Lyrical poetry inspired by popular songs, Rogal sweeps the reader through the journey of creation.In More Songs the Radio Won’t Play, Stan Rogal takes formerly “popular” tunes (from various genres) and transforms them. Self-referentiality; mashups of the erudite and profane; allusions to other arts and sciences; the insertion and bending of biographical and historical facts; problematic snippets of philosophy and literary theory, quotes, and bastardization...

A ghostly tale of family ties and madness.A young man, Ray, returns to where he was born, Weyburn, SK, after several years traveling anonymously around the country. He's recently been suffering from frightening nightmares and he feels they may have something to do with his past, especially within the walls of the abandoned former mental asylum where his father had worked and his mother had been a patient. Old loves, old wounds and old grievances are rekind...

A dark stretch of mountain highway. A lone hitchhiker. A car stops. When Peter Donaldson hears about the girls who are turning up dead in ditches, hes horrified. Who wouldnt be? When Detectives Johnson and Mallory hear another body has been found, theyre frustrated. They need a break. They dont need Conway, an interfering reporter who lost her conscience a long time ago, digging up evidence they missed. And when Peter Donaldson meets Lynda, a tough teen with family troubles, all hell threa...

Acclaimed poet and author Stan Rogal’s newest collection of short  stories will drag you into a mesmeric, macabre world of fragile  characters dealing with crippling obsession. Befriend a pitiful  prostitute; watch a man’s curiosity choke out his life; and be part of a  visceral act of voyeurism as you witness passion at its cruelest and  darkest forms in the lives of the breaking and the broken.

Drawing from a variety of sources including folksong philosophy linguistics chaos theory theatre and sexuality Stan Rogals poetry is a rollicking and adroit expression of the world in flux. This selection gathers together fifty of Rogals best poems from the last thirty years; it is sure to delight long-time fans and new readers alike.

One Friday morning in the spring of 1972, an ad in the Vancouver Sun caught Nick Marach’s eye: GILLNETTER FOR SALE. A young architect who had just returned to the west coast from a yearlong motorcycle trip abroad, Marach was not looking for a change of career—but he was looking for a boat to live on, and the price of the old gillnetter was cheap.A Gillnet’s Drift takes the reader back to a time when the salmon runs on the BC coast were strong, and all it took to call onese...

The fires of the Second World War are beginning to burn down, but legendary Canadian aviatrix Sharon Lacey is not out of danger just yet. Complications enter the young ace's life as deep-seated racial and class prejudice, potential fifth columnists and even her own killer code of honour threaten her hard-fought reputation, while a new and wonderful secret might also prove to be her undoing.Meanwhile, across the Channel in Fortress Europe, new weapons have started rolling off Nazi p...

**A James Beard Award–winning journalist reveals the surprising forces that shape our eating habits“Sax is great company, a writer of real and lasting charm.” —New York Times Book Review**In this eye-opening, witty work of reportage, David Sax uncovers the world of food trends: where they come from, how they grow, and where they end up. Traveling from the South Carolina rice plot of America’s premier grain guru to Chicago’s gluttonous Baconfest, Sax reveals a world...

In Christopher Golden's first horror novel in more than a decade--a work reminiscent of early Stephen King--Snowblind updates the ghost story for the modern age.The small New England town of Coventry had weathered a thousand blizzards . . . but never one like this. Icy figures danced in the wind and gazed through children's windows with soul-chilling eyes. People wandered into the whiteout and were never seen again. Families were torn apart, and the town would never be the...

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who discouraged her from telling of the attack, Aspen was confused and ashamed. Dealing with a problem that has sadly become all too common on college campuses around the country, she stumbled th...

WINNER OF THE JAMES HERBERT AWARD FOR HORROR WRITING“The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t put it down. This is old-school horror at its best.” —Stephen KingOnce every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip—a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite...

The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House Girl follows Lina Sparrow as she looks for an appropriate lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking compensation for families of slaves. In her research, she learns about Lu Anne Be...