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Indigenous Americas ; v. 1Gill, Charlotte
Summary: "An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILL, CHARLOTTE GILAbdelmahmoud, Elamin
Summary: "Professional wrestling super fandom, Ontario's endlessly unfurling 401 highway, late nights at the convenience store listening to heavy metal--for writer and podcast host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, these are the building blocks of a life. Son of Elsewhere charts that life in wise, funny, and moving reflections on the many threads that weave together into an identity. Arriving in Canada at age 12...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ABDELMAHMOUD, ELAMIN ABDInglis, Kate
Summary: Part memoir, part handbook for the heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby will speak to all who have been bereaved and are grieving, and offers inspiration on moving forward, gently integrating the loss into life. When Kate Inglis’s twin boys were born prematurely, one survived and the other did not. This is the powerful, unsparing account of her experience,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 INGLIS, KATE INGMowat, Farley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roberts Rinehart 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 MOWWagamese, Richard
Summary: "Ojibwe tradition calls for fathers to walk their children through the world, sharing the ancient understanding "that we are all, animate and inanimate alike, living on the one pure breath with which the Creator gave life to the Universe." In this new entry in the Seedbank series, an intimate series of letters to the six-year-old son from whom he was estranged, Richard Wagamese fulfills this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAGAMESE, RICHARD WAGRobertson, David
Summary: "David A. Robertson, the son of a Cree father and a white, settler mother, grew up with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family's Indigenous roots. His father, Dulas, or Don as he became known, had grown up on the trapline in the bush only to be transplanted permanently to a house on reserve in Manitoba, where he was not permitted to speak his language--Swampy Cree--and was forced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROBERTSON ROBKoul, Scaachi
Summary: "In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it's a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOUL, SCAACHI KOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KOUL KOUMowat, Farley.
Summary: Canadian author Farley Mowat chronicles his youth from 1933-1937 when he discovered the Canadian wilderness and started to take an interest in writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOWAT, FARLEY MOWKing, Thomas
Summary: "In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling." "Thomas King weaves events...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, THOMAS KINLoyie, Oskiniko Larry
Summary: Tells the story of Larry Loyie, a Cree Indian in Canada who was sent to a government school and later became a writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LOYIE LOYLittle, Jean
Summary: One of Canada's most popular children's book authors recalls the challenges of her youth -- wrenching moves from home, the fight for acceptance in a new school, and her battles against failing eyesight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LITWagamese, Richard
Summary: "Richard Wagamese's For Joshua is at once a deeply personal memoir, a search for peace amidst the chaos of human life, and an extended love letter to Wagamese's estranged son"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAGAMESE, RICHARD WAGMaclear, Kyo
Summary: "Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio MaclearHumphreys, Helen
Summary: "Poet and novelist Helen Humphreys's And a Dog Called Fig, a meditation on the benefits of dogs to the creative life, including the dogs of well-known writers from history, portraits of all the dogs from the author's life, and the arrival and raising of her new puppy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMPHREYS, HELEN HUMHillier, George
Summary: "Hillier shares experiences that influenced his life using short stories, poetry, and characterizations to give glimpses into the wide spectrum of human emotions that we all share."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HILLIER, GEORGE HILOndaatje, Michael
Summary: An autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents' legacy and his own heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 ONDSummary: "A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "Tuan and his family survive bullets, a broken motor, and a leaking boat in the long days they spend at sea after fleeing Vietnam. A true story as told to the author by Tuan Ho. Includes family photographs and a historical note about the Vietnamese refugee crisis."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOFunk, Carla
Summary: "A funny and whip-smart memoir about a feisty young woman's quest for independence in an isolated Mennonite community. Carla Funk is a teenager with her hands on the church piano keys and her feet edging ever closer to the flames. Coming of age in a remote and forested valley--a place rich in Mennonites, loggers, and dutiful wives who submit to their husbands--she knows her destiny is to marry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021