Series: BRAVE & BRILLIANT
258 pages 6 x 9 inches
978-1-77385-701-5 Hardcover
978-1-77385-702-2 Paperback
978-1-77385-704-6 ePub
$84.99 HC / $24.99 PB TRADE - T September 2026
FICTION
MAGIC REALISM
LGBTQ2+ VOICES
AT THE FREAK SHOW
Candas Jane Dorsey
This wildly original novel welcomes you into life outside the binary with Asa, their community of eccentrics, and their alternative histories.
Asa has spent their whole life seeing another face in the mirror, the face of their conjoint twin who died during a catastrophic attempt to separate them at age three. The lone survivor, Asa has lived their life in between. Assigned a gender for surgical convenience, Asa has at time identified as male, at other times, female. But through music, Asa finds acceptance of their true, non-binary, gender-fluid self.
Asa is unashamed and unafraid, but life outside the binary is not easy. As Asa becomes a famous musician, they must face the people who find their existence a threat. Life as a lone twin is also not easy. Asa knows themself, but must always wonder what could have been. Throughout their journey, Asa experiences visions of alternate universes, some that include the survival of their conjoined twin Angelo, who Asa calls mirror boy.
A stunningly original work that breaks new literary ground, At the Freak Show smashes together speculative fiction, coming of age, social justice fiction, rock biography, and literary mastery to create a timeless, human story about the search for belonging and selfacceptance.
CANDAS JANE DORSEY is the award-winning, LGBTQ2+ author of seven novels, four short story collections, and four books of poetry. Her work has won the Otherwise Award, William L. Crawford Award, and Aurora Prize, among others. Candas has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, the Edmonton Arts and Cultural Hall of Fame, and has received the Province of Alberta Centennial Gold Medal for her literary and activism work. Candas lives and writes in Edmonton, Alberta.
With a humanity and passion all her own, Candas Jane Dorsey isn’t just a comer, she’s a winner.
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QUARRY
Tanis Franco
A year in the life of a body in transition, eschewing traditional narratives of the queer body to bring nuanced ideas to an ongoing literary conversation. Forward Reviews INDIE and PubWest medalist, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampart Memorial Award.
978-1-55238-981-2 PB
$17.99 CAD (T)
DR SAD
David Bateman
Stephen is middle-aged. He’s gay. He’s content, except when he isn’t. Stephen is a teacher. He’s a poet. He has a new teaching job in Kamloops, BC. Stephen has HIV. This novel mixes the playfully serious with the seriously playful in a complete, glittering, tragedy of triumph.
978-1-77385-103-7 PB
$28.99 CAD (T)
THE SCIENCE OF LOST WORLDS
Adrian Mitchell Currie
Sometimes the past is hard to know because it leaves only traces. Sometimes the past is hard to know because it is weird. How do we understand the past when the past is strange: populated by different creatures and different environments, playing by different rules?
In The Science of Lost Worlds, Adrian Mitchell Currie and the fantastical Prof. Ichthy explore the epistemology of the historical sciences. They show how paleontologists creatively adopt perspectives that link the unfamiliar past with the familiar present through a variety of interlocking, iterative strategies that combine imagination and hard science to discover lost worlds.
Considering science, art, and the materiality of paleontological practice, Currie develops an artifactualist account of this scientific imagination. They explore the metaphysical upshots of paleontological practice, the deeply modal nature of paleontological knowledge, and how the science of the deep past is about deep possibility. Currie compares our knowledge of the past to our knowledge of the future, arguing that the peculiarity of the future profoundly limits our capacity to know it.
The Science of Lost World s is an exploration of palaeontological practice and reasoning that reflects and amplifies the ability of the deep past to generate wonder.
ADRIAN MITCHELL CURRIE is an associate professor of Philosophy. Their primary interest is how scientists successfully generate knowledge in tricky circumstances, where evidence is thin on the ground, targets are highly complex, and information is limited.
Adrian Currie and Professor Ichthy explore and elucidate just what it is that palaeontologists do when they claim to bring past worlds to life; a witty and accessible exploration of the ways in which scientists use the present to illuminate the past.
—Michael Benton, University of Bristol
Series: BSPS OPEN
384 pages, 35 illustrations 6 x 9 inches
978-1-77385-709-1 Hardcover
978-1-77385-710-7 Paperback
978-1-77385-711-4 ePub
$168.99 HC / $59.99 PB TRADE - T
October 2026
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE PALAEONTOLOGY
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THE MULTIVERSE: A Philosophical Introduction
Jeremy Butterfield
The Multiverse is an introduction to the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. Leading philosopher Jeremy Butterfield presents and assesses three versions of the idea of the multiverse.
