My Life as a Diamond

By (author) Jenny Manzer
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Talented baseball player Caspar “Caz” Cadman has a great arm and a big secret. No one knows that Caz used to live life as a girl named Cassandra. And it’s nobody’s business. Caz will tell his ...

Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom

By (author) Jordan Tannahill
Foreword by Kirsten Bowen
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Award-winning playwright Jordan Tannahill is back with modern-day queer and feminist retellings of two momentous events—one historic, one mythic. Botticelli in the Fire imagines the famed painter Sandro ...

Northern Wildflower

By (author) Catherine Lafferty
Foreword by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
With Katłı̨̀ą
Categories: Indigenous peoples

This is the story of how a young northern girl picked herself up out of the rough and polished herself off like the diamond that she is in the land of the midnight sun.

Northern Wildflower is the beautifully ...

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg

By (author) Doug Williams
Edited by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Categories: History of the Americas

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This is Our Territory uniquely retells pivotal historical events that have been conventionally unchallenged in dominant historical narratives while presenting a fascinating personal ...

Activating the Heart

Edited by Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox & Lisa Szabo-Jones
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: Indigenous Studies

Activating the Heart explores how storytelling engages and builds new interconnections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. It focuses on the significance of storytelling ...

Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised somewhere else)

By (author) Colleen Cardinal
Foreword by Raven Sinclair (Ótiskewápíwskew)
Categories: Indigenous peoples

During the Sixties Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands, and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders, and overseas to be raised ...

Hider/Seeker

By (author) Jen Currin
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Winner of a silver IPPY, Canada-West – Best Regional Fiction category. These stories are always unflinchingly honest in their portrayal of relationships—in particular the relationships of the book’s ...

Jonny Appleseed

By (author) Joshua Whitehead
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

2021 CANADA READS WINNER

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; ...

Elements of Indigenous Style

By (author) Gregory Younging
Categories: Indigenous peoples

Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples—the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. ...

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws

By (author) Marianne Ignace & Ronald E. Ignace
Categories: History of the Americas
Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this ...