Brilliant chronicle of great landscape artists and what they saw in Canada’s Western Mountains

This book is about the plethora of artistic responses to the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains, and Selkirk Mountains from 1809 to 2012, by mostly Canadian artists who were drawn to the region for a variety of reasons.
What did two centuries of artistic exploration in this area yield? Which works of art inspired by this uniquely Western landscape were created and how did they serve to create a distinct Western Canadian identity?
It is almost as if these mountains, standing resolute—and all along coextensive with the traditional Modern and contemporary responses to them and valuing their cultural memories associated with these artworks—seem to be saying: “Come and explore us. We offer infinite artistic inspirations and, above all, freedom. We will never let you down.”
A writer and curator of Alberta art since 1974, Nancy Townshend is the author of Maxwell Bates: Canada’s Premier Expressionist of the 20th Century. Resident of Calgary, she received her MA in art history at the University of Toronto, and is a Alberta Centennial Medalist.
 

A rare glimpse into the moral strengths and values of a vanishing era.
The diary of a young Canadian woman working as a journalist in England in 1949 – 1954. Each entry is in fact a letter sent to her mother in Canada. Their relationship, founded on a Catholic upbringing, is as uninhibited as the Confessional.
Ouida MacLellan succeeded in gaining entry to the newspaper empire of Lord Beaverbrook, a rare achievement for a woman. The narrative interest of her letters derives from her work and her social life, enhanced by her attractiveness to men.

Ouida MacLellan was twenty-one years old in 1949 when she set off from Canada to work for six years in London’s Fleet Street. Born in Monctton, New Brunswick in 1927, she started her journalistic career on the editorial staff of the Moncton Times. Ouida passed away 2009.
 

A murder mystery set within the complex world of an anthropological museum.
Berry Cates has undergone a “radical lifectomy,” remaking her life at fifty-three, newly single and in a new career at a museum. However, she soon becomes the target of serious accusations at the museum. Determined to prove these as false, Berry gets into deeper trouble. Her sleuthing uncovers museum staff  casting illicit bronzes and blackmail being delivered via a Roman curse tablet. Curatorial fraud and  accusations by aboriginal people of poisoning their heritage regalia with toxic pesticides come to light as well.
Only when Berry realizes she has been asking the wrong questions does she stop her slide into a web of deceit.

Miriam Clavir, the first conservator at the UBC Museum of Anthropology, worked for the National Historic Service and the Royal Ontario Museum. Resident of British Columbia, author of many articles and the scholarly book, Preserving What is Valued: Museums, Conservation and First Nations. Miriam’s character-driven mystery series is set in museums and archeological sites.
 

Bestselling author James Davidge (Thirteen Minutes, Mathemagick & Mystiphysics, The Driftwood Saga) collaborates with a brilliant and diverse group of illustrators to produce a playful yet socially-concerned collection of comic and prose stories.  What if the upper class of society started to collect and display the homeless as art?  Could a sustainable farm be built on a defunct off-shore oil rig by utilizing guidance and funding from a talking goldfish?  Can Davidge reconcile with his own youthful sins of pulling the hair of a girl he liked, taunting someone entirely undeserving and abandoning one of his best friends?  Journey with ancient alchemist Hermes Trismegestus as he poetically presents these absurd tales of heart, humor and woe.

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Road to Ruin is the story of a group of four na’erdowells in the early 1960‘s with limited super powers. Instead of dressing up as 1930’s wrestlers and fighting crime, they decide to emulate their heroes The Rat Pack by dressing stylishly and heading out on the road robbing banks and looting towns. They are The Bad Guys.
As the story progresses we see that despite their rough exteriors and foolish infighting, the group is actually a surrogate family who do care about each other. Their humanity is revealed when they have to fight for their lives against a group of monstrous government agents that make them look like a bunch of choirboys.
As the final confrontation unravels, it is revealed that their super powers may not be as limited as they once thought.
Get ready to root for The Bad Guys.
 

Around the world, children’s teeth fall out. They tuck them expectantly under their pillows, and go to sleep. And in the dream-haunted night, a creeping creature from another world makes an exchange filled with dread significance: innocence traded for grubby lucre. And Mum and Dad grin in the morning, as if something deeply strange had not occurred in the glooming dark.

It is time for the truth to be told. Witness this tale of Abigail, the Girl With Perfect Teeth. Cheer her crusade to save the world from the Tooth Fairy, and thereby preserve for eternity the innocent happiness of childhood. No more shall our golden days be bought from us!

Spanish Translation:

Al rededor del mundo, dientes se aflojan y caen, y los niños, esperanzados, los guardan bajo sus almohadas al irse a dormir.  En la noche, embrujada con sueños, una criatura de otro mundo se mueve sigilosamente y hace un intercambio de aterradora importancia:  La inocencia es canjeada por una ganancia sucia; mamá y papá sonríen en la mañana como si algo profundamente extraño no hubiese pasado en la oscuridad de la noche.

Es tiempo de que se conozca la verdad.  Sea testigo de la historia de Abigail, la niña de dientes perfectos, aliente su crusada para salvar al mundo del Hada de los Dientes, y de este modo preserve eternamente la felicidad inocente de la niñez.  ¡Nunca más serán comprados nuestros días de oro!

A poetic, magical and mysterious tale about the journey from girlhood to motherhood. Young Sofia comes to terms with the death of her mother through an imaginary world revealed by the moon.

A poetic, magical and mysterious tale about the journey from girlhood to motherhood. Young Sofia comes to terms with the death of her mother through an imaginary world revealed by the moon.