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| Title: A Brief and Endless Sea |
| By (author): Barbara Pelman |
| ISBN10-13: 1773861255 : 9781773861258 |
| Born out of waiting out the lockdown during the early days of the pandemic, Barbara Pelman's A Brief and Endless Sea explores a life in retrospect, beginning with a high school typing class and ending with the Angel Purah, cutting the ties that bind a soul to a body. Many of the poems in this collection are rooted in Jewish tradition: the prophet Isaiah's words of comfort; the rabbinical story of the Lost Princess, that angel and her counterpart, the Angel Duma. Pelman takes us to difficult placesâ the dissolution of a marriage, caring for a parent with dementia. But she doesn't leave us there, waiting. Using the power of words to map a route out, A Brief and Endless Sea pulls us toward life in all of its vibrant detailsâ the simple beauty of a small garden of tomatoes and roses, the pleasures of teaching poetry, long walks with a grandson, and encounters with spirituality. For Pelman, there is comfort in the making of a poem and in the "smallest life you can love." Like the glosa form she turns to often, something small transforms into something larger, expansive. In A Brief and Endless Sea, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and waiting in itself presents fertile ground for hope and possibility. |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: Caitlin Press - April 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 1 of: 235 |
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| Title: A Bright and Steady Flame |
| Sub-title: The Story of Aging and an Enduring Friendship |
| By (author): Luanne Armstrong |
| ISBN10-13: 1987915828 : 9781987915822 |
| In 1974, after escaping an abusive marriage, Luanne Armstrong struggled with poverty and caring for four small children. During this time, the author and Sam Moore began their friendship; they were both young, single parents in crisis, and needed to change their lives. They supported each other through the child-rearing years, careers, and environmental, peace and feminist work. Their friendship endured and strengthened during the colourful, sometimes strange, but also community-altering movements that rocked the seventies and eighties throughout BC: back-to-the-landers, draft dodgers, hippies, drugs, plus political movements for peace, feminism, and equality. Now in their later years, they are again both facing an identity crisis, and, again, they do so together, their long friendship a source of immense strength and comfort. This book delves into the hardships of aging, grief and pain, and how friendships can sustain all of us. A Bright and Steady Flame gives insight into how deep and powerful a friendship can be. Armstrongs new book speaks to our compelling human need and ability to build long-lasting community. This is a love story that celebrates, for all people, the solace that true friendship can provide. |
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“From the Kootenays to the coast and back again, from poverty and single parenthood to writing and activism, love and pain, A Bright and Steady Flame is a love letter to a fifty-five year friendship and a memoir that offers extraordinary insights into aging, love, loss and joy.” — Jane Hamilton Silcott, co-editor of Love Me True and Everything Rustles
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“In A Bright and Steady Flame, we have been given a gift that is at once an easy read and a work of depth, intellect, compassion and razor-sharp observation. It is a book that makes me want to go into my library and re-read some of Armstrong’s earlier works, if for no other reason than the quality of writing
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“This book may well change your worldview about aging. It will certainly encourage you to live as creatively as you can, particularly as you grow older. It is a book about navigating personal annihilation, about being ground into ashes and almost disappearing from life, only to return to the world with a poetic and riveting story that will light a fire in readers’ hearts.” —Lee Reid, M. Ed, The Ormsby Review
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Pages: 192
Size: 200x140mm
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| Published: Caitlin Press (CA) - September 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Memoirs : Coping with old age |
| List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 2 of: 235 |
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| Title: A One-Handed Novel |
| By (author): Kim Clark |
| ISBN10-13: 1987915623 : 9781987915624 |
| When Melanie Farrell visits the neurologist she is told her multiple sclerosis is progressing. She isnt surprised by the diagnosis, but what does shock her is the related prognosis. It seems, based on a new study, that she only has six orgasms left. Six! Fortyish and single, Mel must decide how best to spend, save or at least not waste those precious orgasms. Mels plans to make the most of her sex life proves easier said than done when other realities of living with MS demand even more of her attention. Should she max out her credit card on an experimental procedure in Costa Rica? How can she work to financially support herself and get the care she needs when she can hardly leave the house? Where are her friends when she needs them? Her choices become even more confusing when one day she meets a man who loves butterflies and is good with his hands. But is romance what shes really looking for right now? Or is she looking for something even more? Funny, honest, heartbreaking and hopeful, A One-Handed Novel offers a fresh take on independence and disability, ambition and love, and the communities that help us cope when our bodies and our desires are ever-changing. |
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“To reveal too many details would deprive the reader of the wicked delight in discovering each fearless narrative surprise that awaits them in Kim Clark’s novel. In both humour and heart this book doesn’t tread delicately when addressing the reality of living with a disability, financial struggle, women’s sexuality, and the complications that arise in every type of relationship. I cried, I cackled, and I couldn’t stop reading this wild, tender and very necessary book.” —Dina Del Bucchia, author of Don’t Tell Me What to Do
