Rettie on Books

DIY Biography

A Painful Duty: 40 Years at the Criminal Bar by C. D. Evans; Little Comrades by Laurie Lewis.


The $64 Question in Verse

Yes. by Rosemary Griebel; Love in a Handful of Dust by Kirk Ramdath; Narcissus Unfolding by Jim Nason; Forgetting the Holocaust by Ron Charach.


We Remember
Tales of Canadian soldiers.

Ortona Street Fight by Mark Zuehlke; The Cowboy Cavalry: The Story of the Rocky Mountain Rangers by Gordon E. Tolton

Speak It
The poetic word, now and then

Old English Reader, by Murray McGillvray; The Spoken Word Workbook, by Sheri-D Wilson.

With Horse and Camera
The lost world of Mary Schäffer

Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies, by Mary Schäffer; An Adventurous Woman Abroad, by Michale Lang.


What’s Alberta Really Like?

Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up? by Geo Takach. Road Trippings by Conni Massing.


What’s the Joke?
Cause they always jokin’

The Gangson by By Andy Weaver. Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea by Leopold McGinnis.


What was that?
Two novels of paranoia

The Quiet Twin by By Dan Vyleta. Leeches by David Albahari.


Is Meat Murder?
Is War?

Crisis of Conscience by By Amy J. Shaw. Sins of the Flesh: A History of Ethical Vegetarian Thought by Rod Preece.


East is Red

Bosnia: in the Footsteps of Gavrilo Princip by Tony Fabijancic. Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor by V.D. Dibner and son A.M. Ermolaev.