An action-packed drama with heart, dark humour, and song, Playing with the Boys is inspired by Canadas first women police officers, Constables Minnie Miller and Lurancy Harris, and a remarkable story
The central metaphor of the collection The Octopus and Other Poems is the search for new life in the universe -- to find something beyond ourselves, and simultaneously to be "found."
Claude Tremblay works as a political analyst at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. But when the Congolese warlord Kabanga, accused of crimes against humanity, is released from trial due to
The Little Washer of Sorrows is a collection of short stories that explores what happens when the expected and usual are replaced with elements of the rare and strange. The book's emotional impact is
The poetry and prose of Rienzi Crusz are about many things - exile, identity, family, religion, politics and racism - and this work is an attempt to demonstrate that the various facets are a result of
Over three short years, Michael Pond's alcoholism cost him everything: his job as an addictions therapist, his a million-dollar home, and his family, leaving him homeless and penniless. In The Couch o
Between 1885 and 1925 the Presbyterian Church in Canada grew to become the largest church on the Prairies.Western Challenge documents that rise. Exploring the church's mission to the British settlers
A collection of ten Renaissance Italian poems, complemented by contemporary English versions and photographs. This volume provides a unique visual and literary context for Italian poet Vittoria Colon
For 100 years, Wood’s Homes has offered a lifeline to children and their families who have nowhere else to turn. A multiservice, non-profit children’s mental health organization based in Calgary, Wood
Two families, four languages, one house.Home puts its characters into a unique and challenging conflict across language and history and asks difficult questions about the illusion of ownership and the
In his startling debut collection, Darrell Epp brings us a city haunted by monsters and movie stars, where hope and rage, sacred and carnal, mundane and surreal are uneasy neighbours. A city whose dow
Bronia Rohatiner and Josio Beker grow up in the same traditional and comforting shtetl in eastern Poland, a small town filled with eccentric characters and extended family. In 1939, that world explode
In the wake of her mother's death, Lyssa Thomson flees her oppressive stepfather and heads for Halifax intent on attending university and leaving her past behind. But things don't go as planned and wi
In this collection of poetry and collage, Stan Rogal tackles all of our myths and monsters. With sly allusions, sharp humour and his trademark word play, Rogal reclaims the freaks of the world ?from w
Over the past four decades, Canadian artist Tony Calzetta has developed a bold style and a unique visual lexicon. In Fabulous Peculiarities, veteran author, art gallery director, curator and columnist
A novel first published in French in 1982, Picture Theory demonstrates Nicole Brossard's fiction theorique and her preoccupation with the difficulty of writing and reading woman. The title (taken from
Shunned as an outsider and mistreated due to an undiagnosed learning disability, the young and imaginative Mari-Jen Delene retreats into silence. Around her, the fictional community of Ste. Noire, Cap
Beautifully written memoir juxtaposes Rotchild's past and present to chronicle his survival in Vilna, Lithuania during World War II. The games that he and his little playmates played "were games of su
It's the 1830s.Two travelling minstrels are passing North from London, Ontario, with their song and dance show on the local circuit. Having fallen afoul of the law and desperate for a night's lodging,
In a series of reflections focussed on his uneducated yet hard-working Mennonite family and touching on childhood exploits from shoplifting and go-kart racing to the juvenile fear of dying (which spon
A package of letters, drawings and photographs that young "Clary" and her little sister, Ollie, sent to their parents during World War II triggers a flood of repressed memories: from April 1943 to May
Ayinom, a former soldier from Eritrea, has arrived in Canada without papers, and seeks refugee status. Seen through the eyes of the couple that take him in and the lawyer who represents him, the play
LIla is dead. And the likely suspects are all men: her flash-in-the-pan literary husband,a washed up golf pro turned criminal with a cocaine habit, and two small-time thugslooking for the perfect scor
Big dreams, risk takers, a sexy sports car: what more could you want in a musical? With catchy 1970's pop and funk inspired tunes, The Bricklin takes audiences on a fantastical and wild ride through p
The Globe and Mail Top 100 Quill & Quire Book of the Year Amazon.ca Editors' Pick, Top 100 Now magazine, Top 10 Books Chatelaine, Favourite Books of 2013 Hailed over and over as the best book of 2
Ledger of the Open Hand looks at the intimate power of money and emotional debt through the eyes of a woman trying to grab hold of her own life. Beholden to a shrewd friend and burdened by family obli
Discusses the problems that must be resolved if the peoples of the Arctic countries are to develop their region away from militarism and towards civility.
When it Rains is the story of four people, two marriages, and one increasingly improbable series of events.As misfortune mounts, communicationfractures, relationships crumble, behaviour becomes absurd
During ten years of political imprisonment under Mussolini's Fascist government, Antonio Gramsci produced The Prison Notebook, a continued meditation on subjects and relationships first proposed withi
Brent MacLaine's elegant, capacious, and finely crafted fourth collection, Athena Becomes a Swallow, contains twenty-seven monologues spoken by characters that appear in Homer's The Odyssey. These are
After being teased by her classmates for not having blond hair and blue eyes, Celina, a young Mohawk girl, decides not to participate in the upcoming Pow Wow.
Understanding rights and obligations is fundamental in today?s music industry.Music Law Handbook for Canada: Volume Two covers numerous legal aspects including: key agreements in the music business, a
Stephen Rowe’s geo‧logics—his highly anticipated follow-up to Never More There—binds the impermanent to the permanent. With sustained inquiries into loss and reason, Rowe seeks a motivation capable of
In Racket, editor and acclaimed fiction writer Lisa Moore introduces us to ten of the most exciting new writers currently at work in Newfoundland. Featuring a diverse range of previously unpublished s
Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. BODYMAP continues Leah's meditation on survival and what it means to be a queer woman of colour in North America, while also striving to
A clairvoyant teen orphan is relocated to India where kidnappings, enemy spies, and terrorist plots of a world at war all challenge her extraordinary powers.It?s 1914. Sixteen year old Sophie Pritchar
Beth and her husband Jake are expecting a baby. While Beth is having an ultrasound, her very expensive handsewn Italian-made coat disappears from the hospital waiting room. Beth is furious - the coat
