A beautifully presented collection dealing with traditional medicinal plants and their use by Métis people that will be a useful resource for educators in the field of biological sciences.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s beautifully presented collection Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt will invite you to browse and learn more about the secrets of native healing botanicals.

A lavishly produced resource guide, this book sumptuously melds traditional aboriginal art with modern production techniques. It is unconventional, practical, striking, and tactile, an inviting hands-on product.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt is a sumptuous resource guide that is as beautiful as it is practical.

A lavishly produced resource guide, Medicines to Help Us sumptuously melds traditional aboriginal art with modern production techniques. It is unconventional, practical, striking, and tactile, an inviting hands-on product.

Medicines to Help Us is a sumptuous resource guide which is as beautiful as it is practical.

Gorgeously presented, this book is a wonderful natural dictionary of medicinal plants. Carefully and lovingly organized, it's an invaluable resource and connection to our past and future health.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s, Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt is carefully and lovingly organized. It's an invaluable resource and connection to our past and future health

A resource guide to plants used in the practice of traditional medicine and healing. It is valuable on several fronts: it seeks to preserve and pass on Elders' knowledge about the use of plants for traditional medicine and healing; it provides scientific (Latin), English and Métis languages names; it shows North American distribution of the plants; and it showcases the Christi Belcourt's art and photography.

A haunting look under the surface of a time and place.  Butala unravels a murder case which, unsolved, speaks to the heart of a city.

The Girl in Saskatoon is an anti-thriller. Sharon Butala meticulously dispatches the half-truths that have left an intriguing murder case unsolved for 40 years.

The Girl in Saskatoon is the unsettling profile of a time and place where innocence reigned before a chilling murder ushered in the modern age.  Butala affectingly probes the mystery of this senseless death that became a public as well as a personal tragedy.

The Girl in Saskatoon: In her haunting portrait of an earlier Saskatoon, Sharon Butala recreates a time – 1961; a place – Saskatoon; and a murder – Alexandra Wiwcharuk, exploring the city, the girl, and herself as she confronts a rich past.

Love of Mirrors reflects a life in poetry.  In this book of new and selected poems, Hyland ranges over a vastly readable landscape.  He veers from humour to poignancy, lyric to story, prose poem to sonnet.  He uses poetic skills mastered over three decades to transform his subjects, which are pulled from newspaper and legend, prairie memory and his own quick-stepping imagination.

Love of Mirrors reflects a life in poetry. Gary Hyland ranges from humour to poignancy, lyric to story, prose poem to sonnet in this richly varied work.

A stunning retrospective of a poet's long career, with generous samples from most of his major periods, and a sprinkling of new work.

Gary Hyland’s Love of Mirrors casts a reflective glance back at this mature poet's long career, and returns to the present with new work.

Much-loved poet, Gary Hyland is celebrated in Love of Mirrors published by Coteau Books - a collection of poems which spans the thirty years of his career.

Love of Mirrors is the perfect introduction to the work of Moose Jaw poet Gary Hyland, an outstanding collection of new poems and selections from his six previously published books which admirably demonstrates the evolution of an engaged and engaging poet through the years.

This is place-rooted poetry of the highest order, utterly free of cliché. Klar is a challenging poet who nevertheless speaks very plainly.

Cypress by Barbara Klar illuminates a certain locale – Saskatchewan’s Cypress Hills – from the ground to the sky. A book to be read again and again.

There’s something incantatory and wonderfully strange about these poems, making something new of the old subjects of hill, stone and tree.  There’s humour and passion, and a remarkably quirky eye that is fresh and compelling.

In Cypress by Barbara Klar the poems tumble over themselves, down into ravines of the spirit that would be inaccessible to the careful trail-follower.

Macdonald’s mastery of stagecraft is everywhere evident…A play must be seen to be fully experienced, but the text of this play creates an eminently readable and evocative next-best for those of us not lucky enough to have been there for a performance.   In Daniel Macdonald’s MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas the Prairie winter dominates a quirky, poignant drama of hope and faith – Saskatchewan heritage persisting in face of individual death and the passing of traditional ways.  

A terrific play, so moving, with such great characters.  We’d love to see it performed.

In Daniel Macdonald’s MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas one meets real people, powerfully portrayed.

An interesting look into a sensitive subject that stays with you.  Here’s a readable and likeable book for children that adults will enjoy.

Carey Rigby-Wilcox’s My Mummy Couldn't Read  was an unexpected pleasure about a gutsy woman who won't let her daughter be cheated. Should be in every school in the country.

With the thorough recall of a caring detective, Bill Waiser cunningly explores and recreates a 1933 murder mystery, giving new evidence and drawing pertinent conclusions on the basis of all the evidence. The book becomes a real-life chronicle of the devastation and death of people living on the prairies in the time of the Depression.

Who Killed Jackie Bates? is a dark and compelling who-done-it from the bleak years of the Great Depression. This solid piece of investigative writing not only brings to life the characters and political forces of 1930s Saskatchewan, it honors an innocent boy whose name and sad story have been lost to time.

A professional, well-researched and well-documented look at one of Saskatchewan's mythic tales, as small-town people in the Thirties watch their neighbours in crisis and blame the government.

Bill Waiser’s powerfully told Who Killed Jackie Bates? sheds today's light on a Depression murder case and comes to a very different conclusion.

A chilling study of the tragic death of an eight-year-old boy during the darkest days of the Great Depression. Waiser pieces together the long-forgotten case and at that same time gives us a clear picture of the desperation of people caught in the poverty of the Dirty Thirties in Saskatchewan.

In Who Killed Jackie Bates? Bill Waiser takes an everyman's story of the Great Depression and creates a rich landscape.  It reads like a novel, it sings.

Such a strong, vivid rendering of the real and the imagined; Bill Waiser carefully tackles such a crucial part of our prairie history and brings it, and its mysteries, to life before our eyes.

A hugely entertaining novel, its mystery fast-moving and gripping.  Bowen keeps developing the strengths of her characters so that every turn is fresh and interesting.

The Brutal Heart is a great read by an accomplished writer, Gail Bowen.

Bowen has always pursued mystery and suspense through characters much like thee and me.  The reader isn’t compelled to care so much "whodunit," as to care a lot about what happens to the people – including, most often, the one ultimately revealed as the villain.  This is, perhaps, her finest novel.  A triumph of art that disguises itself as life.

With assured  writing, Gail Bowen tells a gripping tale of "ordinary" characters confronting extraordinary events in The Brutal Heart.   A triumph of art that disguises itself as life.

Bean Fallwell’s distinctive and engaging voice makes the achievement of this narrative considerable.  The reader follows her trajectory between innocence and wisdom with rapt attention.

Pam Bustin has taken impressive stylistic and narrative risks, and created an original, powerful book: Mostly Happy.

In Mostly Happy, Pam Bustin takes a red Samsonite suitcase and fills it up with all that is important to Bean Fallwell ‘s life.  She leads the reader into the little towns of Saskatchewan, following Bean and her suitcase into all that is happy, and perilous.

A lively, whimsical, exuberant novel of development that spirals forward with such irresistible energy.

A great read for all audiences!  It vividly takes you into the world of a young girl who, with a courageous heart and mind, surfaces wise and worldly from an unpredictable and dysfunctional home.

A very fine accomplishment for a debut novel.

Mostly Happy is a well crafted novel. The finely drawn characters, clean prose and crisp dialogue make it a page-turner in the very best sense. The quirky, brave spirit of Bean E. Falwell captivated me from the first page and continues to resonate inside me.

This collection of stories slowly undresses the unusual in the ordinary, capturing transformation in magical ways.

In Carnival Glass Bonnie Dunlop reveals a sense of adventure alongside the subtle transcendence of quotidian life.

The author uses a wonderful mix of European and native myths to inform Charlie’s picaresque journey across the country.  The many interesting characters encountered make this novel a tremendously satisfying read.

Charlie Muskrat  by Harold Johnson  is a funny and ironic book replete with twists and turns of plot, which arrive at pleasurable surprise.

Nothing political or social is sacred in this novel. It is at once funny and sad, satirical and thoughtful.  The hero is Charlie Muskrat, who wanders all over Canada accompanied by the Trickster, Wesakicak and phantom hitchhikers.

An interesting look into a sensitive subject that stays with you.  Here’s a readable and likeable book for children that adults will enjoy.

Carey Rigby-Wilcox’s My Mummy Couldn't Read  was an unexpected pleasure about a gutsy woman who won't let her daughter be cheated. Should be in every school in the country.

A charming young adult novel about Newton Starker, a boy whose entire family, except his great grandmother, has been killed by lightning strikes.  Newton takes lots of precautions but in the end it seems he may suffer the same fate.

