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Sand Talk : How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World For readers of Sapiens, a paradigm-shifting book Tyson Yunkaporta which brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to 9780062975621, 0062975625 history, education, money, power, and Pub Date: 5/18/21 sustainability—and offers a new template for living. $21.00 CAD “Sand Talk unpacks for us something originally genius 256 pages about Indigenous thought, which has for too long been Paperback dismissed as archaic folk knowledge from old oral Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social cultures of interest only to academics and fetishists. 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.5 cm T | 453.6 g Wt This book shows how vital and alive and essential Indigenous ways of being and thinking are. Yunkaporta is so smart, funny, and accessible. Everyone needs to read this.”—Tommy Orange,

The Removed : A Novel Brandon Hobson Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about 9780062997548, 0062997548 a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of Pub Date: 2/2/21 their son long ago—from National Book Award finalist $33.50 CAD Brandon Hobson 288 pages Hardcover Summary: In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Fiction / Indigenous Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family 21 cm H | 14 cm W | 363.7 g Wt has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer’s in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning

Too Much Lip : A Novel Melissa Lucashenko A gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with 9780063032538, 0063032538 life—winner of Australia’s Miles Franklin Award—that Pub Date: 11/3/20 follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she $34.99 CAD returns home to face her family and protect the land of 336 pages their ancestors. Hardcover Fiction / Literary Summary: Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 2.7 cm T | 492.7 g Wt adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world spews. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley

Black Water : A Father, a Son, and Their Summary: The son of a Cree father and a white mother, Journey Home David A. Robertson grew up with virtually no knowledge or David A. Robertson understanding of his family's Indigenous roots. His father, 9781443457767, 1443457760 Dulas-or Don, as he became known-had grown up on the Pub Date: 9/22/20 trapline in the bush northeast of Norway House, Manitoba, $32.99 CAD only to be transplanted permanently to a house on reserve, 288 pages where in school he couldn't speak his language, Swampy Hardcover Cree, unless in secret with his friends. Robertson's mother, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs Beverly Eyers, grew up in a small Manitoba town with no 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 2.5 cm T | 442.3 g Wt Indigenous families until Don arrived as the new United Church minister. They married and had three sons, and as Robertson believed, decided together to raise them apart from their Indigenous identity. David grew up without his

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Indians on Vacation : A Novel Summary: Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel Thomas King from one of Canada's foremost authors. Inspired by a 9781443460545, 1443460540 handful of old postcards sent by Uncle Leroy nearly a Pub Date: 8/25/20 hundred years earlier, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace Mimi's $32.99 CAD long-lost uncle and the family medicine bundle he took with 304 pages him to Europe. Hardcover Fiction / Indigenous "I'm sweaty and sticky. My ears are still popping from the 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 2.6 cm T | 449.1 g Wt descent into Vaclav Havel. My sinuses ache. My stomach is upset. My mouth is a sewer. I roll over and bury my face in a pillow. Mimi snuggles down beside me with no regard for my distress.

Obsidian : A DreadfulWater Mystery Summary: From the award-winning and #1 bestselling Thomas King author of The Back of the Turtle; Green Grass, Running 9781443455206, 1443455202 Water and The Inconvenient Indian Pub Date: 1/28/20 $22.99 CAD Thumps DreadfulWater's world is turned upside down when 384 pages Nina Maslow, the producer of a true-crime reality-TV show, Paperback turns up dead after working on a cold case that Thumps has Fiction / Mystery & Detective spent years trying to forget. What's more, someone seems 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 2.4 cm T | 410.5 g Wt set on taunting Thumps, leaving reminders of the Obsidian murder case around town. Is it possible that the elusive serial killer who murdered his girlfriend and her daughter all those years ago has resurfaced in Chinook? Or is this the work of a copycat looking to mess with Thumps by stirring up

77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin Summary: Timely, important, mischievous, powerful: Thomas King in a word, exceptional 9781443459440, 1443459445 Pub Date: 9/24/19 Seventy-seven poems intended as a eulogy for what we have $19.99 CAD squandered, a reprimand for all we have allowed, a 96 pages suggestion for what might still be salvaged, a poetic quarrel Paperback with our intolerant and greedy selves, a reflection on Poetry / American / Native American mortality and longing, as well as a long-running conversation 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 0.6 cm T | 122.5 g Wt with the mythological currents that flow throughout North America.

Crow Winter : A Novel Summary: Nanabush. A name that has a certain weight on Karen McBride the tongue—a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless room or 9781443459679, 1443459674 aluminum foil on a metal filling. Pub Date: 9/17/19 $22.99 CAD Trickster. Storyteller. Shape-shifter. An ancient troublemaker 352 pages with the power to do great things, only he doesn’t want to Paperback put in the work. Fiction / Indigenous Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point First Nation, Hazel 21.6 cm H | 14 cm W | 2.2 cm T | 333.4 g Wt Ellis has been dreaming of an old crow. He tells her he’s here to help her, save her. From what, exactly? Sure, her dad’s been dead for almost two years and she hasn’t quite reconciled that grief, but is that worth the time of an Algonquin demigod?

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The North-West Is Our Mother : The Story of Summary: There is a missing chapter in the narrative Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Jean Teillet Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both 9781443450126, 144345012X First Nations and Europeans Pub Date: 9/17/19 $36.99 CAD Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth 592 pages century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Hardcover Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first History / Indigenous Peoples of the Americas battle. Within forty years they were famous throughout North 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 4.4 cm T | 743.9 g Wt America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts.

The Métis Nation didn’t just drift slowly into the Canadian consciousness in the early 1800s; it burst onto the scene

A Matter of Malice : A DreadfulWater Mystery Summary: When a TV producer asks Thumps to assist Thomas King with an episode about a local woman from a wealthy 9781443455176, 1443455172 family whose death was ruled "misadventure," he is Pub Date: 1/29/19 reluctant to get involved. Then the producer dies in the $22.99 CAD exact same manner, and Thumps finds himself solving 400 pages two cases. Paperback Fiction / Mystery & Detective Can a reality TV show solve a cold case? 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 2.5 cm T | 421.8 g Wt The crew of a true-crime reality TV show, Malice Aforethought, shows up in Chinook to do an episode about the death of Trudy Samuels. Trudy's death had originally been ruled accidental, but with ratings in mind, one of the

The Painted Drum : A Novel Louise Erdrich From the author of the National Book Award Winner The 9780060515119, 0060515112 Round House, Louise Erdrich’s breathtaking, lyrical novel of a Pub Date: 1/22/19 priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those $21.00 CAD who have come into contact with it over the years. 304 pages “Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and Paperback humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than Fiction / Literary ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.7 cm T | 221.4 g Wt opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see—to the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees and the souls of wolves—and inspires readers to open their hearts to these mysteries as well.”— Washington Post Book World

