Eavesdroppers, The

By (author) Rosie Chard
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for “listeners” to work on an unconventional project, he anticipates that his team of eavesdroppers will discover ...

Cobra Clutch

By (author) A.J. Devlin
Categories: Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Series: A "Hammerhead" Jed Mystery

“Hammerhead” Jed Ounstead thought he’d traded the pro-wrestling world for the slightly less dangerous one of a bar bouncer and errand boy for his father’s detective agency, but the squared circle ...

My True and Complete Adventures as a Wannabe Voyageur

By (author) Phyllis Rudin
Categories: Religious and spiritual fiction

Benjie Gabai serves out his days as caretaker of The Bay’s poky in-store fur trade museum, dusting and polishing the artifacts that fuel his imagination. When he learns his museum is about to be closed ...

What is Going to Happen Next

By (author) Karen Hofmann
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Karen Hofmann’s empathetic and cathartic novel, What Is Going to Happen Next, pieces together the lives of five members of the Lund family following their enforced dispersal after the father’s death ...

Where It Hurts

By (author) Sarah De Leeuw
Categories: Biography: general

A 2017 finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-fiction, Where It Hurts is a highly charged collection of personal essays, haunted by loss, evoking turbulent physical and emotional ...

Where the Truth Lies

By (author) Rudy Wiebe
Categories: Literature: history and criticism

Rudy Wiebe was born in 1934 near Fairholme, SK. He has published 25 books, including the Governor General’s Award-winning The Temptations of Big Bear and A Discovery of Strangers. His latest novel is ...

Seven Oaks Reader, The

By (author) Myrna Kostash
Categories: History of the Americas

Award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash is the author of 10 books, including All of Baba’s Children and The Doomed Bridegroom. In 2010, she received the Writers Trust of Canada Matt Cohen Award ...

Memory Serves

By (author) Lee Maracle
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: Writer as Critic

Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year winner at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards, Memory Serves gathers the oratories that award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a 20-year period. ...

Meadowlark

By (author) Wendi Stewart
Categories: Family life fiction
Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series

Winner of the Cover Design Award and Shortlisted for the Fiction Trade Book of the Year Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
Shortlisted for the Second Annual Kobo Emerging Writer Prize -- ...

Chorus of Mushrooms

By (author) Hiromi Goto
Categories: Fiction: general and literary
Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series

Since its publication in 1994, Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms has been recognized as a true classic of Canadian literature. One of the initial entries in NeWest Press' long-running Nunatak First Fiction ...