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The sixth book of poems by Don McKay. In Sanding Down This Rocking Chair on a Windy Night, McKay again demonstrates his ability to transorm the familiar into the breathtaking, and to touch us deeply with words. These poems show just how much McKay can do with language. In the long title poem, readers...

This extraordinary book is a celebration –of the quirky plenitude of nature, and of the deep rhythms of family life. Don McKay writes with great technical panache. But his attention to what he loves is so constant and so generous that we are left, not with mere virtuosity, but with a world renewed.

Mel is a lost girl - alone save for the speech team and drama friends she has.Her home isn't any better - she spends most of her time shielding insults from her dad and raising her brothers and sister. She's just counting down the days until she turns 18.Then Mel meets Peter,...

The poems in Stephanie Bolster’s new collection create longings, reveries, and meditations that, though powerfully presented to us, evade the reduction of named emotion. It takes a special subtlety of writing, a delicate handling of image and judgement of details to make what is offstage resonate...

A selection of little poemssome funny, some sad andsome that will make you think.

Kate had seen her husband go to war. She gave birth waiting for him to return. Standing outside the homestead one day she sees the figure of a man stop an pick wild flowers is this Ben coming home? All she cam do is wait.

Which suggestive plant caused a queen to faint when it was presented to her at court? What was the original French name for the Great Maiden's Blush rose that had the Victorians blushing? Why are figs and pomegranates thought to be the real forbidden fruit that led Adam and Eve into temptation? In...

Some fishing trips go as planned, but most don't. As you leave home you have a certain expectation, a plan of attack, as to how your fishing trip will pan out. But you never quite know just what’s around the next corner.....

REGENCY ROMANCE - Nathaniel Bourne wants to marry into the aristocracy, the higher the better. He has made a fortune large enough to 'buy' Lady Innocence Manners but can it buy love? This is not recommended to anyone under 18 as some intimate scenes are described.

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,...

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...

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...

The Amazon and Apple bestseller. Now available in one complete book.Dermott Madison has lost everything. His wife, daughter, and his cherished home.One man is responsible: Abdul Hamid. When his Old Bailey trial collapses, Madison takes matters into his own hands.His manner of revenge comes...

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...