April 2022: Adult Readers
For April 2022 and in honour of World Book Day (April 23), we are honoured to feature and share with you Drew Hayden Taylor's...
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Book Suggestions
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Mar 29, 20222 min read
April 2022: Young Readers
For April 2022 and in honour of International Children's Book Day (April 2) and World Book Day (April 23), we are honoured to feature and...
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Feb 25, 20222 min read
March 2022: Young Readers
For March 2022 and in honour of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21 (this year's theme being...
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Feb 25, 20222 min read
March 2022: Adult Readers
For March 2022, we are thrilled to feature and share with you Cathy Marie Buchanan’s most recent novel, Daughter of Black Lake. Like both...
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Feb 1, 20221 min read
Black History Month Book Recommendations
Fill Your Home & School Libraries with Some of Our Favourite Books! Six Recommendations for Adult Readers Me and White Supremacy: Combat...
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Jan 31, 20221 min read
February 2022: Young Readers
For February 2022, we are thrilled to feature Angeline Boulley's 'Firekeeper's Daughter'. The book follows Daunis Fontaine, an...
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Jan 31, 20222 min read
February 2022: Adult Readers
For February 2022, we are extremely excited to feature and share with you Anton Treuer's 'The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living...
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janicedesroches
Dec 15, 20212 min read
January 2022: Young Readers
For January 2022, we are thrilled to feature Sharon G. Flake’s The Life I’m In, sister novel (book 2 of 2) to Flake's award-winning debut...
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janicedesroches
Dec 15, 20212 min read
January 2022: Adult Readers
For January 2022, we are extremely excited to feature and share with you Emily Ladau's 'Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to...
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Nov 30, 20212 min read
December 2021: Young Readers
Topics: Bullying, Insecurity, Self-Esteem, Support, Role Models, Friendship, Self-Expression, & Self-Acceptance. For December 2021, we...
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janicedesroches
Nov 30, 20212 min read
December 2021: Adult Readers
Topics: Time travel/ Our ever-increasing consumerism/ Oblivion to the state of the planet, destruction of nature and art, and our...
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janicedesroches
Oct 30, 20211 min read
November 2021: Adult Readers
Michelle Good was awarded the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada for this masterpiece. Five Little...
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janicedesroches
Oct 21, 20211 min read
October 2021: Young Readers
For October 2021, we are featuring Rob Sanders’ book Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag. This book tells the story of...
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janicedesroches
Oct 18, 20212 min read
November 2021: Young Readers
A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome This is a raw and honest read exposing the impacts of society’s obsession with...
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janicedesroches
Sep 30, 20212 min read
September 30, 2021: Honouring National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
This September 30, 2021 marks the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada (Orange Shirt Day), and when recognizing this...
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janicedesroches
Sep 9, 20213 min read
October 2021: Adult Readers
For October 2021, we are featuring 2SLGBTQIA+ (two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer, intersex, asexual/agender, +)...
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janicedesroches
Aug 20, 20211 min read
September 2021: Adult Readers
For September 2021, we are featuring Métis writer and lawyer Chelsea Vowel's 'Indigenous Writes: A Guide To First Nations, Métis, and...
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janicedesroches
Aug 19, 20212 min read
September 2021: Young Readers
For September 2021, we are featuring Swampy Cree author, graphic novelist, and public speaker David A. Robertson's 'The Barren Grounds:...
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Jul 28, 20212 min read
August 2021: Adult Readers
For August 2021, we are featuring author, speaker, trainer, and member of the Gwawa'enuk Nation and hereditary chief of the Gayaxala...
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janicedesroches
Jul 27, 20211 min read
August 2021: Young Readers
For August, 2021, we are featuring I AM NOT A NUMBER, written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland, and...
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