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] A comic novel about MS—who would have thought it? But it’s also about sex, about coming to terms with one’s bodily limitations, and about friendship, money, hope, and community
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Pages: 288
Size: 230x175mm
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| Published: Caitlin Press (CA) - August 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Romance |
| List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 3 of: 235 |
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| Title: A Place Called Sorry |
| By (author): Donna Milner |
| ISBN10-13: 192757594X : 9781927575949 |
| Growing up in the 1930s, Adeline Beale knows little of the outside world or the looming shadows of a second world war. Addie -- as her grandfather Chauncey Beynon Beale affectionately calls her -- believes that everything she could ever want or need is to be found on his cattle ranch, the place her family calls home, or in the little town twelve bush miles away, a place called Sorry. After tragedy strikes her family, Addie holds her sorrows close to her heart. Only later will she learn that her grandfather too has lived with his own secret torment for more than seventy years. It will take his slipping into blindness and dementia before the dark spectre from his past emerges, leaving her the one responsible for its consequences. And when that day arrives, when Chauncey Beale's past intersects with Addie's present, it will change her future in ways that she, and those she loves, could never have imagined. |
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Pages: 264
Size: 155x230mm
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| Published: Caitlin Press (CA) - September 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 10.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 4 of: 235 |
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| Title: A Quiet Roar |
| Sub-title: Living with Multiple Sclerosis |
| By (author): Heidi Redl |
| ISBN10-13: 1987915372 : 9781987915372 |
| Compelling and honest life of a stubborn BC rancher living tenaciously in the face of her Multiple Sclerosis condition. The devastating diagnosis of an incurable, debilitating disease does not ordinarily form the starting point of a triumphant story. This, however, is a triumphant story. Heidi Redl was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2004 and immediately chose to fight the disease with the only tools available to her: sheer stubbornness and courage. Growing up on a pioneer ranch in the rough and dusty days of the late 1960s and the 1970s, Redl learned at a young age to be self-reliant and tenacious. Life as a rancher had given her the courage she would need to bravely and persistently fight back against this chronic disease that now affects 2.5 million people worldwide. But nothing in her previous experiences could fully prepare her to live with an equally tenacious enemy. In this book Redl shares the struggles and triumphs in her uphill battle with multiple sclerosis. To survive, Redl must first learn to trust and rely on other people for the help she would need in the new reality of her daily life. This compelling and honest memoir is a record of her struggle against the physical challenges of living with a progressive disease but also of the support and incredible friendships she found along the way. |
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Pages: 192
Size: 205x140mm
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| Published: Caitlin Press (CA) - May 2017 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Biography: general : Popular medicine & health : Coping with illness & specific conditions |
| List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 5 of: 235 |
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| Title: A Thoroughly Wicked Woman |
| Sub-title: Murder, Perjury & Trial by Newspaper |
| By (author): Betty Keller |
| ISBN10-13: 1894759486 : 9781894759489 |
| On a foggy evening in November 1905, 48-year-old Thomas Jackson returned to his home on Melville Street in Vancouver after nine months of prospecting north of the Skeena. Jackson was happy because he had made an important gold strike. Four days later he was dead from strychnine poisoning. Any of the other four people living in the house on Melville Street could have slipped the poison into the mixture of Epsom salts and beer that Jackson took on the morning of his death. Reporters from Vancouver's newspapers chose Jackson's teary-eyed, fragile, 24-year-old wife, Theresa, as their first choice for the guilty party. Then as the days went by, their preference shifted to the dead man's steely-eyed, light-fingered, American mother-in-law, Esther Jones. Suspicion also fell on the two boarders -- Esther's nephew Harry Fisher and Ernest Exall. All of them had the opportunity to plant the poison. Eventually the police followed up on the newspapers' revelations, the most important being that Harry Fisher was not Esther's nephew but her son. Fisher fled to Washington, and in his absence his mother and sister were arrested -- not for murder but for perjured testimony at the coroner's inquest. What followed was a series of hearings and trials in the city's courtrooms with fledgling lawyers trying to make their names in combat with the celebrated defence counsel Joseph Martin, KC. At the same time the newspapers, which were locked in a deadly circulation war, tried desperately to trump each other with juicy bits of information, all of it splashed on their front pages week after week. In the end the two women served time in the BC Penitentiary, but no one was ever tried for the murder of Thomas Jackson. Acclaimed writer Betty Keller has based her sensational story of murder and intrigue on actual events that occurred in Vancouver's pre-World War I years. |
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Pages: 224
Size: 140x215mm
Illustrations: b/w photos
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| Published: Caitlin Press (CA) - January 2011 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: True crime |
| List Price: 10.99 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 23 |
| Title: 6 of: 235 |
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| Title: A Well-Mannered Storm |
| Sub-title: The Glenn Gould Poems |
| By (author): Kate Braid |
| ISBN10-13: 1894759281 : 9781894759281 |
