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Um Baseem Al Kafarneh,
I Can Do Anything

I Can Do Anything presents an intimate and poignant portrayal of life in Palestine through the compelling oral history of Um Baseem Al Kafarneh, an Indigenous farmer from Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Born in the 19…

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Shannon Arntfield
Python Love

Python Love weaves together experiences of childhood abuse, birth trauma, and recovery from the perspective of a medical doctor who is also a mother. In her debut collection, Shannon Arntfield delves into…

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Lisa Baird
When Whales Went Back to the Water

Steely, tender, and sensual, Lisa Baird's When Whales Went Back to the Water creates a reverent container for a broken world. These poems are hymns to living in wonder through loss, joy, motherhood's slee…

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Kate Beaton
Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour

Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour by Kate Beaton, award-winning author of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, explores connections between class, literature, and art from Cape Breton Island. She addresses th…

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Alexa DeGagne
Resisting Police in Queer Spaces

Resisting Police in Queer Spaces offers a compelling account of the determined and resilient efforts of Two-Spirit, queer, and trans communities to carve out and maintain vital public spaces. It charts th…

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Gary Genosko
Harley Parker

This is the first book about the life and work of Harley Parker (1915-1992), Canadian museum exhibition designer, typographer, and painter. As friend and collaborator of media luminary Marshall McLuhan, P…

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Aaron Hughes
Our Rights and Freedoms

Aaron W. Hughes recounts the complex and fascinating history of Canada's Charter and shows how it has forever changed the political, legal, and social lives of Canadians. Written for a wide readership, th…

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Glen Hvenegaard, Jeremy Mouat, Heather Marshall
Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta

Frank Farley (1870-1949) was a passionate naturalist and enthusiastic booster for rural development in western Canada. He supported and managed newly designated migratory bird sanctuaries, networked with …

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Kevin Irie
Evacuations

With Evacuations, Kevin Irie weaves a poetic documentary for readers, capturing the personal and political histories of the Japanese-Canadian internment in British Columbia during World War II. The collec…

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Francois Lanoe, Heinz W. Pyszczyk, Ted Binnema
Cartographic Poetry

"Poetry is language condensed; Blackfoot cartography is landscape distilled."Cartographic Poetry is the first book-length, multidisciplinary study of five maps drawn in 1801 and 1802 by several …

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Lisa Martin
Nighthawks

In Nighthawks, Lisa Martin traces a creaturely interconnectedness, traversing land, ecology, and other boundaries amid crises unfolding at a global scale. These poems parse aspects of human embodiment--em…

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Krista Maxwell
Indigenous Healing as Paradox

A social history of the ways Indigenous Peoples have engaged and navigated the welfare state to promote survival and well-being amidst Canadian settler colonialism.

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Harley Parker,
The Culture Box

In The Culture Box , Harley Parker applies Marshall McLuhan's medium theory to the museum, analyzes the museum as the site of many media, and specifies the ways in which designer-communicators can engage …

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Linda Quirk
Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates

Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains accidental mistakes--ranging from typos to factual erro…

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Omar Ramadan
This Sweet Rupture

This Sweet Rupture unflinchingly explores interwoven themes of family secrets, diaspora, food culture, and the impact of war on personal stories. Rooted in Omar Ramadan's experiences as a son of Lebanese …

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Prashan Ranasinghe
The Homelessness of Being

The Homelessness of Being invites readers to consider what it means to be human. This dialogue between sociology and the early and middle phases of Heidegger's writings argues that to be human is to be ho…

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Lisa Richter
Sublunary

The poems in Lisa Richter's third book, Sublunary, engage with all things under the moon: a human collection rooted in grief and renewal. Drawing together the sudden death of a father, the climate emergen…

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David A Robertson
Every Story Is a Call to Action

In Every Story Is a Call to Action, David A. Robertson explores the role of Indigenous stories in stitching together a new understanding of Canada and nurturing a collective experience that helps create l…

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Gisèle Villeneuve
Toast for Two Tongues

A notable contribution to Far Ouest literature, these nine short stories evoke the prairie epicurean and sweeten the sometimes bitter bilingual tongue in Western Canada. Villeneuve celebrates untranslatab…

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Crossing Into Canada

This book explores the compelling and intimate journeys of two generations of US war resisters who crossed into Canada in search of safe haven, and the activists who supported them. During the war in Viet…

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