This evocative new poetry collection speaks with a fierce tenderness of many aspects of the poet's life: a childhood spent on the banks of the Churchill River, the death of a beloved one, the strug
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Author:Bouvier, Rita
Summary:Genre: Canadian poetry, Indigenous materials
Author:Guinn, Jeff
Summary:Based on new interviews, this revealing account of one of the most notorious criminals in American history puts Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the 60s, revealing a rock st
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Author:Arvast, Anita
Summary:The sensational story of a girl's tragic death and the whirlwind of racial prejudices that came in its wake.
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Author:Grimaldi, Jeremy
Summary:2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Book — Winner A sinister plot by a young woman left her mother dead and her father riddled with bullets.
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Author:Hunt, C.W.
Summary:Canada’s past is rich with high-flying adventures — whether it’s pilots fighting in the skies or the King of the Rumrunners fleeing the feds! Read their stories in this two-book collection.
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Author:Poplak, Lorna
Summary:Shining a light on the dark history of hangings in Canada.
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Author:Butts, Edward
Summary:Short-listed for the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction They were among Canada’s most desperate criminals, yet their names have been all but forgotten in the annals of history - until no
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Author:Bowering, Marilyn
Summary:In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees
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Author:Friesen, Victor Carl
Summary:Memories of farming in the 1940s conjure up images of horse-drawn farm machinery, grain stooks in fields, hay meadows, free-range chickens and cords of wood strategically placed for fuelling the ki
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Author:Frutkin, Mark
Summary:Of one of Mark Frutkin's previous books of verse, Poetry Canada Review said it provided "a supernatural fusion of the earthbound with the heavenly to forge the lightning of poetry."
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Author:Pearson, Miranda
Summary:In Prime, Miranda Pearsons first collection of poetry, the narratives of female identity, the white wedding, and the enshrined position of the mother are interrogated, using the lyric as a form of
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Author:Folkart, Barbara
Summary:In this Ottawa writer's first volume of verse, there are trees, of course—catalpas on stained-glass transoms, an ever-present crabappel, nameless species in whose bare branches the winter sols
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Author:Cooper, Afua
Summary:Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, ide
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Author:Nero, Robert W.
Summary:Naturalist, ornithologist, avocational archaeologist and poet, Winnipeg’s Dr. Robert W. Nero has authored nine books dealing with his amazing spectrum of interests.
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Author:Smith, Douglas Burnet
Summary:Actress Mae West once said "I’ve been things and seen places." Poet Douglas Burnet Smith might well be able to lay claim to the same boast.
Genre: Canadian poetry, Travel writingAvailable Formats: