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The Doctrine of Affections
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A poverty-stricken, nineteenth-century guitar virtuoso navigates the tricky political landscape of Parisian society as he comes out of retirement for one final concert. A sessional instructor compe...
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The Swallows Uncaged
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In The Swallows Uncaged, Elizabeth McLean paints a sweeping yet intimate panorama of Vietnam in the style of a Vietnamese eight-panel screen: eight narratives that each capture a moment in time and...
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White Elephant
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Physician Richard Berringer, his wife, Ann, and their thirteen-year-old son, Torquil, have abandoned their home in Nova Scotia and moved to Sierra Leone, despite warnings that the West African coun...
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The Afterlife of Birds
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Henry Jett’s life is slowly going nowhere. His girlfriend recently left, and his job in a local garage is uninspiring, considering that he doesn’t particularly like cars. Henry finds solace in his ...
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Too Close to Home
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Sometimes home is not a safe place to be. PI Anna Sweet is hir...
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Killer Heat
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Ottawa is in the middle of a summer heat wave—and PI Anna Swee...
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The Grizzly Mother
An engaging look at how the animals, people, and seasons within an ecosystem are intertwined. To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the grizzly is an integral part of the natural ...
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Implicating the System
Judicial Discourses in the Sentencing of Indigenous Women
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Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and t...
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Honouring the Strength of Indian Women
Plays, Stories, Poetry
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This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and G...
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The Student
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The Student is a portrait of a life in two snapshots: 1957, 2005 LATE SUMMER – AUTUMN, 1957: Miriam Moscowitz is starting her final year of university with unwavering ambition. She is a serious an...
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Indigenous Education
New Directions in Theory and Practice
For Indigenous students and teachers alike, formal teaching and learning occurs in contested places. In Indigenous Education, leading scholars in contemporary Indigenous education from North Americ...
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In My Own Moccasins
A Memoir of Resilience
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Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, interge...
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let us not think of them as barbarians
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Peter Midgley’s let us not think of them as barbarians is a bold narrative of love, migration, and war hewn from the stones of Namibia. Sensual and intimate, these evocative poems fold into each ot...
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Arctic Smoke
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On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, aging punk Lor Kowalski is unsure of his sanity. He is haunted by hallucinogens and harbingers, strung out on broken stories that he cannot piece together into...
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Broke City
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Broke City, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, follows young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton neighbourhood of Santa Rosa. Budding with cr...
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Paul Preuss: Lord of the Abyss
Life and Death at the Birth of Free-Climbing
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain Literature Shortlisted for the 2019 Boardman Tasker Award An intriguing biography of the renowned Austrian alpinist Paul Preuss, wh...
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Bad Medicine — Revised & Updated
A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community
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John Reilly’s first book, Bad Medicine, was an immediate sensation and Canadian bestseller that sparked controversy and elicited praise nationwide for its honest portrayal of First Nations tribal c...
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Bad Judgment — Revised & Updated
The Myths of First Nations Equality and Judicial Independence in Canada
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John Reilly’s second book, Bad Judgment, details the author’s battle with the Canadian justice system and the difficulties he faced trying to adapt Eurocentric Canadian law for the benefit of First...
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With You By Bike
One Couple’s Life-Changing Journey Around the World
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After many years together Katrina and Mike's marriage has unravelled. In a quest to mend their relationship they embark on a year long, 13,000 kilometre cycling tour with the hope of strengthening ...
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Perception
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Artist KC Adams’s Perception Photo Series first appeared on billboards, in storefronts, in bus shelters, and projected on Winnipeg’s downtown buildings. The photographs confronted common stereotype...
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Traits & Traitors
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Spy Dagrun Lund must rally the remaining Intelligencers to save the city of Tarklee.
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Fata Morgana
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Skipper Nel Vaughn gathers a small crew to mount a resuce mission.
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Jumpship Hope
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Hot-headed pilot Janlin Kavanagh volunteers for a desperate mission with an untested jumpship prototype.
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Earth
Giants, Golems, & Gargoyles
An anthology featuring creatures of the element Earth.
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Restraints in Dementia Care
A Nurse’s Guide to Minimizing Their Use
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Your best tool to optimize patient care by minimizing restraint use Frontline nurses face fraught decisions every day about whether and how to use restraints in dementia care. They need to conside...
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Say Something!
Writing Essays that Make the Grade
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Stop boring your professors with tedious, predictable essays. Get better grades! How do you write a great essay? It’s not about five paragraphs filled with quotations from experts—you need to disco...
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K9 Obedience Training
Teaching Pets and Working Dogs to Be Reliable and Free-Thinking
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The best positive obedience training program for your pets or working dog. Obedience is the foundation of any reliable, well-trained dog. Without obedience, working dogs are ineffective in operati...
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This Has Nothing to Do With You
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The morning after her high school graduation, Mel and her older brother Matt drive by a crime scene. A few hours later, the police arrive at their door; it turns out the two siblings had witnessed ...
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The Towers of Babylon
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Embracing the anxieties of contemporary urban life, The Towers of Babylon tracks a group of hapless Millennials trying to find meaning in a world that consistently rejects them. What do you do when...
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Ghost Detective
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The Enlightened Gardener Revisited
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The Secret of Love
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Tiny Lights for Travellers
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Why couldn’t I occupy the world as those model-looking women did, with their flowing hair, pulling their tiny bright suitcases as if to say, I just arrived from elsewhere, and I already belong here...
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The Man Who Lived with a Giant
Stories from Johnny Neyelle, Dene Elder
Our parents always taught us well. They told us to look on the good side of life and to accept what has to happen. The Man Who Lived with a Giant presents traditional and personal stories told by...
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Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Volume 3
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This collected volume starts with the famous M. R. James story of occult revenge, "Casting the Runes", about a slighted occultist out for murderous revenge using his diabolical black arts to achiev...
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The Law is (Not) for Kids
A Legal Rights Guide for Canadian Children and Teens
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In this practical guide to the law for young people of Canada, Ned Lecic and Marvin Zuker provide an all-encompassing manual meant to empower and educate children and youth and those that serve the...
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Unforgetting Private Charles Smith
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Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry w...
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From Turtle Island to Gaza
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With a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabe writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared under...
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A Digital Bundle
Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online
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An essential contribution to Internet activism and a must read for Indigenous educators, A Digital Bundle frames digital technology as an important tool for self-determination and idea sharing, ult...
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