In 14 Tractors, Gerald Hills latest poetry collection, tractors pull versions of story, poetic form, landscape, light, and family history into summer air, offering themselves as vehicles for looking and remembering. Accompanying Shelley...
Saskatchewan Collection
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Auteur:Hill, GeraldSommaire: - Auteur:Gault, ConnieSommaire:
In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena finds herself living alone in the small village of Trevna. Her mother has been dead for many years, and her father, burdened by the hardships of drought, has...
- Auteur:Carpenter, DavidSommaire:
A Hunter's Confession tells the story of hunting--both its history and the role it has played in David Carpenter's own life, including the reasons he once loved it and the dramatic hunting incident that made him give up hunting for good...
- Auteur:Mehlmann, GloriaSommaire:
Adam's Tree is a fictional account of life on the Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan during the 1940's and 50's. This period in history finds forces like regulatory policy, World War II, systemic racism, and the long reach of the...
- Auteur:Vanderhaeghe, GuySommaire:
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The first novel in nearly a decade from the three-time Governor General's Award‒winning author of The Last Crossing, August Into Winter is an epic story of crime and retribution, of war and its long shadow,...
- Auteur:Kerr, DonSommaire:
Shortlisted for the 1998 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry
Don Kerr's fifth poetry collection is a verbal joyride, an exuberant celebration of a book: a celebration of mountains and plains, of growing up and of being young, of...
- Auteur:Dalgarno, KenSommaire:
There can be few places in the world where the visual impact of the landscape is as hauntingly captivating as the Badlands of the Northern Great Plains. Encompassing Alberta, Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Montana, these amazing regions...
- Auteur:GoldenEagle, Carol RoseSommaire:
There are too many stories about Indigenous women who go missing or are murdered, and it doesn't seem as though official sources such as government, police or the courts respond in a way that works toward finding justice or even...
- Auteur:Vitaris, MarkSommaire:
The book is a photographic discourse on the country that straddles the forty-ninth parallel from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the grasslands of Saskatchewan and to the western Dakotas. It depicts the land metaphorically...
- Auteur:Bell, Eric, Reder, Deanna, Nest, Michael WallaceSommaire:
A small team uncovers new evidence and exposes police failure in one of the North's most enduring missing persons cases. Missing persons. Double murder? Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada...
- Auteur:Warren, DianneSommaire:
Juliet, Saskatchewan sits at the edge of the Little Snake sand hills. The heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people, and their stories bring the prairie desert and the town to vivid and enduring life....
- Auteur:Johnson, HaroldSommaire:
Eighty years have passed since flash floods, droughts, and tornadoes have ravaged the North American landscape and mass migrations to the north have led to decade-long wars. In the thriving city of La Ronge, George Taylor and Lenore...
- Auteur:Johnson, Harold R.Sommaire:
Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to be changing. In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie was killed in a...
- Auteur:Bowen, GailSommaire:
Andy Boychuk is a successful Saskatchewan politician – until one sweltering August afternoon when the party faithful gather at a picnic. All of the key people in Boychuk’s life – family, friends, enemies – are there. Boychuk steps up to...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
"Over the past decade, a climate of polarization and hyper-partisanship has swept Saskatchewan into a near-perpetual state of anger and social division. Embers of discontent have been fanned into flames by opportunistic politicians and...
- Auteur:Slade, Arthur G.Sommaire:
Robert's brother vanishes and he has to find him. This award-winning book offers a new sophistication to young adult fiction, and a terrifying take on the psychology of fear.
- Auteur:Zink, Valerie, Eaton, EmilySommaire:
Oil is not new to Saskatchewan. Many of the wells found on farmland across the province date back to the 1950s when the industry began to spread. But there is little doubt that the recent boom (2006-2014) and subsequent downturn in...
- Auteur:Massie, MerleSommaire:
Saskatchewan is the epitome of the "prairie" provinces, even though half of the province is covered by boreal forest. The Canadian penchant for dividing this vast country into easily understood "regions" has reduced the Saskatchewan...
- Auteur:Massie, MerleSommaire:
Saskatchewan is the anchor and epitome of the ‘prairie’ provinces, even though half of the province is covered by boreal forest. The Canadian penchant for dividing this vast country into easily-understood ‘regions’ has reduced the...
- Auteur:Guenther, LisaSommaire:
As a long, hot Saskatchewan summer dawns, Darby Swank's life is forever changed when she finds her beloved aunt floating dead in a lake. All at once, her blinders are lifted and she sees the country lifestyle she's always known in a...
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