We are so excited to announce the release of Luanne Armstrong’s newest book, When We Are Broken: The Lake Elegy.
This limited edition of Luanne’s photography and poetry is available for $30 plus shipping here on our website. You can also find it at Otter Books, Touchstones Nelson, the Gray Creek Store, the Raven’s Nest, Kingfisher Books, and other fine bookstores all over the Kootenays.
Dawn Ravenwind, a Columbia Basin author, is coming out with a beautiful hardcover book about the Elder Futhark runes. If you’d like to preorder one from Dawn, you can do so here. More about Dawn’s book: The Elder Futhark runes are the ancient alphabet of the Germanic descended peoples, most associated with ancient Nordic cultures….
We’re pleased to announce that CBEEN, the regional network for environmental education in the Columbia Basin, is now stocking the second edition of Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way in their Outdoor Learning Store. CBEEN is a charity that encourages environmental stewardship and sustainability in the Canadian Columbia Basin by supporting environmental educators.
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added Mary’s Secret to our 2022 book distribution list. Mary’s Secret, West Kootenay author Claudette RdV Burton’s most recent young adult book, arose from her trip to Spain and Andorra in 2019 while she was researching her matriarchal lineage. Several surprising twists and humourous encounters with pre-Catholic art in…
Maa Press is delighted to announce that we are now distributing Connecting the Kootenays: The Kootenay Lake Ferries, Michael A. Cone’s authoritative history of a century of ferry service across Kootenay Lake.Connecting the Kootenays follows the service from its genesis in 1921, when it first linked the East and West Kootenays together as part of…
Despite 2021’s many global challenges, Maa Press had a great year. We released two titles, a Sinixt təmxʷúlaʔxʷ map in June, and a second edition of Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way The latter invites readers to engage with the stories of Sinixt təmxʷulaʔxʷ through lively oral storytelling, original artwork, written discussion, and reflection. We…
Margaret Tessman reviewed our newest title, Mother Reindeer’s Journey to the Sun, for Articulate’s Fall 2020 issue. You can read Margaret’s review here: