From a 2-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, an intense novel of loss, memory and the limitless nature of family love. Hal Wiens, a retired professor, is mourning the sudde
Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear is an epic of the Canadian West. As the buffalo-based food supply vanishes, Big Bear leads his Plains Cree nation across the prairie in search of a means of re
Rudy Wiebe’s latest novel is at once an enthralling saga of the Mennonite people and one man’s emotional voyage into his heritage and his own self-discovery. Ambitious in its historical sweep, tender
The author describes growing up in the mid-1930s to late 1940s in Speedwell, Saskatchewan, and a pioneer community of about two hundred Mennonite homesteaders who came to Canada as refugees from the f
"Sixteen years later Louis Riel would be dressing himself again ... to be hanged by his neck until he is at last, perfectly, dead. 0 my God have mercy."So begins Rudy Wiebe's powerful portrayal of Lou
Infused with the same storytelling style and energy that have made him one of Canada’s most widely read and respected novelists, Rudy Wiebe’s First and Vital Candle is the powerful story of one man’s
"The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully."Where The Truth Lies collects forty years of essays and speeches that Rudy Wiebe crafted over his many y
When it began, he was just another stranger without a name. When it ended, he was the most notorious criminal in North America, the object of the largest manhunt in RCMP history.This is the story of A
For More than Fifty Years. Canadian literary legend Rudy Wiebe has been defining and refining prairie literature through his oeuvre of world-renowned novels, histories, essays, and short stories. He h
From a 2-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, an intense novel of loss, memory and the limitless nature of family love.Hal Wiens, a retired professor, is mourning the sudden death of
Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to des
When an unexpected chinook wind warms up a small town in Alberta at Christmas, a nine-year-old boy discovers that even adults in their Mennonite community act differently
In a retelling of a tribal legend, the buffalo are gone, and the Cree people must chose whether or not to follow the vision of young Sky Running. Reprint.
