Books from Coteau Books

  • Run Like Jäger
    By Karen Bass

    The Gestapo might be necessary in the battle to rid Germany of its enemies, but no one liked it. Though if fear equaled respect, it was highly respected. Jäger mentioned Herr Frankel and how he had never returned.

  • Saskatoon: A History in Photographs
    By Jeff O'Brien, Ruth W. Millar, William P. Delainey

    TOP ofthe CLO Joni Mitchell , a rising international folksinger and songwriter , with host Verne Prior on Top of the Clock in March 1969 , when she returned to Saskatoon for a performance at the Centennial Auditorium .

  • A Place You'll Never Be
    By Rick Hillis

    ... Angie and Rick Smock, Etti de Laczay, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Ron Dye, Antonya Nelson, Connie Voisine, Rus Bradburd, Sonya Barlas, Kara Pepper and Maggie Bradley. Thank you to Dave Margoshes for his wise editing and to Terry Jordan ...

  • Pelly
    By Dave Glaze

    Cover and text illustrations by Bill Johnson. Cover design by Bill Johnson. Book design and typesetting by Val Jakubowski. Printed and bound in Canada at Transcontinental Printing Inc. The publisher gratefully acknowledges the financial ...

  • Molly's Cue
    By Alison Acheson

    Molly's Cue is a story of growing up only to discover that things aren't the way you always thought they were, but that, with persistence, there is more than one way to reach for the stars.

  • Saskatchewan Heroes and Rogues
    By Ruth Millar

    Pearson's broadcast on February 4 , 1946 , revealed the sensational spy scandal and nudged Mackenzie King into informing his cabinet . The following day , King ordered a Royal Commission on ...

  • Growing Fruit in Northern Gardens
    By Sara Williams, Bob Bors

    'Garrington' (Len Pearson, Bowden, Alberta) has consistently high yields of 9 kg (20 lb) per plant of large (8–10 mm/3⁄8 in.), only slightly astringent, tart blackfruit that is good for processing into syrup, jams, jellies, ...

  • Drummer Girl
    By Karen Bass

    She robotically phoned Taylor, and asked him to drop by. ... In her mind, Sid saw the cartoon character's jaw drop to the floor and his eyes pop out of their sockets before a bungee cord snapped them back into place.

  • Summer of Fire
    By Karen Bass

    A troubled Alberta teen spending a summer in Germany discovers the story of a teen with real problems -- pregnant and alone in the maelstrom of When Canadian teen Delora James finds herself banished to Germany for the summer, reading the ...

  • On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan
    By James Warren, Jim William Warren

    ... 189 exclusive labour party model , 91 Expo 67 , 171 , 177 , 183 Eyre , Greg , 265 Franko , J. , 193 fraternal and benevolent lodges , 18-9 free trade , 249 Freedman , Mr. Justice Samuel , 163 freedom of association , 241 freedom of ...

  • The Weathermage
    By Linda Smith

    Galia Soradotter, a young wizard of the Misty Isles, has a powerful dream telling her that there is something that she must do, while Cat Ashdale wants to find Garth Spellman, and Talisa Thatcher wants to save wrongfully charged Cory Updale ...

  • The Piper of Shadonia
    By Linda Smith

    The Forenzian Empire rules over the world of Shadonia. When Tobin's grandmother dies, she leaves him a wooden flute and the instructions to play the flute in times of trouble.

  • The Broken Thread
    By Linda Smith

    Destroying a deadly prince, in a violent court far from her home,

  • Mud Girl
    By Alison Acheson

    diesel smell is replaced by the cedar of the mill. She walks along the gravel edge. Cars pass, and long dragging trucks. Their tires growl and the air tries to pull her into the rubber molars. She holds her arms across her chest, ...

  • Drummer Girl
    By Karen Bass

    Drummer Girl tackles the dangerous side of peer pressure and the politics of identity in high school, and ultimately, what it means to march to the beat of your own drum.

  • Legacy of Stone: Saskatchewan's Stone Buildings
    By Margaret Hryniuk, Frank Korvemaker

    One of them , next to an early settler who are still standing , but at one William Gibson , arrived in not only worked the doctor's time within the districts of 1883 with wife Margaret and land for him but was also Moffat and the ...

  • Legacy of Worship: Sacred Places in Rural Saskatchwan
    By Margaret Hryniuk, Frank Korvemaker

    Marian Fisher, Darlene Fitterer, Bernard Flaman, Carla Flengeris, Marilyn Forbes, Velma Foster, Paula Fournier, Jason Fowler, Barry Friesen, Maryvel Friesen, Nathan Friesen, Ruth M. Friesen, Victor Carl Friesen, Wilmer Froese, ...

  • Sumac's Red Arms
    By Karen Shklanka

    Partial Proceeds of this book will be donated to the Vancouver Foundation, and directed toward programs for Aboriginal youth and suicide prevention.

  • Inspiring Women: A Celebration of Herstory
    By Gail Youngberg, Mona Holmlund, Saskatoon Women's Calendar Collective

    189 Eleanor Milne , photograph by Michel Proux , courtesy George Wilkes ( Herstory 1991 ) . p . 199 Wendy Clay , courtesy Office of the Surgeon - General ( Herstory 1996 ) . p . 211 Rosanna Leprohon , first published in H.J. Morgan ...

  • Sumac's Red Arms
    By Karen Shklanka

    This book makes a compelling argument for a reconsideration of popular music history that highlights the eternal compulsion for spontaneous, imperfect and performative recorded artefacts.