978-1-77385-696-4 PB $59.99 CAD (S)
THE MATERIAL MIND: Reduction and Emergence
Max Kistler
The Material Mind puts the issue of understanding how the mind fits into the natural order into broad perspective, linking the question of causal efficiency of cognitive powers and events with issues of their reproducibility.
978-1-77385-606-3 PB
$59.99 CAD (S)
Series: BRAVE & BRILLIANT
98 pages 6 x 9 inches
978-1-77385-705-3 Hardcover
978-1-77385-706-0 Paperback
978-1-77385-707-7 ePub
$32.99 HC / $19.99 PB TRADE - T
October 2026
POETRY
LYRIC FORMS IMMIGRATION
MY LOVE IS A DURIAN
Kelly Kaur
Immigration, rebellion, and family drive this uplifting and inspiring debut poetry collection.
In My Love is a Durian, Singapore and Canada twine and intertwine, the places adopted and left behind bunch and twist. Kelly Kaur leads readers through markets in Singapore and up mountainsides in Kananaskis. These poems enliven the senses, from the taste of durians eaten fresh to the chill of snow melting on the cheek, as they dance the insider-outsider dance.
My Love is a Durian seeks belonging without judgement, a place to rest, a place to work, and a place to grow. It shares the easy happiness of time with friends and family, the tension of coming of age, the fear and joy of making a life. These poems tangle with ideas of colour and race, freedom and acceptance. These are poems that reach out to readers to create empathy, connection. My Love is a Durian lifts up the voices that sing in the margins of the world.
KELLY KAUR is a writer, author, and speaker. Her poems, short stories, and nonfiction have landed on the moon, published on beer cans, danced on stage, and travelled to galleries and museums. She was awarded the South Asian Inspiration Award for Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Culture, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and won an honourable mention in the Creators of Justice Literary Awards. She was also awarded The Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award in 2024.
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THE BOOK OF SENTENCES
rob mclennan
Fantastically rooted in the local and in the family, the book of sentences captures small, quiet, and intimate domestic moments with snippets of grammar lightly held to themselves by lineation and punctuation. These poems capture the wonder of the every day.
978-1-77385-648-3 PB
$19.99 CAD (T)
WHAT IS BROKEN BINDS US
Lorne Daniel
What is Broken Binds Us is a collection of poems of the disruptions and emotional tremors that shape us: enslaved families broken and dispersed, histories hidden, addiction and estrangement, and the shocks of bodily trauma.
978-1-77385-639-1 PB
$18.99 CAD (T)
HIGH UPON HIS PEDESTAL
Sir Isaac Brock’s Enduring
Popularity
Guy St-Denis
High Upon His Pedestal blends military, political, and social history to explore Sir Isaac Brock’s enduring popularity in Canada.
Major General Isaac Brock won a stunning victory at Detroit at the outset of the War of 1812 and was recognized as the Hero of Upper Canada. With his untimely death leading a heroic, ill-fated charge during the Battle of Queenston Heights, Brock’s fame became firmly entrenched in the Canadian psyche.
In High Upon His Pedestal Guy St-Denis examines the reality of Bock’s military efforts and the origins and evolutions of his heroic legacy. St-Denis provides a detailed analysis of the mythmaking process, from the outpouring of grief that followed Brock’s death to the efforts of Stephen Harper’s government to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812. He shows how Brock was used to support the militia myth of a society defended by civilian soldiery at the expense of British regulars and their Indigenous allies, as a tool of Anglo-Canadian nationalism, and as a contested historical figure in a modern nation.
Thoroughly researched and engaging, High Upon His Pedestal is a fascinating exploration of the ways myth shapes history.
GUY ST-DENIS holds a doctorate in history from the University of Western Ontario, where he devoted his dissertation to Sir Isaac Brock. Having previously written at length on the subject, he is now engaged in further investigations to better understand Brock’s life, military career, and battlefield behaviour.
430 pages, 34 images 6 x 9 inches
978-1-77385-714-5 Hardcover
978-1-77385-715-2 Paperback
978-1-77385-716-9 ePub
$84.99 HC / $48.99 PB SCHOLARLY - S
November 2026
CANADIAN HISTORY MILITARY HISTORY HISTORIOGRAPHY
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THE TRUE FACE OF SIR ISAAC BROCK
Guy St-Denis
In the centuries since Brock’s death, his likeness has been lost in a confusing array of portraits —most of which are misidentified or conceptual. In this book, Guy St-Denis searches for Brock’s true likeness from fiction and propaganda.
