When various lives collide in the Hierro Maderas Mountains, each must struggle to escape a messy past and find a way to carve a future. They don't just have to learn how to survive. They have to learn how to fly.
Indigenous materials
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Author:De Lint, CharlesSummary: - Author:Bear HeartSummary:
With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world.
- Author:Groulx, DavidSummary:
In this poetry book, David Groulx seamlessly weaves the spiritual with the ordinary and the present with the powerful voices of the past. He speaks for the spirit, determination, and courage of Aboriginal people, compelling readers to...
- Author:LaDuke, WinonaSummary:
Winona LaDuke's Chronicles is a collection of stories of Indigenous communities from the Canadian subarctic to the heart of Dine Bii Kaya, Navajo Nation. Stories range from visits with Desmond Tutu, front line Indigenous leaders,...
- Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:
14-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in 18th-century Quebec, must set out to rescue his family from British soldiers that attacked his village and took his mother and two sisters prisoner.
- Author:Hood-Caddy, KarenSummary:
In Karen Hood-Caddy's third inspiring novel featuring environmentalist heroine Jessie Dearborn, Jessie is concerned about the health of the water in her northern town. Harley, Jessie's Ojibway partner, declares he wants to move further...
- Author:Smith, DouglasSummary:
A shapeshifter hero battles ancient spirits, a covert government agency, and his own dark past in a race to solve a murder that could mean the end of the world. Cree and Ojibwe legends mix with current day environmental conflict in this...
- Author:Donovan, Natasha, Huson, Brett D.Summary:
In the fifth book of the Mothers of Xsan series, award-winning author Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson) introduces young readers to a pack of grey wolves. New pups have just begun to open their eyes, one of which is a striking black...
- Author:William, GerrySummary:
A magical landscape as close as your own backyard, populated by the spirits of the animals and people, The Woman in the trees is a mythical exploration of the first contact between the Okanagans (the syilx) and early settlers, between...
- Author:Clewes, RosemarySummary:
The Woman Who Went to The Moon captures in poems, six days spent in the tiny community of Igloolik in the Arctic winter of January 2006. Ice-locked to the Melville Peninsula, Igloolik lies west of Baffin Island. This is the...
- Author:Crow, CaleighSummary:
Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul. And after pushing back at life—stabbing a steak to her boss's desk and lighting a magazine rack on fire, for instance—...
- Author:Orange, TommySummary:
"Groundbreaking. Extraordinary. Tommy Orange has written a tense, prismatic book with inexorable momentum."--Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking--Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering...
- Author:Waldron, IngridSummary:
In There's Something In The Water, Ingrid R.G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance...
- Author:Sellars, BevSummary:
Xat’sull Chief Bev Sellars spent her childhood in a church-run residential school whose aim it was to “civilize” Native children through Christian teachings, forced separation from family and culture, and discipline. In addition,...
- Author:Tardif, Marie-Josée, Rankin, DominiqueSummary:
Born on the banks of the majestic Harricana River, in the Abitibi region of Quebec, young Dominique Rankin was intended to succeed his father as Hereditary Chief and Medicine Man. But colonial encroachment on Indigenous Lands and...
- Author:Simpson, Leanne BetasamosakeSummary:
2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalist. This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary...
- Author:Deerchild, RosannaSummary:
These are poems about what it means to be from the north ; a town divided along colour lines ; and a family dealing with its history of secrets. At it's core, this collection is about the life of a Cree girl and the places she...
- Author:Armstrong, JulianaSummary:
It's been said when teachings are passed down from one generation to the next, good things can happen. Language is learned, knowledge is shared and culture is practiced. In this story of language preservation, author/illustrator and...
- Author:Akiwenzie-Damm, KateriSummary:
Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through Indigenous wonderworks, psychic...
- This place is who we are : stories of Indigenous leadership, resilience, and connection to homelandsAuthor:Gordon, Katherine PalmerSummary:
This Place Is Who We Are profiles Indigenous communities in central and northern coastal BC that are reconnecting to their lands and waters-and growing and thriving through this reconnection. Indigenous peoples and cultures are...
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