God of Missed Connections AVAILABLE 0-88971-226-3 · Paperback 5.5" x 7" · 88 pages · $17.95 May 2009 Written in the near absence of creative works by Ukrainian Canadians of her generation, God of Missed Connections is a breakthrough collection by one of Canada's leading young poets. This book is profound, devastating, and draws on Ukraine's brave and bloody history as a means to explore the author’s place in the contemporary world. "This book explores a century of cultural assimilation in the West, an experience that is not unique to a Ukrainian- Canadian sensibility. In this book, I wanted to capture the sense of what it feels like to not know where you're from, to be looking for connections, and to come up with ghosts. God of Missed Connections is just the way I've gone about sifting through my own cultural detritus. What makes it through time, what doesn’t? That's what interests me." —Bachinsky
	kipocihkân Poems New and Selected AVAILABLE 0-88971-228-X · Paperback 6" x 9" · 144 pages · $17.95 May 2009 The first anthology of urban Aboriginal songs by Gregory Scofield is a retrospective of the award-winning poet's pivotal work to date. The word kipocihkân is Cree slang for someone who is mute or unable to speak, and charted in this book is Scofield's journey out of that silence to become one of the most powerful voices of our time. "I make offerings to my Grandmothers and Grandfathers when I write. I ask them to come and sit with me, to give me courage and strength. I ask them to help me be honest, reflective of the ceremony that I am about to begin. I ask them to guide me, to help me touch people. I ask to make good medicine, even out of something bad. When people read my work it's not just the book that they read, it's the medicine behind the words. That's where the power comes from. That's where the healing comes from.” —Scofield in January Magazine
	The Summer Between AVAILABLE 0-88971-232-8 · Paperback 5" x 7" · 200 pages · $17.95 May 2009 Like his attempts to swim over the dark water of the river that lies between him and the object of his affections, twelve-year-old Dougaldo Montmigny struggles against oppression, homophobia and racism to realise his love for Tomahawk Clark, a thirteen-year-old Metis boy, during a summer destined to become a painful lesson on love and desire. Like sailors becalmed on idyllic ships, this story is a subtle revelation of the emotional turmoil that lies beneath a bewitchingly deceptive picture of perfection. The Summer Between is a metaphor for the struggles and rewards of living where origins, tempests and landscape inform our collective soul. In the spirit of Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha and Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story, readers will be moved by the touching circumstances of this innocent narrative.
	Lousy Explorers AVAILABLE 0-88971-230-1 · Paperback 5.25" x 7.5" · 80 pages · $17.95 May 2009 In this collection, husbands and wives stumble into each other at the end of days, children find the wild edges of suburbs, new mothers try to navigate through a map-less terrain, and a relentless epidemic of bugs eats away at the forest. The collection explores new territory, both physically and emotionally—relocation, the north, new marriage and motherhood—in a way that is honest, raw and insightful. "In two years, I went from being a single girl living in a studio downtown Vancouver to being a married mother in the suburbs of a northern town. We arrived in the north in the middle of an epidemic of pine beetles that was literally eating away the forest around us, leaving the landscape exposed and raw. I wanted to write about people doing this in their own lives—entering into new territory, stumbling and blundering, but also opening themselves up for change and transformation, for new life." —Rosnau
	O Canada Crosswords Book 9 AVAILABLE 0-88971-225-5 · Paperback 8.5" x 11" · 115 pages · $12.95 October 2008 Witty themed puzzles with Canadian-flavoured clues by established puzzle creators. The ninth book in this best selling Canadian crossword series, with over 150,000 copies sold. Macleod and Olson's puzzles are ingrained with accents of Canadian culture, and are infused with humour: House party (NDP) Liberal-minded guy (DION) Lame excuse (BUM LEG) Pet peeve (FLEA) "I really enjoyed the humour and challenge of these (O Canada 8) puzzles. Please tell me you plan to publish more." -Brenda, B.C. Following on the heels of the bestselling O Canada Crosswords 8,, this new volume offers 75 more Canadian-flavoured puzzles. These cleverly themed crosswords include titles like "Cheep Talk," "O Canada" and "Phooey!" featuring tricky wordplay and other tests of your ability to "think outside the box." With Canadian spellings, Canadian perspectives and Canadian topics, Olson and Macleod's puzzles make you, the Canadian crossword solver, feel right at home.
	Letters I Didn't Write AVAILABLE 0-88971-237-9 · Paperback 5.25" x 7.5" · 96 pages · $16.95 October 2008 Accomplished Atlantic poet explores humanity's eternal search for a sense of belonging. Letters I Didn't Write is a contemplative collection of poems imbued with a sense of longing for opportunities lost and lives unfulfilled. Acclaimed poet John Mackenzie explores a sweeping range of subjects, from the tragedies of war to the musings of a discouraged physics major to the violent end of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. At the centre of MacKenzie's collection is a series of poems inspired by country singer Hank Williams, "an angel from Montgomery/who has written himself like a virus into music." Ultimately, MacKenzie's finest skill is his ability to transport readers to a greater context of human relationships, community, and our search for home and a sense of belonging. His questioning brings us all closer to "the fragments found scrawled/in the margins of silence, disaster, epiphany."