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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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Where We Buried the Sun: One Woman's Gulag Story
Alla Tumanov
Alla Tumanov
The memoir of a young woman who, in 1951 at the age of seventeen, was arrested for her involvement with an underground organization demanding alternatives to Stalinist rule and as a result, spent five years in the Soviet prison system.
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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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Wireless Room (The)
Shane Rhodes
Shane Rhodes
The Wireless Room is a stunning first collection of poems ranging from studies in western pastoral history through highflying evocations of the sub-atomic particles to deeply personal poems about and for parents.
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With Unfailing Dedication: Rural Teachers in the War Years
Elizabeth McLachlan
Elizabeth McLachlan
The sequel to With Unshakeable Persistence. McLachlan takes us into the next decade, relating with vivid, sometimes shocking detail, the experiences of prairie teachers during and after the second world war.
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With Unshakeable Persistence: Rural Teachers of the Depression
Elizabeth McLachlan
Elizabeth McLachlan
A compilation of individual stories based on the author’s interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers.
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Yamoria the Lawmaker: Stories of the Dene
George Blondin
George Blondin
Dene Elder George Blondin creates a spiritual guidebook that weaves together oral stories with the recounting of how the Northern Canadian Dene came to depend on the European fur traders. The result is a magical journey for readers of any heritage.
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