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• Big Chief

  Hickey, Jon, 1981-

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  Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors. But alongside his childhood friend, Tribal President Mack Beck, he runs the government of the Passage Rouge Nation,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Small Ceremonies

  a Novel

  Edwards, Kyle

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  A poignant coming-of-age story following the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg's North End illuminating what it's like to grow up forgotten, urban, poor, and Indigenous.

• Prairie Edge

  a Novel

  Kerr, Conor

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  A gripping, darkly funny caper and a raw reckoning with the wounds that persist across generations.

• Bones of a Giant

  a Novel

  Isaac, Brian Thomas

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  From the award-winning, bestselling author of All the Quiet Places, comes Brian Thomas Isaac's highly anticipated, haunting and tender return to the Okanagan Indian Reserve and a teenager's struggle to become a man in a world of racism and hardship.

• Coexistence

  Stories

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray

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  Across the prairies and Canada’s west coast, on reservations and university campuses, at literary festivals and existential crossroads, the characters in Coexistence are searching for connection. They’re learning to live with and understand one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Ones

  a Novel

  Vermette, Katherena, 1977-

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  A heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity.

• Waiting for the Long Night Moon

  Stories

  Peters, Amanda

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  In this intimate collection, Peters melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism and the resilient power to endure.

• Beast

  Van Camp, Richard

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  An enthralling blend of horror and heritage, set against the evocative backdrop of the Northwest Territories

• Cold

  a Novel

  Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-

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  An aging semi-pro hockey player, a homicide detective, a soon-to-be-divorced university professor, and the sole survivor of an arctic plane crash cross paths in downtown Toronto while the city is terrorized by a string of murders whose victims were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Grandmother Begins the Story

  a Novel

  Porter, Michelle, 1975-

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  Carter, a young mother and recently separated, is on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means.

• The Berry Pickers

  a Novel

  Peters, Amanda

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  On a summer berry-picking trip, four-year-old Ruthie goes missing, and her brother Joe, the last person to see her, carries the pain of that loss into adulthood. What happened to Ruthie, and why, is stunning and heartbreaking—yet ultimately…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• VenCo

  a Novel

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a bad-ass Métis good-times girl, is barely hanging on to her nowhere life when she finds out that she and her grandmother, Stella, are about to be evicted from their apartment. Bad to worse in a heartbeat. Then…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And Then She Fell

  a Novel

  Elliott, Alicia

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  A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous woman who discovers the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences.

• Moon of the Turning Leaves

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  A brave scouting party of hunters and harvesters led by Evan Whitesky must venture into unknown and dangerous territory to find a new home.

• Never Whistle at Night

  An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

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  Bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?

• Tauhou

  a Novel

  Nuttall, Kōtuku Titihuia

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  Tauhou is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall.

• Empty Spaces

  Abel, Jordan, 1985-

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  A hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy. Reimagining James Fenimore Cooper's nineteenth-century text The Last of the Mohicans.

• Bad Cree

  a Novel = Ācimoiᐧn

  Johns, Jessica

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  Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears. But she can still smell the sharp pine scent in the air, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Theory of Crows

  a Novel

  Robertson, David, 1977-

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  Grieving the loss of his father and seeking a connection with his teenage daughter Holly (as well as her forgiveness), Matthew plans a hike to the family's nearly-forgotten cabin in the woods. Seeking connection with her distant father, Holly goes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood

  Pennock, Tyler

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  A Two-Spirit Indigenous person navigates urbanity, queerness, and a kaleidoscope of dreams, memory, and kinship.