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Having escaped the place in her youth, retired professor Sidonie von Täler returns to her ancestral Okanagan valley orchards still very much in the shadow of her deceased older sister Alice. As she sifts through the detritus of her family history, Sidonie is haunted by memories of trauma and triumph in equal measure, and must reconcile past and present while reconnecting with the people she left behind. Karen Hofmann's debut novel blends a poe...

Psychic Anna Gareau and public relations expert Collie Kostyna keep things quiet for local magicians and for their biggest client, an underground supernatural society known as the Embassy. In Grayling Cross, an investigator arrives in town on the trail of a missing teenage psychic, and hires Anna and Collie to be his liaisons to the local magic community. Troublingly, though, he turns out to have a knack for suppressing magic, leaving magician...

Despite changes in population and the loss of such essential services as schools, post offices, and grain elevators, many of Canada's oldest prairie communities -- communities like Craik and Meacham in Saskatchewan, and Vulcan in Alberta -- have defied the odds, facing death only to rise again. In this book Elizabeth McLachlan investigates how these communities have capitalised on green initiatives, the growing influence of local artists, and ...

Absurdity reigns in multiple award-winning author and playwright Clem Martini's newest collection of work, Martini with a Twist -- five plays spanning two decades of Martini's career, from 1989 to 2009. A lonely elephant handler befriends the half-blind woman who drove through his yard, a severed head in a suitcase life support system is given a second chance at life, a quiet shut-in wrestles with the jealous ghost of his wife, a young woman w...

It is said that one's first love sets the template for all loves to follow. '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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Alberta icon Grant MacEwan draws from his broad knowledge as an agriculturalist and his vast life experience to tell us "what every Canadian should know about water " These reflections are his love letters to water

On 26 May 1991, Barbara Langhorst's father shot and killed her mother, then turned the gun on himself. This book asks: how do you rebuild a life? In this unsentimental collection of poems, Barbara Langhorst revisits personal horrors few of us can imagine, with startling imagery that rends even as it heals.

The 1920s were one of the wildest decades in Canada's history, a time of frivolous fads, shocking crimes, and political and social changes that definitively yanked the country out of the 19th century and into the modern age. In Strange Days, Ted Ferguson revisits dozens of stories that could only have happened in the '20s -- tales of serial killers, athletes, con men, crackpots, prime ministers, bathing beauties, and more -- all of them nearly...

This book is about aesthetics and culture, both personal and impersonal. It's about language and politics, and the politics of language. The book is also about violence. Violence shapes societies and places. Violence writes histories, defines movements, and constructs meanings. In the series of poems at the heart of this collection, Were the Bees author Andy Weaver examines how aggression and manipulation are as equally responsible as politics...

Toronto's David Sanders and Claire Dumont are the Nick and Nora Charles of academia: two amateur detectives pulled into a web of deceit and violence involving murder, the illegal cross-border dumping of toxic waste, organized crime, dubious, self-serving politicians, and a mysterious, ambitious businessman whose loyalties are unknown. Michael Boughn weaves together multiple plots, deals within deals, and double crosses galore as David and Clai...

Robert Pepper-Smith's graceful follow-up to "The Wheel Keeper" follows the friendship between teenagers Rose and Lacey and their search for self-confidence, acceptance, and love in a small village in south-eastern British Columbia. When Rose becomes pregnant, the childless Giacomo family, whose wealth is well-known in the community, offers to adopt the child. As Rose wrestles with the decision to give up her baby, Lacey recounts her efforts to...

Robert Pepper Smith's trilogy of novels chronicling the lives of those with deep roots in the orchard lands of British Columbia comes full circle with this volume, collecting newly revised editions of The Wheel Keeper and House of Spells with Sanctuary. The Wheel Keeper introduced readers to Michael Guzzo, raised in one of the many immigrant families who flocked to the vineyards and orchards of the Kootenays. When the government plans to flood...

Part family memoir, part poetry, part love letter to Newfoundland and its people this is a lyrical exploration of how we are fortified by the places of our foremothers and forefathers and by how they endured. Like 'ballycater', the ice that gathers in harbours along the coast, Jennifer Bowering Delisle gathers fragments of history, family lore, and poetry -- both her own and that of her great-grandparents -- to tell stories of shipwrecks, war,...

This is a highly-charged collection of personal essays, haunted by loss, evoking turbulent physical and emotional Canadian landscapes. Sarah de Leeuw's creative non-fiction captures strange inconsistencies and aberrations of human behaviour, urging us to be observant and aware. The essays are wide in scope and exposing what -- and who -- goes missing. With staggering insight, Sarah de Leeuw reflects on missing geographies and people, including...

Traces the lives and passions of the women of the Wong family through four generations. Moving back and forth between past and present, between Canada and China, Sky Lee weaves fiction and historical fact into a memorable and moving picture of a people's struggle for identity.

In 59 Glass Bridges, an unnamed narrator travels through a maze that is at once mutable and immutable: walls fall to vine-filled forests, hallways to rivers, bridges to lamp-lit boats. What remains is the desire to escape. He is led along his harrowing path by Willow, a mysterious figure who cajoles him and responds to questions in a winking sphinx-like manner, with answers that are often more baffling than clear. Interspersed are the memories...

The politics of difference, mired in the violence of colonial history, are a dominant force in the socio-economic development of contemporary society as it strikes a balance between the acceptance of new cultures, and the absorption and gentrification of them. In this collection of essays edited by the University of Guelph's Smaro Kambourelli, Roy Miki -- poet, scholar, and member of the Order of Canada - investigates the shifting currents of ...

Emma Phillips is 35 years old, divorced, depressed... adrift. But when extraordinary circumstances force her to take care of three traumatised, newly orphaned children, this lifelong free spirit finds motherhood may in fact be her true calling. Part adventure, part kitchen-sink drama, Drift Child is firmly rooted in Vancouver Island geography and culture.