1.
Series:
What the Kite Saw
Hardcover
Anne Laurel Carter
9781773062433
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
May 01, 2021
In this memorable story, a young boy finds solace flying his kite from the rooftop after soldiers take his father and brother away. Without his father and brother, the young boy’s life is turned upside down. He and his family have to stay inside, along with everyone else in town. At suppertime, he can’t stop looking at the two empty places at the table and his sister can’t stop crying. The boy looks out the window and is chilled to see a tank’s spotlight searching the park where he plays with his friends. He hears shouts and gunshots and catche...
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2.
Series: Travels with My Family
Travels in Cuba
Hardcover
Marie-Louise Gay
9781773063478
$15.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 10
May 01, 2021
Even for an experienced traveler like Charlie, Cuba is a place unlike any he has visited before — an island full of surprises, secrets and puzzling contradictions. When Charlie’s artist mother is invited to visit a school in Cuba, the whole family goes along on the trip. But the island they discover is a far cry from the all-inclusive resorts that Charlie has heard his friends talk about. Charlie has never visited a country as strange and puzzling as Cuba — a country where he often feels like a time traveler. Where Havana’s grand Hotel Nacional...
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3.
Series:
Green Glass Ghosts
Paperback
Rae Spoon
9781551528380
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
May 04, 2021
From writer and musician Rae Spoon: a rollicking yet introspective young adult adventure about screwing up, finding yourself, and forging a new life on your own. At age nineteen in the year 2000, the queer narrator of Green Glass Ghosts steps off a bus on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, a city where the faceless condo towers of the wealthy loom over the streets to of the east side where folks are just trying to get by, against the deceptively beautiful backdrop of snow-capped mountains and sparkling ocean. Armed with only their guitar...
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4.
Series: Untold Lives
Driven
The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers
Paperback
Marcello Di Cintio
9781771963848
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 04, 2021
Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. “The taxi,” writes Marcello Di Cintio, “is a border.” Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met—yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occu...
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5.
Series: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
Defending the Arctic Refuge
A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
Hardcover
Finis Dunaway
9781469661100
$44.95
SCIENCE
May 17, 2021
Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds, and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry and powerful politicians have sought to turn this unique ecosystem into an oil field. Defending the Arctic Refuge tells the improbable story of how th...
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6.
Series:
Unsettled Ground
Paperback
Claire Fuller
9781487009403
$22.95
FICTION
May 18, 2021
From bestselling author Claire Fuller comes a portrait of life on the fringes of society, a heart-stopping novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back? Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At fifty-one years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sa...
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7.
Series:
Trans Pride
A Coloring Book
Paperback
Fox Fisher
9781787758223
$20.95
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Age (years) from 5 - 99
May 21, 2021
Trans rights are human rights!This fun and beautifully illustrated coloring book is perfect for inspiring children aged 5+ to explore their creative expression and learn about the beauty and diversity of trans lives. With over 100 pages of positive transgender and non-binary representation, the book includes illustrations of key figures in trans history, gender flags, key terms, empowering statements, awareness days and humorous drawings of tigers, seahorses, bunnies and so much more!Designed by award-winning campaigner and artist, Fox Fisher,...
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