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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Author:Hill, GeraldSummary: - Author:Gault, ConnieSummary:
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...
- Author:Carpenter, DavidSummary:
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...
- Author:Hillis, RickSummary:
Six Days. Five Inmates. One Guard.
Traversing the vast, serene wilderness in Northern Saskatchewan, a group of prisoners sets out on a six day canoe trip. Quinn, an inmate trustee, has been recruited for the pilot project meant...
- Author:Waiser, BillSummary:
Sometime during the summer of 1690, in east-central Saskatchewan, Englishmen Henry Kelsey and his Indian escorts walked out of the boreal forest and into a new world -- the northern great plains of western Canada. It was a landscape...
- Author:Mitchell, W. O.Summary:
Set in the forties and fifties, these stories take us back to a simpler, gentler world, the one we all like to think we grew up in. The Kid at the centre of the stories is a boy on a Saskatchewan farm down Government Road from Crocus,...
- Author:Mehlmann, GloriaSummary:
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...
- Author:Kuchinka, JenniferSummary:
Jennifer Kuchinka was a new mother in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, struggling with postpartum depression when she ran out of the hospital, onto the highway, and was hit by a tractor-trailer truck. Jennifer survived that harrowing...
- Author:Vanderhaeghe, GuySummary:
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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,...
- Author:Coutts, RobertSummary:
Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research in Parks Canada records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national and conventional...
- Author:Kerr, DonSummary:
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...
- Author:McGrane, DavidSummary:
Allan Blakeney believed in government as a force for good. As premier of Saskatchewan, he promoted social justice through government intervention in the economy and the welfare state. He created legal and constitutional structures that...
- Author:Dalgarno, KenSummary:
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...
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For over 100 years, the Regina Public Library has served its community with innovative programming, but the full story of this venerable institution has never been told-until now. From the efforts of its first librarian who ensured...
- Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:
For over 200 years, Pelican Narrows Indian Reserve in northern Saskatchewan has endured a torturous relationship with the encroaching European culture, from the Hudson{u2019}s Bay Company factors and Oblate missionaries of earlier times...
- Author:GoldenEagle, Carol RoseSummary:
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...
- Author:Warwaruk, LarrySummary:
Bone Coulee: In old age, Mac Chorniak is burdened by the memory of a racist crime in his past. Through acts of penance both official and personal, Mac struggles to find redemption.
As teenagers, in a drunken incident Mac Chorniak...
- Author:Vitaris, MarkSummary:
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...
- Author:Roach, Kent, Borrows, JohnSummary:
In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley. In a trial that bitterly divided Canadians, Stanley was acquitted of...
- Author:Wheeler, Jordan, Jackson, DennisSummary:
Three city kids increase their survival skills and their understanding of the North when they go to their Mushum's cabin for Christmas
At Christmas time in Northern Saskatchewan, three Cree kids - Talon, Raven and T-Bear - visit...
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