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Once touted as compendiums of human knowledge, the encyclopedias and handbooks of bygone eras now read quaintly, if not comically'yet within their musty pages are often found phrases of uncanny evo

In the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you study the world's surface, there is always a chance an unseen pebble will knock your ball in an unexpected direction.

Marius Kociejowski follows up his now classic 'The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool' with 'The Pigeon Wars of Damascus'.

« Dans la famille toutes les femmes sont folles, de génération en génération. Lisa et moi on a respectivement hérité de maman les tendances suicidaires et la nymphomanie.

A stunning debut collection of photography focusing on contemporary cowboy culture and the modern ranching lifestyle throughout central and southern Alberta.

In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet.

Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the

The author writes of her experiences corresponding with and ultimately meeting the man who murdered her father.

Kerouac & Presley starts in the Montreal neighbourhood where a teenage girl was brutally murdered in the International Year of the Woman, and from there it moves to Connecticut and the Abbey wh

In GUSH, more than 100 women and nonbinary writers from Canada and around the world take apart the bloody instruction of menstruation: its cultures, its lessons, its equipment, and its lexicon.

This audio collection presents Pete Seeger's spoken words as he recounts his most engaging stories, narratives, and poems through musical traditions as diverse as African music, the blues, bluegras

This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and G

This 52-minute “documentary novel” about British women who married foreign soldiers during World War II is based upon real wartime diaries, letters, photos and recordings.

An evocative blend of narrative nonfiction, personal memoir, nature writing, and reportage in the style of Barry Lopez and Annie Dillard, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American W

Ian Kinney fell seven stories, and he survived. In Air Salt Kinney (un)writes his hospitalization and recovery, using poetry as neuro-rehabilitation.