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Chorus of Mushrooms
Hiromi Goto
Hiromi Goto
Chorus of Mushrooms heralds the 1994 debut of the acclaimed feminist, Hiromi Goto. Until then, the primary literary voice of Japanese Canadians was that of the people interned during World War II.
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Diamond Grill 10th Anniversary Edition
Fred Wah
Fred Wah
An exciting new 10th anniversary edition of Fred Wah’s best-selling bio-fiction, with an all new afterword by the author. This story of family and identity, migration, and integration.
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Edmonton on Location: River City Chronicles
Heather Zwicker
Heather Zwicker
An innovative collection of essays, memoirs, poems, and stories by acclaimed Edmontonians that describe the heartbeat of this vibrant city, from parks and back alleys to the High Level Bridge and North Saskatchewan River.
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From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden
Boyden speaks passionately, relating Aboriginal people in Canada to poor African Americans, Whites, and Hispanics in post-Katrina New Orleans. At the end of his lecture he presented a provocative manifesto to the audience.
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Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
In 1993 Mary Kiyooka sat with her son Roy Kiyooka, one of Canada’s most important avant-garde painters, with a tape recorder. In her native Japanese, she shared with him the fascinating memories of her migration to Canada.
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Seal Intestine Raincoat
Rosie Chard
Rosie Chard
A cautionary tale for our times, Chard's debut novel offers a bleak portrayal of socio-economic collapse resulting from an unsustainable way of life.
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Talon
Paulette Dubé
Paulette Dubé
Timothy Findley calls Dubé’s debut novel "a stunning acheivement." The descendants of a French Canadian woman—Rubis Caillou Morin—discover the truth about healers and the unshakeable code of loyalty that rules their family.
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Wheel Keeper (The)
Robert Pepper-Smith
Robert Pepper-Smith
From the late 1800s on, many peasants left southern Italy to work in the vineyards of British Columbia. The Wheel Keeper is the story of a child in a family of immigrants, and is about the ways children overcome fragmentation through ritual, identi
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Wild Daisies in the Sand: Life in a Canadian Internment Camp
Tom Sando
Tom Sando
In 1942 Tom Sando was imprisoned in Canadian concentration camps for standing up for his right as a Japanese Canadian. This is his journal, and it relates Sando’s internment experience of loneliness, fear, and, eventually, friendship and hope.
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