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No Time
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 14.00Everyone agrees: there aren?t enough hours in the day. But what happened to the promise that technology would provide more leisure time? Instead, everyone is working harder and longer than they did 15 years ago, squeezed and scattered and stressed to the point of burnout. Coping with the dizzying pace of a society drowning in information overload,... more...
The Heart of a Peacock
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 9.99In this much-loved collection of 51 short stories, writer and painter Emily Carr writes of the people and animals in her life. In her inimitable style ? direct, vital, vivid ? she tells of her experiences with Native people, her adventures with birds, her love of nature, and of her mischievous pet monkey Woo. The Heart of a Peacock affirms Carr's... more...
FOB Doc
D & M Publishers 2010; US$ 18.95Military doctors serving in Afghanistan usually spend their entire tour in the relatively safe confines of the main base. FOB Doc is the story of one Canadian doctor who spent nearly his entire tour in combat. Captain Ray Wiss was stationed at Forward Operating Bases ? FOBs ? in Khandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban and the most intense... more...
Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts
D & M Publishers 2010; US$ 19.95They met at a poetry reading, but Ehor Boyanowsky and British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes became friends through their shared ? and unquenchable ? passion for fishing. Against the backdrop of the Dean River, one of the greatest steelhead rivers in the world, the two men explored their mutual regard for the planet's wild places. Boyanowsky draws on personal... more...
Let the Drums be Your Heart
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 11.99Let the Drums be Your Heart brings together the work of more than forty aboriginal writers from all over Canada. concerned with family and days gone by, romance and adventure, tragedy and danger, these poems, short stories, articles and life stories ring with native pride and determination. As editor Joel T. Maki points out in his introduction,... more...
The Jade Peony
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 14.00Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and ?40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family. They each experience a very different childhood, depending on age and sex, as they encounter the complexities of birth and death, love and hate,... more...
The Lesser Blessed
D & M Publishers 2008; US$ 12.95The Lesser Blessed is a powerful coming-of-age story ? edgy, stark, and at times, darkly funny that centers around Larry, a Native teenager trying to cope with a painful past and find his place in a confusing and stressful modern world. Skinny as spaghetti, nervy, and self-deprecating, the 16-year-old is an appealing mixture of bravado and vulnerability.... more...
The Storyteller
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 15.95As a child growing up in the once-beautiful city of Budapest, Anna Porter ?s grandfather told her stories of heroes and strife and survival, some as old as the Carpathian basin, some still holding the sting of recent war and hardship. Some were fanciful, most were true, and all gave her a personal sense of history, both national and familial. This... more...
The Book of Small
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 11.99The legendary Emily Carr was primarily a painter, but she first gained recognition as an author, writing seven popular books that were also critically acclaimed about her journeys to remote Native communities and her life as a child in tumultuous Victoria, British Columbia at the start of the 20th century. A Book of Small collects 36 stories... more...
Who We Are
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 14.95Canadians have come to embrace their country as a ?postmodern state??a nation that downplays its history and makes few demands on its citizens, allowing them to find their allegiances where they may?in their region, their ethnic heritage or the language they speak. The notion of a Canadian national identity, with shared responsibilities and a common... more...









