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Joan Crate’s much-anticipated third book of poetry is equal parts revision and reverie, offering a mid-life view of childhood influences and expectations that is stirring, startling, and wise. Deliciously invoking the iconic figure of Snow White, subUrban Legends considers what lies beyond youth and the trite promise of “happily ever after,” transporting readers to a land of complexity and nuance from which few cultural officiados report.

In Foreign Homes, Joan Crate travels through domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, -piece by piece, made into home--often in the simple, physical act of laying a table, or driving a highway, or reassembling a torn photograph. At the centre of the book is a burning, incantatory sequence of poems circling Shawnandithit, a nineteenth-century Beothuk who died in exile in Newfoundland, the last of her people. By slipping from voice to voice, from lover to landscape to language, present to past, exile to return, Joan Crate illuminates the boundaries that are also border-crossings between one person, one place, and another. --Brick Books.

Dion, a young woman with a native Canadian father, marries a man from a traditional Greek family. Unhappy with her life, it is only when she looks back to stories from her childhood that she is able to find hope. Strong language and descriptions of sex.

In powerful language that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions which animated and tormented her famous predecessor. Part white, part Mohawk princess, Pauline Johnson /Tekahionwake would perform her poems first in buckskin, then, after the intermission, in silk.

A poignant, hopeful story of a girl and her puppy from Newbery Honor-winning author Joan Bauer, now in paperback! Olive Hudson desperately wants a dog. But that doesn't seem to be a possibility right now. Newly orphaned, she's moving in with the half sister she hardly knows and their life is too chaotic to include a dog. But then something wonderful happens: Olive gets a chance to raise Lumie, a guide dog puppy. Discipline. Rules. Lots of hugs. Only the best of the best puppies continue on to become guide dogs, and of course Olive wants Lumie to be chosen. But if she is, that means that Olive will lose her. Once again, the incomparable Joan Bauer tells a touching story that is full of heart and warmth and unabashed idealism.

Examines the California artist's life and work, offering reproductions of many of her pieces

Witty, clever and beautiful, Joan Collins possesses a singular star quality that has come to define what it means to be a living legend. As an actress, author and producer she has built a career that places her in the unrivalled ranks of an international icon. In The World According to Joan she shares her life experience with her trademark humour and wisdom. From manners to men via fashion and family, to ageing and marriage, she takes on subjects close to every woman's heart. Erudite, honest and full of verve, this is Joan Collins at her definitive best.