When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house she calls the police to...
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Author: Vermette, KatherenaSummary:Genre: Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials
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Author: Lange, KarenSummary:
Nevermore brings one of America's most enigmatic writers to the attention of a new generation of children. This intriguing photobiography examines the life and times of the author and poet who...
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Author: Nicholson, CecilySummary:
Wayside Sang concerns entwined migrations of Black-other diaspora coming to terms with fossil-fuel psyches in times of trauma and movement. This is a poetic account of economy travel on North...
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Author: Javid, Ali, Javeed, TabassumSummary:
Hundreds of India's stunning temples are catalogued and copiously illustrated in this two-volume work loaded with color photographs. A brief introduction to the principal religious groups who have...
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Author: Sarti, Doug, McLeod, DanSummary:
This highly illustrated and beautifully produced coffee-table book brings together over 100 of the Georgia Straight's iconic covers, along with short essays, insider details and contributor...
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Author: Pearce, SheldonSummary:
A New Yorker writer's intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur's life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. In the summer of 2020...
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Author: Graves, AshnaSummary:
While recovering from breast cancer, journalist Jeneva Leopold seeks solitude and healing at her uncle’s idle gold mine in the sagebrush desert of Eastern Oregon. Hiking the rocky ridges, swimming...
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Author: Frye, NorthropSummary:
"Any publication by Northrop Frye is an important literary event; this one is of the highest importance to Canadian literature." - Globe and Mail Originally published by Anansi in 1971, The Bush...
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Author: Osler, SanfordSummary:
Often called one of the Seven Wonders of Canada, the canoe has played a particularly important role in British Columbia. This seemingly simple watercraft allowed coastal First Nations to hunt on...
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Author: Lester, TobySummary:
Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various...
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Author: Wong, May Q.Summary:
A timely, intriguing collection of the overlooked stories of Victoria's pioneers, trailblazers, and community builders who were also diverse people of colour. Often described as "more...
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Author: Lynch, DavidSummary:
An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family ' adapted by...
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Author: Anglin, Emily, Code, Devon, Henderson, Lee, Ah-Sen, Jean MarcSummary:
Four writers, four different perspectives on the problematic notion of purity."All purity is created by resemblance and disavowal." With this sentence as a starting point, four authors...
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Author: Schein, MaggieSummary:
An enticing collection of tales told in the fabulist and metafiction traditions, Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves embraces a cyclical movement of renewal, like the ancient ouroboros motif itself...
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Author: Lent, JohnSummary:
The Path to Ardroe is an exploration of friendship and its limits, life changes, and the challenges and aspirations of writers. Peter Chisholm wrestles with his craft just as his writer friend...