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Um Baseem Al Kafarneh,
I Can Do Anything

I Can Do Anything presents an intimate and poignant portrayal of life in Palestine through the compelling oral history of Um Baseem Al Kafarneh, an Indigenous farmer from Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Born in the 19…

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Sarah Boon
Meltdown

In Meltdown , Sarah Boon tells us about field adventures in snow and ice, the tough decision of choosing an academic career over that of a writer, and the challenges she faces as a woman in science. Her s…

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Dianne Chisholm
The Waking Glacier

The Waking Glacier is a compelling, if unsettling, work of literary travel that embarks on an Arctic sea voyage as a dawning, existential immersion in the larger-than-human world. Mixing poetic reflection…

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Alexa DeGagne
Resisting Police in Queer Spaces

Resisting Police in Queer Spaces offers a compelling account of the determined and resilient efforts of Two-Spirit, queer, and trans communities to carve out and maintain vital public spaces. It charts th…

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Gary Genosko
Harley Parker

This is the first book about the life and work of Harley Parker (1915-1992), Canadian museum exhibition designer, typographer, and painter. As friend and collaborator of media luminary Marshall McLuhan, P…

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Aaron W. Hughes
Our Rights and Freedoms

In Our Rights and Freedoms, Aaron W. Hughes recounts the complex and fascinating history of Canada's Charter, revealing how it has forever changed the political, legal, and social lives of Canadians. Writ…

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Glen Hvenegaard, Jeremy Mouat, Heather Marshall
Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta

Frank Farley (1870-1949) was a passionate naturalist and enthusiastic booster for rural development in western Canada. He supported and managed newly designated migratory bird sanctuaries, networked with …

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Kevin Irie
Evacuations

With Evacuations, Kevin Irie weaves a poetic documentary for readers, capturing the personal and political histories of the Japanese-Canadian internment in British Columbia during World War II. The result…

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Mehdi M Kashani
A Tehran So Quiet and Other Stories

Focusing on the indelible effects of displacement on the Iranian diaspora's psyche, Mehdi M. Kashani's debut collection presents narratives that, though often unresolved, remain faithful to the depth of t…

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Alice Major
Triangularity

In a world defined by specialization and fragmentation, Alice Major's Triangularity is a profound, timely challenge. Through personal essays and interspersed poems, Major reveals the deep connections betw…

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Harley Parker,
The Culture Box

In The Culture Box , Harley Parker applies Marshall McLuhan's medium theory to the museum, analyzes the museum as the site of many media, and specifies the ways in which designer-communicators can engage …

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Linda Quirk
Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates

Bruce Peel Special Collections

Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains accidental mistakes--ranging from typos to factual erro…

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Lisa Richter
Sublunary

In Sublunary, Lisa Richter explores what it's like to live "under the moon" in a world that is simultaneously a heartbreak and a total wonder. Sweetmeats and ocelots rain from the sky. Pets are …

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Gisèle Villeneuve
Toast for Two Tongues

A notable contribution to Far Ouest literature, these nine short stories evoke the prairie epicurean and sweeten the sometimes bitter bilingual tongue in Western Canada. Villeneuve celebrates untranslatab…

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Braided Identities

At a time when equity, social justice, and identity have never been more critical, Braided Identities challenges us with the question: "How do I define myself, and how does that influence my health a…

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Crossing Into Canada

These powerful first-hand accounts of two generations of US war resisters track their search for safe haven in Canada and the assistance of the activists who supported them. During the war in Vietnam, Can…

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Shelter in Text

Echoing the pandemic-era phrase "shelter in place," and extending beyond it, this collection examines how writing can create, illuminate, and complicate ideas about dwelling, belonging, or findi…

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South Asian Feminisms in Diaspora

South Asian Feminisms in Diaspora explores how South Asian feminisms challenge exclusionary narratives in the Global North. Conceptualizing "South Asian" as a transnational conjuncture that link…

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The Postcolonial Bildungsroman

Offering a fresh comparative lens, this volume demonstrates how postcolonial writers have transformed the Bildungsroman from an eighteenth-century European genre meant to explore local themes around child…

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Unmasking Academia

As a global crisis, COVID-19 was a moment of reckoning for the academy, exposing deep-seated issues. Unmasking Academia uses the pandemic as a catalyst to reflect on the intensification and intersectional…

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