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The Wrong World

Bertram Brooker won the country’s first Governor General’s Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the ...

Pond Memories

By (author) Lil Anderson
Categories: Memoirs

“Wildlife rehabilitators, or wildlife custodians, as we are now called in Ontario, often do not have the opportunity to monitor the lives of their wards once they have been released to the wild. Sometimes ...

Ordinary Things

By (author) Christopher Pratt
Categories: Memoirs

Insightful and thought-provoking journal entries, from the 1950s to 2007, on the creative process, art, life, and province of renowned Canadian artist Christopher Pratt. Ordinary Things is laced with ...

Living the Hockey Dream

By (author) Brian Kennedy
Categories: Biography: sport

Many of the experiences of every hockey dreamer are the same. Are those experiences any different for someone who makes it to the NHL? Living the Hockey Dream tells stories of people from around the hockey ...

Our Place in the Sun

Edited by Robert Wright & Lana Wylie
Categories: Literary essays

Penned during the transition of power from Fidel Castro to Raúl Castro, Our Place in the Sun explores the Canadian-Cuban relationship from 1959 to the present day. The essays in this volume reflect upon ...

Northrop Frye

More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work to the study ...

Pigeon

By (author) Karen Solie
Categories: Poetry

Karen Solie launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine (2001), finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and winner of many other awards and citations. She continued her upward ...

Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 2

Includes:
Path With No Moccasins; by Shirley Cheechoo
The Indian Medicine Shows; by Daniel David Moses
More Than Feathers and Beads; by Murielle Borst
Annie Maeâ??s Movement; by Yvette Nolan
Trail of ...