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  • Language, Diaspora, Home

    Identity and Women’s Linguistic Space-Making

    by Heather Robinson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
    This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gate-keepers of family languages towards creating a sense of home.The volume features an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on work from narrative, storytelling, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Translingual Identities and Transnational Realities in the U.S. College Classroom

    by Heather Robinson, Jonathan Hall, Nela Navarro ...
    Exploring the roles of students’ pluralistic linguistic and transnational identities at the university level, this book offers a novel approach to translanguaging by highlighting students’ perspectives, voices, and agency as integral to the subject. Providing an original reconsideration of the impact of translanguaging, this book examines both transnationality and translinguality as ubiquitous ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Luminous Ink

    Writers on Writing in Canada

    by Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Thien, M. G. Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Pascale Quiviger, Nino Ricci, Sheila Fischman, Heather O'Neill, Camilla Gibb, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle, Rawi Hage, Michael Helm, Lisa Moore, Rita Wong, Hiromi Goto, George Elliott Clarke, Nicole Brossard, Judith Thompson, David Chariandy, Richard Van Camp, Marie-Hélène Poitras, Stephen Henighan, Greg Hollingshead, Michael Ondaatje, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ...
    Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an introduction by the editors, Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Tessa McWatt.Contributors include: ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Ethics of Fur

    Religious, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives

    by Letícia Albuquerque, Jess Beaulieu, Sidney Blankenship, Adam Bridgen, Simon Brooman, Jen Clements, Chloe Gleichman, Robyn Hederman, Linda M. Johnson, Justin Marceau, Kimberly Moore, Heather Pickett, Frances M. C. Robinson, Kurt Remele, Kate Sanford, Gabriela Franziska Schoch Santos Carvalho, Rebecca Rose Stanton, Ambrose Tinarwo, K. York ...
    This is the first multidisciplinary book that addresses the ethics of fur. Whatever might have been true of the past, the production of fur is now morally problematic in terms of both necessity and suffering. There is no necessity in killing animals for nonessential purposes, such as adornment, fashion, or vanity. The argument for utility simply doesn’t hold up. Alternative clothing is now readily ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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    No Letter In Your Pocket

    How a Daughter Chose Love and Forgiveness to Heal from Incest

    by Heather Victoria Conn, Emmett Robinson Smith ...
    Narrated by Heather Victoria Conn ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    Incest denial and sexual assaults disrupt a young woman's solo spiritual quest and her two romantic adventures in India in 1990-91. Two decades later, after profound healing, she's resilient at mid-life. Finding the love and intimacy she craves, she can, at last, forgive her dying father—and her mom, for her decades of silence. Unlike many stories of healing and spiritual discovery, No Letter in ... Read more

    Was $33.99 CAD Now $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rock Brands

    Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture

    by Jeremy V. Adolphson, Bob Batchelor, Charles Conaway, Daniel Cochece Davis, Bryan P. Delaney, Heidi M. Kettler, Jordan McClain, Mary Nash-Wood, Staci Parks, Heather Pinson, Dave Robinson, Alison F. Slade, Deborah Clark Vance, Hazel James Cole, Michael Bertrand, Dedria Givens-Carroll, Jacqueline Lambiase, Mary Beth Ray ...
    Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, edited by Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, is an edited collection that explores how different genres of popular music are branded and marketed today.The book's core objectives are addressed over three sections. In the first part of Rock Brands, the authors examine how established mainstream artists/bands are continuing to market themselves in ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Forest Baby Read-Along

    by Laurie Elmquist ...
    Illustrated by Shantala Robinson ...
    From a carrier, a baby peers out at the trail.Leaves rustle overhead, and a turtle stretches toward the sun. Everything shimmers with light, including the jeweled wings of a dragonfly and the star-shaped lilies. This delightful board book takes the reader on a hike accented by the soft sound of footsteps on the trail and grounded by the rhythmic rocking of mother and baby moving through the forest ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Language of the Night

    Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction.“We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.” ... Read more

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  • Black Water

    Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory

    by David A. Robertson ...
    A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Book of the YearA CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the YearA Maclean’s 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter“An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart openand with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family,identity and love.” —Cherie DimalineIn this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up awayfrom his.. ... Read more

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  • The Librarianist

    A Novel

    by Patrick deWitt ...
    THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner, 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for HumourWinner, Ken Kesey Award for FictionFrom bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself.Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his so... ... Read more

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  • The North-West Is Our Mother

    The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation

    by Jean Teillet ...
    There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous ... Read more

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  • Fire Weather

    The Making of a Beast

    by John Vaillant ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing • Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize • Winner of the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize • Winner of the 2024 Lane Anderson Award • Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction • Finalist for the National Book Award in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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