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21) The Break
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When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker,...
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Can tracking skills and dreams discover a killer before it's too late?
Love... Marriage... Murder.
Less than twelve hours after arriving at a remote hunting lodge for their honeymoon, Shandra Higheagle and Detective Ryan Greer find a body. Shandra's cousin had quarreled with the man earlier, and the clues point to her as being the murderer.
Fish and Wildlife State Trooper Gabriel Hawke, arrives and immediately takes a dislike to Shandra's cousin....
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During Guatemala's recent civil war, the CIA-advised army wiped out hundreds of Mayan villages. This is the story of one woman, Maria's struggle to save her village, and her sister Brenda's efforts to live normally after being raped and tortured by CIA-advised intelligence officers in El Salvador. It is a story of courage, bravery, and unrelenting faith that there is a future.
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Storytelling brings young and old into one place. The faces of the children and adults take in the story, using the mind's eye to bring images in the story to life. They can share their views of the value and moral of the story at the end. Children can see things much differently than adults, a good time for lessons to be learned. The stories and songs in Sunshadow: Whispers from the Elders depict Native American grandparents teaching their grandchildren...
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A young woman enters a whole new world of attraction in a community struggling with generations of loss of land and culture.
Yasmeen's tradition-bound mother wants her to stay in Montreal, get married, and have babies. But the young Syrian-Canadian wants more. Her appetite for adventure leads her to a teaching job in the northern Quebec village of Saqijuvik. Eager to adopt her new home and its Inuit inhabitants, Yasmeen embraces every experience...
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Officer Eric Ruiz responded to the frantic call from the campground on his reservation. As a Native American policeman, he was used to calls regarding typical reservation crime, theft, brawling, as well as domestic and foreign violence, mostly fueled by alcohol. But this call started the metamorphosis that would transform Officer Ruiz completely to his real identity, Swift Deer. And there was never a large enough can of frijoles opened to predict...
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Si ya no descendemos del mono, como afirmó Charles Darwin, ¿de dónde venimos? ¿Por qué desapareció el Homo de Neanderthal sin solución de continuidad allá por el 28.000 a.
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En 1923, tras dos años de convivencia con las tribus fueguinas, el joven antropólogo polaco, Krzysztof Wazyck, se despide de sus amigos nómadas del mar, llevándose consigo a Europa, además de su afecto y amistad, un supuesto gran hallazgo capaz de comprometer...
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This is a fictitious story about a family that runs away from the Salem Massachusets during the time of the witch trials.
Its 1745 Elizabeth lives in the Shawangunk Mountains.
She was only a little girl when her parents ran away from Salem Massachusetts because there were rumors her mother would be prosecuted as a witch during the 1692-1693 trials. Now she sits on her favorite rock on the side of the mountain. She watches the sunset admiring the...
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Linda and Arnie are the should have been that never happened.
Linda Bird has poured her heart into building a community for Indians in the city, but the setbacks keep coming and her supporters are losing faith. In college, Arnie Jackson was a sexy-but-aggravating rival. Now she needs his help if Crooked Rock is going to succeed. Turns out he's still sexy, he's still aggravating, and she's never gotten over him.
Arnie has dealt with every challenge...
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A scientist encounters a being on a petroglyph and allows the form to speak and take the author/reader into another dimension. A wide cast of beings appear in consort with the shamanic half-skeletal being, guiding you on an adventure that leaves you wondering if these worlds exist. Come journey with us, following the continuing inspiration from the Mystery Stone from the Shenandoah.
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Dix ans ont passé depuis que la photo d'Irina, publiée sur la couverture d'un célèbre magazine, lui avait attiré le surnom de La bien-aimée de Kandahar. Un soldat canadien posté en Afghanistan tombe amoureux d'elle et commence à lui écrire, jusqu'au moment o il se fait tuer dans une explosion. Afin de panser ses anciennes blessures, Irina déménage à Iqaluit, au Nunavut. Elle apprend cependant qu'au pays des aurores boréales, aucun secret...
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Let Them Eat Grass is a historical fiction concerning the tragedy of the Sioux Indians trying to save their land as well as the lives of their people. In 1858, Tianci, a Hunkpapa Sioux, participated in the annual dance-in-the-sun ceremony. In the vision he had, he saw a white buffalo that beckoned Tianci to follow him to the East where many White people had settled. Tianci travels to Chief Little Crow's village in Minnesota where the situation between...
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Two families, the Michauds and the Gauvins, along with their Abenaki guides, leave Canada and settle in the English village of Compton, Maine. The Gauvins, eager to become more socially accepted, convert from Catholicism to Protestantism and begin to look down on the Michauds, as well as, the Abenakis who have been, converted to Catholicism by Jesuit priests. When some of the rowdy settlers burn down the Gauvins home, the Gauvins go to live with the...
34) Dirty Copper
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Dirty Copper, the prequel to Walking the Rez Road, tells the story of Luke Warmwater, an Anishinaabe soldier, as he returns to the Reservation after serving in Vietnam. Once again, Luke is torn between duty and morality as he becomes a deputy sheriff on the Rez and sees firsthand the war raging below the appearance of peace.
35) Merciless Mayhem
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Shawnee and Mayhem continue to wreak havoc on the Killzme Corporation-the largest animal trafficking ring in the country-by killing one poacher at a time. The stakes grow increasingly higher when the nefarious group retaliates by putting a bounty on their heads. Meanwhile, the traffickers set their sights on capturing Orca for profit and pleasure. With a ticking clock and no place left to hide, Shawnee and Mayhem alternate between undercover surveillance...
36) Shane
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Once upon a time, my life was good. I had a family, I had a girlfriend, and hopes for the future. That was long ago, but I remember it. A hazy dream of what could have been. That's gone now. I lost it all. Life fucked me over, and now I'm scared of my own damn shadow.
I'm training to be a tattoo artist, but I bet I'm not good enough. I have a roof over my head, but every morning I'm scared shitless that I'll find myself on the street again--or worse,...
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New ways of life often provide benefits while simultaneously inflicting pain. This tendency is especially true when indigenous, ethnic, and rural people face the impacts of the modern world. Polar Bear Inc. portrays these pressures through the depiction of a fictional indigenous community and the tensions and challenges occurring in the wake of social and economic transitions. By visiting a struggling and evolving community, the reader witnesses the...
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Le grand récit décolonial de la résurgence autochtone
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L'écrivaine et militante autochtone Leanne Betasamosake Simpson explore l'existence actuelle des peuples et collectivités autochtones, en particulier celle de sa propre nation nishnaabeg. Ses personnages s'efforcent de réconcilier leur désir de vivre une vie pleine de tendresse avec le combat qu'ils livrent quotidiennement pour survivre aux injustices passées et présentes causées...
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Traduit de l'anglais par Arianne Des Rochers et Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
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Dans ce deuxième recueil visionnaire, qui constitue la suite de Cartographie de l'amour décolonial (2018), Simpson déploie de nouveau le fragment littéraire comme outil d'intervention décoloniale. Son écriture à la fois poétique et provocante génère une réalité décolonisée qui résiste aux discours dominants et échappe aux catégorisations consacrées....
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Tommy Weaver wants to stay sober and that means steering clear of challenging situations, avoiding difficult people, and staying away from personal relationships. Unfortunately, he has a cousin unsuccessfully rehabbing in his spare room while Crooked Rock demands more than he can give, and in the midst of his growing troubles, the irresistible Elizabeth appears.
Elizabeth Lewis couldn't wait to finish college and get back to the security of her home...
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