In his own words and stunning color photographs, Greg Johnson crosses the 49th Parallel to bring a fresh and intimate perspective to the life of the storm chaser on both sides of the US-Canada border. Travel with Johnson through 12 American states and two Canadian provinces (Saskatchewan and Manitoba) in his quest to not only intercept but document some of the most devastating storms on record, like the EF5 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011.
Blown Away is also a look inside the world of severe weather photography, and Johnson provides tantalizing detail of his equipment and shot strategies that will satisfy the amateur and professional photographer alike.
Through his active social media presence with real-time blogging and chase video postings, Johnson also invited amateur photographers to submit their own photos, some of which are included in the pages of Blown Away.
Blown Away highlights Greg’s artistic eye and technical precision in photographically capturing a most difficult subject . . . Mother Nature at her most tempestuous.

ISBN: 978-0-9878105-1-9
Author: Greg Johnson
Publisher: Indie Ink
Pub Date: 2012

ISBN: 978-1-895449-23-5
Author: R.P. McIntyre
Publisher: Thistledown Press
Pub Date: 2000

ISBN: 978-0-920633-94-6
Author: Peter Carver
Publisher: Thistledown Press
Pub Date: 2000

Astonishing and passionate, "Blue Marrow" recovers the songs of those – especially the women – whose bones lie in the prairie. The voices of Louise Halfe’s grandmothers (okhoma), Adeline, Emma, Bella, and Sarah resound in these pages. The present-day Keeper of Stories – acimowinis – orchestrates their voices and those of fur traders, Jesuit priests, Metis, and many others in the dramatic history of First Nations and European contact.

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Author: Louise Bernice Halfe
Publisher: Coteau Books
Pub Date: 2004

ISBN: 978-1-895449-97-6
Author: Rita Bouvier
Publisher: Thistledown Press
Pub Date: 1999

Since its inception as a province, Saskatchewan has been home to grassroots idealism, to people willing to work hard to make a difference and to those willing to perservere despite the odds. Matthew Anderson believed strongly that Canadians should have protection against the cost of illness. After almost 20 years of dedication and determination to transform the idea into reality, this man, a plain "dirt farmer" from Bulyea, Saskatchewan, forged and made work North America’s first comprehensive, prepaid medical care plan.

ISBN: 978-1-894431-04-0
Author: Matthew S. Anderson
Publisher: Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing
Pub Date: 2005

Secrets lie buried in Bone Coulee.

And one secret above all haunts Mac Chorniak. Retired from farming, he’s given up all but a small part of the farm to his son. But he’s holding on to Bone Coulee.

His wife dead, Mac now lives alone in town, and drinks too much coffee with his old buddies. On his own, he reads the poems of Taras Shevchenko, trying to find his Ukranian roots. But memory worries away at him.

When Roseanna Desjarlais, an Aboriginal woman, moves to town with her daughter, Angela, some long-buried secrets will soon start to be uncovered.

This is a dramatic, compelling vision of a small town and farming community, created by a masterful storyteller.

ISBN: 9781550504590
Author: Larry Warwaruk
Publisher: Coteau Books
Pub Date: 2011

Bones in Their Wings is a groundbreaking work by one of the most original and imaginative poets of our time. In these remarkable poems, Lorna Crozier reveals the power of the ghazal to move the reader with insight and spiritual depth. At once open and daring, the verses take the reader through a series of wonderful leaps: from joy to yearning, from bewilderment to surrender, and finally to gratitude. In an afterward, Crozier illuminates the pursuit of the ghazal by some of Canada’s greatest poets. This succinct and poetic essay, "Dreaming the Ghazal into Being" chronicles the unlikely but startling rise of the ghazal as an important form of Canadian poetry.

ISBN: 9780968225660
Author: Lorna Crozier
Publisher: Hagios Press
Pub Date: 2003

In 1965, James Wharram Young is taken from England and his English father and dragged to Ireland by a mother riddled with the guilt of past sins. Eleven-year-old James – now called Seamus – is swallowed up by his mother’s family in a prison of grief, madness, jealousy, and spite – where love is sometimes known but seldom kindness. Over their world arches a pervasive sense of sin, especially sexual sin, that has all but destroyed his mother’s mind. Yet the gifts James receives are many. Over time, his fierce anger towards his grandmother, Grania, evolves through bitter conflict to love. The great tenderness of his uncle Paddy keeps you alive in him. And always the physical beauty of Ireland delights him. Finally, the battleground of family prepares James to fight for his freedom and his soul in this rare, passionate, and beautifully told coming-of-age story.

ISBN: 9781550503876
Author: Bernice Friesen
Publisher: Coteau Books
Pub Date: 2007

Set largely among the Jewish community of inter-war New York City, this is a beautifully-told collection of scenes from Morgenstern’s life. The tricky ground of writing the advice column for a provincial Yiddish daily; successes during, and hard times after, the Depression; a position at the top of his craft as a labour specialist in the New York City Yiddish press – these and many more form a portrait of “a fundamentally decent man in morally perplexing situations”.
“I’ve been working on a series of stories about the character I call “my father” – loosely based on my own father – for about 30 years…I wondered if I could use the character in other situations. [One] story had begun with a spark of truth – a story my father had told many times about a foolish man he’d once known – and the spirit of my father.
“All the stories in the series walk that precarious tightrope between memoir and fiction…“I worked hard, with the stories’ structure and a sort of old-fashioned expository style, to make them feel like memoir – like truth.”

ISBN: 9781550504767
Author: Dave Margoshes
Publisher: Coteau Books
Pub Date: 2012