Belonging and the search for home and family are at the center of the title story, "Fatted Calf Blues." Here, a woman hitchhikes home to Alberta to see her dying father.
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Author:Mayoff, Steven
Summary:Genre: Canadian fiction, Short storiesAvailable Formats:
Author:Lilley, Joanna
Summary:Endlings takes us across continents and through the long expanse of aeons to give voice to the dead.
Genre: Canadian poetry, Pets and animalsAvailable Formats:
Author:Vorst, Charlotte van de
Summary:Based on hundreds of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers.
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Author:Werner, Hans
Summary:Imagined Homes examines two migrations of similar groups of ethnic Germans from the Soviet Union during the Cold War period.
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Author:Berry, Michelle
Summary:Welcome to Blind Crescent, where everyone is watching, but nobody sees a thing.
Genre: Canadian fiction, Domestic fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Tefs, Wayne
Summary:Harlan always knew he was special, that he was different from other folk. He figured he'd found his calling when he joined the carnival.
Genre: General fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Johnston, Faith
Summary:Dorise Nielsen was a pioneering feminist, a radical politician, the first Communist elected to Canada's House of Commons, and the only woman elected in 1940.
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Author:Summary:New ways of thinking about literature and history have radically changed how we think about or even “define” a region like the Prairie West.
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Author:Bumsted, J. M.
Summary:What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott? The disposal of the body of Canadian history’s most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M.
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Author:Press, Karen
Summary:With vicious wit, K. I. Press pries open the intimacies of our lives in her collection of poetry, Exquisite Monsters.
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Summary:Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World.
Genre: History and geographyAvailable Formats:
Author:Annandale, David
Summary:When Canadian Forces soldier Jan Blaylock's father- an investigative journalist- and the rest of her family are murdered in an attempt to cover up illegal arms sales, Blaylock abandons militar
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Author:Wiebe, Armin
Summary:Showcasing a selection of stories from Armin Wiebe's 30 year writing career, Armin's Shorts features tales from the familiarly fictitious Mennonite community of Gutenthal, re-imagined ori
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short storiesAvailable Formats:
Author:Scarsbrook, Richard
Summary:Welcome to the apocalypse! It was arrived . . . not with a bang, but with the white noise hum of tabloid news and the empty promise of the internet.
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Smith, A. G.
,Livesey, Robert
Summary:Les années suivant la création du Dominion du Canada en 1867, le territoire canadien connait une expansion fulgurante.
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