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  • Invisible North

    The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve

    de Alexandra Shimo ...
    A vivid first-person account of life on a troubled reserve that illuminates a difficult and oft-ignored history.Globe and Mail 100: Best Books of 2016 • The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016 • 2017 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted • 2017 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction — Shortlisted • 2016 Speaker's Book Award — ShortlistedWhen freelance journalist Alexandra Shimo arrives in Kashechewan, a ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Up Ghost River

    A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History

    de Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo ...
    A powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing.In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada’s worst residential schools. St. Anne’s, in northern Ontario, is an institution now notorious for the range of punishments that ... Leer más

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  • The Ballad of Danny Wolfe

    Life of a Modern Outlaw

    de Joe Friesen ...
    A gripping, fast-paced account of the life of the indigenous man who founded and led the Indian Posse, one of the most dangerous gangs in North America, into violence, power, and infamy.In 2008, Daniel Richard Wolfe was awaiting trial on two counts of first-degree murder at the Regina Correctional Centre. This wasn't his first time in jail; from his teenage years his life had been marked by stints ... Leer más

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  • Children of the Broken Treaty

    Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream

    de Charlie Angus ...
    Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country’s history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree woman whom George Stroumboulopoulos named as one of “five teenage girls who kicked ass in history.”All Shannen wanted was a decent education. She found an ally in Charlie Angus, who ... Leer más

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  • Boiling Point

    Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis

    de Maude Barlow ...
    Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for CanadiansWe are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world’s fresh water — water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. In Boiling Point, bestselling author and activist Maude Barlow lays bare the issues facing Canada’s water reserves, including long-outdated water ... Leer más

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  • Dreamland

    The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

    de The Least of Us, Dreamland Sam Quinones ...
    Winner of the NBCC Award for General NonfictionNamed on Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years, Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year--Slate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015--Entertainment ... Leer más

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  • Black Apple

    de Joan Crate ...
    A dramatic and lyrical coming-of-age novel about a young Blackfoot girl who grows up in the residential school system on the Canadian prairies.Torn from her home and delivered to St. Mark’s Residential School for Girls by government decree, young Rose Marie finds herself in an alien universe where nothing of her previous life is tolerated, not even her Blackfoot name. For she has entered into the ... Leer más

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  • The Comeback

    How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence

    de John Ralston Saul ...
    Once again, John Ralston Saul presents the story of Canada’s past so that we may better understand its present – and imagine a better future.Historic moments are always uncomfortable, Saul writes in this impassioned argument, calling on all of us to embrace and support the comeback of Aboriginal peoples. This, he says, is the great issue of our time – the most important missing piece in the ... Leer más

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  • Girl in the Woods

    A Memoir

    de Aspen Matis ...
    Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who discouraged her from telling of the attack, Aspen was confused and ashamed. Dealing with a ... Leer más

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  • They Called Me Number One

    de Bev Sellars ...
    BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school.These ... Leer más

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  • Finding Your Writer's Voice: Make Your Writing Unique & Unforgettable

    de Bria Quinlan, Jeannie Lin ...
    Voice. That IT Factor. The Holy Grail. Every writer has one.Every writer knows what it is, but not everyone can put their finger on how to develop it.Join Jeannie Lin and Bria Quinlan, two award-winning, bestselling authors, as they chase down this elusive element.This book discusses the hierarchy of developing a professional voice as well as concrete tips and techniques for discovering and ... Leer más

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  • The Least of Us

    True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

    de The Least of Us, Dreamland Sam Quinones ...
    Apple Best Books of 2021Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal * Shortlisted for the Zocalo Book PrizeFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair.Sam Quinones traveled from Mexico to main streets across the U.S. to create Dreamland, a ground... ... Leer más

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