Arthur Slade has written a book of survival for those who might die from lightning strikes and in the process has charmed us with his characters, their flights of fancy, their attempts to evade lightning.

Readers will love Arthur Slade’s confidence and sense of humor as a writer as he allows his crazy narrative to have so much fun with plot and character.

The writing is stylish and accomplished, utilizing an astute and compelling point of view.  Most of all, this is a wonderful portrayal of Saskatchewan.

Arthur Slade’s Jolted is a well-constructed book, its story and characters enhanced by fresh language and imagery.

Jolted is crammed with eccentric characters, implacable rivals, a hero fighting against the odds, his pet truffle pig and a terrifying family curse. Arthur Slade's tale of Newton Starker, whose relatives have the unfortunate habit of fatally attracting lightening strikes, is a fascinating take on the boarding school theme reminiscent of Hogwarts and is an electrifying thrill ride from start to finish.

A shockingly effective and absorbing tale filled with quirky characters, a boy with a family inheritance no one would want, and a pig with a nose for a mystery.

Un petit roman accessible aux garçons à cause de son amour de la terre, de la ferme, du tracteur, mais que les jeunes filles vont également aimer à cause du jeu d’amour entre deux jeunes et de la jalousie qui s’ensuit.

A haunting look under the surface of a time and place.  Butala unravels a murder case which, unsolved, speaks to the heart of a city.

The Girl in Saskatoon is an anti-thriller. Sharon Butala meticulously dispatches the half-truths that have left an intriguing murder case unsolved for 40 years.

The Girl in Saskatoon is the unsettling profile of a time and place where innocence reigned before a chilling murder ushered in the modern age.  Butala affectingly probes the mystery of this senseless death that became a public as well as a personal tragedy.

The Girl in Saskatoon: In her haunting portrait of an earlier Saskatoon, Sharon Butala recreates a time – 1961; a place – Saskatoon; and a murder – Alexandra Wiwcharuk, exploring the city, the girl, and herself as she confronts a rich past.

With an enquiring mind and wide-open heart, Caruso leads us through a maze of multi-generational memory in this joyous, tender, and sharply inventive search for immigrant identity.  Like all good journeys, it lingers long after the path comes to its end.

Journey Without a Map is a romp through Italian culture, its food and family codes, but Donna Caruso is at her best when she writes about love and loss. Part cook book, part travelogue, part elegy, it is written with a lyrical hand and a warm heart.

Fascinating, educational, funny and beautifully illustrated, this book gives us a glimpse of the life of a veterinarian working in modern-day Africa.  Lions, rhinos and chimpanzees are among the animals Dr. Haigh treats and they are all sadly under great stress and pressure as their natural habitat slowly disappears.

Jerry Haigh takes us into the world of rhinos and lions in Africa and describes his adventures with clear insight and compassion.

This is a beautifully told, rich account of another landscape, another country; Jerry Haigh weaves an endlessly complex and layered tale of humans and animals.

The Trouble With Lions chronicles the adventures of a veterinarian in Africa, escorting us far off the beaten path of nature documentaries and tourist safaris, ultimately breaking our hearts with the overwhelming evidence that Africa’s great cavalcade of beasts and wild places will disappear in our lifetime.

The Trouble with Lions, Jerry Haigh ‘s fast-paced memoir of his years practicing wild-animal medicine in the jungles and plains of Africa, is as disturbing as it is fascinating: a rare glimpse into a little-known and quickly vanishing world.

This richly illustrated volume offers a glimpse of what happened to hundreds of Saskatchewan towns over the last century.  This gem of information about these small communities will be particularly useful for social studies classes. Beautiful photography!

In Canadian Plains Research Center’s Our Towns by David McLennan, the well-researched information is presented in an interesting, appealing format.

A delightful compendium of information about Saskatchewan’s towns.  It will become a reference standard in libraries, and is the perfect book to dip in and out of on long winter evenings. 

For the Saskatchewan small town aficionado a must read! Wonderful reference for Saskatchewan travelers to explore the history of small town Saskatchewan on the road or in the armchair.

Our Towns is as bright and full of surprises as the prairie landscape. It’s a well-researched, handsome, addition to every good library.

In this lavishly produced encyclopedia, David McLennan uses more than 1,000 unpublished photographs to supplement his own travel notes in order to create a comprehensive history of Saskatchewan, its past, its people, and its present vitality and wonder.

Our Towns by David McLennan is a comprehensive survey of Saskatchewan's hamlets, towns, and cities that should stand as a model for all such compendiums: concise and complete, illuminating in its detail and ultimately, a portrait of the settlement of a province.

Our Towns by David McLennan is a remarkable and important book, as thoroughly beautiful in text, image and design as it is exhaustively thorough in its coverage of Saskatchewan's towns. This will be a well-thumbed and intriguing coffee-table book for Saskatchewanians and others, while also being an important addition to Canadian Plains research.

David McLennan researched this book extensively, not only sifting though records, but hitting the road indefatigably, all over the Province. He achieves that indispensable quality of "being there. "It achieves a still too rare bridge-building between town and gown, in a work with huge popular appeal that will have a central place in the academy. This book will be around for a long time, in successive editions, as its organization lends itself invitingly to updates and expansions, as Saskatchewan itself grows and changes. Book and Province will mirror each other in the future.

In this handsomely produced book, Candace Savage writes a fascinating narrative that mingles folk tales, anecdotal evidence, and, above all, scientific facts, to create a beautiful portrait of the miraculous wonder that is the bee.

Candace Savage in Bees: Nature's Little Wonders painlessly educates us about the marvelous little creatures that tend our gardens and make our flowers grow. As colourful and handsome as a bumblebee, this compact book is full of life and light.

With the thorough recall of a caring detective, Bill Waiser cunningly explores and recreates a 1933 murder mystery, giving new evidence and drawing pertinent conclusions on the basis of all the evidence. The book becomes a real-life chronicle of the devastation and death of people living on the prairies in the time of the Depression.

Who Killed Jackie Bates? is a dark and compelling who-done-it from the bleak years of the Great Depression. This solid piece of investigative writing not only brings to life the characters and political forces of 1930s Saskatchewan, it honors an innocent boy whose name and sad story have been lost to time.

A professional, well-researched and well-documented look at one of Saskatchewan's mythic tales, as small-town people in the Thirties watch their neighbours in crisis and blame the government.

Bill Waiser’s powerfully told Who Killed Jackie Bates? sheds today's light on a Depression murder case and comes to a very different conclusion.

A chilling study of the tragic death of an eight-year-old boy during the darkest days of the Great Depression. Waiser pieces together the long-forgotten case and at that same time gives us a clear picture of the desperation of people caught in the poverty of the Dirty Thirties in Saskatchewan.

In Who Killed Jackie Bates? Bill Waiser takes an everyman's story of the Great Depression and creates a rich landscape.  It reads like a novel, it sings.

Such a strong, vivid rendering of the real and the imagined; Bill Waiser carefully tackles such a crucial part of our prairie history and brings it, and its mysteries, to life before our eyes.

Bean Fallwell’s distinctive and engaging voice makes the achievement of this narrative considerable.  The reader follows her trajectory between innocence and wisdom with rapt attention.

Pam Bustin has taken impressive stylistic and narrative risks, and created an original, powerful book: Mostly Happy.

In Mostly Happy, Pam Bustin takes a red Samsonite suitcase and fills it up with all that is important to Bean Fallwell ‘s life.  She leads the reader into the little towns of Saskatchewan, following Bean and her suitcase into all that is happy, and perilous.

A lively, whimsical, exuberant novel of development that spirals forward with such irresistible energy.

A great read for all audiences!  It vividly takes you into the world of a young girl who, with a courageous heart and mind, surfaces wise and worldly from an unpredictable and dysfunctional home.

A very fine accomplishment for a debut novel.

Mostly Happy is a well crafted novel. The finely drawn characters, clean prose and crisp dialogue make it a page-turner in the very best sense. The quirky, brave spirit of Bean E. Falwell captivated me from the first page and continues to resonate inside me.

Ten inspiring stories of First Nations women, told with spunk and energy and illustrated with many good photos.  This book belongs in all Middle School libraries.

Inspiring stories of First Nations women.

Kelly Fournel’s Great Women from Our First Nations offers fresh profiles of ten women of integrity and passion. An inspiring book for readers of all ages and one that should be on the shelves of all children’s libraries.

The touching story of a woman looking back on how her tough, hard-working father dealt with pain and sorrow.  Dedicated to the author’s father, who died in 2007 of pancreatic cancer, the book should interest children as well as the adults who read to them.

A poignant illustrated kid’s story with an uplifting message rooted in family values and the land. Great bedtime reading for young audiences.

