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Are You Kidding Me?!

For the first time, bestselling novelist, columnist, and humorist Lesley Crewe’s finest columns are collected. Not merely razor sharp, Crewe’s wit is also ocean wide, taking in everything from the ...

Picking Up the Pieces

By (author) Carey Newman & Kirstie Hudson
Categories: Biography: general

Picking Up the Pieces tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket, a living work of art conceived and created by Indigenous artist Carey Newman. It includes hundreds of items collected from residential ...

Taaqtumi

Taaqtumi is an Inuktitut word that means “in the dark”—and these spine-tingling horror stories by Northern writers show just how dangerous darkness can be.

Unholy

By (author) Diane Flacks
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Should women abandon religion? Four female panellists face off in a wild, whip-smart televised debate about the intersection of religion and misogyny. The debaters wrestle with themselves and with each ...

Imagining Anne

The beautiful, personal, original scrapbooks from Anne of Green Gables author L. M. Montgomery are finally available. Reflecting Montgomery’s youth and optimism, these full-colour pages cover the period ...

Scripting (Im)migration

Edited by Yana Meerzon
Categories: Plays, playscripts

In this companion anthology to Theatre and (Im)migration, plays by immigrant artists take a look at communication, historic moments, the immigrant and refugee experiences in Canada, accents, and more. ...

Theatre and (Im)migration

Theatre and (Im)migration shines a light on the impact immigrant artists have made and continue to make on the development of Canadian theatre, from themes, characters, and world issues to financial structures ...

Free to a Good Home

By (author) Jules Torti
Categories: Biography: general

Free to a Good Home is evidence of Torti’s life-long commitment to feeling at home where it mattered most: within herself. At eighteen, with one thousand dollars in her bank account, she moved to the ...

Love of the Salish Sea Islands

Edited by Mona Fertig
Introduction by Gail Sjuberg
Categories: Poetry

This important anthology of previously unpublished memoirs, essays, and poems gathers together forty skilled and award-winning writers from 26 islands for the first time. A kaleidoscope of short, brilliant ...

Four Days in Hitler's Germany

By (author) Robert Teigrob
Categories: Biography: general

Four Days in Hitler’s Germany is a clearly written and engaging story that addresses how King truly believed that any threat to peace would come only from those individuals who intended to thwart the ...