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By Danielle LaFrance
Incendiary new poems working through the politics and theory of sexuality and desire by the author of JUST LIKE I LIKE IT.
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9781772014389
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October 21 2022
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Non-Fiction / SOC065000
- POETRY / Women Authors
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / LGBTQ+
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality
By Drew Hayden Taylor
400 Kilometres is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor’s hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, a thirty-something urban professional, having discovered her roots as the Ojibway orphan Grace Wabung in Someday, and having visited her birth family on the Otter Lake Reserve in Only Drunks and Children Tell…
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9781772015294
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September 15 2005
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
By Morris Panych
Winner 1998 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play, The Sydney Risk Award
In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man contemplating suicide on a seventh-storey building ledge confronts the stories of the people who live inside the building. These “seven stories” lead to a charming and surprising ending.Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
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9780889227668
Pub. Date:
January 1 1990
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Non-Fiction / PSY037000
- DRAMA / Canadian
- FICTION / Humorous / General
- PSYCHOLOGY / Suicide
By Martine Desjardins
Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel
Since the death of her parents in 1791, Lily McEvoy has lived as a recluse in her isolated Armagh County manor with her two maidservants and Titus, the farmhand who has become her whipping boy. But tonight, the heiress is expecting company. Her guest is Master Anselm, the legendary stone…
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9780889227729
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September 1 2008
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Fiction / FIC019000
- FICTION / Literary
By Samantha Nock
Short-listed for Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2024In this debut poetry collection, Samantha Nock redefines where and what “home” is. A Family of Dreamers delves into the complexities of growing up in rural northeast British Columbia and the love and grief that blooms there. In this debut collection, Samantha Nock weaves…
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9781772015485
Pub. Date:
September 26 2023
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Poetry / POE023050
- POETRY / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
- POETRY / Women Authors
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family
By Razielle Aigen
The constraint-based poems in this debut collection are written in the future-perfect tense, used as a way of bending time and playing with non-linearity. They challenge the “self” imagined as a unified monolith by pulling language apart, dissecting idioms and speech, then reassembling it in new and unconventional ways, using…
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9781772014693
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August 11 2021
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Poetry / POE024000
- POETRY / Canadian
- PHILOSOPHY / Language
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Survive! Survive! transports readers to September 1935, to glorious, tragic times in the company of Ti-Lou and “la Duchesse” Édouard, whose sparkling exchanges hide indissoluble pain; to sombre, twilight times with Victoire and Télesphore and between Josaphat and his ill-fated daughter. “How to survive?” they all ask, inextricably caught in…
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9781772015072
Pub. Date:
July 11 2025
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Fiction / FIC008000
- FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay
- FICTION / World Literature / Canada / 20th Century
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- FICTION / Sagas
By Stephen Collis
A History of the Theories of Rain explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, approaching the unfolding climate catastrophe through its dissolution of the categories of “man-made” and “natural.” How do we go on with our daily lives while a disastrous…
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9781772014594
Pub. Date:
February 8 2021
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Poetry / POE011000
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature
- NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
- POETRY / Canadian
By R. Kolewe
A kaleidoscopic net woven of words A Net of Momentary Sapphire offers three closely related poetic sequences, random rearrangements of a poignant but obsessively recurrent source text – streams of consciousness in which no stable self can be elucidated. A broken long poem, this singular net is an interrogation of…
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9781772015195
Pub. Date:
May 17 2023
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Poetry / POE023000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / General
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General
By Roy Miki
Canada’s first poet laureate George Bowering is one of the best known writers and literary personalities in the nation. Poet, novelist, essayist, historian, critic and teacher, he is a prolific, irrepressible writer whose works have been published and produced in an extraordinary variety of forms. A Record of Writing traces…
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9781772015300
Pub. Date:
January 1 1990
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Non-Fiction / BIO007000
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
By Larry Tremblay
Translated by Chantal Bilodeau
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Inside that theatre today, Ranger Powell of the U.S. Parks Service takes crowds of tourists, the curious and the ghoulish through a step-by-step description of the assassination. Underneath the box where Lincoln was shot, he describes the plot…
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9780889228153
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August 15 2010
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Drama / DRA001000
- DRAMA / American / General
By Marcus Youssef & Guillermo Verdecchia & Camyar Chai
In this elaborate agitprop theatrical collaboration, the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the “war on terror” are exposed as the propaganda vehicles for the neo-colonialism of the West that they are. “Ali Hakim” and “Ali Ababwa,” refugees from the imaginary country “Agraba,” attempt to seduce their audience into providing…
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9781772015324
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March 15 2005
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
By Junie Désil
allostatic load navigates the racialized interplay of chronic wear and tear during tumultuous years marked by global racial tensions, the commodification of care, and the burden of systemic injustice. Moving between diaristic intimacy and the remove of news reportage, Junie Désil’s second poetry collection invites readers to hold the vulnerability…
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9781772016079
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April 15 2025
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Poetry / POE024000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Drew Hayden Taylor
A very liberal contemporary couple—Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer, and Colleen, a “non-practising” Jewish intellectual who teaches Native literature—hosts a dinner party. The guests at this little “sitcom” soirée are couples that represent what by now have become the clichéd extremes of both societies: Angel’s former radical Native…
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9781772015331
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September 15 2000
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
By George F. Walker
Newly unemployed baby boomers Gwen and Ned appear to be completely different people: Gwen, a practical, down-to-earth Latin teacher; Ned, an impractical investment advisor constantly dreaming up new ventures for making money. But appearances can be deceiving, as their son Alex, who left home years ago, and their daughter Karen,…
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9781772015355
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January 1 2011
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Carmen Aguirre
Anywhere but Here is an external representation of the inner turmoil of exile. Using magic realism tropes, it follows a family on a journey back toward Chile from Canada. They drive in a convertible along the desert border between the U.S. and Mexico, each with different emotions about the North…
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9781772014617
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May 4 2021
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Non-Fiction / SOC007000
- DRAMA / Women Authors
- DRAMA / Canadian
- DRAMA / Caribbean & Latin American
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
By Sophie Bienvenu
Translated by Rhonda Mullins
Heartily sincere, human, and compassionate, Around Her is a multifaceted novel that explores, through the words and reflections of a large community of characters, the bonds that unite us, and love in all of its manifestations – the love that one finds, that one loses, destroys, desires, or recovers.In the…
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9781772013214
Pub. Date:
September 6 2018
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Fiction / FIC044000
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / Women
By Ellie Moon
Two plays from rising Canadian theatre star Ellie Moon. Asking For It looks at gender roles and sexual consent in the wake of the Ghomeshi scandal, and considers the various ways in which sexual consent is understood personally, culturally, and legally. In this documentary play, Moon speaks with people of…
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9781772014228
Pub. Date:
December 17 2020
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Non-Fiction / SOC060000
- DRAMA / Canadian
- DRAMA / Women Authors
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment
By Morris Panych
Fastidious and fussy shoe salesman by day and secretive aspiring film screenwriter by night, Oswald Eichersen’s dreams of success are as grandly inflated as his self-esteem is hopelessly deficient. Just outside Eichersen’s place of work, street person Terence Lomy has sat encamped for two years—an indelible fixture on the sidewalk…
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9781772015362
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May 15 2008
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Rod Langley
Rod Langley’s Bethune chronicles the medical and political career of Norman Bethune, a Canadian-born doctor who died a national hero in the Republic of China in 1939. He remains an esteemed figure in China today, for his selfless contributions to the Communist Party of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War…
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9781772015379
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November 15 2013
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By John MacLachlan Gray
With Eric Peterson
