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Floating city by Kerri Sakamoto Frankie Hanesaka isn't afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by the mysterious figures of his mother's past in Japan, he grows up in a floating house in the harbour of Port Alberni, BC. But then the war comes, and Frankie finds himself in a mountain internment camp, his small dreams of success dashed by the great tides of history. This is a fairytale-like story about family, ambition and the costs of turning our backs on history and home.
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Cut you downby Sam WeibeSam Wiebe's morally challenged young detective takes up a cross-border chase that twists and surprises like only Vancouver's next master of crime could write. Never one to back down from the big issues plaguing his city of shining towers and forgotten corners, Wiebe returns with a vicious caper that threatens to leave no one -- not even his rogue detective --standing.
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Zara's dead by Sharon ButalaFiona Lychenko, now a woman in her late sixties, has spent years researching the death of her high school classmate Zara Stanley. Now, a decade later, Fiona has finally given up hope that the killer would ever be caught. That is until a brown manila envelope turns up under her door and Fiona once again finds herself embroiled in the midst of a chilling controversy. Based on the true story of the murder of Alexandra Wiwcharuk in 1962 in Saskatoon, Zara’s Dead is the fictional retelling of a very real story, one that has captivated the public and eluded answers for decades.
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I've been meaning to tell youby David ChariandyIn the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, acclaimed novelist David Chariandy's latest is an intimate and profoundly beautiful meditation on the politics of race today.
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The never-ending presentby Michael BarclayIn the summer of 2016, more than a third of Canadians tuned in to watch what was likely the Tragically Hip’s final performance, broadcast from their hometown of Kingston, Ontario. Why? Because these five men were always more than just a band. They were also a tabula rasa onto which fans could project their own ideas: of performance, of poetry, of history, of Canada itself. This is a book not just for fans of the band: it’s for anyone interested in how culture can spark national conversations.
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Just let me look at youby Bill GastonSons clash with fathers, sons find reasons to rebel. And, fairly or unfairly, sons judge fathers when they take to drinking. But Bill Gaston and his father could always fish together. Warm, insightful, and often funny, Just Let Me Look at You captures every father's inexpressible tenderness, and the ways in which the words for love often come too late for all of us.
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Dark angels preyby Elizabeth Genovese After a crushing loss, empath, Joe Ross, accepts a strange, hypnotic priest’s invitation to recover at a Quebec monastery, a place infested with supernatural blight and demonic cutthroats. “A child waits for you there,” the priest says, “a child who’s waited a long time to meet you.” At Marianlake Dominican Monastery, Joe bonds with Alain, the mystical child, battles with Carol Ann, love of his life, and connects with Maggie–the great catalyst, the artist whose paintings hold the key to a startling secret and a world-rocking document. And in a land more inscrutable than Marianlake, events explode in a surprising climax when Joe unlocks the secret and discovers a gift for humanity.
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A matter of conscience by James Bartleman In the summer of 1972, a float plane carrying a team of child welfare officials lands on a river flowing through the Yellow Dog Indian reserve. Their mission is to seize the twin babies of an Indigenous couple as part of an illegal scheme cooked up by the federal government to adopt out tens of thousands of Native children to white families. The baby girl, Brenda, is adopted and raised by a white family in Orillia. Meanwhile, that same summer, a baby boy named Greg is born to a white middle-class family. At the age of eighteen, Greg leaves home for the first time to earn money to help pay for his university expenses. He drinks heavily and becomes embroiled in the murder of a female student from a residential school. The destinies of Brenda and Greg intersect in this novel of passion, confronting the murder and disappearance of Indigenous women and the infamous Sixties Scoop. "This is a book of the struggle of self-identification when you are taken away from your family and culture at an early age. Bartleman, also includes documents about the ‘Sixties Scoop’ and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission making it a perfect book for fiction and non-fiction readers." -- Julie, Readers' Services Coordinator
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