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Were the Bees is an innovative collection of poetry from a fresh Canadian voice In it Andy Weaver explores the boundaries of the poetic form to create a playful yet sincere examination of that language means to us

Crafted from archives interviews memories and bankers boxes of papers sent to the author during the years before her death "Always Someone to Kill the Doves A Life of Sheila Watson" is the portrait of a woman shaped by her times by her turbulent marriage by the clarity of genius and by the moral sense of her Catholic upbringing With the gentle touch of an old friend Flahiff provides a poignant insight into the woman the westerner and the write...

Journey along Vancouver s city streets past its landmarks through the sounds and smells of Chinatown Ramble along the seawall on English Bay ride the curving streets to Kitsilano on a winter afternoon and experience the vibrant sights and sounds of the city s history as it jostles for a place in the present

Pacific Rim Letters "is a never before seen collection of letters Roy Kiyooka wrote between 1975 and 1985 It presents a fascinating and highly valuable picture of the artistic and literary communities Kiyooka was actively involved with as well as Kiyooka as a man with an extraordinary intellect and passion for life and the arts Kiyooka takes the epistolary form into new and radical directions At once tenderly estranged and confessional attenti...

Tanna Patterson-Z's meticulously researched novel, a fictionalised account of the 1998 kidnapping of mining executive Edward Leonard by Colombian renegades, guides readers deep into the physical and political terrain of a beautiful but dangerous country that remains off-limits to the casual traveller. At once a suspense thriller and an engrossing work of journalism, The Butterfly Connection is a story of a man who gets caught in the collision ...

When she makes the chance discovery of a framed sepia photograph of her grandmother and her twin sister, RCMP Constable Arabella Dryvynsydes decides to investigate how a picture taken in 1914 in the mining town of Extension, B.C. wound up at a garage sale in small-town Saskatchewan almost one hundred years later. As Arabella sifts through caches of long-forgotten letters and unearths long-buried memories, she pieces together the heartbreaking ...

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This collection chronicles Phyllis Webb s struggle with the creative process and her intense need to probe beneath the surface of things

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Wonderfull" tells the story of the sleepy East Coast town of Garfax -- which has become the stuff of legends to outsiders -- and reveals how this village's unlikely past catches up to its inevitable future.

The Man Who Beat the Man" is a diverse and optimistic collection of short stories Many stories deal with displacement from one culture to another while others look back at an isolated moment or event that somehow affects and alters the lives of the characters

In 1993 Mary Kiyooka sat with her son Roy Kiyooka one of Canada s most important avant garde painters and a tape recorder and in her native Japanese shared her memories with him her childhood in Japan her arrival as a married woman in Canada and her family s experience in Alberta during the Japanese internment period

So This Is The World & Here I Am In It " is a stunning collection of creative essays by poet and critic Di Brandt Written over a period of ten years these essays circle around questions of exile and violence eros and wildness land and mentoring home and language They are experimental engagements with a lively array of personal and cultural memories of places ranging from Winnipeg and Windsor to Berlin Germany of joyfully unruly characters in C...

Holding Mosquette Academy s twenty year reunion at the world s largest mall seems like a terrific idea to Beth McKinney until her ex boyfriend turns up dead in her hotel room As the evidence against her mounts Beth begins a desperate search for the killer While Beth unravels the truth the past explodes dangerously into the present What she discovers is a twenty year history of dirty secrets ensnaring several of her close friends and former cla...

RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore is jolted from his mundane policing duties in the small Monashee Mountain village of Bear Creek by the discovery of a frozen corpse on a snowy slope just outside of town There are no signs indicating how the body got there no footprints or drag marks nothing It s as if the victim has fallen from the sky

Taking its inspiration from director Werner Herzog's concept of "ecstatic truth" and recalling D W Griffith's silent film classic Intolerance, poet / historian Walter Hildebrandt's ambitious book of poems is a searing denunciation of the exploitation of the poor and powerless at the hands of the wealthy. In forceful, unadorned language, Hildebrandt draws a clear line from historical outrages such as the Dakota Wars of the 19th century and the ...

Pouring all your savings into opening the first internet caf in Grande Prairie may seem like a risky venture, but to Emily Reeves it is the perfect way to start anew. Emily’s life is in turmoil. Devastated by a miscarriage and the failure of her marriage, she follows her dream of opening the hip coffee shop Bean There, a place where "transplants" like her, living in the oil-rig town, can find community.

What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories? The young narrator of Santa Rosa seeks the answers to these questions as she tries to make sense of the disintegration of her parents' marriage -- a process echoed by the slow disintegration of their neighbourhood. In subtle poetic prose, Wendy McGrath evokes afternoons at the fair captured in overexposed photographs, and a family...

Denesiuk s dark and beautiful characters find themselves in astonishing places united by their simple and desperate quest the quest for home