A Good Day for Seeding by Teri Hoffard is a quiet celebration of our interconnections with each other and the earth. A gentle story, well told and beautifully illustrated.

A compassionate heartland romance tied to the land and rural life.  Going back to her first home, a career business woman rediscovers her connection to the land and rural people. 

A competently written first novel where moral questions and spiritual considerations take pride of place.

This richly illustrated volume offers a glimpse of what happened to hundreds of Saskatchewan towns over the last century.  This gem of information about these small communities will be particularly useful for social studies classes. Beautiful photography!

In Canadian Plains Research Center’s Our Towns by David McLennan, the well-researched information is presented in an interesting, appealing format.

A delightful compendium of information about Saskatchewan’s towns.  It will become a reference standard in libraries, and is the perfect book to dip in and out of on long winter evenings. 

For the Saskatchewan small town aficionado a must read! Wonderful reference for Saskatchewan travelers to explore the history of small town Saskatchewan on the road or in the armchair.

Our Towns is as bright and full of surprises as the prairie landscape. It’s a well-researched, handsome, addition to every good library.

In this lavishly produced encyclopedia, David McLennan uses more than 1,000 unpublished photographs to supplement his own travel notes in order to create a comprehensive history of Saskatchewan, its past, its people, and its present vitality and wonder.

Our Towns by David McLennan is a comprehensive survey of Saskatchewan's hamlets, towns, and cities that should stand as a model for all such compendiums: concise and complete, illuminating in its detail and ultimately, a portrait of the settlement of a province.

Our Towns by David McLennan is a remarkable and important book, as thoroughly beautiful in text, image and design as it is exhaustively thorough in its coverage of Saskatchewan's towns. This will be a well-thumbed and intriguing coffee-table book for Saskatchewanians and others, while also being an important addition to Canadian Plains research.

David McLennan researched this book extensively, not only sifting though records, but hitting the road indefatigably, all over the Province. He achieves that indispensable quality of "being there. "It achieves a still too rare bridge-building between town and gown, in a work with huge popular appeal that will have a central place in the academy. This book will be around for a long time, in successive editions, as its organization lends itself invitingly to updates and expansions, as Saskatchewan itself grows and changes. Book and Province will mirror each other in the future.

Simply written and lovingly illustrated, this fine children’s book tells the story of how the rabbits and dogs taught Jacques the rabbit dance.  The book comes with a moral spelled out—“no matter who you are or where you are, we all are equal"—and a CD of the music played by the story’s characters.

Beautifully illustrated children’s story of a Métis Trapper who discovers through his insights into the natural world a Rabbit Dance to teach to children.

The Story of the Rabbit Dance is a beautiful book. Its colourful, lively illustrations enhance the engaging story of our connections to family, community, earth and animals. Its bilingual telling in both Michif and English makes reading it an especially rich experience.

An interesting look into a sensitive subject that stays with you.  Here’s a readable and likeable book for children that adults will enjoy.

Carey Rigby-Wilcox’s My Mummy Couldn't Read  was an unexpected pleasure about a gutsy woman who won't let her daughter be cheated. Should be in every school in the country.

Ulrich has created characters with whom young readers will easily relate.  Much of Jessie's learning occurs on the ice. We see both the negative – girl-vs-girl violence and peer pressure — and the positive — building respect and self-esteem, particularly when surrounded by a supportive peer group.

A taut and exciting young adult novel told from the point of view of a young girl who has to deal with a new school and new town as well as all the hormonal complications of growing up.
Finding true friends tests Jessie McIntyre’s values. She rises to the challenge and gains courage and self confidence through her team. Good medicine on how to handle bullies!
Maureen Ulrich’s character Jessie in Power Plays can't make friends in her new town.  Instead she makes an enemy, and trouble, bad trouble, follows.

Jessie can't make friends in her new town. Instead she makes an enemy, and trouble, bad trouble, follows. Maybe the fast action of hockey will give her a second chance. Moving to a new city and school can be difficult, especially for a feisty grade nine girl who can't keep her resentment from showing. Jessie is better at getting into fights than at building friendships but when she makes a real enemy she in frightened and confused. A coach sees that Jessie has hockey potential and the team game helps her shift the balance of her life into something more positive. Lots of hockey and social action.

A fascinating and at times deeply moving story of a young girl's struggle against a debilitating disease in the early years of the twentieth century. Set in the summer of 1911, Run tells the deeply moving story of Victoria's affliction with infantile paralysis, with highly accurate depictions of her symptoms and an uncanny insight into her inner thoughts, hopes and fears in the face of unspeakable family tragedy. A remarkable relationship develops between Victoria and her step brother, Jacob, fueled by his desire to help her recover and her determination to teach him to read despite her illness, all with the help of the wonderful Wizard of Oz.

In This Land We Call Home by Alison Lohans, one night of bombing far away in Hawaii changes the lives of young people in a quiet farming community forever. Can an old friendship survive fear and hatred?

One night of bombing far away in Hawaii changes the lives of young people in a quiet farming community forever. Can an old friendship survive fear and hatred?  The attack on Pearl Harbor sends shock waves into the quiet rural world of Paula Harmon and Ken Nishimura. Their long-time friendship and the peace and safety of Ken's farming family are threatened in the wave of anti-Japanese feeling and extreme government initiatives that follow. This novel gives the reader an immediate sense of how the range of responses to this global catastrophe affects the everyday lives of people, young and old.

A charming young adult novel about Newton Starker, a boy whose entire family, except his great grandmother, has been killed by lightning strikes.  Newton takes lots of precautions but in the end it seems he may suffer the same fate.

Arthur Slade has written a book of survival for those who might die from lightning strikes and in the process has charmed us with his characters, their flights of fancy, their attempts to evade lightning.

Readers will love Arthur Slade’s confidence and sense of humor as a writer as he allows his crazy narrative to have so much fun with plot and character.

The writing is stylish and accomplished, utilizing an astute and compelling point of view.  Most of all, this is a wonderful portrayal of Saskatchewan.

Arthur Slade’s Jolted is a well-constructed book, its story and characters enhanced by fresh language and imagery.

Jolted is crammed with eccentric characters, implacable rivals, a hero fighting against the odds, his pet truffle pig and a terrifying family curse. Arthur Slade's tale of Newton Starker, whose relatives have the unfortunate habit of fatally attracting lightening strikes, is a fascinating take on the boarding school theme reminiscent of Hogwarts and is an electrifying thrill ride from start to finish.

A shockingly effective and absorbing tale filled with quirky characters, a boy with a family inheritance no one would want, and a pig with a nose for a mystery.

Ulrich has created characters with whom young readers will easily relate.  Much of Jessie's learning occurs on the ice. We see both the negative – girl-vs-girl violence and peer pressure — and the positive — building respect and self-esteem, particularly when surrounded by a supportive peer group.

A taut and exciting young adult novel told from the point of view of a young girl who has to deal with a new school and new town as well as all the hormonal complications of growing up.
Finding true friends tests Jessie McIntyre’s values. She rises to the challenge and gains courage and self confidence through her team. Good medicine on how to handle bullies!
Maureen Ulrich’s character Jessie in Power Plays can't make friends in her new town.  Instead she makes an enemy, and trouble, bad trouble, follows.

Jessie can't make friends in her new town. Instead she makes an enemy, and trouble, bad trouble, follows. Maybe the fast action of hockey will give her a second chance. Moving to a new city and school can be difficult, especially for a feisty grade nine girl who can't keep her resentment from showing. Jessie is better at getting into fights than at building friendships but when she makes a real enemy she in frightened and confused. A coach sees that Jessie has hockey potential and the team game helps her shift the balance of her life into something more positive. Lots of hockey and social action.

This collection of Cree short stories is presented in three formats: Cree Syllabics, Cree Standard Roman Orthography and English translation.  It includes a detailed introduction and a Cree-English glossary which would be useful to learners of the Cree language.

I really like this collection of Cree short stories from different genres, generations and dialects. It is intended for language learners and users. The stories are presented in Cree Syllablics, Standard Roman Orthography, and English translation. It is important on various levels: a storytelling/cultural history and a multi-faceted guide to Cree language.

With Funny Little Stories, Canadian Plains Research Center has produced a little book of Cree short stories edited by Arok Wolvengrey that will appeal to students of the Cree language. 

A beautifully presented collection dealing with traditional medicinal plants and their use by Métis people that will be a useful resource for educators in the field of biological sciences.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s beautifully presented collection Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt will invite you to browse and learn more about the secrets of native healing botanicals.

A lavishly produced resource guide, this book sumptuously melds traditional aboriginal art with modern production techniques. It is unconventional, practical, striking, and tactile, an inviting hands-on product.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt is a sumptuous resource guide that is as beautiful as it is practical.