House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed] : A Novel The 50th Anniversary edition of the magnificent Pulitzer N. Scott Momaday Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land, featuring 9780062909954, 0062909959 a new preface by the author. Pub Date: 12/11/18 $19.99 CAD Summary: A young Native American, Abel has come home 224 pages from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The Paperback first is the world of his father’s, wedding him to the rhythm Fiction / Indigenous of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.3 cm T | 167.8 g Wt rites and traditions of his people. But the other world— modern, industrial America—pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, trying to claim his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust. Now

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Dead Reckoning : The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage The definitive and dramatic account of "Operation Ken McGoogan Vengeance"—the successful plan to kill Japan's larger- 9781443441278, 1443441279 than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Pub Date: 9/11/18 naval genius who had devised the devastating attack $19.99 CAD on Pearl Harbor. 448 pages “A thrilling true story of courage, honor, and Paperback derring-do that builds to a tremendous climax. Among History Lehr’s many gifts is a rare ability to depict world- 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.6 cm T | 342.5 g Wt shaking events on a human scale. This is a masterwork of narrative history.”—Mitchell Zuckoff, author of Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11

Cold Skies : A DreadfulWater Mystery Summary: Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some Thomas King peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind 9781443455145, 1443455148 him, he’s living out his retirement as a fine-arts Pub Date: 5/22/18 photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn’t $22.99 CAD great, and he could use a new stove, but as long as he’s got 464 pages his cat and a halfway decent plate of eggs, life is good. Paperback Fiction / Mystery & Detective All that changes when a body turns up on the eve of a major 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 2.9 cm T | 483.1 g Wt water conference and the understaffed sheriff’s department turns to Thumps for help. Thumps wants none of it, but even he is intrigued when he learns the deceased was developing a new technology that could revolutionize water and oil drilling . . . and that could also lose some very powerful

Canada 365 Summary: The national bestseller, now in paperback Historica Dominion Institute and in time to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday 9781443418362, 1443418366 Pub Date: 11/28/17 Canada 365 is a visually compelling walk through Canadian $26.99 CAD history. Showcasing an event and image for each day of the 416 pages calendar year, Canada 365 tells the stories of our Paperback nation—from historical turning points to the unusual and History / Canada curious, to milestones in sports, business, politics and 23.3 cm H | 18.7 cm W | 2.6 cm T | 1.2 kg Wt entertainment. With more than 400 photographs, Canada 365 forms a fascinating and unique look at our home and native land.

Future Home of the Living God : A Novel Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Louise Erdrich Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, 9780062748775, 0062748777 paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her Pub Date: 11/14/17 life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that $21.99 CAD manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event. 288 pages Paperback Summary: Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, Fiction / Women National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 1.8 cm T | 341 g Wt Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.

The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed

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DreadfulWater : A DreadfulWater Mystery Summary: The award-winning, bestselling author of Thomas King The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian 9781443455374, 1443455377 masters the comic mystery novel in this series opener, Pub Date: 10/24/17 starring ex-cop Thumps DreadfulWater $18.99 CAD 448 pages Thumps DreadfulWater is a Cherokee ex-cop trying to make Paperback a living as a photographer in the small town of Chinook, Fiction / Mystery & Detective somewhere in the northwestern United States. But he 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.6 cm T | 378.7 g Wt doesn’t count on snapping shots of a dead body languishing in a newly completed luxury condo resort built by the local Indian band. It’s a mystery that Thumps can’t help getting involved in, especially when he realizes the number one suspect is Stick Merchant, anti-condo protester and wayward

The Red Power Murders : A DreadfulWater Summary: From the bestselling author of The Back of Mystery the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian comes a wry Thomas King and irreverent mystery 9781443455381, 1443455385 Pub Date: 10/24/17 Thumps DreadfulWater has never liked surprises—even the $18.99 CAD good ones are annoying. So it’s no shock that a string of 512 pages seemingly random occurrences is causing Thumps some real Paperback discomfort. First Noah Ridge, the Red Power Native activist, Fiction / Mystery & Detective arrives in Thumps’ sleepy town of Chinook. Then the body of 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.9 cm T | 426.4 g Wt a retired FBI agent turns up at the local Holiday Inn. In the background hovers the ghostly presence of Lucy Kettle, second-in-charge of the Red Power movement, a tough woman in a tough place until her disappearance years ago.

A Number of Things : Stories of Canada Told Summary: National bestseller Through Fifty Objects Jane Urquhart, Scott McKowen From one of our nation’s most beloved and iconic 9781443432078, 1443432075 authors comes a lyrical 150th birthday gift to Canada Pub Date: 10/10/17 Award-winning author Jane Urquhart explores fifty Canadian $19.99 CAD objects that tell us who we are in a way never before done. 248 pages The Globe and Mail praises Urquhart in writing about these Paperback objects “with an ethereal, emotional tangibility that is both History nostalgic and energetic.” The artefacts include a Nobel Peace 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 1.6 cm T | 358.3 g Wt Prize medal, a literary cherry tree, a royal cowcatcher, a Beothuk legging, a famous skull and an iconic artist’s shoe, as well as an Innu tea doll, a Sikh RCMP turban, a Cree basket, a Massey-Harris tractor and a hanging rope, among

The Bingo Palace : A Novel Louise Erdrich Newly Reissued 9780061129759, 0061129755 From award-winning New York Times bestselling author Pub Date: 6/13/17 Louise Erdrich comes this novel of spiritual death, lyrical $19.99 CAD prose, and wild hope: a striking, luminous chapter in 304 pages Erdrich’s Ojibwe saga Paperback Fiction / Indigenous “Wonderful...hopeful, wrenching, funny, sexy, intense, and 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.7 cm T | 222.3 g Wt penetratingly true.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

Summary: At the crossroads of his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother to return to the reservation.

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LaRose : A Novel Louise Erdrich New York Times Bestseller 9780062277039, 0062277030 National Book Award-Winning Author Pub Date: 4/11/17 In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling $19.99 CAD author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House 400 pages and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves wields her Paperback breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting Fiction / Literary contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice, 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.3 cm T | 293.1 g Wt and a profound act of atonement with ancient roots in Native American culture

“Incandescent…Erdrich has always been fascinated by the relationship between revenge and justice, but…LaRose comes

The Back Of The Turtle : A Novel Summary: Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award Thomas King for Fiction 9781443431637, 144343163X Pub Date: 2/21/17 Winner of the Sunburst Award $19.99 CAD Winner of the Copper Cylinder Adult Award 528 pages Paperback Finalist for the Trillium Book Award Fiction 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 3 cm T | 390.1 g Wt Finalist for the CBC Bookie Awards

Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award

When Gabriel Quinn, a brilliant scientist, abandons his laboratory and returns to Smoke River Reserve, where his

Shadow Tag : A Novel Louise Erdrich Reissued with a New Cover 9780061536106, 0061536105 New York Times Bestseller Pub Date: 12/13/16 National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author Louise $18.50 CAD Erdrich’s brilliant New York Times bestselling novel is an 272 pages intense, obsessive, and heart-wrenching story of a troubled Paperback marriage and a family in disarray Fiction / Literary 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.6 cm T | 217.7 g Wt Summary: “Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.

Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you

Antelope Woman : A Novel Louise Erdrich This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and 9780062375285, 0062375288 New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s 1998 Pub Date: 10/25/16 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, new $21.00 CAD cover art, and a new foreword by the author—a riveting story 336 pages that explores tensions between Native American and white Paperback cultures. Fiction / Literary “Audacious and surprising… One of America’s most distinctive 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.9 cm T | 281.2 g Wt fictional voices.”—Boston Globe

Summary: When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman who has stolen his heart,

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Birdie Summary: Bernice Meetoos will not be broken. Tracey Lindberg 9781443451352, 1443451355 A big, beautiful Cree woman with a dark secret in her past, Pub Date: 2/16/16 Bernice (”Birdie”) has left her home in northern Alberta to $22.99 CAD travel to Gibsons, B.C. She is on something of a vision quest, 288 pages looking for family, for home, for understanding. She is also Paperback driven by the leftover teenaged desire to meet Pat Fiction / Indigenous Johns--Jesse from The Beachcombers--because he is, as she 21.6 cm H | 14 cm W | 1.8 cm T | 269.9 g Wt says, a working, healthy Indian man. Birdie heads for Molly’s Reach to find answers, but they are not the ones she expected.

With the arrival in Gibsons of her Auntie Val and her cousin Skinny Freda, Birdie begins to draw from her dreams the

Stolen Sisters : The Story of Two Missing Summary: In 2014, the nation was rocked by the brutal Girls, Their Families, and How Canada Has violence against young Aboriginal women Loretta Saunders, Failed Indigenous Women Tina Fontaine and Rinelle Harper. But tragically, they were Emmanuelle Walter not the only Aboriginal women to suffer that year. In fact, an 9781443445160, 1443445169 official report revealed that since 1980, 1,200 Canadian Pub Date: 9/29/15 Aboriginal women have been murdered or have gone $26.99 CAD missing. This alarming official figure reveals a national 240 pages tragedy and the systemic failure of law enforcement and of Hardcover all levels of government to address the issue. True Crime 20.3 cm H | 12.7 cm W | 2.2 cm T | 294.8 g Wt Journalist Emmanuelle Walter spent two years investigating this crisis and has crafted a moving representative account of the disappearance of two young women, Maisy Odjick and

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country : Traveling Through the Land of My New York Times Bestselling Author Ancestors Author of The Round House, Winner of the National Louise Erdrich Book Award for Fiction 9780062309969, 006230996X Equal parts memoir, history, and mythology, this beautiful Pub Date: 3/11/14 book from National Book Award-winning Erdrich offers a rare $18.50 CAD glimpse of the writer’s personal life and an account of a 160 pages territory unfamiliar to--and untouched by--most of the Paperback outside world Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 0.9 cm T | 127 g Wt Summary: For over three decades Louise Erdrich has been creating a spellbinding fictional portrait of Native American life. From her dazzling first novel, Love Medicine, to her

Two Old Women, 20th Anniversary Edition Velma Wallis’ award-winning, best-selling novel about two : An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and elderly Native American women who must fend for Survival themselves during a harsh Alaskan winter makes a welcome Velma Wallis comeback with this new paperback edition 9780062244987, 0062244981 Pub Date: 11/5/13 Summary: Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed $18.50 CAD along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the 160 pages upper Yukon River area in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, Paperback shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women Fiction / Indigenous abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. 18.1 cm H | 12.7 cm W | 1 cm T | 113.4 g Wt Though these two women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their

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The Round House : A Novel Louise Erdrich Winner of the National Book Award 9780062065254, 0062065254 New York Times Bestseller Pub Date: 9/24/13 Each new Erdrich novel adds new layers of pathos and $21.00 CAD comedy, earthiness and spiritual questing, to her priceless 368 pages multigenerational drama. The Round House is one of her Paperback best—concentrated, suspenseful, and morally profound.” Fiction / Literary —Jane Ciabattari, Boston Globe 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.1 cm T | 279 g Wt

Summary: One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened,

Animal Dreams : A Novel Barbara Kingsolver Republication with P.S. 9780062278500, 0062278509 New York Times Bestselling Author Pub Date: 5/7/13 “Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal $21.00 CAD talent. . . . Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, bravely 384 pages challenging book.” Paperback —Chicago Tribune Fiction / Literary 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.2 cm T | 263.1 g Wt Summary: “Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you?ve got to live a sweet life.” So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But

The Bean Trees : A Novel Barbara Kingsolver Republication with P.S. 9780062277756, 0062277758 New York Times Bestselling Author Pub Date: 5/7/13 A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American $21.00 CAD classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara 272 pages Kingsolver’s remarkable literary career Paperback Fiction / Literary “As clear as air. It is the Southern novel taken West, its 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.6 cm T | 214 g Wt colors as translucent and polished as one of those slices of rose agate from a desert shop.” —New York Times Book Review

Homeland : And Other Stories Barbara Kingsolver Republication With P.S. 9780062277749, 006227774X New York Times Bestselling Author Pub Date: 5/7/13 “Extraordinarily fine. Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness $18.50 CAD toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry.” 272 pages —Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review Paperback Fiction / Literary 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.6 cm T | 204.1 g Wt Summary: This rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories spans a variety of landscapes from northern California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. In every setting, Barbara Kingsolver's distinctive voice rings true. Drawn with empathy and humor,

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Pigs in Heaven : A Novel Barbara Kingsolver Republication with P.S. 9780062277763, 0062277766 New York Times Bestselling Author Pub Date: 5/7/13 “Possessed of an extravagantly gifted narrative voice, $21.00 CAD Kingsolver blends a fierce and abiding moral vision with 384 pages benevolent concise humor. Her medicine is meant for the Paperback head, the heart, and the soul.” Fiction / Literary —New York Times Book Review 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.2 cm T | 288.6 g Wt

Summary: When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen and her mother’s belief in her lead to a man’s dramatic

Plague of Doves : Deluxe Modern Classic Louise Erdrich Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Deluxe Edition 9780062277732, 0062277731 National Book Award-Winning Author Pub Date: 4/30/13 $21.99 CAD Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 352 pages A beautiful, mesmerizing, utterly original novel from one of Paperback the most important American writers of our time Fiction / Literary “An intricate tale of heartbreak and humor.” 21 cm H | 14 cm W | 2.2 cm T | 319.8 g Wt —Washington Post Book World

Summary: The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota,

Love Medicine : Deluxe Modern Classic Louise Erdrich Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Deluxe Edition 9780062206312, 0062206311 National Book Award-Winning Author Pub Date: 4/23/13 Louise Erdrich’s first novel, one of the most influential, $21.99 CAD beloved, and distinguished works of contemporary fiction and 400 pages the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Paperback Fiction / Literary Summary: Set on and around a North Dakota reservation in 21 cm H | 14 cm W | 2.5 cm T | 360.6 g Wt the years 1934-84, Love Medicine tells the story of the intertwined fates of two families. With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry

Tales of Burning Love : A Novel Louise Erdrich Newly Reissued 9780061767999, 0061767999 A bold and darkly humorous novel in which Louise Erdrich Pub Date: 4/23/13 tells the intimate and powerful stories of five Great Plains $19.99 CAD women whose lives are connected through one man 496 pages Paperback “One of her most compulsively readable books—a tale of wild Fiction / Literary romance and crazy fate that unspools like a quirky road 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.8 cm T | 360 g Wt movie.” —Chicago Sun-Times

Summary: Stranded in a North Dakota blizzard, Jack

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Empires, Nations, and Families : A New History of the North American West, Trade Paperback 1800-1860 Anne F. Hyde Winner of the Bancroft Prize, Pulitzer Prize Finalist 9780062225153, 0062225154 Pub Date: 10/2/12 In the vein of The Hemingses of Monticello and What Hath $26.99 CAD God Wrought, an epic American history that sheds new light 640 pages on our understanding of the West and its development Paperback between 1800 and 1860, told through the lives of families History / United States / 19Th Century from the Mississippi to the Pacific, Canada to the Spanish and 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 3.3 cm T | 757.5 g Wt Mexican borderlands

“Ingenious. A magnificent scholarly achievement. A sweeping

Green Grass, Running Water Summary: Strong, sassy women and hard-luck, Thomas King hard-headed men, all searching for the middle ground 9781554685257, 1554685257 between Native American tradition and the modern world, Pub Date: 4/27/10 perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in $19.99 CAD this magical, rollicking tale by award-winning author Thomas 486 pages King. Alberta, Eli, Lionel and others are coming to the Paperback Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance. There they will Fiction / Literary encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the 21 cm H | 14 cm W | 3.1 cm T | 435.4 g Wt trickster Coyote—and nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same again. . . .

Raven Stole the Moon : A Novel Garth Stein Garth Stein's First Novel in Print Again 9780061806384, 0061806382 In bestselling author Garth Stein's moving first novel, a Pub Date: 3/9/10 grieving mother returns to a remote Alaskan town to make $18.50 CAD peace with the loss of her young son, and finds herself drawn 464 pages into a spiritual world completely at odds with her life Paperback Fiction / Literary Summary: When Jenna Rosen abandons her comfortable 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.9 cm T | 390.1 g Wt Seattle life to visit Wrangell, Alaska, it’s a wrenching return to her past. The old home of her Native American grandmother, Wrangell is located near the Thunder Bay resort, where Jenna’s young son Bobby disappeared two years before. His body was never recovered, and Jenna is

The Blue Jay's Dance : A Memoir of Early Motherhood A reissue of Louise Erdrich’s first major work of nonfiction Louise Erdrich 9780061767975, 0061767972 “Pregnancy, birth, and caring for an infant inspire Erdrich’s Pub Date: 2/23/10 reflections on being a woman, a mother, and a writer in this $19.99 CAD affecting memoir of a daughter’s first years.” 240 pages —People Paperback Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs Summary: In The Blue Jay’s Dance, Louise Erdrich 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.4 cm T | 235.9 g Wt brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and the insights, the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions she experienced in the course of one 12-month period—from a winter pregnancy

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The Red Convertible : Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008 Three decades of stories by one of the most innovative and Louise Erdrich exciting writers of our time, including five previously 9780061536083, 0061536083 unpublished works Pub Date: 1/19/10 $21.00 CAD “A wondrous short story writer . . . creating a keepsake of 512 pages the American experience. . . . With great delicacy, Erdrich Paperback handles the emotions of indelicate people, as they’re tripped Fiction / Short Stories (single author) up by the uneven terrain of their lives. [She] chronicles 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.9 cm T | 375.6 g Wt Native American ways, but also captures the voices of multitudes.” —New York Times Book Review

Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce In this comprehensive and engaging biography, the myth of : The Untold Story of an American Tragedy Chief Joseph is exposed by shedding new light on why his life Kent Nerburn and the surrender of the Nez Perce forever altered the 9780061136085, 0061136085 American West Pub Date: 10/10/06 $21.99 CAD Summary: Looking back to events 130 years ago, this 448 pages gripping biography offers the true account of the legendary Paperback Nez Perce leader, Chief Joseph, best known for his speech History / Indigenous Peoples of the Americas upon surrendering his Nez Perce tribe to the U.S. 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.6 cm T | 326.6 g Wt Government. By the time of the formal surrender, Joseph was widely referred to in the American press as “the Red Napoleon.” White culture elevated him to heroic, even iconic, status, while effectively erasing the Nez Perce people

A Short History Of Indians In Canada Summary: Acclaimed author Thomas King is in fabulous, Thomas King fantastical form in this bestselling short story collection. 9780002006163, 0002006162 From the surreal migrations of the title story to the Pub Date: 8/15/06 misadventures of Coyote in the modern world and the chaos $19.99 CAD of a baby's unexpected arrival by airmail, King's tales are 256 pages deft, hilarious and provocative. A National Post and Quill & Paperback Quire bestseller, and an Amazon.ca Top Pick for 2005, A Fiction / Short Stories (single author) Short History of Indians in Canada is a comic tour de force. 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.5 cm T | 192.8 g Wt

Pocahontas : Medicine Woman, Spy, “This first rate biography…ought to be required reading for Entrepreneur, Diplomat for all students of American history and especially for those Dr. Paula Gunn Allen who are concerned to better understand the Native American 9780060730604, 0060730609 experience…brilliantly written.”—N. Scott Momaday Pub Date: 10/5/04 $19.99 CAD Summary: In striking contrast to conventional accounts, 368 pages Pocahontas is a bold and daring biography that attempts to Paperback tell the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden Biography & Autobiography / Historical from the Native American perspective. Drawing from sources 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.1 cm T | 317.5 g Wt often overlooked by Western historians, Dr. Paula Gunn Allen offers remarkable new insights into the adventurous life and sacred role of this foremost American heroine.

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Riel Re-Issue Summary: Published to widespread critical acclaim, Riel: A Maggie Siggins Life of Revolution proved that an intimate and revealing 9780006394730, 0006394736 portrait of one of our most enduring —and most Pub Date: 11/3/03 misunderstood—legends could be an almost instant national $21.95 CAD bestseller. -Who is Louis Riel?’ Maggie Siggins asks, and 528 pages comes up with some fascinating answers. Seen by many as Paperback an unrepentant traitor, a messianic prophet and a pathetic Biography & Autobiography / Historical tyrant, Siggins uncovers the real Louis Riel—a complex man 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 571.5 g Wt full of contradiction and angst, a charismatic visionary and poet, a humanitarian who gave up prestige and wealth to fight for the Métis people.

