- canadian (1505)
- post-confederation (1867-) (922)
- literary (596)
- native american studies (539)
- environmental conservation & protection (473)
- friendship (473)
- native american (415)
- personal memoirs (393)
- non-classifiable (338)
- western provinces (283)
- self-esteem & self-reliance (258)
- mysteries & detective stories (255)
- canada (254)
- humorous stories (248)
- women's studies (245)
- historical (244)
- history (241)
- law & crime (227)
- pre-confederation (to 1867) (220)
- essays (216)
Somewhere
An inspiring and timely collection of stories about migration, written from twenty women’s perspectives.
Somewhere is an inspiring collection of stories about migration. Written from twenty women’s perspectives, it brings a refreshing and uniting voice to this compelling and trending topic. More people are likely to be migrating now than at any …
Heard Amid the Guns
"Carmichael captures the anguish and the wonder of war in flashes of colour, humour, and gems of human detail mined from letters, diaries, interviews, [and] her own family history." —Halifax Chronicle Herald
A rich and varied tapestry of the First World War, highlighting the personal stories of over 150 men and women from across North America who …
Railway Nation
A riveting, visually engaging collection of vignettes highlighting the rich heritage of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Since its founding in 1881, Canadian Pacific has made an indelible mark on the lives of Canadians. Most commonly associated with its iconic railway, at its height CP also ran hotels, steamships, and an airline, and had myriad involve …
The Justice Crisis
Unfulfilled legal needs are at a tipping point in much of the Canadian justice system. The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn’t working in efforts to strengthen a fundamental right of democratic citizenship: access to civil and family justice. Contributors to this wide-ranging overview of recent empirical research address key issues: the ext …
A Bounded Land
Canada is a bounded land – a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a border to the south. Cole Harris traces how society was reorganized – for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike – when Europeans resettled this distinctive land. Through a series of vignettes that focus on people’s experiences on the ground, he expose …
The Justice Crisis
Unfulfilled legal needs are at a tipping point in much of the Canadian justice system. The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn’t working in efforts to strengthen a fundamental right of democratic citizenship: access to civil and family justice. Contributors to this wide-ranging overview of recent empirical research address key issues: the ext …
Captain Cook Rediscovered
Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to frame Captain James Cook’s career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions. David L. Nicandri acknowledges the cartographic accompl …
A Bounded Land
Canada is a bounded land – a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a border to the south. Cole Harris traces how society was reorganized – for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike – when Europeans resettled this distinctive land. Through a series of vignettes that focus on people’s experiences on the ground, he expose …
Queen of the Maple Leaf
As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty emerged as a business. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers the codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that beauty pageants exemplified, whether they took place on local or national stages. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, f …
War Junk
During the Second World War, Canadian factories produced mountains of munitions and supplies, including some 800 ships, 16,000 aircraft, 800,000 vehicles, and over 4.6 billion rounds of ammunition and artillery shells. However, the end of hostilities in 1945 turned the leftover assets into peacetime liabilities. Alex Souchen provides a definitive a …
Canadian Foreign Policy
Canadian Foreign Policy, as an academic discipline, is in crisis. Despite its value, CFP is often considered a “stale and pale” subfield of political science with an unfashionably state-centred focus. This book asks why. Contributors from both inside and around the field investigate how they came to view themselves as participating in CFP as an …
The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent
Much of Canada’s modern identity emerged from the innovative social policies and ambitious foreign policy of Louis St-Laurent’s Liberal government. His extraordinarily creative administration made decisions that still resonate today: on health care, pensions, and housing; on infrastructure and intergovernmental issues; and, further afield, in d …
Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice
Many of Canada’s most famous suffragists – from Nellie McClung and Cora Hind to Emily Murphy and Henrietta Muir Edwards – lived and campaigned in the Prairie provinces, the region that led the way in granting women the right to vote and hold office.
In Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice, award-winning author Sarah Carter challenges the my …
Making the Best of It
Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities, but scholars have argued that very little changed. How can these interpretations be reconciled? Making the Best of It examines the ways in which gender and other identities intersected to shape the experiences of female Canadians and Newfoundlanders …
Paradise Won
Originally published in 1990, Paradise Won has been updated and details the epic 12-year struggle to stop logging in the unique global ecosystem referred to as “Canada’s Galapagos.”
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve is located in the southernmost part of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), 130 kilometres off the mainl …
Stories of Ice
With the state of global ice constantly in the news, one mountain journalist examines Canadian glaciers to uncover their secrets and their future.
From a mother/daughter duo who spent five months skiing across icefields from Vancouver to Alaska, to scientists discovering biofilms deep inside glacier caverns, to protesters camping for weeks to protec …
The E. J. Hughes Book of Boats
Winner of the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award
Boat lovers of all ages and people who enjoy the scenery of BC’s coast will delight in this charming gift book, a worthy addition to books about BC’s art history.
In the course of his career, one of BC’s most beloved painters, E. J. Hughes (1913–2007), depicted …
Our Backs Warmed by the Sun
For many, the Doukhobor story is a sensational one: arson, nudity and civil disobedience once made headlines. But it isn't the whole story. Our Backs Warmed by the Sun: Memories of a Doukhobor Life is an intricately woven, richly textured memoir of a family's determination to live in peace and community in the face of controversy and unrest.
When au …
Milk, Spice and Curry Leaves
"This vegetable and seafood-heavy book has recipes for all the classics . . . I would plead for as a kid . . . It's a technique-heavy book, full of reliable instructions and gorgeous, nostalgic photographs." —Epicurious
Ruwanmali Samarakoon-Amunugama's childhood memories of visits to her parents' homeland in Sri Lanka were filled with colourful tr …
Fake It So Real
Fake It So Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle—the future of “no future”—and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen look-alike, meets Damian, the enigmatic leader of a punk band. Seven years and two unplanned pregnancies later, Damian abandons Gwen, leaving her …
O Canada Crosswords Book 21
Nightwood Editions is proud to present its annual O Canada Crosswords release with Gwen Sjogren’s tenth book in the series, which features 100 puzzles and over 12,600 clues. If you’re counting, 23.5 percent of the clues focus on Canadian references, and you can depend 100 percent on Sjogren’s usual mix of witty wordplay and unique themes. Her …
The Whole Singing Ocean
Part long poem, part investigation, this true story begins with a whale encounter and then dives into the affair of the École en bateau, a French countercultural school aboard a boat. The École was based on the ideals of ’68, but also twisted ideas about child psychology, Foucault’s philosophy and an abolition of the separation between adults …
Tranquility Lost
In 1983, the BC provincial government announced plans to close Tranquille, a large residential institution for persons with intellectual disabilities located outside Kamloops. The announcement was made with no community placement plans for residents. The nearly six hundred employees of Tranquille, members of the BC Government Employees Union and th …
Notice
It’s summer 2017 in Vancouver, BC, where economic imperatives are making space less and less accessible to low-income residents. The rental crisis is intensifying, ravenous real-estate development is thriving and there is a province-wide forest fire emergency blanketing the city in smoke.
