A posthumous collection of the unpublished writings of Robert Zend, selected by Janine Zend. Some of the short stories were written in the 1960s, others in the 1970s and 1980s. "Zend was a notably free spirit who was among us for a while and, who, now that he has gone, is irreplaceable. All we can do is read and admire what he has left us. " —Northrop Frye.

Daymares: Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time

Literature & Fiction

Zend, Robert

Short Stories & Anthologies

Ronsdale Press

A new formalism, a new spiritualism waits on the horizon. Always at the forefront, Robin Skelton takes up some of the oldest and most rigorous poetic forms to shape them to new ends. Here is an embarrassment of riches?villanellas, sestinas, sonnets, rondeaus, gloses, cinquains, and even arcane Welsh forms?to delight the most discerning of readers.

Popping Fuchsias

SKELTON, Robin

Poetry

Extending the forms of autobiography, Rhenisch explores the immigrant experience in the orchard gardens of the Okanogan. The search for paradise in the new land, its discovery and loss, are portrayed through the experiences of a young boy struggling against the authoritarianism of patriarchy. This prose memoir of unrivalled intensity and beauty helps to fill a gap in the history of twentieth-century Canada.

Out of the Interior: The Lost Country

Biographies & Memoirs

Rhenisch, Harold

Arts & Literature

In this memoir, Nicholas Catanoy recreates the diary that he kept as a young cadet in Romania when he was imprisoned by the invading Russians. Notes on a Prison Wall explores the imprisoning effects of 20th century beliefs. Catanoy breaks down the old generic categories; he asks us to read backwards as well as forwards—to find that humanity lies in the fissures of present-day society.

Notes on a Prison Wall

Catanoy, Nicholas

In the most personal writing he has ever undertaken, veteran novelist Keith Maillard turns to poetry to evoke the madness of America in the time of the Gulf War. Also included is a long poem in blank verse about the Harry Thaw trial, in which Maillard depicts Evelyn Nesbit, the eerily beautiful woman in the court proceedings. A superb documentation of America’s dark obsession with youth, purity, style and violence. Winner of the 1995 Gerald Lampert prize for best first book of poetry.

Dementia Americana (Azimuts)

Maillard, Keith

In her third book, Zoë Landale explores the darkened rooms of family myth and history. Focusing on family members from the past—matrons, suicides and brilliant eccentrics—she investigates their lives and the shadowy but potent power they exert over the present. Especially powerful is the description of the earlier women of Landale’s family—strong yet struggling to find their own voices. Burning Stone enacts a journey into the light, the generation of understanding and forgiveness within the family.

Burning Stone

Landale, Zoë

Summertime, and moving time for quirky character "Lots of Boxes." Over ten Mondays, Lots of Boxes explores his new neighbourhood and makes a new friend. When his playmate Easy as Pie comes over for a visit, and the world contains old friends along with new, Lots of Boxes knows change can enrich life with dreams, fun and challenge.

Ten Mondays for Lots of Boxes

Children's Books

Alderson, Sue Ann

T'Kenye, Caddie

In this bestseller, thirty-six Canadian war brides recount their early lives, their involvement in wartime duties, the magical/funny moments when they met their Canadian husbands-to-be and their journeys from Britain to Canada. The stories convey courage and humour: qualities that carried the war brides through the difficult war years and that contribute to lively reading today. Includes fifty photos.

Blackouts to Bright Lights: Canadian War Bride Stories

History

Ladouceur, Barbara

Spence, Phyllis

Americas

Two Shores is the first collection of poetry in English by Thuong Vuong-Riddick, a Vietnamese immigrant to the West. Vuong-Riddick recounts life in Vietnam under the influence of the Japanese, the Chinese, the Vietminh, the French, and the Americans, as well as the difficulties of living through "the Big Hunger." In the second part of the book, she deals with her second shore, her life as an immigrant, first in France and then in Canada. Two Shores is a dual language edition. Vuong-Riddick wrote the poems first in English and then recreated them in French. The poems appear en face.

Two Shores / Deux rives (English and French Edition)

Vuong-Riddick, Thuong

In Volume II of The Living Rivers, Gordon Davies explores the large (and the not-so-large) rivers of British Columbia, venturing as far as the mighty Yukon. Davies’ enthusiasm for the rivers and the mini-histories along their banks makes him the ideal guide for the fisher and the non-fisher alike—in short anyone who delights in the wilderness. Each chapter features a different river and includes photographs, directions to the river, and maps, as well as a reference guide to the types of fish in the rivers and the best kinds of lures and bait.

Living Rivers of British Columbia and the Yukon, The (Vol 2)

Sports & Outdoors

Davies, Gordon

Hunting & Fishing

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