Infused with atmosphere and detail, this fascinating portrait

Flint And Feather Summary: A graceful biography that was a #1 national Charlotte Gray bestseller, Flint & Feather confirms Charlotte Gray’s position 9780006391197, 0006391192 as a master biographer, a writer with a rare gift for Pub Date: 9/22/03 transforming a historical character into a living, breathing $19.95 CAD woman who immediately captures our imagination. 464 pages Paperback In Flint & Feather, Charlotte Gray explores the life of this Biography & Autobiography / Historical nineteenth-century daughter of a Mohawk chief and English 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 390.1 g Wt gentlewoman, creating a fascinating portrait of a young woman equally at home on the stage in her “Indian” costume and in the salons of the rich and powerful. Uncovering Pauline Johnson’s complex and dramatic personality, Flint & Feather is studded with triumph and tragedy, mystery and

Without Reservation : How a Controversial Summary: With compelling detail, Without Reservation tells Indian Tribe Rose to Power and Built the the stunning story of the rise of the richest Indian tribe in World's Largest Casino history. Jeff Benedict 9780060931964, 0060931965 In 1973, an old American Indian woman dies with nothing Pub Date: 7/3/01 left of her tribe but a 214-acre tract of abandoned forest. It $19.99 CAD seems to be the end of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe. But it 416 pages is just the beginning. Over the next three decades, the Paperback reservation grows to nearly 2,000 acres, home to more than Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American 600 people claiming to be tribal members. It has also 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.4 cm T | 353.8 g Wt become home to Foxwoods, the largest casino in the world, grossing more than $1 billion a year.

Without Reservation reveals the mysterious roots of today's

Truth And Bright Water Summary: With a plethora of superb reviews and upcoming Thomas King publication in the US, Thomas King’s latest work affirms him 9780006481966, 0006481965 as one of our wittiest and wisest writers. Truth & Bright Pub Date: 8/28/00 Water is the tale of two young cousins and one long summer. $19.95 CAD Tecumseh and Lum live in Truth, a small American town, and 288 pages Bright Water, the reserve across the border and over the Paperback river. Family is the only reason most of the people stay in the Fiction / Literary towns, and yet old secrets and new mysteries keep pulling 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.8 cm T | 249.5 g Wt the more nomadic residents back to the fold.

Monroe Swimmer, famous Indian artist, returns to live in the old church with the hope of painting it into the prairie landscape and re-establishing the buffalo population.

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One Good Story That One Tpb Summary: Named in the University of Thomas King 9780006485254, 0006485251 Toronto Bookstore Review as one of Pub Date: 12/20/99 the top100 Canadian books of all time $16.99 CAD 160 pages There is much more than one good story in this bestselling Paperback (over 10,000 copies sold) collection of short fiction. In fact, Fiction / Short Stories (single author) there are more than a few of the best examples of native 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 0.9 cm T | 145.1 g Wt storytelling ever published. Thomas King, author of the acclaimed Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water, and the newly released Truth and Bright Water, has proven he has a magical gift, a fresh voice and a special brand of wit and comic imagination.

Dancing the Dream : The Seven Sacred Paths Summary: FIND YOUR SACRED PATH Of Human Transformation Jamie Sams Widely recognized as one of the foremost teachers of Native 9780062515148, 0062515144 American wisdom, Jamie Sams reveals the seven sacred Pub Date: 5/5/99 paths of human spiritual development and explains how $21.00 CAD exploring each path leads to shifts in our personal relat 288 pages Paperback Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.6 cm T | 217.7 g Wt

The Crown of Columbus “Compelling entertainment...Fast-paced, fluently Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris written...Combines the archaeological suspense of Raiders of 9780060931650, 0060931655 the Ark with the scholarly thrills of A. S. Byatt’s Pub Date: 3/3/99 Possession.”—New York Times $18.50 CAD 400 pages Summary: In their only fully collaborative literary work, Paperback Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich have written a gripping Fiction / Literary novel of history, suspense, recovery, and new beginnings. 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 2.3 cm T | 342.5 g Wt The Crown of Columbus chronicles the adventures of a pair of mismatched lovers—Vivian Twostar, a divorced, pregnant anthropologist, and Roger Williams, a consummate academic, epic poet, and bewildered father of Vivian’s baby—on their quest for the truth about Christopher

The Ways of My Grandmothers Summary: A young Native American woman creates a Beverly Hungry Wolf hauntingly beautiful tribute to an age-old way of life in this 9780688004712, 0688004717 fascinating portrait of the women of the Blackfoot Indians. A Pub Date: 10/21/98 captivating tapestry of personal and tribal history, legends $19.99 CAD and myths, and the wisdom passed down through 256 pages generations of women, this extraordinary book is also a Paperback priceless record of the traditional skills and ways of an Social Science / Customs & Traditions ancient culture that is vanishing all too fast. 21 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.5 cm T | 231.3 g Wt Including many rare photographs, The Ways of My Grandmothers is an authentic contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Native American lore -- and a classic that will speak to women everywhere.

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Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun Summary: With the publication of Two Old Women, Velma Velma Wallis Wallis firmly established herself as one of the most important 9780060977283, 0060977280 voices in Native American writing. A national bestseller, her Pub Date: 9/12/97 empowering fable won the Western State Book Award in $17.50 CAD 1993 and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book 224 pages Award in 1994. Translated into 16 languages, it went on to Paperback international success, quickly reaching bestseller status in Fiction Germany. To date, more than 350,000 copies have been sold 18.1 cm H | 12.7 cm W | 1.4 cm T | 165.6 g Wt worldwide.

Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun follows in this bestselling tradition. Rooted in the ancient legends of Alaska's Athabaskan Indians, it tells the stories of two

Crow Dog : Four Generations of Sioux Summary: From the co-author of Lakota Woman, which has Medicine Men sold more than 150,000 paperback copies, comes a Leonard C. Dog compelling account detailing the unique experiences and 9780060926823, 0060926821 spiritual knowledge accumulated by four generations of Pub Date: 1/18/96 powerful medicine men. $18.50 CAD 272 pages Paperback Social Science 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.6 cm T | 240.4 g Wt

Growing Up Native Americ Summary: Stories of oppression and survival, of heritage Bill Adler, Ines Hernandez, Patricia Riley denied and reclaimed -- twenty-two American writers recall 9780380724178, 0380724170 childhood in their native land. Pub Date: 1/1/95 $18.50 CAD 336 pages Paperback Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous 20.3 cm H | 13.3 cm W | 1.9 cm T | 285.8 g Wt

Earth Medicine : Ancestor's Ways of Summary: The true spirit of Native American ways of Harmony for Many Moons knowing shines through in these heartfelt meditations, Jamie Sams poems, and stories. In 364 daily offerings organised 9780062510631, 0062510630 according to the cycles of the moon, Jamie Sams offers Pub Date: 10/7/94 stirring and poetic insights into the spirituality of the earth, $19.99 CAD connecting with our communities, and our own soul 400 pages journeys. Paperback Body, Mind & Spirit Based on Native American creeds and legends, these 18.1 cm H | 12.7 cm W | 2.5 cm T | 272.2 g Wt meditations cut to the heart with their honesty, beauty, and authenticity. Sams teaches such grounded lessons as how to face an unknown future with confidence and conviction, how to rediscover the joy of curiosity, and how to develop a true

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The Thirteen Original Clan Mothers : Your Summary: Jamie Sams, a member of the Wolf Clan Sacred Path to Discovering the Gifts, Talents, Teaching Lodge, brings us a powerful new method for and Abilities of the Feminin honoring and incorporating native feminine wisdom into our Jamie Sams daily lives. Combining a rich oral tradition—passed on to her 9780062507563, 0062507567 by two Kiowa Grandmothers, Cisi Laughing Crow and Berta Pub Date: 4/22/94 Broken Bow—with the personal healing and guidance she has $24.99 CAD experienced through her female Elders, Sams created The 13 336 pages Original Clan Mothers. Each of the Clan Mothers reflects a Paperback particular teaching, relates to a cycle of the moon, and Body, Mind & Spirit possesses special totems, talents, and gifts that can help 23.2 cm H | 15.6 cm W | 2.1 cm T | 399.2 g Wt each of us cultivate our own personal gifts and talents.

Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours Summary: A retelling of the Seneca creation story and : A Classic Native American Creation Story as prophesies for the future. Retold by a Seneca Elder and Her Gra Jamie Sams 9780062507631, 006250763X Pub Date: 9/27/91 $21.99 CAD 168 pages Paperback Body, Mind & Spirit 23.5 cm H | 18.7 cm W | 1 cm T | 284.1 g Wt

Baptism of Desire : Poems Summary: A second book of poetry by Louise Erdich, Louise Erdrich author of the bestselling and award winning novels Love 9780060920449, 0060920440 Medicine, The Beet Queen and Tracks. Pub Date: 12/7/90 $17.50 CAD Baptisim by blood, water, or desire is necessary for salvation 96 pages in Roman Catholic tradition, and baptism of desire in the Paperback term used for the leap of trust by which a sincere believer Poetry / American / Native American can experience spiritual regeneration.Louise Erdrich's poems 23.2 cm H | 14.6 cm W | 0.5 cm T | 163.3 g Wt are acts of redemption. Everywhere evident is Erdrich's unique capacity for finding the perfect word, the fresh, yet absolutely right, metaphor that makes her wrk both profound and accessable.

The Ancient Child : A Novel Summary: In his first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday shapes the ancient 9780060973452, 0060973455 Kiowa myth of a boy who turned into a bear into a timeless Pub Date: 9/12/90 American classic. The Ancient Child juxtaposes Indian lore $19.99 CAD and Wild West legend into a hypnotic, often lyrical 336 pages contemporary novel--the story of Locke Setman, known as Paperback Set, a Native American raised far from the reservation by his Fiction / Indigenous adoptive father. Set feels a strange aching in his soul and, 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 1.9 cm T | 453.6 g Wt returning to tribal lands for the funeral of his grandmother, is drawn irresistibly to the fabled bear-boy. When he meets Grey, a beautiful young medicine woman with a visionary gift, his world is turned upside down. Here is a magical saga of one man's tormented search for his identity--a

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Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Summary: Representing the work of thirty-one poets since Native American Poetry the turn of the century, this is the definitive anthology of Duane Niatum Native American poetry. 9780062506665, 0062506668 Pub Date: 5/14/88 $31.00 CAD 432 pages Paperback Poetry 23.5 cm H | 15.6 cm W | 2.5 cm T | 471.7 g Wt

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Healer of the Water Monster Brian Young Brian Young’s debut novel, inspired by Navajo beliefs, 9780062990402, 0062990403 features a seemingly ordinary boy who must save the life of Pub Date: 5/11/21 a Water Monster—and help his uncle suffering from Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 addiction—by discovering his own bravery and boundless $21.00 CAD love. An outstanding debut from a promising young Navajo 368 pages author. Hardcover Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / Summary: When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at Indigenous Peoples of the Americas her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he 21 cm H | 14 cm W | 646.4 g Wt knows he’s in for a pretty uneventful summer. Still, he loves spending time with Nali, and with his uncle Jet—though it’s clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him.

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids Featuring the voices of new and veteran Native Cynthia L. Smith writers, and edited by best-selling author Cynthia 9780062869944, 0062869949 Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories set Pub Date: 2/9/21 at the same powwow bursts with hope, joy, resilience, Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 the strength of community, and Native pride. Each $21.00 CAD story can be read individually, but read as a whole, the 320 pages stories play off one another and intersect, providing a Hardcover cohesive story. Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States 21 cm H | 14 cm W | 383.9 g Wt Summary: Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Indian Shoes Cynthia L. Smith, MaryBeth Timothy Award-winning author Cynthia Leitich Smith tells six stories 9780064421485, 0064421481 about a young Cherokee-Seminole boy and his grandfather in Pub Date: 2/9/21 a funny and joyful chapter book. First published in 2002, this Ages 6 to 10, Grades 1 to 5 is a repackage with new jacket and interior art. $7.25 CAD 80 pages Paperback Summary: What do Indian shoes look like, anyway? Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States Like beautiful beaded moccasins... or hightops with 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 59 g Wt bright orange shoelaces?

Ray Halfmoon prefers hightops, but he gladly trades them for a nice pair of moccasins for his grampa. After all, it's Grampa

Jingle Dancer Cynthia L. Smith, Cornelius Van Wright, Ying-Hwa The affirming story of how a contemporary Native H... American girl turns to her family and community to 9780063018112, 006301811X help her dance find a voice. First published in 2000, Pub Date: 2/9/21 this perennial favorite has become a classic and is now Ages 4 to 8, Grades P to 3 in paperback for the first time. $10.99 CAD 32 pages Paperback Summary: The cone-shaped jingles sewn to Grandma Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States Wolfe's dress sing tink, tink, tink, tink… 27.9 cm H | 23.5 cm W | 169.5 g Wt Jenna loves the tradition of jingle dancing that has been shared by generations of women in her family and intertribal

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Rain Is Not My Indian Name Cynthia L. Smith In a voice that resonates with insight and humor, Cynthia 9780380733002, 0380733005 Leitich Smith tells the story of a sharp teenage girl, who Pub Date: 2/9/21 must face down her grief and reclaim her place in the world Ages 13 And Up, Grades 8 And Up with the help of her intertribal community. First published in $12.50 CAD 2001, this is a repackage with new jacket art. 144 pages Paperback Summary: Cassidy Rain Berghoff didn't know that the Young Adult Fiction / People & Places / United very night she decided to get a life would be the night States that her best friend would lose his. 20.3 cm H | 13.5 cm W | 0.7 cm T | 108.9 g Wt It's been six months since Galen died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But

