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In a series of reflections focused on his hard-working Mennonite family and touching on childhood exploits from shoplifting and go-kart racing to the fear of dying (which arises during the rehearsal for a school Christmas concert), Lloyd Ratzlaff takes readers on a...
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Thistledown Press
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2015-03-15
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Every day, for love, I trusted my surrogate mother to see through the day and hold on to my journey, with bravery. Today, through my diary, I share with you my sor-rows, my fears, my joys… By means of courage, love and faith; The wish to live, to give life and to make...
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Les Éditions du Net
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2013-12-18
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"May you live in interesting times." So goes the ancient Chinese curse. In Quebec, we are always living in "interesting" times. Where else in Canada, perhaps even the world, do you have official language police that patrol the highways and byways of the province looking...
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Signature Editions
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2013-11-05
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Black Teeth is a compelling collection of linked stories that explore growing up in Winnipeg's famously multicultural North End through its 1960s Golden Age and beyond, examining the strange dual legacy of that experience. While urban ethnic mixes and immigrant...
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Signature Editions
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2012-12-07
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At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers brings together a series of essays by Ruth Panofsky that probe the articulation of Jewishness and femaleness through the lens of literature. Showing how female Jewish identity is constructed in Canadian prose...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2012-11-01
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At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers brings together a series of essays by Ruth Panofsky that probe the articulation of Jewishness and femaleness through the lens of literature. Showing how female Jewish identity is constructed in Canadian prose...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2012-11-01
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Winner, City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
Finalist, Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
Afflictions & Departures is a collection of first-person experiential essays. However, this is not the realm...
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Anvil Press
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2012-09-01
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Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in exploration, from northern rivers such as the Nahanni and the Liard, to the foothills of the Rockies, and he recorded his...
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Touchwood Editions
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2011-07-06
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Writing, for Michael Snow, is as much a form of “art-making” as the broad range of visual art activities for which he is renowned, including the “Walking Woman” series and the film Wavelength. Conversely, many of the texts included in this anthology are as significant...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2010-10-30
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Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature. Works by writers of historical fiction (from early practitioners such as John Richardson to contemporary figures such...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2010-10-04
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Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2010-06-09
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New Women is an anthology of short fiction written by Canadian women between 1900 and 1920. The carefully selected stories by writers such as L.M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, and Marjorie Pickthall provide dramatic and imaginative glimpses of Canadian society and of the...
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University of Ottawa Press
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1997-10-18
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A student at McGill in the mid-1950s, Marian Engel wrote her M.A. thesis under the direction of Hugh MacLennan. Their work together became the basis of a correspondence, the MacLennan half of which survives and is detailed here. Both personal and professional in nature,...
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University of Ottawa Press
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1995-01-01
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Forest and other Gleanings reclaims for the contemporary reader a number of stories and sketches written by Catharine Parr Traill after her emigration to Canada in 1832. While most pieces collected here appeared in magazines in Britain, the United States, and Canada, a...
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University of Ottawa Press
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1994-01-01
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Pioneering Women is an anthology of short fiction written before 1880 by Canadian women, including Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, and Rosanna Mullins Leprohon. From the Maritimes to Upper Canada, from backwoods to the drawing room, this collection demonstrates...
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University of Ottawa Press
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1993-01-01
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The Gay Grey Moose is a collection of essays that presents a comprehensive view of English poetry in Canada from the early colonial period to the Post-Modern era. It offers fresh contexts to better understand and discuss three centuries of English Canadian poetry. Both...
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University of Ottawa Press
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1992-01-01
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Twelve essays are presented by outstanding authorities in Nordic medieval studies. These essays range from treatment of broad aspects of the Edda, to consideration of single poems, to analysis of parts of specific works. An attractive and important collection for every...
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University of Manitoba Press
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1983-12-01
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How encounters with others shape the way we encounter ourselves; and the power behind it.
Wholeheartedly's first 20 editions, lovingly curated and sampled in this volume, accompanied by photographs.
Stories captured in reflective, essayistic form and on camera.
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-12-05
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La tregua – Primo Levi : Il ritorno alla vita dopo l’orrore: un viaggio tra speranza, memoria e identità Un’opera intensa e umanissima, in cui Primo Levi racconta l’odissea del ritorno da Auschwitz, attraversando un’Europa in macerie ma ancora capace di solidarietà e...
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Lecturae.it
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2025-07-11
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Il partigiano Johnny – Beppe Fenoglio : La Resistenza vissuta da dentro: un eroe solitario in cerca di verità, giustizia e identità Un romanzo epico, realistico e profondamente umano, che racconta la guerra partigiana nelle Langhe con sguardo lucido, linguaggio unico e...
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Lecturae.it
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2025-07-11
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