Author: Gail Robinson
Publisher: Coteau Books
Keywords: plains, god
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-09-06
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1550503472
ISBN-13: 9781550503470

A complex, mythic, novel about people who settle and make their lives on the Canadian prairies, and the totem which rules their days - the windmill. The God of the Plains arrives with European settlers in 1892, who immediately begin the construction of a windmill. It is a fitting god for people who insist on living there, representing the necessary effort to provide themselves life-giving water. At the same time it suggests their Quixotic attitude that the human spirit can prevail over the harsh facts of environment. Through subsequent generations, right to the late 1940s, their god is w

Author: Rita Feutl
Publisher: Coteau Books
Keywords: strikes, disaster, edmonton, fort, rescue
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-09-17
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 1550503081
ISBN-13: 9781550503081

Twelve-year-old Janey Kane grows from a spoiled, untested kid into a capable and courageous young woman through time travel to four different points in Edmonton’s past.

Author: Alison Calder
Publisher: Coteau Books
Keywords: tree, wolf
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2007-03-28
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1550503596
ISBN-13: 9781550503593

A first collection of sharp, clever, wicked poems that range from images of circus freaks and two-headed calves to snow geese and wind in the pines. A wolf tree is a tree in a bush or a thicket which is different in shape from those around it; a tree whose broader trunk and spreading branches indicate that it once grew alone but is now surrounded. Alison Calder’s poems shine the light of a poet’s curiosity on all manner of "natural occurrences," which nevertheless stand out. The book

Author: Gerry Hill
Publisher: Coteau Books
Keywords: comedy, human
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-04-18
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1550503715
ISBN-13: 9781550503715

Gerald Hill uses familiar images from nature, sports and creative writing to create these captivating mediations on life and love, family, and loss. Although there is much longing and loneliness in My Human Comedy, what passion there is is for playful words, the play of words, the layering and combining of images into still-life vignettes. A central figure in these poems is even named Stan Still, a pun of a name, a symbol for the stillness born of the end of striving. Many of the central symbols are familiar - wind, rain, crows, slowpitch softball, a pickup game of hockey, a teacher’s re

Author: Gloria Sawai
Publisher: Coteau Books
Keywords: johnson, nettie, song
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-11-19
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1550502239
ISBN-13: 9781550502237

As Sawai deftly turns over the stones of these people’s lives and reveals the squalor, the fear and the unhappiness that lie beneath, she also uncovers that most precious of human qualities - hope.

Author: Betty Dorion
Publisher: Coteau Books
Keywords: dream, bluelake, melanie
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 1550500813
ISBN-13: 9781550500813

Melanie Bluelake, a ten-year-old Cree girl, finds herself pulled between the familiar and the new when she moves from a northern reserve to a Saskatchewan city.

Author: Ruth Millar
Publisher: Coteau Books
Keywords: rogues, heroes, saskatchewan
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-05-31
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1550502891
ISBN-13: 9781550502893

Heroes. . . Rogues. . . Adventures all!Twelve amazing Saskatchewan men and women. Saskatchewan has contributed its share of vibrant characters to the national and world stages. Some are well documented. Others, undeservedly, are less well known. The qualities that link the extraordinary people in Saskatchewan Heroes and Rogues, who represent all shades of moral character, are audacity, an unfailing belief in their own convictions, the unquenchable will to survive adversity. All to some extent defied the conventions of the day. Few of these lives are blighted by the poignancy of missed oppor