Acclaimed novelist and literary nonfiction writer Sharon Butala's new novel is vividly filled with sodbusters and cowboys, fallen women and proper ladies, settlers and Indians. By the end of the first chapter, Sophie Hippolyte's husband...
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Author:Butala, SharonSummary: - Author:Mitchell, W. O.Summary:
Available for the first time as an ebook, this illustrated edition of W.O. Mitchell's prairie classic Who Has Seen the Wind is a delight to discover again -- or for the first time.Since its publication in 1947, Who Has Seen the Wind --...
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Author:Lapointe, AnnetteSummary:Finalist, ReLit Award. Finalist, McNally Robinson Book of the Year (Manitoba Book Awards). Finalist, Bisexual Book Award (USA).
Whitetail Shooting Gallery, a new novel from award-winning author and Giller Prize nominee, Annette...
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Author:Butala, SharonSummary:An intimate and uplifting book about finding renewal and hope through grief and loss. "It was a terrible life; it was an enchanted life; it was a blessed life. And, of course, one day it ended." -Sharon Butala In the tradition of Joan...
- Author:Tremblay, IdaSummary:
This story takes readers on a journey into the past when dog teams were part of the traditional way of life in Northern Saskatchewan. It follows the seasonal cycle of trapline life.
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Author:Bowen, GailSummary:When a judge's body is found in Wascana Park, Joanne and friend Hilda Mc Court must determine if the judge had come to regret the harsh sentences she had handed down, or was she getting senile? She had left two wills and the murder...
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Author:Harelkin Bishop, MarySummary:Andrea Talbot and her brother Tony take one more trip through time - to find their grandfather's long-lost notebook and to help keep the Ku Klux Klan from taking root in Moose Jaw.
Andrea and Tony have no plans for another trip...
- Author:Hildebrandt, Walter, Cardinal, HaroldSummary:
"It is my hope, and the hope of the Office of the Treaty Commissioner, that this publication can help provide the historical context needed to intelligently and respectfully forge new relations between First Nations people and non-...
- Author:Jarvis, Muriel, Vandergoot, Mary EllenSummary:
Health care has changed a great deal since Muriel Jarvis was a young nurse in Saskatoon in the 1940s; nursing has been transformed, and the status of women revolutionized. The inspiring story of a girl from Kenaston, Saskatchewan, who...
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Author:Scott, PaddySummary:Kaspar Pine begins his day with a simple task: replace a pet canary. By day's end, as Kaspar is being loaded into an ambulance, he delivers one hell of a "theme essay," covering such subjects as his ability to source and catalogue the...
- Author:Rice, BruceSummary:
Bruce Rice was moved to words by the natural beauty he saw during repeated travels along Seven Bridges Road just west of Regina and in the landscape around Eastend and the Cypress Hills in southwestern Saskatchewan. As he sought to...
- Author:Scott, BarbaraSummary:
A family saga about Ukrainian immigrants in the early 20th century, the power of desire, Baba Yaga fairytales, and a moment that changes everything. In Saskatchewan in the late 1920s, a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant named Olena...
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Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary:12-year-old Emily travels back in time again in this sequel, to discover a secret locked in her grandmother's soon-to-be-sold stone house.
Twelve-year-old Emily Bradford travels back in time to discover a secret about her...
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Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary:Visiting her grandmother's farm, Emily encounters a strangely-dressed girl her age, and discovers that she's a relative -- from another time!
Who is this oddly dressed girl? Where did she come from? What is she doing on the rock...
- Author:Simmie, LoisSummary:
This story has everything: a love triangle, a handsome rogue, a major crime and a piece of genuine RCMP history, all played out against a backdrop of a world war, an apocalyptic flu epidemic, the settling of the west and a wave of...
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Author:Fisher, ChrisSummary:A powerful and touching family sports story, as Les Carson, a young man who grew up in southern Saskatchewan and works in Regina, takes a road trip to Toronto to see the Hockey Hall of Fame with two hockey-mad old-timers, his dying...
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Author:Bird-Wilson, LisaSummary:This debut poetry collection from Lisa Bird-Wilson reflects on the legacy of the residential school system: the fragmentation of families and histories, with blows that resonate through the generations. Inspired by family and archival...
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Author:Butala, SharonSummary: - Author:Stobie, Margaret R.Summary:
Stobie has woven a gripping history centred around the rebellion of 1885, together with the stories of Bremner, a farmer and fur trader, Poundmaker, Louis Riel, and General Middleton.
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Author:Carpenter, DavidSummary:Saskatchewan's literary history is both colourful and complex. It is also mature enough to deserve a critical investigation of its roots and origins, its salient features and its prominent players. This collection of scholarly essays,...
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