P. Kinsella in 1977.The book contains seventeen stories narrated by Silas Ermineskin and is set on a Cree Indian reserve in Central Alberta and is about what happens in the lives of the people that live on the reserve.

    One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.

    James Lamb was there, and he brings all the action back -- the fighting, the fear, the loneliness, and the camaraderie born of the intense stress that only war can bring.

    The work in the manuscript is mature, sophisticated, controlled.'

    The original 'Render Unto Caesar: The Life and Legacy of Maurice Duplessis' has long been admired as the ultimate work on the once-powerful Quebec politician. This new edition is a shorter, more accessible book. In the new introduction, Conrad Black places Duplessis in the context of our times.

    Traces the basesless suspicions, discrimination, hardships and the humor with searing honesty, excellent book.

    

    The first five issues of Raincoast Chronicles, dating back to 1972.Winner of the first Eaton's British Columbia Book Award, this is the innovative institution at the heart of BC regional publishing. Northwest history and folklore, unromanticized, in a unique magazine format, blending reminiscences, articles, drawings, photos. . ."The best source book available on Canada's west coast."-Books in Canada"Utterly absorbing. . . until Raincoast Chronicles came along the fabulous west coast rum-runners and ghost logging camps went unrecalled save in the dimming memories of oldtimers."-Maclean's"The magazine is a thoroughly professional production in terms of design, layout and graphics, and the quality of the writing is just as impressive."-Quill and Quire"Raincoast Chronicles reveals western identity. . . as dense as the undergrowth in the rainforest, and as richly alive."-CBC Radio"Still my favourite magazine"-Lorne Parton

    His paternal line traces back to two brothers who were United Empire Loyalists and left Ulster County in New York in the 1830s to settle in the Belleville area. Al explored his own heritage and that of Canada in his poetry. Here the same yard-spinning tone is used to explore the country and its people in prose. In other parts of the world-in Cuba, England, France-Al had felt like a stranger. But wherever he went in Canada, including Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island where the book begins, he always felt at home. No Other Country takes a "long and leisurely gander at Canada and the people who make it what it is..."