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WEBKilling Shakespeare. by Koom Kankesan. Queer History A to Z: 100 Years of LGBTQ+ Activism. by Robin Stevenson and Vivian Rosas (ill.) Publishing Assistant, Business Catalogue. Sales Manager. Publisher's Representative. Sales Associate. Report Writer & …
Kids’ Books - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBOct 2, 2024 · Governor General’s Award–winning author Deborah Ellis returns with a terrific middle-grade novel set in contemporary Toronto. Written in first-person narrative, the book follows 12-year-old Kate Grey after she is suspended from school for behavioural issues. ... Read More ». August 21, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids ...
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All the Quiet Places - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBBrian Thomas Isaac’s All the Quiet Places transports the reader across time and space to a, well, quiet corner of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the southern Interior of British Columbia in 1956. There, six-year-old Eddie lives with his mother, Grace, and younger brother, Lewis, isolated from most of their community except for his grandmother and maternal uncle, who live in close proximity.
Forty years on, In Search of April Raintree remains a …
WEBThis year marks the 40th anniversary of Métis author Beatrice Mosionier’s best-known work In Search of April Raintree. The novel candidly deals with Indigenous experiences of sexual assault, suicide, and alcoholism, and follows the lives of sisters April and Cheryl as they are separated from their birth family and placed in foster care ...
Starlight - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBDuring one of his rare trips into town, Starlight helps a woman and her daughter after they’re accused of shoplifting. Emmy and six-year-old Winnie are on the run in a stolen truck with little money at their disposal. They’re also being hunted by Emmy’s abusive former boyfriend, Cadotte, and his sidekick, Anderson, both violent drunkards.
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBMore than a decade after the release of her first bestselling comics collection Hark! A Vagrant, Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with her first long-form graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.Chronicling her time in Northern Alberta, Ducks is a remarkable glimpse into the fraught and under-explored daily lives of the people who work in one of Canada’s most contentious ...
The Marrow Thieves - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBPowerful and endlessly smart, it’s a crucial work of fiction for people of all ages. In the latest YA novel by Métis writer and editor Cherie Dimaline, the world has been ravaged by global warming. Cities have crumbled from the coastlines, “breaking off like crust,” and hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis have wiped out entire communities.
The Break - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBKatherena Vermette’s first book, North End Love Songs, a poetry collection set among Winnipeg’s Métis community, won a 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award. In her debut novel, the author finds herself in familiar and heart-wrenching territory of prejudice and violence. “The Break” is hydro land that cuts a swath through Winnipeg’s North End neighbourhood; in
Indian Horse - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBIn his new novel, Wagamese confronts that legacy head-on, bringing a depressingly believable 1960s residential school to life through the story of Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy from Northwestern Ontario. This stark, moving novel makes clear that residential schools were, in Saul’s words, “hell on earth,” with the priests and nuns ...