Winner 1980 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner 1982 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Winner 1999 Jessie Richardson Award: The Sun Readers' Choice Award (Vancouver Playhouse)
One of Canada’s most successful and enduring musical plays, Billy Bishop Goes to War was first published in 1982 and went on to win the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award and the Governor General’s Award for Drama. In 2010, the celebrated story of the World War One flying ace –…
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9780889227163
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September 15 2012
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
By Maylis de Kerangal
Translated by Jessica Moore
Winner 2010 Médicis Prize
Winner 2010 Franz Hessel Prize
From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes Birth of a Bridge – the story of a handful of men and women of various backgrounds and classes, who assemble around the construction of a giant suspension bridge in Coca, a fictional city somewhere in a mythical…
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9780889228900
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September 9 2014
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Fiction / FIC019000
- FICTION / Literary
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco
Michel Tremblay considers Bonjour, Là, Bonjour to be the best of all his works. “In Bonjour, Là, Bonjour, I apprehended the most of what I wanted to do in the theatre—to take out everything that is not strictly necessary.“This new substantially revised translation by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco…
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9781772015386
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January 1 1990
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By bill bissett
breth presents both new and selected poems from legendary Canadian sound, visual, and performance poet bill bissett. bissett’s innovations have shaped poetry, music, painting, and publishing and have stimulated, provoked, influenced, shocked, and delighted audiences for half a century. This new collection, bissett writes,“shows sew manee threds thru poetree n…
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9781772016741
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April 15 2019
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Poetry / POE011000
- POETRY / Canadian
By Lucia Frangione
Short-listed 2002 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play or Musical: Small Theatr
Winner 2002 Jessie Richardson Award for Sydney Risk Award
A drunken Anglican minister who has failed to convert anyone in ten years, an avaricious saloon keeper with a murder in her past, a pregnant child star who has become too old for her roles and a man who claims to be the last of the Mohicans all need a…
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9781772016758
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September 15 2005
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Oana Avasilichioaei
Chambersonic imagines the book as an acoustic chamber. This collection of poems, essays, performance scores, and audio recordings comes alive with documents, rehearsals, and reverberations, all populated by an ensemble of players, instruments, and materials that make sound together. A conductor fades in and out; the audience acts as choreographer;…
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9781772016277
Pub. Date:
October 16 2024
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Non-Fiction / MUS000000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Women Authors
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General
- PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
- MUSIC / General
By Dave Deveau
Cissy is a collection of three plays on gender and young LGBTQ+ folk by the acclaimed playwright Dave Deveau. In Nelly Boy, an unknown man sits in a nondescript room trying to discover how Nelly came to be running naked along the side of a six-lane highway. Nelly’s world slowly…
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9781772014891
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March 1 2020
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Non-Fiction / YAF047050
- DRAMA / LGBTQ+
- FICTION / Erotica / LGBTQ+ / Gay
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Performing Arts / Theater & Musicals
By ryan fitzpatrick
Written over the span of a decade and a half, Coast Mountain Foot keens its ear to the energies that connect cities, refracting the gesture of George Bowering’s 1968 classic Rocky Mountain Foot. Occasioned by fitzpatrick’s own move from Calgary to Vancouver in 2011, the book writes through the messy…
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9781772014662
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July 15 2021
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Poetry / POE023000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / General
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General
By Wayne Suttles
Wayne Suttles has devoted much of his professional life to research on the cultures of the Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest, especially the Coast Salish of the Georgia Strait-Puget Sound Basin. Born and raised in this region, he has been guided by a life-long love of its natural environment…
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9781772015621
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January 1 1987
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Non-Fiction / SOC002010
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies
- HISTORY / Indigenous / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
By George Boyd
In 1965, Africville, the largest and oldest black community in Canada was bulldozed into memory. What was lost to the politicians of Halifax was an inconvenience, an eyesore. But what was lost to the people whose roots ran deep through the once-vibrant community was an entire way of life. The…
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9781772015638
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January 15 2011
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Non-Fiction / HIS006040
- DRAMA / Canadian
- HISTORY / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / Atlantic Provinces
By sophie anne edwards
A site-specific engagement with an ecosystem of Mnidoo Mnising (Manitoulin Island), Conversations with the Kagawong River raises the possibility of collaboration with the more-than-human. The author spent several years learning to listen to the Gaagigewang Ziibi (Kagawong River) and to follow the rhythms and patterns of its flora and fauna,…
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9781772016253
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October 22 2024
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Poetry / POE023030
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Women Authors
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature
By Michael Nardone
Convivialities is a collection of dialogues with contemporary writers and artists Dana Michel, Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes, Shanzhai Lyric, Cecily Nicholson, Raven Chacon, Divya Victor, Carlos Soto Román, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Gail Scott, Kevin Davies, The Culture and Technology Discussion and Working Group, and Ryan C. Clarke. The dialogues…
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9781772016475
Pub. Date:
April 22 2025
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Non-Fiction / LIT014000
- POETRY / Canadian
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Interviews
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
By Mercedes Eng
A finalist for the 2025 Vancouver Book Award!Investigating whose safety really matters in the most expensive city in the nation, cop city swagger conducts a threat assessment of Vancouver’s police. Holding close lived and living connections to the Downtown Eastside and Chinatown neighbourhoods, Eng juxtaposes the police’s and the city’s…
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9781772016338
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October 18 2024
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Poetry / POE024000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Marie Clements
Short-listed 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award
Copper Thunderbird is a play on canvases based on the life of Norval Morrisseau. Inside the power-lines which Morrisseau boldly defined in his art were the colours he experienced between his Ojibwa cosmology, his life on the street, and his spiritual and philosophical transformations to become the Father of Contemporary…
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9781772015645
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September 15 2007
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
By Catriona Strang
Catriona Strang expertly “fabricates her own reality” in poems that explore the female condition and respond to Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. In a powerful and rare display of poetic ingenuity, Strang situates classical themes of existentialism, memory, time, and the role of women in two clarifying contexts:…
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9781772016765
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April 15 2013
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Poetry / POE011000
- POETRY / Canadian
By Taylor Marie Graham
Cottage Radio & Other Plays animates a wild cast of Southwestern Ontario characters – particularly its strong, hilarious rural women – with complex histories and relationships to the land. The titlular Cottage Radio zeroes in on the sarcastic, charismatic Marley clan as they band together in the aftermath of a…
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9781772016192
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June 21 2024
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Drama / DRA019000
- DRAMA / Canadian
- HISTORY / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / Ontario
- PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / General
- DRAMA / Women Authors
By Drew Hayden Taylor
Shortlisted 2020 The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
Cottagers and Indians explores the politics and issues surrounding a real-life event still occurring in the Kawartha Lakes region of Central Ontario. An Indigenous man, Arthur Copper, has taken it upon himself to repopulate the nearby lakes with wild rice, known amongst the Anishnawbe as Manoomin, much to the disapproval…
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9781772013092
Pub. Date:
April 27 2019
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Indigenous
- DRAMA / Canadian
By Drew Hayden Taylor
A heartwarming comedy about two middle-aged First Nations seniors, Evie and Cecil, on their very first trip out of the country. Evie and Cecil reminisce and bicker as they review a lifetime together. CECILSo, what exactly are we going to do now that we’re here in Mexico?EVIEI’m so glad you…
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9781772011494
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January 9 2016
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Cecily Nicholson
Crowd Source parallels the daily migration of crows who, aside from fledgling season, journey across metro Vancouver every day at dawn and dusk. Alert to the great intelligence and perspective of corvid and non-human communications, these poems engage historical and strategic examples of how these songbirds gather and disperse. Continuing Nicholson’s attention to contemporary climate crisis, social movements, and Black diasporic relations, this is a text for all concerned with practising ecological futurities befitting corvid sensibilities.
