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  • The Door is Open

    Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer

    by Bart Campbell ...
    Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)Finalist, City of Vancouver Book PrizeLong listed for CBC Canada Reads 2015The Door Is Open is a compassionate, reflective, and informative memoir about three-and-a-half years spent volunteering at a skid row drop-in centre in Vancouver’s downtown eastside. In an area most renowned for its shocking social ills, and the notorious distinction ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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    by Lee Maracle ...
    Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her village, on the West coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu’Chahlnuth territory.Celia is a seer who — despite being convinced she’s a little “off” — must heal her village with the assistance of her sister, her mother and father, and her nephews.While mink is visiting, a double-headed sea serpent falls off ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Turn Us Again

    by Charlotte R. Mendel ...
    Called to his dying father’s bedside, Gabriel Golden’s life is turned upside down after receiving his mother’s journal. The journal chronicles his mother’s life in post-war Britain, her genteel upbringing and her eventual marriage to Gabriel’s father, a complicated man raised in an aggressive, Jewish family who drinks to escape financial worries. Gabriel is shocked as the novel reveals dark ... Read more

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  • The House With the Broken Two

    A Birthmother Remembers

    by Myrl Coulter ...
    Winner, SFU Writer's Studio's First Book Competition (2010)Winner, Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award (2011)Unmarried and pregnant in 1968 Winnipeg, teenager Myrl Coulter found herself at a loss. Unable (and perhaps unwilling) to support her child, Myrl’s parents forced her to give the baby up for adoption. After being sent to a home for unwed mothers, Myrl gave birth in a ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Afflictions & Departures

    by Madeline Sonik ...
    Winner, City of Victoria Butler Book PrizeFinalist, Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-FictionNominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-FictionAfflictions & Departures is a collection of first-person experiential essays. However, this is not the realm of traditional memoir—in addition to incidents and feelings recaptured from memory, Sonik seeks out connections between the microcosm ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • What We All Long For

    A Novel

    by Dionne Brand ...
    Gripping at times, heartrending at others, What We All Long For is an ode to a generation of longing and identity, and to the rhythms and pulses of a city and its burgeoning, questioning youth.Dionne Brand's multicultural infusion follows the stories of a close circle of twenty-something second-generations living in downtown Toronto—and the secrets they hide from their families.Tuyen is a lesbian ... Read more

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  • The Shore Girl

    by Fran Kimmel ...
    Series Book 32 - Nunatak First Fiction Series
    WINNER of the 2013 Alberta Readers' Choice award!Rebee Shore’s life is fragmented. She’s forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Elizabeth.The Shore Girl follows Rebee from her toddler to her teen years as she grapples with her mother’s fears and addictions, and her own desire for a normal life. Through a series of narrators—family, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Yesterday's Dead

    by Pat Bourke ...
    It is the end of the First World War, and thirteen-year-old Meredith yearns to become a teacher. But she must leave school to help support her family, moving to the city to work as a maid in a wealthy doctor's home. As the deadly Spanish Flu sweeps across the city, members of the household fall ill one by one. With the doctor working night and day at the hospital, only Meredith and the doctor's ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri

    The Autobiography of Zarah Petri

    by John Leigh Walters ...
    Series series Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
    Written in his mother’s unique voice, John Leigh Walters pushes the boundaries of memoir in A Very Capable Life, the extraordinary journey of a seemingly ordinary woman.Zarah Petri was a child when her family left Hungary to establish a new life in Canada in the 1920s. With courage and innovation, Zarah and her family survived the Depression?even if it meant breaking the law to do so. In ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Sasquatch at Home

    Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling

    by Eden Robinson ...
    Series series The Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    The award-winning Indigenous author of Monkey Beach shares tales from her family, her life, and her culture.In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. Robinson shared an intimate look into the intricacies of family, culture, and place through her talk, "The Sasquatch at Home." Robinson's ... Read more

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  • A Really Good Brown Girl

    by Marilyn Dumont ...
    Marilyn Dumont's Metis heritage offers her challenges that few of us welcome. Here she turns them to opportunities: in a voice that is fierce, direct, and true, she explores and transcends the multiple boundaries imposed by society on the self. She mocks, with exasperation and sly humour, the banal exploitation of Indianness, more-Indian-than-thou oneupmanship, and white condescension and ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Grey Islands

    by John Steffler ...
    Since its first publication in 1985, The Grey Islands has become a classic of Canadian wilderness writing to set beside the works of Thoreau, Annie Dillard and Aldo Leopold. Using a broad range of forms and styles - lyric, anecdote, field notes, documents and pseudo-documents, ghost story, tall tale - Steffler relates the story of one man's pilgrimage to a remote island of Newfoundland's northern ... Read more

    $9.89 USD