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I HATE HOCKEY
A darkly comic novel by GG Award winner François Barcelo
Translated by Peter McCambridge
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“I hate hockey!” is the first and last sentence in this novel that offers a great take on our love-hate relationship with hockey. Narrator Antoine Vachon blames the game for killing his marriage with his beautiful…
Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island through German Eyes
Wilhelm Weike's Arctic Journal and Letters (1883-84)
286 pp, trade paper, $29.95, 9781926824116
Wilhelm Weike, a 23-year old handyman from Minden/Germany, accidentally found himself spending the year of 1883-84 among Inuit and wintering with whalers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. The fledgling scientist Franz Boas (1858-1942), later the eminent cultural anthropologist, hired Weike to attend to and assist him in his geographical and ethnological research following…
Soldiers for Sale
German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution, 1776-83
296 pages | Trade paper $29.95 ISBN 978-1-926824-12-3
(In bookstores in Canada in mid-November 2011 and in the United States in March 2012.)
The British Army that fought the American Revolutionaries was in fact an Anglo-German army. Britain was unsure of the commitment of English soldiers to fight other English-speaking people and also doubted the loyalty of the Canadiens whom it had recently…
Principals & Other Schoolyard Bullies
Short Stories
“Recommended!” by Library Journal
“A fine collection.” Alistair MacLeod
Who has never encountered a bully? Who has never told—or been told—a story of a bully? With an uncanny insight into what bullies are all about, Nick Fonda brings sensitivity and even humour to an otherwise sinister topic.
Everybody knows that bullying is not limited to physical violence or intimidation and that bullies don’t…
A People’s History of Quebec
A must read to understand Quebec and Canada.
The perfect gift for tourists and visitors.
Ebook Available
This lively guide to Quebec history tells the fascinating story of the settlement of the St. Lawrence River Valley over nearly 500 years. But it also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who travelled, mapped, and inhabited most of North America, and…