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9781772016598
Pub. Date:
April 15 2025
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Poetry / POE023060
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Women Authors
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest
By Jane Rule
When Jane Rule’s first novel, Desert of the Heart, was published in 1964, it was an auspicious beginning for a writer who would build a reputation on her unflinching views about sexuality, relationships and the painful constrictions of societal convention. Even more astonishing is the way in which the novel…
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9781772016772
Pub. Date:
January 1 1991
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Fiction / FIC044000
- FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian
- FICTION / Romance / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian
- FICTION / Women
By Taryn Hubbard
A debut poetry collection that grows from the impulse to explore home in the suburb – in the intersections, overlaps, and gaps between urban and rural. These are walking poems and driving poems. In growing suburbs across the country, there is a push to urbanize, to rethink this sprawling space;…
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9781772014808
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August 25 2020
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Poetry / POE024000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Garry Thomas Morse
Short-listed 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry
Short-listed 2012 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Joint winner 2011 One of the Top Ten Poetry Collections (Globe and Mail)
Joint winner 2012 One of the Best Ten Aboriginal Books from the past decade CBC - 8th Fire
With breathtaking virtuosity, Garry Thomas Morse sets out to recover the appropriated, stolen and scattered world of his ancestral people from Alert Bay to Quadra Island to Vancouver, retracing Captain Vancouver’s original sailing route. These poems draw upon both written history and oral tradition to reflect all of the respective…
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9781772015652
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March 15 2011
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Poetry / POE011000
- POETRY / Canadian
By Nikki Reimer
In this quick-witted collection of poems, Nikki Reimer mines the language of new media – hashtags, YouTube comments, Twitter updates – to defamiliarize the very substance of modern life: the Ingram CoreSource of media-enforced ideals that barrage our newsfeeds, daily commutes to #work, and (mostly online) excursions to the (Apple)…
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9781772015669
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May 15 2013
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Poetry / POE011000
- POETRY / Canadian
By Phinder Dulai
The Japanese steamship Komagata Maru set sail for Canada with 376 Sikh, Muslim, and Hindu migrants travelling from Punjab, India. They were refused entry at Vancouver, even though all passengers were British subjects. The Komagata Maru sat moored in Vancouver’s harbour for two months while courts decided the passengers’ right…
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9781772015676
Pub. Date:
October 14 2014
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- POETRY / Canadian
By Junie Désil
Finalist 2021 The BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
eat salt | gaze at the ocean explores the themes of Black sovereignty, Haitian sovereignty, and Black lives, using the Haitian (original) zombie as a metaphor for the condition and treatment of Black bodies. Interspersed with information about zombies, Haiti, and policies is the author’s personal narrative of growing up…
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9781772014822
Pub. Date:
October 3 2020
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Poetry / POE024000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Caribbean & Latin American
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Oana Avasilichioaei
Finalist 2020 The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Finalist 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry
Poet and intermedia artist Oana Avasilichioaei’s Eight Track is a transliterary exploration of traces. Sound recordings, surveillance cameras, desert geoglyphs, drone operators, refugee interviews, animal imprints, and audio signals manifest moments of inspired wonder, systems of power, slippages, debris. In “the great era of seeing” when the boundary between tracking…
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9781772014921
Pub. Date:
October 15 2019
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Poetry / POE024000
- POETRY / Canadian
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Street Photography
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Colin Browne
During the groundbreaking Charles Edenshaw exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2013, poet Colin Browne found himself returning often to study three large argillite platters carved by the Haida master in the late 1800s. Produced several years apart, each depicts an identical scene at the same moment: two frightened…
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9781772015683
Pub. Date:
January 2 2017
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Non-Fiction / SOC008040
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Canadian Studies
By Tomson Highway
Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their…
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9781772015690
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September 15 2005
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
By Christian Guay-Poliquin
Translated by David Homel
In Falling Shadows, a lone man walks in the forest towards the hunting camp where his family has taken refuge to escape the upheaval caused by a widespread power failure. He knows he is threatened. One day, having lost his way, a twelve-year-old boy, mysteriously fearless and familiar, calls out…
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9781772014525
Pub. Date:
June 6 2022
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Non-Fiction / YAF001020
- FICTION / Dystopian
- FICTION / Literary
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories
By Guillermo Verdecchia
Feast follows a comfortable North American family as they contend with compounding global crises and the end of things as we know them. Each member of the family deals with the coming troubles in their own way. Twenty-something daughter Isabel turns to activism. Her mother Julia fortifies their home in…
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9781772016413
Pub. Date:
December 17 2024
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Fiction / FIC052000
- DRAMA / Canadian
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- FICTION / Satire
By Susan Crean
Susan Crean’s memoir Finding Mr. Wong chronicles her effort to piece together the life of the man she knew as Mr. Wong, cook and housekeeper to her Irish Canadian family for two generations. Reminiscing, Crean writes, “I grew up in Mr. Wong’s kitchen …”A Chinese Head Tax payer hired by…
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9781772013313
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June 15 2018
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- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
By Dale Martin Smith
Flying Red Horse is a book of poetry, with a lyric essay, about fatherhood and masculinity, and the conditions of whiteness that pressure those terms for contemporary relevance and meaning. It looks at the precarity of relationships between people and place in diverse geographic and racial contexts; it addresses the…
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9781772014679
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August 17 2021
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Poetry / POE023050
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / General
- POETRY / American / General
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family
By Cecily Nicholson
Winner 2015 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
BC Book Prize, Poetry: Cecily Nicholson, From the Poplars (Winner)In the North Arm of British Columbia’s Fraser River lies an uninhabited island. Guarded by water from the city of New Westminster’s bustling industrial and shipping district, Poplar Island is lush and unspoken, but storied. It is the traditional territory of…
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9781772015720
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April 15 2014
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Poetry / POE023060
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Women Authors
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest
By Joshua Whitehead
Short-listed 2018 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
Short-listed 2018 Indigenous Voices Award for Most Significant Work of Poetry in English by an emerging Indigenous writer
This poetry collections focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) in order to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity. This Trickster is a Two-Spirit / Indigiqueer invention that resurges in the apocalypse to haunt, atrophy, and to…
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9781772016789
Pub. Date:
September 22 2017
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Poetry / POE011000
- POETRY / LGBTQ+
- POETRY / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
- POETRY / Canadian
By Jeff Derksen
Future Works grapples with time, asking how to fully live in the present while also imagining possible futures. Written over a broken decade shaped by the implosion of the social promises of the past, Future Works is a funny, angry, and moving book about human and more-than-human labour, cities and…
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9781772016291
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April 15 2025
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Poetry / POE023040
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
By Gabriel Dumont
Translated by Michael Barnholden
In 1903, eighteen years after leading the Métis Army against the Northwest Expeditionary Force and the Northwest Mounted Police at Fish Creek, Duck Lake and Batoche, Louis Riel’s Adjutant General Gabriel Dumont dictated his memoirs to a group of friends, one of whom is thought to have written Dumont’s stories…
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9781772015737
Pub. Date:
August 31 2009
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Non-Fiction / BIO006000
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
By Jean Marc Dalpé & David Granger & Laura Lussier & Alexis Martin & Andrea Menard & Yvette Nolan & Gilles Poulin-Denis & Paula-Jean Prudat & Mansel Robinson & Kenneth T. Williams
Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show is a flamboyant epic, constructed as a series of tableaux, about the struggles of the Métis in the Canadian West. It is a multilayered and entertaining saga with a rodeo vibe, loosely based on Buffalo Bill’s legendary outdoor travelling show. In 1885, following the hanging…
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9781772014624
Pub. Date:
May 4 2021
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Non-Fiction / HIS006010
- DRAMA / Canadian
- DRAMA / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies
- HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation
By Art Miki
Winner of a 2025 Canada-Japan Literary AwardThis revealing memoir by the former president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians describes the long journey towards resolution for the historic injustice that deprived Japanese Canadians of their basic human rights during and after World War II. Gaman – Perseverance details the…
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9781772015423
Pub. Date:
December 15 2023
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Non-Fiction / HIS027100
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists
- HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation
- HISTORY / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / British Columbia
- HISTORY / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / Prairie Provinces
- HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
By Morris Panych
Winner 2002 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play or Musical: Large Theatre (
Winner 2003 Dora Mavor Moore Award General Theatre: Outstanding New Play (Tarragon Theatre)
Winner 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
As Morris Panych’s latest comedy opens, we hear Iris, a precocious girl of ten, saying: “These are the last few days of my childhood.” The death of her goldfish, Amal, she is sure, has been announced by the air-raid sirens during the day’s school drill. For Iris, there remain a…
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9781772015751
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September 15 2003
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
By Josh MacDonald
Short-listed 2004 Merritt Theatre Award for Best Play
When an image of Jesus appears on the side of a Tim Hortons restaurant in Nately, Nova Scotia, life is forever changed. The town’s inhabitants are challenged to ask difficult questions about faith, life and love with sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious results. Complicating the matter, of course, are the more…
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9781772015768
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September 15 2002
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
By Cecily Nicholson
Set mainly in the rural, HARROWINGS connects with Black intellectual and art history in relation to agriculture. The poems include pulses of memoir from the poet's childhood growing up on a farm, as well as from more recent pandemic experiences volunteering for a local agricultural enterprise led by people who…
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9781772015775
Pub. Date:
September 30 2022
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Poetry / POE024000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / American / African American & Black
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Colin Browne
With Here, award-winning poet Colin Browne offers a book of luminous encounters, contradictions, collisions, and meditations on art, nature, justice, historical memory, and territorial occupation. Browne’s texts mine the harrowing destinies and densities of place – in this case, of the North American Northwest Coast. The work’s seven movements are…
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9781772014815
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September 1 2020
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Poetry / POE023040
- POETRY / Canadian
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
By Elaine Ávila
When forced to choose a topic for a mandatory high school project, Alex sarcastically says “hummingbirds” because one is hovering outside the window. This offhand choice will lead them to uncover hidden family histories in a mysterious old journal, find an essential role in a community nest finding network, and…
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9781772016536
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May 20 2025
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Non-Fiction / NAT011000
- DRAMA / Canadian
- DRAMA / Women Authors
- NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
By Bill Richardson
Longlisted 2020 The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
Nominated 2020 The BC and Yukon Book Prizes’ Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
Fourteen consecutive weeks on the BC Bestseller list
“By June, Philip’s view of English Bay, what’s left of it, will be utterly gone. It was always going to happen. For years now, it’s been getting harder and harder to see what’s out there. For years now, it’s been getting harder and harder to know what to do.” Eight…
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9781772012729
Pub. Date:
September 15 2019
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Non-Fiction / LCO006000
- FICTION / Short Stories
- HUMOR / Topic / LGBTQ+
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Canadian
By Drew Hayden Taylor
Short-listed 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Jason Pierce, a 31 year old Canadian half-Native man, is packing up his urban apartment to leave it all behind for his romanticized vision of a return to life on the reserve where he grew up. As he’s leaving, he is paid an unexpected visit by a 34 year old…
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9781772013375
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March 1 2006
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
By Dominique Scali
Winner 2015 Winner, First Novel Award in Chambéry
Short-listed 2015 Finalist, Governor General’s Literary Award (2015)
Short-listed 2015 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal
Short-listed 2015 Prix des libraires du Québec
In this atmospheric, post–Cormac McCarthy western novel, four disparate characters criss-cross the desert in pursuit of an impossible ideal. Along the way, these wily characters captivate and intrigue as they seek the American dream in a lawless town in the 1860s.Reverend Aaron is found lying unconscious on the dusty trail…
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9781772011258
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April 15 2017
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Fiction / FIC033000
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Westerns
By Mary Meigs
Winner 1992 QSPELL Award for Non-fiction
Mary Meigs is one of the eight women who portray themselves in the film The Company of Strangers, a “semi-documentary” National Film Board production, released in 1990 to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim. Meigs spent two years writing this extraordinary narrative, which begins as her story of being in the…
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9781772016697
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January 1 1991
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Non-Fiction / LIT025050
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women
By Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn & Darrell Dennis
Finalist of 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
You take your seat in the theatre. You are given a remote control. The play begins. An urban couple are on a getaway to visit her father at his vast rural estate. But when they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man staying there instead. They ask…
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9781772014709
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March 14 2022
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Fiction / FIC059000
- DRAMA / Canadian
- FICTION / Indigenous / General
By Fred Wah
Winner 2010 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Including poetry projects, a chapbook and incidental poems previously published in magazines and by small presses, is a door makes use of the poem’s ability for “suddenness” to subvert closure: the sudden question, the sudden turn, the sudden opening—writing that is generated from linguistic mindfulness, improvisation, compositional problem-solving, collaborative events,…
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9781772015799
Pub. Date:
July 24 2009
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Poetry / POE011000
- POETRY / Canadian
By Lorena Gale
In this powerful dramatic monologue, Lorena Gale remembers, by reconstructing for the audience, her childhood and coming of age as an African-Canadian in Montreal.Her autobiographical protagonist is unabashedly one of those spoil-sport “ethniques” who, for political factions led by the likes of Parizeau, undermined and destroyed the separatist “pur-laine” vision…
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9781772016802
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September 15 2001
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
By M.A.C. Farrant
Celebrated humorist and short-story writer M.A.C. Farrant’s new non-fiction work comprises ninety-three puzzle pieces that mimic the actual practice of assembling a jigsaw puzzle. By turns whimsical, insightful, meditative, funny, and factual, the “pieces” of Jigsaw touch on themes readers of the celebrated humorist and fiction writer M.A C. Farrant…
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9781772015447
Pub. Date:
October 17 2023
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Non-Fiction / LCO019000
- HUMOR / Form / Essays
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Canadian
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors
By Danielle LaFrance
In JUST LIKE I LIKE IT, Danielle LaFrance combines poetry and autotheory as a means of targeting ideological infatuation, spilling into an obsession with ideological abolishment. JUST LIKE I LIKE IT searches for ways to kill and abolish "it," seeking means to get it done right, even when attempted slowly…
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9781772014952
Pub. Date:
September 20 2019
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- POETRY / Women Authors
- POETRY / General
- POETRY / Canadian
By Roy Miki & Cassandra Kobayashi
From 1942 to 1949, a group of innocent Canadians were uprooted from their homes and businesses on the west coast, dispossessed, and forced to disperse across Canada, merely on the basis of their Japanese ancestry. Some 4,000 were even exiled to wartorn Japan.These injustices remained unresolved for nearly forty years.…
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9781772015843
Pub. Date:
January 1 1991
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Non-Fiction / POL004000
- HISTORY / Canada / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
By Tetsuro Shigematsu
Maya is a hikikomori, an extreme recluse who hasn’t left her bedroom in five years, spending all her time in Virtual Reality. So her father hires an actor to befriend her online and entice her back into the real world. How? By visiting the scariest place on earth, Aokigahara, the “Suicide Forest.” Can virtual worlds offer real solutions? Is an honourable death better than a meaningless life? Kuroko is a story about a family who are worlds apart, separated by pain, from past and present, alone in the real and virtual worlds, each unsure of the way back home.
