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The break
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.The Blythes are quoted
By L. M Montgomery. 2009
Adultery, illegitimacy, misogyny, revenge, murder, despair, bitterness, hatred, and death - usually not the terms associated with L.M. Montgomery. In…
this her last work, Montgomery brought these topics to the forefront, in stories featuring a grown up Anne and her family around the time of the First World War. 2009.The back of the turtle
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.Son of a trickster (Trickster trilogy. #1.)
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.Rescue pup (Orca young readers)
By Jean Little. 2004
Shakespeare, a Seeing Eye puppy, is sent to the home of a troubled foster child, Tessa, whom he expects to…
love him on sight. Shakespeare soon realizes why his new owner is called 'Stoneface', and begins to teach Tessa to love. Before he knows it, Shakespeare finds himself in a variety of dangerous situations, from being attacked by Zorro, a very tough rooster, to nearly drowning in a creek. Grades 3-6. 2004.Red Stick (White Indian series. #26.)
By Donald Clayton Porter. 1994
As Tecumseh rises up in the West, Little Hawk, son of the White Indian, ponders taking up arms against the…
British. Meanwhile Gao, the White Indian's courageous nephew, marries and vows revenge on the soldiers who scorned him. Sequel to "War Clouds"; followed by "Creek Thunder". Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1994.Le chant de la terre innue
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.Mistress Pat: a novel of Silver Bush
By L. M Montgomery. 1935
When she was twenty, nearly everyone thought Patricia Gardiner ought to be having beaus - except Pat herself. For Pat,…
Silver Bush was both home and heaven, and she was too busy planning the Christmas family reunion, entertaining a countess, playing matchmaker, and preparing for the arrival of the new hired man. Yet as those she loved started to move away, Pat began to question the wisdom of her choice of Silver Bush over romance. 1988, c1935.Monkey beach
By Eden Robinson. 2000
The Haisla community on the north west coast of British Columbia is devastated when the pride of their village, young…
Jimmy Hill, disappears at sea in a boating accident. Jimmy's sister Lisamarie reflects on the effect his death has on their community and on their family. She also reflects on their family, their culture, and Jimmy's life. Some strong language. 2000.Medicine walk
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.Last child
By Michael Spooner. 2005
Caught between the worlds of the her Scottish father and her Native Mandan mother in what is now North Dakota,…
Rosalie fights to survive both the 1837 smallpox epidemic and the actions of a vengeful trader. Some descriptions of violence. 2006 Spur Awards Finalist. For junior high readers. 2005.Kiss of the fur queen
By Tomson Highway. 1998
Abraham Okimasis' native family lives happily in northern Manitoba until his two sons, Champion and Ooneemeetoo, are taken from them…
and sent to a Catholic residential school. There their names are changed, their culture and language are forbidden, and they are abused by the priests who run the school. Once the boys graduate from the school and attempt to live peacefully in Winnipeg they are constantly confronted by racism, and by the fact that they are no longer accepted by their own people. Through it all the shape-shifting spirit of the Fur Queen watches over the brothers to ensure that they fulfill their destinies. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language, descriptions of sex. 1998.Jonny Appleseed
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.Indian Horse
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.Incidents in the life of Markus Paul
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. c2011Drums of change: the story of Running Fawn (Women of the West. #12.)
By Janette Oke. 1996
A young Blackfoot girl comes of age in 19th century Alberta in this tortured love story. She is chosen along…
with the chief's son, Silver Fox, to attend a Catholic boarding school in Calgary, and runs up against loneliness and despair when Silver Fox shows more interest in white man's God than her. Sequel to "A gown of Spanish lace". 1996. (Women of the West ; 12)Birdie
By 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.Black apple: a novel
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.Daughter of strangers
By Marjory Gordon. 2001
Amy goes on an archaeological dig with her adoptive father on the Thelon River in the Northwest Territories. A teenager…
of mixed ancestry with a white adoptive father, Amy knows nothing about the customs of her tribe and the skills she needs for survival. With help from her grandmother, she discovers what life would have been like for her among the Dene people who lived there 1600 years ago. Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. 2001.Consumption
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.