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By Katherena Vermette. 2016
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break…
- a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2017. Winner of the 2017 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the 2017 Evergreen Award and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. 2016.By Thomas King. 2014
Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel’s sister.…
The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel’s family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for DowSanto, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky? Bestseller. Winner of the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. 2014.By Basil Johnston. 1981
These legends, which include "Why birds go south in winter" and "The first butterflies", are an integral part of the…
spiritual and cultural heritage of the Ojibway people. For all ages.By Eden Robinson. 2017
Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary…
mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer, and now she's dead. Bestseller. 2017.By Richard Wagamese. 2009
Four chronically homeless people - Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger - seek refuge in a warm movie…
theatre, and fall in love with the movies. Returning to the theatre, they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist, and a friendship is struck. When the four find a winning lottery ticket, but can't claim the prize for lack of proper identification, they enlist the help of Granite, and their lives, and fortunes, become forever changed. Some descriptions of violence, explicit strong language. 2008.By Jean Bédard. 2014
" On fait monter une jeune Innue sur une plateforme de bois construite dans les arbres. Toute seule, juchée parmi…
les branches, elle attend la visite de l'animal totémique qui guidera son destin. Au terme de cette épreuve initiatique, que l'on réserve d'habitude aux garçons, elle sera prête à partir avec son clan à la recherche du caribou, qui a déserté la taïga.Car, sans le caribou, nul équilibre, nulle joie. Ce conte poétique, raconté avec tendresse et humour par le grand-père de l'héroïne, est un hommage aux forces de la nature, et à tous ceux qui en tirent les enseignements. " -- 4e de couv.By Richard Wagamese. 2014
Franklin Starlight is sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with his real father, Eldon. The…
rare moments they've shared haunt and trouble Frank, but when he is called to visit his father, he answers it as a son's duty. He finds Eldon decimated after years of drinking, dying of liver failure in a small town flophouse. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner. What ensues is a journey through the rugged and beautiful backcountry of the B.C. Interior, and a journey into the past, as the two men push forward to Eldon's end. Bestseller. Winner of the 2015 Evergreen Award. 2014.By Joshua Whitehead. 2018
"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats…
to himself. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the "rez"--and his former life--to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The seven days that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages--and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Winner of Canada Reads 2021. 2018.By Richard Wagamese. 2012
Saul Indian Horse is dying in a hospice, remembering the life he led as a northern Ojibway. For Saul, taken…
forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Winner of CODE's Burt Award for First Nations, Méris, and Inuit Literature. Bestseller. 2012.By David Adams Richards. 2011
1985. Hector Penniac, a young Micmac, is murdered on his first day of work. Loner Roger Savage comes under suspicion…
of killing Hector, leading Amos Paul, the chief of Hector's band, to try and reduce tensions, and Joel Ginnish, a volatile Micmac, to bring his own justice to Roger Savage when the authorities refuse to. Twenty years later, RCMP officer Markus Paul - Amos's grandson - tries to piece together the clues surrounding Hector death. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. c2011By Tracey Lindberg. 2015
Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is…
on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet (one of the only television shows available on CBC North) that come to her in her dreams. She is also driven by the desire to meet Pat Johns, who played Jesse on The Beachcombers. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2016. 2015.By Joan Crate. 2016
Torn from her home and delivered to St. Mark’s Residential School for Girls by government decree, young Rose Marie (Sinopaki)…
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 world of the Sisters of Brotherly Love, an order of nuns dedicated to saving the Indigenous children from damnation. Life under the sharp eye of Mother Grace becomes an endless series of torments, and Rose Marie starts to see shapes in her dreams that warn her of unspoken dangers and mysteries that threaten to engulf her. 2016.By Richard Wagamese. 2006
