Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that harder and harder to do. She r...
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The British Columbia and Yukon Book Prizes
Александра Кассандра238 книг
Александра КассандраThe British Columbia and Yukon Book Prizes
What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal
Eldon Yellowhorn, Kathy Lowinger
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(0)"There is no death. Only a change of worlds.”
—Chief Seattle [Seatlh], Suquamish Chief
What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have bee...
Abortion is one of the most common of all medical procedures. But it is still stigmatized, and all too often people do not feel they can talk about their experiences.
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Эмме Уиллик 12 лет, она живёт с мамой, известным специалистом по вопросам воспитания, у которой катастрофически не хватает времени на саму Эмми. И мама отправляет Эмми в з...
ENTER THE GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST
The southern half of Canada's west coast is justly famous for its fabulous scenery and pitched battles to save remnants of its magnifice...
At the Bridge chronicles the little-known story of James Teit, a prolific ethnographer who, from 1884 to 1922, worked with and advocated for the Indigenous peoples of Brit...
“The ragged edges of the temperate rainforest reach far out onto an island in the western seas. It is a place where one chooses to go ahead or turn back…”
In a prequel ...
Are you enchanted by the flora and fauna of the West Coast? This unique commentary on the social and natural history of Vancouver Island will draw you in for an intimate v...
Francine Cunningham lives with constant reminders that she doesn’t fit the desired expectations of the world: she is a white-passing, city-raised Indigenous woman with men...
The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sifts through a queer trans woman's unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer lo...
Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers; they are the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, and their TED talk has...
A searing account of the missing, and murdered, Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment of the society that failed them.
For decades, Indigenous women have go...
Change the story and change the future - merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene
In Changing Tides, Alejandro Frid tackl...
Long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize
A memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the lasting wounds of sexual violence
Helen Knott, a highly accomp...
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's...
Sarah is the youngest of the three Levine sisters. At twenty-five, she is rudderless, caught in a paralysis which keeps her from seizing her own life.When Sarah is fired f...
In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will ...
1950s Tehran. In an alleyway an abandoned baby cries into the night, attracting the attention of the young man who will save her.
And so begins the story of Aria, an orpha...
A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters.
Lark and ...
HOW SHE READ is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination.
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