The true story behind the 100-year-old tradition of the Calgary Stampede pancake breakfast — as told by the granddaughter of the legendary founder Wildhorse Jack. Ideal for ages 3-7, this charming picture book has themes of sportsmanship, community spirit, and living life to the fullest. Yahoo!…

A novel in fourteen stories, East Grand Lake is a thoughtful, warm-hearted tale of life at the lake with a big family. Following the Murphy Clan from one evening to the next, Tim Ryan captures the many tiny, important dramas that occur simultaneously, sometimes invisibly, when everyone gets together. A pair of brothers hunt frogs.…

Sid Marty is a voice to be reckoned with. Beloved for his intimate, lyrical poetry, Marty’s depiction of selfhood, connection to place and to landscape have proven him a unique and dissenting voice in Canadian literature as well as a consistent presence in the Canadian environmental movement. These are poems, often strongly resonant of western…

Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter suggests that…

How to Clean a Fish describes an extended family stay in Portugal, full of food, adventure, and the search for home. Offered the opportunity to live in Costa da Caparica for an extended period, Esmeralda Cabral jumped at the chance to return to the country of her birth. Together with her Canadian-born husband, children, and…

Book 10 in the Durvile True Cases series. In the spirit of truth and reconciliation and respect for Indigenous cultural integrity, judges, lawyers, and law enforcement officers write about working with First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples through the criminal justice system. The stories are a mix of previously published essays from the True Cases…

End Times is an astounding debut collection of stories about evangelical culture, ideological polarization, and the messiness and mysteries of humanity. A Vancouver mother convinces her opioid-addicted son to attend church, and sparks her own personal emergency. A jet-setting consultant tries to help a rural fundamentalist teen, while her own secular life unravels in Toronto,…

It’s been ten years since Claudia’s mother died after a tragic collision with a banana boat. Her kids are now teenagers, her brother’s wife has left him, and her ex has had a spiritual awakening that has him hinting at reconciliation—all things she can handle. But when her septuagenarian father decides to remarry after a…

Framed within a tale about a journalist investigating choices of life and death, the stories in this collection explore restlessness, belonging, freedom, and mortality. A prisoner falls in love with his cellmate’s fiancée and breaks out to confess his feelings. A woman journeys from Honduras to the United States in the hope of a better…

It’s 1964, and the students at Merida University in Ohio can sense that something is brewing—the campus is rippling with undercurrents of anger and alienation. As they work to make sense of the rapidly shifting cultural and ideological climate, the four main characters of In the Defense of Liberty are also consumed by their own…

Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run-ins with local Mennonites, his job working a honey wagon, and struck by visions of Métis history and secrets…

This volume illustrates current socio-legal approaches to the study of the law as a key governing tactic and a form of power that creates and perpetuates systems of domination, notably white supremacy, settler colonialism, and heteronormative hegemony. Contributors outline theoretical and methodological strategies for deconstructing law, explore the hidden violence that the law produces for…

How does a beaver warn of danger? Why do lynx have big paws? Where do walruses like to live? Canadian Animals for Kids is a rhyming book that’s the perfect way to entertain young children while they learn about Canadian animals. Children love to learn about wildlife, and in Canadian Animals for Kids the colours…

By turns angry, powerful, visceral, evocative, and ultimately hopeful, this modern retelling of Joan of Arc in linked poems casts her as a prairie-born Jeanne Dark. In tough, tender lyrical language filled with imagery and magic, the protagonist explores sexual politics, feminism, gender identity, and how we make meaning of life.…

Diagnosing Minor Illness in Children is a striking third collection by one of Canada’s most essential poets. Kerry Ryan stares without flinching at everything in her path: family, grief, dog obituaries, fine-toothed lice combs, quotidian gore, a water slide that is “not a slide, it’s a throat closing in,” and herself as mother. The collection…

It Begins in Salt, a book of poems, wanders the halls of an ocean blue-collar life while rummaging the heart spaces of growing up, and evolves into mothering, labours, and loves. The poems explore the ways the heart grows, and the tentacles of complexity grow and evolve “to infinity”. This book of poems is a…

Self-Portrait Embracing a Fabulous Beast explores the need to connect at a time when getting too close to another person could cost one’s life. The poems in this collection delve into the unsafe zones of COVID-19, climate change, and the love-hate complexities of a dangerous relationship. Yet, for Nason, there is safety and redemption through…

The European Astrobiology Institute presents 54 original science fiction stories and science essays on “alien” life on Earth and beyond. Take a journey and discover stories by award-winning authors (Mary Robinette Kowal, Premee Mohamed, Tobias S. Buckell, Julie E. Czerneda, et al.) and their accompanying essays by scientists working on the origins of life, habitability,…

body works is a humorous, tender, irreverent, and meditative examination of the human body as it passes through time, and as it is celebrated and denied. In this book, dennis cooley sympathizes with the body. These poems celebrate the yearning, laughing, hurting, tender body. Here, the body is neither a site of conflict nor a…

Rose Addams is hitting her sixties, but these days it feels like they’re starting to hit back … Rose’s daughter, Morgan, has ditched her thesis program and moved back home to Vancouver, while her son Jason’s partner has never seen eye to eye with his mother. Her husband Charles has decided to take early retirement…