A lavishly produced resource guide, Medicines to Help Us sumptuously melds traditional aboriginal art with modern production techniques. It is unconventional, practical, striking, and tactile, an inviting hands-on product.

Medicines to Help Us is a sumptuous resource guide which is as beautiful as it is practical.

Gorgeously presented, this book is a wonderful natural dictionary of medicinal plants. Carefully and lovingly organized, it's an invaluable resource and connection to our past and future health.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s, Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt is carefully and lovingly organized. It's an invaluable resource and connection to our past and future health

A resource guide to plants used in the practice of traditional medicine and healing. It is valuable on several fronts: it seeks to preserve and pass on Elders' knowledge about the use of plants for traditional medicine and healing; it provides scientific (Latin), English and Métis languages names; it shows North American distribution of the plants; and it showcases the Christi Belcourt's art and photography.

The Crooked Good sets the deeply ambiguous legend of Rolling Head against the life of a multi-generational Aboriginal family.  This is an ambitious and successful long poetic work that braids Cree language and experience into a lodge where stories can be shared.

The Crooked Good by Louise Halfe is an ambitious and successful long poetic work, that braids Cree language and experience into a lodge where stories can be shared.

This is a stunning book of poetry. The writing is very accomplished, full of rich metaphors from Cree mythology, original turns of phrase, and a striking authenticity enhanced by Cree words and names. The design is beautiful, the illustrations of the snake/woman perfectly reflecting the content throughout the book.

Coteau Books’  The Crooked Good by Louise Bernice Halfe is a stunning book of poetry dealing with aboriginal themes and narrated by Turn-around Woman. The poems range from heart-breaking reality to surreal conversations with the ancestors.

A beautiful work of poetry by an accomplished poet.  Halfe speaks through her narrator,
e-kweskit, (Turn Around Woman), using her Cree culture and stories to examine pressures and issues faced by modern First Nations people.

Louise Halfe reaches into the history of her people, and into the deep memories of her aboriginal ancestors. Into the darkness, into the light with language that shines. She catches the dreams of her people in poetry that is clear as water.

Louise Bernice Halfe’s book of poems is a beautifully crafted, arduously-wrought vision of history and language and human consciousness. This book reaches for so much in its vision, but does so in a voice that is so innovative and subtle.

Love of Mirrors reflects a life in poetry.  In this book of new and selected poems, Hyland ranges over a vastly readable landscape.  He veers from humour to poignancy, lyric to story, prose poem to sonnet.  He uses poetic skills mastered over three decades to transform his subjects, which are pulled from newspaper and legend, prairie memory and his own quick-stepping imagination.

Love of Mirrors reflects a life in poetry. Gary Hyland ranges from humour to poignancy, lyric to story, prose poem to sonnet in this richly varied work.

A stunning retrospective of a poet's long career, with generous samples from most of his major periods, and a sprinkling of new work.

Gary Hyland’s Love of Mirrors casts a reflective glance back at this mature poet's long career, and returns to the present with new work.

Much-loved poet, Gary Hyland is celebrated in Love of Mirrors published by Coteau Books - a collection of poems which spans the thirty years of his career.

Love of Mirrors is the perfect introduction to the work of Moose Jaw poet Gary Hyland, an outstanding collection of new poems and selections from his six previously published books which admirably demonstrates the evolution of an engaged and engaging poet through the years.

This is place-rooted poetry of the highest order, utterly free of cliché. Klar is a challenging poet who nevertheless speaks very plainly.

Cypress by Barbara Klar illuminates a certain locale – Saskatchewan’s Cypress Hills – from the ground to the sky. A book to be read again and again.

There’s something incantatory and wonderfully strange about these poems, making something new of the old subjects of hill, stone and tree.  There’s humour and passion, and a remarkably quirky eye that is fresh and compelling.

In Cypress by Barbara Klar the poems tumble over themselves, down into ravines of the spirit that would be inaccessible to the careful trail-follower.

What strikes one right off is the voice in No Apologies for the Weather, the confidence and sureness of language, the joyful energy that spins off the page.  Taylor Leedahl writes as if she’s always written, with unique phrasing and contemporary diction. Here is a natural voice.

No Apologies For the Weather by Taylor Leedahl is a sure-footed book of poems that exudes a joy in language and the pleasure of voice.

The stakes are high in this collection, which ranges from rage to self-doubt to the plaintively mournful.  Rowley’s voice is fierce and gutsy, and the poems contain a mixture of brutality and sadness that can only be reconciled by the beautiful, hard-won simplicity of the final section.

Suicide Psalms: the stakes are high in this collection, which ranges from rage to self-doubt to the plaintively mournful.   Mary-Lou Rowley’s voice is fierce and gutsy, and the poems contain a mixture of brutality and sadness that can only be reconciled by the beautiful, hard-won simplicity of the final section.

Allan Safarik has written insightful and musical poetry about the west coast of Canada and the Saskatchewan prairies.  He catches the essence of landscape wherever he lives and, underpinning it, are his philosophical bent and slant humour. 

Yellowgrass by Allan Safarik holds poems that utilize a deceptively breezy, off-the-cuff language to fuse mercury observations and humour to broach fundamental philosophical questions of today.

A hugely entertaining novel, its mystery fast-moving and gripping.  Bowen keeps developing the strengths of her characters so that every turn is fresh and interesting.

The Brutal Heart is a great read by an accomplished writer, Gail Bowen.

Bowen has always pursued mystery and suspense through characters much like thee and me.  The reader isn’t compelled to care so much "whodunit," as to care a lot about what happens to the people – including, most often, the one ultimately revealed as the villain.  This is, perhaps, her finest novel.  A triumph of art that disguises itself as life.

With assured  writing, Gail Bowen tells a gripping tale of "ordinary" characters confronting extraordinary events in The Brutal Heart.   A triumph of art that disguises itself as life.

Hill’s gift, as poet, is to push against the limits of language; then, lyrically and vertiginously, to sail right through in surprising figures of speech.  

In pushing against what seem the very limits of language, Hill speaks expansively about an empty space; maps new moments in life, like the moment from before to after dark, by opening up language anew to them; and addresses a crow as an old buddy, seeing things the crow’s way. Reading Gerald Hill’s poetry is, to use one of his images, like arriving at night in a strange town: words behave differently, and you’re not sure where in language you are; but you’re led on, amused and enlightened, to find your way.

Britt Holmström’s sharp ear for realistic dialogue delineates the strong plot and characterization in this novel, carried forward by bursts of poetic and epigrammatic insight. The immediacy of the disparate locales in which the characters find themselves serves remarkably to highlight the dual essence of being European and Canadian at the same time.

A Canadian parallel of Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks, it traces the dynamics of several generations of a family-line, from Latvia through Sweden to Canada, through war-time and peace. Britt Holmstrom has a sharp ear for realistic dialogue. The strong plot and characterization in this novel is carried forward by bursts of poetic and epigrammatic insight.

A moving, deep, often surprising exploration of our growth from egotism to empathy, as this takes place across whole life-times and generations within a family.

Macdonald’s mastery of stagecraft is everywhere evident…A play must be seen to be fully experienced, but the text of this play creates an eminently readable and evocative next-best for those of us not lucky enough to have been there for a performance.   In Daniel Macdonald’s MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas the Prairie winter dominates a quirky, poignant drama of hope and faith – Saskatchewan heritage persisting in face of individual death and the passing of traditional ways.  

A terrific play, so moving, with such great characters.  We’d love to see it performed.

In Daniel Macdonald’s MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas one meets real people, powerfully portrayed.

This richly illustrated volume offers a glimpse of what happened to hundreds of Saskatchewan towns over the last century.  This gem of information about these small communities will be particularly useful for social studies classes. Beautiful photography!

In Canadian Plains Research Center’s Our Towns by David McLennan, the well-researched information is presented in an interesting, appealing format.

A delightful compendium of information about Saskatchewan’s towns.  It will become a reference standard in libraries, and is the perfect book to dip in and out of on long winter evenings. 

For the Saskatchewan small town aficionado a must read! Wonderful reference for Saskatchewan travelers to explore the history of small town Saskatchewan on the road or in the armchair.

Our Towns is as bright and full of surprises as the prairie landscape. It’s a well-researched, handsome, addition to every good library.

In this lavishly produced encyclopedia, David McLennan uses more than 1,000 unpublished photographs to supplement his own travel notes in order to create a comprehensive history of Saskatchewan, its past, its people, and its present vitality and wonder.

Our Towns by David McLennan is a comprehensive survey of Saskatchewan's hamlets, towns, and cities that should stand as a model for all such compendiums: concise and complete, illuminating in its detail and ultimately, a portrait of the settlement of a province.

