http://lazarapress.ca A progressive publishing house based in Vancouver, Canada Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:08:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://lazarapress.ca/lazara-author-events/70/ A celebration of the publication of Jane Rule'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 http://lazarapress.ca/lazara-author-events/66/ 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 ... http://lazarapress.ca/books/fiction/songs-of-ascent-gabriella-goliger/ 175 pp; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN 0-88974-047-X $15.00 "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. ... http://lazarapress.ca/books/fiction/winter-words-helen-potrebenko/ $18.95, originally published by Press Gang Publishers In a world of "experts" and "professionals" it's rare that we hear the true voices of people living in poverty. Baxter's straight up accounts of poor communities, grass roots activism and initiatives for change are complemented by current statistics on poverty in Canada. Baxter ... http://lazarapress.ca/books/non-fiction/still-raising-hell-sheila-baxter/ Broadside, 5x8, folded. $5.00     "Dying is not on an activist's     agenda,     the act of surrendering, acceptance     giving up     for the unknown" Jannit Rabinovitch, a long-time community activist, died in January of 2007 of cancer. She was a co-founder of PEERS (Prostitute Empowerment Education and Resource Society) and brought women escaping violence and homelessness together to build ... http://lazarapress.ca/books/broadsides/when-activism-stops-for-jannit-rabinovitchsocial-activist-extraordinairelauri-nerman/ To order, go to "Ordering Information" on this web site http://lazarapress.ca/books/non-fiction/no-streets-of-gold-a-history-of-ukrainians-in-alberta-helen-potrebenko-2/ $10.00 plus shipping charges. Globe and Mail discovers Helen Potrebenko's Taxi as a "Buried Treasure". To order the book, click on the "ordering information" button on the right. And check out Helen's blog. http://lazarapress.ca/books/fiction/no-streets-of-gold-a-history-of-ukrainians-in-alberta-helen-potrebenko/ 130 pp; 5 1/2x 8 1/2 ISBN 0-88974-047-X; $12.95 Originally published by Press Gang Publishers in 1995 and now distributed by Lazara Press. Telling the truth is powerful medicine. It is a fire that lights the way for others. When we speak our "Fire Power," we join a long & honored line of ... http://lazarapress.ca/books/poetry/fire-power-chrystos/ 56 pp; 6x9 0-920999-09-3; $14.95 Danny, a young fisherman from Nova Scotia, found out that he was HIV positive and decided to hitchhike to Vancouver to find his mother who abandoned him as a child. The play unfolds as we see his life on the street in Vancouver, the community he finds ... http://lazarapress.ca/books/plays/dumpster/