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Um Baseem Al Kafarneh,
I Can Do Anything

I Can Do Anything presents an intimate and poignant portrayal of life in Palestine through the compelling oral history of Um Baseem Al Kafarneh, an Indigenous farmer from Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Born in the 19…

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William Beard
Persistence of Double Vision

What makes Clint Eastwood such an extraordinary screen presence? Clint Eastwood represents probably the single strongest icon of heroic masculinity in popular cinema over the past quarter-century. Yet thi…

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Tommy Bird
Following the Seasons

"If you know the land, you know where berries are plentiful, where to find plants for medicines, and where the animals like to be. To me this is home. Like it is home to the moose, rabbit, beaver, du…

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Richard Van Camp, Shani Mootoo, Lise Gaboury-Diallo
Writing in Place

In honour of the twentieth anniversary of the CLC Kreisel Lecture series, three writers explore what it means to write from, in, and with Canada at a moment when "in Canada" is at once fraught a…

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Dianne Chisholm
The Waking Glacier

A timely work of literary travel, The Waking Glacier embarks on an Arctic sea voyage as a dawning, existential immersion in the larger-than-human world. Bringing episodic memory and ecopoetic inquiry to p…

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Fumiko Hayashi,
From Innocence to Corruption

Engaging short stories by the Japanese author, Hayashi Fumiko, translated by Timothy Iles, most appearing for the first time in English. Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951) was an influential and successful Japane…

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Nancy Huggett
Maybe, Cicadas

Maybe, Cicadasdives into the turbulent waters of caregiving through poems that explore how to keep loving through the chaos of crisis. Nancy Huggett's debut collection bears witness to caregivers and the …

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Aaron Hughes
Our Rights and Freedoms

In Our Rights and Freedoms, Aaron W. Hughes recounts the complex and fascinating history of Canada's Charter, revealing how it has forever changed the political, legal, and social lives of Canadians. Writ…

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Glen Hvenegaard, Jeremy Mouat, Heather Marshall
Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta

Frank Farley (1870-1949) was a passionate naturalist and enthusiastic booster for rural development in western Canada. He supported and managed newly designated migratory bird sanctuaries, networked with …

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Kevin Irie
Evacuations

With Evacuations, Kevin Irie weaves a poetic documentary for readers, capturing the personal and political histories of the Japanese-Canadian internment in British Columbia during World War II. The result…

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Mehdi M Kashani
A Tehran So Quiet and Other Stories

Focusing on the indelible effects of displacement on the Iranian diaspora's psyche, Mehdi M. Kashani's debut collection presents narratives that, though often unresolved, remain faithful to the depth of t…

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Alice Major
Triangularity

In a world defined by silos and specialization, Alice Major's Triangularityis a profound and timely mingling of big ideas about how things fit together. Religion and science are often considered separate,…

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Sylvain Maréchal,
The Woman Priest

"My God! Pardon me if I have dared to make sacred things serve a profane love; but it is you who have put passion into our hearts; they are not crimes--I feel this in the purity of my intentions.&quo…

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Lisa Martin
Nighthawks

In Nighthawks, Lisa Martin traces a creaturely interconnectedness, traversing land, ecology, and other boundaries amid crises unfolding at a global scale. These poems parse aspects of human embodiment--em…

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Peter Midgley
Eaten by White Ants

In the polyglot world of Eaten by White Ants , poet Peter Midgley explores the ways in which language can hide, obscure, and falsify pasts and heritages. He engages with what it means to learn, unlearn, a…

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Linda Quirk
Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates

Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains accidental mistakes--ranging from typos to factual erro…

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Lisa Richter
Sublunary

In Sublunary, Lisa Richter explores what it's like to live "under the moon" in a world that is simultaneously a heartbreak and a total wonder. Sweetmeats and ocelots rain from the sky. Pets are …

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Michael Roberts
Greeting Sunrises

Greeting Sunrises is a reflective travel narrative chronicling Michael J.D. Roberts' transformative 1,000 km journey along South Korea's coastal trekking paths. Driven to escape academic burnout and rekin…

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David A Robertson
Every Story Is a Call to Action

In Every Story Is a Call to Action, David A. Robertson explores the role of Indigenous stories in stitching together a new understanding of Canada and nurturing a collective experience that helps create l…

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Colleen Skidmore
Searching for Mary Schaffer

New questions, new stories, new collaborators of early twentieth-century photographer, writer, explorer, mapmaker, and illustrator.

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