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An unexpected light: travels in Afghanistan
By Jason Elliot. 1999
An exploration of Afghanistan - its physical beauty, hospitality, religious variations, and long history. Elliot recounts events from his first…
visit at nineteen in 1986 travelling with anti-Soviet mujahedin and another journey ten years later when the Taliban forces were building power. 2001, c1999.Black potatoes: the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850
By Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 2001
Chronicles the disaster that occurred in Ireland when the potato crop failed for five years straight. Describes the heartbreaking plight…
of the peasants, who depended on potatoes for all their meals. A million died of starvation, and many more were forced to emigrate to America. Grades 5-8. Winner of Robert F. Sibert Award. 2001.An army at dawn: the war in North Africa, 1942-1943 (Liberation trilogy. #1.)
By Rick Atkinson. 2002
An account of the World War II campaign in Morocco and Algeria. Operation Torch, as it was called, became a…
proving ground where American officers learned to lead, soldiers learned to hate, and an entire army learned what it would take to defeat a formidable enemy. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for history. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2002.A problem from hell: America and the age of genocide
By Samantha Power. 2003
Former war correspondent analyzes the U.S. response to major genocides of the twentieth century. Using the Armenian murders in 1915,…
the Holocaust, and Saddam Hussein's destruction of the Kurds in the 1980s as examples, Power demonstrates the failure of political leaders to intervene against global atrocities. Explicit descriptions of violence and strong language. Pulitzer Prize. 2002.De Kooning: an American master
By Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan, Willem De Kooning. 2004
Biography of Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), who became a major figure in the mid-twentieth-century New York abstract expressionism…
scene. Explores de Kooning's bohemian habits, friendship with Gorky, financial backing from Hirshhorn and Fourcade, only marriage, and passion for painting. Some descriptions of sex. Pulitzer Prize. 2004.Delights & shadows: poems
By Ted Kooser. 2004
Kooser, American poet laureate, is a poet of place, that being eastern Nebraska. Seasons rotate and weather matters, natural disasters…
are real. The visible world informs the verbal one, yet there are also spiritual presences. In his poetry, every described delight is shadowed by darkness in poems of small wonders and hard dualisms. Pulitzer Prize winer 2005. 2004.Doubt: a parable
By John Patrick Shanley. 2005
The Bronx, 1964. Sister Aloysius, stern principal of St. Nicholas Catholic School, is convinced that school chaplain Father Flynn is…
a pedophile, and that instead of mentoring the school's only black student, he has seduced him. Through meetings with Flynn, young teacher Sister James, and the student's mother, she gathers her evidence and plans a course of action. No one is totally right or truthful, keeping everyone in a state of doubt. Pulitzer Prize winner. 2005.Letters in a bruised cosmos
By Liz Howard. 2021
The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent . GRIFFIN…
POETRY PRIZE, FINALIST I have to believe my account will outpace its ending. The danger and necessity of living with each other is at the core of Liz Howard's daring and intimate second collection. Letters in a Bruised Cosmos asks who do we become after the worst has happened? Invoking the knowledge histories of Western and Indigenous astrophysical science, Howard takes us on a breakneck river course of radiant and perilous survival in which we are invited to “reforge [ourselves] inside tomorrow's humidex”. Everyday observation, family history, and personal tragedy are sublimated here in a propulsive verse that is relentlessly its own. Part autobiography, part philosophical puzzlement, part love song, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos is a book that once read will not soon be forgottenCounting coup: becoming a Crow chief on the Reservation and beyond
By Joseph Medicine Crow, Herman J Viola. 2006
The last traditional Crow chief, Joseph Medicine Crow (born 1913), recalls growing up on a Montana reservation and relates some…
of his experiences after leaving it. He describes the four coups - war deeds - that he accomplished in Germany during World War II that entitled him to be chief. Grades 4-7. 2006.Muinji'j Asks Why: The Story of the Mi'kmaq and the Shubenacadie Residential School
By Shanika MacEachern, Breighlynn MacEachern. 2022
An educational and heartfelt retelling of the story of the Mi'kmaq and their traditional lands, Mi'kma'ki, for young readers, focused…
on the generational traumas of the Indian Residential School System."The story of the Mi'kmaw people is one that very few truly know, Ladybug. Even fewer understand what happened at the residential schools. It is a hard story to tell, but you must know the truth. Sit and I will tell you the story."When seven-year-old Muinji'j comes home from school one day, her Nana and Papa can tell right away that she's upset. Her teacher has been speaking about the residential schools. Unlike most of her fellow students, Muinji'j has always known about the residential schools. But what she doesn't understand is why the schools existed and why children would have died there. Nana and Papa take Muinji'j aside and tell her the whole story, from the beginning. They help her understand all of the decisions that were made for the Mi'kmaq, not with the Mi'kmaq, and how those decisions hurt her people. They tell her the story of her people before their traditional ways were made illegal, before they were separated and sent to reservations, before their words, their beliefs, and eventually, their children, were taken from them. A poignant, honest, and necessary book featuring brilliant artwork from Mi'kmaw artist Zeta Paul and words inspired by Muinji'j MacEachern's true story, Muinji'j Asks Why will inspire conversation, understanding, and allyship for readers of all ages.Eden's outcasts: the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father
By John Matteson. 2007
Portrait of nineteenth-century "Little Women" (DC00882) author and her father, Bronson Alcott, a noted New England educator and friend of…
transcendentalists Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne. Describes the influence of Bronson's penury and emotional fragility on Louisa, who assisted the family financially despite her Civil War-contracted illness. Pulitzer Prize. 2007.Mononk Jules
By Jocelyn Sioui. 2020
Il existe dans chaque famille des histoires qui laissent des traces pour des générations. Des micromythes qui ne sortent pas…
de la microcellule familiale. Qu'on entretient un peu comme... comme le feu d'un poêle à combustion lente : une bûche de temps en temps.Mononk Jules reconstitue le parcours de Jules Sioui, un Wendat qui a bousculé l'Histoire canadienne avant de sombrer dans un énorme trou de mémoire familial et historique. Dans sa tentative de comprendre comment s'écrit l'Histoire (ou comment elle ne s'écrit pas) l'auteur se retrouve, malgré lui, face à un colosse aux pieds d'argile. Comédien, dramaturge et marionnettiste, Jocelyn Sioui tire ici sur les petits et grands fils de l'histoire de cet énigmatique grand-oncle, héros autochtone du 20e siècle.Parfois je suis un renard
By Danielle Daniel. 2018
Parfois je suis un renard rusé et astucieux. J'observe mon entourage. Puis, en un clin d'oeil, je disparais. Dans cette…
introduction enjouée aux animaux totémiques de la tradition anishinaabée, douze enfants s'identifient à différentes créatures comme un renard, un chevreuil, un castor ou un orignal. Années 1-3. Gagnant de Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. 2018. Titre uniforme: Sometimes I feel like a fox.When I Was Eight (When I Was Eight Ser.)
