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The Drowning Girls. Bessie, Alice, and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith, and they are dead.

Described by Carol Bolt as "a world full of poetry and ceremony and mystery, where questions can be asked if not answered," Never Swim Alone and This Is A Play are two of Daniel MacIvor&#

Rick Ranson recounts a twenty-four day shift at an oilsands operation undergoing a shutdown.

While working to restore an historic theatre in a seedy part of the city, a graduate student named Anthea searches to find her best friend, lost to the rhetoric of an itinerant street mystic.

Calgary's Detective Lane deals with complications on the homefront with the birth of his nephew Indiana, and a series of gruesome killings that shakes his partner to the core.

Broke City, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, follows young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton neighbourhood of Santa Rosa.

A fractured depiction of life after a death in a bifurcated Alberta/Saskatchewan community.

Edith Stoker's father is building a wall in their backyard. A very, very high wall - a brick bulwark in his obsessive war against their hated neighbour Edward Black.

The reader will experience first-hand the personality, characteristics, and sometimes remote environment of these healers, visionaries, storytellers, and spiritualists through Dianne Meili’s faithf

It's 1994 and Pete Curtis can't wait to get out of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Already, he's playing drums in a band whose songs belong on mix-tapes everywhere.

Inspector Coswell hunts for a not-so-good doctor's on UBC's campus.

In this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and relationships.

After a series of assassinations rocks Calgary's underworld, Detective Lane is conscripted along with his husband Arthur into working undercover to seek out links in the Mexico - Canada drug connec

Detective Lane returns for a fourth time in Smoked, Garry Ryan's darkest mystery to date.

Relatively little attention has been paid to the contributions of the CCF/NDP in Canadian politics.