Notice is the Kafkaesque story of a man under threat of ren …
The East Side of It All
The East Side of It All, written from the perspective of a drug user and single-room occupant in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, explores the ongoing process of healing through reconnection with family, the natural world and traditional Indigenous (Kwantlen) storytelling. Dandurand’s voice is lyrical yet intimate, obscured yet sitting with you a …
Balancing Bountiful
As the daughter of Mormon leader Winston Blackmore, Mary Jayne Blackmore grew up within the closed-off polygamist community of Bountiful, BC. She spent her younger years riding ponies, raising pet lambs and playing in the hay in the Old Barn. Her family's staunch Fundamentalist Mormon faith imposed fanatical doomsday preparation and carried an inst …
Digital Lives in the Global City
Digital technologies have transformed how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, and consume. Digital Lives in the Global City examines the entanglements of urban life as digital infrastructures connect us across vast distances while also merging work with personal time and space, increasing the power of financial institutions, and …
La plume d'aigle
Lorsque nous levons les yeux vers le ciel et que nous voyons un bel aigle qui plane, il se peut que nous nous arrêtions pour apprécier son vol gracieux, mais comme l?explique Kevin Locke, les aigles ont aussi des enseignements importants à nous offrir. Dans ce livre, Kevin nous dit que chaque plume sur l?aile d?un aigle représente une vertu don …
Fossilized
Thanks to increasingly extreme forms of oil extraction, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador underwent exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015. Fossilized investigates the environmental policy trends that supported this development trajectory, such as institutional restructuring that prioritizes extraction over environmental p …
Cancer is a C Word
Teaching tough and scary topics to children, especially to the very young, is not easy. Dealing with Cancer is a sad reality that many families have to face and explaining it to little children can be very difficult--and hard to do without creating a Monster of Fear.Cancer is a C Word will help families and schools introduce the concept of Cancer t …
Le chandail orange de Phyllis
Quand Phyllis était une petite fille, elle avait hâte daller au pensionnat pour la première fois. Sa grand-mère lui a acheté un chandail orange éclatant quelle aimait et elle la porté pour aller à lécole la première journée. Quand elle est arrivée à lécole, on lui a enlevé son chandail et on ne lui a jamais redonné. Ceci e …
On Apprend du soleil
Ce magnifique livre rassemble les peintures vibrantes de lartiste métisse Kristy Cameron et les poèmes en rimes de lauteur métis David Bouchard. Ce poème sinspire des Sept enseignements sacrés et partage avec nous les profondes leçons que nous pouvons tous apprendre du soleil.
The Big Package (French)
Includes best selling children's book The Orange Shirt Story, in French Includes bestselling children's book The Orange Shirt Story, in French.
Contains our six popular curriculum based authentic First Nations education books, in French.
Softcover (recommended for ages 7+) L'histoire du chandail orange Le Cercle De Partage La Roue Medicinale La Danse …
Medicine Wheel Education 6 Hardcover Rhyming Book Set (French)
Cet ensemble comprend, Les cadeaux du corbeau. Le cercle d'aide et de partage La plume d'aigle Le caillou de guérison de Trudy Le chandail orange de Phyllis Les enseignements du danseur de cerceaux
Les cadeaux du corbeau
Kung Jaadee (Roberta Kennedy) est une conteuse haïda traditionnelle, une auteure, une enseignante de langue haïda,  chanteuse et une joueuse de tambour de Haida Gwaii  dans le nord de la Colombie-Britannique. Dans ce livre, Les cadeaux du corbeau, Kung Jaadee nous dit que le corbeau a donné à chaque personne un cadeau spécial à partag …
Le cercle d'aide et de partage
Lorsque deux renardes, qui sont des meilleures amies, se disputent, cela bouleverse toute la communauté des animaux. Kokom une hibou Grand-Duc sait exactement quoi faire. Elle réunit tous les animaux et organise un Cercle de Partage.
Le caillou de guerison de Trudy
Il arrive à tout le monde dêtre triste, fâché, frustré et déçu. Les émotions difficiles font partie de la vie. Dans ce livre, Le caillou de guérison de Trudy, Trudy Spiller partage avec nous une pratique spéciale quon peut tous utiliser pour nous aider à exprimer nos sentiments avec laide de la terre mère.
Les enseignements du danseur de cerceaux
Il était une fois, un danseur de cerceaux qui avait plusieurs enseignements à offrir sur la façon de vivre en paix et en harmonie avec les autres. Dans ce livre, Teddy utilise les symboles puissants de la danse des cerceaux et de la roue médicinale pour montrer comment nous pouvons tous collaborer et vivre comme une seule et grande famille huma …
