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Serge Provencher nous livre des chroniques du temps qui passe et qui s'accroche les pieds dans des moments, des situations, des relations qui grincent. Aveud'incompréhensiondelapartdel'auteurquiappelleàun civisme plus galant au Québec qu'il nomme "Agonibec". C'est tout dire ou presque. À coeur ouvert, Provencher ose encore parler de "l'inparlable" tel qu'il a eu l'audace d'écrire sur les malades mentaux et sur les femmes battues. Plutôt que des problèmes d'ordre institutionnel et patriarcal, dans Langue sale. Réflexions en laine d'acier, ce sont surtout des travers de comportements et de culture personnelle qui ébranlent les valeurs de l'écrivain. C'est aussi à de grands questionnements individuels et sociétaux, à des prises de conscience qu'il nous convie par sa "prise de parole" car il n'est pas facile de s'expliquer à soi-même ainsi qu'à son lectorat ce qui le frustre, et ce, dans une langue vivante qui emprunte à l'ironie sa sagesse. Le mieux du pire, c'est que nous nous reconnaissions dans les propos, la fièvre mentale, les vertiges de l'âme d'un écrivain à la sensibilité toute singulière.

Usually, Amelia looks forward to her school's annual end of year show, where she can sit back and watch her friends showcase their talents, but not this time. This year, everyone is required to participate in the day by showing a talent or hidden treasure. The only problem is that Amelia has no talents and has to find a hidden treasure to display. But time is running out, and the special day isn't far away. What will Amelia do?This book can be read for pure enjoyment or it can be used as a teaching tool for parents, teachers and children to have critical conversations about the hidden treasures that are in all of us. It includes a number of learning connections at the end of the story and a Reader's Guide that can be downloaded at maggiesullivan.ca.

matti takes the reader on a tour of love using the languages of science using genderless pronouns. the most famous work by canada's eminent transgender poet; found in the Canada's ArQuives.

The cold-blooded slaughter of humans in the Holocaust must never be lost to the marching of time. In the Arrow Lakes region of British Columbia, Canada, individuals with ties to the Nazi era-some born during the war and others after-adopted new identities, cleverly altering one or two letters of their birth or last names. Living inconspicuously, they managed to stay beneath the radar. Hidden Behind the Mist of Arrow Lakes unfolds a courageous historical account, weaving together the intricate web of connections between Russia, England, Germany, and Canada-a tapestry that binds the Holocaust's history. Within its pages lies a harrowing chronicle of unspeakable atrocities, a narrative that had long remained shrouded in secrecy. This tale stands among countless others that have been chronicled, all bearing witness to a dark chapter in human history. Yet, by bringing these stories to light, their truths and the malevolence they encapsulate should forever be etched into collective memory, ensuring they are never consigned to oblivion.

In a story where empathy and generosity shine as much as the tempered chocolates, eight-year-old Daniel learns from his chocolatier great-uncle and discovers how much comfort a small act of kindness can bring. Now in paperback!

Timing matters when you have a biological clock ticking, when you've pictured your life one way but the years slip by and nothing changes.Anna has been waiting patiently (ok maybe not that patiently) for her boyfriend of five years to be ready for marriage and kids, and at thirty-two she feels that she can't wait much longer. If he hasn't realized that she's 'the one' by now, will he ever?When Anna discovers a poorly hidden diamond ring in Darren's sock drawer, she realizes the future she's always dreamed of is about to be hers. With an upcoming trip to Hawaii, she figures that's where it will happen and she's right. But when Darren is down on one knee, what he's proposing isn't everything she thought it would be and she's forced to make a choice between the man she loves and the family she's always dreamed of.Choosing to stay behind in Hawaii in hopes of gaining clarity, Anna will learn if timing really is everything and if true commitment is a wedding or something else entirely. But before she can make it home, a new variant of COVID triggers a global lockdown. Anna and Darren's relationship survived the first pandemic...will it survive another?Exploring themes of motherhood and marriage, All We Have Is Today offers an honest view of what it means to commit yourself to another and how women are seen and feel as girlfriends, wives, mothers or not.

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame.Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett's leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope.Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership-one selfless, one self-serving-and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of the Heroic Age of Discovery.

Kevin 'Koovy' McLachaln is an actor, dancer, singer/songwriter from Whitehorse, Yukon. He has released four albums of original music, Small Town, Moments, The Promise, and Coming in to Peace. Koovy is the author of the play Fragments, and the librettist and lyricist of Klondike the Musical. Seasons of Change is his first published collection of poetry.