The Ice Chips and the Grizzly Escape Summary: The fifth title in the beloved and bestselling Roy MacGregor, Kim Smith, Kerry MacGregor Ice Chips series by acclaimed authors Roy MacGregor 9781443460026, 1443460028 and Kerry MacGregor and illustrator Kim Smith, Pub Date: 1/12/21 featuring a vibrant and diverse cast of characters and Ages 6 to 8, Grades 1 to 3 inspiring hockey greats $16.99 CAD 240 pages In their latest adventure, the Chips travel to British Hardcover Columbia, meet an inspiring young hockey hero and escape Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / Hockey up Anahim Peak, thanks to their new friend's calm head-and 19.7 cm H | 14 cm W | 2.2 cm T | 288.6 g Wt a very special puck!

The Sea in Winter Christine Day In this evocative and heartwarming novel, the author of I 9780062872043, 0062872044 Can Make This Promise tells the story of a Makah/Piscataway Pub Date: 1/5/21 girl struggling to find her joy again and the family who will Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 protect her no matter what happens. $21.00 CAD 272 pages Summary: Maisie Cannon is having a hard time. Hardcover Juvenile Fiction / Family / Adoption It’s been months since her knee injury, and her recovery 21 cm H | 14 cm W | 2.3 cm T | 349.3 g Wt process has been painfully slow. As a serious ballet student, Maisie is eager to rebuild her strength and get back to the dance studio. She knows all her ballerina friends are auditioning for prestigious summer dance programs, while

I Can Make This Promise Christine Day A poignant and powerful debut #OwnVoices middle grade 9780062872005, 0062872001 novel, about a girl who uncovers a secret that connects her Pub Date: 12/8/20 to her Native American heritage, and that throws everything Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 she knows about her family into question. This story is based $9.99 CAD on the twenty-five-year-old author’s own family history. 288 pages Paperback Summary: All her life, Edie has known that her mom was Juvenile Fiction / Family / Adoption adopted by a white couple. So, no matter how curious she 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 192.2 g Wt might be about her Native American heritage, Edie is sure her family doesn’t have any answers. Until the day when she and her friends discover a box hidden in the attic—a box full of letters signed “Love, Edith,” and photos of a woman who

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Julie Jean Craighead George, Wendell Minor The sequel to Jean Craighead George’s Newbery Medal– 9780062884312, 006288431X winning classic about an Eskimo girl Julie as she returns to Pub Date: 7/2/19 her father’s village and tries to find a way to save her Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 wolves. Now in a refreshed package in time for the $9.99 CAD anniversary of Jean’s 100th birthday. 256 pages Paperback Summary: Julie’s decision to return home to her people is Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / Survival not an easy one. But after months in the wilderness and Stories living in harmony with the wolves that saved her life, she 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 1.3 cm T | 167 g Wt knows that time has come. Her arrival home brings unexpected surprises—many Eskimo traditions have been forsaken. And Julie’s father now wants to shoot any wolves

Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George, John Schoenherr Jean Craighead George’s Newbery Medal–winning classic 9780064400589, 0064400581 follows an Eskimo girl lost on the Alaskan tundra, with Pub Date: 7/2/19 extensive backmatter and a refreshed package in time for Ages 8 to 12, Grades 8 And Up the anniversary of Jean’s 100th birthday. $9.99 CAD 224 pages Summary: To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Paperback Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When the Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / Survival village becomes unsafe, Miyax runs away . . . only to find Stories herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 1.1 cm T | 145.1 g Wt even a compass to guide her. Survival is a daily struggle, until a pack of Arctic wolves accepts her as one of their own. But soon the time comes when she must leave the

Julie's Wolf Pack Jean Craighead George In the third book of the Julie of the Wolves trilogy by Jean 9780062884329, 0062884328 Craighead George, the story continues as told from the Pub Date: 7/2/19 wolves’ point of view. Now in a refreshed package in time for Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 the anniversary of Jean’s 100th birthday. $9.99 CAD 208 pages Summary: When Julie was lost on the Arctic tundra, a pack Paperback of wolves—led by the great Amaroq—saved her life. Now Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / Survival Amaroq’s pup, Kapu, has taken on his father’s role. Fearless Stories but inexperienced, Kapu must lead the pack through the 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 1.1 cm T | 140.6 g Wt unforgiving wilderness while bitter rivals challenge him. As famine and disease threatens, predators—both animal and human—close in. Survival is all that matters, but can Kapu

Makoons Louise Erdrich Acclaimed author Louise Erdrich returns with the fifth novel 9780060577957, 0060577959 in her award-winning Birchbark House series, now in Pub Date: 8/7/18 paperback. Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 $8.50 CAD Summary: Named for the Ojibwe word for “little bear,” 192 pages Makoons and his twin, Chickadee, have traveled with their Paperback family to the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866. There Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States they must learn to become buffalo hunters, and once again 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 1 cm T | 127.9 g Wt help their people make a home in a new land. But Makoons has had a vision that foretells great challenges—challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.

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The Last Polar Bear Jean Craighead George, Wendell Minor Award-winning naturalist picture book collaborators Jean 9780061240690, 0061240699 Craighead George and Wendell Minor tell a poignant arctic Pub Date: 8/26/14 tale inspired by true events. Ages 4 to 8, Grades P to 2 $9.99 CAD Summary: Can a human boy help save a baby polar bear? 32 pages Paperback Paddling through the Arctic Ocean in their kayaks, Tigluk and Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Bears his grandmother, Aka, spot a polar bear cub on a faraway ice 25.4 cm H | 25.4 cm W | 165 g Wt floe. He is all alone and has lost his mother....

For decades, naturalist writer Jean Craighead George and acclaimed artist Wendell Minor have shared their deep

Never Say Die Will Hobbs brings his singular style, highlighted by Will Hobbs suspenseful pacing and accuracy, to the story of a boy whose 9780061708800, 0061708801 way of life and personal safety are threatened by an Pub Date: 5/13/14 environmental mutant, the grolar bear. Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 $8.50 CAD Summary: When a routine caribou hunt in the Canadian 224 pages arctic brings accomplished fifteen-year-old Nick Thrasher Paperback face-to-face with an aggressive creature that looks part Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / Survival grizzly, part polar bear, he loses his catch, while narrowly Stories saving his own life. As a skilled Inuit hunter, Nick knows all 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 149.7 g Wt about the thrill being worth the risk, but this close-call with what wildlife experts are calling the “grolar bear” won’t be his last....

