Newest press edmonton ab (53 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Brown illustrated card covers, very minor rubbing to corners. 315pp contents completely unmarked.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. First Printing. 159 pages. Edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Robert Kroetsch. A clean fine copy.

Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear; good+.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Clean and pristine, with no signs of use or wear. Fast shipping, careful packing. ; 5.5 X 0.5 X 8.25 inches; 240 pages.

Soft cover. Condizione: About 'As New'. Second Paperback Printing. Fiction based on fact. Takes place in a Chinese reataurant in Nelson, British Columbia. xv, 176 p. ; 23 cm. Bright, clean, unmarked copy. Tight, square binding with no creasing to the spine. Almost 'as new'. Weight, 282g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. …

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. About new book, unmarked, in crisp covers.; 0.26 x 8.64 x 5.56 Inches; 96 pages; The Wireless Room is a stunning first collection of poems that investigates the boundaries of language between the fantastic and the real. The collection ranges from studies in western pastoral history through highflying evocations of the sub-atomic particles to deeply personal poems about and for parents.…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Minor bumping to the front corners, little wear overall. Quite clean. 'After evading death while trying to save Alberta's breathtaking Cardinal Divide from the threat of coal mining, Cole Blackwater learns that his good friend and former client Archie Ravenwing is presumed dead in the shadowy depths of British Columbia's Broughton Archipelago.' 323 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Condizione: Very Good. Edmonton, AB, Canada: NeWest Press, 2012. A nice clean unmarked copy. No former owner's name. Signed by author on title page. By Author. Trade Very Good.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. ISBN: 0-920316-07-7 Gently used; light shelf rubbing, the spine is a bit cocked. Text is clean. '[This book] brings together Wiebe's early articles in Mennonite papers, the best of the interviews with Wiebe, reviews of him, and articles about his work. . . . This collection in one volume of Wiebe's own essays and interviews and of the reviews and articles by his most astute critics provides Wiebe's readers with indispensable background and with new insights into his novels.' 256 pages. Book. …

Illustrated Wraps. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. 207 pp. Very light crease at head of spine, backstrip sunned, a few light surface scratches, else an excellent copy. "Ellen had adjusted to life in a small city. But that was before Susan and Whitman Jervis moved in next door and drew her slowly into their own troubled lives. Her involvement with them grows increasingly complex and dangerous until all the secrets that lie between them are forced into revelation. But by then it is too late.".…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Canadian Edition. 157pp. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight. Small octavo: 216 x 141mm. Second book in The Livelong Quartet.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. First Canadian Edition. xiv, 281pp. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Octavo. From the Prairie Play Series: 10, edited by Don Kerr and Diane Bessai. Plays included are: Davin: The Politician, Gone The Burning Sun, and, The Great Cultural Revolution.…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. First Canadian Edition. 215pp. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Small octavo.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Softcover. SIGNED by author, on endpaper, with personal inscription. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked -- as new! Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed/Signed by Author. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Book is in near new condition and very clean with no writing or markings anywhere. Well bound with no loose or missing pages.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. ix, 244pp w notes, bibliography and index. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo: 230 x 150mm. From the series, The Writer as Critic: X. Series editor: Smaro Kamboureli.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. SIGNED BY RICK RANSON on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; slight wear to inside corners; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; appears unread; See the North as few have seen it - through the eyes of author Rick Ranson as he worked on the DEW Line and drill ships in the Arctic. In this book, the characters, landscapes, and perils of the North combine with its beauty and mystery to create rich, fascinating tales. The stories Ranson collected while working as a welder include staking out a polar bear, dealing with racist co-workers, reviving deserted ships, harbouring defeated adventurers, fighting the tedium of isolation, and welding in the bowels of a sinking ship. What sets Ranson's story apart from others is his perspective as a participant. He skilfully recreated northern experiences in strong, crisp stories that are humorous, quirky, and unique. Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; Here we enter the Diamond Grill, in 1951, the newest and most modern Chinese cafe in Nelson where Fred Wah serves up the story of his hyphenated identity, the sweet and the sour in tasty mouth-watering slices. Wah's father was a Canadian-born Chinese-Scots-Irishman raised in China; his mother is a Swedish-born Canadian from Swift Current. Wah senior ran the Diamond Grill, where Fred, the future writer and poet grew up, white enough to "pass", yet marked for life by a foreign name and a tast for foong cheng and lok bok.…

