Fiction. VALERY THE GREAT is a crackling, electric collection of dark humor that follows the bizarre and beautiful lives of its protagonists. Sometimes sweet and gentle, sometimes sharply sarcastic, t
Fiction. HARD HED is a contemporary retelling of the Johnny Appleseed story. Hoosier Chapman, local historian and apple orchardist, has just been released from a Northwestern Ohio jail after serving t
Fiction. LGBT Studies. Rowan Friesen has made a career of drug-dealing and small-time thievery on the outer edges of Saskatoon. Shiftless and seemingly friendless, he is, at first glance, an unlikely
Poetry. Twenty-first century metalheads; twelfth century troubadours and their female counterparts, the trobairitz—what could they possibly have in common? The creation of an often misunderstood and a
Fiction. From the the author of Dead Man In the Orchestra Pit and Foozlers comes another tale of madcap human folly. Louella Debra Poule is doing an eighteen-month stint on a weapons charge at a minim
Poetry. GALAXY is about a wounded family ("Anger brimming until it overflows / into rage in the dark living room, / his undershirt soaked through / up the back to his collar"), a prairie place ("Ochre
Fiction. WHITETAIL SHOOTING GALLERY, a new novel from award-winning author and Giller Prize nominee Annette Lapointe, is set in the outer urban, often desolate, landscape of the Saskatchewan prairie.
Poetry. THE SONG COLLIDES takes the reader on a highly personal and internal metaphysical investigation into the state of the natural world—and then back via more lyrical and local enquiries that spea
Poetry. VS. is a collection of poems chronicling a foray into the world of amateur boxing by a shy, bookish woman you'd never expect could hit someone in the face. Throughout these poems the author re
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Women's Studies. Unmarried and pregnant in 1968, teenager Myrl Coulter found herself at a loss. Unable (and perhaps unwilling) to support her child, Myrl's parents forced
Fiction. Wombat is a cartoon strip from Vancouver artist Rod Filbrandt and the precursor to his longlived and much loved strip, Dry Shave. In WOMBAT: THE COLLECTED COMIC STRIP the reader witnesses the
The Mountie at Niagara Falls is a collection of brief stories from Toronto author Salvatore Difalco. Ranging in length from 50-700 words, these fictional forays transport the reader to worlds both bi
Fiction. Meet Walter Finch, an ungainly kid who survives his cloying suburban childhood to make it only as far as the local mall, where he rises through the ranks to become manager of a shoe store. Un
In these pages you will encounter gamblers and adventurers, conmen and conwomen, rodomontades and ragamuffins, outright fools and outrageous liars. Scalawags, the lot of them.But you can be an adventu
Literary Nonfiction. Canadian History. PRIVATE GRIEF, PUBLIC MOURNING is a historical investigation of mourning sites and practices within the context of the province of British Columbia. The authors
Fiction. If faced with reincarnation, would you want to come back as a dog, an eagle, a plant? Most poison ivy is reincarnated ivy. You can see the complexity of second lives, the intrepid narrator-de
Literary Nonfiction. Half-finished notes, scrawled snippets of conversation, observations made on the run, photographs of people known and unknown, scraps of paper with puzzling sketches on them, rece
Literary Nonfiction. Travel Writing. The follow-up to Eve Lazarus's successful At Home with History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver's Heritage Homes, SENSATIONAL VICTORIA gives us a glimpse i
Poetry. GLOSSOLALIA is an unflinching exploration of sisterhood, motherhood, and sexuality as told in a series of poetic monologues spoken by the thirty-four polygamous wives of Joseph Smith, founder
