Longlister for the Giller Prize. The slow-burning, deeply felt story of a social outcast reckoning with the wounds of her past. Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her...
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Author: Chong, CorinnaSummary: - Author: Alaraj, E.G.Summary:
"A stunning marriage of text and art that will linger with listeners as they slip into sleep... This melodic lullaby is warm and tender perfection."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review. Parents and children will enjoy winding down and...
- Author: Housty, JessSummary:
Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet's motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory....
- Author: Stonehouse, CathySummary:
A long poem in six sections, Dream House takes its cue from Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space in its investigation of female embodiment, calling up such feral, liminal spaces as the pregnant body, the aging mind, snail shells,...
- Author: Peters, BradleySummary:
Poems for and about the incarcerated. Moving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters' debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech, prison psychology, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way that is...
- Author: Scott, JordanSummary:
The bond between a child and his grandmother grows as they tend her garden together. A young boy spends his mornings with his beloved Baba, his grandmother. She doesn't speak much English, but they connect through gestures, gardening,...
- Author: Wakelyn, ChelseaSummary:
A heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of a woman unravelling in the wake of tragedy. Sam is dead, which means that Elsie Jane has just lost the brilliant, sensitive man she planned to grow old with. The early days of grief are a fog...
- Author: Warner, AndreaSummary:
In Rise Up and Sing!, Andrea Warner explores how music has contributed to the fight for social justice. Across eight areas of activism--the climate emergency, Indigenous rights, civil rights, disability rights, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, gender...
- Author: Lawson, JulieSummary:
When Jane Mooney's older brother Connor lies about his age and enlists in the Great War at age fifteen, she can't imagine ever being more devastated. But a few months later on December 6, 1917, when two ships collide in Halifax Harbour...
- Author: Okihiro, Lara Jean ; Bridger, JanisSummary:
Cousins Lou and Charlotte don't know a lot about their grandmother's life. When their Obaasan invites them to spend the day in her garden, she also invites them into their family's secrets. Grandma shares her experience as a Japanese...
- Author: Pendreigh, KirstenSummary:
After Grandpa dies, a girl and her mother take the trip he had planned for her, kayaking along the Pacific west coast to look for the whales that he loved. The trip will do them good, Mom says, but the girl isn't sure. How can that be...
- Author: McCabe, FrancineSummary:
A fascinating look at the world of small-scale textile farms along the Salish Sea and their pivotal role in sustainable, artisanal textile production and the slow fashion movement. Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are a part of a...
- Author: Morrison, GeoffreySummary:
It's a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over the course of a day and night in an uncannily depopulated public park, waiting to meet someone who never shows, he will sift...
- Author: Nock, SamanthaSummary:
A Family of Dreamers is an exploration of the coming of age of a Métis woman who moved from her small rural town to the city. It investigates conversations around desirability, fat liberation, and being a young Indigenous woman. A...
- Author: Norwell, DavidSummary:
A soul-searching personal account of a young man's 1,700-kilometre kayak journey from Victoria, BC, to Gustavas, Alaska, illustrated with whimsical watercolour maps and illustrations of local flora, fauna, and landscapes. In 2014,...
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Author: Williams, Vera B.Summary:Three babies are caught up in the air and given loving attention by a father, grandmother, and mother.
- Author: Snorton, C. RileySummary:
The story of Christine Jorgensen, Americas first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives-- ones lived by African Americans...
- Author: Cunningham, FrancineSummary:
A whimsical and lyrical celebration of imagination and exploration if we simply asked, “What if . . .” Follow two siblings through their day as they let their imaginations run wild in this joyful story about all the possibilities a...
- Author: Ebsen, BuddySummary:
Ebsen recounts his career as a film and television actor, including his brief stint as the Tinman in the Wizard of Oz.
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Author: Shelton, Paula YoungSummary:Paula Young Shelton shares her memories of the civil rights movement and her involvement in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
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