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In lush full colour, award-winning photographer Mike Grandmaison’s expert lens captures the vastness of sky and land that define the prairie landscape.

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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.

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Drift

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.

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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

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"Sound the trumpets! Sally Ito’s Alert to Glory is a clarion call … A transformative book both salt and sweet." — Susan McCaslin

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What 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

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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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Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Wednesday, 14 March 2012 14:18

Uptown reviews Drift by Leo Brent Robillard

Uptown Magazine calls Leo Brent Robillard's "very fine third novel," Drift, " a powerful story of a sometimes-forgotten piece of Canadian history." Reviewer Quentin Mills-Fenn concludes: "Robillard is a writer who’s going places." Please read full review here.

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Arlene Smith gives four stars to Leo Brent Robillard's novel, Drift: "His books are literary works with a poetic feel that comes through even when he is describing the shattering effects of combat. Drift is a beautifully written story of a war that hasn't been explored to the same extent as the World Wars." Please see full review here.

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The Brockville Recorder and Times published a review and interview with Leo Brent Robillard, author of the new Boer War drama, Drift. In the December 18th article, the reporter said, "Robillard's powers of description are poetic, while his action is tight, forceful, compelling. In Will he has created a sympathetic character who matures into a man in just a few short months."

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Leo Brent Robillard reading at Loyalist Golf & Country Club Art Show & Sale

Sunday, December 11th
Art Show and Sale
Loyalist Golf & Country Club
1 Loyalist BLVD

Leo Brent Robillard will read from his new novel Drift as part of the events at the Art Show and Sale at the Loyalist Golf & Country Club.

The Art Show and Sale starts at 3:00 p.m. and Robillard's reading will take place at 5:15 p.m. A Prime Rib Dinner will follow at 6:00 p.m.

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Novel's pacing gives sense of living in war zone -- Drift by Leo Brent Robillard reviewed in Winnipeg Free Press:

 

"The narrative's pacing gives a sense of what it's like to live in a war zone. It's a slow momentum punctuated by sudden incidents of violence.... [Robillard's] prose is economical without being sparse, tending toward short sentences, even sentence fragments. It's a style somewhat reminiscent of Hemingway, and it suits his subject well."

 

- Joanne Epp, Winnipeg Free Press

To read full review, visit http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/fyi/novels-pacing-gives-sense-of-living-in-war-zone-133287708.html

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Leo Brent Robillard reading at the pre-Ottawa Small Press Book Fair

Friday, November 4, 7:00 pm
The Carleton Tavern
223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)
Ottawa, ON

 

Check out Leo Brent Robillard's responses to Rob McLennan's 12 or 20 questions: http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2011/10/12-or-20-questions-second-series-with_16.html

 

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Join Leo Brent Robillard for the Ottawa launch of Drift
Wednesday, Nocember 9, 7:00 pm
Collected Works

1242 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON

 

Advance Praise for Drift: "Robillard gets it, and he gets it right." -- Wayne Grady


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Leo Brent Robillard signing copies of Drift at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair

Saturday, November 5, 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre
(on Elgin, at 320 JackPurcell Lane)
Ottawa, ON

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Monday, 17 October 2011 12:54

Robillard featured on McLennan blog

Leo Brent Robillard has made his way onto Rob McLennan's Blog for 12 or 20 questions. It looks like it worked out to be 20 questions for Robillard who answers everything from what scent reminds him of home to his writing process. To read the full interview visit: http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2011/10/12-or-20-questions-second-series-with_16.html

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Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:00

Athens launch of Drift by Leo Brent Robillard

Join Leo Brent Robillard for the launch of Drift

Saturday, October 22, 7:00 pm
Joshua Bates Centre
1 Main Street West
Athens, ON

Advance Praise for Drift: "Robillard gets it, and he gets it right." -- Wayne Grady

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