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Conservation et restauration de la maisonette de l'artiste populaire la plus aimée du Canada. Maud Lewis a peint l'intérieur de sa minuscule maison d'une seule pièce -- pas seulement les murs, mais aussi l'intérieur et l'extérieur des portes, les cadres de fenêtres, les boîtes à pain, le petit escalier menant au grenier, le poêle à bois, bref tout ce qu'elle avait sous la main. Sa demeure était un plaisir à regarder. Quatorze an après la mort de Maud, l'Art Gallery of Nova Scotia a fait l'acquisition de sa maison peinte, alors bien connue mais en très mauvais état. La stabilisation et la restauration de ce préceiux artefact ont posé un défi de taille aux conservateurs. En 1998, la maison a été installée intacte, avec son mobilier, son matérial de peinture et tout ce que l'artiste y avait accumulé, dans la salle Scotiabank Maud Lewis, spécialement aménagée pour elle.

Brennen Siding, a hamlet on a tributary of the famous Miramichi River, is home to an unforgettable crew -- teenagers Shadrack Nash and Dryfly Ramsey and their families, friends, and neighbours. Hilda Porter, Shad's elderly employer, treasures the story of Trucanini, the last Tasmanian, while the invasion of TV, Elvis, and rich American salmon fishermen influences everything, including Shad and Dry's escapades. Are they, like Hilda and Trucanini, the last of their kind? The Last Tasmanian is the second volume in the humorous yet poignant Brennen Siding Trilogy.

Mary Pratt, famous for her luminous paintings, is also a lifelong writer. From childhood, she has kept journals and written short reflections on any topic that crossed her mind. Since the 1980s, she has given addresses and published essays in periodicals as diverse as The Globe and Mail and Glass Gazette. Mary Pratt: A Personal Calligraphy features ten speeches and published articles, along with thirty-five essays and reflections that, until now, remained hidden in her journals. Some of the journal entries are on topical matters such as Joey Smallwood's funeral and the fiftieth anniversary of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada. Others tell more personal stories of growing up in Fredericton, of juggling painting and motherhood in Salmonier, Newfoundland, of a winter's sojourn in Vancouver, of the natural rhythms of her home and garden in St. John's. and, of course, Pratt reflects on the images that interest her and influence her art and on the process of painting. Like her painting, her writing is accessible yet profound. Even at its most meditative, it is incisive and original, the work of a powerful artist who both celebrates and sharply examines the stuff of daily life. Exhibitions from St. John's to Vancouver have brought Mary Pratt's paintings to the attention of a wide audience. With more than thirty colour reproductions of works from the 1990s, A Personal Calligraphy is a glimpse into Mary Pratt's creative mind.

16 Categories of Desire maps the human heart in all its passion, valour, ineptitude, and vulnerability. These eleven stories are populated by scientists and eccentrics, writers and wastrels, all looking fervently for love in its many guises. Some long for the unattainable; others struggle with the compulsion to destroy love before it�s taken from them. Occasionally scabrous, horrifically funny, intermittently appalling, and wildly erotic, the stories in 16 Categories of Desire bring to life a world in which a screen of irony may be the only defence against fear and loneliness.

The poets of Atlantic Canada are as pre-eminent today as they were in the days of Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, and John Thompson. This vitality is the inspiration for Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada. Coastlines showcases half a century of poetry by sixty of the region's finest poets, beginning with the acknowledged greats: Nowlan, Acorn, and Thompson. Among the diverse voices are Elizabeth Bishop, Douglas Lochhead, Anne Simpson, Al Pittman, and Tammy Armstrong. Powerful poems by 2001 Governor General's Award winner George Elliott Clarke are included, and works by recent finalists Lynn Davies, Don Domanski, Sue Goyette, and Carole Langille. This astonishing range makes Coastlines an expansive reading pleasure.

Tess Corrigan seems to be living the good life. She is a popular politician, the first female Member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly. Originally from a tiny coastal village, she now lives in St. John's with her husband and their son, a hockey-mad twelve-year-old. Growing up in a religious community, Tess has suffered the shame of being the child of a bigamous marriage. She decides to track down her father, an American charmer who wed her mother without revealing that he already had a wife. Preoccupied with this quest and her work, Tess has no inkling of trouble until a revelation by an acquaintance sets into motion a series of betrayals, recriminations and admissions that shake her life to its foundations.

