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Douglas & McIntyre

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future by Drew Hayden Taylor
What Comes from Spirit by Richard Wagamese and Drew Hayden Taylor
Tainna: The Unseen Ones. by Norma Dunning
The Octopus Has Three Hearts by Rachel Rose
Open Every Window by Jane Munro
The Wild Heavens by Sarah Louise Butler
The House the Spirit Builds by Lorna Crozier, Peter Coffman and Diane Laundy
The Unceasing Storm: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Katherine Luo
Moccasin Square Gardens by Richard Van Camp
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod
In Valhalla's Shadows by W. D. Valgardson
A Mariner's Guide to Self Sabotage by Bill Gaston
Collected Tarts and Other Indelicacies by Tabatha Southey
The Lesser Blessed (20th Anniversary Special Edition) by Richard Van Camp
The Heaviness of Things That Float by Jennifer Manuel
Speakeasy by Alisa Smith
Take Us to Your Chief and Other Stories by Drew Hayden Taylor
The Shadows We Mistake for Love by Tom Wayman
White Eskimo by Stephen R. Bown
The Horrors: An A to Z of Funny Thoughts on Awful Things by Charles Demers
Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird by Armand Garnet Ruffo
All-Day Breakfast by Adam Lewis Schroeder
Peace Pipe Dreams: The Truth about Lies about Indians by Darrell Dennis
Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life by David Stouck
Me Artsy by Drew Hayden Taylor
Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
The Future and Why We Should Avoid It: Killer Robots, the Apocalypse, and Other Topics of Mild Concern by Scott Feschuk
Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott by Mark Abley
Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley by Derek Hayes
One Story, One Song by Richard Wagamese
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Glass Boys by Nicole Lundrigan
Defiant Spirits by Ross King
Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment by Michael Nicholl Yahgulanaas
A Drifting Year by Dany Laferrière and David Toby Homel
Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906 by Douglas Cole
Desire in Seven Voices by Lorna Crozier
Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 by Stephen R. Bown
Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps by Derek Hayes
Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journal of Emily Carr and Other Writings by Susan Crean
Thunder on the Tundra: Inuit Quajimajatuqangit of the Bathurst Cariboo by Natasha Thorpe, Naikak Hakongak, Sandra Eyegetok and Kitikmeot Elders
Bill Reid by Doris Shadbolt
Alex Colville: Return by Tom Smart
Early in the Season: A British Columbia Journal by Edward Hoagland
Where the Pavement Ends: Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation by Marie Wadden
Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality by Drew Hayden Taylor
The Silent Raga by Ameen Merchant
The Storyteller by Anna Porter
Intent for a Nation by Michael Byers
Emily Carr by Ian M. Thom, Charles C. Hill and Johanne Lamoureux
A Good Death by Gil Courtemanche and Wayne Grady
Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat: A Celebration of Contemporary Maori & Northwest Coast Art by Nigel Reading and Gary Wyatt
City Making in Paradise: Nine Decisions that Saved Vancouver by Mark Harcourt, Ken Cameron and Sean Rossiter
Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver by Paul Yee
Historical Atlas of the Arctic by Derek Hayes
Lightning by Fred Stenson
Klee Wyck by Emily Carr
Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures by Wade Davis
The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle by Monique Proulx, David Toby Homel and Fred A. Reed
The Speaking Cure by David Toby Homel
Boy O'Boy by Brian Doyle
Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journal ofEmily Carr and Other Writings by Linda Morra
Aurora Montrealis by Monique Proulx
The Trade by Fred Stenson
The Clouded Leopard: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire by Wade Davis
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage by James P. Delgado
Mythic Beings: Spirit Art of the Northwest Coast by Gary Wyatt
A Secret Between Us by Donald Winkler and Daniel Poliquin
Ingratitude by Ying Chen and Carol Volk
Train Country: An Illustrated History of Canadian National Railways by Donald MacKay and Lorne Perry
Stones of the Dalai Lama by Ken Mitchell
Lessons from Mother Earth by Elaine McLeod and Colleen Wood
Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories by Paul Yee
The Art Room by Susan Vande Griek and Pascal Milelli
The Miss Hereford Stories by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Desire in Seven Voices by Carolyne Van Der Meer
The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
The Gentle Anarchist: A Life of George Woodcock by Douglas Fetherling
Heart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home by Lawrence O'Toole
To Be There with You by Gayla Reid
Indian Artists at Work by Ulli Steltzer
The Little Rooster and the Diamond Button by Celia Barker Lottridge and Joanne Fitzgerald
House Calls: The True Story of a Pioneer Doctor by Ainslie Manson and Mary Jane Gerber
Frances by W. D. Valgardson
The Great Canoe: A Karina Legend by Maria Elena Maggi, Gloria Calderon and Elisa Amado
The Pot of Wisdom by Adwoa Badoe and Baba Wagué Diakité
The Maestro by Tim Wynne-Jones
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
The Projectionist by Michael Helm
Eye Wuz Here: Stories By Women Writers Under 30 by Shannon Cooley
Haida Art by George F. MacDonald
The Mennonites: A Pictorial History of Their Lives in Canada by Andreas Schroeder
Revenant by Tristan Hughes
Tom Thomson by Dennis Reid
The Seven Journeys of Emily Carr by Doris Shadbolt
Necessary Betrayals by Guillaume Vigneault
July Nights and Other Stories by J. A. Hamilton
Inuksuit: Silent Messengers of the Artie by Norman Hallendy
Invisible Man at the Window by Monique Proulx and Matt Cohen
From the Land: Two Hundred Years of Dene Clothing by Judy Thompson
Spirit Faces: Contemporary Masks of the Northwest Coast by Gary Wyatt
Dobryd by Ann Charney
The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
Eagle Transforming: The Art of Robert Davidson by Ulli Steltzer and Robert Davidson
Khot-La-Cha: The Autobiography of Chief Simon Baker by Verna J. Kirkness
Inuit Women Artists: Voices from Cape Dorset by Odette Leroux and et al.