Our Towns by David McLennan is a remarkable and important book, as thoroughly beautiful in text, image and design as it is exhaustively thorough in its coverage of Saskatchewan's towns. This will be a well-thumbed and intriguing coffee-table book for Saskatchewanians and others, while also being an important addition to Canadian Plains research.

David McLennan researched this book extensively, not only sifting though records, but hitting the road indefatigably, all over the Province. He achieves that indispensable quality of "being there. "It achieves a still too rare bridge-building between town and gown, in a work with huge popular appeal that will have a central place in the academy. This book will be around for a long time, in successive editions, as its organization lends itself invitingly to updates and expansions, as Saskatchewan itself grows and changes. Book and Province will mirror each other in the future.

Pitsula places Regina campus dynamically and rightfully on the world-stage for the big cultural movements of the 60's. Richly illustrated with powerful visual material.

In placing Regina campus firmly on the world-stage for the big cultural movements of the 60's (global peace, human rights, the sexual revolution ...), Pitsula shows how we can continue to make history today, for these movements are still to be played out more fully. The book is a model of how historical research can show an era in a particular place as shaped by, and, in turn, helping shape, global cultural changes, in a creative tension. Pitsula achieves an engaging balance between scholarly research and presenting an era in the voices of those who lived it.

This well-researched, scholarly, yet thoroughly engaging work gives us a coup d’oeil of the Sixties, the factors that led to sweeping changes, and how these changes unfolded at the Regina University campus.  This work is invaluable to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of that pivotal decade.

Even if you didn’t grow up in the Sixties, you will enjoy Canadian Plains Research Center’s New World Dawning by James Pitsula.  Filled with timely photos and illustrations, this well-written work will enlighten readers about the factors that led to sweeping changes across North America during that period.

James Pitsula’s approach to the turbulent events of the sixties in New World Dawning allows him to bring freshness and a great deal of humour to a familiar subject

James Pitsula chooses to examine the turbulent events of the sixties across North America through the prism of The Carillon, the student newspaper of the University of Regina. His approach allows him to bring freshness and a great deal of humour to a familiar subject.

Jenny is off on a trip around the world with her boyfriend Johnny. This debut novel tells the unabridged version of their adventures in England, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Scotland and Spain - a much more detailed and hilarious account than the one sent to her parents during the trip!

This beautifully written and illustrated children's book gives children good advice, in English and Michif, about how to be a joyful and loving person.

Rita Bouvier has written a book for children which is a long poem about all that is full of joyful admonitions:" lie on the rooftop with your mother/watching the moon and the stars." The stunning illustrations by Sherry Farrell Racette and the translation of the poem into Michif by Margaret Hodgson, make this a book for everyone.

Rita Bouvier, Sherry Farrell Racette and Margaret Hodgson work real magic in this book by combining language, illustration, and a deep feeling for the complex simplicity of a child’s view of the world and a child’s deep connection to the natural world.

Bean Fallwell’s distinctive and engaging voice makes the achievement of this narrative considerable.  The reader follows her trajectory between innocence and wisdom with rapt attention.

Pam Bustin has taken impressive stylistic and narrative risks, and created an original, powerful book: Mostly Happy.

In Mostly Happy, Pam Bustin takes a red Samsonite suitcase and fills it up with all that is important to Bean Fallwell ‘s life.  She leads the reader into the little towns of Saskatchewan, following Bean and her suitcase into all that is happy, and perilous.

A lively, whimsical, exuberant novel of development that spirals forward with such irresistible energy.

A great read for all audiences!  It vividly takes you into the world of a young girl who, with a courageous heart and mind, surfaces wise and worldly from an unpredictable and dysfunctional home.

A very fine accomplishment for a debut novel.

Mostly Happy is a well crafted novel. The finely drawn characters, clean prose and crisp dialogue make it a page-turner in the very best sense. The quirky, brave spirit of Bean E. Falwell captivated me from the first page and continues to resonate inside me.

A haunting look under the surface of a time and place.  Butala unravels a murder case which, unsolved, speaks to the heart of a city.

The Girl in Saskatoon is an anti-thriller. Sharon Butala meticulously dispatches the half-truths that have left an intriguing murder case unsolved for 40 years.

The Girl in Saskatoon is the unsettling profile of a time and place where innocence reigned before a chilling murder ushered in the modern age.  Butala affectingly probes the mystery of this senseless death that became a public as well as a personal tragedy.

The Girl in Saskatoon: In her haunting portrait of an earlier Saskatoon, Sharon Butala recreates a time – 1961; a place – Saskatoon; and a murder – Alexandra Wiwcharuk, exploring the city, the girl, and herself as she confronts a rich past.

Fascinating, educational, funny and beautifully illustrated, this book gives us a glimpse of the life of a veterinarian working in modern-day Africa.  Lions, rhinos and chimpanzees are among the animals Dr. Haigh treats and they are all sadly under great stress and pressure as their natural habitat slowly disappears.

Jerry Haigh takes us into the world of rhinos and lions in Africa and describes his adventures with clear insight and compassion.

This is a beautifully told, rich account of another landscape, another country; Jerry Haigh weaves an endlessly complex and layered tale of humans and animals.

The Trouble With Lions chronicles the adventures of a veterinarian in Africa, escorting us far off the beaten path of nature documentaries and tourist safaris, ultimately breaking our hearts with the overwhelming evidence that Africa’s great cavalcade of beasts and wild places will disappear in our lifetime.

The Trouble with Lions, Jerry Haigh ‘s fast-paced memoir of his years practicing wild-animal medicine in the jungles and plains of Africa, is as disturbing as it is fascinating: a rare glimpse into a little-known and quickly vanishing world.

The Crooked Good sets the deeply ambiguous legend of Rolling Head against the life of a multi-generational Aboriginal family.  This is an ambitious and successful long poetic work that braids Cree language and experience into a lodge where stories can be shared.

The Crooked Good by Louise Halfe is an ambitious and successful long poetic work, that braids Cree language and experience into a lodge where stories can be shared.

This is a stunning book of poetry. The writing is very accomplished, full of rich metaphors from Cree mythology, original turns of phrase, and a striking authenticity enhanced by Cree words and names. The design is beautiful, the illustrations of the snake/woman perfectly reflecting the content throughout the book.

Coteau Books’  The Crooked Good by Louise Bernice Halfe is a stunning book of poetry dealing with aboriginal themes and narrated by Turn-around Woman. The poems range from heart-breaking reality to surreal conversations with the ancestors.

A beautiful work of poetry by an accomplished poet.  Halfe speaks through her narrator,
e-kweskit, (Turn Around Woman), using her Cree culture and stories to examine pressures and issues faced by modern First Nations people.

Louise Halfe reaches into the history of her people, and into the deep memories of her aboriginal ancestors. Into the darkness, into the light with language that shines. She catches the dreams of her people in poetry that is clear as water.

Louise Bernice Halfe’s book of poems is a beautifully crafted, arduously-wrought vision of history and language and human consciousness. This book reaches for so much in its vision, but does so in a voice that is so innovative and subtle.

A charming young adult novel about Newton Starker, a boy whose entire family, except his great grandmother, has been killed by lightning strikes.  Newton takes lots of precautions but in the end it seems he may suffer the same fate.

Arthur Slade has written a book of survival for those who might die from lightning strikes and in the process has charmed us with his characters, their flights of fancy, their attempts to evade lightning.

Readers will love Arthur Slade’s confidence and sense of humor as a writer as he allows his crazy narrative to have so much fun with plot and character.

The writing is stylish and accomplished, utilizing an astute and compelling point of view.  Most of all, this is a wonderful portrayal of Saskatchewan.

Arthur Slade’s Jolted is a well-constructed book, its story and characters enhanced by fresh language and imagery.

Jolted is crammed with eccentric characters, implacable rivals, a hero fighting against the odds, his pet truffle pig and a terrifying family curse. Arthur Slade's tale of Newton Starker, whose relatives have the unfortunate habit of fatally attracting lightening strikes, is a fascinating take on the boarding school theme reminiscent of Hogwarts and is an electrifying thrill ride from start to finish.

A shockingly effective and absorbing tale filled with quirky characters, a boy with a family inheritance no one would want, and a pig with a nose for a mystery.

With the thorough recall of a caring detective, Bill Waiser cunningly explores and recreates a 1933 murder mystery, giving new evidence and drawing pertinent conclusions on the basis of all the evidence. The book becomes a real-life chronicle of the devastation and death of people living on the prairies in the time of the Depression.

Who Killed Jackie Bates? is a dark and compelling who-done-it from the bleak years of the Great Depression. This solid piece of investigative writing not only brings to life the characters and political forces of 1930s Saskatchewan, it honors an innocent boy whose name and sad story have been lost to time.

