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In Pourin’ Down Rain, Cheryl Foggo outlines her experience growing up in Calgary as a young Black woman. She discusses the Black experience and racism in Alberta through her family’s own experiences, with an open … [Click to Read More]
By Cheryl Foggo (Author)
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Unforgetting Private Charles Smith can be broken into two parts. The first part is the story of the author’s journey of connection with a forgotten Canadian soldier, Private Charles Smith, through the discovery of Smith’s … [Click to Read More]
By Jonathan Locke Hart (Author)
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Despite including a great deal of archaeological and enthnoanthropological information, Imagining Head-Smashed-In is written in an accessible manner, allowing inexperienced readers to delve into the history of this UNESCO World Heritage Site in great detail. … [Click to Read More]
By Jack W. Brink (Author)
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Through vignettes, Arthur Bear Chief outlines his experiences at the Old Sun residential school and, later, the trauma of revisiting his experiences for a federal lawsuit. My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell … [Click to Read More]
By Arthur Bear Chief (Author)
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kiyâm is a collection of poems infused with nêhiyawêwin, the Cree language. The collection opens with a guide to Cree pronunciation to assist readers. The poems are divided into three general groups: family, reclamation, and … [Click to Read More]
By Naomi McIlwraith (Author)
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Duty, Honour & Izzat is a photo-realistic, scrapbook-style book focusing on the history of the Indo-Canadian experience. The first of the book’s three parts is a graphic novel of a young boy hearing stories of … [Click to Read More]
By Steven Purewal (Author), Christopher Rawlins (Illustrator), Claude St. Aubin (Illustrator), Ruth Redmond (Illustrator)
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Following up from an earlier book focusing on the War of 1812, The Loxleys and Confederation rejoins the Loxley family in 1864 as Canadian Confederation discussions are taking place. Told through the graphic novel format … [Click to Read More]
By Mark Zuehlke (Author), Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Author), Alexander Finbow (Author), Claude St. Aubin (Illustrator), Christopher Chuckry (Illustrator)
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Formatted as an accessible short memoir, The Sasquatch at Home is a stream of moments from Eden Robinson’s life, delving into relationships, family, place, and identity. Coming from an Indigenous perspective, Robinson discusses protocol and … [Click to Read More]
By Eden Robinson (Author)
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In a critical review of fiction as a mirror tinted by the perspective of an author, Michael Crummey launches a short but deep dive into what exactly fiction is in relation to reality. Most of … [Click to Read More]
By Michael Crummey (Author)
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This uplifting graphic novel focuses on the experiences of Marcus—a young man who has memory problems because of a virus impacting his brain—and Emily—a young woman with a tumour on her brain. A Slug Story … [Click to Read More]
By Mandi Kujawa (Author), Hana Kujawa (Author), Claude St. Aubin (Illustrator), Lovern Kindzierski (Illustrator)