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. As New condition; After collapsing from stress in a posh Vancouver restaurant, Ted Ferguson decides to abandon his workaholic lifestyle and move his family to the secluded back roads of northern Alberta, where electricity and indoor plumbing are a luxury and surviving another winter is a blessing. Humorous and insightful, this fish-out-of-water tale captures a radically different lifestyle that many urbanites dream about but will never gather the courage to attempt themselves. Back Roads speaks to the survivalist in all of us while displaying one man's resolve to reconnect with his family, the essence of life and himself.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal wear; Humorously transcribed, this book presents the true adventures of Don 'Smokey' Patry, a bush pilot whose combination of luck and skill carried him safely from southern Alberta into the Territories, Alaska, and even Europe during WWII. A unique glimpse into Canadian aviation history through the eyes of an unsung Canadian hero.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal wear; "Frankie is part of a streetcorner band that makes good in the heydays of rock 'n roll, a finger-picking itinerant folkie in the freewheeling 60s and a budding composer of serious music in the 70s in Canada. Along the way, he passes by the margins of some of the key events of his time, his life illuminating that of a whole generation.". …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good+. Based on Bruce Allen Powe's novel of the same name; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal shelfwear; "A gripping Alberta history lesson, a sweetly nostalgic comedy and a cracking-good-murder-mystery, all rolled up into one big, bright ball of theatrical energy and verve.".…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; After a severe winter storm and extended power failure, thousands become trapped in their homes during one of the coldest weeks of the year. Alongside its bleak portrayal of social instability during economic collapse, this book unearths the powerful human instincts that convert helpless fear into the desire to adapt. …

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Fine. 1st Canadian Edition. Wild daisies in the Sand reopens a chapter in Canadian history. This book is a series of diary entries beginning in 1941, when author Tom Sando was imprisoned in concentration camps, first in Petawawa and then Angler, Ontario (just outside Marathon, Ont.) -- a young Japanese Canadian imprisoned only because he was willing to stand and fight for his rights as a Canadian.The author's story, related through a series of his journal entries throughout his years of imprisonment. This is a story of loneliness, fear, and eventually friendship and hope.230p. illus. Book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. As New; In 2007 Joseph Boyden was invited by the Canadian Literature Centre to deliver the inaugural Henry Kreisel Lecture at the University of Alberta. Boyden spoke passionately, relating Aboriginal people in Canada to poor African American, Whites, and Hispanics in post-Katrina New Orleans. At the end of his lecture he presented a manifesto to the audience, demanding independence from the shackles of North American governments on behalf of these oppressed cultures. The lecture was received with much acclaim and enthusiasm.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 108pp, 123pp. dos-a-dos printing. bw photos from stage productions. Colour photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo. Prairie Play Series, No. 15. Series editor, Diane Bessai.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. 2nd Edition. Clean, tight, unmarked; name inside front cover; otherwise absolute minimal wear; Includes: Blood Relations; One Tiger to a Hill; Generations; and Whiskey Six Cadenza.

Paperback. Condizione: As New. As New; Inspired by jazz music, but not necessarily about jazz. The problems, dreams, and desires of the "minor key" people who frequent the Combo Club may be small, but they are also intense. An oddly wistful comedy by the popular playwright David Belke.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. INSCRIPTION FROM DI BRANT on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; "With scintillating brushstrokes Di Brandt rewrites the ecology of Mennonite relationships to the land, speculates on the hybrid origins of Anabaptists in Europe, and celebrates the survival of traditional ways of knowing in contemporary Canadian literature and culture. These essays, infused with lyrical passion, will not only inspire new ways of seeing her subjects, but offer, in their radical re-vision of past and present, hope for finding new ways of being whole." - Ann Hostetler. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; The 1920s were a time of frivolous fads, shocking crimes, and political and social changes that yanked Canada out of the 19th century and into the modern age. In this book, Ferguson revisits dozens of stories that could have happened in the '20s - tales of serial killers, athletes, con men, crackpots, bathing beauties, and more - all of them nearly too amazing to believe and too entertaining to be forgotten.…