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Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was...

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women's historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rage The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd --...

Jeannie is in trouble. After the loss of her husband, everyone around her is pressuring her to leave her precious farm, including an incredibly persistent realtor who won't name her client. But when...

Happy Go Money combines happiness psychology with personal finance and distills it into an indispensable starter guide. Each chapter provides practical advice on topics such as spending, budgeting,...

Our wily amateur sleuth is suspected of murder. When one of her unhoused neighbors is kicked to death she becomes involved in a second investigation as well. Our detective is surrounded by the voices...

Thoughtful, wide-ranging essays exploring food as a source of pleasure, practical creativity, and sustenance Food is the primary way andrea bennett connects with the world. They worked in the...

Inside the mind of a Canadian icon ?the highs, lows, and miles he conquered Featuring excerpts from Terry? very own Marathon of Hope journal In 1976, when Terry Fox was just 18 years old, he was...

First published in 2014, this tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning collection includes three new stories. A young mother intrudes in the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's...

Idaho Falls: The Untold Story Of America?ÇÖS First Nuclear AccidentAuthor: William MckeownPublisher: ECW PressPublication Date: May 13, 2003Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Author: Kirsteen MacleodPublisher: ECW PressPublication Date: March 30, 2021Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1770414738ISBN-13: 9781770414730

What's celebrated as the "worst movie ever," film writer Adam Nayman explores the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film that won the Razzie and perhaps ended its star's career. He argues that Showgirls is not so...

Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. But he never ceased doing what he did best: going...

An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick Taste Canada Silver Award Winner Finalist for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Award Nominated for the Council on Botanical and Horticultural...

Featuring interviews with everyone from Savage's neighborhood friends to his high school teammates to minor league teammates, tons of wrestlers and even extras on Spider-Man, Jon Finkel writes the...

Author: Greg OliverPublisher: ECW PressPublication Date: April 06, 2021Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1770415645ISBN-13: 9781770415645

The unique life story of late golfer Moe Norman Moe Norman has been called "The Mysterious Genius of Golf." His swing, his mannerisms, and his lifestyle were unusual to say the least: Moe played very...

With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the council and community members...

An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes...

The first women to assume the presidencies of two of Canada's largest research universities -- the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta -- Piper and Samarasekera share their...

Train travel is having a renaissance. Grand old routes that had been canceled, or were moldering in neglect, have been refurbished as destinations in themselves. The Rocky Mountaineer, the Orient...

Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize "Unexpectedly delightful reading -- there is much to learn from the buck-toothed rodents of yore." -- National...

Father Brennan Burke is plagued by guilt when a parishioner he was supposed to meet with ends up floating in the Halifax Harbor. His penitence propels him to travel to Berlin to find out what secrets...

Fasten your safety pins and spike your mohawks for another round of pop culture activity fun! Aye Jay, creator of the Gangsta Rap Coloring Book and the Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity Book (ECW 2007),...

There is no greater enigma than Rick Rubin working in record production today. As mysterious personally as the Buddhist religion he practices, Rubin has made one thing crystal clear: the records he...

An exuberant, incisive look at how Tony Hawk's Pro Skater transformed a culture Going from a hobby toy for surfers to an Olympic sport, skateboarding has had a tumultuous history. Today, professional...

A valuable discovery under the world's second-largest temperate wetland and in the traditional lands of the Cree and Ojibway casts light on the growing conflict among resource development,...

Author: Joe SchwarczPublisher: ECW PressPublication Date: Oct 26, 2021Number of Pages: 264 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1770416501ISBN-13: 9781770416505

Chronicles a year in the life of a septuagenarian sheep farmer as she observes and reflects on the cycles of life on land she's tended for over half a century. Barbara shepherds her flock and spins...

A behind-the-scenes look at over a century of female wrestling, with profiles and photos, documenting the rise of women's wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event "Sisterhood of the Squared Circle...

A charming mystery. -- Publishers Weekly on book one in the Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery series It's springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ostrich...