Mcclelland Stewart: 456 books
by Tim Lilburn
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
To the River is a beautifully crafted gathering of poems. Turning and returning to the banks of the South Saskatchewan River, it is a compelling meditation conducted in the presence of a particular landscape. With great metaphorical muscle, the poems move towards the inhabitants of that riverscape,...
by Tim Lilburn
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
From Governor General's Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a new collection of poetry of great scope and ambition.
Assiniboia is a richly textured imagining of a Western Canada that could have been. Theatrical, operatic -- a masque and a pair of choral performances -- the book breaks new...
The Politics of Bones
Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria's Oil
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
On November 10, 1995, Nigeria’s military dictatorship executed nine environmental activists. Among them was Ken Saro-Wiwa, the charismatic spokesman of the Ogoni people, whose land in the fertile Niger River delta has been grotesquely polluted by the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation. During Ken’s...
Storm Signals
More Undiplomatic Diaries, 1962-1971
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
In the fourth volume of selections from his delightfully wise and witty diaries, we see Charles Ritchie, the seasoned (but never stuffy) diplomat, in his last two major postings – as Canadian Ambassador to Washington and as Canadian High Commissioner to London. Full of anecdotes rather than briefing...
The Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries 6-Book Bundle Volume 3
The Last Good Day; The Endless Knot; The Brutal Heart; The Nesting Dolls; Kaleidoscope; The Gifted
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
"A treat for long-time fans as well as a perfect introduction for newcomers to this classic series of dramatic mysteries featuring Joanne Kilbourn, from "the queen of Canadian crime fiction." (Winnipeg Free Press)
In The Last Good Day, Joanne meets the tough-yet-tender criminal...
Trudeau Transformed
The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
This groundbreaking biography continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.
When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent...
A Colder Kind of Death
A Joanne Kilborne Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
When a prisoner is shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened. The dead prisoner is Kevin Tarpley, the man who six years earlier had brutally killed her politician husband, Ian, in a seemingly...
Burying Ariel
A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Joanne Kilbourn is looking forward to a relaxing weekend at the lake with her children and her new grandchild when murder once more wreaks havoc in Regina, Saskatchewan. A young colleague at the university where Joanne teaches is found stabbed to death in the basement of the library.
Ariel...
The Glass Coffin
A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
In this chilling tale of the terrible power of the ties that both bind us and blind us, Gail Bowen has given us her best novel yet. Brimming with the author’s characteristic empathy for the troubled, The Glass Coffin explores the depth of tragedy that a camera’s neutral eye can capture – and...
Song of a Nation
The Untold Story of Canada's National Anthem
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The greatest story never told, this formidable and gorgeously written biography documents the amazing and controversial short life of Calixa Lavallée--the composer of "O Canada"--and the tumult of 19th-century North America.
The story of "O Canada" is one of the great unknowns of our collective...
Dancing in the Dark
Poems and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
An eclectic collection of poetry and fiction, Dancing in the Dark tackles themes of music, culture, philosophy, love, literature, and beauty. In a series of pieces that are deeply personal though not autobiographical, Donnell evokes both high and low culture, in one moment recognizing the impossibility...
by Colin Perkel
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This is the story of a system that failed utterly, at almost every level, and with fatal effect. People died, hundreds of others were made horribly sick, and for days, no one knew what was happening, or why. There were rumours about the water, but the Public Utilities Commission blandly assured callers...
Murder at the Mendel
A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
As a child Joanne was friends with Sally Love and her parents, but the friendship languished after Sally’s father died and she moved away, eventually becoming a very controversial artist. When the Mendel Gallery opens an exhibition of Sally’s work, Joanne is eager to attend and to renew their...
Lethal Legacy
Current Native Controversies in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Canadians greeted the disruptions in Native-newcomer relations that occasionally erupted during the 1990s with incomprehension. Politicians, journalists, and ordinary citizens understood neither how nor why the crisis of the moment had arisen, much less how its deep historical roots made it resistant...