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9781772014846
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November 6 2020
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Fiction / FIC048000
- DRAMA / Canadian
- DRAMA / Asian / Japanese
- FICTION / Urban & Street Lit
By Jacob Richmond
Penny and Ezra Lamb are home-schooled by their parents on a hippie colony near Uranium City until the police discover it also happens to be the largest marijuana grow-op in Saskatchewan. “Legoland” is how their pot-smoking elders always described the outside world, and the Lamb siblings are dying to get…
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9781772015867
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May 21 2009
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Oana Avasilichioaei
Limbinal, as its hybrid title suggests, speaks in the porous space between a limb’s articulations and a liminal border. Formally diverse, the pieces in Limbinal intersect prose fragments with incantatory dialogues, poetic footnotes with photographic phrases, rebellious translations with liquid transpositions.Against a backdrop of globalization fantasies heralding the new utopia,…
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9781772015874
Pub. Date:
April 14 2015
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Non-Fiction / LAN009000
- POETRY / Canadian
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
By Kevin Loring
Little Red Warrior is the last remaining member of the Little Red Warrior First Nation. One day, he discovers a development company has begun construction on his ancestral lands. In a fit of rage, Little Red attacks one of the engineers and is arrested for assault and trespassing on his…
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9781772014327
Pub. Date:
June 29 2021
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- DRAMA / Canadian
- FICTION / Historical / General
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Indigenous / General
By Daniel MacIvor
This fascinating version of Daniel MacIvor’s most successful play to date lets the reader in on a secret: it was never primarily written as a work for live theatrical performance, but as a vehicle for his development of a screenplay, also included in this new edition. In his surprisingly revealing…
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9781772015881
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October 1 2006
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Martine Desjardins
An incendiary new novel based on the myth of Medusa from noted author Martine DesjardinsShe’s been called Medusa for so long that she’s forgotten her real name. She walks with her head down, her face hidden behind her hair to spare others the sight of her Deformities – eyes so…
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9781772013863
Pub. Date:
September 22 2022
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Poetry / POE021000
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Fantasy / Historical
- FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
- FICTION / Women
- POETRY / LGBTQ+
By Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
Winner of 2018 Prix Pierre-Vadeboncœur
Finalist for 2018 Governor General’s Award for French-Language Non-Fiction
Finalist for 2019 Prix des libraires
Lac-Mégantic, Québec, Canada – July 6, 2013. On a hot summer night, a driverless, out-of-control train descends the slope that leads to the scenic town below and explodes, pulverizing the downtown area and killing forty-seven unsuspecting victims. The devastation, which leaves the people of Lac-Mégantic dazed and in mourning, is…
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9781772014198
Pub. Date:
August 26 2020
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Non-Fiction / HIS006020
- LAW / Transportation
- NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief
- TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / General
- HISTORY / Canada / General
- HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation
By Mercedes Eng
Mercedes Eng’s first book is a risky and profoundly unsettling work of “auto-cartography,” documenting the struggles and politics of everyday life in Vancouver, foregrounding the literal and figurative violence behind the euphemism “missing women,” resistance to the Olympic-Industrial Complex, and other legacies of colonialism that continue to haunt the fragile…
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9781772015898
Pub. Date:
October 5 2019
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Poetry / POE024000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Andrew Kushnir & Khari Wendell McClelland
Moving the Centre is a two-play anthology exploring the problems and possibilities of verbatim theatre and undertake questions of justice, identity, and the history all around us.
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9781772013955
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May 25 2022
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Drama / PER020000
- DRAMA / Canadian
- DRAMA / LGBTQ+
- PERFORMING ARTS / Monologues & Scenes
By Fred Wah
Finalist 2021 The BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Life-long poem project from the Governor General's Award–winning former parliamentary poet laureate.
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9781772014792
Pub. Date:
August 25 2020
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Poetry / POE023000
- POETRY / Canadian
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Canadian
- POETRY / Asian / Chinese
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General
By Nikki Reimer
My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan is a darkly humorous book about grief and isolation. Cutting yet tender, sorrowful yet angry, these poems touch on death and loss, architecture, alcohol, horse statues, and catalogues of life.
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9781772014969
Pub. Date:
April 15 2019
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Poetry / POE011000
- POETRY / Canadian
By Drew Hayden Taylor
In this collection of short humourous essays originally written for the popular media, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Drew Hayden Taylor sends his readers fascinating and exotic postcards from his globetrotting adventures, always on the lookout for the NEWS about aboriginal peoples around the world. Organized around the thematics suggested by…
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9781772015911
Pub. Date:
November 30 2010
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Non-Fiction / TRV010000
- TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues
By Chantal Bilodeau
The third play in the award-winning Arctic Cycle on the impact of climate changeHarveys suck. Whether hurricanes or Hollywood producers, Harveys are overpowered forces primed to prey on vulnerable people and ecosystems. Harveys especially prey on women, including the woman in No More Harveys, who flees her abusive husband and…
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9781772015218
Pub. Date:
May 31 2023
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Non-Fiction / SCI092000
- DRAMA / Canadian
- DRAMA / Women Authors
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment
- SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change
By A Jamali Rad
When Zero, the hero of our story, stumbles upon a mysterious manuscript, they’re thrown into a journey across centuries, continents, and concepts. They travel throughout the Muslim world, from Sumeria to India to Baghdad. They learn about Europe as other and outside. They’re guided by the cryptic mirror the manuscript…
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9781772016314
Pub. Date:
October 22 2024
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Poetry / POE023060
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
- POETRY / LGBTQ+
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest
By Nikki Reimer
No Town Called We writes through the death of elders, social panic, and the climate crisis via the lens of the multiply disabled, female-coded body approaching midlife. Punching through the veils of complacency and greed that shape the cultures of the petrostate, these poems are meditations on an emergency, dispatches…
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9781772015508
Pub. Date:
October 17 2023
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Poetry / POE023010
- POETRY / Women Authors
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
By Sadru Jetha
Zanzibar, an island set like a jewel in the Indian Ocean off the coast of east Africa is rich in cultural heritage: inhabited since the last Ice Age; birthplace of Kiswahili, the purest form of the Swahili language group; its original hunter-gatherer culture overlaid with Indian, Arab, Persian, Portuguese and…
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9780889227736
Pub. Date:
March 15 2011
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Fiction / FIC019000
- FICTION / Literary
By Tim Carlson
A phenomenal critical success when first produced by Western Theatre Conspiracy in 2004, Omniscience is much more than a murder-mystery set in a quasi-familiar contemporary landscape of high-tech urban warfare. The plot, not surprisingly optioned already for a movie, is redolent with untrustworthy “embedded” journalists manufacturing positivist pseudodocumentaries about the…
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9781772015928
Pub. Date:
January 31 2007
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Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
By David Fennario
Winner 1976 Chalmers Award (Best Canadian Play)
It is Christmas Eve, 1970. In the shipping room of a Montreal dress factory, the workers get drunk and decide to go on strike.“So many of the guys I knew on the street are gone dead or crazy, man. There’s no escape. This whole country is just one big factory,…
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9781772015935
Pub. Date:
January 1 1976
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Non-Fiction / BUS038010
- DRAMA / Canadian
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions
By Stephen Collis
Winner 2011 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Structured in three parts, On the Material is a meditation on language, geography, socio-economics and the body, moving from the glut of fossil-fuelled consumer excess to the materiality of a single book.Composed almost entirely of quatrains (each page being comprised of four four-line stanzas) and written while travelling through North…
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9781772015942
Pub. Date:
April 15 2010
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Poetry / POE011000
- POETRY / Canadian
By Stephen Collis
In this collection of long and serial poems, Stephen Collis returns to the commons, and to his ongoing argument with romantic poet William Wordsworth, to rethink the relationship between human beings and the natural world in the Anthropocene. Collis circumambulates Tar Sands tailings ponds and English lakes—and stands in the…
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9781772015959
Pub. Date:
September 16 2016
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- POETRY / Canadian
By Leanne Dunic
A work exploring sibling and romantic love, and the complexities of being a biracial person looking for completion in another
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9781772014570
Pub. Date:
March 15 2021
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Non-Fiction / SOC008000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family
- POETRY / Women Authors
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General
By Drew Hayden Taylor
Hoping to snag their perfect home in a red-hot housing market, an African Canadian man, a Chinese Canadian man, and a Jewish/Indigenous lesbian couple show up to an open house run by a white settler real estate agent. Each potential buyer feels most deserving of the prize. When a police…
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9781772016574
Pub. Date:
March 11 2025
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Drama / PER011000
- DRAMA / Indigenous
- DRAMA / Canadian
- PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
By Nicole Raziya Fong
OЯACULE occurs at the intersection of poetry and theatre. Its characters inhabit a classical and cosmological world where psychic phenomena constantly threaten to impinge upon the arc of combat occurring between the women trapped within. Influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, the writings of Plato, the films of…
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9781772014686
Pub. Date:
October 11 2021
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Poetry / POE024000
- POETRY / Canadian
- PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology
- POETRY / LGBTQ+
- POETRY / Women Authors
By James Bacque
Other Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower’s policies caused the death of some 1,000,000 German captives in American and French internment camps through disease, starvation and exposure from 1944 to 1949, as a direct result of the policies…
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9781772015966
Pub. Date:
May 15 2011
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Non-Fiction / HIS027100
- HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
By Jónína Kirton
Death, desire, and divination are the threads running through Jónína Kirton’s debut collection of poems and lyric prose. Delicate and dark, the pieces are like whispers in the night – a haunted, quiet telling of truths the mind has locked away but the body remembers. Loosely autobiographical, these are the…
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9781772015973
Pub. Date:
April 14 2015
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Poetry / POE015000
- POETRY / Native American
By Nicole Raziya Fong
"Part treatise on phenomenology, part theatrical score on ontology, part billet-doux to poetry itself” (Divya Victor), PEЯFACT is a three-part series of poems interrogating the nature of experience, language, trauma, and identity.
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9781772014983
Pub. Date:
April 22 2019
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Poetry / POE024000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / LGBTQ+
- POETRY / Women Authors
By annie ross
Pots and Other Living Beings is made up of poems with paired photographs, each describing an aspect of living in the postmodern, neoliberal age, with its promised and failed utopia, ruin, and dispossessions.
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9781772014976
Pub. Date:
October 1 2019
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Non-Fiction / HIS038000
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
- ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
- POETRY / Canadian
- HISTORY / Americas
By Garry Thomas Morse
In this contrapuntal follow-up to Governor General’s Award finalist Discovery Passages, Garry Thomas Morse traces multiple lines of his mixed ancestry. These include the nomadic “pre-historical” movements of Wakashan speakers who were later to form various West Coast First Nations; the schismatic mindset of Jedidiah Morse, the “father of American…
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9781772015980
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September 21 2015
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- POETRY / Canadian
By Bev Sellars
Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival untangles truth from some of the myths about First Nations at the same time that it addresses misconceptions still widely believed today.The second book by award-winning author Bev Sellars, Price Paid is based on a popular presentation Sellars created for treaty-makers, politicians,…
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9781772010985
Pub. Date:
August 26 2016
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- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies
- HISTORY / Canada / General
- HISTORY / Indigenous / General
Edited by Steve McCaffery
By bp Nichol
The Toronto Research Group was an eighteen-year collaboration and friendship between the late bpNichol and Steve McCaffery. In addition to reports on translation; the book-as-machine; and the search for non-narrative prose; this collection includes an informative introduction by McCaffery; a report on performance; ‘Reading and Writing: The Toronto Research Game’;…
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9781772015997
Pub. Date:
February 15 1992
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- LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian
- POETRY / Canadian
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General
By Sean Harris Oliver & Raes Calvert
Private Jonathan Woodrow is a young Indigenous soldier fighting on the Western Front during World War I. Thanks to his experience in hunting and wilderness survival, he quickly becomes one of the 1st Canadian Division’s most feared trench raiders. But as the war and the fighting stretch on with no end in sight, Woodrow begins to realize that he will never go home again.
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9781772013153
Pub. Date:
March 15 2019
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Non-Fiction / HIS006020
- DRAMA / Canadian
- FICTION / Historical / General
- HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation
By Sharon Thesen
Edited by Erín Moure
The collected longer poems of brilliant Canadian poet Sharon ThesenRefabulations collects and reanimates the longer and serial poems from Sharon Thesen’s œuvre, from her first book in 1980 to today. It is a record of a life in language, created by a dexterous and renegade poet whose mind is ever…
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9781772015119
Pub. Date:
March 14 2023
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- POETRY / Women Authors
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
By Hajer Mirwali
Revolutions sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping: shame and pleasure. In an extended conversation with Mona Hatoum’s artwork + and –, Revolutions asks how young Arab women – who live in homes and communities where actions are surveilled and categorized as 3aib…
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9781772016512
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May 6 2025
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- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Women Authors
- POETRY / Middle Eastern
By David French
Winner 1985 Dora Mavor Moore Award (Outstanding New Play)
Winner 1985 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner Canadian Authors Association Literary Award
Winner Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics Award and ACTRA Award
It’s a splendid moon-filled night at Coley’s Point in August, 1926. Eighteen-year-old Jacob Mercer has returned from Toronto to the tiny Newfoundland outport, hoping to win back his former sweetheart, Mary Snow. But Mary has become engaged to wealthy Jerome McKenzie, and she is still hurt and bewildered by Jacob’s…
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9781772016635
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January 1 1988
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- DRAMA / Canadian
- FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century
By Sharon Pollock
One of the most intriguing theories about the identity of the infamous London murderer, Jack the Ripper, is that he hid behind the skirts of respectability, social position, and perhaps, even royalty …In Saucy Jack, the author of Blood Relations and Doc, Sharon Pollock, implicates the most upper echelons of…
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9781772016819
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December 28 2022
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Phyllis Webb
Winner 1982 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry
This volume includes work selected from each of Phyllis Webb’s books of poetry published prior to 1982, including: Trio, Even Your Right Eye, The Sea Is Also a Garden, Naked Poems, Selected Poems 1954-1965, Wilson’s Bowl, Sunday Water, Thirteen Anti Ghazals and Talking.
