A Journey of Love and Hope
The long-awaited collection of talks, presentations, prayers, and ceremonies of renowned Mi’kmaw Elder, human rights activist, and language and culture warrior, Sister Dorothy… Read More
By: Elder Sister Dorothy Moore (CA)
The long-awaited collection of talks, presentations, prayers, and ceremonies of renowned Mi’kmaw Elder, human rights activist, and language and culture warrior, Sister Dorothy… Read More
By: Eri Muraoka
The bestselling biography of renowned Japanese translator of Anne of Green Gables is available in English for the first time.
The name Hanako Muraoka is revered… Read More
By: Michelle Porter (CA)
***IPPY AWARDS: BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION: CANADA-WEST – SILVER*** ***INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARDS 2021, PUBLISHED PROSE IN ENGLISH: CREATIVE… Read More
By: "Charles Saunders (CA)"
Black and Bluenose documents the recent history of Canada’s oldest and largest indigenous black community. Saunders writes with passion and insight about issues that are close to his heart and an understanding of the… Read More
By: Jennifer Thornhill-Verma (CA)
It’s 1992 in Newfoundland and Labrador and the cod moratorium has put some thirty thousand fishers out of work. Journalist Jenn Thornhill Verma blends memoir and research in this gripping account of the enduring legacy… Read More
By: Jon Tattrie (CA)
Born in a log cabin during a raging blizzard on Indian Brook Reserve in 1938, Mi’kmaw elder Daniel N. Paul rose to the top of a Canadian society that denied his people’s civilization. When he was named to the… Read More
By: Jon Tattrie (CA)
Jon Tattrie is a journalist and writer. After a decade in Europe, he took a job on the Halifax Daily News in 2006. When the paper closed in 2008, he became a full-time freelancer, writing for Metro Canada,… Read More
By: Hope Blooms
There is an old saying that it takes a village to raise a child, but Jessie Jollymore has experienced through the youth of Hope Blooms, an inner city initiative she founded that engages at-risk youth, that… Read More
By: Louie Montague (CA)
A vividly crafted portrait of a challenging yet rewarding life spent on the Naskaupi River, from Nunatsiavut Elder Louie… Read More
By: David Muise (CA)
I’m Just Sayin’ is a collection of short essays about Cape Breton life and David Muise’s own childhood in Cape Breton—a book that keeps alive the joy of growing up in this rare world that once was Industrial Cape… Read More
By: Beatrice Desveaux (CA), Daniel Doucet (CA)
A Friend to all, this unique Acadian comes to life in a delightful new book. Marguerite Gallant is remembered as a
woman brave enough to go her own way, to dress as she wished, and to live life to the fullest. Having… Read More
By: Kazim Ali (CA)
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award (LGBTQ Nonfiction)”It begins to rain as we fly, falling in solid sheets, water from sky to earth — a free system of… Read More
By: "Abena Beloved Green (CA)"
In The Way We Hold On, Abena writes, “This life can be a poem if you let it.” Ode to the Unpraised is a demonstration of those words. It is an invitation to readers to see… Read More
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In a winning new book, Pearleen Oliver: Canada’s Black Crusader for Civil Rights brings to life a compassionate and passionate African Nova Scotian, the story of her growth and activism—a book that shows how one… Read More
By: Michelle Porter (CA)
Finding Home. Scratching River is the author’s older brother’s story. This book is about the search for home for her brother, who has the dual diagnoses of autism and schizophrenia and the abuse he suffered in one of… Read More
By: Wanda Robson (CA)
In Sister to Courage, Wanda takes us inside the world she shared with Viola and ten other brothers and sisters. Through touching and often hilarious stories, she traces the roots… Read More
By: Gary Collins (CA)
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