Adam's Tree is a fictional account of life on the Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan during the 1940's and 50's. This period in history finds forces like regulatory policy, World War II, systemic racism, and the long reach of the...
Saskatchewan Book Awards 2020
The Saskatchewan Book Awards recognize, celebrate, and reward the excellence of Saskatchewan writers and publishers, building greater awareness of Saskatchewan books. These awards have a solid reputation for celebrating artistic excellence, and are recognized nationally. For more information, please visit the Saskatchewan Book Awards website.
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Author:Mehlmann, GloriaSummary: - Author:Ali, Mohamed AbdulkarimSummary:
Writing from a homeless shelter in downtown Toronto, Mohamed "Mo" Ali chronicles how he ended up there in this memoir of exile, addiction, and racism. Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia's societal implosion, Ali was taken...
- Author:Osburn, ChazSummary:
A fierce predator. A determined young officer...An incredible plan to change the course of WWII...As Germany's U-boat wolf packs prey mercilessly on Allied convoys, Winston Churchill and his military advisors realize that if they don't...
- Author:McGrane, DavidSummary:
Allan Blakeney believed in government as a force for good. As premier of Saskatchewan, he promoted social justice through government intervention in the economy and the welfare state. He created legal and constitutional structures that...
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An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writing Matters offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose. As...
- Author:GoldenEagle, Carol RoseSummary:
There are too many stories about Indigenous women who go missing or are murdered, and it doesn't seem as though official sources such as government, police or the courts respond in a way that works toward finding justice or even...
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Drawing on the expertise of Indigenous scholars and researchers, including voices from the front lines in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, this book examines child welfare practices in kinship care, FASD, homelessness, aging out of...
- Author:Knott, HelenSummary:
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, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds...
- Author:Heit, JasonSummary:
In Jason Heit's gritty new novel-in-stories, Prairie settlers discover that their greatest challenge in a new land is each other. Kaidenberg's Best Sons is an unvarnished view of the lives of settlers in the early days of immigration to...
- Author:Willett, EdwardSummary:
Shawna Keys has fled the world she only recently discovered she Shaped, narrowly escaping death at the hands of the Adversary who seized control of it ... and losing her only guide, Karl Yatsar, in the process. Now she finds herself...
- Author:King, Edgar RolandSummary:
This paranormal romance begins a journey deep into Daniel Morocco's dark and troubled future. Daniel can see this future in his dreams. While he can use his visions to change what is seen, shaping tomorrow can come with irreversible...
- Author:Krasowski, SheldonSummary:
Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the...
- Author:Archibald-Barber, Jesse RaeSummary:
Comprised of multidisciplinary and diverse perspectives, Performing Turtle Island considers theatre as a tool for community engagement, education, and resistance, and examines how communities in turn influence the construction of...
- Author:Betker, BelindaSummary:
Phases is a collection of poems about gender, coming-of-age, and sexuality. Part 1 is spoken from the point of view of a girl who is coming to terms with the end of childhood and the development of her own gender identity and sexuality...
- Author:Savage, CandaceSummary:
When researching the first occupant of her Saskatoon home, Candace Savage discovers a family more fascinating and heartbreaking than she expected. Napoléon Sureau dit Blondin built the house in the 1920s, an era when French-speakers...
- Author:Kirchmeier, KurtSummary:
Stranger Things meets Alfred Hitchcock in this haunting coming-of-age novel about a plague that brings the world to a halt, and one boy's belief that his town's missing sparrows can save his family.In the small town of Griever's Mill,...
- Author:Wagner, Bernadette L.Summary:
"The Dry Valley encapsulates one woman’s relationship with herself, her alcoholic spouse, and the world, in three different Saskatchewan landscapes. The poems offer a fascinating interplay between mindful explorations of self and...
- Author:James, MichaelSummary:
Summer is usually a time of fun and games for most children, but Hanna and Ben Littleton are not your average eleven and twelve-year-old. Their father is Percy Littleton, a famous paranormal investigator, and this summer they are...
- Author:Meadows, SallySummary:
When Quinn's mom gets sick and Quinn has to go live with his grandfather in the big city, a nearby pond becomes a place of comfort and peace for him. But when Quinn spots a duckling all on its own, his own feeling of not belonging...
- Author:Popoff, AlexandraSummary:
If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the...
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