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9781772016840
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January 1 1982
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- POETRY / Canadian
By Wanda John-Kehewin
Short-listed 2019 Indigenous Voices Award
Seven Sacred Truths presents a powerful exploration of an Indigenous woman’s healing journey. Seeing the world through “brown” eyes, poet Wanda John-Kehewin makes new meaning of the past, present, and future through a consideration of Love, Wisdom, Truth, Honesty, Respect, Humility, and Courage. By sharing her views on these Seven…
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9781772016826
Pub. Date:
October 15 2018
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- POETRY / Native American
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Daphne Marlatt
Noh-influenced libretto by renowned Canadian poet Daphne MarlattThe Noh-influenced libretto of Shadow Catch recounts the dreams – or are they dreams? – of the Runaway, a teenage boy who ends up one night in Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Here four troubled spirits from the park’s past appear to…
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9781772015294
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May 24 2023
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- DRAMA / Women Authors
- MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / LGBTQ+
- POETRY / Women Authors
By David French
Steve Marsh is a mystery writer, the protagonist of David French’s gripping thriller, Silver Dagger. Soon after his third novel is published, Marsh’s wife receives a series of phone calls and letters that threaten to destroy their marriage. Adultery, blackmail, murder, a figure lurking in the rain. All these classic…
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9781772016642
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January 1 1993
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- DRAMA / Canadian
- FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
By Drew Hayden Taylor
An uproariously funny and sharply inquisitive new play from one of Canada’s leading Indigenous playwrights, Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion explores the possibility of reconciliation between Peoples and urgently questions past and contemporary forms of Canadian colonialism. Taylor’s twenty-seventh play, Sir John A’s characters include Canada’s…
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9781772013399
Pub. Date:
August 10 2018
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- DRAMA / Indigenous
- DRAMA / Canadian
By Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
COVID meditations from literary phenom Otoniya J. Okot BitekRife with the paradoxical forces of boredom and intensity, the early days of COVID-19 passed under an inescapable pall. The poems of Song & Dread seek quietude, order, refuge, and space within that shroud. They remind us of community, connectedness, and what…
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9781772015171
Pub. Date:
May 17 2023
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- POETRY / American / African American & Black
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Wanda John-Kehewin
Short-listed 2024 Raymond Souster Award
A brilliant collection weaving history, personal experience, and Indigenous resilienceSpells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead: ᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân is a wonder. With inspiring defiance, John-Kehewin plays with form, space, and language, demonstrating which magics cannot be suppressed. Here is an unflinching look at colonialism’s sickening trail:…
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9781772015133
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May 31 2023
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- POETRY / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Jónína Kirton
Standing in a River of Time merges poetry and lyrical memoir on a journey exposing the intergenerational effects of colonization on a Métis family. Kirton does not shy away from hard realities, meeting them head on, but always treating them with respect and the love stemming from a lifetime of…
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9781772013801
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March 9 2022
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- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
- POETRY / Women Authors
- POETRY / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
By A Jamali Rad
still is a book of poems about alienated interiority, a self-withdrawn, hidden presence: affective and extractive capitalism, surveillance and commodification of behaviour, non-participation, withdrawn complicity, paralysis in time of crisis, what non-doing does.
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9781772014563
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March 29 2021
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- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Rachel Aberle
Two young-adult plays exploring anxiety and depression, the complexities of gender dynamics, bullying, and the challenges that arise when the lines between friendship and romance are blurred.
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9781772014006
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February 28 2022
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- DRAMA / Canadian
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Teenagers
- PERFORMING ARTS / Monologues & Scenes
By Drew Hayden Taylor
The Baby Blues is Drew Hayden Taylor’s highly wrought farce of patrimony in a stifling, politically correct, post-colonial milieu of “fancy dancers” of every stripe on the powwow trail. In juxtaposing three generations of careless wandering hedonists, progenitors of a string of offspring from their six-night stands, with their erstwhile…
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9781772016727
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January 1 1999
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Walter Hildebrandt
Foreword by Jean Teillet
The Battle of Batoche is the best-known confrontation between Métis and British soldiers in the Northwest Resistance of 1885. It remains one of Canada’s most emotion-laden memories, eloquently revisited in this revised and expanded edition.The strategies of both sides are thoroughly examined, and numerous maps and photographs offer detailed description…
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9780889227187
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May 15 2012
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- HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation
- HISTORY / Military / General
- PHOTOGRAPHY / History
By andrea bennett
the berry takes the shape of the bloom originated as a gesture towards optimism after loss and pain, difficulty and fear. It began as a linear narrative, offering a window into one trans person’s life after they felt contented and secure. But in the end these poems, which capture particular…
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9781772015522
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October 17 2023
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- POETRY / LGBTQ+
- POETRY / Canadian
By Drew Hayden Taylor
In this collection of two plays about the process of children becoming adults, Drew Hayden Taylor works his delightfully comic and bitter-sweet magic on the denials, misunderstandings and preconceptions which persist between Native and Colonial culture in North America.In “The Boy in the Treehouse,” Simon, the son of an Ojibway…
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9781772013276
Pub. Date:
September 15 2000
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- DRAMA / Indigenous
- DRAMA / Canadian
By Martine Delvaux
Translated by Katia Grubisic
Winner 2020 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal
Acclaimed Québec feminist Martine Delvaux turns her sharp eye and even sharper pen on the history of gentlemen's clubs and male fraternity in this wide-reaching study of patriarchy. Delvaux lays bare the brazen misogyny of boys’ clubs across many fields, including politics, entertainment, technology, law enforcement, architecture, and the military.…
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9781772016031
Pub. Date:
August 27 2024
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- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors
By Rahat Kurd & Sumayya Syed
The City That Is Leaving Forever is a unique twenty-first-century time capsule: an instant-message exchange between Kashmir and British Columbia spanning more than five years in the lives of two Muslim Kashmiri women poets. In 2016, as India’s military carries out extrajudicial killings and imposes a lengthy curfew in Srinagar,…
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9781772014631
Pub. Date:
September 14 2021
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- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Indic
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters
- POETRY / Women Authors
- HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century
- HISTORY / Women
Edited by David McIlwraith
Translated by Wanda Joy Hoe
By Dukesang Wong
Finalist 2021 The BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. The story of those Chinese workers has been told before, but never in a voice from among their number, never in…
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9781772013474
Pub. Date:
September 16 2020
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- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional
- HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation
- HISTORY / Asia / China
By Morris Panych
Short-listed 2005 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play (Arts Club Theatre)
Of all our contemporary urban myths none is more absurd than the fiction of the “classless society,” and Morris Panych’s latest comedy penetrates ruthlessly to the shock and horror of the residue of hardened pesto soiling its porcelain heart.Haplessly determined to have his own miserable authority vindicated, chief dishwasher Dressler…
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9781772016703
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September 15 2005
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Daniel Brooks
Daniel Brooks’s The Full Light of Day is a modern epic tragedy, a timely exploration of crumbling privilege and power, beautifully told and innovative in form. Mary’s family finds itself in serious difficulty, and some bad decisions lead to disaster. Mary soon falls ill, and as she is dying wrestles…
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9781772014716
Pub. Date:
August 31 2021
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- DRAMA / Canadian
- FICTION / Psychological
- FICTION / Family Life / General
By Wendy Lill
Winner 1996 Governor General’s Drama Award
A story of the ill-fated romance between a wandering musician-social-idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner’s daughter, whose dreams are reawakened by their passion. The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum is a play in which the all-consuming brightness of dreams and memory are overshadowed by absentee greed, callousness and exploitation. It…
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9781772016659
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September 15 1996
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Stephen Collis
Written amid wildfires and atmospheric rivers, The Middle extends Stephen Collis’s investigation of threatened climate futures into a poetics of displacement and wandering. The fulcrum of a trilogy begun with A History of the Theories of Rain, The Middle hikes the shifting treelines of our warming world to reflect on…
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9781772016437
Pub. Date:
October 16 2024
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- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest
- NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General
By Wendy Lill
Two epigraphs that frame The Occupation of Heather Rose, one from Alice in Wonderland and the other from Heart of Darkness, prepare the audience for the nightmare of dislocation and alienation this one-woman show evokes.Young, naïve, and inadequately trained, urban health care/social worker Heather Rose flirts with the pilot as…
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9781772016673
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January 9 2008
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Dorothy Dittrich
Winner of 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Winner of 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Dorothy Dittrich’s The Piano Teacher is a play about loss, love, friendship, and the healing power of music. When Erin, a classical pianist, experiences the loss of the life she knew, she meets an unconventional piano teacher who gives her new hope for the future.