| This is an exploration of loose correspondence between one of Canada's greatest musicians, Glenn Gould, and "K", an admiring fan. Braid weaves an intimate dynamic as K struggles with the loss of her hearing in one ear, finding her greatest comfort in Gould's music -- particularly when he plays Bach. Gould's poems don't directly reply, but they do echo a response as he struggles with his own difficult life; his family, his health, his strong beliefs in how music should be presented and his personal habits considered "eccentric" by an ever-watchful press. K starts to accept her changing world, just as Gould begins a downward spiral into disintegration. In his final reflection, Gould acknowledges that in spite of his personal trials, his music now circles the world in the spacecraft Voyager as Earth's example to other possible life forms of what is most beautiful in this civilisation. This is a striking and masterful volume of poems that does justice to Gould's brilliance, offering insights into his personal life and art, even as it showcases Braid's own virtuosity. |
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Pages: 120
Size: 150x205mm
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| Published: Caitlin Press (CA) - October 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 10.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 7 of: 235 |
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| Title: A World for My Daughter |
| Sub-title: An Ecologist's Search for Optimism |
| By (author): Alejandro Frid |
| ISBN10-13: 1927575966 : 9781927575963 |
| As an ecologist, Alejandro Frid is haunted by the irrevocable changes that humans are forcing upon Earth-the loss of ancient forests, the demise of large predators, shifts in the chemistry and circulation patterns of the atmosphere and more. Feeling completely discouraged by his research on endangered species and various forms of ecological meltdown, Alejandro accepts defeat and simply escapes from this world without a future by retreating to Earth's few remaining wild places. Then Twyla Bella, his daughter, is born. He wonders, how can he bring a child into a world he believes is doomed? Does this very belief make the situation hopeless? Faced with these questions, Alejandro begins his search for optimism. This book takes readers to the sharp knife-edge on which the fate of the biosphere rests. Merging the perspective of a scientist compelled to share the significance of his research, glimpses into the worldview of modern indigenous hunters and the voice of a parent speaking to his child about life's conundrums, the book steers readers toward imagining their own role in preserving the vibrancy of our planet. |
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Pages: 240
Size: 225x155mm
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| Published: Caitlin Press (CA) - August 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Conservation of the environment |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 8 of: 235 |
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| Title: Absence of Wings |
| By (author): Arleen Pare |
| ISBN10-13: 1773861239 : 9781773861234 |
| Absence of Wings depicts the extraordinary and tragically foreshortened life of A.â ParĂ©'s niece, Brazilian, adopted, racialized, and living with multiple mental health diagnoses. In her deft and clear poetics, accompanied by documentary pieces in the tradition of C.D. Wright's One with Others, ParĂ© is both witness to and emotionally engaged in the life and death of A. The result is deep and heart-felt, both factional and fictional, poetry and prose, holding its subject, A., heart-close and 3,000 miles away. Absence of Wings unfolds on many levels; it embraces the private and public spheres; it is as intimate as family, as worldly as the public and personal politics that surround each life. It both observes and embraces, always with the important question of the world's unprotected children in mind. |
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Pages: 144
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| Published: Caitlin Press - April 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Conservation of the environment |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 9 of: 235 |
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| Title: Accidental Blooms |
| By (author): Keiko Honda |
| ISBN10-13: 1773861212 : 9781773861210 |
| Keiko Honda is living a successful, busy life as a scientist of cancer epidemiology at Columbia University in New York City when one morning she abruptly loses all strength in her legs. She phones a friend to care for her twenty-month-old daughter and rushes to the hospital. Within hours, she can barely breathe. She soon discovers she is permanently paralyzed from the chest down due to a rare autoimmune disease with a frequency of approximately one case per million per year. Suddenly, she's that one. As Keiko struggles for life, she learns through lived experience the importance of community to healing, one of her prior research interests at Columbia. Seeking a wheelchair-accessible home closer to nature in which to raise her daughter, Keiko moves to Vancouver, Canada. She starts hosting informal artist salons, forms a mutually supportive group of artists and art-loving neighbours and then, surprisingly, becomes an artist herself. While her illness forced her departure from a career she spent twelve years building, it would ultimately provide the opportunity to live a life dedicated to community, friendship and art, as well as the continually evolving process of self-discovery as a mother, Japanese immigrant, survivor and artist. When painting with watercolours, artists sometimes produce unintentional, unpredictable eruptions of colour that flow from one region to another across a too-wet surface. Keiko feels a camaraderie with these "accidental blooms," as she calls them, because she, too, has had to plunge across unfamiliar borders and discovered beauty along the way. Accidental Blooms is a story of profound transformation that demonstrates how tragedy can teach one to see anew. |
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Pages: 160
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| Published: Caitlin Press - April 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Conservation of the environment |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 10 of: 235 |
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