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	<title>Lazara Press, a progressive publishing house in Vancouver, Canada</title>
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		<title>Works by Leslie Hall Pinder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These titles were originally published by Lazara Press and are now available free on Leslie&#8217;s web site.
The Carriers of No: After the Land Claims Trial
&#8220;As lawyers we don&#8217;t have to take any responsibility to construct a world. We only have to destroy another&#8217;s construction. We say no. We are the civilized, comfortable, well-heeled carriers of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lazarapress.ca/books/discussion-series/works-by-leslie-hall-pinder/</link>
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		<title>Making a Stone of the HeartCynthia Flood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Published originally by Key Porter, now distributed by Lazara Press
1st Ed:April 13 2002
ISBN-10: 1552634523; ISBN-13: 978-1552634523
$15.00
When curmudgeonly Owen Jones died in a Bella Coola nursing home, no one who knew the elderly man could imagine the extraordinary story of his life. 
Spooling backwards through time against the backdrop of Vancouver&#8217;s raw, exuberant growth over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lazarapress.ca/books/fiction/making-a-stone-of-the-heartcynthia-flood/</link>
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		<title>The Animals in Their ElementsCynthia Flood</title>
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Original publisher: Talonbooks; distributed by Lazara Press
1st Ed: Feb. 15, 1987
ISBN-10: 0889222495; ISBN-13: 978-0889222496
$15.00
A woman goes to Toronto to sort out her deceased mother&#8217;s things; an obnoxious father-to-be disrupts a prenatal class; an orphaned British boy is sent to Canada to be raised by his unmarried aunt. 
The people in these stories have familiar concerns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lazarapress.ca/books/fiction/the-animals-in-their-elementcynthia-flood/</link>
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		<title>My Father Took a Cake to FranceCynthia Flood</title>
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Publisher: Talonbooks; distributed currently by Lazara Press
2nd Printing: Feb. 15, 1992
ISBN-10: 0889223106; ISBN-13: 978-0889223103
$15.00
Cynthia Flood is the winner of the prestigious Journey prize for Fiction for the title story in this collection.

For more information about Cynthia&#8217;s work, visit her web site
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		<link>http://lazarapress.ca/books/fiction/my-father-took-a-cake-to-francecynthia-flood/</link>
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		<title>Walking SlowHelen Potrebenko</title>
		<description><![CDATA[67 pp; $10.00
ISBN 0-920999-00-X
This is Potrebenko&#8217;s first collection of verse, published in 1985.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I hope it&#8217;s a restaurant and not a bank,
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;climbing that jesus great hill after Revelstoke.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I hope it&#8217;s summer and not winter in Rogers Pass.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Before I get too old for walking,
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I&#8217;d like to get to Newfoundland.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I&#8217;ve always wanted to visit Newfoundland,
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;walking slow.
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		<link>http://lazarapress.ca/books/poetry/walking-slowhelen-potrebenko/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marusya Bociurkiw will be reading at the International Readings Harbourfront Centre Weekly Readings, 235 Queens Quay West Toronto, at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, May 21, 2008. For more details, check out their web site.
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		<link>http://lazarapress.ca/lazara-author-events/70/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A celebration of the publication of Jane Rule&#8217;s essays Loving the Difficult
* Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 7:30 pm, Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street, Vancouver
* Saturday, May 3, 4:00 pm, Galiano Island Community Hall
For more information, contact Hedgerow Press
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		<link>http://lazarapress.ca/lazara-author-events/66/</link>
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		<title>Songs of Ascent Gabriella Goliger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[177 pp; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN 1-55192-374-2
$14.95
These stories recount the troubled lives of Ernst and Hannah Birnbaum, displaced German Jews who flee Hitler but cannot escape the shadow of the Holocaust. Their uprooted existence takes them from Europe to the Holy Land and eventually to Montreal where they attempt to create a shelter for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lazarapress.ca/books/fiction/songs-of-ascent-gabriella-goliger/</link>
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		<title>Winter Words Helen Potrebenko</title>
		<description><![CDATA[175 pp; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN 0-88974-047-X
$15.00
&#8220;These are stories about ordinary Canadians, the kind that used to be told on winter evenings when the work was done.  They are not intended to be representative but are about people I interviewed or talked to or saw or heard about.  The intention is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lazarapress.ca/books/fiction/winter-words-helen-potrebenko/</link>
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		<title>Still Raising Hell: Poverty, Activism and Other True Stories Sheila Baxter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$18.95, originally published by Press Gang Publishers
In a world of &#8220;experts&#8221; and &#8220;professionals&#8221; it&#8217;s rare that we hear the true voices of people living in poverty. Baxter&#8217;s straight up accounts of poor communities, grass roots activism and initiatives for change are complemented by current statistics on poverty in Canada. Baxter includes interview with other activists, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lazarapress.ca/books/non-fiction/still-raising-hell-sheila-baxter/</link>
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