Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Northern Wildflower
This is the story of how a young northern girl picked herself up out of the rough and polished herself off like the diamond that she is in the land of the midnight sun.
Northern Wildflower is the beautifully ...
Shades Within Us
Journey with 21 speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine assumptions and catch a glimpse of the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose—or ...
Paradise Lost
Erin Shields turns heaven and hell upside down in this witty, modern-feminist retelling of John Milton’s epic poem about the first battle between good and evil. In Shields’s Paradise Lost, the 17th ...
Waiting
Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption. This collection of 32 personal ...
Magnetic North
From the endangered Canadian boreal forest to the environmentally threatened Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway, Butler takes us on a sea voyage that connects continents and traces the impacts ...
Activating the Heart
Activating the Heart explores how storytelling engages and builds new interconnections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. It focuses on the significance of storytelling ...
Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised somewhere else)
During the Sixties Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands, and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders, and overseas to be raised ...
Unchained Man
In 1914, Captain Robert Bartlett made a perilous trek of 700 miles across the frozen Arctic Ocean to save survivors of the sunken vessel Karluk. This episode was one of many that contributed to the Bartlett ...
Working for the Man, Playing in the Band
In a memoir certain to fascinate Mr. Dynamite’s millions of fans, as well as musicians and industry insiders, Wood recalls how a chance encounter with James Brown led him to embrace soul and funk music ...
Luminous Ink
Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given ...