Goose Lane Editions
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() NEW! Alexa!Changing the Face of Canadian Politics |
Alexa McDonough’s impact on Canadian politics cannot be measured solely by election victories or seat tallies. As the first female leader of a mainstream Canadian political party, she … | Stephen Kimber | 288 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! Asleep in the DeepNursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War |
On 27 June 1918, the Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship returning to England, was sunk by a German U-boat in contravention of international law. Two hundred and thirty-four crew members … | Dianne Kelly | 223 | 2021 | View |
![]() At HomeTalks with Canadian Artists about Place and Practice |
In this intimate investigation of the artistic process, Lezli Rubin-Kunda explores the nuanced path of creative work and the way artists make sense of home and place within their art practice and … | Lezli Rubin-Kunda | 232 | 2018 | View |
![]() Back to the WellRethinking the Future of Water |
Droughts. Floods. Contamination. Climate change. The perils to the global fresh-water supply have never been so clear or so numerous, as the crisis in Cape Town’s water supply in early 2018 … | Marq de Villiers | 378 | 2018 | View |
![]() Bamboo CageThe P.O.W. Diary of Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943 |
In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed … | Jonathan F. Vance | 147 | 2009 | View |
![]() Breaking the Word BarrierStories of Adults Learning to Read |
In this compelling collection of first-person stories, adults who have made outstanding achievements in adult literacy were paired with writers to tell of their transition to reading. These are … | Angela Ranson; Marilyn Lerch | 128 | 2009 | View |
![]() Captured HeartsNew Brunswick's War Brides |
Imagine you’re a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war … | Melynda Jarratt | 148 | 2008 | View |
![]() Dangerous Enemy SympathizersCanadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945 |
From 1940 to 1945, Internment Camp B at Ripples, some 35 kilometres east of Fredericton, played a considerable role in the Second World War. Chosen for its remote rural New Brunswick location, … | Andrew Theobald | 178 | 2019 | View |
![]() F-BombDispatches from the War on Feminism |
From pop icons to working mothers, women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers. Even scarier, they are also leading the charge to send it to its grave. Across North America, women head … | Lauren McKeon | 280 | 2017 | View |
![]() NEW! Len & CubA Queer History |
Leonard "Len" Keith and Joseph "Cub" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly … | Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt | 192 | 2022 | View |
![]() New Brunswick and the Navy |
From the seafaring battles between the British and the French of the 1640s to the privateers of the War of 1812, from the merchant ships of the Second World War to the construction of the … | Glenn Leonard; Marc Milner | 156 | 2010 | View |
![]() NEW! On Borrowed TimeNorth America's Next Big Quake |
Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a … | Gregor Craigie | 248 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! On OpiumPain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance |
A groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user. Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 364 | 2021 | View |
![]() Pay No Heed to the RocketsPalestine in the Present Tense |
Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999. Like most outsiders, the Palestinian narrative that he knew had been simplified by a seemingly unending struggle, a near-Sisyphean curse of … | Marcello Di Cintio | 264 | 2018 | View |
![]() The Bitter Harvest of WarNew Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917 |
In 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, and a myth grew that Canada — as a nation — was born on its slopes. But the cost was tremendous: 10,000 Canadians … | Andrew Theobald | 120 | 2008 | View |
![]() NEW! The Imperilled OceanHuman Stories From a Changing Sea |
An exploration of the earth’s last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future. On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana … | Laura Trethewey | 238 | 2020 | View |