978-1-77385-020-7 PB
$34.99 CAD (S)
THRESHOLDS, WALLS, AND BRIDGES: Journeys Through the Borderlands of History
Elizabeth Jameson
Fourteen essays from noted historian Dr. Elizabeth Jameson explore fascinating topics across boarders and borderlands, rejecting convention and making humanity visible again and again.
978-1-77385-662-9 PB
$34.99 CAD (S)
Series: CALGARY INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES
372 pages 6 x 9 inches
978-1-77385-719-0 Hardcover
978-1-77385-720-6 Paperback
978-1-77385-721-3 ePub
$49.99 HC / $29.99 PB TRADE - T
December 2026
ENERGY AND SOCIETY ALBERTA ENERGY RENEWABLE ENERGY
ENERGY SOVEREIGNTY, ENERGY SECURITY, ENERGY JUSTICE
Edited By Petra Dolata, Jim Ellis and Noreen Humble
Energy matters a great deal on both the local and global scale. Energy Sovereignty, Energy Security, Energy Justice explores key contemporary energy issues from a human perspective.
While scientists and engineers working towards more efficient modes of energy extraction, developing alternative energies, and mitigating the harms of fossil fuels draw the most headlines, the human side of the equation of equally important when discussing the past, present, and future of energy. Energy systems are inherently social systems, and the ways that people make sense of energy in their lives, what they interpret as insecurity, and what they perceive as injustice, is not always the same.
Energy Security, Energy Sovereignty, Energy Justice brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to explore key questions of energy and society. In this collection, energy scholars from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences as well as artists engage in transdisciplinary dialogue as they share their research and insights into the meanings of energy in our lives, both past and present. This collection provides a valuable, interdisciplinary perspective that broadens and enriches core conversations about energy and human life.
With Contributions By: Alana Bartol, Anna Bettini, Steven L. Bryant, Warren Cariou, Petra Dolata, Jim Ellis, Noreen Humble, Jon Rozhon, Lori Thorlakson, and Sheena Wilson
PETRA DOLATA is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.
JIM ELLIS is professor of English and director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities at the University of Calgary.
NOREEN HUMBLE is professor of Classics and associate director of the Calgary Institute of Humanities at the University of Calgary.
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MYTHOLOGIES OF OUTER
SPACE
Edited by Jim Ellis and Noreen Humble
Artists, writers, and academics imagine and examine outer space in this beautifully illustrated offering from the Calgary Institute for the Humanities.
INTERTWINED HISTORIES: Plants in Their Social Contexts
Edited by Jim Ellis
A fascinating exploration of plants that blends visual art, poetry, scholarship, and more to delight plant-lovers of all shapes and forms, presented by the Calgary institute for the Humanities.
WE SURVIVED UNTIL WE COULD LIVE
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Who survives war? What does survival mean? And at what cost? Yes, the sirens and bombs have ceased. Yes, peace has settled over the rubble. But even in moments of laughter, ghosts chafe. Blood still smells in the air.
In poetry by turns lyrical and intense, elegiac and intimate, We Survived Until We Could Live plumbs the contours of vulnerability, inviting readers to reflect on loss and the broken flesh
UCHECHUKWU PETER UMEZURIKE is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow at the University of Calgar
A haunting work from an outrageously talented writer.
—Suzette Mayr, author of The Sleeping Car Porter
One of the most powerful and engrossing poetry collections I’ve read in years.
—Chelene Knight author of Junie
This kind of poetry saves lives and nations.
—Uche Nduka author of TO UMBER
BENEFICIARY
JoAnn McCaig
Seren was doomed to a country club cage and a leash of pearls until out of the blue on a Tuesday night in 1969, she found herself suddenly saying “no.” More than fifty years later, she looks back on her life and each choice that followed, beautiful, tragic and completely her own.
What does it mean to live truly, through tragedy and heartbreak? How do we create ourselves in a world that keeps changing? What does it mean to have money when so many people don’t? A richly written, fiercely feminist novel imbued with real bravery, Beneficiary weaves the past and the present in a rich tapestry of life..
JOANN MCCAIG is the author of The Textbook of The Rose and An Honest Woman.
