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Navigating Islands
Plays from the Pacific
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824896157
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Navigating Islands: Plays from the Pacific brings together three plays bydistinguished playwright Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. The islands of Sāmoa—often called the “Navigator Islands” on nineteenth...
The Utopian Generation
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781771965798
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: Biblioasis
A seminal novel of African decolonization available for the first time in English translation. Lisbon 1961. Aware that the secret police are watching them, four young Angolans discuss their plans for...
Dust-Covered Lies
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780875658834
Pub Date: August 2024
Set in Texas during the 1870s and in the 1930s at the height of the Dust Bowl, Dust Covered Lies tells the story of Frances Abbott, or Frannie, an orphaned immigrant who faces a terrible choice that...
Mary's Place
A Novel
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781496238054
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Set against the backdrop of the farm crisis of the 1980s Charlotte Hinger's moving novel explores the lives of Mary and Iron Barrett as they face the multiple calamities imposed by overproduction, debt, falling commodity prices, rural bank restructuring, and internal family dysfunction.
That Business at Brody
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781998779345
Pub Date: June 2024
The assassination of Czar Alexander in 1881 unleashed a sequence of consequences which impelled, in the next two decades, the birth of Zionism and the proliferation of transatlantic migrations. Following...
Out of the Shadows
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CA$32.95
ISBN: 9781998779406
Pub Date: May 2024
Set during the dramatic Red River Resistance of 1869-1870 and the birth of Manitoba. The novel is told through the perspective of a young Irish-Canadian journalist, Conor O?Dea. Under mysterious circumstances,...
Mr. Good-Evening
A Mystery
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781771623957
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
The open-and-shut case of the Fatal Flapper just won’t stay closed in this thrilling and immersive novel of 1920s Vancouver—another Raincoast Noir mystery. Miss Dora Decker doesn’t look like the...
The Making of Nicolas Montour
A Translation of Les Engagés du Grand Portage
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CA$14.95
ISBN: 9780776632506
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Your Absence Is Darkness
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781771965811
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Biblioasis
A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside,...
Five Stalks of Grain
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CA$56.99
ISBN: 9781773855622
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
In 1932, as famine rages across Ukraine, the Soviet government calls for the harshest punishment for those who keep for themselves even five stalks of grain. When their mother is accused of hoarding...
Piat koloskiv
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CA$28.99
ISBN: 9781773855059
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
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City Rising
From the Holy Mountain
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781998779086
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: At Bay Press
The first book in the Shanghai Quartet - City Rising - starts on the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ where the FIRST EMPEROR the most powerful man the world to that time had ever...
Friedrichsburg
A Novel
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781477328804
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Texas Press
First published in Germany in 1867, this fascinating autobiographical novel of German immigrants on the antebellum Texas frontier provides a trove of revelations about the myriad communities that once called the Hill Country home.
A Company of Rogues
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781550819908
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Award recognition for book one of the Cupids trilogy, A Roll of the Bones ***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***SILVER, THE MIRAMICHI READER'S THE VERY BEST! COVER ART/DESIGN AWARD*** This dramatic conclusion...
Voices in the Drum
Narratives from the Native American Past
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806192772
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Both entertaining and insightful, the stories in this volume traverse a range of time periods, events, themes, and genres. As such, they reverberate like voices in the drum, inviting readers of all backgrounds to engage anew with the rich history and cultures of indigenous peoples.
The Marvels of Youth
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CA$24.00
ISBN: 9781989496749
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
Set in the short window between the release of the movie Jaws and the first Star Wars movie, The Marvels of Youth is both a paean to the magic of a child’s imagination and a compelling mystery.
Navigating Islands
Plays from the Pacific
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824896157
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
The Utopian Generation
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781771965798
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: Biblioasis
Dust-Covered Lies
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780875658834
Pub Date: August 2024
Mary's Place
A Novel
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781496238054
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
That Business at Brody
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781998779345
Pub Date: June 2024
Out of the Shadows
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9781998779406
Pub Date: May 2024
Mr. Good-Evening
A Mystery
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781771623957
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
The Making of Nicolas Montour
A Translation of Les Engagés du Grand Portage
CA$14.95
ISBN: 9780776632506
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Your Absence Is Darkness
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781771965811
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Biblioasis
Five Stalks of Grain
CA$56.99
ISBN: 9781773855622
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Piat koloskiv
CA$28.99
ISBN: 9781773855059
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
City Rising
From the Holy Mountain
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781998779086
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: At Bay Press
Friedrichsburg
A Novel
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781477328804
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Texas Press
A Company of Rogues
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781550819908
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Voices in the Drum
Narratives from the Native American Past
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806192772
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Marvels of Youth
CA$24.00
ISBN: 9781989496749
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers