Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, mixes horror, magical realism and mystery, and was shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award and won the MacEwan…
Award-winning author Ali Bryan’s darkly comedic and fast-paced novel is set to the soundtrack of classics belted out with abandon. Calgary-based Ali Bryan is a novelist and creative nonfiction writer who explores the what-ifs and the wait-a-minutes…
Zazie Todd is an animal behavior expert and award-winning writer who loves nothing better than helping people resolve issues with their pets. Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy helps owners cultivate a rewarding and respectful relationship…
Zazie Todd is an animal behavior expert and award-winning writer who loves nothing better than helping people resolve issues with their pets. Purr: The Science of Making Your Cat Happy, addresses every stage of a cat’s life and offers advice for…
Sharon Butala is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a three-time Governor General's Literary Award nominee and is the author of twenty-one books, numerous essays and articles, some poetry and five plays. In Leaving Wisdom she explores memory,…
In award-winning Albertan author Thomas Trofimuk’s most ambitious book yet an elephant escapes from the Prague Zoo and wanders through the city, altering the lives everyone she meets. The author masterfully convinces us to accept that a bridge can…
Claudia, single mother of two young children, pines for her past independent life. Her ex, after all, has moved on to a new wardrobe, a new penchant for lattes, and new adult friends. But in Claudia's house she's still finding bananas in the sock…
It's been ten years since Claudia's mother died after a tragic collision with a banana boat. Her kids are now teenagers, her brother's wife has left him, and her ex has had a spiritual awakening that has him hinting at reconciliation -- all things…
In this incisive collection, Sharon Butala reflects on the ways her life has changed as she's grown old. She knows that society fails the elderly massively, and so she tackles ageism and loneliness, friendship and companionship. She writes with…
"There are things that it is impossible to learn when you are young, no matter how much you read and study." The season of fury and wonder, in Sharon Butala's world, is the old age of women. These stories present the lives of old women - women of…
This Is All A Lie opens with Ray leaving his mistress for the final time. At the bottom of her apartment tower, he answers his phone. It's Nancy, his lover, and she is threatening to jump if he drives away. Ray's wife, Tulah, loves snow and keeps a…
In a Spanish mental institution in 2004, a man who believes he is Christopher Columbus begins to tell his story. Nurse Consuela listens, hoping to discover what tragedy drove this educated, cultured man to retreat from reality. This Columbus is not…
