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Another Order gathers the dynamic and previously inaccessible works of Judith Copithorne, the boundary-pushing writer, artist, community worker, and outspoken feminist who has been a key figure in...

Inspired by the classic play by Sophocles, Antigone in Spring takes us to a fictional Qu?bec where dead birds fall from the sky, covering highways, rooftops, and parks. The citizens demand an...

Cottagers and Indians explores the politics and issues surrounding a real-life event still occurring in the Kawartha Lakes region of Central Ontario. An Indigenous man, Arthur Copper, has taken it...

Susan Crean's memoir Finding Mr. Wong chronicles her effort to piece together the life of the man she knew as Mr. Wong, cook and housekeeper to her Irish Canadian family for two generations...

Aboriginal Canadians tell their own stories, about their own people, in their own voice, from their own perspective.If as recently as forty years ago there was no recognizable body of work by...

Aboriginal Canadians tell their own stories, about their own people, in their own voice, from their own perspective.If as recently as forty years ago there was no recognizable body of work by...

This poetry collections focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) in order to re-beautify and...

An incendiary new novel based on the myth of Medusa from noted author Martine Desjardins She's been called Medusa for so long that she's forgotten her real name. She walks with her head down, her...

Mercedes Eng's first book is a risky and profoundly unsettling work of "auto-cartography," documenting the struggles and politics of everyday life in Vancouver, foregrounding the literal and...

The two one-act plays in Talker's Town and The Girl Who Swam Forever are set in a small northern B.C. mill town in the 1960s. They portray identical characters and action from entirely different...

Acclaimed Qu?bec feminist Martine Delvaux turns her sharp eye and even sharper pen on the history of gentlemen's clubs and male fraternity in this wide-reaching study of patriarchy. Delvaux lays bare...

Set in a school facing the real-life challenges of immigration, income inequality, and fears of violence in our schools, The In-Between is a realistic, relatable exploration of the complex social...

Can we have our clean water and use it too? A family and a nation struggle toward prosperity and sustainability.Author: Annabel SoutarPublisher: TalonbooksPublication Date: Aug 09, 2016Number of...

Three people gaze out their living room window as the days pass. Across the street in Withrow Park, life goes on - or is it a dream?Then comes a knock at the door. Time has found them, hiding in...