Prairie Writers

This is a selection of our Prairie Writers section. To find a specific book or author, or just to browse, please use the search box.

All the Pretty Girls - trade paperback
By Chandra Mayor - $17.00 - add to cart

In each of these short stories, set against a finely-crafted backdrop of poverty and violence, abuse and hope, Chandra Mayor provides a glimpse into the lives of girls and young women, allowing eac...

 

Cantos from Wolverine Creek - trade paperback
By Brenda Schmidt - $17.95 - add to cart

Brenda Schmidt lives in Creighton, a mining town in northern Saskatchewan. Her first book, A Haunting Sun was a finalist for the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry. An earlier version of More Than ...

 

Carnival Glass - trade paperback
By Bonnie Dunlop - $16.95 - add to cart

Carnival Glass, Bonnie Dunlop’s new fiction collection, is an examination of the infirmity of human relationships — marriages, brotherhood, friendships, parent–child relations hindered by negligenc...

 

Charlie Muskrat - trade paperback
By Harold Johnson - $18.95 - add to cart

Charlie Muskrat, out of moose meat for the winter and committed to getting some, finds himself in Prince Albert with a 30/30 Winchester under the seat of his truck, Thunder, half a tank of gas, hal...

 

Claudia - trade paperback
By Britt Holmstrom - $21.00 - add to cart

Claudia is born in Sweden, to a Latvian mother and an absent, Italian, father. As a teenage girl in Sweden, she and her friends come upon a murdered classmate in a park. Their dispassionate respons...

 

Cleavage - trade paperback
By Theanna Bischoff - $17.95 - add to cart

Cleavage tracks the patchwork musings of Leah, who, at twenty-four years old and two years into a relationship, discovers she has breast cancer. Told in fragments reminiscent of A Complicated Kindn...

 

Dancehall Road - trade paperback
By Marion Douglas - $19.95 - add to cart

Set in 1970, Dance Hall Road examines adolescence and adulthood, friendship and family within the ricochet of events through small-town life. When the death of another high school student pushes t...

 

Deep Waters - trade paperback
By M.d. Meyer - $19.95 - add to cart

Set in the fictional Ojibway community of Rabbit Lake, Deep Waters will transport you into Canada's far north for a compelling story of enduring love and sustaining faith.

 

Evil of the Age - trade paperback
By Allan Levine - $22.95 - add to cart

In the sizzling summer of 1871, New Yorkers are talking about only two things; a murdered woman cruelly stuffed into a trunk and Tammany Hall's insidious corruption. Journalist Charles St. Clai...

 

The Flying Troutmans - hardcover - discounted
By Miriam Toews - $22.40 - add to cart

A novel that is at once hilarious and heartrending, The Flying Troutmans is about a family on the verge of spinning off its axles and a road trip that just may keep it together. When Hattie rece...

 

Gerbil Mother - trade paperback
By D.m. Bryan - $19.95 - add to cart

Gerbil, age zero, has a question: where do parents come from? Specifically, she wants to know about her mother. Who is this vessel in which she resides, and why does it seem like her mother isn't u...

 

The Gospel According to Clarence Thomas - trade paperback
By Ashis Gupta - $15.95 - add to cart

The problem with Clarence Thomas is that he can get no satisfaction from the choices he makes in life — altar boy, a priesthood with the Maryknolls, Yale Law School, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Cou...

 

The Halifax Connection - trade paperback
By Marie Jakober - $19.95 - add to cart

A Canadian counter-intelligence novel with a memorable romance at its heart, The Halifax Connection brings to life 1860s Montreal and Halifax with wit, action and a finale that will leave you breat...

 

Henry Kalen's Manitoba - hardcover
By Henry Kalen - $24.95 - add to cart

A portrayal of Manitoba through the lens of its most respected photographer, Henry Kalen's Manitoba is a book that captures the landmarks, the icons and the communities of one of Western Canada's m...

 

The Hermetic Code - Hardcover
By Winnipeg Free Press - $34.95 - add to cart

Unlocking one of Manitoba's greatest secrets. The Manitoba Legislative Building is the undisputed architectural gem of Canada. Yet few people know of its occult secrets. In The Hermetic Code, wr...

 

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