Sparkling under steel toes

“From industrial sites to open highways, poet Christina Shah (left) turns the everyday grind of work into vivid, unflinching portraits of modern working life.FULL STORY



 

 

AUTHORS & BOOKS

Maureen Palmer

Offering a new approach to helping a loved one with a drinking problem, Maureen Palmer moves away from the traditional… FULL STORY

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

The revised and updated edition of A River Captured: The Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change (Rocky Mountain Books $25.00) by Eileen… FULL STORY

Frank Wolf

Join adventurer Frank Wolf on his journeys through Canada’s northern wilderness in his latest book, Two Springs, One Summer (Rocky Mountain Books $28.00). In under… FULL STORY

David Korinetz

In the land of Coronus, the bodiless Warlock, Gamel has possessed King Brian and launched an invasion of the city… FULL STORY

Bambi Edlund

A rat, tired of being shooed away and missing out on the peanuts given to squirrels, decides to become more… FULL STORY

Mike Deas

Illustrated by Salt Spring Island based Mike Deas, Bee & Flea and the Fall Fiasco (Owlkids $18.95) for ages 6-9,… FULL STORY

Sophie Kohn

Katrina, a spotted hyena, loves to laugh because she finds the world hilarious, but this frustrates her clan since hyena… FULL STORY

Harold Rhenisch

Bridging the settler and Indigenous experiences of the Pacific Northwest’s land and water, The Salmon Shanties: A Cascadian Song Cycle… FULL STORY

Sarah Marie Wiebe

In Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency (Fernwood Publishing $25.00), due out in September, Sarah Marie Wiebe… FULL STORY

Vanessa Winn

Victoria based author, Vanessa Winn, has contributed to writing Métis Matriarchs: Agents of Transition (University of Regina Press $34.95), due… FULL STORY

Dawn Lo

During a visit to the ocean, a curious little girl searching for a seashell discovers an octopus instead. Their encounter… FULL STORY

Karlene Harvey

This story, The Hawk Shadow (Kids Can Press $23.99) for ages 4-7, written by Jan Bourdeau Waboose and illustrated by… FULL STORY

Christine Cosack

In the quiet seaside town of Oyster Hill, a hit-and-run accident that kills a child shocks the community. Christine Cosack’s… FULL STORY

Donna Kane

A collection of poems by Donna Kane, Asterisms (Harbour $22.95) celebrates the universe and the natural world, reflecting on topics… FULL STORY

Matt Rader

Set in the Kelowna area of the Okanagan Valley, from June 2021 to June 2022, Matt Rader’s latest poetry collection,… FULL STORY

Svetlana Ischenko

In Nucleus (Ronsdale $18.95), Svetlana Ischenko explores the creative tension between her identity as a Ukrainian poet and her experiences… FULL STORY

Deirdre Simon Dore

Frida’s life takes a dramatic turn when a stranger arrives, claiming that her husband Blake has a daughter in Deirdre… FULL STORY

John Grain

This historical fiction novel, The Silver Pocket Watch: A British Home Child’s Journey (Tadpole Publishing $24.95) honors the children affected… FULL STORY

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