Surrey Stories connect is a time-capsule: a snapshot of Surrey in the fall of 2016. The stories here were written and created on three separate afternoons at three different locations: Cloverdale, Strawberry Hill, and Historic Stewart...
Canadian literature
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Stories of the road allowance people are old men's stories, translated by Maria Campbell and given to you in the dialect and rhythm of her village and her father's generation. In the M¿Æis oral tradition, these stories must be...
- Author:Davis, Brian JosephSummary:
A copy editor suffers brain damage from West Nile virus and is suddenly filled with cannibalistic violence and award-winning minimalist poetry. (It’s a little like Awakenings, but directed by David Cronenberg.)
Mayor...
- Author:Rosenbaum, RichardSummary:
In Revenge of the Grand Narrative, the oldest man in the world, an activist with a suspiciously persuasive singing voice, and the author of the most anticipated debut novel ever set out to investigate a mysteriously synchronistic...
- Author:Wunker, Erin, McGregor, Hannah, Rak, JulieSummary:
CanLit-the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry-has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted...
- Author:Hugelschaffer, DaveSummary:
When a small fire starts to creep through the underbrush deep within a Montana forest valley, Porter Cassel is brought in to organize the firefighters charged with containing it. The fire moves quickly from bad to worse, rapidly scaling...
- Author:Comeau, JoeySummary:
Jackie has a map of the city on the wall of her bedroom, with a green pin for each of her trees. She has a first-kiss tree and a broken-arm tree. She has a car-accident tree. There is a tree at the hospital where Jackie’s mother passed...
- Author:Scheier, JacobSummary:
Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheier’s debut work out and through notions of loss. As the death of a young man’s mother instigates and informs these investigations, the realities of romantic failures become...
- Author:Poitras, Marie-HélèneSummary:
Après Soudain le Minotaure (Prix Anne-Hébert 2003), Marie Hélène Poitras livre douze histoires mettant en scène des personnages au bord de la désillusion, tous à la recherche d’une sorte de grâce, que seuls les plus chanceux atteignent...
- Author:Richards, David Adams, Steenhout, IvanSummary:
L’histoire se déroule dans une région forestière du Nouveau-Brunswick entre1960 et 2000 et s’inspire, en fond de toile, des empires à la Irving et autres grandes papetières. C’est un monde sauvage qui sent la pulpe et l’épinette, peuplé...
- Author:Chaput, SimoneSummary:
À vingt ans, Ariane Morency s'interroge sur son avenir. Son jeune idéalisme vient se heurter au cynisme de son père, un artiste désabusé, qui croit que « le bonheur, c'est une belle ordure ». Pendant qu'ils discutent, la vie va, semant...
- Author:Desjardins, SergineSummary:
Nous sommes en 1847. Alors que les lépreux sont transférés de l’île Sheldrake au nouveau lazaret de Tracadie, Isa, toujours bien portante, perd espoir. Bien que la maladie ne semble avoir aucune emprise sur la jeune femme, l’isolement,...
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"A groundbreaking anthology from territory that is now known as Saskatchewan, Kisiskâciwan contains rich, oral narratives from Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, Dakota, Dene, Gros Ventres, and Métis cultures; speeches and letters by Treaty...
- Author:Houde, NicoleSummary:
Dans ce roman, son onzième livre, Nicole Houde fait évoluer ses personnages à l’époque de la Crise des années trente, dans les villages de l’Anse-Saint-Jean et de Saint-Fulgence, près de Chicoutimi, des usines de l’Alcan et des...
- Author:Seymour, DavidSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Award
Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canada’s most talented young poets. His work has been widely published in journals and was selected by Lorna Crozier...
- Author:Christie, EvieSummary:
Gutted, Evie Christie’s powerful and harrowing debut, pulses with the rhythms of life, loss, and love. Energized with the language of now and the wide scope of popular culture, while dwelling in Yeats’ “foul rag and bone shop...
- Author:Knowles, MikeSummary:
Bullets squared everything. Wilson left his old boss alive in exchange for a clean slate. Wilson held up his end of the bargain and stayed off the grid for two years. Two years of peace until a man came calling. The man brought a gun...
- Author:Bloomfield, DacciaSummary:
A great love comes with bells... Flip is an unemployed writer with a heart of gold and limited social skills--he's also very much in love. And you? You're invited to witness the carnage' . It's a story we're all familiar with: just as...
- Author:Lavallée, FrançoisSummary:
On s’en veut toujours, pour mille et une raisons. Par jour. Est-il possible de se libérer de ce sentiment de culpabilité? En fait, pour bien des gens, on dirait que la dureté envers soi-même est une sorte de vertu. Et fatalement, quand...
- Author:Morrison, KatherineSummary:
On a 300-year journey through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States, Morrison examines national views of the past, nature, place and home, religion, violence and the law, humor and satire,...