A professional, well-researched and well-documented look at one of Saskatchewan's mythic tales, as small-town people in the Thirties watch their neighbours in crisis and blame the government.

Bill Waiser’s powerfully told Who Killed Jackie Bates? sheds today's light on a Depression murder case and comes to a very different conclusion.

A chilling study of the tragic death of an eight-year-old boy during the darkest days of the Great Depression. Waiser pieces together the long-forgotten case and at that same time gives us a clear picture of the desperation of people caught in the poverty of the Dirty Thirties in Saskatchewan.

In Who Killed Jackie Bates? Bill Waiser takes an everyman's story of the Great Depression and creates a rich landscape.  It reads like a novel, it sings.

Such a strong, vivid rendering of the real and the imagined; Bill Waiser carefully tackles such a crucial part of our prairie history and brings it, and its mysteries, to life before our eyes.

The scholarly research behind this monumental volume is extremely thorough and up to date. Its special distinction, however, is that it places the legal analysis of treaty rights in the much broader context of the history of First Nations and the history of Canada. The fact that it is clearly organized and very well written also extends its appeal to many other groups besides law students, legal scholars and lawyers. It is surely destined to become an invaluable resource tool to students of political science (both undergraduate and graduate), to historians, to environmentalists and to those involved in the current controversial issues of language rights.

Treaty Rights in the Constitution of Canada by James Youngblood Henderson, places the legal analysis of treaty rights in the much broader context of the history of First Nations and the history of Canada.

Paul Laverdure makes good use of primary sources in Redemption and Ritual: The Eastern-Rite Redemptorists of North America, 1906-2006 presenting his research in an accessible writing style.

Sheila Petty analyzes nine movies, each showing a different aspect of the global black diaspora. While she notes that such a study has much to contribute to the wider debate on cultural globalization, it is her final chapter that has a particular local relevance. Here she summarizes the long and varied history of black immigration to Canada, questions the concept of a monolithic black community, and examines the movie “Rude.”

In Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema Sheila Petty analyzes nine movies, each showing a different aspect of the global black diaspora, noting that such a study has much to contribute to the wider debate on cultural globalization.

Pitsula places Regina campus dynamically and rightfully on the world-stage for the big cultural movements of the 60's. Richly illustrated with powerful visual material.

In placing Regina campus firmly on the world-stage for the big cultural movements of the 60's (global peace, human rights, the sexual revolution ...), Pitsula shows how we can continue to make history today, for these movements are still to be played out more fully. The book is a model of how historical research can show an era in a particular place as shaped by, and, in turn, helping shape, global cultural changes, in a creative tension. Pitsula achieves an engaging balance between scholarly research and presenting an era in the voices of those who lived it.

This well-researched, scholarly, yet thoroughly engaging work gives us a coup d’oeil of the Sixties, the factors that led to sweeping changes, and how these changes unfolded at the Regina University campus.  This work is invaluable to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of that pivotal decade.

Even if you didn’t grow up in the Sixties, you will enjoy Canadian Plains Research Center’s New World Dawning by James Pitsula.  Filled with timely photos and illustrations, this well-written work will enlighten readers about the factors that led to sweeping changes across North America during that period.

James Pitsula’s approach to the turbulent events of the sixties in New World Dawning allows him to bring freshness and a great deal of humour to a familiar subject

James Pitsula chooses to examine the turbulent events of the sixties across North America through the prism of The Carillon, the student newspaper of the University of Regina. His approach allows him to bring freshness and a great deal of humour to a familiar subject.

With the thorough recall of a caring detective, Bill Waiser cunningly explores and recreates a 1933 murder mystery, giving new evidence and drawing pertinent conclusions on the basis of all the evidence. The book becomes a real-life chronicle of the devastation and death of people living on the prairies in the time of the Depression.

Who Killed Jackie Bates? is a dark and compelling who-done-it from the bleak years of the Great Depression. This solid piece of investigative writing not only brings to life the characters and political forces of 1930s Saskatchewan, it honors an innocent boy whose name and sad story have been lost to time.

A professional, well-researched and well-documented look at one of Saskatchewan's mythic tales, as small-town people in the Thirties watch their neighbours in crisis and blame the government.

Bill Waiser’s powerfully told Who Killed Jackie Bates? sheds today's light on a Depression murder case and comes to a very different conclusion.

A chilling study of the tragic death of an eight-year-old boy during the darkest days of the Great Depression. Waiser pieces together the long-forgotten case and at that same time gives us a clear picture of the desperation of people caught in the poverty of the Dirty Thirties in Saskatchewan.

In Who Killed Jackie Bates? Bill Waiser takes an everyman's story of the Great Depression and creates a rich landscape.  It reads like a novel, it sings.

Such a strong, vivid rendering of the real and the imagined; Bill Waiser carefully tackles such a crucial part of our prairie history and brings it, and its mysteries, to life before our eyes.

You're Going Where!? makes a good impression both at home and away. A local librarian said she loved it so much she couldn't put it down, bursting out at three in the morning with laughter so loud that she nearly gave her dog a heart attack!

It is important, in picture books, to write a story that is concise and to the point with just the right balance between text and illustration.  In this book, the storyline is simple and spare, and it nicely complements the pictures, which are line-drawn, with color-crayoned shading.

The book touched me. It is very moving , down to earth, and with beautiful and stunning photographic images by the author.

This book gave me a deep sense of pride in the triumph of the human spirit in overcoming all kinds of obstacles and adversities. Dr. Koh's life is truly a success story.

Through the gates of Lipton Hebrew Cemetery, Isa Milman evokes Saskatchewan history as she intones Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, over the graves of the early settlers.

Out of the Lipton Hebrew Cemetery, Isa Milman evokes Saskatchewan history in poetry, documents, and rich prose with her prairie Kaddish —the mourner’s prayer — remembering the early Jewish settlers of the area. Milman reminds us who we are, and where we come from.

Ulrich has created characters with whom young readers will easily relate.  Much of Jessie's learning occurs on the ice. We see both the negative – girl-vs-girl violence and peer pressure — and the positive — building respect and self-esteem, particularly when surrounded by a supportive peer group.

A taut and exciting young adult novel told from the point of view of a young girl who has to deal with a new school and new town as well as all the hormonal complications of growing up.
Finding true friends tests Jessie McIntyre’s values. She rises to the challenge and gains courage and self confidence through her team. Good medicine on how to handle bullies!
Maureen Ulrich’s character Jessie in Power Plays can't make friends in her new town.  Instead she makes an enemy, and trouble, bad trouble, follows.

Jessie can't make friends in her new town. Instead she makes an enemy, and trouble, bad trouble, follows. Maybe the fast action of hockey will give her a second chance. Moving to a new city and school can be difficult, especially for a feisty grade nine girl who can't keep her resentment from showing. Jessie is better at getting into fights than at building friendships but when she makes a real enemy she in frightened and confused. A coach sees that Jessie has hockey potential and the team game helps her shift the balance of her life into something more positive. Lots of hockey and social action.

Jenny is off on a trip around the world with her boyfriend Johnny. This debut novel tells the unabridged version of their adventures in England, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Scotland and Spain - a much more detailed and hilarious account than the one sent to her parents during the trip!

Love of Mirrors reflects a life in poetry.  In this book of new and selected poems, Hyland ranges over a vastly readable landscape.  He veers from humour to poignancy, lyric to story, prose poem to sonnet.  He uses poetic skills mastered over three decades to transform his subjects, which are pulled from newspaper and legend, prairie memory and his own quick-stepping imagination.

Love of Mirrors reflects a life in poetry. Gary Hyland ranges from humour to poignancy, lyric to story, prose poem to sonnet in this richly varied work.

A stunning retrospective of a poet's long career, with generous samples from most of his major periods, and a sprinkling of new work.

Gary Hyland’s Love of Mirrors casts a reflective glance back at this mature poet's long career, and returns to the present with new work.

Much-loved poet, Gary Hyland is celebrated in Love of Mirrors published by Coteau Books - a collection of poems which spans the thirty years of his career.

Love of Mirrors is the perfect introduction to the work of Moose Jaw poet Gary Hyland, an outstanding collection of new poems and selections from his six previously published books which admirably demonstrates the evolution of an engaged and engaging poet through the years.

Passchendaele seamlessly blends historical narrative with extraordinary, often highly personal archival material in a moving tribute to those who fell in battle.

Passchendaele seamlessly blends historical narrative with extraordinary, often highly personal archival material, resulting in a beautifully rendered, moving tribute that has astonishing immediacy, especially remarkable given that the Passchendaele battle took place almost a century ago.

Coteau Books’ Passchendaele by Norman Leach seamlessly blends historical narrative with extraordinary, often highly personal archival material in a moving tribute to those who fell in battle.

