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CBC Middle East correspondent and Palestinian-Canadian Nahlah Ayed writes with insight and first-hand knowledge of the myriad ways in which the Arab people have fought against oppression and loss. Ayed was born to Palestinian refugee parents in Winnipeg, but spent some of her formative childhood years in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan. This shaped her thinking and her future work as a reporter covering the wars, crackdowns and uprisings across the region. A uniquely personal and moving account.

An analysis of the role of Canada's Aboriginal soldiers in the First World War.

When a judge's body is found in Wascana Park, Joanne and friend Hilda Mc Court must determine if the judge had come to regret the harsh sentences she had handed down, or was she getting senile? She had left two wills and the murder might be one of the heirs.

Health care has changed a great deal since Muriel Jarvis was a young nurse in Saskatoon in the 1940s; nursing has been transformed, and the status of women revolutionized. The inspiring story of a girl from Kenaston, Saskatchewan, who had a dream that changed a province. - from publisher.

Fifteen-year-old Andrea and her ten-year-old brother Tony are drawn into the scary underground of 1920s Moose Jaw to rescue their friends from Mean-Eyed Max and his gang.

Bele must put aside her struggle to become the church bell ringer when those she loves are threatened during the battle of Batoche, part of the Riel Rebellion.

Baba had made Lesia a promise: just remember the flower is not always open, but if your effort is true, your rewards will be sweet. Fifteen-year-old Lesia treasures those words as she and her family leave Baba in their Ukrainian hometown and flee to Canada. Dreaming of fields of wheat and wealth and security, Lesia's family look forward to life in Canada free from hunger and poverty and rumours of war. But the 160 acres of uncleared prairie they buy in Manitoba look nothing like the wheat fields of their dreams.