A ship sinks, a plane crashes, a child wanders deep into the forest -- and the world's best search-and-rescue personnel are on the spot, risking their own lives to snatch the victims from death. Among the terrifying events in Deadly Frontiers are the death of nine-year-old Andy Warburton in the woods near Halifax, the sinking of the MV Flare and the Ocean Ranger, the wreck of a Labrador search-and-rescue helicopter, an the crash of Swissair Flight 111. Veteran newsman Dean Beeby covered many of these disasters, sometimes form his reporter's desk and sometimes from the midst of the action. He reveals the heroism of rescuers determined to cheat dense forest and the raging Atlantic of their human prey. He also exposes the political heel-dragging that hinders the work of these brave men and women.

A cross-dressing writer, a beautiful young man with one blue eye and one brown, a mother crouched on the beach in her nightdress . . . JoAnne Soper-Cook's tale transcends the bounds of nature. Waterborne tells the stories of Stella Maris Goulding: the ones she broods upon, the ones she has forgotten, and the ones she will never know. Only as her mother is dying does she recognize the strange heritage passed down from her Scottish great-grandmother.

Hendrick Nellis is a Tory guerrilla at the Niagara frontier at the end of the American Revolution; he is also a redeemer of whites abducted by Indians. He kidnaps his own son, Oskar, for King George's army, and it is Oskar, haunted by dreams, who tells this ambivalent tale of war and redemption. The violent, erotic, and partly true story of The Life and Times of Captain N. trespasses into the psychic no-man's-land where the delirium of combat drives human nature into a primal frenzy.

Certifiable pushes collective ideas of the human condition -- white/black, sane/mad, Canadian/Jamaican -- into a matrix of unstereotyped experience where we manoeuvre only by dead reckoning and by the light of the word. In language guided by the creole soundscape, Mordecai's poems explore the truths hidden beneath the ideal of love, the fullness of sisterhood, and the intimate knowledge of little and big madnesses.

Penelope-Marie Lancet yearns for a child. A baby would mend her life, a baby would heal her maimed relationship with the world. A false pregnancy ignites her conviction that her child has been taken away. She tells of Penelope's obsession, her tragic history, her theft of a baby, and the fragmentation of her personality. In letters to her sister Jasmine, at least six personalities write in their different voices, at first in turn and then interrupting one another. As Jasmine arrives from Trinidad and knocks at the door of Penelope's Calgary apartment, the inner dialogues become cacophony.

Lenore Rutland is a savvy but unsophisticated singing waitress in a zany Montreal theme restaurant. Her neighbour, Reine Ducharme, an expert gardener and maman to a pair of spoiled lap dogs, has gone to jail for poisoning six fellow jury members. Lenore finds herself playing foster-maman to the unruly dogs. When she takes them to obedience school, Brioche and Montcalm are "discovered," and soon they're starring in a Titanic movie-of-the-week. Lenore achieves her own comic fame, first winning instant notoriety by accidentally embarrassing the host on the hot TV chat show Fiona!, and then shooting to stardom in an amateur musical comedy on the stage of the Centaur Theatre. In her frenetic story, romance advances and recedes, and there are laughs aplenty and plot complications galore. Overnight Sensation is the richly entertaining sequel to Colleen Curran's hilarious first novel Something Drastic and, like it, contains more than a kernel of psychological truth in its humorous core.

Glowing pyramids of succulent fruit make shopping for produce like taking a walk through the Garden of Eden. In "The Greengrocer's Kitchen: Fruit and Nuts," Pete Luckett offers 150 casual gourmet recipes based on these heavenly temptations, plus tips on almost every page for selection, storage, and preparation. Fruit eaten raw is sublime. Cooked, it's ambrosial.Pete Luckett tells how to make the most of fruit, dried fruit, and nuts, and how best to enjoy nature's treats out of hand while imagining the results of his unusual recipes. "The Greengrocer's Kitchen: Fruit and Nuts" contains recipes for savoury dishes, desserts, drinks, and snacks. Some are elegantly simple and others will challenge experienced cooks to sensuous creativity.

Letters, photographs, a program from a concert by Madame Albani, a buckskin jacket, clippings about the Bill Miner gang -- mementos found by a museum curator organizing a display about central British Columbia a century ago. Infused with the spirit clinging to these personal treasures, Anna reconstructs the life of their owner, Margaret Stuart. On the cusp of womanhood, Margaret is drawn by opposites: the Nicola Valley ranchland, the horses, and her native grandmother's traditions on one side, the luxuries sent by her American relatives an the new art of photography on the other. Anna's and Margaret's lives entwine, the past reverberates through the present, and their shared rituals and turning points create a universal pattern of beauty.

A wanderer arrives by chance on Inishbream, a rocky dot in the sea just off the west coast of Ireland. A lover of boats and a strong worker, she soon marries Sean, the young owner of her stone cottage. For a time, she does her woman's work, fishes with her husband, and walks along the shore, imagining Saint Brendan and the invisible world so real to the islanders. Through the winter, she repays Inishbream storytellers with tales of coastal British Columbia, not so very different, after all, from their own. Inishbream conjures relationships between the newcomer and her husband, between the island people, the sea, and the land, and between the coastal landscapes of reality and imagination. In the uneasy peace of partial acceptance, a young woman starts to envision her own place in the world.

A self-made woman's dramatic sweep through the turmoils of mid-century America and Europe. Jean has no plan; self-contained, imaginative, and resilient, she acts first and rationalizes later. Her specialty is moving on, choosing adventure all the way. At 17, she is ready to slip into the secret life of adults. To save a smuggler on Lake Ontario, she rows hard and keeps her mouth shut. Posing for art classes and "art" photographs in New York leads to a silent movie career in California and Paris, which in turn leads to marriage into an aristocratic family. After riots and strikes, after World War II and compromises with Vichy, after losing her family and her money, she uses a friend's leavings to remake herself as an art dealer. Old age finds Jean in a Montreal apartment, still earning her living by letting people look at her, still propelled by uncontrollable bravery. The Time of Her Life follows a strong and beautiful woman through a life permeated with drama and intrigue.

Herménégilde Chiasson is one of Canada's most versatile artists -- a photographer and printmaker, a playwright, a filmmaker, and a painter, illustrator, and set designer. Above all, though, he is a poet. The French edition of Climats, published in 1996, was short-listed for a Governor General's Award. Chiasson's eighth book of poetry, it is the first to be translated into English. The poems in Climates are suffused with the desire to fully inhabit, and be inhabited by, a place: Acadie. The political push-and-pull of being Acadian is a constant, even amid personal upheavals. Boundaries between poetry and prose dissolve and reappear like the boundaries between thought and dream, creating a double consciousness that is particularly Acadian.

A snug country house, a snowy landscape in a place that could be Prince Edward Island, a small-town lawyer bumbling through an emotional crisis -- "Close to the Fire" is a winter's tale that warms the heart while gently chilling the blood. Many years ago, the lawyer (then a student) persuaded the woman who is now his wife to desert Orland, her older husband, and run away with him. Now Orland arrives on their doorstep to die. The lawyer recalls the moral force he exerted to make Marijke change loyalties instead of simply enjoying a little adultery. Does sheltering a dying man atone for stealing his wife? The lawyer doesn't know and isn't sure he cares until a dramatic fire and Orland's death rearrange the domestic hearth.

A Summer of Apartment X lurks in everyone's past: the first foray beyond the view of parents, the first attempt at self-support, the shocking recognition that adulthood involves more than sand, sex, and cars. Lesley Choyce recreates this exhilarating adventure in Technicolor, nostalgia for 1970 undercut at every turn by ebullient humour and a touch of mature irony. The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grown-ups who remember how they got that way.

For twenty years, the CBC Canadian Literary Awards have recognized new and developing writers. In Emergent Voices, Robert Weaver, the godfather of the modern Canadian short story, presents twenty-seven prize-winning stories by authors including Michael Ondaatje, Ernst Havemann, Carol Shields, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Bill Gaston, Frances Itani, W.D. Valgardson, and Gail Anderson-Dargatz. Every selection is a stellar example of the story-writer's art. In 1979, Robert Weaver founded the Canadian Literary Awards, and he has organized the competition ever since. The CBC has shared sponsorship with various partners, including the Canada Council for the Arts and, since 1994, Saturday Night, which publishes the winning stories.

Luther Corhern's boss at the Salmon Camp, an angler's paradise on the Miramichi River, decides that his sports would enjoy a log: a fishing record embellished with yarns. Lute's the natural choice to man the old Remington. Lute is a dreamer. Especially off-season, his mind ranges in all directions: a computer that sends letters from the future, the curative power of salt herring tied to the feet, golf, and Christmas. But every topic leads back to the salmon and the mystical river that's home to man and fish alike.

Alden Nowlan was born near Windsor, Nova Scotia, in January, 1933, to a girl not yet fifteen years old and her hard-drinking husband. At his death in 1983, he stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. With a grade four education, Nowlan turned himself into a journalist and, after Bread, Wine and Salt won the 1967 Governor General's Award, one of Canada's most prominent poets. He also became writer in residence at the University of New Brunswick, a speech writer for Richard Hatfield, a playwright, and a nationally respected fiction writer. Nowlan escaped the suffering of his early life, but he never escaped its grip on his emotions and imagination. He wrote his own life in twelve books of poetry, two novels, a story collection, and fifteen years of weekly newspaper columns, yet he hid some of the most significant facts from everyone. If I Could Turn and Meet Myself sorts reality from fiction to portray a more complex and richly humane Nowlan than any previous commentator, including Nowlan himself.

"Cutting the devil's throat" -- hurling a round stone upwards so it plunges into the water with only a hollow gulp -- is a game that demands intense engagement with the physical environment. Andrew Steeves' ghazal suites, short lyrics, and longer narratives play with words in the same spirit, opening loopholes of vision in a confusing, even threatening, world.

Driven from the Fundy shore into Saint John by the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant expropriations, Alex McNab grows up a lonely, insecure failure. At thirty, to make a clean break, he takes a job at New Dawn, a Halifax rehabilitation workshop. At New Dawn, the distinction between the helper and the helped blurs. Jeff, seventeen and blind, knows all about cars, so Alex teaches him to drive. In turn, Alex has his fuzzy thinking firmly adjusted by a descendant of Jamaican Maroons plagued by encroaching Alzheimer's. Alex sees right away that Gloria Vincent has adopted a sloppy dress and ugly glasses to hide her intelligence and beauty, and they cautiously fall in love. Alex can't prevent New Dawn from going broke any more than he can shrug off the shadow of death that follows him. But he can control the force of life. By the end of the summer, his safe, depressing existence has become a full, exhilarating, and at times frightening adventure.

An angular unconformity is a border between two rock sequences, one lying at a distinct angle to the other, which represents a significant gap -- often millions of years -- in the geologic record. (Imagine a biography that has several decades simply unaccounted for.) It might also be described as a fissure through which deep time leaks into history and upsets its authority. Angular Unconformity shows us a life's work in cross-section, a restless and humane intelligence, ever searching, ever shifting, finding significance in our blink-of-an-eye existence against a backdrop of geological time unimaginable in its scale. A shrewd observer of teh sounds and the poetics of nature, Don McKay attunes his senses to bird song and music, to human presence and geological formations, to vernacular speech and inanimate silence. In his eloquent, yet exuberant encountes with the wilderness, he walks the fault line between the known and the unknown, testing the uncertain mechanism of language and its imperfect gestures toward meaning. This first comprehensive collection of Don McKay's poetry displays this pre-eminent Canadian poet's gift for thinking through metaphor, for channelling a profound philosophical discourse through poetic imagery. In poem after poem, his disciplined attention and contemplative mind break through the commonplace, illuminating an ecological understanding of the world as it is.

The beautiful little city of Fredericton has always welcomed walkers. Now, criss-crossed with abandoned railway lines transformed into groomed trails, it's a paradise for the self-propelled, whether on foot, on skis, on bicycles, or in wheelchairs. Trails of Fredericton, published in association with the Fredericton Trails Coalition, describes the 50-kilometre linear park system built on the former railway network. It also includes paths in five parks, the University of New Brunswick Woodlot and Game Refuge, and Kingswood, a privately owned recreational development.

A recreational canoeist in his native Texas, Rick Sparkman thought he knew all about the sport when he moved to Nova Scotia in 1981. Getting dumped from his canoe in one of the swift, cold rivers of his new home adjusted his thinking. Woodlands Canoeing is a guide to the pleasures of canoeing in the northern woodlands, where the channels are narrow, the water is swift and often shallow, and conditions can vary from day to day. Designed for novice canoeists or those accustomed to canoeing on more predictable rivers and lakes, the book mixes practical instruction in paddling, poling, lining, and portaging with historical insights and personal stories. Drawing upon his years of experience as a solo and tandem canoeist, Sparkman also includes chapters on canoe tripping and camping in comfort, canoeing with children, and, for the real enthusiasts, the delights of winter canoeing.