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Series:
The Doll
Hardcover
Nhung N. Tran-Davies
9781772601657
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 9
Apr 21, 2021
A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group of refugees who are newly arrived in her adopted country. To the youngest of them, a little girl, she gives a doll, knowing it will help make her feel welcome. Inspired by real events.
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Series:
THAO
A Picture Book
Hardcover
Thao Lam
9781771474320
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Apr 15, 2021
A funny, eye-opening story about the challenges of growing up with an unfamiliar name and learning to be true to yourself, new from the critically acclaimed Thao Lam Even though it’s only four simple, familiar letters long, nobody can ever pronounce Thao’s name. She’s been called Theo, Tail, even Towel! But the teasing names—Tofu, Tiny, China Girl—are worse. Maybe it’s time to be someone else? Thao decides to try on a different name, something easy, like Jennifer. It works, but only until she opens her lunchbox to find her mother’s Vietname...
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Series: Wild Sun
Unbound
Paperback
Ehsan Ahmad
9781949671131
$16.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2021
In this old-school interplanetary epic, the flames of hope cannot easily be extinguished. After three years of forced labor in the mines, Cerrin is free at last. Now she leads a band of escaped slaves on a deadly race for freedom across an endless, ancient forest. At her heels are soldiers of the most powerful, most advanced, most ruthless empire the galaxy has ever known. Leading the pursuit is Count Talazeer himself, a vicious nobleman driven by a personal vendetta again Cerrin??and a desperate need for redemption in the eyes of his family an...
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Series:
Surviving Samsara
A Memoir of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and Mental Illness
Paperback
Kagan Goh
9781773860329
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 26, 2021
A frank and touching memoir celebrating the resiliency of the spirit in the face of mental illness, psychotic breakdowns and stigma in society.“Samsara is defined as the ‘round of rebirth’ or ‘perpetual wandering’ … a continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering and dying.” —Buddhist Dictionary by Nyanatiloka MahatheraIn Kagan Goh’s debut memoir, he recounts his struggles with manic depression, breaking the silence around mental illness. From an honest and personal perspective, Surviving Samsara traces Goh’...
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Series: Laurier Poetry
Current, Climate
The Poetry of Rita Wong
Paperback
Rita Wong
9781771124430
$18.99
POETRY
Mar 23, 2021
Current, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour. Wong’s poetry explores the meeting places of life, language, and land—from downtown Vancouver to the headwaters of the Columbia River. Her poems are deeply attentive to places and their names, and especially to the imposition of foreign words on the unceded Indigenous lands of what is otherwise kn...
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Series:
Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms
A Mother & Daughter’s Journey through Racism, Internment and Oppression
Paperback
Grace Eiko Thomson
9781773860411
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 05, 2021
A vital memoir by two Japanese Canadian women reflecting on their family history, cultural heritage, generational trauma, and the meaning of home.At eight years old, Grace Eiko Nishikihama was forcibly removed from her Vancouver home and interned with her parents and siblings in the BC Interior. Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms is a moving and politically outspoken memoir written by Grace, now a grandmother, with passages from a journal kept by her late mother, Sawae Nishikihama. An educated woman, Sawae married a naturalized Canadian man a...
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Series:
Somewhere in the Unknown World
A Collective Refugee Memoir
Paperback
Kao Kalia Yang
9781250296856
$24.50
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 10, 2020
From “an exceptional storyteller,”Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author ofThe Latehomecomer andThe Song Poet.All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on the...
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Series:
Yara's Spring
Paperback
Jamal Saeed
9781773214399
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Oct 13, 2020
Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in Aleppo, Yara’s childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara’s doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family’s home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can’t speak—struck silent by everything he’s seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen’s chari...
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Series:
Yara's Spring
Hardcover
Jamal Saeed
9781773214405
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Oct 13, 2020
Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in Aleppo, Yara’s childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara’s doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family’s home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can’t speak—struck silent by everything he’s seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen’s chari...
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Series:
The Old Woman
Hardcover
Joanne Schwartz
9781773062112
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Sep 29, 2020
The Old Woman is a beautiful portrait of an old woman who lives contentedly with her dog, from award-winning author Joanne Schwartz and illustrator Nahid Kazemi.An old woman shares her home with a scruffy old dog, her best friend and constant companion.One fall day, they go for a walk and the woman throws sticks for the dog. She loves hearing the autumn leaves under her feet and the wind in the trees. She looks up at a crow in the sky and imagines what it might feel like to fly. As the wind comes up and the light begins to fade, she remembers p...
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Series:
The Diary of Dukesang Wong
A Voice from Gold Mountain
Paperback
David McIlwraith
9781772012583
$18.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 16, 2020
Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. The story of those Chinese workers has been told before, but never in a voice from among their number, never in a voice that lived through the experience. Here is that missing voice, a voice that changes our understanding of the history it tells and that so many believed was lost forever. Dukesang Wong’s written account of life working on the Canadia...
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Series:
The Paper Boat
A Refugee Story
Hardcover
Thao Lam
9781771473637
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 9
Sep 15, 2020
A Kirkus Reviews most anticipated picture book of fall 2020 with starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, School Library Journal and the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books — a heartfelt and personal immigration story, new from critically acclaimed author Thao Lam New from Thao Lam, the award-winning author of picture books My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Wallpaper, and Skunk on a String, comes a personal story inspired by her family’s refugee journey. In The Paper Boat, Thao’s signature collage art tells the wordless story of one family’s e...
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Series:
My Day with Gong Gong
Hardcover
Sennah Yee
9781773214290
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 08, 2020
A day in Chinatown takes an unexpected turn when a bored little girl makes a connection with her grandpa. May isn't having fun on her trip through Chinatown with her grandfather. Gong Gong doesn't speak much English, and May can't understand Chinese. She's hungry, and bored with Gong Gong's errands. Plus, it seems like Gong Gong's friends are making fun of her! But just when May can’t take any more, Gong Gong surprises her with a gift that reveals he’s been paying more attention than she thought. With lighthearted, expressive illustrations by E...
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Series:
Our Little Kitchen
Hardcover
Jillian Tamaki
9781773062624
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Sep 01, 2020
A picture book about a lively evening in a community kitchen from Governor General’s Award–winning author and illustrator Jillian Tamaki.Tie on your apron!Roll up your sleeves!Pans are out, oven is hot.The kitchen’s all ready,Where do we start?In this lively, rousing picture book from Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki, a crew of resourceful neighbours come together to prepare a meal for their community. With a garden full of produce, a joyfully chaotic kitchen and a friendly meal shared at the table, Our Little Kitchen is a celebration of full b...
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Series:
We Two Alone
Paperback
Jack Wang
9781487007461
$19.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
A masterful collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years, We Two Alone is Jack Wang’s astonishing debut work of fiction.Set on five continents and spanning nearly a century, We Two Alone traces the long arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple gets caught in the outbreak of violence in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The consul general of China attempts to sa...
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Series:
Maggie’s Treasure
Hardcover
Jon-Erik Lappano
9781773062372
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Sep 01, 2020
When Maggie’s treasure collection grows too big to manage, she finds a creative solution.Maggie finds treasure wherever she goes. Whether it’s a button, a feather or a shiny stone, she picks it up and takes it home. At first the neighbors and city workers are grateful to Maggie for cleaning up; the mayor even gives her an award. But over time Maggie’s collection grows bigger and bigger, until it spills out of her house and garden in an unsightly mess. Her parents tell her “Enough treasure!” and eventually even Maggie realizes that something mus...
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Series:
Music at the Heart of Thinking
Improvisations 1–170
Paperback
Fred Wah
9781772012620
$24.95
POETRY
Aug 25, 2020
The music of thinking. The thinking of music. Music at the Heart of Thinking is a poetry that works through language as the true practice of thought and improvisation as the tool that listens to and notates thinking. From jazz, the unpredictable ad lib driving itself from itself. From a drunken Shaolin monk, the poem as imbalanced tai chi. From Keats’s negative capability, the half-closed eye, the estrangement of language. All intended to bump beyond the end of the word into focus. As a response to readings in contemporary texts, art, and ideas...
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Series:
God Loves Hair: Tenth Anniversary Edition
Hardcover
Vivek Shraya
9781551528137
$24.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12
Aug 15, 2020
A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity. In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first book; since then, Vivek has published six more titles, including a novel, poetry collection, graphic novel, and children's picture book, while also working as an artist, musician, and academic. God Loves Hair is a collection of short stories that follows a tender, intelligent, and curious child who navigates the complex realms of gender creativi...
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Series:
Render
Paperback
Sachiko Murakami
9781551528274
$18.95
POETRY
Aug 06, 2020
Searing, intimate poems that render a history of trauma, addiction, and recovery through dreams and waking experience. Render (v.tr.): to submit, as for consideration; to give or make available; to give what is due or owed; to give in return, or retribution; to surrender; to yield. To represent; to perform an interpretation of; to arrange. To express in another language or form; to translate. To deliver or pronounce formally; to cause to become; to reduce, convert, or melt down, by heating. Journey through dreamscapes in Sachiko Murakami's in...
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Series:
Kuroko
Paperback
Tetsuro Shigematsu
9781772012699
$18.95
DRAMA
Nov 06, 2020
A father who feels his family is better off without him … a daughter who retreats completely into the virtual world … a family torn apart by the past with little hope for a future. But each discovers the desire to save each other, and perhaps themselves. From the acclaimed Canadian playwright, comedian, and radio broadcaster Tetsuro Shigematsu, author of the award-winning plays Empire of the Son and 1 Hour Photo, comes a powerful display of theatrical and literary emotion: Kuroko. Maya is a hikikomori (?????), an extreme recluse who hasn’t left...
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Series:
Weekend Dad
Hardcover
Naseem Hrab
9781773061085
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 01, 2020
A little boy spends the weekend at his dad’s new apartment in this picture book about how things change when parents separate — and the important things that stay the same.“This home is home because my dad is here, and it’s nothing like home because my mom isn’t here,” thinks the boy in this story when he enters his dad’s new apartment for the first time. His dad moved out on Monday and now it’s Friday night, the start of his weekend with his dad.The boy and his dad follow their normal weekend routine — they eat eggs for breakfast, play cards a...
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Series:
Golden Threads
Hardcover
Suzanne Del Rizzo
9781771473606
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Apr 15, 2020
· New from New York Times Notable honoree Suzanne Del Rizzo, the critically acclaimed author of My Beautiful Birds and illustrator of Sun Dog· Inspired by the Japanese art form of kintsugi, or golden joinery, and the ancient philosophy of wabi-sabi, finding beauty in imperfect things. An author’s note explains more about these ideas· Mixed-media illustrations use fabric and golden threadsWhen a storm sweeps Emi’s beloved stuffed fox away from their mountain home, he ends up tattered and alone on a distant sho...
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Series:
A Last Goodbye
Hardcover
Elin Kelsey
9781771473644
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 12
Apr 15, 2020
· A gentle and accessible look at the idea of death · Reinforces our connection to nature and the animal kingdomHow do we say goodbye to a loved one after they die? This book broaches a difficult topic in a heartfelt way by exploring the beauty in how animals mourn. From elephants to whales, parrots to bonobos, and lemurs to humans, we all have rituals to commemorate our loved ones and to lift each other up in difficult times.New from the award-winning team behind You Are Stardust, Wild Ideas, and You Are Never Alone, th...
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Series:
You and Me Both
Hardcover
Mahtab Narsimhan
9781771473668
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 6
Apr 15, 2020
· Inspired by a true story that went viral online· An uplifting book that celebrates diversity· Embraces the joys and innocence of childhoodThis is the story of two classmates who love all the same things: building tall block towers and knocking them down; strawberry jam on toast; jumping into big puddles in their matching boots. The narrator and his best friend, Jamal, might as well be twins—they have so much in common! And they always stick together. When Jamal gets a haircut, his best friend gets his cut t...
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Series:
Broken Stars
Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
Paperback
Ken Liu
9781250297686
$25.99
FICTION
Apr 14, 2020
LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGYSixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking science fiction writers, edited and translated by award-winning author Ken Liu.In Hugo award-winner Liu Cixin's ‘Moonlight,’ a man is contacted by three future versions of himself, each trying to save their world from destruction. Hao Jingfang’s ‘The New Year Train’ sees 1,500 passengers go missing on a train that vanishes into space. In the title story by Tang Fei, a young girl is shown how the stars can reveal the future.In addition, three essays explore ...
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Series:
Crossing the Farak River
Paperback
Michelle Aung Thin
9781773213965
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 11
Apr 14, 2020
Fourteen-year-old Hasina is forced to flee everything she knows in this gripping account of the crisis in Myanmar. For Hasina and her younger brother Araf, the constant threat of Sit Tat, the Myanmar Army, is a way of life in Rakhine province—just uttering the name is enough to send chills down their spines. As Rohingyas, they know that when they hear the wop wop wop of their helicopters there is one thing to do—run, and don’t stop. So when soldiers invade their village one night, and Hasina awakes to her aunt's fearful voice, followed by smoke...
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Series:
Crossing the Farak River
Hardcover
Michelle Aung Thin
9781773213972
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 11
Apr 14, 2020
Fourteen-year-old Hasina is forced to flee everything she knows in this gripping account of the crisis in Myanmar. For Hasina and her younger brother Araf, the constant threat of Sit Tat, the Myanmar Army, is a way of life in Rakhine province—just uttering the name is enough to send chills down their spines. As Rohingyas, they know that when they hear the wop wop wop of their helicopters there is one thing to do—run, and don’t stop. So when soldiers invade their village one night, and Hasina awakes to her aunt's fearful voice, followed by smoke...
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Series:
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Paperback
Cho Nam-Joo
9781487006990
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 14, 2020
The runaway bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the most important book to have come out of South Korea since Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.Kim Jiyoung is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s.Kim Jiyoung is representative of her generation:At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother.In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime.In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at nig...
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Series: Singing Hills Cycle
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Paperback
Nghi Vo
9781250750303
$17.50
FICTION
Mar 24, 2020
"Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful...The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."—NPRA 2020 ALA Booklist Top Ten SF/F DebutABook RiotMust-Read Fantasy of 2020APaste Most Anticipated Novel of 2020ALibrary JournalDebut of the MonthABuzzfeed Must-Read Fantasy Novel of Spring 2020With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo'sThe Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, an...
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Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes
A Bond Undone
The Definitive Edition
Hardcover
Jin Yong
9781250768865
$41.99
FICTION
Mar 24, 2020
A Bond Undone is the second book in Jin Yong's epic Chinese classic and phenomenon Legends of Condor Heroes series, published in the US for the first time!In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father’s death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to two women. Neither of them is his sweetheart Lotus Huang.Torn between following his heart and fulfilling his filial duty, Guo Jing journeys through the country of his parents with Lotus, encountering mysterious martial heroes and becoming drawn into the struggle f...
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Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes
A Bond Undone
The Definitive Edition
Paperback
Jin Yong
9781250250117
$24.50
FICTION
Mar 24, 2020
A Bond Undone is the second book in Jin Yong's epic Chinese classic and phenomenon Legends of Condor Heroes series, published in the US for the first time!In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father’s death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to two women. Neither of them is his sweetheart Lotus Huang.Torn between following his heart and fulfilling his filial duty, Guo Jing journeys through the country of his parents with Lotus, encountering mysterious martial heroes and becoming drawn into the struggle f...
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Series:
Dragon Hoops
Hardcover
Gene Luen Yang
9781626720794
$33.99
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 18
Mar 17, 2020
In his latest graphic novel,Dragon Hoops,New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches.Gene understands stories—comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the heroalways wins.But Gene doesn’t get sports. As a kid, his friends called him “Stick” and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men’s varsity team, the...
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