Passchendaele seamlessly blends historical narrative with extraordinary, often highly personal archival material, resulting in a beautifully rendered, moving tribute that has astonishing immediacy, especially remarkable given that the Passchendaele battle took place almost a century ago.

Ulrich has created characters with whom young readers will easily relate.  Much of Jessie's learning occurs on the ice. We see both the negative – girl-vs-girl violence and peer pressure — and the positive — building respect and self-esteem, particularly when surrounded by a supportive peer group.

A taut and exciting young adult novel told from the point of view of a young girl who has to deal with a new school and new town as well as all the hormonal complications of growing up.
Finding true friends tests Jessie McIntyre’s values. She rises to the challenge and gains courage and self confidence through her team. Good medicine on how to handle bullies!
Maureen Ulrich’s character Jessie in Power Plays can't make friends in her new town.  Instead she makes an enemy, and trouble, bad trouble, follows.

Jessie can't make friends in her new town. Instead she makes an enemy, and trouble, bad trouble, follows. Maybe the fast action of hockey will give her a second chance. Moving to a new city and school can be difficult, especially for a feisty grade nine girl who can't keep her resentment from showing. Jessie is better at getting into fights than at building friendships but when she makes a real enemy she in frightened and confused. A coach sees that Jessie has hockey potential and the team game helps her shift the balance of her life into something more positive. Lots of hockey and social action.

Through the gates of Lipton Hebrew Cemetery, Isa Milman evokes Saskatchewan history as she intones Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, over the graves of the early settlers.

Out of the Lipton Hebrew Cemetery, Isa Milman evokes Saskatchewan history in poetry, documents, and rich prose with her prairie Kaddish —the mourner’s prayer — remembering the early Jewish settlers of the area. Milman reminds us who we are, and where we come from.

This is fiction that is forceful but elegant, taking us into the lives of people we recognize but rarely encounter in fiction. Crane’s characters leap to life from the page in language that is clear and droll. Readable and risqué, these short stories deserve a wide audience.

In language that is clear yet witty, Dede Crane draws us into the lives of people we rarely encounter.

A beautifully presented collection dealing with traditional medicinal plants and their use by Métis people that will be a useful resource for educators in the field of biological sciences.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s beautifully presented collection Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt will invite you to browse and learn more about the secrets of native healing botanicals.

A lavishly produced resource guide, this book sumptuously melds traditional aboriginal art with modern production techniques. It is unconventional, practical, striking, and tactile, an inviting hands-on product.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt is a sumptuous resource guide that is as beautiful as it is practical.

A lavishly produced resource guide, Medicines to Help Us sumptuously melds traditional aboriginal art with modern production techniques. It is unconventional, practical, striking, and tactile, an inviting hands-on product.

Medicines to Help Us is a sumptuous resource guide which is as beautiful as it is practical.

Gorgeously presented, this book is a wonderful natural dictionary of medicinal plants. Carefully and lovingly organized, it's an invaluable resource and connection to our past and future health.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s, Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt is carefully and lovingly organized. It's an invaluable resource and connection to our past and future health

A resource guide to plants used in the practice of traditional medicine and healing. It is valuable on several fronts: it seeks to preserve and pass on Elders' knowledge about the use of plants for traditional medicine and healing; it provides scientific (Latin), English and Métis languages names; it shows North American distribution of the plants; and it showcases the Christi Belcourt's art and photography.

Simply put, this book is elegantly crafted. It is an ode to Bob Boyer, a retrospective infused with love, care, and respect.

MacKenzie Art Gallery with Lee-Ann Martin, Ted Godwin, Carmen Robertson and Alfred Young Man have with Bob Boyer: His Life's Work/Le travail d’une vie produced an ode to Bob Boyer, a retrospective infused with love, care, and respect.

With exquisite colour reproductions, this book encapsulates the life of a major Saskatchewan artist. In four essays, Lee-Ann Martin, Ted Godwin, Alfred Young Man, and Carmen Robertson explore the various faces of Bob Boyer in both English and French. Boyer’s work is wonderfully showcased in this finely produced book..

With exquisite colour reproductions, this well produced book captures the life of a major Canadian artist.

In an era when First Nations need to make their voices heard in the academic arena, these essays are an important contribution.  This book is a necessary one for the Métis, wide-ranging and all-inclusive.

Canadian Plains Research Center’s The Western Métis, edited by Patrick C. Douaud is a necessary book for the Métis, wide-ranging and all-inclusive

The Crooked Good sets the deeply ambiguous legend of Rolling Head against the life of a multi-generational Aboriginal family.  This is an ambitious and successful long poetic work that braids Cree language and experience into a lodge where stories can be shared.

The Crooked Good by Louise Halfe is an ambitious and successful long poetic work, that braids Cree language and experience into a lodge where stories can be shared.

This is a stunning book of poetry. The writing is very accomplished, full of rich metaphors from Cree mythology, original turns of phrase, and a striking authenticity enhanced by Cree words and names. The design is beautiful, the illustrations of the snake/woman perfectly reflecting the content throughout the book.

Coteau Books’  The Crooked Good by Louise Bernice Halfe is a stunning book of poetry dealing with aboriginal themes and narrated by Turn-around Woman. The poems range from heart-breaking reality to surreal conversations with the ancestors.

A beautiful work of poetry by an accomplished poet.  Halfe speaks through her narrator,
e-kweskit, (Turn Around Woman), using her Cree culture and stories to examine pressures and issues faced by modern First Nations people.

Louise Halfe reaches into the history of her people, and into the deep memories of her aboriginal ancestors. Into the darkness, into the light with language that shines. She catches the dreams of her people in poetry that is clear as water.

Louise Bernice Halfe’s book of poems is a beautifully crafted, arduously-wrought vision of history and language and human consciousness. This book reaches for so much in its vision, but does so in a voice that is so innovative and subtle.

A beautifully presented collection dealing with traditional medicinal plants and their use by Métis people that will be a useful resource for educators in the field of biological sciences.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s beautifully presented collection Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt will invite you to browse and learn more about the secrets of native healing botanicals.

A lavishly produced resource guide, this book sumptuously melds traditional aboriginal art with modern production techniques. It is unconventional, practical, striking, and tactile, an inviting hands-on product.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt is a sumptuous resource guide that is as beautiful as it is practical.

A lavishly produced resource guide, Medicines to Help Us sumptuously melds traditional aboriginal art with modern production techniques. It is unconventional, practical, striking, and tactile, an inviting hands-on product.

Medicines to Help Us is a sumptuous resource guide which is as beautiful as it is practical.

Gorgeously presented, this book is a wonderful natural dictionary of medicinal plants. Carefully and lovingly organized, it's an invaluable resource and connection to our past and future health.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s, Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt is carefully and lovingly organized. It's an invaluable resource and connection to our past and future health

A resource guide to plants used in the practice of traditional medicine and healing. It is valuable on several fronts: it seeks to preserve and pass on Elders' knowledge about the use of plants for traditional medicine and healing; it provides scientific (Latin), English and Métis languages names; it shows North American distribution of the plants; and it showcases the Christi Belcourt's art and photography.

The result of a huge community effort, this book is a handsome production, well written and beautifully designed.  Each Métis legend is presented in the original transcripts as told by the elder, in everyday English and finally in comic-book style for younger people.  The illustrations are colourful, varied and imaginative.

Gabriel Dumont Institute, Stories of Our People by Norman Fleury Gilbert Pelletier, Jeanne Pelletier, Joe Welsh, Norma Welsh, Janice DePeel, Carrie Saganace.  The result of a huge community effort this book  is a handsome production, well written and beautifully designed.

A haunting look under the surface of a time and place.  Butala unravels a murder case which, unsolved, speaks to the heart of a city.

The Girl in Saskatoon is an anti-thriller. Sharon Butala meticulously dispatches the half-truths that have left an intriguing murder case unsolved for 40 years.

The Girl in Saskatoon is the unsettling profile of a time and place where innocence reigned before a chilling murder ushered in the modern age.  Butala affectingly probes the mystery of this senseless death that became a public as well as a personal tragedy.

The Girl in Saskatoon: In her haunting portrait of an earlier Saskatoon, Sharon Butala recreates a time – 1961; a place – Saskatoon; and a murder – Alexandra Wiwcharuk, exploring the city, the girl, and herself as she confronts a rich past.

Simply put, this book is elegantly crafted. It is an ode to Bob Boyer, a retrospective infused with love, care, and respect.

MacKenzie Art Gallery with Lee-Ann Martin, Ted Godwin, Carmen Robertson and Alfred Young Man have with Bob Boyer: His Life's Work/Le travail d’une vie produced an ode to Bob Boyer, a retrospective infused with love, care, and respect.

