Tamar Rubin grew up immersed in Hebrew, Jewish traditions and texts, in a secular household, the daughter of an immigrant mother. In becoming a physician, she learned yet another language: medicine. The poems in Tablet Fragments weave...
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Auteur:Robertson, DavidSommaire:A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later,...
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Auteur:Oertel, AndreasSommaire:In their last adventure, Cody, Eric, and Rachel were clever enough to fool townspeople with a homemade "ancient Egyptian" tablet. Their exploits brought some much-needed tourism to Sultana, Manitoba, but their deception ensured they...
- Auteur:Owen ToewsSommaire:
Through a combination of historical and contemporary analysis this book shows how settler colonialism, as a mode of racial capitalism, has made and remade Winnipeg and the Canadian Prairie West over the past one hundred and fifty years...
- Auteur:Toews, OwenSommaire:
Through a combination of historical and contemporary analysis this book shows how settler colonialism, as a mode of racial capitalism, has made and remade Winnipeg and the Canadian Prairie West over the past one hundred and fifty years...
- Auteur:Kagume, KristaSommaire:
The Saskatchewan and Manitoba Nature Guide lets you discover the wondrous diversity of nature that lies right outside your front door. Whether you live in the city or the country, hundreds of species of plants and animals share your...
- Auteur:Saint-Pierre, AnnetteSommaire:
De mère québécoise et de père autochtone, Martha essaie de prendre sa place dans le monde des Blancs et de cacher son ascendance métisse. Blessée par la vie, Martha fait marche arrière. Pourquoi sa mère est-elle venue au Manitoba et...
- Auteur:Friesen, GeraldSommaire:
In River Road Friesen tells some of the "local stories" that make up the history of the Canadian prairies. From Louis Riel to the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord, the prairies have often been a place where conflicting...
- Auteur:Fiola, ChantalSommaire:
"Returning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola's award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of Métis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as "all Métis people are Catholic,"...
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Auteur:Brooks, MarthaSommaire:Finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award, and an American Library Association Notable Children's Book and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book. It's 1941, and Canada is...
- Auteur:Castelein de la Lande, AndréSommaire:
Composées au cours des années 1930, Pièces en un acte s’inspirent de la vie familiale dans laquelle les parents règnent en maîtres incontestés, les belles-mères s’épuisent en dévouements inutiles, les couples se déchirent à...
- Auteur:Castelein De La Lande, AndreSommaire:
Composées au cours des années 1930, Pièces en un acte s'inspirent de la vie familiale dans laquelle les parents règnent en maîtres incontestés, les belles-mères s'épuisent en dévouements inutiles, les couples se...
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Auteur:Vermette, KatherenaSommaire:Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never...
- Auteur:Duguay, Louise, Stewart, S.E.Sommaire:
In the first part of the twentieth century few women in western Canada had careers as artists—Pauline Boutal had three: 23 years as a fashion illustrator for the Eaton’s catalogue for the graphic design company, Brigden’s of Winnipeg,...
- Auteur:Unger, AndrewSommaire:
Timothy Heppner is a frustrated ghostwriter struggling to make ends meet in Edenfeld, a small Mennonite community bulldozing its way towards modernity--if it's old, it has to go! A member of the Preservation Society but desperate to...
- Auteur:Ali, KazimSommaire:
Ali's lyrical, hypnotic storytelling takes us on an unlikely journey to a place that only now exists in his childhood memories: a remote industrial community in the boreal forest of Northern Canada. I was mesmerized by the voice of...
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Auteur:Brooks, MarthaSommaire:In 1981, sixteen-year-old Sally McLean is in a car full of teenagers when it plunges through the ice to the bottom of Mistik Lake. Sally is the only survivor. Many years later, Sally's teenaged daughter, Odella, is left wondering...
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Auteur:Urry, JamesSommaire:Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active...
- Auteur:Smid, GwenSommaire:
Zip and zoom with Mary, a mischevious yet particularly practical eight-year-old with a magical atlas. Marvellous critters, such as a flying bison named Bou, help Mary as she searches for the Golden Boy's torch that has been carried...
- Auteur:De Smet, Ken D., Bezener, AndySommaire:
Manitoba's 145 most commonly seen birds are profiled in this beautifully illustrated book. Each account includes a description of the bird's key features for quick identification in the field, as well as the bird's song,...
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