Books in the Carleton Library series

When literary writers place food in front of their characters, they ask readers to be alert to the meaning and implication of food choices. In Canadian Literary Fare Nathalie Cooke and Shelley Boyd explore food voices in a wide range of Canadian fiction, drama, and poetry.

Jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977), Paul Robeson's first accompanist and teacher to Oscar Peterson, came to prominence near the end of his life for his exceptional career. Statesman of the Piano makes his unpublished autobiography widely available for the first time, with commentary from historians, archivists, musicians, and cultural critics.

Laura Salverson's autobiography describes a young immigrant woman's rise above an early life of poverty, isolation, and upheaval. Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter depicts, sympathetically and graphically, the agonizing process of an immigrant Icelandic community adjusting to life in a foreign place.