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Acclaimed writer, David A. Robertson, delivers suspense, adventure, and humour in this stunningly illustrated graphic novel continuation of The Reckoner trilogy. Cole and Eva arrive in Winnipeg, the headquarters of Mihko Laboratories, intent on destroying the company once and for all. Their plans are thwarted when a new threat surfaces, and Cole is mired in terrifying visions. Are these visions just troubled dreams or are they leading him to a terrifying truth? And will Eva be able to harness her powers to continue the investigation without him?

A USA Today bestseller. A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year. "One of 2020's buzziest horror novels." —Entertainment Weekly. A "Most Anticipated Books of Summer" selection in Esquire, Elle, Vulture, Time, AV Club, Bustle, and Literary Hub. "Gritty and gorgeous" —The New York Times. "Jones is one of the best writers working today regardless of genre, and this gritty, heartbreaking novel might just be his best yet." —NPR. "Jones's latest horror novel sprints from start to finish." —The Washington Post. "[A] stark page-turner." —Los Angeles Times.

A son who grew up away from his Indigenous culture takes his Cree father on a trip to their family's trapline, and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds but creates a new future. The son of a Cree father and a non-Indigenous mother, David A. Robertson was raised with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family's Indigenous roots. His father, Don, spent his early childhood on a trapline in the bush northeast of Norway House, Manitoba, where his first teach was the land.

"It's a book of conversations -- interviews with nine Indigenous writers who work in Canada. All have been influenced by colonization and are surrounded by discourses of Indigenization, reconciliation, appropriation, and representation, and all are swept up in the growth of Indigenous publishing and literary studies. The conversations centre on writers' concerns, critiques, and craft, and how they navigate the challenge of storying their communities in politically charged terrain.

"Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin is a twenty-five year research and community based book. It brings forward Indigenous thought, history, and acts of resistance as viewed through the survivors of residential school who through certain aspects of their young lives were able to persevere, and share their life experiences, teaching us about them, and their understanding of their own resiliency. Through their voices, we hear how they found strength within their own life force energy, or mnidoo bemaasing bemaadiziwin, and survived and thrived in spite of aggressive assimilation.

Storying Violence explores the 2018 murder of Colten Boushie and the subsequent trial of Gerald Stanley. Through an analysis of relevant socio-political narratives in the prairies and scholarship on settler colonialism, the authors argue that Boushie?s death and Stanley?s acquittal were not isolated incidents but are yet another manifestation of the crisis-ridden relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Saskatchewan, ones that evidence the impossibility of finding justice for Indigenous peoples in settler colonial contexts. We situate Indigenous peoples?

"The book contains two works in English translation (the original Innu appears en face throughout), and these deal with topics such as loss of hunting territory, the residential school system, and police brutality."--

"Poems that explore the author's vision and First Nations roots."--

"A personal account of a young Indigenous girl who experiences intolerance, a sense of not belonging and family struggles. She learns from her grandfather the traditional ways of ceremony and fasting to go beyond the needs of the body to where she begins to know her higher self."--

"Fourteen-year-old Jaysen Flett-Paul's true story of how Elders guided him through his first Sundance ceremony to heal the anger and grief stemming from his mother’s violent murder. It sensitively tackles the heart-breaking problem of suicide in Indigenous communities, an issue of great importance to this community and for communities across North America."--