Mississippi rivers to paddle a canoe from Winnipeg to New Orleans in the Autumn of 1969.

Detective Lane has a knack for discovering the whereabouts of missing persons But the city s latest case has disappeared without a trace After a brutal attack on his young nephew ex mayor Bob Swatsky has gone missing with 13 million dollars of tax payers money Is he on the run with the cash or is it something more sinister A zany cast of characters including a love doll and a chain smoking grandma with an oxygen tank lead Detective Lane on a t...

Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. Take Carrie, for example. Getting over her mother's death from ovarian cancer takes the form of ramping up passive-aggressive office warfare, continuing her campaign to show her ex-husband she is over him (further increasing the distance between herself and her teenage daughter, natch), ridding herself of her mother's overweight cat Poncho, and consuming heroic quantities of red wine, spiked...

No one should ever work at a gas station long enough to get good at it, " observes Brendan, the narrator of the debut novel from Sean Trinder. Brendan is 20. He's been pumping gas for three years, working the evening shift at the CountryGas station in Winnipeg. He's gotten good at it. Which is sad. And Brendan knows that unless something happens fast, he'll be stuck in this rut forever, inhaling gas fumes and quietly seething at the idiot cust...

In his second collection of stories, author and filmmaker R W Gray (Crisp) once again finds the place where the beautiful, the strange, and the surreal all meet -- sometimes meshing harmoniously, sometimes colliding with terrible violence, launching his characters into a redefined reality. A lovestruck man discovers the secret editing room where his girlfriend erases all her flaws, a massage artist finds that she can alleviate her clients' pai...

Detective Lane returns for a fourth time in Smoked, Garry Ryan's darkest mystery to date. When Jennifer Towers is found dead in a graffiti-tagged dumpster, Detectives Lane and Harper must decipher the art to find its artist -- and possibly the victim's killer. What begins as an unconventional murder investigation leads to the disturbing discovery of two abused children, whose father becomes a prime suspect in the case. In true Detective Lane f...

In a small city somewhere in an oil-rich Canadian province just east of the Rockies, a political scandal has erupted: an aging cabinet minister has struck and killed a member of his local constituency executive with his half-ton truck, in broad daylight. But the premier suspects that there is more to this "accident" than meets the eye -- and he wants to know the real reasons behind it before the media or his political rivals do. Enter the prem...

In Alberta Politics Uncovered Mark Lisac delivers a clear message that Albertans must stop believing in money and the myth of western alienation and start believing in balanced leadership In this concise and highly readable explanation of Alberta s government policies Lisac examines the "balanced budget " and other current issues and reminds Alberta voters that we all have the responsibility to hold our government accountable

A funny sexy tale of love affairs magical transformation and happy endings The question is can love be relied on to save the day

Wild Daisies in the Sand" is a series of diary entries beginning in 1941 when the author was imprisoned in concentration camps first in Petawawa and then Angler Ontario a young Japanese Canadian like many others deemed dangerous by the Canadian government because of his race