In this memoir, Lamees Al Ethari traces her transition from an idyllic childhood in a large extended Iraqi family to the relative stability of family exilic life in Canada.
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Author:Ethari, Lamees Al
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Author:Nanji, Shenaaz
Summary:Fifteen-year-old Munna lives with his Ma and sisters in a small town in India. Because the family is poor, he is sold to a Sheikh's camel farm in a Gulf country.
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Awumey, Edem
Summary:Ito Baraka is going to die. In Gatineau, far from the sun, in a dark, shabby flat he shares with his Native girlfriend, Kimi.
Genre: Historical fiction, Canadian fictionAvailable Formats:
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Genre: PoetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Nesch, Thorsten
,Musariri, Blessing
Summary:Chanda is a seventeen-year-old schoolgirl in Harare, Zimbabwe, who suffers from unexplained memory lapses, which become even more worrisome when she starts seeing her totem animal, a zebra, in all
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Author:Vera, Yvonne
Summary:In the late nineteenth century white settlers and administrators arrive to occupy the African country of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia).
Genre: Historical fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Moodie, Andrew
Summary:Andrew Moodie's Riot is a dramatic and often humorous look at six black Canadians of diverse backgrounds who share a Toronto house.
Genre: Canadian dramaAvailable Formats:
Author:Gow, David
Summary:A neo-Nazi skinhead is charged with murder, and Legal Aid has assigned him a Jewish lawyer.
Genre: Canadian dramaAvailable Formats:
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Summary:Su-Ling, an open minded and intelligent young woman in Shanghai, has her feet bound by her grandmother, Poa-Poa.
Genre: Canadian dramaAvailable Formats:
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Summary:These are poems about what it means to be from the north ; a town divided along colour lines ; and a family dealing with its history of secrets.
Genre: Canadian poetry, Indigenous materialsAvailable Formats:
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Genre: Canadian dramaAvailable Formats:
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Summary:This account of the Sigfusson Transportation Company details how it was unfairly treated by the Government, in attempting to create a network of winter roads in northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saska
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Author:Ross, Ian
Summary:Life is tense on the Partridge Crop Reserve. The Chief is in Las Vegas (again), the band is in receivership, and there’s a move on to unilaterally declare self-government.
Genre: Indigenous materialsAvailable Formats:
Author:Boyko, John
Summary:To understand Canada one must understand racism, for Canada was born and grew as a racist state.
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Author:Vermette, Katherena
Summary:An ode to Winnipeg's north end, where Ms. Vermette grew up. It's also the neighbourhood where her Métis brother went missing.
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats: