Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges is a collection of essays inspired by public lectures given by historian Dr. Elizabeth Jameson during her tenure as Imperial Oil-Lincoln McKay Chair in American Studies at the University of Calgary from 1999 to 2017. Together, these essays represent the intellectual evolution of an important and influential scholar told through engaging original…

Abode is a debut collection of interconnected poems that delve with vertiginous momentum into homes—both material and interior—lost and rediscovered from the inside looking in: they are excavations of nested domestic spheres furnished with the bricolage of ruin and decay. Lee takes readers through hallucinatory geographies, plant-haunted spaces, and dreamlike corridors flooded with water and light,…

A queer coming-of-age story about a young man’s journey from Canada to Serbia in search of his roots, about the power of truth and lies, and about the persistence of hope when there’s nothing else left. Orphaned and stuck in a one-traffic-light prairie oil town, a young man yearns for a family to belong to…

Jen begins life as a solitary and somewhat diabolical child growing up in a rural Nova Scotia, who comes up with – at best – unusual ways of dealing with an annoying baby brother, a depressed mother, a disappearing father, and frogs that should be toads. Through the linked stories of this collection, we follow…

A road trip through the prairies prompts acclaimed writer Sharon Butala to unearth the stories of the natural world around her, and at the same time revisit her own personal histories. After an isolating and demoralizing year during the COVID-19 pandemic, a friend invites Sharon Butala to join her on a road trip – together…

A taut and uncanny thriller about one girl’s search for home, melding time travel, magic realism, horror, and literary suspense. One forty-below December night, 18-year-old Ash Hayes finds herself locked out of her home in rural Minnesota. She seeks shelter from the freezing cold with neighbours she hasn’t yet met. The next morning, everything is…

Where Histories Meet is a richly illustrated and accessible historical survey of relations between Indigenous peoples and settlers in the Toronto region from the time of the Toronto Purchase to the Indian Act. Where Histories Meet traces the histories of the Toronto region’s Indigenous peoples and their relations with settlers, focusing on the period from the colonial…

What is Broken Binds Us shares stories of loss, absence, acceptance, and hope. Returning to the page after a long absence, poet Lorne Daniel provides a unique perspective on crisis that balances raw emotion with vulnerability, thoughtfulness, and care. In seven sections, Daniel braids the stories of empire, personal traumas, addiction and family estrangement, shifting emergencies,…

« J’ai traversé douze années de thérapie pour des pensées suicidaires, mais j’ai surmonté ces idées sombres. Je souhaite inspirer les gens à avancer vers la vie idéale qu’ils désirent, peu importe les obstacles sur leur chemin. » —Laurier Tiernan “I struggled through twelve years of therapy for suicidal thoughts, but I overcame these dark thoughts.…

Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World explores the lasting impacts of Portuguese colonial land policies. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal lenses, it highlights how these policies continue to shape contemporary land governance, Indigenous-settler relations, and socio-economic inequalities. Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World presents a comparative exploration of the enduring impacts of Portuguese colonial land…

Acts of Darkness exposes the many faces of crime, and the many faces of injustice. Some acts of darkness are brutal and unmistakable: murder, drug wars, and violence behind prison walls. Others are more calculated: fraud, betrayal, corruption, and abuse of power. And some unfold quietly, in courtrooms, in boardrooms, or deep inside Canada’s justice…

The Next War draws on recently declassified documents to reveal the hidden history of allied intelligence networks during the early Cold War. The threat of nuclear conflict loomed menacingly over the world during the Cold War. Early warning of an attack was a crucial focus for military and political intelligence. Intelligence networks in Canada, the United…

Online education is often heralded as a solution for accessibility to higher education; however, ableism thrives online. In this timely collection, contributors aim to trouble what online teaching looks like and think critically about how disability is addressed in online classrooms. Through narratives, poetry, interviews, and scholarly analysis, they reflect on disabled, mad, sick, and…

Funny and heartbreaking, these stories pick at the edge of human lives and reassemble the pieces in search of meaning and connection. A sinister note sewn in the lining of a vintage jacket from a second-hand store compels a young woman to make changes in her life. A brother discovers his dying twin has been…

Instructors across higher education require inspiring and practical resources for creating, adapting to, and enhancing, online teaching and learning spaces. Faculty need to build collaborative, equitable and trusting online learning communities. This edited volume examines the experiences that interdisciplinary and global feminist educators have had—both their successes and their challenges—in infusing feminist pedagogical tenets into their…

A dynamic framework for the development of an Indigenous strategy that shares the engaging story of ii’taa’poh’to’p at the University of Calgary. The University of Calgary’s Indigenous strategy, ii’taa’poh’to’p, lays the path for a journey of transformation and renewal for truth and reconciliation through ways of knowing, doing, connecting, and being. The Story of ii’…

From the moment we leave the warm seas of our mothers’ bellies to join the world of Alone, tactility defines the contours of our being. With smell, touch is the oldest of our senses. It is also, as the explorations in Beyond Touch Sites reveal, one of the most complex and intimate conduits of human…

When an accident upends their lives, fourteen-year-old Shiloh and her mother Ruth must leave their idyllic home to make a new life in the city. They find housing — through an evangelical church operating out of a strip mall — that backs onto the grounds of the abandoned Pacific Hospital for the Mind. Their lives…

Robert lost his father before he’d even been born, and was quickly abandoned by his young mother to be raised by his grandparents in small-town Saskatchewan. In another sense, though, Robert never lost his father, whose ghostly presence lingers in the young boy’s life over the years by means of spectral “advice letters” on how…

Despite the grieving husband’s description of the event, Sergeant CJ Jensen isn’t at all convinced that a farm fatality is really an accident. With the help of Pam Ryan, Floyd Swenson, and a neighbour who raises skunks, CJ’s investigation uncovers multiple mysteries as she moves forward and puts down permanent roots in Pine County.…