"A retired fisherman and trapper who sometimes lived rough on the streets, Augie Merasty was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children who were taken from their families and sent to government...

"From the province's southern grain fields to its northern boreal forests, from its city markets to its small-town diners, Saskatchewan is the humble heartland of some of the nation's most delicious food. The culmination...

A suspenseful, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives touching the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the ...

"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 lette...

Small Reckonings is a work of historical prairie fiction set in the 1920s and 30s, and recently won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild John V. Hicks Award for Long Fiction. The Hicks jury consisted of Canadian fiction writer...

Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul. The poems converse with Patrick Lane, John Thompson, and Charles Wright, but their closes c...

"Meet Sylvie -- funny, sly, sensual and flawed. She can't always count on herself to make good choices. She may or may not recognize a life-or-death moment, may or may not cancel her own wedding with a day to spare, migh...

"The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) weaves the stories of a group of women committed to helping one another. Despite abuse experienced by some, both in their own community and in residential schools, these women lear...

"In the wake of colonization, in a landscape of loss and dispossession, can we rediscover ways to share the land with other creatures and one another? Towards a prairie atonement addresses this question by enlisting the ...

"On his fifteenth birthday, Malcolm Gravenhurst is preparing to take on the mantle of Guardian, like many Gravenhursts before him. The Guardians are tasked with defending the city of Porthaven, and his family is the only...

""Lundy has entered a place where the master poets reside, his poems joining the shades that walk with them there. There aren't many poets who get to that place; it takes very hard work and requires both brilliance and h...

When 15-year-old Emmylou arrives in Churchill, Manitoba, all she can think about is getting out of town before she ends up on the wrong end of a polar bear dinner. But things are rarely what they seem in the North and Em...

"An anthology of short stories has been designed specifically as an instructional text for first-year university students. To explore the many dimensions of short narrative fiction, the collection includes traditional c...

"From the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, an engaging new novel about the unconventional Estella Diamond and her struggle with the expectations that bind her family Estella Diamond is the youngest child ...

"In her debut poetry collection, Shannon McConnell explores the fraught history of New Westminster's Woodlands School, a former 'lunatic asylum' opened in 1878 which later became a custodial training school for children ...

"A collection of poetry about aging, grief, and the eccentricities of the natural world -- a cockroach, an eggplant."--Provided by publisher.

"In this celebration of Saskatchewan cuisine, Naomi Hansen pairs recipes from the province's best-loved restaurants with profiles of the chefs and families behind those recipes. Only in Saskatchewan captures the mix of c...

"International chef Jake Hardy has it all. Celebrity, thriving career, plenty of friends, a happy family and faithful dog. Until one day when a tragic accident tears it all apart. Struggling to recover, Hardy finds himse...

"Belleville 1860: Lavender Fitch is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster, whose station in life is greatly diminished after the death of her father, the local apothecary. Her only inheritance is the family house along with i...

"Luka is eight years old when her mother disappears. As an adult, she learns to navigate the world as a single parent and travels back to the family farm. The discovery of diaries on the old homestead provides new inform...

It is the summer of 1971 and Liz takes care of her four sisters while waiting to meet the fifth Murphy child: a boy. And yet, something is not right. Adults tensely whisper in small groups, heads shaking. Her younger sis...

"David Carpenter's collection of essays explores a city boy's love of the wild, a passion that has enriched his life from childhood. At 80, this irrepressible Saskatchewan raconteur examines his intense fascination with ...

"We need to be careful that we don't hurt the gifts that are given to us.” Told in paskwâwinîmowin (Plains Cree), anihšināpēmowin (Saulteaux), and English, this simple tale of traditional teachings and values follow...

Released from Nazi forced labour as WWII ends, twenty-year old Samuel Vandenberg is quickly drafted and sent to the island of Java to help regain control of the East Indies colony. The story of one young man's journey fr...

"The exhaustive, definitive history and stories of the Cega' Ḱinna Nakoda Oyáté (Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation), told by the people themselves. Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current t...

"Words burn bright in this joyful celebration of rap, creativity, and self-expression. "Welcome to the cypher! Now huddle up nice and snug. You feel that circle around you? Well, that's a hip hop hug!" Starting with beat...

"Cecil King's remarkable memoir, from humble beginnings on a reservation to his unparalleled legacy to ensure Indian Control of Indian Education in Canada. Cecil King grew up in the small settlement of Buzwah, Ontario, s...

"Jameela Green only has one wish. To see her memoir on The New York Times bestseller list. When her dream doesn't come true, she seeks spiritual guidance at her local mosque. New imam and recent immigrant Ibrahim Sultan ...

A comedy memoir tinged with sadness. Aching for love and fame in 1970s Regina, a lost teen stumbles through dead-end jobs, drunken car crashes, and disco. He finally achieves happiness in the 1980s as a funny film-maker,...

Raised on a ranch in Saskatchewan's rugged Thickwood Hills, where the prairie transitions to forest, Willomena Swift, home from playing for the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, fin...

"On his fifteenth birthday, Malcolm Gravenhurst is preparing to take on the mantle of Guardian, like many Gravenhursts before him. The Guardians are tasked with defending the city of Porthaven, and his family is the only...

In 'Same Ground', an award-winning author goes looking for the meaning of family and belonging on a glorious wild-goose-chase road trip across middle America. Russell Wangersky lives in Saskatoon, SK.

The climate is changing, game is disappearing, and two peoples of the Ice Age compete for survival in a savage world. Keena, from a powerful band of Neanderthals, and Shinoni, daughter of a Cro-Magnon shaman, are torn fr...

Through poetry, letters, essays, and interviews, The life sentences of Rik McWhinney relates the harrowing experiences of a man who spent nearly thirty-five years in the Canadian prison system. Rik McWhinney spent thirty...

"Exploring what it means to be alive in this increasingly contradictory, unjust, and frightening era in human history, award-winning poet Michael Trussler grapples with the beauty and violence of the present in his new c...

This book is dedicated to all Delmas Indian Residential School students - "May your stories live forever". Introduces the Delmas Indian Residential School (Saint Henri Indian Residential School) and over four chapters - ...

"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle readers, Macy discovers a mermaid in the prairie lake near her home"-- Provided by publisher.

"When Carol Rose GoldenEagle was a child, attending Easter church services, she recalls the annual ritual of the priest presenting plaques depicting the stages of Christ's persecution to his resurrection, referred to as ...

"In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on the meaning of the Holocaust in the twenty-first century to confron...

"Between 1957 and 1968 the Hollywood Hospital conducted psychedelic psychiatry experimentation, treating alcoholics, anxiety patients, and unhappy couples. Its unorthodox methods boasting a success rate of 50-80%, and at...

"This extensive collection of work dating from the 1970s to the present day showcases the author's long and illustrious literary career. Currie's poems powerfully evoke the reality of prairie life, with a frequent focus ...

"A collection of narratives as told in the nêhiyawêwin (Cree) language by Elder Mary Louise Rockthunder, spanning her rich life and extensive knowledge of her traditions and culture. Mary Louise Rockthunder (née Bangs...

Seventeen-year-old Michael goes to visit his eccentric mad-scientist uncle who, busy working on yet another time-travel experiment in his cluttered lab, barely notices him. He keeps muttering things like "quantum multive...

"Meditating on exile, loss, diaspora, authoritarian law, and altered ecologies, Joanne Leow's debut collection spans from the would-be Eden of hyper-planned and surveilled Singapore to an uneasy settling in the Canadian ...