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RCMP Inspector Coswell is back. A university professor is murdered and his corpse is revealed to a first year anatomy class in spectacular fashion -- nude on a slab alongside shrouded medical cadavers. He begins his investigation with Corporal James, his long time assistant, but is abruptly assigned a new partner, a female officer who arrives under a political cloud. Already depressed by his perceived plunge into senility, Coswell struggles to...

The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully". This book collects forty years of essays and speeches that Rudy Wiebe crafted over his many years as an author. In this illuminating and wide-ranging selection, Wiebe provides a look behind the curtain, revealing his thought processes as he worked on many of his great books. Throughout this selection, he dissects controversies that arose after publi...

In his debut story collection, Kevin A Couture creates a world where the veneer of humanness stretches thin and often cracks, while burdened characters take on a variety of beast-like traits. In his desperate survival plan, a pre-teen "rescues" dogs in order to sell them back to their well-off owners. A hare-like marathon pacesetter reflects on the pace she sets, for others and for herself, both on and off the race route. A man confronts his d...

This book, through interconnected short stories, follows the lives of the Lees, a Canadian-Chinese family and their friends who reside in Edmonton, Alberta. While playing with time, from the 1960s and 70s up to the present, the book creates a world of walking dolls, family car trips, fashion and frosty make-up, home renovations inspired by pop culture, and moving up to big, new houses. Paper Teeth's stories are fun, funny, and heart-warming jo...

After saving the Calgary Stampede from a potential terror attack in Glycerine, Detectives Lane and Li find themselves on the hunt yet again, this time following a pair of gruesome killers whose perfectly composed crime scenes match those of an inmate put away by Calgary Police years earlier. As more people come into the line of fire, Lane must team up with some unlikely new allies in order to crack the case. Meanwhile, with the birth of a new ...

The enthralling true story of Jasper's Willi Pfisterer, a legend in the field of mountaineering and safety in the Rocky Mountains. For over thirty years, Willi was an integral part of Jasper's alpine landscape, guiding climbers up to the highest peaks, and rescuing them from perilous situations. Originally from Austria, this mountain man came to Canada in the 1950s to assail the Rockies, and stayed to become an integral part of mountain safety...

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In May 1949 at the age of twenty Barbara Kingscote left her farm in Mascouche Quebec and set out for the Pacific Ocean on horseback Barbara and her equine companion Zazy reached the West Coast just over a year later after travelling 4 miles and discovering the heart of this great country "Ride the Rising Wind" reveals Canada through the fresh eyes of a brave young woman discovering both herself and her country on the journey of a lifetime

A Teatro Trilogy" is three plays written by Stewart Lemoine for his company Teatro la Quindicina Each play "Shockers Delight " "Pith " and "The Margin of the Sky" respond to the question Well what if THIS happened

27-year-old Frieda Zweig is at an impasse. Behind her is a string of failed relationships and half-forgotten ambitions of being a painter, in front of her lies the dreary task of finding a real job and figuring out what "normal" people do with their lives. Then, a classified ad in the local paper introduces Frieda to Gladys, an elderly woman who long ago gave up on her dreams of being a dancer. The catch? Gladys is a ghost. In this book Cassie...

After a long series of professional and personal upheavals, Detective Lane begins his latest adventure happy, at peace, and enjoying life with his partner Arthur, their children Christine and Matt, and his able new partner, RCMP officer Keely Saliba. But when the body of a young boy is unearthed ten years after he was reported missing, Lane's investigation into the crime puts him in conflict with a powerful and charismatic Calgary real estate ...

Garry Ryan follows up "Smoked" with his most revelatory Detective Lane adventure yet. Under investigation by the Calgary Police Department, Lane finds himself fighting for his career. Then, when an Eastern European war criminal winds up dead in the city, and his partner Arthur is diagnosed with cancer, Lane must contend with dangerous criminals, broken allegiances, pressure from his superiors, a determined bomber, and the very real fear of los...

In this new collection of stories, Dene Elder George Blondin defines medicine power, a gift from the Creator for the Dene way of life. Although medicine power has existed since before time began, here Blondin focuses on the past two hundred years, to show how it has shaped the Dene culture. Some are lucky enough to be born with, and the medicine power that some receive after birth or are taught by other medicine power people. This collection o...

This story of family and identity migration and integration culture and self discovery is told through family history memory and the occasional recipe Diamond Grill is a rich banquet where Salisbury Steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice bird s nest soup sets the stage for Christmas plum pudding where racism simmers behind the shiny clean surface of the action in the cafe An exciting new edition of Fred Wah s best selling bio fiction on t...

Colin thinks about his dead grandfather and the demise of his marriage while he undergoes surgery Moni tries to have a bath while angels laugh at her Justin nervously serves drinks to a non member at a Private Businessmen s Club Liz has a neighbour who can tell people s fortunes by looking at the indents in their beds Marci and Ian battle cockroaches while entertaining in their student apartment and Anika receives bizarre photographs from an a...

A deadly scandal surrounding a controversial land development casts a shadow over the annual Salt Spring Island theatre festival. While Constable Danutia Dranchuk searches desperately for clues surrounding an alleged suicide, nosy journalist Arthur Fairweather comes face-to-face with another mysterious death. Can they get to the bottom of all this madness before a third body is added to the list?

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 Calgary looking for answers

Earth Alive" is a collection of thought provoking essays short pieces and reviews that explore and uncover the intimate connections between humans and the Earth Stan Rowe prompts us to think in revolutionary terms about developing a new world view Edited and with a preface by Don Kerr and an afterword by Ted Mosquin

NextFest Anthology II - Plays from the Syncrude Next Generation Arts Festival

Have you ever walked into your living room to find an elk contentedly watching television Meet Butter human companion and elk extraordinaire at the Seventh Avenue Elk Ranch in Manning Alberta When ranchers Beverly and Carson Lein chose the unique occupation of farming elk they didn t count on adopting and inevitably falling in love with one From perilous elk births to charging bulls life is never dull at the Lein s ranch Experience life on an ...