A family embarks on their annual pilgrimage to the cottage in Maine. In the course of their journey, a tale will be told, spun from the long absence of the family's black sheep, and from the prospect of his return. 
Garnet is the last of Verna and Allister's four children. Once a sensitive child, then a difficult adolescent, and finally a lost soul, his travails resonate deeply with his family and their own pasts. As their journey brings them closer to their destination, the lives and stories of each character - Verna and Allister, and their children Spike, Evelyn and daughter-in-law Robin - are revealed in turn, gathering together into an intricate web of myth and memory, and of love lost and reclaimed. Lyrical and deeply moving, Canterbury Beach explores the complex nature and bonds of family.

Canterbury Beach

Literature & Fiction

Simpson, Anne

Literary

Penguin Canada

This book shows the importance of shareholder interest and involvement, which both authors strongly believe will remain in the best interests of the company and the wider society in the 21st century.

Fair Shares: The Future of Shareholder Power and Responsibility

Business & Money

Charkham, Jonathan

Economics

Oxford University Press

How to Draw Wild Animals

Arts & Photography

Drawing

Demco Media

A stunning new work from the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Loop and Is.All of us are many selves within our lifetimes--one that is thrust upon us at birth, shaped during youth, and reconstructed throughout our lives. Who is this self? Who is this self in relation to others? In the coming-to-be of childhood or in the midst of illness, we face an unknown self within the one that is known. Even after death, we appear as fluid as water in the memories of those who knew us best. Strange Attractor reveals our multiple, shifting selves with power and tenderness, as if Simpson were showing us how to shed our skins.

Strange Attractor: Poems

Poetry

MCCLELLAND STEWART

The human body is a world. How it contains all that it does, how it is altered, and how it is transformed after death are the concerns of Quick, a new collection of poetry from one of Canada’s most exciting poets. From the shock of a near-fatal car accident to a meditation on the body as one world within other, larger worlds, the book becomes an anatomy in itself.

Quick

Genre Fiction

Nearly four million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, a debilitating neurological disorder affecting the memory that places great stress on the sufferer as well as the caregivers. Robert and Anne Simpson share the story of Bob's early onset of Alzheimer's in order to give families accurate, firsthand information about the disease and to give support and practical help to both patients and caregivers. Their dramatic story, told from both of their perspectives, uses journal entries, conversations, letters and prayers, to trace the onset, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease. All who are trying to find a way through the wilderness of Alzheimer's will find understanding, compassion, practical advice, and spiritual hope in this story.

Through the Wilderness of Alzheimer's: A Guide in Two Voices

SIMPSON, Robert

Biographies & Memoirs

Fortress Press

Directions for drawing elephants, toucans, snakes, alligators, and other wild animals, using a minimum of materials and a little imagination

Children's Books

Watermill Pr.

A diary in which the reader is given space to record secret thoughts, memories, personal statistics, and opinions. Includes recipes and special activities for each month.

My Secret Diary

Watermill Pub

The world has taken notice. From Alistair MacLeod's recent IMPAC literary award, through movies based on the work of David Adams Richards and Sheldon Currie, to the epic television series based on the work of Bernice Morgan, the international community has soundly acknowledged the critical and commercial success of Atlantic writers. Atlantica is the first major anthology of Atlantic fiction since Best Maritime Short Stories was published in 1988 and showcases stories by some of Canada's most exciting authors — established, newly popular, and emerging. Given the regional penchant for storytelling, it's not surprising that the Maritimes and Newfoundland produce a continuous stream of spellbinding writers. Among the stories in Atlantica are Anne Simpson's Journey Prize-winning "Dreaming Snow," Carol Bruneau's "The Tarot Reader," "Batter My Heart" by Lynn Coady, Bernice Morgan's "Poems in a Cold Climate" "The Train Family" by Joan Clark, "Missing Notes" by David Helwig, "The Party" by Herb Curtis and "Clearances" by Alistair MacLeod. Readers from "away" will recognize Sheldon Currie's hilariously gothic tale "The Glace Bay Miner's Museum" as the basis of Helena Bonham Carter's acclaimed movie Margaret's Museum. Some stories have been excerpted from novels, including David Adams Richards's The Bay of Love and Sorrows, Wayne Johnston's The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, John Steffler's The Afterlife of George Cartwright, and Donna Morrissey's Kit's Law. Remarkably diverse in age, style, and cultural identity, the writers in this anthology raise a common voice that defines Atlantic Canada. Each with an individual approach to language and writing, they offer a collective view of the east, conscious of tradition but not confined by it. By turns funny, poignant and pensive, the stories in Atlantica firmly place eastern Canadian culture on the world map of literature.

Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland

Wilson, Budge

JOHNSTON, Wayne

Choyce, Lesley

MacLEOD, Alistair

Bruneau, Carol

Curtis, Wayne

Morrissey, Donna

Morgan, Bernice

Currie, Sheldon

Coady, Lynn

Baxter, Joan

Steinfeld, J.J.

Steffler, John

Helwig, David

Curtis, Herb

Hull, Maureen

Fogwill Porter, Helen

Adams Richards, David

Clark, Joan.

Contemporary

Goose Lane Editions

Growing Down: Poems for an Alzheimer's Patient

Medical Books

Medicine

Calyx

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