A gritty, upside-down King Lear.
—Roberta Rees Amerika, author of The Faceless Mountain
In Beneficiary, McCaig is at the top of her game.
—Barbara Joan Scott, author of The Quick
978-1-77385-681-0
978-1-77385-682-7
Vibrant, raw, funny, and poignant.
—Joan Crate, author of Black Apple
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978-1-77385-679-7 ePub
$52.99 HC / $28.99 PB (T) FICTION
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$44.99 HC / $29.99 PB (T) POETRY
THE WIKI OF BABEL
Kyle Flemmer
In The Wiki of Babel, Kyle Flemmer subjects Wikipedia articles to chance operations and poetic constraints, building up an intriguing and bewildering bricolage from fragments of text. Drifting through data, he divines playfulness and humour in the logic of hyperlinks and the surprising juxtapositions they afford. This is poetry of the paratactic leap, a core sample taken from an ever-shifting network of oblique associations.
KYLE FLEMMER is a writer, publisher, and digital artist from Calgary, Canada in Treaty 7 territory.
Flemmer is one of the most inventive writers in Canada today.
—Aaron Tucker, author of Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys
Every page is a poem of the future using the tools of today.
—Derek Beaulieu, author of Do It Wrong: How to be a Poet in the 21st Century
Flemmer playfully reconfigures what is documented of our shared knowledge, paying homange to conceptual writing, Oulipo, and hypertext.
—Eric Schmaltz, author of I Confess
SOLE SURVIVOR
A Family Story of Genesis, Annihilation,and Survival Avi Friedman
Chaim Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only Frydman who did. In Sole Survivor, architect and academic Avi Friedman travels to Europe to trace his father’s journey through the Holocaust and find his family’s genesis. He visits the homes, factories, and synagogues in which the Frydmans made their lives and the ghettos and camps in which they were imprisoned and killed. Avi finds powerful stories in interviews, archives, and the built environment itself, illustrating the ways that buildings were made to affect the events that took place in them.
Sole Survivor is the story of Chaim Frydman, who fought in the Polish army and returned to survive forced labour, death marches, and the horror of the camps. It is the story of Avram and Rachla Frydman, who raised Chaim alongside seven siblings, of their children and grandchildren, who died in the Łódź ghetto, in the killing centre at Chełmno, in Auschwitz. It is the story of Avi Friedman, witnessing his father’s testimony from the trenches of Gniezno through Birkenau to freedom and discovering himself as the sole descendent of a family who survived against impossible odds.
AVI FRIEDMAN is is co-founder of the Affordable Homes Program and professor at the McGill School of Architecture. He is the author of over thirty books.
THE SIGNS OF NO
Judith Pond
The Multiverse is an introduction to the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. Leading philosopher Jeremy Butterfield presents and assesses three versions of the idea of the multiverse, one from philosophy and two from physics. This book will lead readers to a proper academic understanding of multiverse proposals in logic, quantum theory, and cosmology.
JEREMY BUTTERFIELD is senior research fellow (emeritus) at Trinty College, University of Cambridge.
Butterfield accomplishes the remarkable feat of combining an insightful and broad account of the physical multiverses with a profound philosophical perspective.
—Richard Dawid, Stockholm University
Jeremy Butterfield’s clear-eyed and sober-minded synoptic study of philosophical and physical multiverses is an indispensable resource.
—Alastair Wilson, University of Leeds
SOLE SURVIVOR
A Family Story of Genesis, Annihilation,and Survival
Avi Friedman
Anglers knee-deep in Alberta’s mountain streams after the First World War understood that there was something wrong. Once home to abundant runs of cutthroat, mountain whitefish, and bull trout, the Bow, Highwood, and Oldman Rivers, and their many high mountain tributaries, were in crises.
Troubled Tributaries reveals for the first time the work—and the controversy—of fisheries conservation in the Eastern Slopes of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains from 1900 to 1930. It is a story of the struggle to balance nature’s use and preservation, and of people coming together even when divergent viewpoints threatened to break them apart. This is the story of the first round in the great fight to save Alberta’s western trout kingdoms.
GEORGE COLPITTS is a professor of History at the University of Calgary.
A must read for conservationists, biologist, anglers, and politicians.
—Lorne Fitch, author of Conservation Confidential
A prescient tale disturbingly like the current state of trout conservation in Alberta today.
—Bruce Masterman, author of
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$68.99 HC / $34.99 PB (T) CONSERVATION HISTORY
