1.
Series:
The Creative Instigator's Handbook
A DIY Guide to Making Social Change through Art
Paperback
Leanne Prain
9781551528755
$27.95
CRAFTS & HOBBIES
Apr 19, 2022
From the co-creator of the seminal craftivism book Yarn Bombing: a guide for creatives to making impactful, socially engaged art projects. Flash mobs come and go, but purposeful creativity can change communities. Are you a creative (aspiring or otherwise) who is curious about how you can apply your skills to activist, socially engaged art projects? Whether you paint, sew, sing, build, weld, or rhyme, The Creative Instigator's Handbook explores how to take that big project you've been dreaming about and actually make it happen. In response to ...
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2.
Series:
Seeing Things in the Sistine Chapel
Paperback
Jeannie Marshall
9781771964678
$24.95
ART
Sep 13, 2022
A writer studies a famous work of art only to see herself and her own cultural moment revealed at its heart. Jeannie Marshall lived in Rome for ten years without visiting the Sistine Chapel: she didn’t want to have a superficial experience of the frescos, but she wasn’t sure how, amidst the crowds of tour groups and the noise of pop culture allusions, she could have anything but. What’s more, she wondered what this very old, very Catholic art, created by a man who grew up under the warm Tuscan sun of the Renaissance, could possibly have to say ...
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3.
Series:
Deadly Neighbours
A Tale of Colonialism, Cattle Feuds, Murder and Vigilantes in the Far West
Paperback
Chad Reimer
9781773860732
$26.00
TRUE CRIME
Feb 18, 2022
A revealing and thoughtful examination of one of Canada’s most shocking and misunderstood moments of violence—the lynching of Louie Sam.On a cold night in February, 1884, just metres north of the border on Sumas Prairie, BC, an Indigenous boy named Louie Sam was lynched by a mob of mounted vigilantes. The vigilantes had ridden up from Nooksack Valley in Washington Territory, hell-bent on avenging the murder of one of their neighbours, which they had pinned on Sam. The American origin of the mob, and the fact that Sam's murder was one of only tw...
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4.
Series: Business Series
Amplifying Indigenous Voices in Business
Indigenization, Reconciliation, and Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
Paperback
Priscilla Omulo
9781770403406
$26.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Mar 29, 2022
Indigenization is more than reconciliation: It is a better business practice! Some of the common questions businesses, educational institutions, and communities ask are: “Do we need an Indigenization strategy? If so, why; what is it really?; and, how do we do it?” Amplifying Indigenous Voices in Business is for organizations and allies who would like to make a positive difference by learning how to amplify Indigenous voices, Indigenize businesses, and support Indigenous entrepreneurship, all in the bigger spirit of reconciliation. Author P...
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5.
Series:
Governing Canada
A Guide to the Tradecraft of Politics
Paperback
Michael Wernick
9780774890533
$21.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Oct 25, 2021
How does Canadian government work in practice? In this first ever handbook of its kind, Michael Wernick, a career public servant with decades of experience "in the room" with Canada's top politicians, shares candid advice and information that is usually only provided behind closed doors. You'll learn about what goes into picking a Cabinet, how to get the most out of the team, and the ways in which a government works to stay on track. You'll also discover how ministers build up their influence and political power, and how easily that career can ...
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6.
Series:
The Boy from Buzwah
A Life in Indian Education
Paperback
Cecil King
9780889778504
$29.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 26, 2022
Cecil King’s remarkable memoir, from humble beginnings on a reservation to his unparalleled legacy to ensure Indian Control of Indian Education in Canada.“Through my eyes, my community was creative, innovative and self-sufficient. In this remote northern traditional First Nation society, the skills, knowledge and abilities that the community needed to survive were all there. . . . The stories are not just of survival and hardship but of the power of the human spirit and the sheer natural genius of individuals.” —Cecil KingCecil King grew up in...
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12.
Series:
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
A Novel
Hardcover
Eva Jurczyk
9781728246598
$38.99
FICTION
Jan 25, 2022
"With its countless revelations about the dusty realms of rare books, a likable librarian sleuth who has just the right balance of compassion and wit, and a library setting that is teeming with secrets, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a rare treat for readers. I loved this book!"—Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas BookstoreAnxious People meets the delights of bookish fiction in a stunning debut following a librarian whose quiet life is turned upside down when a priceless manuscript goes missing. Soo...
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14.
Series:
Lockdown on London Lane
Paperback
Beth Reekles
9781989365854
$23.99
FICTION
Age (years) from 18
Feb 01, 2022
One of:BuzzFeed's Recommended Reads in FebruaryUSA Today's February Rom-Coms to ReadPopSugar's Novels for a Romantic EscapeThe Mary Sue's Books to Help Process the COVID PandemicBookPage's 2022 preview: Most anticipated romanceBook Riot's 11 Most Anticipated New Adult Romances for Spring 22"Reekles’s capable plotting toggles between apartments and keeps readers wondering what’s next. The result transforms the harsh realities of quarantine into rom-com enchantment." -- Publishers Weekly For the inhabitants of London Lane, a simple slip of paper ...
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16.
Series:
Estates Large and Small
Paperback
Ray Robertson
9781771964623
$24.95
FICTION
Aug 16, 2022
Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life. What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn’t do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has reluctantly closed his secondhand bookstore and moved his business online. Smoking too much pot and listening to too much Grateful Dead, he suspects that he’s overdue when it comes to understanding the bigger picture of who he is and what we’re all doing here. So he’s made another ...
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17.
Series:
Return to Solitude
More Desolation Sound Adventures with the Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, the Spaghetti Bandit and Others
Paperback
Grant Lawrence
9781550179712
$26.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 30, 2022
The long-awaited sequel to Grant Lawrence’s bestselling memoir Adventures in Solitude. It’s been over a decade since renowned broadcaster and indie rock musician Grant Lawrence launched his writing career with the award-winning Adventures in Solitude, yet some things never change—including the winding Sunshine Coast Highway, close calls at the BC Ferries ticket office and carsick children. But this time, Lawrence returns as a husband and father, not as the vomiting and nerdy kid dragged along by his athletic and unflappable parents. In his inim...
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18.
Series:
Her Hidden Genius
A Novel
Hardcover
Marie Benedict
9781728229393
$38.99
FICTION
Jan 25, 2022
"Brings to life Franklin's grit and spirit...an important contribution to the historical record." —The Washington PostThe new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie!She changed the world with her discovery. Three men took the credit.Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider—brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. Wh...
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