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Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing.

A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated.

Things aren't going Milo's way. His acting career is floundering, he got dumped, his miserable father vanished, and people keep moving into his house. He finally decides to take action - to help the only person he really likes, the autistic boy next door who's being bullied. But, well, that doesn't really go his way either.

Long listed for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Lemon is the story of a teenaged girl with the numbers against her: Three mothers, one deadbeat dad, one cancer-riddled protégé, two friends, one tree-hugging stepbrother, and a 60 percent average. The adults in her life are all mired in self-centeredness and the other kids are busy getting high, and she just can't be bothered to fit in.

Hoping to erase her unhappy old life, Hazel jumps in her beat-up old car and speeds away. When she pulls up to the Evening and Morning Star Trailer Park, where nothing turns into even more of nothing, she decides it just might be the new life she's looking for. At the center of this new life is King, a motorcycle-riding, hard-drinking, guitar-playing kind of guy. Hazel loves him to death. He spends his days fixing cars, while Hazel spends hers working at the town’s thrift shop. Evenings they spend with Spiney and Sissy, playing cards or drinking at Old Joe’s.

Ellesmere... L'île la plus au nord de l'Arctique. Le théâtre d'une tragédie humaine. Au cours des années 1950, le gouvernement canadien y a sauvagement déporté une centaine d'Inuits pour assurer la souveraineté territoriale du pays. Bien plus tard, mon frère Jess sombre héros de mon histoire et de celle de ma sœur s'y est réfugié pour échapper aux conséquences de ses crimes. Le malheur des uns fait parfois le bonheur des autres... Je suis artiste. Peindre l'horreur d'Ellesmere, l'hostile terre des sacrifiés, m'a propulsé sur la scène du monde...

Tom and Charlie are living out what's left of their lives on their own terms in a remote forest, two pot growers their only connection to the outside world. But then two women arrive - a photographer on the trail of survivors of a decades-ago forest fire and an elderly escapee from a psychiatric institution - and everything changes. And the Birds Rained Down, the recipient of several prizes, is a haunting meditation on aging and self-determination.

This is a book about women and ageism. There are twenty-nine contributing writers, ranging in age from their forties to their nineties. Through essays, short stories, and poetry, they share their distinct opinions, impressions, and speculations on aging and ageism and their own growth as people. In these thoughtful, fierce, and funny works, the writers show their belief in women and the aging process.

Denis Prud'homme est hospitalisé dans une unité de soins palliatifs. Professeur d'université, enfant de la Révolution tranquille, Denis est athée, et plutôt deux fois qu'une! Mais voilà qu'à sa dernière heure, il doute.

Demonstrating once again why he is one of Canada's most loved jokesters, Black masterfully captures the laughter that often bursts out of the seams of everyday life. From an unexpected drag race to a Google search for a picture of the illusive "Arthur the Meek", you just never know when a regular day is going to turn into comedic genius. Black provides uproarious insight into uses a matador might have for a teacup, mango, or simply some paper towel....

These poems pause for the spectacle - cloning technologies, super-slo-mo photography, narcotic cab rides - to describe a system of tripwires, pitfalls, and decoys that the notion of daily viewership entails. These poems are paeans to our facility for duplicity and self-deception, in which the act of living is like a movie we're not in.

Need Machine clamors through the brain like an unruly marching band. Both caustic and thoughtful, these poems offer a topography of modern life writ large in twitchy, neon splendor, in a voice as sure as a surgeon and as trustworthy as a rumor. Honest, irreverent, and sharply indifferent, this audiobook will "hogtie you with awe."

Liebevoll und phantasiereich aufbereitete Erzählungen erwarten Sie um die kleine Ente Erwin Quack und seine Traumreisen. Die Gute-Nacht-Geschichten handeln über sein Leben mit seinem kleinen Bruder Dodo und seinen Eltern in Quackheim. In kleinen Episoden hören wir seine Erfahrungen mit seiner Familie und mit Freunden. Dabei werden ein freundlicher Umgang, die Beachtung von Regeln, das Thema Haustiere oder auch Ehrlichkeit thematisiert. Alle relevanten Lebensbereiche von Kindern werden somit abgedeckt, sodass sich diese schnell in Quackheim wiederfinden.

Golgotha est un lieu d’apparitions, espace où se déploie un "je" massif et creux, habité. Constellé d’altérités, il se sonde, se sculpte, remonte ses époques. Il revient du passé le visage dissimulé par un loup, et laisse parler le loup.

Inspired largely by the poet's experiences as a young man working in the Saskatchewan oilfields, Mathew Henderson's The Lease explores masculinity and the roles morality, violence, and hard labor play in it. Equal parts character study, cultural documentary, and coming-of-age narrative, Henderson's poems make it clear that however we may try to stay apart from them, the stubborn and often unflattering realities of masculine culture persist, not just in isolated, dangerous environments like this, but in our very idea of what work is.

A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old dog ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings.

These are voices that have lived what others are still learning to understand. In Upon a Wishing Moon, Dennis Saddleman, Dorene Bernard, Dr. Antoine Mountain, Keith Chiefmoon, and Eugene Arcand share work shaped by lived experience and deep reflection. As members of the Governing Circle and Survivors Circle of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, they carry stories that are both deeply personal and woven into the larger truth this country continues to confront.

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and...

In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. As their unshakeable animosity spirals further each year into vendettas and violence, the community is increasingly divided and even the innocents in Mockbeggar find themselves forced to take sides, with devastating consequences.

In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant – and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her – Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards freedom and...