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Inoculum
by Archie Alafriz
Alec Alton is a member of an elite RCMP National Security team investigating a Pakistani drug trafficking organization. But when his suspects turn up dead, Alec joins up with a colleague, a highly specialized and skilled agent. Together, they trace the drug trafficking to a terrorist financing network. As they follow the evidence and travel through Central Asia, they begin to suspect that a corrupt CIA agent had a hand in one of the worst atrocities in history. Their investigation finds them...
Courage in the Late Night Hours
A Novel About War, Remembrance, and the Search for Belonging by Elizabeth Moody
Shortly after college student Jane Hughes’ father—a war correspondent—is killed in Ukraine, she receives a startling call from Paul Holychuk, a solicitor ten years her senior. He informs Jane that not only is she the heir to her father’s family’s assets, she has family connections in Edmonton that she knew nothing about, including a grandfather who’s now in a long-term care home. Pausing her studies at McGill University, Jane travels to Edmonton to sort things out. As Jane navigates her new...
Margaret's Hope
by Jewell Mitchell
Returning home to the small seaside community of Lockeport, Nova Scotia, after several years away in teacher’s college, Margaret Conrad thought she knew what to expect. Although she is certainly no longer the shy, broken-hearted girl she’d once been, her hometown hasn’t changed in generations. Lockeport in 1907 is still as predictable as the tides. What she hadn’t counted on, though, is that her first and only love, Joseph Locke, has returned as well … and she certainly didn’t expect that...
Bruce and the Trouble with Antlers
by Gina Frisby
In the snowy heart of Jasper National Park lives Bruce, a Canadian bull moose adored by tourists and townspeople for his majestic antlers and knack for joyful antics. Beloved as the unofficial mascot of this winter wonderland, Bruce revels in his fame—until an unexpected twist leaves him bareheaded and hiding. Bruce and the Trouble with Antlers is a heartfelt children’s tale that weaves humour and gentle wisdom, teaching young readers that sometimes life’s curveballs can lead to...
Without a King
by Julie Côté
Finn is the greatest thief in the city, sneaking silently through the streets of Zianna to relieve the upper class Teltans of their unneeded jewellery and purses. One day, he finds an area of the city he had never explored and scales a wall only to find a hidden courtyard full of boys his age training in sword craft and wrestling. There he makes an unlikely friend in Tannix, the highborn son of the lord of West Draulin, someone so far above him in the social chain he can scarcely believe how...
Sacred Bundles Unborn (Second Edition)
by Morningstar Mercredi and Fire Keepers
Medical malpractice and systemic racism are as interwoven as a spider's web. Should a dragline break, the spider spins its silk and the web is easily rewoven, like systemic racism, it is all linked. Sterilizations, forced or coerced, without consent, is the deadliest entrapment effectively eliminating generations of First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples lineages. This strategy of genocide continues its silent covert assault, with or without the knowledge of the survivors of sterilizations....
The Audacity of Inclusion
Fighting for the Equality of Persons Labelled Intellectually Disabled by Dulcie McCallum
One beautiful, surprisingly warm spring morning on the isolated islands of Haida Gwaii, an insight smacked Dulcie McCallum in the face with the force of an unexpected tsunami: at the heart of it all, the law was the culprit. Rather than promoting rights, the law was itself the taproot of injustice. For people with an intellectual disability, the law is what defines their disadvantage, not their disability. For every child diagnosed with the label of intellectual disability, there remains a...
Alicia's Journey to the Past
Revisiting the Komagata Maru Incident by Parabjot Kaur Singh
Alicia, a third-generation Canadian, doesn’t know much about her Punjabi heritage. But that starts to change when she stumbles across a memorial for the Punjabi passengers who tried immigrating to Canada on the Komagata Maru ship. To her surprise, she finds a familiar face in the memorial, and soon she is swept up in a magical adventure to the past to learn the truth about the obstacles her family faced in their journey to Canada. Written in both English and Punjabi, this short explanation...
Down on the Farm, Way Back When
by Stephen Nelson
Dad would warn me to stay back from the barn door when he let the cows out for the first time at the end of a long winter. After taking a few steps outside, you might see a mature cow do something you wouldn’t expect: Jump in the air! Quite a feat, considering a mature cow weighs about 1,500 pounds. Stephen Nelson’s childhood memories are an impressionist painting of another time; a time when each family on the shared phone line had a particular ring, and a time when a little boy carefully...
Lucy the Lob'STAR
How a lucky, plucky lobster escaped the traps to become one of the most famous weather forecasters in the world! by Pam Wamback
Lucy the Lobster knows that she wants more from life than hanging out in the Atlantic Ocean along Nova Scotia’s coastline with her big lobster family. She wants to be famous! She just isn’t sure how she’s going to do that. One day, she meets Gilbert, a furry little creature on a mission to find a weather prognosticating groundhog to replace him. Lucy has a great idea—what if she predicts the weather? But a lobster has never predicted the weather before. Is Lucy up to the challenge? Or will...