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Watershed
It is 2058, and the glaciers are gone. A catastrophic drought has hit the prairies. Willa Van Bruggen is desperately trying to keep her family goat farm afloat, hoping against hope that the new wat...
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Benched
Passion for Law Reform
Fifty years in a law profession she loves, twenty-four spent as a judge, Nancy Morrison is a story-teller and trail-blazer. Entertaining, at times warm and witty, this memoir also reminds us of dar...
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An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this…coloniality constructs outsides and insides—worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated—in order to live something like a r...
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Ghosts Still Linger
In the arena, she shot cigarettes and coins from her trusting husband’s hand. Some women wished she would miss. —from “Little Sure Shot” Kat Cameron’s poetry illuminates the unsung perspectives ...
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To float, to drown, to close up, to open
In this collection, E. Alex Pierce enters the territory of memory embedded in landscape where “language tied to the land” evokes the cadence of tidal rivers and creates a fluid world. She traces th...
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25 Years of Ed Tech
In this lively and approachable volume based on his popular blog series, Martin Weller demonstrates a rich history of innovation and effective implementation of ed tech across higher education. Fro...
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Collaborative Creativity
Educating for Creative Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Collaborative creativity in education: from theory to practice As the world undergoes massive change, education systems need to prepare students to work collaboratively for innovative solutions tha...
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I Am Still Your Negro
An Homage to James Baldwin
Social Justice Poetry Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her narratives range from the beginnings of the Afric...
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The Widows
Refusing to accept being dismissed by a society that leaves little space for old women, three friends plan a daring and extraordinary adventure Hannelore, Clotilde, and Frau Schnadelhuber are tire...
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Pourin' Down Rain
A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West
The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary, a time when a Black family walkin...
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First Nations Self-Government
17 Roadblocks to Self-Determination, and One Chief’s Thoughts on Solutions
Indigenous Peoples in Canada are continuing to assert their right to self-determination in this era of reconciliation. While dozens of Indigenous communities have signed varying forms of self-gover...
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Masters and Servants
The Hudson’s Bay Company and Its North American Workforce, 1668–1786
In Masters and Servants, Scott P. Stephen reveals startling truths about Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) workers. Rather than dedicating themselves body and soul to the Company’s interests, these men we...
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Knowings and Knots
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Pourin’ Down Rain
A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West
The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary, a time when a Black family walkin...
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The Shore Girl
A Novel
Winner of the 2013 Alberta Readers’ Choice Award Rebee Shore’s life is fragmented. She’s forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Eliza...
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The Flying Zoo
Birds, Parasites, and the World They Share
“My work as a scientist who studies bird parasites causes me to wonder about the hidden part of the drama unfolding before my eyes: the flying zoo that makes each bird what it is. As I gaze out at ...
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Legislating Love
The Everett Klippert Story
Aspiring historian Maxine is researching Canadian social policy when she discovers the story of Everett Klippert—the last Canadian man jailed simply for being gay. Maxine becomes fascinated with ...
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Air Salt
A Trauma Mémoire as a Result of the Fall
Ian Kinney fell seven stories, and he survived. In Air Salt Kinney (un)writes his hospitalization and recovery, using poetry as neuro-rehabilitation. A memoir written by an amnesiac, this collectio...
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Power Play
Professional Hockey and the Politics of Urban Development
When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project....
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Pass Me By: Gone Fishin’
Pass Me By is a queer, rural, Canadian, romantic tragedy. A five book series following Ed, a reserved man recently diagnosed with dementia, living in a small northern Canadian town. As Ed's memory ...
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GWAR: The Enormogantic Fail
The Master is at it again in a fierce battle against Cardinal Syn. To get into the Master’s good graces, the Destructo brothers have trapped GWAR in order to interrogate them to find the key to des...
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What Fox Knew
Mary Barnes has discovered the beauty in subtlety. What Fox Knew captures the gentle world around us in rich poems that calm and awaken. Amid landscape and truth, the quiet world we take for grant...
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The Intellectual Property Guide
IP Literacy and Strategy Basics for Supporting Innovation
Intellectual property strategies to power your bottom line In the innovation economy, intellectual property is among the most valuable assets a business can have. IP strategy isn’t just incidental...
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Nakón-I'a wo!: Beginning Nakoda
Written for beginning learners of Nakoda (also known as Assiniboine), this workbook, arranged thematically, provides a Nakoda/English lexicon, a vocabulary, a table of kinship terms, a glossary of ...
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Islands of Decolonial Love
Stories & Songs
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, espe...
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Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers
The sudden death of Margot Morris and her two young daughters in a house fire sends shock-waves through a small rural community. The Morrises are a close-knit family, long associated with the myste...
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The Work
When aspiring stage-manager Rebecca Weir falls for the married director of SenseInSound theatre company, she initiates a love triangle and working collaboration which go on for two decades. Set in ...
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The Wheaton
A year after the early death of his wife, John Davies comes hesitantly out of retirement to take a job at The Wheaton, a senior’s residence. Having resisted ‘getting involved’ for his entire life, ...
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The Dark Divide
Waterton is a town with dark secrets, and after a summer of murder and mayhem, American ex-pat, Rich Evans, knows exactly how far people will go to hide them. Jobless after the fiery destruction of...
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Feminist Acts
Branching Out Magazine and the Making of Canadian Feminism
The history of Branching Out, Canada’s first national second-wave feminist magazine, is the story of an upstart publication from the prairies that was read from coast to coast. It is also a story o...
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Haunting the Haunted
Sedition
Between a professional psychic de-bunker and increasingly violent poltergeist attacks, Marie Jenner's life is getting interesting again.
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Haunting the Haunted
Between a professional psychic de-bunker and increasingly violent poltergeist attacks, Marie Jenner's life is getting interesting again.
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Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth
Malcolm Forsyth (1936–2011) was a musical legend: a much-loved composer, performer, teacher, and mentor. Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth presents a captivating and approachable portrait of one of Ca...
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Feel the Wild
Feel the Wild is an intimate and powerful story about Nature and our relationship with it, told through stunning photography and thought-provoking writing. To “Feel the Wild” is to connect with th...
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Detention Reviews in Canada
A Practical Handbook on Law, Procedure, and Practice for Lawyers, Immigration Consultants, and Law Students
Advocate effectively for detained immigrants at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada Every year in Canada, thousands of immigrants are detained in holding centres and jails, and the numbers...
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Performing Turtle Island
Indigenous Theatre on the World Stage
“A valuable and timely collection.” —Alan D. Filewod, author of Committing Theatre Following the Final Report on Truth and Reconciliation, Performing Turtle Island investigates theatre as a tool ...
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The Red Chesterfield
M is a bylaw officer, living with two brothers, in their parents' old house. While investigating a suspicious yard sale, M discovers a red chesterfield sitting in a ditch. Looking closer, M finds a...
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Polepole
A Training Guide for Kilimanjaro and Other Long-Distance Mountain Treks
“Polepole” (po-lay-po-lay) — a Swahili term meaning “slowly, slowly” — is what porters on Kilimanjaro say as you climb the mountain. It’s also how you train for other long-distance mountain treks.O...
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South Away
The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels
South Away follows Meaghan Marie Hackinen and her sister in the adventure of a lifetime: bicycling from Terrace, BC down the West Coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Along the way Hack...
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Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them
In this inventive collection of poems, McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of juxtaposition, cut-up, and defamiliarization. Moving from eroticism ...
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