Shelby by Pete McCormack
No Forwarding Address by Elisabeth Bowers
Healing the Dead by D. F. Bailey
The Grave by James Heneghan
Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe by Myrna Kostash
Many-Mouthed Birds by Bennett Lee and Jim Wong Chu
Malaspina & Galiano: Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast 1791 & 1792 by Donald C. Cutter
Journey with My Selves: A Memoir, 1909-1963 by Dorothy Livesay
Disappearing Moon Café by SKY Lee
Bad Boy by Diana Wieler
Onley's Artic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Artic by Toni Onley
Tales from Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World by Paul Yee and Simon Ng
Tales from Gold Mountain; Stories of the Chinese in the New World
Walking the Line: Travels along the Canadian/American Border by Marian Botsford Fraser
Ida and the Wool Smugglers by Sue Ann Alderson and Ann Blades
A Doctor's Calling by Morris Gibson
A Candle for Christmas by Jean Speare and Ann Blades
I'll Make You Small by Tim Wynne-Jones and Maryann Kovalski
Mischief City by Tim Wynne-Jones and VictoR GAD
Sun God, Moon Witch by Welwyn Wilton Katz
The Baby Project by Sarah Ellis
Vancouver: Soul of a City by Gary Geddes
The Unfinished Country by Bruce Hutchison
Big Bear: The End of Freedom by Hugh A. Dempsey
Black Wolf: The Life of Ernest Thompson Seton by Betty Keller
Islands at the Edge: Preserving the Queen Charlotte Islands Wilderness by Laurence (Laurie) Ricou
Western Canada: An Outline History by J. Arthur Lower
Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada: Essays by Alvin Balkind, Gary Michael Dault, Terrence Heath, John Bentley Mays, Diana Nemiroff and Charlotte Townsend-Gault by Robert Bringhurst et al.
Trail of Iron: the CPR and the Birth of the West by Bill McKee and Georgeen Klassen
During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman by Margaret B. Blackman
People of the Longhouse, How the Iroquoian Tribes Lived by Ian Bateson, Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington
Michel Tremblay by Renate Usmiani
An Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 and 1786 by Alexander Walker and Robin Fisher
Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson by Betty Keller
Robert Kroetsch by Peter Thomas
Inuit: The North in Transition by Ulli Steltzer
The Way of the Masks by W. H. New and Claude Levi-Strauss
Ytek and the Arctic Orchid by Garnet Hewitt and Heather Woodall
Haida Culture in Custody: The Masset Band
Gentlemen Emigrants: Grom the British Public Schools to the Canadian Frontier
Gathering What the Great Nature Provided by W. H. New and People of 'Ksan
Pettranella by Betty Waterton
Louis Dudek and Raymond Souster by Frank Davey
The King's Daughter by Suzanne Martel, David Toby Homel and Margaret Rose
People of the Ice, How the Inuit Lived by Ian Bateson and Heather Smith Siska
Bull of the Woods: The Gordon Gibson Story by Gordon Gibson and Carol Renison
Salish Weaving by W. H. New and Paula Gustafson
The Nootka Connection by W. H. New and Derek Pethick
The World of Canadian Writing by George Woodcock
Edward S. Curtis in the land of the War Canoes by W. H. New, George Irving Quimby and Bill Holm
Objects of Bright Pride by W. H. New and Allen Wardwell
Leonard Cohen by Stephen Scobie
House of Changes by Jeni Couzyn
Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast
Thomas Merton: Monk and Poet by George Woodcock
Go Do Some Great Thing by Crawford Kilian
The Life of Emily Carr by Paula Blanchard
An Iron Hand upon the People by Ira Chaikin and Douglas Cole
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven by Ross King
Glass Boys by Nicole Lundrigan
A Matter of Life and Death or Something by Ben Stephenson
Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment by Michael Nicholl Yahgulanaas