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FICTION AND POETRY FOR Such a Lonely, Lovely Road NON-FICTION FOR ADULTS Until We Are Free: by Kagiso Lesego Molope / 2018 ADULTS & TEENS Unapologetic: A Black, Reflections on Black Lives Autour de ton cou : Queer, and Feminist Matter in Canada Aya de Yopougon edited by Rodney Diverlus et al / In English: nouvelles Mandate for Radical Aya 2020 par Marguerite Abouet / 2005-2010 In English: The Thing Around Movements Your Neck by Charlene A. Carruthers / 2018 Dreaming of Elsewhere: Days by Moonlight par Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / by André Alexis / 2019 I’ve Been Meaning to Tell Observations on Home 2013 by / 2014 Inventory You: A Letter to My Daughter by Dionne Brand / 2006 The Midnight Bargain by David Chariandy / 2018 Black Writers Matter by C. L. Polk / 2020 by Whitney French / 2019 The Tradition Odysseys Home: Mapping by Jericho Brown / 2019 The Missing American African- They Said This Would Be by Kwei Quartey / 2020 by George Elliott Clarke / 2017 Fun: Race, Campus Life and Growing Up by Esi Edugyan / 2018 Frying Plantain The Skin We’re In: A Year of by Zalika Reid-Benta / 2019 by Eternity Martis / 2020 Butter Honey Pig Bread Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole / 2020 by Francesca Ekwuyasi / 2020 I’m Not Dying with You Policing Black Lives: State Tonight The Hanging of Angélique: Violence in Canada from Daughters of Silence by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones The Untold Story of Slavery to the Present by Rebecca Fisseha / 2019 / 2019 by Robyn Maynard / 2017 Canadian Slavery and the The Return Dear Justyce Burning of Old Montréal Shame on Me: An Anatomy In French: L’énigme du retour by Nic Stone / 2020 (Teens) In French: La pendaison of Race and Belonging by Dany Laferrière, by Tessa McWatt / 2020 trans. David Homel / 2009 On the Come Up d’Angélique: l’histoire de by Angie Thomas / 2019 (Teens) l’esclavage au Canada et de Blank: Essays and Shut Up You’re Pretty l’incendie de Montréal Interviews by Téa Mutonji / 2019 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead / 2019 by Afua Cooper / 2006 by M. NourbeSe Philip / 2017 The Great Black North: The Rage of Dragons In the Black Queer Returns Contemporary African by Evan Winter / 2019 by B. Denham Jolly / 2017 by Rinaldo Walcott / 2016 Canadian Poetry by Valerie Mason-John / 2013 Author Spotlight

Maya Angelou was an American poet, writer and civil rights activist. She is well known for her poetry and autobiographies including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Esi Edugyan Esi Edugyan is a Canadian writer of novels, non-fiction and historical fiction including Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black – both of which have also won the . Dionne Brand Photo credit: Dan Harasymchuk is a Canadian Dionne Brand is a Canadian author, poet and essayist. writer of novels, essays and Bread Out Rise! : From Caged Bird to Her titles include memoir. Two of his books CHILDREN’S FICTION of Stone: Recollections on Sex, Poet of the People, Maya have won - Mae Among the Stars Recognitions, Race, Dreaming The Book of Negroes and The by Roda Ahmed / 2018 Angelou and Politics The Blue Clerk by Bethany Hegedus and and Illegal and The Deserter’s which was shortlisted for Hair Love Tonya Engel / 2019 Tale: the Story of an Ordinary In French: Nos boucles au the Griffin Poetry Prize and Soldier Who Walked Away Harriet Tubman : Freedom naturel Governor General’s Award. from the War in Iraq has Fighter Photo Credit: Jason Chow by Matthew A. Cherry / 2019 been published in several by Nadia L. Hohn / 2019 Africville languages. Carter Reads the Newspaper by Shauntay Grant / 2018 by Deborah Hopkinson and Black is a Rainbow Color Don Tate / 2019 by Angela Joy / 2020 La détermination de Viola Sulwe Desmond by Lupita Nyong’o / 2019 In English: Viola Desmond Boonoonoonous Hair! Won’t Be Budged by Olive Senior / 2020 par Jody Nyasha Warner / 2010 Genesis Begins Again I Am Farmer: Growing an by Alicia Williams /2019 Environmental Movement in Cameroon CHILDREN’S NON-FICTION by Baptiste Paul and Miranda Paul / 2019 Austin Clarke was an author bell hooks The Undefeated of novels, essays, poetry by Kwame Alexander / 2019 Wilma Rudolph bell hooks is an American and short stories. Born in by M. I. Sánchez Vegara / 2019 social activist, scholar, and The Little Boy from Jamaica: Barbados, Clarke came to Young, Gifted and Black: writer on topics of gender, A Canadian History Story Canada to study in by Devon and Pearlene Clunis / racism, oppression and Meet 52 Black Heroes from and then pursued writing and 2017 culture. She has written Past and Present journalism. His notable books by Jamia Wilson / 2018 non-fiction, essays and books Little Leaders: Bold Women include Giller Prize winner The for children. in Black History Polished Hoe and In Your Crib. Photo Credit: Alex Lozupone by Vashti Harrison / 2017 Photo credit: Chris Cushman