By Gabrielle Grimard, Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton. 2013
Bestselling memoir Fatty Legs for younger readers. Olemaun is eight and knows a lot of things. But she does not…
know how to read. Ignoring her father’s warnings, she travels far from her Arctic home to the outsiders’ school to learn. The nuns at the school call her Margaret. They cut off her long hair and force her to do menial chores, but she remains undaunted. Her tenacity draws the attention of a black-cloaked nun who tries to break her spirit at every turn. But the young girl is more determined than ever to learn how to read. Based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by stunning illustrations, When I Was Eight makes the bestselling Fatty Legs accessible to younger readers. Now they, too, can meet this remarkable girl who reminds us what power we hold when we can read.Shuni: ce que tu dois savoir, Julie (Chronique)
By Naomi Fontaine. 2019
Naomi Fontaine écrit une longue lettre à son amie Shuni, une jeune Québécoise venue dans sa communauté pour aider les…
Innus. Elle convoque l'histoire. Surgissent les visages de la mère, du père, de la grand-mère. Elle en profite pour s'adresser à Petit ours, son fils. Les paysages de Uashat défilent, fragmentés, radieux. Elle raconte le doute qui mine le coeur des colonisés, l'impossible combat d'être soi. Shuni, cette lettre fragile et tendre, dit la force d'inventer l'avenir, la lumière de la vérité. La vie est un cercle où tout recommence.Auassat: À la recherche des enfants disparus
By Anne Panasuk. 2021
Auassat – « les enfants », en innu – dévoile un chapitre ignoré de nos relations avec les Premières Nations,…
une histoire terrible qui explique les traumatismes transmis d’une génération à l’autre, jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Au début des années 1970, des enfants autochtones sont disparus après avoir été envoyés à l’hôpital pour y être soignés sans leurs parents. Certains, déclarés morts alors qu’ils ne l’étaient pas, ont été adoptés. Plusieurs ont perdu la vie sans que leurs proches en aient été avertis. Encore aujourd’hui, les familles cherchent ces enfants qui n’ont jamais été oubliés.Nibi is water = : Nibi aawon nbiish
By Joanne Robertson. 2020
A board book about the importance of Nibi, which means water in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), and our role to thank, respect,…
love, and protect it. Written from an Anishinaabe water protector's perspective, the book is in dual language--English and Anishinaabemowin. Babies and toddlers can follow Nibi as it rains and snows, splashes or rows, drips and sipsGens du fleuve, gens de l’île: Hochelaga en Laurentie iroquoienne au XVIe siècle
By Roland Viau. 2021
Une réponse à la grande énigme : pourquoi les populations autochtones d’Hochelaga ont-elles disparu entre l’arrivée de Cartier et celle…
de Champlain? Ce livre, qui prend souvent les allures d’une incomparable « enquête policière », constitue la première et remarquable synthèse de l’histoire de Montréal au XVIe siècle, à la fois savante et accessible. Un essai scientifique captivant pour qui s’intéresse aux communautés autochtones.The possessed: adventures with Russian books and the people who read them
By Elif Batuman. 2010
In this memoir titled after what she calls "Dostoevsky's weirdest novel," "The Possessed" - now translated as "Demons" - Stanford…
professor Batuman recalls her pursuit of a PhD, immersion into all things Russian, and encounters with equally impassioned fellow scholars. Whiting Award for Nonfiction. 2010.Buffalo Bill Cody (Legends of the Wild West)
By Ronald A Reis. 2010
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a bullwhacker, cattle driver, and American Indian fighter on the Great Plains of the 1850's,…
all before becoming a teenager. He claimed to have killed 5,000 buffalo and to have ridden with the Pony Express. Later, he started his Wild West Show - part circus, part rodeo, part history - that played across the United Stares and Europe for three decades. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2011 Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction. 2010. (Legends of the Wild West)