Indigenous Backlist Adult 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 Page 1 Adult 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? Page 2 Adult 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.