With exquisite colour reproductions, this book encapsulates the life of a major Saskatchewan artist. In four essays, Lee-Ann Martin, Ted Godwin, Alfred Young Man, and Carmen Robertson explore the various faces of Bob Boyer in both English and French. Boyer’s work is wonderfully showcased in this finely produced book..

With exquisite colour reproductions, this well produced book captures the life of a major Canadian artist.

The author uses a wonderful mix of European and native myths to inform Charlie’s picaresque journey across the country.  The many interesting characters encountered make this novel a tremendously satisfying read.

Charlie Muskrat  by Harold Johnson  is a funny and ironic book replete with twists and turns of plot, which arrive at pleasurable surprise.

Nothing political or social is sacred in this novel. It is at once funny and sad, satirical and thoughtful.  The hero is Charlie Muskrat, who wanders all over Canada accompanied by the Trickster, Wesakicak and phantom hitchhikers.

Pitsula places Regina campus dynamically and rightfully on the world-stage for the big cultural movements of the 60's. Richly illustrated with powerful visual material.

In placing Regina campus firmly on the world-stage for the big cultural movements of the 60's (global peace, human rights, the sexual revolution ...), Pitsula shows how we can continue to make history today, for these movements are still to be played out more fully. The book is a model of how historical research can show an era in a particular place as shaped by, and, in turn, helping shape, global cultural changes, in a creative tension. Pitsula achieves an engaging balance between scholarly research and presenting an era in the voices of those who lived it.

This well-researched, scholarly, yet thoroughly engaging work gives us a coup d’oeil of the Sixties, the factors that led to sweeping changes, and how these changes unfolded at the Regina University campus.  This work is invaluable to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of that pivotal decade.

Even if you didn’t grow up in the Sixties, you will enjoy Canadian Plains Research Center’s New World Dawning by James Pitsula.  Filled with timely photos and illustrations, this well-written work will enlighten readers about the factors that led to sweeping changes across North America during that period.

James Pitsula’s approach to the turbulent events of the sixties in New World Dawning allows him to bring freshness and a great deal of humour to a familiar subject

James Pitsula chooses to examine the turbulent events of the sixties across North America through the prism of The Carillon, the student newspaper of the University of Regina. His approach allows him to bring freshness and a great deal of humour to a familiar subject.

This richly illustrated volume offers a glimpse of what happened to hundreds of Saskatchewan towns over the last century.  This gem of information about these small communities will be particularly useful for social studies classes. Beautiful photography!

In Canadian Plains Research Center’s Our Towns by David McLennan, the well-researched information is presented in an interesting, appealing format.

A delightful compendium of information about Saskatchewan’s towns.  It will become a reference standard in libraries, and is the perfect book to dip in and out of on long winter evenings. 

For the Saskatchewan small town aficionado a must read! Wonderful reference for Saskatchewan travelers to explore the history of small town Saskatchewan on the road or in the armchair.

Our Towns is as bright and full of surprises as the prairie landscape. It’s a well-researched, handsome, addition to every good library.

In this lavishly produced encyclopedia, David McLennan uses more than 1,000 unpublished photographs to supplement his own travel notes in order to create a comprehensive history of Saskatchewan, its past, its people, and its present vitality and wonder.

Our Towns by David McLennan is a comprehensive survey of Saskatchewan's hamlets, towns, and cities that should stand as a model for all such compendiums: concise and complete, illuminating in its detail and ultimately, a portrait of the settlement of a province.

Our Towns by David McLennan is a remarkable and important book, as thoroughly beautiful in text, image and design as it is exhaustively thorough in its coverage of Saskatchewan's towns. This will be a well-thumbed and intriguing coffee-table book for Saskatchewanians and others, while also being an important addition to Canadian Plains research.

David McLennan researched this book extensively, not only sifting though records, but hitting the road indefatigably, all over the Province. He achieves that indispensable quality of "being there. "It achieves a still too rare bridge-building between town and gown, in a work with huge popular appeal that will have a central place in the academy. This book will be around for a long time, in successive editions, as its organization lends itself invitingly to updates and expansions, as Saskatchewan itself grows and changes. Book and Province will mirror each other in the future.

This collection of Cree short stories is presented in three formats: Cree Syllabics, Cree Standard Roman Orthography and English translation.  It includes a detailed introduction and a Cree-English glossary which would be useful to learners of the Cree language.

I really like this collection of Cree short stories from different genres, generations and dialects. It is intended for language learners and users. The stories are presented in Cree Syllablics, Standard Roman Orthography, and English translation. It is important on various levels: a storytelling/cultural history and a multi-faceted guide to Cree language.

With Funny Little Stories, Canadian Plains Research Center has produced a little book of Cree short stories edited by Arok Wolvengrey that will appeal to students of the Cree language. 

A beautifully presented collection dealing with traditional medicinal plants and their use by Métis people that will be a useful resource for educators in the field of biological sciences.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s beautifully presented collection Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt will invite you to browse and learn more about the secrets of native healing botanicals.

A lavishly produced resource guide, this book sumptuously melds traditional aboriginal art with modern production techniques. It is unconventional, practical, striking, and tactile, an inviting hands-on product.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt is a sumptuous resource guide that is as beautiful as it is practical.

A lavishly produced resource guide, Medicines to Help Us sumptuously melds traditional aboriginal art with modern production techniques. It is unconventional, practical, striking, and tactile, an inviting hands-on product.

Medicines to Help Us is a sumptuous resource guide which is as beautiful as it is practical.

Gorgeously presented, this book is a wonderful natural dictionary of medicinal plants. Carefully and lovingly organized, it's an invaluable resource and connection to our past and future health.

Gabriel Dumont Institute’s, Medicines to Help Us by Christi Belcourt is carefully and lovingly organized. It's an invaluable resource and connection to our past and future health

A resource guide to plants used in the practice of traditional medicine and healing. It is valuable on several fronts: it seeks to preserve and pass on Elders' knowledge about the use of plants for traditional medicine and healing; it provides scientific (Latin), English and Métis languages names; it shows North American distribution of the plants; and it showcases the Christi Belcourt's art and photography.

Filled with fast action, passion and humour, this story of a young hockey player in the Sixties will capture the imagination of avid and reluctant readers alike.

Even if you are not a hockey fan, you will want to read every last page of The Adventures of Caraway Kim . . . Right Wing by Don Truckey.  The Thistledown Press book is about a likable young hockey player during the sixties.

Jenny is off on a trip around the world with her boyfriend Johnny. This debut novel tells the unabridged version of their adventures in England, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Scotland and Spain - a much more detailed and hilarious account than the one sent to her parents during the trip!

This teacher-friendly resource guide, based on Choice Theory, deals with the timely topics of anti-bullying and self-esteem.  Teachers will appreciate the well-organized lesson plans and the highly attractive student resources.

Anyone teaching Choice Theory to younger children will appreciate the well designed resource guide, I Like You, I Like Me, Too!  from Your Nickel’s Worth.  Marcia C. Frid’s student resources are especially attractive.

Un petit roman accessible aux garçons à cause de son amour de la terre, de la ferme, du tracteur, mais que les jeunes filles vont également aimer à cause du jeu d’amour entre deux jeunes et de la jalousie qui s’ensuit.

Un petit chef-d’oeuvre qui relie les événements de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Europe avec le petit village fransaskois de Prud’homme; un roman pour adolescents avec un goût d’histoire locale, accessible aux garçons et aux filles autant de langue maternelle française que de l’immersion.

Passchendaele seamlessly blends historical narrative with extraordinary, often highly personal archival material in a moving tribute to those who fell in battle.

Passchendaele seamlessly blends historical narrative with extraordinary, often highly personal archival material, resulting in a beautifully rendered, moving tribute that has astonishing immediacy, especially remarkable given that the Passchendaele battle took place almost a century ago.

Coteau Books’ Passchendaele by Norman Leach seamlessly blends historical narrative with extraordinary, often highly personal archival material in a moving tribute to those who fell in battle.

Passchendaele seamlessly blends historical narrative with extraordinary, often highly personal archival material, resulting in a beautifully rendered, moving tribute that has astonishing immediacy, especially remarkable given that the Passchendaele battle took place almost a century ago.

Un beau petit roman qui va toucher au coeur des jeunes lecteurs et aussi à ceux des adultes. D’une malchance vient une réconciliation entre père fils. Un livre qui nous transporte des prairies de la Saskatchewan jusque dans la grande ville de Montréal.

Des coups de coeur; des petits cadeaux; quatre pièces de théâtre par des auteurs fransaskois qui réussissent à plaire. David Baudemont, Raoul Granger, Madeleine Blais-Dahlem et Guy Michaud ajoutent au répertoire dramatique fransaskois.