In pursuit of a world-champion title, Joe Willie Wolfchild suffers a career-ending accident and is taken to his family's ranch…
to recuperate. Meanwhile, urban street-kid Aiden, sick and tired of his mother Claire's long string of abusive boyfriends, plans a robbery only to land in jail. Upon his release, a concerned parole officer finds a place for Aiden and his mom at the Wolfchild ranch. Strong language. 2006.By Kevin Patterson. 2006
An Inuit girl spends her teen years in the 1960s in a Montreal TB sanatorium, learning French and mathematics from…
nuns. Upon returning to Hudson Bay, Victoria feels like a stranger, and soon marries a white man. When her husband accepts work from a South African mining company that wants to dig for diamonds in the frozen tundra, things come to a boiling point. 2006.By Joseph Boyden. 2016
An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School. He realizes too late just how far away home…
is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, and ultimately offering him a type of comfort on his difficult journey back to the place he was so brutally removed from. Bestseller. 2016.By Joseph Boyden. 2013
"The Orenda" opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with…
a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron nation’s great warriors and statesmen. It has been years since the murder of his family, but they are never far from his mind. In Snow Falls, Bird recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter and sees that the girl possesses powerful magic that will be useful to him on the troubled road ahead. Bird’s people have battled the Iroquois for as long as he can remember, but both tribes now face a new, more dangerous threat from afar. Christophe, a charismatic Jesuit missionary, has found his calling among the Huron, and devotes himself to learning and understanding their customs and language in order to lead them to Christ. Bestseller. Winner of Canada Reads 2014. 2013.By Marcel Moussette. 2012
" Œuvre de fiction fondée sur des événements réels, La photo de famille met en scène le destin de protagonistes…
dont limage, point de départ du récit, a été saisie sur ce cliché jauni par le temps. Le personnage central de cette photo est une vieille dame, Charlotte Chiasson, la trisaïeule de lauteur, une Métisse amérindienne qui, en 1878, sest trouvée au centre dun drame survenu dans le village aujourdhui désigné par le toponyme Kahnawake. Mais au delà de la vie des membres de plusieurs générations de sa famille, cest tout un pan de lhistoire du Québec du dernier tiers du XIXe siècle et du XXe siècle que raconte Marcel Moussette. " -- 4e de couv.By David Robertson. 2014
Alice, a single mother raising her three young daughters on the rez where she grew up, has never had an…
easy life, but has managed to get by with the support of her best friend, Gideon, and her family. When an unthinkable loss occurs, Alice is forced onto a different path, one that will challenge her belief in herself and the world she thought she knew. 2014.By Richard Wagamese. 2018
Franklin Starlight had long settled into a quiet and predictable life working his remote farm. But his contemplative existence is…
turned upside down by the sudden arrival of Emmy, a woman who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a harrowing life of violence. After Emmy has a run-in with the law, Starlight agrees to take in her and her daughter to help them get back on their feet. Over time, he introduces them to the land and patiently teaches them the skills that have allowed him not only to survive but to find communion with the world, and, gradually, this accidental family changes Starlight and Emmy in ways they never imagined. But Emmy's abusive ex isn't content to just let her go. He wants revenge and is hunting her down. "Starlight" was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagamese's death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights that are as hard-earned as they are beautiful. Bestseller. 2018.By Biz. 2014
" Ces mots désignent-ils toujours les mêmes personnes, ou au contraire des familles aux expériences humaines différentes et que l'on…
regroupe sous des termes larges et un peu flous ? Présents en Europe, mais aussi en Amérique, ces gens-là ont toujours attiré le regard de leurs contemporains et l'attention, quand ce n'est pas la suspicion, des pouvoirs publics. Beaucoup d'idées reçues circulent à leur propos, témoignant à la fois de la peur et de la fascination, et bien souvent de l'ignorance : Les Gitans viennent de l'Inde , Les Gitans vivent dans des camps , Les Roms sont des Gitans nomades venus de l'Est , Ils n'envoient pas leurs enfants à l'école , mais aussi Les Gitanes savent lire les lignes de la main , Les Gitans ont la musique dans le sang , etc. On loue leur sens de la famille et leur culture. Mais on leur interdit l'entrée de nos villages et le stationnement dans nos villes. Cet ouvrage est une invitation à ouvrir les yeux... et les esprits ! " -- 4e de couv.