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The latest titles from Turnstone Press
- Mike Grandmaison's Prair…
- Dating: a novel
- Drift
- Hang Down Your Head
- Alert to Glory
- Dadolescence
- What the Bear Said
- Portraits of Winnipeg
Mike Grandmaison's Prairie and Beyond
In lush full colour, award-winning photographer Mike Grandmaison’s expert lens captures the vastness of sky and land that define the prairie landscape.
Read moreDating: a novel
Jenkins never dreamed he’d live long enough to be dating again. Hilarious, touching, and a little saucy, Dating proves that life is full of surprises no matter how old you are.
Read moreDrift
South Africa is long way from Canada. In 1899, two prairie boys throw themselves into the conflict of the Second Boer War looking for something their small-town lives cannot provide. With breathtaking grace, Leo Brent Robillard delivers an unstoppable story.
Read moreHang Down Your Head
Join Randy Craig for a roller coaster read with more twists than the Mindbender. Hang on to your hat for Hang Down Your Head. It’s Janice MacDonald at the top of her game. —Suzanne North, author of the Phoebe Fairfax
Read moreAlert to Glory
"Sound the trumpets! Sally Ito’s Alert to Glory is a clarion call … A transformative book both salt and sweet." — Susan McCaslin
Read moreDadolescence
"This witty meditation on manly manliness is a head-butt at academic pretension and the Sword of Damocles that is the PhD thesis. A new novel so good, you’ll actually finish it." - Al Rae, Artistic Director, CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival.
Read moreWhat the Bear Said
What the Bear Said is a marvellous collection of fables. The stories are immediate, the characters, both human and supernatural, crackle with life . . . —W. P. Kinsella
Read morePortraits of Winnipeg
Winnipeg artist and designer, Robert J. Sweeney, captures Winnipeg’s urban landscape in this remarkable collection of sketches, Portraits of Winnipeg: The River City in Pen and Ink.
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Autumn, One Spring is a humour-infused drama that takes truthfulness in relationships seriously. In the fallout of this strangest of romances, forgiveness emerges as the biggest challenge.
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- SKU: 9780888013743
- Price: $19.00
Nostalgia, life experiences and death unite this collection of poems that explores the hereafter.
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- SKU: 9780888011060
- Price: $7.95
Connie heads up north to find solace in the Yukon until she stabs a man who's beating up his girlfriend. He’s hurt, but the pain he promises Connie is to be much worse. Through sleet and snow, the relentless Dale tracks city-girl Connie to an epic, action-filled, climactic chase scene accross the savage and unforgiving Great White North.
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- SKU: 9780888012937
- Price: $18.95
Whether it’s the chant of a choir, the song of a dog, or even the sound of wind blowing through a moth-bitten sheet, music can be our redeemer.
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- SKU: 9780969540670
- Price: $7.00
In this modern Icelandic saga, Baldur is buffeted by chance and opportunity in a competitive, unforgiving new world, seeking his one true love.
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- SKU: 978088813736
- Price: $19.00
In the spring of 1966 Ken Leishman stepped onto the tarmac of the Winnipeg Airport and into the pages of Canadian history. By then, the mastermind behind the country’s largest gold heist had already gained Dillingeresque notoriety as a gentlemanly bank robber. Toronto headlines had spread the news about the brazen and polite ‘Flying Bandit’. This time, he almost got away. Almost.
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- SKU: 9780888013774
- Price: $19.00
Is faith only for the devout? Can faith be shared across religious boundaries? These are the questions that Paul Mason explores in this hilarious, wise, and utterly fictional account of a pilgrimage from Peterborough to St. John's Church in Lakefield, Ontario.
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- SKU: 9780888013057
- Price: $19.95
WINNER: McNally Robinson Book of the Year
An epic Canadian survival tale finds Reinhold Kaletsch, a German doctor, trapped in the middle of a northern Manitoba winter, running low on food and hope.
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- SKU: 9780888013217
- Price: $22.95
Beatrice, Alberta is about to lose its livelihood after it is announced that the grain elevator will be demolished. Now a group of townspeople must rally together to save the life they know before they are forgotten forever.
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- SKU: 9780888012654
- Price: $18.95
Winner: Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.
Being naughty has its perks, and Beautiful Girl Thumb and other stories offers the perfect advice on how to accomplish just that.
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- SKU: 9780888013187
- Price: $16.95
Readers will enjoy the heart-warming story of Eh-the-Beaver's life, full of trials and triumphs, but they will also get a first-hand look at the ways of Canadian wildlife.
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- SKU: 9780888012494
- Price: $14.95
The semi-autobiographical life of Dorothy Livesay is told through this collection of short stories that sees young Winnipegger, Elizabeth, discover that childhood isn’t always as easy as it looks.
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- SKU: 9780920541944
- Price: $12.95
L.B. Foote was Winnipeg's premiere commercial photographer during the city's exuberant period of rapid growth in the early 1900s. His images of the General Strike and of visiting royalty have become national treasures.
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- SKU: 9780888010971
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A night spent in a roadside motel, a Roman arena discovered in southeastern Manitoba, and a pair of small but observant figurines fill this anthology of Canadian and American writers from the prairies.
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- SKU: 9780888011657
- Price: $14.95
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- SKU: 9780969540632
- Price: $7.00