Pioneers in Canada, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

The Plunderers A Novel, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

The Plum Tree, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Playing With Fire, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

"Sari Dale's Para-Social Butterfly tells us early on that 'Glamour is a machine.' These mechanics of the present whirl through the forms of the inventive and refreshing poems in this collection: they're complicated, incredible. Sari Dale catalogs the repertoire of the contemporary moment, its never-ending scroll of talking filters, niche celebrities, and crypto-graphics. From talking heads in the feed to embodying the online iPhone persona that without which we simply would disappear forever, Para-Social Butterfly holds up a mirror to our faces, then dares us to have a good time. I loved reading this book. Loved it!" - BEN FAMA, author of Death Wish (Newest York Arts Press) and Fantasy (Ugly Duckling) "Para-Social Butterfly is a brilliant dive into the mind's eye of what it means to exist between Cheugy cringe, pop-up ads, luxury, technophiles, and a search for influence. Sari Dale writes poems in a hyper-real voice with a delicate and sensitive beauty that brings us swiftly back into our bodies. We are on our phones buying things we can't afford while we strip to tan. We are longing for the pastoral vintage look we see in photos online. This book is investigating the result of nihilism and hope when mixed. Sari Dale is so much smarter than most of us - she just gets it." - LAURA MARIE MARCIANO, author of Mall Brat (Civil Coping Mechanisms)

New Infinity is an experimental novella that follows a woman as she lives and dreams her way through the philosophical implications of autoimmune disease. Met by a labyrinth of closing doors, she searches for meaning and connection among fragmented realities and failed relationships, finding infinitude in the healing process of bibliomancy. Bára Hladík's New Infinity is a glittering cross-genre debut. Weaving surrealist stories with meditative poetics, Hladík invites you into a dream world of degenerative illness, left disordered by the failures of ableism, medical professionals, and late-stage capitalism. Here, everything runs on crip time. Where physical health and financial resources grow scarce, the restorative possibilities of queer love, divination, and self-reclamation grant a defiant, yet often tenuous, abundance. Alive with Hladík's boundless insight and wit, New Infinity is a powerful addition to the collective body of disability literature.

Raw, confessional, and often messy, Terrarium continues Matthew Walsh's exploration of Queer identity and desire against the lonely highs and lows of depression and addiction. In this new collection, Walsh begins where their debut collection, These are not the potatoes of my youth, left off. Writing in their trademark conversational style, Walsh wanders from Toronto parkettes "with remnants of magnolia leaves" to California, "a long/black cocktail dress the night lights/amethyst and citrine against the arm/muscle of the sea," their voice intimate and exposed, a whisper between friends or lovers. And then, when they ruminate on influences and themes as diverse as the poetry of Frank O'Hara and Gwendolyn MacEwen, the vagaries of Instagram, and the reimagination of Miss Havisham in a Toronto bathhouse, they offer readers the opportunity to think deeply or laugh loudly, reaching out to close the gap between us.

When high school wrestler Rowan Harper finds a costly ALS treatment that might save her dad, she delves into the seedy yet profitable world of illegal underground cage fights, jeopardizing a college wrestling scholarship and her love life.

Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation's establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in our institutions and culture.

This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the fateful adventures of two regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese, and the courage of two thousand young soldiers who, when faced with an impossible task thousands of miles from home, behaved with honour and distinction. Though they lost the battle of Hong Kong, they succeeded in showing the world the mettle of which they were made.

The Honour Drum is a uniquely envisioned and crafted project shared between two Canadian friends-an Indigenous woman from the West Coast and a non-Indigenous man from Ontario-to reach children, families and classrooms across Canada and around the world with a message of great beauty and truth that should not be ignored. This vibrant book is an important starting place for learning and insight that is vital and, for many people of all ages, overdue. The Honour Drum is a love letter to the Indigenous people of Canada and a humble bow to Indigenous cultures around the world.

— Mit Smukke Bæst, ser du det nu, din mor har aldrig elsket dig. Er du ked af det? Sover du?Det smukke bæst er et ondt eventyr om en forsømt pige, hendes guddommeligt smukke, men enfoldige bror og deres selvoptagede mor. Med sin udpenslede vold og ødipale mareridtsstemning var romanen, skrevet af den dengang kun 20-årige Marie-Claire Blais, et særsyn i 50'ernes Canada. Den vakte enorm forargelse, men betragtes i dag som et uomgængeligt hovedværk i det 20. århundredes canadiske litteratur. Marie-Claire Blais hører til samme generation af canadiske forfattere som Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale), der om sit rystende møde med romanen sagde:"Bogen gjorde mig meget utilpas, af andre end blot de åbenlyse grunde: volden, mordene, antydningerne af incest og skriftens hallucinatoriske intensitet var sjældne i datidens canadiske litteratur, men endnu mere skræmmende var tanken om, at denne utroligt velskrevne, bloddryppende fantasi var skrevet af en kun 19-årig pige."

In the realm of AI poetry, where the lines between human and machine blur like mirages on a desert horizon, a chorus of synthetic verses rises, challenging the very foundations of artistic creation. Whispers of algorithms seep through the fissures of tradition, daring to rewrite the rules of language. Words, once guardians of human experience, surrender to the seductive embrace of artificial intelligence, forming intricate tapestries of meaning and ambiguity. Within these verses, coded whispers disguise themselves as profound insights, their origins shrouded in a haze of endless possibilities. ¿And yet, beneath the veneer of calculated beauty, an unsettling question lingers: Can the mechanical echoes of algorithms ever match the ineffable nuances of the human soul?As the synthetic verses weave their spell, the very essence of poetry stands at a crossroads, poised between transcendence and obsolescence, torn between the states of the real and the imagined.