Chickadee Louise Erdrich The first novel in a new generation of the award-winning 9780060577926, 0060577924 Birchbark House series. School Library Journal, in a starred Pub Date: 8/27/13 review, proclaimed, “Readers will be more than happy to Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 welcome little Chickadee into their hearts.” $9.99 CAD 224 pages Summary: Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have Paperback spent every day side by side, doing everything together, Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States since the day they were born. Every day, until the 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 148 g Wt unthinkable happens, and the brothers are separated.

Now on a quest to reunite, Chickadee and his family will travel though new territories, forge unlikely friendships, and

The Porcupine Year Louise Erdrich “What is left unspoken is as powerful as the story told.”—ALA 9780064410304, 0064410307 Booklist (starred review) Pub Date: 9/14/10 Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 Summary: In this life-changing year for young Omakayas, $9.99 CAD white settlers are moving to the Island of the Golden 224 pages Breasted Woodpecker. Omakayas and her family set off on a Paperback harrowing journey that takes them from the shores of Lake Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States Superior westward, in search of a new home. 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 1.1 cm T | 145.1 g Wt

Richly imagined, full of laughter and sorrow, Kirkus Reviews called The Porcupine Year “charming and enlightening.” The Porcupine Year completes the trilogy based on the life of

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Ghost of Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelsen The epic struggle of Touching Spirit Bear continues with a 9780060090098, 006009009X dramatic return to civilization. Pub Date: 3/30/10 Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 Summary: Cole Matthews faced death and survived on a $9.99 CAD remote Alaskan island, where he was sentenced to a year of 176 pages exile after beating another boy. Now, having made peace Paperback with himself and his victim, Cole returns home to face his Juvenile Fiction / School & Education biggest challenge: high school. In a school where hate and 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 0.9 cm T | 119.6 g Wt tension are getting close to the boiling point, the rage hibernating inside Cole begins to stir.

Ben Mikaelsen’s riveting saga of survival and self-awareness

The Game of Silence Louise Erdrich “Readers have ample reason to rejoice in this beautifully 9780064410298, 0064410293 constructed sequel.” Pub Date: 6/13/06 —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 $9.99 CAD 288 pages Summary: The critically acclaimed and long-awaited sequel Paperback to Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House continues the Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States moving story of Omakayas, a young Ojibwe girl in the mid 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 1.5 cm T | 453.6 g Wt 1800s. The Game of Silence will be followed by one more book about Omakayas. Another trilogy about Omakaya’s son and a final trilogy about her granddaughter will complete a cycle that will ultimately span a hundred years in the life of

Moccasin Thunder : American Indian Stories Ten powerful contemporary stories by American Indian for Today writers Lori Marie Carlson 9780066239576, 0066239575 Summary: The ten stories that make up this collection are Pub Date: 10/4/05 raw, original, and fresh. While they have in common the Ages 13 And Up, Grades 8 And Up American Indian experience as seen through young adult $21.99 CAD eyes, they are as different from one another as they are from 176 pages anything you’ve read before. Ten authors--including Sherman Hardcover Alexie, Joseph Bruchac, Louise Erdrich, and Joy Harjo--set Young Adult Fiction / People & Places / United their stories against varied backgrounds: a supermarket States checkout line, a rowboat on a freezing lake at dawn, a 21 cm H | 14 cm W | 1.8 cm T | 279 g Wt drunken dance in the gym. Their work captures contemporary Native America in all its diversity: The

Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelsen’s best-selling survival adventure now in a Ben Mikaelsen reading group edition 9780060734008, 0060734000 Pub Date: 1/4/05 Summary: Ben Mikaelsen’s multiple award–winning tale of Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 a juvenile offender’s banishment at the hands of Native $10.99 CAD American Circle Justice now includes reading group guide 320 pages questions and an interview with the author. This new rack Paperback edition is perfect for young adult readers. Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Bears 17.1 cm H | 10.6 cm W | 2 cm T | 154.2 g Wt Publishing History:

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Juvenile / Young Adult

Mystic Horse This is Paul Goble’s first book about horses in over twenty Paul Goble years. 9780060298135, 0060298138 Pub Date: 4/1/03 Summary: Paul Goble paints horses with such powerful Ages 4 to 8, Grades K to 5 controlled energy. No wonder he received the Caldecott $21.99 CAD Medal for The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses in 1978. 40 pages Hardcover Readers will be enchanted as he tells of an abandoned horse Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States and the boy who loves him. Together they have a grand 27.9 cm H | 21.6 cm W | 399.2 g Wt adventure, but one that almost ends in betrayal. Based on a Pawnee legend that celebrates our connection to the natural world, this book includes breathtaking, spirited horses: bays, chestnuts, shiny blacks, whites, grays, and paints. The art

Indian Captive : The Story of Mary Jemison Summary: In this classic frontier adventure, Lois Lois Lenski Lenskireconstructs the real life story of Mary Jemison, who 9780064461627, 0064461629 was captured in a raid as young girl and raised amongst the Pub Date: 2/18/95 Seneca Indians. Meticulously researched and illustrated with Ages 8 to 12, Grades 5 And Up many detailed drawings, this novel offers an exceptionally $9.99 CAD vivid and personal portrait of Native American life and 320 pages customs. Paperback Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 1.6 cm T | 199.6 g Wt

Anpao : An American Indian Odyssey Summary: Anpao is young and Handsome and Brave -- a Jamake Highwater, Fritz Scholder man any maiden would be proud to call her husband. Any 9780064404372, 0064404374 maiden but Ko-Ko-Mik-e-is, that is, who calims she belongs Pub Date: 1/30/92 to the Sun alone. And so Anpao sets off for the house of the Ages 8 to 12, Grades 8 And Up Sun to ask permission to marry the woman he loves. But $10.99 CAD Anpao's journey is not an easy one. Before he can reach the 256 pages Sun, Anapao must travel back in time to the dawn of the Paperback world. He must relive his own creation, venture through The Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry World Beneath the World, and battle the many magical 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W | 1.6 cm T | 283.5 g Wt mystical creatures of Native American legends. For only by doing so can Anpao discover who he really is, and rove to the Sun why he alone is worthy of the fair Ko-komik-e-is

The Talking Earth Summary: "Billie Wind lives with her Seminole tribe. She Jean Craighead George follows their customs, but the dangers of pollution and 9780064402125, 0064402126 nuclear war she's learned about in school seem much more Pub Date: 10/23/87 real to her. How can she believe the Seminole legends about Ages 8 to 12, Grades 6 And Up talking animals and earth spirits? She wants answers, not $8.50 CAD legends. 160 pages Paperback "You are a doubter,"say the men of the Seminole Council and Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure so Billie goes out into the Everglades alone, to stay until she 19.4 cm H | 13 cm W | 0.8 cm T | 108.9 g Wt can believe. In the wilderness, she discovers that she must listen to the land and animals in order to survive. With an otter, a panther cub, and a turtle as companions and guides, she begins to understand that the world of her people can

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