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9781772015805
Pub. Date:
May 11 2022
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- DRAMA / Canadian
- DRAMA / Women Authors
- MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical
By Joan MacLeod
In an imaginary letter to an absent older brother, Braidie struggles to understand the torture and killing of a teenage girl by a group of her school-mates. MacLeod’s young protagonist enters all the bright open avenues of peer-group play and the dark blind alleys of individual and collective terror, as…
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9781772015812
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March 15 2002
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Christian Guay-Poliquin
Translated by David Homel
Longlisted 2020 The Sunburst Award
WINNER Prix littéraire France-Québec
WINNER Governor General’s Literary Award for French-Language Fiction
WINNER Prix Ringuet
WINNER Prix littéraire des collégiens
After surviving a major accident, a man is trapped in a village buried in the snow and cut off from the world by a nationwide power failure. He is entrusted to Matthias, a taciturn old man who agrees to heal his wounds in exchange for wood, food, and eventual escape from the village. Will they manage to stand up against external threats and intimate pitfalls?
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9781772012569
Pub. Date:
March 25 2019
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- FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- FICTION / Action & Adventure
- FICTION / Psychological
By Bev Sellars
44 weeks on the B.C. Bestsellers list in 2013 & 2014!
First Nation Communities READ – Periodical Marketers of Canada Aboriginal Literature award (2017–2018), Finalist
Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature (2014), 3rd Prize
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (B.C. Book Prizes, 2014), Finalist
Named one of 15 memoirs by Indigenous writers you need to read (CBC Books, 2017)
BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist) Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu\'ll chief Bev Sellars spent part of…
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9780889227422
Pub. Date:
April 15 2012
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- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
- HISTORY / Indigenous / General
By Annie York & Richard Daly & Chris Arnett
In They Write Their Dream on the Rock Forever, ‘Nlaka’pamux elder Annie York explains the red-ochre inscriptions written on the rocks and cliffs of the lower Stein Valley in British Columbia. This is perhaps the first time that a Native elder has presented a detailed and comprehensive explanation of rock-art…
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9781772014778
Pub. Date:
August 18 2020
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- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- ART / History / General
- HISTORY / Indigenous / General
By Christine Stewart
How might poetic practices undermine racist ideologies and colonialism, engendering ecological attentiveness, and anomalous and compassionate communities? Christine Stewart’s Treaty 6 Deixis takes up these timely and pressing questions as it investigates what it means to be a non-Indigenous inhabitant of Canada’s Treaty 6 territory, “in this city, on this…
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9781772016833
Pub. Date:
October 3 2018
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- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
- POETRY / Women Authors
Edited by Chris Arnett
By Beryl Mildred Cryer
A vital collection of writings about First Nations people and culture as it existed on the island coasts of the Depression-era Pacific Northwest and originally published in the pages of Victoria’s oldest newspaper, the Daily Colonist, the sixty stories included here are the result of a unique collaboration between a…
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9781772016666
Pub. Date:
December 15 2008
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Non-Fiction / HIS028000
- HISTORY / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / General
- HISTORY / Indigenous / General
By Joséphine Bacon
Translated by Jessica Moore
Winner of the Prix des libraires, the Indigenous Voices award, the Prix littéraire des enseignant.e.s de Français, and the Coup de Cœur Renaud-Bray, and finalist for the Prix Alain-GrandboisDual-language editionThe poems in Uiesh / Somewhere are rooted in Innu Elder Joséphine Bacon’s experiences of moving between the nomadic ways of…
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9781772015157
Pub. Date:
June 3 2025
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- POETRY / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Ivan Drury
The poems in Un interrogate the subjectivity of a western revolutionary socialist’s early-twenty-first-century masculinity against a backdrop of revolutionary legacies of moderate gains and terrible defeats. Thematically, the poems draw from the U.S. War on Terror and the disappearances of people extrajudicially apprehended from the Middle East and North Africa…
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9781772013771
Pub. Date:
April 13 2022
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- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General
By Catriona Strang
Unfuckable Lardass reverts the patriarchy’s gaze. It began as an attempt to refract and undercut an outrageous insult allegedly lobbed at German Chancellor Angela Merkel – an egregious demonstration of the framing of women in reductive and sexualized terms ignoring their existence as subjects of their own complex histories. As…
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9781772013894
Pub. Date:
March 4 2022
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- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General
- POETRY / Women Authors
By Sharon Pollock
A historical documentary of Sitting Bull’s exile in Canada after the Montana massacre at Little Big Horn. The play examines Sitting Bull’s relationship with superintendent Walsh of the North West Mounted Police and is the study of the disillusionment of a man who believes in his government’s integrity but who…
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9780889227408
Pub. Date:
January 1 1983
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- DRAMA / Canadian
- HISTORY / Canada / General
- HISTORY / Indigenous / General
By Gladys Hindmarch
Edited by Deanna Fong & Karis Shearer
Makes available for the first time the collected works of this significant feminist, experimental prose writer and member of the renowned TISH group.
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9781772014181
Pub. Date:
March 15 2020
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Non-Fiction / LCO019000
- FICTION / Women
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Short Stories
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Canadian
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors
By Morris Panych
Three people gaze out their living room window as the days pass. Across the street in Withrow Park, life goes on – or is it a dream?Then comes a knock at the door. Time has found them, hiding in plain sight. Or possibly it’s just a man in a wrinkled…
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9781772016215
Pub. Date:
October 22 2024
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- DRAMA / Canadian
- DRAMA / LGBTQ+
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships
By Harry Robinson
Edited by Wendy Wickwire
Write It on Your Heart is a celebration of the late Harry Robinson, one of the great storytellers of the Interior Salish people of North America.Collected over a ten-year period, the stories selected for this volume tell from a First Nations point of view about the origin of the world;…
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9780889228757
Pub. Date:
February 1 2004
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- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
By George Bowering
George Bowering was born in Penticton, where his great-grandfather Willis Brinson lived, and Bowering has never been all that far from the Okanagan Valley in his heart and imagination. Early in the twenty-first century, he was made a permanent citizen of Oliver. Bowering has family up and down the Valley,…
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9780889229990
Pub. Date:
September 21 2015
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- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Canadian
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Introduction by Diana Leblanc
They say hindsight is 20/20. They’re not wrong. Ten years after their parents’ death in a car accident, now-grown sisters Carmen and Manon are together for one of their rare visits – and one of them is finally ready to confront their shared tragedy. Carmen is a boisterous country-and-western singer…
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9781772010244
Pub. Date:
November 8 2016
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- DRAMA / Canadian
By Philippe Arseneault
Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel
Arsenault’s Rabelaisian fantasy is a gothic tale of the macabre and the bizarre, of black magicians and alchemists, and of the life and times of Zora Marjanna Lavanko, the daughter of a brutish tripe-dresser who dies for love. This surreal novel is set in the murky fictional domain of the…
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ISBN:
9781772011913
Pub. Date:
August 10 2017
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Fiction / FIC019000
- FICTION / Literary
