Going home is not always the best answer. Forced to leave behind her big city dreams, Merry Bell returns to Livingsky Saskatchewan to start over. Living with plenty of secrets, but no money, friends, or place to live during a prairie...
Saskatchewan
- Author:Bidulka, AnthonySummary:
- Author:Baudemont, DavidSummary:
Est-il aisé de se fondre à la Prairie? À priori, cela paraît simple, car les reliefs y sont modérés : quelques modestes buttes, des vallons aux pentes douces, pas de sommets olympiens à gravir. Dans ce sens, la plaine est par nature...
- Author:Public Legal Education Association of SaskatchewanSummary:
Please note: legislation affecting older adults may vary significantly from province to province. If you are looking for this information for a province other than Saskatchewan, please contact NNELS...
- Author:Warren, DianneSummary:
A newly-single woman revisits the poor choices she had made through her life, returning to the small town in western Canada where she grew up and lived through the violent death of a close friend in an unsolved hit-and-run accident.
- Author:Hryniuk, MargaretSummary:
This highly-anticipated companion volume to the best-selling Legacy of Stone: Saskatchewan's Stone Buildings, combines brilliant colour images of the buildings people worship in with the fascinating stories of those places and people....
- Author:Hryniuk, Margaret, Korvemaker, FrankSummary:
A spectacular coffee-table book featuring the images and stories of some of Saskatchewan’s most impressive stone buildings, along with historical notes on some of the builders who made them. In words and stunning colour pictures, this...
- Author:Blais-Dahlem, MadeleineSummary:
La voix de mon père raconte l'histoire de Ti'Loup qui, au seuil de l'adolescence, se sent invisible au sein de sa famille. Malgré tout, elle recherche l'affection et les mots chaleureux de son père ombrageux. Ti'Loup veut comprendre...
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A groundbreaking anthology from territory that is now known as Saskatchewan, Kisiskâciwan contains rich, oral narratives from Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, Dakota, Dene, Gros Ventres, and Métis cultures; speeches and letters by Treaty Chiefs...
- Author:Bear, GleciaSummary:
The 25th anniversary of a historically significant collection, presented in Cree and English. kh̥kominawak otćimowiniwẃa / Our Grandmothers' Lives As Told in Their Own Words is a collection of reminiscences and personal stories...
- Author:Ratt, SolomonSummary:
A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family's traditional stories. When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling...
- Author:Driedger, WilliamSummary:
Humorous tales of life in the fictional Mennonite colony of Rosenheim during the Great Depression.
- Author:Stevenson, AllysonSummary:
Intimate Integration is an important analysis of the "Sixties Scoop" and post-World War II child welfare legislation in North America.
- Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary:
Ingrained Legacy surveys the lives and creations of over eighty dedicated pioneer woodworkers who made their home in Saskatchewan, all of whom carved their creations by hand with locally available materials.
- Author:Louttit, ErnieSummary:
When he began his career with the Saskatoon Police in 1987, Ernie Louttit was only the city’s third native police officer. “Indian Ernie”, as he came to be known on the streets, details an era of challenge, prejudice, and also...
- Author:Urquhart, JaneSummary:
In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and...
- Author:Noël-Maw, MartineSummary:
Dr. Emile Murray is the grandson of Fort San’s longtime director and pioneering tuberculosis specialist. Or is he? A late aunt’s diaries and letters suggests otherwise. Reading them, Emile’s wife Sophie is surprised to discover...
- Author:Porter, PamelaSummary:
Shortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize. In a small prairie town like Argue, Saskatchewan, everyone knows everybody else’s business. Everyone knows that the Loney family has been barely hanging on -- the father,...
- Author:Croza, LaurelSummary:
This enhanced e-book, in celebration of Groundwood's 35th anniversary, includes a read-aloud feature of the story narrated by Demi Pallas. The little girl in this story lives in a trailer near a forest in Saskatchewan, where her father...
- Author:Dunaway, Dan PaxtonSummary:
Briony, a prairie girl with a disfigured face, is adopted when she is nine by a childless older couple, Dagget and Moll, who appear mysteriously one day at her orphanage. They take her to their remote town of Crowsbeak in northern...
- Author:McManus, Curtis RSummary:
'Dirty Thirties' is the sobriquet commonly applied to the agricultural crisis in the drylands of southern Saskatchewan in Canada that coincided with the Great Depression. This title contends that the 'Dirty Thirties' actually began much...