Loving the Alien

Literature & Fiction

Kruk, Laurie

Poetry

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The twenty stories in this volume are travel tales set in such diverse locales as San Diego, California, Sri Lanka, Bali, Indonesia, Thailand, Greece, Mexico, Italy, London, Portugal, Costa Rica and various locations in Canada. Yet regardless of whether Colin Hayward's other times and other places are exotic or familiar, his readers will find themselves seeing with new eyes. Prepare for boarding... Book jacket.

Other Times, Other Places: Twenty Stories

Hayward, Colin

Short Stories & Anthologies

Shedding Knowledge

Taylor, Christopher A.

Arcadia Borealis is the literary memoir a region and a generation have long awaited. One person's experiences coming of age in the 1970s and 80s among the small towns and steel cities of the rugged Canadian Shield, Arcadia Borealis is a deeply reflective meditation on time, change, and the meaning of home.

Arcadia Borealis: Childhood and Youth in Northern Ontario

Case, George

Biographies & Memoirs

You see the child in your peripheral vision, don't you? You hear the sweet voice, surely. You've got to follow it, find it, bring it home...now, right now.
The loss of a child is a parent's worst nightmare... Sound like a cliché? A dead metaphor? InHere After, Sean Costello galvanizes it again. Costello's first novel since 2002,Here After is a psychological/supernatural thriller whose laconic yet driven prose induces a claustrophobic atmosphere in the reader to match the one the protagonist is experiencing.
Following the death of his ten-year-old son, physician Peter Croft embarks on a desperate, seemingly random search for a missing child, sacrificing even his career in a grief-induced quest. His journey propels him into the darkest reaches of human loss, and pits him squarely against an adversary whose own obsession defies all reason.
Here After is a story of love, loss, obsession and redemption with gripping action sequences and a subtle supernatural underpinning. A compelling read from a seasoned storyteller, Costello's sixth novel will keep you reading deep into the night.

Here After

Costello, Sean

In 1923 Lilly Samson, a teacher in a one-room school in Goulais River north of Sault Ste Marie, contracted TB. She was 22 years old and engaged to be married. A year later she entered a sanatorium in Gravenhurst, Ontario. She died there in 1927. Before she did, though, she wrote a series of letters that her niece Diane Sims has made the centrepiece of a remarkably moving and thought provoking look at TB in Canada in the 20s, a time when receiving a diagnosis of TB, according to Susan Sontag, was like learning you have cancer today. In a combination of discursive prose, fictional recreation, forensic fact-finding and historical commentary, Sims arrays a variety of constellations around Lilly's letters. There is the national, where the 22 sanatoria across the country embraced all classes of Canadians, including Mackenzie King's brother Douglas who compared fighting TB to surviving on the front lines. There is the medical/political, where provision of TB care for all its citizens was Saskatchewan's precursor to medicare. There is the social, where Lilly gets to know Dr. Norman Bethune, himself a patient at the Gravenhurst sanatorium, their isolated community within a community. There is the personal, where Lilly, by turns hopeful and deeply angry at this theft of her life, enters into a relationship with another patient.

Life Consumed: Lilly Samson's Dispatches from the Tb Front

Sims, Diane

Margaret Christakos grew up with hills, rock, lakes and short cuts in Sudbury, Ontario, where winter was winter and summer was a fresh water lake called Ramsey. She left her home there on Wellington Heights for Toronto. From youth, to mothering, to writing, for Christakos livings fullness is also, inevitably, disembarking, leaving. Thats how paragraphs go / on the balls of their pink feet directly / into traffic. The movement is a continually sensuous wellingfrom pink, through purple, to blue. Purple is the colour of narrative, the middle place where the poets well-honed attention to language and its deliberateness shapes well the pink lyric memory welling up out of the blue shadowy well of whats in store.

Welling

Christakos, Margaret

In every walk of Canadian life--from business to education to the everyday--the reality is that increasingly youwill be in contact with Anishnaabe World. Knowing something about Aboriginal people and their reality not only gives you an advantage over those who don't, it's just plainpolite in this country now called Canada.
In the spirit of Thomas King, Drew Hayden Taylor and Tomson Highway, Roger Spielmann'sAnishnaabe World is an irreverent, teasing, hilarious, yet cross-culturally astute "Survival Guide" for Canadians increasingly aware of our country's chequered past relations between Natives and non-Natives. Chief Ovide Mercredi says "I challenge the reader to really listen to what Roger Spielmann's saying."

Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry

In every walk of Canadian lifefrom business to education to the everydaythe reality is that increasingly you will be in contact with Anishnaabe World. Knowing something about Aboriginal people and their reality not only gives you an advantage over those who dont, its just plain polite in this country now called Canada.
In the spirit of Thomas King, Drew Hayden Taylor and Tomson Highway, Roger Spielmanns Anishnaabe World is an irreverent, teasing, hilarious, yet cross-culturally astute Survival Guide for Canadians increasingly aware of our countrys chequered past relations between Natives and non-Natives. Chief Ovide Mercredi says I challenge the reader to really listen to what Roger Spielmanns saying.

Anishnaabe World: A Survival Guide for Building Bridges Between Canada and First Nations

Politics & Social Sciences

Spielmann, Roger

Social Sciences

Imagine you're a sudden quadriplegic, confined to bed and wheelchair, locked inside your head... Now imagine you're watching the person you've loved drift away, inexorably, despite your screams... How long would it be before your anguished howls became snarls of a rising anger? Now imagine what you would do if that rage, at its extremity, forced a chink in the walls of your physical prison, and set you free...to fly, to penetrate, and to possess.
A mass market success when it first came out in 1991, Sean Costello's Captain Quad has been unavailable for many years. With the success ofHere After in 2008 Sean's followers from the early 90s spread the word to his new fans that there was a world of wonders not to be missed. Except...the early Costello books were almost impossible to find, andCaptain Quad had never been reprinted. Sean and Scrivener Press decided to remedy that with a newly revised and updated version of Peter Gardner's simultaneously exhilarating and claustrophobic quest to bend love and life to his mad will.

Captain Quad

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